Advices received from Haickéng, near Linoyang, Lower Manchuria, state flat the Russians' are treating Chinese there with grew cruelty and have forcibly stripped the Whole region in that vicinity of cattle, horses, mules, carts and cereals. Many dead bodies' of women and children' are reported to be seen along the highways and ditches, victims, it is alleged, of Russian soldiers.
The Chinese Commission to St.
Louis.
Prince Pu Lun, Chief, and Wong Kai-kah, Vice-Commissioner, respectively, of the Chinese Commission to the St. Louis Ex. position, are expected to arrive here tomorrow from the North by the Anping. The Commissioners will reside at the Bureau of Foreign Affairs on the Bubbling Well Road during their stay in Shanghai, 9th March, The Chinese Bureau of Commerce.
As already stated in these "Notes," in order, what is termed at Court, "to encourage trade," the Shangpu, or Ministry of Commerce, has been commanded to establish Agencies, or Bureaux of Commerce, in each of the principal treaty ports and large cities in the interior as adjuncts of the Peking Ministry, the functions of these bureaux or agencies being to protect merchants in" their legitimate trade from avarice and rapacity of the Mandarins holding office in their respective cities. Shanghai has been the first to establish such a Bureau of Com. merce and it is under the Presidency of Mr. Yang Shih-ch4, Junior Advisory Secretary of the Ministry of Commerce, who has been sent down' from Peking to start this Bureau, as well as to take up the posts of Manager-General of the Chink Merehante' 8. N. Cos anti Ascscinte Director, with Taotais Chu Pao-fay and Yang Ting-kao, of the Head Office of the Chinese "Telegraph Administration in Shanghai, With reference to the por-samel of the Bureau of Commerce, Pro-silent Yang Shih-chi has under him a committee of representative Chinese, namely, Taotai Chu Pav-fay (one of the returned U.S, students) reprosenting the Chinese Telegraphs; Taotai Yen Sing-hou of the Customs Bank, representing the Ningpo merchants, and the heads of the principal mercantile' and banking guilds. This Bureau of Commerce is an important one as it takes the place of the already established Chinese Chamber of Commerce and will take charge of all matters relating to the interests of Chinese Merchants and Bankers in Shanghai and vicinity. With such enlightened and experienced col-Joagues as Taotai Chu Pao-fay, the President of the Bureau of Commerce, himself an able and liberal-minded man, will doubtlessly work in cordial accord with the Foreign General Chamber of Commerce. Che new quarters of the Bureau of Commerce are behind the Temple of the Queen of Heaven, North Honan Road, in what was formerly the residence of one of the late Marquis Li Hung-chang's sons.
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