The Archive · 1927

Peking Bent on Economy

Reduction of Personnel and Steps to Reduce Expenditure Peking, June 22

The Cabinet is devising various means to reduce the personnel of the Mizistries and in other ways to reduce expenditure.

The Cabinet to-day decided to issue two mandates, one a punitive is national tux will be install all the provinces, as eon condition permits, with the exeep= ing, which ig at pre~ werimenting with the tobacco monopoly. Chékinng will be given chance to try out its pet schemes but if it should not work smoothly Jor efficiently the taxing condition war tation of the Regiment left on Tuesday on the transport Herminius, for-Weihaiwei,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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