on Octroi Note Payments Peking, May 13.
Unofficially it is reported that the Cabinet meeting decided to accept Marshal Wu Pei-fu's recommendation for the appointment of Gen. Sun Chuan-fang as Defence Commissioner for the Kuangtung-F kien border and Gen. Chow Yin-jen as Tuli of Fukien.
The meeting of the Cabinet this morning resolved to accept the resignation of Mr. Chiang Tien-to, Vice-President of the National Coi servancy Bureau and Vice-Chairman of the Yangtze Commission. It} was decided that Mr. Chang Yao-kuei should succeed Mr. Chiang. The Cabinet meeting also decided to appoint Messrs. Chen En-ho and Chu He-hsiang Counsellors of the Foreign Office, and Mr. Wang Ting-chang Chief of a department of the It_was reported by the Vico-Minister of Finance that a petition had been received from the Peking Chinese Chamber of Commerce requesting that the order of the Octroi department regarding nonacceptance of circulating notes should not be enforced. After some discussion on this "subject the Cabinet resolved that in future the notes in question should be accepted for payment of ten per cent. of Octroi payments, instead of 20 per! cent.
Sino-Japanese Riwy. Conference.
Peking, May 16.
The Ministey of Communi hes appointed Mr. Hy. Hu, the Through Traffic Director, and M. Lockart, the Manager of the, Rai way Clearing House, to represent, the Chinese Railways at the Sino-Japanese Railway Conference which will open at Seoul on June 2—Reuter's Pacific Service. are many more advocates. of Wu Pei-fu's scheme of reunification by force here to-day than there were a week age.
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