Tsung Chi, has submitted a memorial by telegraph, requesting Imperial sanction for a scheme for reserving 450 ch'ings (a ching is 100 mow) as the perpetual property of the Bannermen.
Axorsza Peking telegram reports that H.E. Shea Yuen-pei's transference to the Ministry of Civil Appointments was caused by overzeal in the endeavour to secure the cancellation of the loan agreement, He declared that the draft ireement of the late Grand Secretary Chang Chih-tang should be cancelled, as it bad never been sanctioned by the he members of the lessn him and threatened Prince Ching and Na Tang, the Grand Secretary, with diplomatic proceedings. As his transference appears to be s step down the official ladder, all the metropolitan officials bora in Kiangsa intend to pray the Government to rescind the Decres.
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