AN IMPERIAL EDICT
ISSUED AT PEKIN CUTTING OFF QUEUES SANCTIONED. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received December 9, 0.50 a.m.) PEKIN, December 8. An Imperial edict has been issued sanctioning the cutting off the queues and ordering the Cabinet to devise means for adopting the western calendar. AN IMPERIAL EDICT. RESPONSIBILITY FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS. PEKIN, December 7. An Imperial Edict announces that the Regent blamed' himself for the upheaval in China, and begged to be relieved of the Regentship. Ho has been granted a retirement pension of fifty thousand taels (about £15,000). The Edict adds that hereafter all responsibility for political affairs will bo entrusted to the Premier and the Cabinet, while the Dowager-Empress will be associated with tho Einperor in the promulgation of decrees and at State functions. SHANGHAI REVOLUTIONARIES. PAY INTEREST ON LOAN. PEKIN, December 7. Tho 'Revolutionaries at Shanghai havo paid a quota equivalent to the likin (Customs) collections, thus ensuring the payment of , tho monthly in-' stalment of interest on the Anglo-Ger-man loan. . ■
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7979, 9 December 1911, Page 5
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