Mr. Shih, Supervisor of the Shanghai Customs, has received instructions from the Suiwuchu, or Bureau of Taxes, to submit by telegraph a list of the names of those foreign employees in the Shanghai Customs' service who have left for the front, remarks about their duties, salaries, ete., so that Chinese may be appointed to fill up their posts. The Government is compelled to take itep partly owing to financial stringency and partly because there is no prospect of an early conclusion of the war at present.
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