REFORM IN CHINA.
A PARLIAMENT PROMISED.
NINE YEARS' PREPARATION.
By Telegraph.—
Pekin, December 6. An Imperial decree issued in Pekin orders the convocation of a Parliament in nine years 'from August 27 last. ' v.'- * ' : '
The valedictory decree of the late Emperor to his subjects urged the diligent execution of reforms, in* order '...that the Empire might: be prepared for the inauguration of a Constitution in nine years' time. ' Another valedictory decree, said to have been issued by the Dowager-Em-press on her death-bed, • also referred favourably to the inauguration of constitutional reform. The Empress-Dowager, a month before her death, informed the members of the Grand-Council and of the Ministry of the Interior that, whenever the country should be .prepared to take up the responsibility of Parliamentary representation, she would not oppose the will of her subjects, and that nine years, as previously decided by Imperial sanction, need not be considered the earliest date for the granting of a Constitution.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13927, 8 December 1908, Page 5
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