Death of Li Hung Chang.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 127, 12 November 1901, Page 1

Death of Li Hung Chang.

Shanghai, November 7.

LI Hung Chang is dead The cause of death was Ulceration of the stomach. Refusal to abstain from business hastened the end. The family introduced native doctors, the Europeans Withdrawing. Prince Ching has been ‘recalled -to conduct affairs.

Li Hung Oban?, one of the intelligent and enlightened Chinese of present age, was horn iu 1823, in the province of Annui, and took the H-nlili de»ree in ’49. When the Taiping rebels invaded Annui (’SO) he •Joined Tseng Kuo Fan's army as secretary. Was appointed Provincial Judge (Nieh Tat) of Chekiang, and in *6l Governor {Fata*) of Kian^su. In conjunction with General'Gordon he reojvered Suchow f 63) and drove the rebels eritiiely out of KiangSU. Fdr bis' serviced he received the Yellow Jacket and Peacock’s Feather, and was created a hereditary noble of the third class. Two years l»ter he "was appointed Governor-General of the Liang Xiang Provinces, and subsequently commanded against the Nienfei and Mohammed & rebels. In ’72 he was appointed Govemor-Gene-al f f Recoil:, the metropolitan province. He was also Senior Grand Secretary (Chung Tang)—the highest distinction to which a Chinese official can aspire. He was a friend to foreigners, particularly to Russians/ As tneiiiber of the Board of Admiralty, he originated the Chinese ‘navy, and‘he was the chief 'promoter of the China Merchants’ Steam Navigation Ci. The Emperor entrusted to him the supreme charge of the forces, both naval and military, sent to Korea during the wat with Japan in *94 ; and though he was superseded, and for a time discredit! d, Tie wag again rest rid to favour, uud negotiated the treaty of peace With Japak -in ’95. He was sent as the special envoy 'to the Czar’s coronation in May, ’95, and afterwards visited Germany, the Nether‘lands, France, Ei.g-a.ud, the United States and Canada. On his return t 6 China he was made Foreign fheore’&ry of < the .Empire, b it was temporarily disgraced and excluded from the T«ung-li-Yamen during ! 98 At the end of that year, however, the Empress-Regent appointed him Imperial Commissioner to report on the Yellow River. During the earlier part of the Boxer troubles last year Li Hung ’Ghang was Viceroy of Canton, but was summoned to Pekin to become Viceroy of Ghi-li. While in Shanghai oti his way north, hfc endeavoured to reassure the Powers as tfc the safety of the Legations, and to prevent the advance of the Allies on Pekin, declaring it would mean the death of the besieged ministers, but ho Was hot listened to. He played an important tpart in the conduct of the peace negate atioos, being one of the Chinese Peach OotnmUsionera. Latterly hii proKussian leanings have been gratified by Russia’s conduct as regards her oooapa tion of Manchuria;