We wrote on the 9th of October, when dealing with the transfer of FE. Chang Chih-tung to Nanking: "J: is not generally believed by Chinese here that H.E. Chang Chih-tung will remain long at Nanking, where, as we have already said, it is imperative that the Viceroy should be a Hunanese; and it is expected that the substantive appnintment will be given to H.E, Wei Kuang-tao, Viceroy of Yunnan and Kueichou." An imperial decree issued yesterday appoints H. B. Wei substantive Viceroy at Nanking and Superintendent of Trade; ani confirms the statement that we have often made that the Viceroy at Nan-
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