Affairs in China.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 151, 11 January 1902, Page 3

Affairs in China.

London, January 7. Pekin presei>t8 v a stiange sight owing b» the ulubontto prep nations which are being made for the return of the Court. Palaces, parados and temples are gaudily painted and gilde I. The walls of the Imperial city are a vivid crimson. Woodoa towers have replaced the destroyed stone towers at.Chenmer Gate, whioh is guarded by painted representa. tions of cannon. ■ ; Foreign Ministers refused the use of two buildings allotted the Leg'tions to view the Pageant, but allow their families tojoiioitpy- '£h«*iri.' Many people dtfulare tUat it is a; mistake for the Powers to be represented, as representation would constitute an act -of homage to the Court. A thousand well-armed Shantung soldiers hUv'e arrived in P.kin. Legation guards are conftaed to barracks. Tuousands of officials received the Emperor and Dowager Empress at Pekir; The latter were riding in yellow palanquins. A. brilliant cavalcade, with banners and umbrelias, escorted, the party. The route, four miles long, to the Palace was lined with kneeling troop 3 The Dowager saw foreigners peering down upon the prooassion, and bowed to them. • January 8. The Emperor, during the pageant o x the'return to Pekin, was listless and indifferent. The Dowager was sm.ling and Confident. Her reeqgnitiort of foreigners; was much commented upon. '."General Yuenshaiki, who exterminated Boxeristu in Shantung province, has received the' decoration of the fellow .Jacket;k Changfl, a Boxer, has been appointed Governor of Pekin. 'Two of Tungfuhsiang's chief lieutenants at|he siege of the Legations accom|>ai)ie4the,l)©irager They are destined lor high {commands. '" \