[60] From The Times of 31st March, 1899.
[61] Chang Yin-huan, who had been created a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George in connection with Queen Victoria’s Jubilee celebration, was subsequently put to death, after banishment to Turkestan. An order given by Prince Tuan at the commencement of the Boxer crisis was the immediate cause of his execution.
Another reformer named Hsü Chih-ching was condemned to imprisonment for life in the Board of Punishments under this same Decree; he was released by the Allies in August 1900, when he proceeded at once to T’ai-Yüan fu, and handed himself over to justice, disdaining to accept his release at the hands of foreigners. This incident is typical of the Chinese officials’ attitude of mind and of their reverence for the Decrees of the head of the State.
[62] On the occasion of her seventieth birthday (1904), the Empress Dowager promulgated a general amnesty for all those who had taken part in the Reform Movement of 1898, excepting only the leaders K’ang Yu-wei and Liang Ch’i-ch’ao, who were expressly excluded from grace, and Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who was a fugitive from justice on other counts.
[63] Li Tuan-fen returned from exile in Turkestan under the amnesty of 1904.
[64] Weng T’ung-ho has been posthumously restored to his full rank and titles by a Decree of the present Regent. Thus is the Emperor tardily justified and the pale ghosts of his followers continue to suffer, even in Hades, the chances and changes of Chinese official life!
[65] This official was eventually decapitated by the allies, as one of the originators of the Boxer rising.
[66] This Prefect of Hsüanhua was subsequently promoted by the Empress Dowager, when passing through that city, at the beginning of the flight from Peking.
[67] Hsü, to whom Jung Lu was writing, was a Cantonese by birth, and was at this time Viceroy of Foochow.
[68] A note on the career and character of this courageous official is given in the [Appendix].