Peking, September 25.
A number of Viceroys and Governors, amongst them Hsii Shih-chang, Viceroy of Manchuria, as well as some of the high retired officials, have been ordered to come to Peking. It is expected that they will be made members of the Tsuchungyuan, the Board which is to prepare the establishment of a tion in China, and that a namportant changes in the provincial offices will follow.
The Japanese Minister has asked the Waiwupu to permit the exportation of Chinese rice to Japan, where the failure of the crops renders the importation of foreign rice necessary.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.