No easy task is that of Viceroy Hsu Shih-chang in Manchuris at the present day. territory is more heterogene-ons than any other viceroyalty in China, and whatever course of action he pursues he is sure to meet with censure, either openly expressed, as has already been demonstrated, or conveyed trip, concluded i ry, northern provinces, Heilungkiang and Kirin, brings the situation freshly and thoroughly to wind as a whole, and followed in retrospect, indicates the ition as well as those ques-ming yet unsettled.
During the forty-two days of his absence from Mukden, H.E. Hsu was busily engaged in reorganizing and instructing the provincial goverament at Tsihsibar and Kirin, studying local conditions and collecting materials for his recent memorial to the Throne. In both provinces he found
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