Censor Huang Chi-jai has sent in interesting memorial about the promised adoption of constitutional Goveronient in China. The following is a summary of its contents The memorialist says that since the issue of the reform Edicts in November 1908, practically not! done in the various provinces except nominal changes made for outward show, 90 that he fears that, if the Central Government in Peking does not take up the matter seriously, nothing will be prepared during the next fifteen years, and thas the promised adoption of the representative adi i never be carried out, and ment will become a laughing stock in the eyes of the Foreign Powers.
Censor Huang says that, although some offices have been established in some of the provinces for the introduction of modern reforms, " carefal examination of their internal administration shows that they are very badly condocted, neither directors nor other officials knowing anything about their duties, 80 that the large sams of money which have been expended in the provinces during the last few years in the name of reform were really wasted.
The memorialist adds that the condition ofthe Chinese masses is now
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