Poking, Oct, 14. The movement to oust Mr. Hau Yuan from his position as Commis sioner of Foreign Affairs in Shang-progressed to the point of despatching a prospective sucesso Mr. Chao Chuan, the present head of the Treaty Department of the Waichiaopu, to Shanghai to report on conditions in the Commissionev's office.
Two stories in circulation to account for the attempt to remove Mr. Hsu Yuan. The first alleges his implication in some scandal, and the second has it that he hat incurred the enmity of influential persons by his handling of the September incident. ut ie said that he will be accommodated with a post in the Waichiaopu,
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