Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 500, 18 Ianuali 1902 — CHINESE COURT REACHES PEKING [ARTICLE]

CHINESE COURT REACHES PEKING

FOREIGNERS SEE IMPERIAL PARADE Ibroßfh Ifcaaes of Sa«lkg Troops | ' Rojal Travelers are Carried. o>S£>?y cf S Ik cn Pa.-sdc Prcno%»n;ed Glcncus—Emp'css Satutss tbs Ladies or the Lesation Who Were Gathered on the Great Wail—Much Anxiety Manifested. PEKING. January 7.—The- Itn perlal Court entered th? Forbidden City at 1 30 o'cloc k this afternoon. It was the most brilliant scene Peking ever witnessed. The procession consisted of a thousand gorgeously attired noblemen mounted upon glittering caparisoned horses. The Em- ; peror. the Empress Dowager. Prince Chun, the Empress and several prin- . cesses were borne in yellow chairs, their escort carrying hundreds of gay banners and silk unbreilas. The Emperor and Empress Dowager entered the temple by the gate and burned incense. The Dowager Empress, upon emerging from the temple, saw the foreigners peering down and bowed. A double row of soldiers, kneeling, lined the four-mile route. The foreigners were given greater facilities for witnessing the ceremonial than would have been afforded them at most European courts. The scene at the Chiang gate when the Emperor and the Dowager Empress entered the temple to offer thanks for thir safe journey was nothing less than revolutionary when viewed in the light of all Chinese ! customs. The horseshoe wall forming the ancient gate was crowded with Europeans, diplomats, army officers, missionaries, ladies, photographers and correspondents. When the Emperor and Dowaeer Empress arrived at the temple the procession halted and their majesties alighted from their chairs, which vvre covered with imperial yellow silk and lined with sables. The Emperor proceeded to the temple of the God of War. on the west side of the plaza, with hundreds of foreigners peering down only forty feet above him, and dozens of cameras were focused on the son of heaven.