(Communications, recently sent. a memorial to the Chief Executive suggesting that the freight charges the cheaper grades of grain on which the poorest classes. principally subsist should be. reduced by 60 per cent. on the Peking-Hankow, land Peking-Suaiyuan railways. He suggested that this, should remain force for two months, and that the Ministry of the Interior should be instructed to place restrictions the removal to' o tres of grain s0 brought to the capital, A Chinling Mandate gazetted to-day sanctions this request and instructs the Ministry of the Interior to aet accordingly.
'The Ministry of Communications thas established "a commission to dear with military' and. commercial transportation on the various. ral ways. Article 1 of the rogulatio Under which this commission will work says that the Ministry, with 2 view to facilitating both military And commercial transportation, has established the commission to arrange improved military and commercial traffic pending. the restor tion. of normal conditions. Article 2 provides for the commission to consist of the Staff of the Ministry, the stof! of the Ministry of War, Transport officers of the various armies, and the Staff of the Rai way Administrations. "Article says that the. commission" shall have: one Chairioan and five Viee-Chairmen. The Vieo-Chairmen wil be appointed by various. Interests (military) at the invitation of the Ministry of Communications. Ar-tide 4 says that the Commission shall have a department of general affairs under a chief with a cometent stof, The personnel of the general affairs department shall be Jappointed by the Chairman of the comm jon and drawn from thie staffs of the Ministry of Com-oilway Ade
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