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China’s Dowager-Empress Apologizes to Legations

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 12, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 7.

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China’s Dowager-Empress Apologizes to Legations

On February 1 the ladies and children of the foreign legations at Peking were received in audience by the dowager-empress. She is reported to have apologized in tears for the attacks on the legations during the siege of the Boxers. The dowager-empress is reported to have promised that China would now abandon her policy of isolation and adopt the best features of Western life.