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. Owing,
however, to the ability shown by the said Kang Yu-wei in modern
and practical matters, we sought to take advantage of it by
appointing him a secretary of the Foreign Office, and
subsequently ordered him to Shanghai to direct the management of
the official newspaper there. Instead of this, however, he dared
to remain in Peking pursuing his nefarious designs against the
dynasty, and had it not been for the protection given by the
spirits of our ancestors he certainly would have succeeded. Kang
Yu-wei is therefore the arch conspirator, and his chief
assistant is Liang Chi-tsao, M. A., and they are both to be
immediately arrested and punished for the crime of rebellion. The
other principal conspirators, namely, the Censor Yang Shen-hsin,
Kang Kuang-jen--the brother of Kang Yu-wei--and the four
secretaries of the Tsungli Yamen, Tan Sze-tung, Liu Hsin, Yang
Jui, and Liu Kuang-ti, we immediately ordered to be arrested and
imprisoned by the Board of Punishments: but fearing that if any
delay ensued in sentencing them they would endeavour to entangle
a number of others, we accordingly commanded yesterday (September
28th) their immediate execution, so as to close the matter
entirely and prevent further troubles."
This with the execution of one or two other officials is the
greatest crime that can be laid at the door of the Empress
Dowager--great enough in all conscience--yet not to be compared
to those of "good Queen Bess
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