Itie reported that the Manager of the Hanyang Iron Works, " Taotai named a asked permission from his superior officers to borrow from a certain foreign firm some £80,000, in order enable him to make certain much-needed improvements in the works Ow: however, to the high rate of interest Taotai has been, it in stated, unable to obmanded, namely, eight per cent, Eh; tain the necessary formal per m to make the A Nanking dispatch states that Viceroy Chou Fu has been making sweeping reforms in the reorganisation of hi troops and that his Excellency hrs dismissed all the uneducated commandant of the -six battalions stationed in Nanl CALENDAKS, ETC.,
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