October 15th.—(1) Ch'ung Pao BAR is appointed Financial Commissioner of Shantung. Yang Ch'ang-chun has a button of the third grade bestowed upon him and is promoted to the post of Financial Commissioner of Kansuh, vacated by Ch'ung Pao. He is directed to continue to act as Assistant Administrator of Reorganisation for the New Dominion.
(2) A Decree. Tsing Kuo-ch'iin submits a report setting forth a plan he had devised for making periodical purchases of grain to be restored to the public granaries, "He states that during the famine from which the province of Shansi has lately suffered, it was found that a sudden import of grain from other provinces could not managed, and that in many instances the local gra~ naries had to be depended upon for the maintenance of uninterrupted supply Now that the question of reorganisation has to be considered, a most important measure in this connection is the purchase of grain to make yood the supplies that have been drawn from local granaries, and he proposes to devote the appropriations nted by the Board of Revenue, as well as vse which Shantung and other provinces hat been called upon to supply, amounting all to Tls. 500,000, with a loan of Tls. 500,000 to be raised in instalments by the province itself, to the purchase of grain to be stored in the local granaries, He anticipates that the stock will complete in three years. The object being to provide against years of dearth, We naturally
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