A Nanking dispatch states that a number of foreigners have of late been travelling about the Liangkiang provinces adding much to the ausieties and responsibilities of the local authorities concerned. Especially is this so when these travellers go about at random, which makes it difficult for the local' authorities of the various districts to keep track of them so as to be prepared fo give the protection and care necessary in these unsettled times. Viceroy Liu K'un-yi of Nanking has therefore made it known to the various Consuls there that foreigners desirous of travelling in the province of Riangsu will in future be required to have their passports fist vised at the Bureau of Foreign Ailairs and to
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