DECAPITATION AND COMPULSORY SUICIDE.
THE SECRETARIES DISSATISFIED.
LONDON, February 22.
The Horning Post states that Ministera have consented'to the Couid sentencing Chihsin and Henchengi to' decapitation.
An Imperial edict has been issued unl--der which Tungfuhshang is deg: vied and deprived of his rank.
Tuan, who has' lately been disgraced and exiled, Chaing, Yengtein, :wvi Olin<ii. huchaio have been ordered' to commit sui cide. Three other leaders hay& been sentenced to decapitation.
16 is understood fcha* Tungfuhsung's life will be confiscated when possible.
The European and Chinese secivtaries of the legation at Pekin consider that the result is a. Chinese triumph, as the* Court is only beheading Yuhsien. They pointed out that suicides are not disgraced
The Japanese hold Hincheu Ji an-i Chihsin.
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Thames Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9877, 23 February 1901, Page 2
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