A telegram was addressed by President Yuan Shih-kai to Vice-
President Li Yuan-hung during last week, informing him of the future policy of the Republic which he had shaped and which Dr. Sun and General Huang had approved after a conference with them last. ing some days. The policy embraces the following eight points of view:—(1) A system of unification of the whole nation shall be pursued. (2) The true justice of right and wrong or good and evil shall ibe upheld to correct the morals of tte people. (3) Temporary suspension revision for the education of officers for the Army and the Navy should be made in advance. (4) To open the country for the admittance of foreign capital with which works in railways and mines may be developed and steal and iron factories erected, therapy benefiting the people. (5) To encourage by pecuniassistance the industrial pursuits of citizens, beginning with agriculture, forestry and industrial commerce. (6) With military affairs, foreign rel financial questions, administration of justice and matters of communication, the centralization of power must be aimed at, while in other questions the conditions of the provinces may be taken into consideration and power for local control may be granted. (7) Immediate attention to financial reforms, (8) With our best effort to conciliate party differences and to preserve order so as to found our fundamental claim of foreign recognition.
President Yuan adds in his telegram that if the Vice-President would give his approbation to the policy based on tha above then it may be regarded as the policy jointly determined upon by theses four persons, and will serve as a guide in removing any doubts as to their future actions. General Li gave sent at once, The Sinsa Refuge.
Since the disappearance of Pao Yi, the former magistrate of the Mixed Court, with, it is alleged, a large sum of public money held by him in temporary trust, the Chinese Poor Refuge, which thus lost over 814,000, had refused to admit women, children, beggars, or other destitute persons that were ordered by the Mixed Court to be sent there. As the Refuge is a most convenient place to which to send the homeless and helpless who may come under the cognizance of the Court, Mr. Kuan Chun, the present magistrate, and the Consular Body have had protracted negotiations with the Trustees of the Refuge with @ view to coming to some mutual understanding. It was recently decided that, with the exception of the sum of 810,000, the proceeds from the sale of some pearls and jewellery belonging to the estate of a deceased woman, the balance of over $4,000 should be first paid to the Refuge officials from the funds lodged with the Belgian Consul-General by the former Taotai of Shanghai. But im going over the statement of accounts of the Refuge, the Belgian Consul-General disallowed an item of over $700 described as expenditure on food, clothing, medicine, ete., for the female wards, on the ground that as the money was granted to the Refuge as a whole, military preparations; but ade-, no separate expenditure in con
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