It having been decreed that the 75th anniversary of the declaration of independence of one of the smallest, but not the Toast in energy and progress, of tire European States, Belgium, should be celebrated on the 2ist July, the day was duly observed here by the Belyi re Was & 1eception st the Consulate in the morning and the Belgian Club as well as private residences were illuminated in honour of the occasion at night.
H. E. Tuan Fang is here en route to the evpital, where he is going before he proceeds on his special mission of obtaining by travel snd obser-have gone by the Lu-Haa Railway; but lowing to some bridges having been damaged through floods on the northera section his departure has been delayed and he may now travel to the north vib Shang.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.