On Sunday last, the 26th instant, the inangaration meeting of this newfangled, quasi-democratic body war beld in Fakomen. Paried with the local mall Japanese commanity attended the meeting. The young Prefect, biraself " Southern borate exposition of the: eleven rales, which hed just arrived from Lear faring the night before. In the whole list there is not " trace of real reform in the direction of consaltple. A certain amount ion of the existing local government agencies, to assist the authorities la preserving pesce—that in the sam of the matter.
And, to make sure that the reference to the "people" is only " graceful compliment, the official name of the Committee' being " Braoch Society of the People of the Empire for the Preservation of Peace," the first place io rank snd function is very definitely secured to the magistrate of the district, He is to be President of the Committee: his weal ix be employed: his yameo may be used for meetings: the business of envuring order devolves All action in subject to Head Office in Makden. Traly a good example of the Chinese method of accepting the it lest anyone should be disappointed with this playful attempt at reform, the Protect was condescending enough to take the chair at the beginning of the meeting, not on the raised pla a level with his plebsisn audience his proper restrain, but to one side on
Alter his exposition of these wonder-fol new rales, the President informed os that already three lines of activity had been decided on for the Committee (1) the enrolling of militia, (2) the employment of itinerant speakers to exhort the populace to be law-abiding, of voluntary con-distress caused by
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