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Chinese Readers of this paper are asked to bear in mint that the first. meeting for the purpose of orysnising a World's Chinese Students' Federation is to take place at the Chinese Y M.
A. Hall, No. 16, Peking Road, 1 afternoon, at 3 o'clock, when we understand in addition to a lecture by Mr. Lee 'Yéng-whee, B.A. (Yale University) on the "Immediate Problem Before Us," several prominent Chinese will address the aieeting.
The; New Commander-in-Chief of (Region North of the Yangtze) HE. Liu Chting-yung. according to a Nanking dispatch, arrived at that city on the 28th June from Peking to hold an interview with Viceroy Chou Fu, {Stes taking over his seal of office ati pingkiang, on the Grand Canal, which is to be his future headquarters, His Excellency also h ids the brevet rank of 9 Vice-President of one of the Great Boards at Peking, in order to enable him to ha control over all the civil Mandari (Taotais, prefects, etc.,) holding office in the various prefectures constituting the territory of Kiangpeh. The new Commander-in-chief was at one time—in the early nineties—Chinese Consul at Chemulpo, Corea, contemporaneous with the incumbency of H. E. Yuan Shih-kai as Imperial Chinese Resident at the Court of Seoul, that is to say, just prior to the Chino-Japanese War of 1894-5. H. E. Lin Ch'ing-yung is a protege of the Chibli Viceroy, through whose influence the former was appointed Chief Military Secretary to the Army Reorganisation Department when it was established in 1902. Through Viceroy Yuan's influence, also, the Empress Dowager bestowed for the first time in the history of the pre-sout-dynasty the peculiarly Manchu ra of Assistant Military Governor upon Liu Ch'ing-yung, followed up by his present appointment to Kiangpe, plus the brevet rank of Vice-President of one of the Poking Board:
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