Peking, Jan, 26. From a reliable source I learn that the recent report about the employment of Sir R, Dane in the Land Taxation Bureau in the same way as the Salt Administration has no foundation, General Tsai Ao, late Tutuh of Yunnan and Director-General of the Land Taxation Bureau, has memorialized the President recommending that an experiment be made in Chihli, Kiang-ssu and the Metropolitan Prefecture of Peking and that the system be gradually extended to other Province, The Central Government hopes to complete the ro-organization works within ten years. In view of the fine result of the salt revenue for 1914, which amounts to fully Tls. 42,300,000, the majority of Chinese papers are still in favour of the employment of Sir R. Dane in an advisory capacity to the Land Bureau.
On ths recommendation of the State Department, the President has sanctioned the establishment of a Chutsaikuan or Political School They will receive Tls. 12 per month from the Government. Chinese authorities say that this school will be different from the old Tungwenkuan of the Ching regime, because all successful students from the proposed school will receive Government appoint ments instead of wandering about the country unemployed.
Experienced opinion, however, predicts a complete failure for the proposed school because foreign-educated students after spending several years in Western colleges could never be made to sit down quietly to study Chinese official matters at Tls. 12 per month.
As everything introduced by the ex-Kuomintang Government Nanking has been overturned, the Government is going to change the Chin-se National Flag from five colours to three while the official
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