Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1917 — STEAL MORE CHINESE SEALS [ARTICLE]

STEAL MORE CHINESE SEALS

Prominent Official of the Republic Disappear* With the Presidential Stamps. Peking.—Peking is much agitated over the disappearance of official seals. When President Li, Yuan-hung was forced to give up the presidency, Gen-Ting-Kwan, the keeper of the presidential seals, took them to Shanghai. Another prominent official has now disappeared with the seals of the house of representatives. When . the attempt at monarchial restoration had been defeated and Premier Tuan ChlJul declared the republic had been restored, there was much consternation because of the disappearance of the seals of the republic. Gen. Ting Kwan was arrested in Shanghai, and after a hard legal struggle was brought back to Peking, together with the missing presidential seals, and is to have a hearing before a Chinese court.