Viceroy Tuan Fang telegraphs to Resid the Waiwupa that he has arrested the degraded Taotai Lin Ao, alias Lia Tien-yun, who, in conjunction with The HE. Herald and S.C. & C. Gazette.
Ave 22 1908 the degraded Taotai Chia Chi obtained the now-restored vast mining concessions in Pingting, Tséchow and three other districts in Shansi for the Peking syndicate in 1898 from the Into Governor Hn Ping-tze. On the restoration of the concession to the Province last February, these three officials (though Governor Hu died many years ago) were degraded by Imperial Edict for their misdeeds. After his degradation, the unlucky Lin Ao went to Pukow, the southern terminus of the Tientsin-Pokow trunk line, and purchased several hundred Chinese acres of uncultivated land, in anticipation of, the coming opening of Pukow to interna-Bat some time ago, jin changed his mind and offered the land to Viceroy Tuan Fang as a free gift to the Chinese Government, expecting, of course, in return the restoration his former official rank and title.
This unexpected offer of Lin aroused the suspicion of H. E. Taan who thought that he was again in league with some foreigners and at once ordered his arrest, being a traitor who had once mulcted his country in the sum of Tls. 2,750,000, the price paid for the cancellation of the Shansi concession. Lin has now been ordered to be sent up to Peking, where he will be farther charged with absorbing a certain amount of Chinese Government money in connexion with the granting of the mining concession to the Syndicate in Shansi in 1898. Lin's possible fate ix a subject of general interest, bat no one knows what the Peking Government is going to do with him when he a here next month, services, in spite of the protests from the Waiwapn, The Japanese Government has further increased the annual expenditure of the branch Resideney-General which is divided into three departments each of which is under the control of Japanese official. Judging from various reporte, the Japanese have no intention of leaving the island. In order to counterbalance the Japanese scheme the Chinete Government has now decided to divide the territory into two districts, under the control of a territorial Taotai, who shall have fall power to act independently in case of emetgency. In addition to the said Tantai a high military officer, probably a Major-General by rank, will be appointed commandant of the Chinese garrison at Chientao and its surrounding districts, that is within the Sub-Prefecture Yénchi; and a Chiao-se Chu or office of Foreign Intercourse will also be established at Chientan to have charge of affairs with the Japanese authorities. ith a view to maintaining the sovereign rights of China, Following the example of the Japan-exe, Viceroy Hsii is also sending 300 Chinese military police from Kirin tw Chientao for the protection of the local Chinese who rare complaining of being ill-treated by th Cheng Chao-d negotiator with thi eral of Kuangtung prior to the wafer of the Chientao question ing in April last, has been appointed special Commissioner-in-charge of intercourse with the Japanese at Chientao io addition to his duties as acting Governor Prior to the actual divi
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