The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-04-13
CHINESE ARE PROTESTING.
Nine yiceroys Send Remonstrances
Against Empress Dowager's Pol
icy-RebeIIion Intimated.

Correspondence OF the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, March IA fun account
has been received here Of the meeting
on March at Picking between the EN-
press dowager and the grand council;
Protests were read from the viceroys and
governors Of nine of the eighteen prov
inces against the policy Of the empress
dowager These officials are the great
est provincial authorities in China uey
declared unitedly that If the empress dow
ager persists in prosecuting the reformers
and continuing her reign of terror policy
the Chinese under them will rebel against
the Manchus. The viceroy of Marking
says he has 10000 Hunanese troops who
are anxious to fight the Manchus and
he fears he cannot control them.
The yiceroys who united In this remark
able step represent the provinces OF
Kiagsu. Anhui. kiangsi Human, Hupeh,
Chekiang, Quangsi and Kwangtung, with
an aggregate population of 10000 600.
Until this protest was made the dowager
empress had been having things quite
her own way. Though she had desisted
peror, yet her wrath toward those who
opposed her has shown no abatement.
1t is unbounded, Kin Lien-Shan has
been. captured in the Portuguese colony
of Macao. off the South China coast, by
Ii Hung Changs detectives. Mr. Kin
fed from Shanghai last month. He is
the manager of the national system of
telegraphs in. China. and headed the
petition signed by 100 notabes against
setting up a new emperor. Probably he
will be decapitated. An English law
him. The government has trumped up
charges of defalcation against Mr.. Kin,
who Is really a very able and enlightened
man.
on March ! instructions were wired
from Picking to Soochow, capital of XII
angso. 10 arrest and put to death the re-
formers Weng Tung-Ho and Shen Pong.
These men had been In very important
positions in Picking, but were easily cap
tured in Soochow. The chief reformer,
kang Yu Wei, has fed to Singapore.
The empress dowager has offered 800 900
for his body, dead or alive
Kang WI. who is the dowager's high
extortioner, has announced his purpose
to visit the Yangtse ports at an early
date. We shall probably hear that many
will be killed. Old Chang Chi Tung,
viceroy OF Wuchang, has recently been
publicly reproved In scathng terms by
the dowager, and he may lose his vice
royalty on the arrival OF Kang WI
1t IL said that there is an official list
the names of 800 reformers who are pro-
scribed A special list of over thirty
five names exists of those who are to be
killed as soon as they are captured.
The Chinese correspondent in Picking
of the North China Daily News writes
as follows:
I'VE In Picking think this Indifference
of western nations, especially Great Brit
ain and the United States, during crisis
like this, "A shame The subjects of these
nest and energetic in trying to introduce
western civilization and education into
China They have succeeded gloriously
They have obtained most illustrious CON
younger princes OF the imperial house
downward. Yet now they shirk from
making even mild protest against the
actions OF the empress dowager."