Peking, September 4.
It is reported, that the appointment of Chen Pi, the President of the Board of Communications; to be Viceroy of Shen-kan (Shensi and Kansu) is imminent. The cause for the change is the desire of the Central Government to see the construction of a railway from Bianfu, the tufa, the Cay another from Sianfu through Kansu to Mongolia to be started promptly, which undertaking is strongly opposed by the int conservative Viceroy Sheng Mongolian Bannerman. Lit Haibuan, the Director General of the Tientsin-Pukou Railway, is mentioned as the probable successor to Chen Pi ax President of the Board of Uommunication, Nanking, September 5.
Viceroy Tuan Fang will goon Sunday to Chiokiang and the Kiangyin Forts in order to inspect the modern drilled troops, Peking, September 8.
The Dalai Lama did not leave Taiyuan fa on September 3. Chinese Dewspapers assert that the (antral Government has abandoned the desire see the Dalai Lama in Peking on account of the unprecedented excesses committed by the more than two hund-rod priests, forming his retinue, whom they cannot punish for their misdeeds. But the real reason seems to be that the Peking Government has o0 means of compelling the Dalai Lama, who is unwilling to come to Poking, to visit the Capital, Trinanjn, September 9.
Governor Yuan Shu-hsun has dissolved the Shat ig Pankuanghui, the Society for the protection of un ing in Shantung, which had threatened to boycott Germany, in case would not hand over to El ming rights that she has acquired io Shantung.
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