PRESENT CONDITIONS IN CHINA 1137 
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ENTRANCE OF PALACE OCCUPIED BY CHINA’S FAMOUS EMPRESS DOWAGER: THE 
FORBIDDEN CITY, PEKING 
“To enhance the effect of the mission, a Hunanese school teacher chopped off one of his 
fingers, and with the spurting blood from the stump wrote an inscription praying the already 
over-convinced delegates to demand parliament. This act was a good illustration of the 
extravagant spirit of the revolution, which soon declared for a republic” (see page 1128). 
