rowid,date,page,column,title,description,source,page_url,trove_id
20080,1908-10-10,2-3,d-a,,"Beijing news. Empress Dowager and Emperor Guangxu demand straightforwardness from ministers. Regulation on local self-government is submitted for approval. Dalai Lama arrives Beijing via Shanxi province. Changes of the government officials including Li Guojie, Lin Shaonian, Wang Daxie, and Feng Rukui. Pei Jingfu is impeached. China to send gentry officials to tour overseas on investigation of constitutional reform. Members of the zheng wen she might be pardoned. China to issue new regulation on the recruitment of Chinese labourers by foreign companies. Government officials support to establish a national parliament quickly. China prepares for negotiation with Russia in the Manchuria treaty. Plague of locusts in Shandong province. Plague of locusts on the border of Anhui, Jiangsu and Shandong province. Yellow River dam bursts in Lanyi county of Henan province and several villages flooded. A proposal to cancel the negotiation with Portuguese on the railway project from Guangzhou to Macao. Parliament promotion association (guo hui qi cheng hui) meets in Shanghai.",China,http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/26801907,26801907