Peking, Dec. 18.
Several conferences have been held of late at the Presidential Palace to determine upon certain lines of policy. So far it has been decided that the whole of the country must be resurveyed in order properly to collect the land tax; that the land tax must be readjusted; that the army must be remodelled, and that the police system must also be reformed.
In regard to the army the President complains that it consists of too many independent factions to be of national value. He no doubt vividly remembers General Chang inal fro
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