A Peking despatch states that the Japanese Minister, Mr. Uchida, has complain ed to the Waiwapn that the Chinese officials in the districts near Tiebling and Liaoyang, have been discovered to have furnished the Russian forees lately with over a thousand carts and mules to draw them, which is flagrant violation of Chinese neutrality.
Tartar General chow, H. E. Chung Shan, according toa Nan spatch, has been strongly denounced on various county by a certain Metropolitan official with the result that Viceroy Wei Kuang-t'ao of this province has boon instructed by Imperial Rescript to investigate the charges.
22nd August.
Prince Pu Lun went on board the Anping at the Kinleeyuen Wharf yesterday afternoon at about three o'clock, and left at almost exactly 5 p.m. for Tientsin. [t is believed in mandarin circles that on his arrival at Peking his Highness will be given a high post. in either the Waiwupu or the Army Roorganisation Department. The Prince drove to the Anping followed by a procession of carriages filled with Chinese and Customs officials, and attended as far as the Municipal boundary by a detachment of Sikh mounted police. On the French side of the Yangkin; he was met by a naval and military escort. some hundreds strong, with their band and banners. The Anping was gaily decorated.
ILE, Tieh Liang.
Vice-President of the'Board of War and Special High Commissioner appointed by the Throne to investigate the military organisations in the Central provinces of the Enpire, left Peking on Saturday for Tientsin and Shanghai. It is stated that as soon as his Excellenoy's appointment became known to the high military authorities of the Liangliang and Hukuang provinces, they at once sent emissaries to Peking to find out what sort of a man Tieh Liang was, and whether he intended to make a thorough investigation of the Imperial forces in [the provinees and introduce reforms on the spot, or whether his Excel-louey would be contented, like the general run of mandarins engaged in tours of so-called inspection, with reports at second hand, accompanied by the secret solatiums from men anxious to keep their posts and run the military machinery on the "usual lines*—pocketing the" pay of dummy soldiers and drilling what there are of troops in the'camps only when occasion is, required, while drawing quantities of ammunition for supposed firing practice, but actually selling it to bandits, pirates, and secret society men who have no other sources of supply but these. It is reported that there was considerable disappointment in military mandarin circles whicn it was learned through their Peking agents that this Special High Commissioner is in thorough earnest and unlikely to be made the tool of interested parties who might take advantage of his ignorance of affairs in this part of the empire, The Askold and Grosovoi.
A telegraphic dispatch received by the local mandarins from Peking states that the Russian Minister has informed the Waiwupu that the Commanders of the Askold and Grosovoi have received instructions to hasten the repairs on board their respective vessels. and leave Shanghai within a certain time, failing which they must allow the Chinese authorities of Shanghai to put into force the neutrality law and to deal with them accordingly.
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