Peking, September 4.
'A. meeting of the Manchu Princes, the Grand Council and the Ministers, has been called for to-day to discuss the question of an adjustment of the differences between Chinese and Manchus. In the meantime Viceroys Yuan Shih-kai and Chang Chih-tong have been appointed members of the Chun Chi-cha (Grand Council). Lu Chuanlin has asked leave to resign his office on this board. An Imperial Edict appoints Yuan Shih-kai to be President of the Waiwupu instead of Lu Haithuan, who is appointed Junior Director-General - of the Chinese, Maritime Customs. No reliable reports are to had with to the successor Yuan Shih-kai as Viceroy of Chibli. Numerous other changes in the offices of the Viceroys and Governors are expected. Viceroy Chao Erh-sen, who was on his way to Szechuan, has been recalled to Peking.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.