[5] H. E. is a nephew of the late Li Hung Chang, and was adopted by him.

[6] For these details I am indebted to the courtesy of Mr. Ivan Chen, of the Imperial Chinese Legation.

[7] The late Dowager Empress conferred on him the title of “Sincere and loyal Spreader of Civilization,” in addition to his old title of “The great, righteous, and complacent Buddha of Western Heavens.”

[8] Hankow is six hundred miles from the sea-coast, but ocean-going ships can come right up the river to that point, and smaller steamers go yet another four hundred miles to Ichang.

[9] Extract from Sir John Jordan’s correspondence with the Foreign Office—Paper China, No. 1, 1908, page 36. For full details of this matter, see Arnold-Forster’s “International Commission for the Investigation of the Opium Trade” (Hodder & Stoughton).

[10] See Count Okuma’s article in “The Far East.”

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