According to Chinese papers it has been definitely decided by Admiral Liu Kuan-hsiung to abolish the Local Admiralty. Admiral T.
Lee, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, and his staff and department
Shased to the Ministry of Marine poms of the Local Admiralty, will transferred to Peking to be
for service, while the rest, officers and others, will be discharged. The Ministry of Marine itself will, in future, assume the supreme command of the Navy. decision will be carried out 6 soon the sanction from the Central Government is received. It will be remembered that on January 7, the Headquarters of the Military Commissioner of Sungkiang and Shanghai was re-minyed from the Arsenal to the Lungisut Powder Muguzine Buildings, pending the building of a special yamen for His Excellency at Langhus, which has been sanctioned by the Government. Now, since the abolition of the Local Admiralty has been decided upon by Mini ter Liu, the buildings it occupies ig the Arsenal will serve the purpose of a yamen for the Military Commissioner. General Yang Shan-tek has already asked the Government to revoke its order to build his yamen at Langhua and to permit him to occupy the buildings of the abolished Admiralty.
Admiral Duke Liu Kuan-hsiung, Minister of Marine, left Shanghai on the 2%th instant in company with Admiral T. 8. Lee on board a man-of-war. They will inspect the Woosung Forts and the ships anchoring outside Woosung, and then they will proceed up the Yangtsze-kiang as far as Nanking. The will then go to Anhui and Fukien.
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