It was rumoured in local Mandarin circles on Saturday that H. E. Tang Shao-yi, Special High Commissioner to, reorganise Tibet, has been appointed Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James's, with instructions to pr straight to London without calling at Calcutta. There has been no Imperial to hand on the subject, but it will remembered that when the appoint-'Tibet was made last year, the that H. E. Tang Shao-yi might go to London instead was tioned in these "Notes" at the time. We may here state that his Excellency is still in Canton, having obtained a two months' leave to is ancestral home 1d before proceeding abroad.
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