(Translated from the Chinese Pre Most of the items of the Estimates wore pated on January 4 by the National sembly. The Law Uommittee is preparing its report on the New Ordinance relating to Criminal sod Commercial procedure.
Aw argent telegram has been received by the Government from the Szechuan Viceroy reporting that the students and other educationalists, being io receipt of telegrams from Féogtien snd Chibli provinces asking ce-operation and support demand for an earlier and haviog been influenced by the countensnoe of the Provincial Assembly of Sucbuan have all refused to attend schools, A teacher, named Lin T'ung, delivered a lecture' advocating insabordination and lawless principles. When the Viceroy ased force to sapprees them, Lin escaped, but the stadente were sti roaming about in the streets. Mesere. Tong Cheo and Tong Hsisobeen publicly elected to be their repreteatatives at Pekiog. Ho asked the Gorernment strictly to forbid the two Tongs to accept the election and to telegraph to the students to resume their work and abandon such riotous king states that the members of the National Assembly took exception to an illustration in the "Ku Lun Pao" (or "Pal Opinion"), a Hankow paper, depicting a fight between a crowd of dogs, which meant to reflect open the The Hone, Yih Tsung-kuei Flog desmad the that the paper's rely groundless Sabwoquently the President consented to draw the attention of the Ministry of the Interior to the publication with the object of haviog pat in force some peiewe to the free utterances of the ese, Tueae is s ramour that on account of insufficiency of funds, and want of experienced officers the establishment el thirty-six Army Divisions next y will not be carried out, the nom-ber being reduced to twenty-five.
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