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The second edict approves of the provision made for the

Imperial House. The third edict exhorts the people to remain quiet, and emphasizes the disinterestedness of the Throne in abdicating in order to restore the blessings of peace. One cannot refrain from admiring the dignity and Olympian calm with which the Manchu dynasty has announced the extinction which it has largely brought upon itself. We have written fully of the prospect elsewhere, but must add here that Friday's telegrams report that on Thursday Yuan Shih-kai was elected President of the Chinese Republic by a unanimous vote of the Nanking Assembly.

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