It is proposed to open a competition bearing on the political condition in China on the 31st of December 1901.
Competitors are requested to send to the care of the Editor of this paper, in a sealed cover marked " Competition," a paper containing their forecast of the situation, as regards the Chinese Go~ vernment and the Allis, on the above-named date. No forecast must exceed three hundred words.
Each cover must be accompanied by the sum of fifty dollars (S50), and the whole eum will be paid over to the eompeliter whose forecast turns out to be most accurate, in the opinion of three impartial judyjes to be appointed by the conductors of this paper, whose names ill be published in due course, and those decision must be accepted as final by all competitors.
No cover will be admitted to the competition which is posted later than the Sist of December 1900.
Each paper should' be signed by a nom de plume or motto, and the competitor's real name and address should be enclosed in a separate envelope, and of these only the winner's will reopened.
The conductors of this paper reserve the right to publish any or all of the papers sent in, but without the names of the competitors.
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