The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-09
PRESIDENT OF CHINA
CREATES NEW OFFICE


Picking, but in all the various pro-
vinces OF China, much on the same
lines as tho Chinese customs service
organized some forty years ago by the
late Sir Robert Hart and which still
remains to this day the most wonder
fully efficient and useful OF all the
government institutions in China,
President Yuan-shih- Kai's idea in
the formation OF this gcndnrmerie,
which is to be Federal organization.
with headquarters at Picking, Is to be
able to dispense with the army in con-
nection with the maintenance OF law
and order. Troops arc constantly
mutiny!ng, and giving their services
TO this or that general, to the general.
indeed, who offers them the highest
rate of pay or the greatest opportuni-
ties OF plumber. And thus 1t is that the
army is becoming moro and more of
= danger. instead OF a protection, to
the government
President Yuan hih-Kai believes
that ii he can get force OF gendar-
merle of the same degree OF honesty,
efficiency and vigor rs tho splendid
customs service created by Sir Robert
Iart-a ecndarmerlc organized by
Colonel Bruce, commanded by trusted
native officials. but under the super
vision or Colonel Bruce, as inspector
Sir Robert Hart he will have n most
useful instrument OF power in his
hands. His project meets with the
warm approval of the foreign ministers
IT Picking, and likewise with chat of
the leading foreign mercantile com
munitics In China
For centuries readers OF English
history have shuddered at the descrip-
ton OF the shocking murder of King
Edward IL, who rs recorded to have
been put to death while In captivity
in Berkeley Castle, by Sir John Mail
travers and STR Thomas Quincy, at tho
instance OF his Queen. Isabel. by haV-
ing white-hot irons thrust into his
body, 80 that the latter could show no
external wounds.
1t would now appear, however, that
all the pity lavlshed upon him has been
wasted: that he survived his alleged
assassination for many years, and that
the tomb in Gloucester Cathedral, over
which his son and successor set up
a beautiful monument. still in exis-
tence, contains no royal remains, but
merely the body OF the porter OF
Berkeley Castle.
~ marble tablet has been lately re-
vealed. behind a quantity OF white
wash In the hall of the ancient castle
or Mela2zo. near Acqui, in Italy, which
bears the following Latin Inscription:
Edward ii. Plantagenct King OF
England. deposed from his throne BY
act OF Parliament in MCCCXXVII. and
imprisoned In Berkeley Castle. fed
proEidentially from the knives OF the
assassins. Sir Thomas Gournay and
Sir Simon do Ebersford, hired by his
inhuclan wife, Queen Isabel Of France,
was Hospitality received In Avignon by
rope John MIL, and after many AID
Vcnturous wanderings. remained CON
ceaied Tor TWO years and half I'm
.his castle or MelazZo. belonging to
the diocese OF Milan, In the wears az
our Lord MCCCNXX- MCCCXXXIu"
The story of King Edward Ms es
cape from his assassins and OF bia
surViNal for many years beyond tho
cii'e or ms alleged murder thus toIa
on this tablet in the Italian Castlo Of
M y, is borne out by a remarkable
discovery made near half a century
ago by the French academiciap. Alcy.
andre Germain. in a ohartuIar,. -,
imminent chamber, OF the Episcopacv
or Maguelone, consisting of docu.
Inent written by Emmanuel ENescn,
nohtlhcal notary, at Avignon i'm tre
third decade of the fourteenth centurv
AieNandre Germain seems to have
communicated his discovery to Acad
oii'ic ues inscriptions, in Paris, In the
W io'o. bul Inc Franco Ger
man War breaking out jrn,nediotelv
hi.er"ards, prevented the matter re-
ce'Vl0g the attention that II de-crvcd
or even Its communication 10 Tho tnc
iish press. and afterwards the subject
WIS forgotten and passed into oblivion
until recently resur;ected.
Inc document OF Fieachi describes
now f'dward H., while in CAPTIVITY I'm
berkeley Castle. was warned nv ono
oi the servants there who had become
secretly tc,otcd to him. that Sir
Inoinas Quincy and Sir simon da
Ebersfoyi had arrived to KIN hin, ~
compliance with the orders OF his wifo
Queen Isabel Lord Berkeley ,hn
owner OF tho cHstlc. and 70 whom rho
custody Of the King had been conedah
was confined at the time to his bod nv
iiiness, me servant managed to OBJ
thin some OF his own clothes for tho
King. who. thus disguised and with
his beard shaved off, succeeded in
reaching the outer gate or the castle
without any one penetrating his dis
suise Discovering the gatekcepcr
asleep. he killed him. and. taking his
Keys. opened the gate and escaped.
Iho Two knights. on becoming aware
some hours later of tho Kings flignt,
ana fearing Queen Isabels anger took
counsel together. Finding tho dead
body OF tho gatekecper, they placed IL
IN u comm. afteS having first extracted
the heart. %hic# they presented to the
Queen as having been that OF her hus-
band King Edward was Joined out
side Berkeley Castle by tho servant
to whom he owed his escape, and mado
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