Coincident with the announcement of this examination, however, comes news that a movement afoot to reinstate in posts of importance twenty Princes and Maachu notables, Among these are Duke Tsai, who was Minister of Finanes inthe Manchu time, and Hai Liang, who will be remembered as Governor at Mukden, It may be @ sop to the "merits" of the old brigade to employ this type of official again, but it is not an encouraging sign that the Government really wishes to extirpate the system which has brought China to the unhappy level she has reached.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.