EMPEROR OF CHINA DEAD.
WAS HE MURDERED? | PRINCE CHUN APPOINTED ' REGENT. Received 14, 0.46 p.m. Pekin, November 14. The Emperor of China is reported to bo dying. He has been transferred to the death chamber. Edicts have been issued appointing Prince Chun regent. The Emperor's son Puyi is heir-presumptive. DOWAGER EMPRESS MORTALLY ILL. i Recoived 18, 0.40 a.ni. Pekiu, November IS. Palace reports state that the Em pcror of China died on the night of tin 10th, It is officially stated that he die. yesterday afternoon. The Board of Foreign Affairs an nounces that the Dowager Empress i mortally ill. A PIUVATE REPORT, EMPEROR ALLEGED TO HAVE BEE: MURDERED. Received 10, 0.43 a.m. Sydney, November 10. Private cables received by th Chinese Reform Party in Sydney fro: China allege that the Emperor wi (murderously attacked some days af and succumbed. Yuan Shih-Kai, member of the Wai-wu-pu (the Admi: istrative Board) is said to be implica
ed. The late Emperor Tsa-i-Tien HwangHsu was born in 1872 and ascended the throne in 1875. In 1889 he married his cousin, a daughter of Duke Kwei, who is a brother to the Empress Dowager. During the early part of his reign the Empress Dowajger Tsu-Hszi, who was horn in 1834, was supreme, though nominally the Emperor assumed full control of the Government in 1889. He issued several edicts in favor of reform, but the only 'effect was that hi September, 1898, the Empress-Dowager restored the Regency and relegated the Emperor to the background again. Each Emperor can appoint his successor from among those of his own family who belong to a younger generation than his own.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 276, 16 November 1908, Page 2
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272EMPEROR OF CHINA DEAD. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 276, 16 November 1908, Page 2
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