Red Cross Society (formerly President of the Waichiaopu under the late Taching Dynasty) has been appointed Director-General of Famine Relief Works in Shantung, necessitated by the recent floods and the existing hostilities between Germany and Japan contending Tsingtao.
The Government is paying attention to this work with a view to prevent distressed Chinese from joining the leaders of the Kuomintang, as reliable reports have been received in Peking that the appearance of Li Lich-chun, and other notorious rebel leaders who took a prominent part in the so-called second revolution in the Yangtze Provinces last year have secretly arrived at Lungkow and Weihsien the hope of setting the whole Province of Shantung in open rebellion.
Japanese at Lungkow and Wethsien.
The Japanese officials at Lungkow have now liberated the Chinese official in charge of the Lungkow Native Customs, but the Customs house is still occupied by them.
The Japanese are building a light railway from Lungkow to Kiaochou for the transportation of their siege guns.
The resignation of Governor Tsai Ju-chia of Shantung has been refused by President Yuan on the ground that in the present. crisis 'a change of high officials will not be beneficial to the Republic.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.