The Ministry of the interior has acknowledged receipt of a petition from Gen. Wang Chih-hsiang, Goyernor of the Metropolitan Area, in which he says: that Liu Meng-kung, former Governor, floated a shor! term loan in the Metropolitan aren, the amount of which is not known, without the consent of the Ministry wnee_or the Interior.. The petition added that according common report Liu had fled wi $240,000.
The Ministry of the Interior struct Gon. Wang to make a full ion of the case, and to take immediate crops to suspend the sue-—Reuter's Pacific Service.
Peking, Dee, 18, Mandates wilh shortly be issued missing Gens. Ma Fu-hsiang and Chang Hsi-yuan, the Tutungs of Suaiyuan. and Chahar respectively.
General Chang Chihschang, one of General Feng's officers, will succeed General Chang Hsi-yuan—Reuter's Pacific Service, Nie. Ku Hung-ming, the abet Chinese scholar and ' monarchist advocate, who was in, Japan, last month, is now in Formosa and is soon to go to Korea for a lecturing. tour. The "Osaka Asahi" says he may return to Japan later to take a professorship in one of the universities. Mr. "Ku was very much pleased with the reception given him in Japan,
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