Commissioners:
We understand that at the special request of the Chinese High Commis-going abroad there will be no public welcome given their Excellencies fon the arrival in Shanghai, aa was at first intended by our Chinese fellow: resictents: On this account the assem-ling of the Eh boys of the various public and colleges and schools in thi attired in more or less" pi uniforms, and totalling something over 2,000, "at the 'Kinleeyuen Wharf, will have to be given uy, nor are there addresses "of welcome: ren to their Excellencies on their arrival by Committees' of the Chinese Chamber Commerce and principal Guilds. stood that the. Hi: Commissioners will be pleased to recei these public manifestations of good-will from the Chinese' residents of Shanghai on their return' from abro.d, after doing the work which they: have' been sent by their Imperial Majesties to perform Indeed in their desire'to avoid-sny "kind of publicity at the present moment, it is quite possible that High" Com. missioners' will-so time: their respective twelve to be elected before the end of the Chinese year.
Chinese Students in, Japan.
computed that there are no less than eleven thousand, odd, Chinese {youths and scholars of, more ature' age seeking a modern education in Japan, at, pres from almost every As an instance ign educumongst the Chinese as a whole there are, even from the. remote southwestern. provines of. Szochuay, wow no less thaw twelve, hundeod young men studying in Japan and elsewhere,
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