A circular telegram has been sent to the "Provinces, containing three articles framed by the Central Government for the encouragement of officials in the flo.ation of the six per cent. Home Loan. The first article promises honours to those who succeed in raising the proportionate amount as fixed by the Government within the pre scribed lime. The scoond article promises exemplary distinctions to those who raise more than the fixed amount. The last article sti-plates that officials who fail to raise the fixed amount, and those who remit the amount beyond the prescribed period of time will be considered as guilty of neglect of public duty.
Military Measures, Since receiving the news of the defection of Kuangsi, the Peking Government has held conferences almost every day and night. Orders have been telegraphed to the provinces requiring them to consolidate their defences and take all precautions. Both Shantung and Anhui have been ordered to send detec!: ments of their best troops as soon as possible to Canton to ce-operate in defending the province against rebels from Kuangtung.
News has leaked out to the effect that General Lung Chin-kuang, t newly appointed Chiangchiin and Civil Governor of Yunnan, first detained by General Che Acting Kuangsi Chiangchiin, at Nanning, and then liberated' by General Lu Yung-ting who intercede ed on his behalf by telegraph from either Kueiping or Liuchow, as General Lu's whereabouts are not definitely known. General Lung is said to be on his way back to Canton, commissioned by the rebel to persuade his brother, General Lung Chih-kuang, to disavow his allegiance to Yuan Shu kai. But as General Lu Yung-ting and General Lung Chih-kuang are related by marriage between their children, the latter's loyalty may prove to be on a par with that owed by the former before Kuang-declaration of independence. The Government is, therefore, much disturbed by the new turn of affairs. Besides, as General Lu Yung-ting was appointed Pacificafor of Kueichow at his own peated request, so cleverly that the Government praised his loyalty and bravery as unequalled in the Mandate making this appointment. His real aim, which is now revealed, was to concentrate his best troops at Liuchow and to get funds and arms from Canton by order of the Government. From Liuchow, he can divert his force to march into Hunan instead of proceeding to Kueichow as was believed by the Government to be his intention.
The Central Government, or rather the Military Council, has decided three important measures:
That, the fullest, responsibility
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