... his life would be confiscated when it was possible. On Feb. 26 Kih Sin and Hsu Cheng Yu were publicly beheaded in the streets of Peking. During the early part of March the relations between Russia and England drew almost to a crisis on account of Russia's attitude towards Manchuria, and for a time seemed to threaten a serious interruption of the pending negotiations. But on April 3, on accou...