OFFENCES AGAINST SPIRITS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 708, 6 January 1910, Page 6

OFFENCES AGAINST SPIRITS.

An 'Imperial edict ■ tins' been 'issued , dis,'missing' Tuan-iang, : ' Viceroy; of Chih-li,' who; was■ severely censured'. ; f6r' causing photographs".to , be ;taken;';of. the .funeral : of: ..'the"' late - Dowager-Empress ''■ aid !.. for other- offences againstV'the..spirits'-of --the; dead." Cheri-kuei-lungV Viceroy :of ;'Hu-■;kuangj-is appointedJhisjsuccessor.': •;■;,The {Governor of. Ki'a'ng-su'"is'.appointed -,Apt■ing' Viceroy ' of,-Hu7kuang,-'the. Goverrior r of :Shaii-si succeeding .him. , .; .'jßoth , : Chen-' 'kuoi-lung amV.thei Acting!. Viceroy 'bfvHu■kuang .are 'Minchus.i : Two i'officials.yho iwere recently, impeached for , negligence 1 inV. connectionA with' ;they' frineroT, v -.;cere-; monies of"■thyiate'Pqvragef-Empress have : also.' been : dismissed. ;'•■: The; appointment.of .Cben-kuei-luhg does not meet with peno ; ral'a'pprovali' His'record ;of seryice : is inv.: .corisiderable,'::and ;he .-has; the, reputation 'of ;beihg'' antirforeign';in«'his \ views. -Ho, '•is'not .p6ptdar : with' the .Chinese'.; \; -. : ■'■'■■'"v ' .' : lt 'was ; ifurther charg'ed-against Tuan- ■ fang 'that he .had allowed telegraph wires '.to be'strung-from'ithe^'saored-trees, in ItHeVyicinity. of .the .'lmperial' tombs,./anoffence 'against the ancestral spirits;