Several mysterious changes of office are taking place in the pre-tent time of crisis and unrest, Mr. Eben Tze-liang, the Director of the Hupeh Provincial Mint in Wuchang, has been sent to Hankow to take the place of the Controller of the No. 2 Special Administration District (late Russian Concession). Conversely Mr. Li Fan-chang, who has been occupying the latter post, thas removed to Wuchang to take Mz. Bhen's place at the Mint. The Wuchang Commissioner of Finance, Mr. Huang-Yun-hsi, has resigned, and his successor Mr. Li Hsu haa already been appointed. This post has been a thorny one for several years and its difficulties "re by no means Aiminished by the necessity of having to find an extra sum for the to meet the month the procured {rom somewhere. Until this amount has been found, Mr. Hoang cannot hand over the of hig office, and consequently the transfer is at a deadlock. Mr. Fan Chi-tu has been persuaded to return to his post at the Education Bureau, with a guard of soldiers to protect him against the assaults and sieges of discontented students, Taxes that Went to Peking The Chinese case for the arrest of Mr. C. C. Mino, the Director of the Salt Revenue in Hankow, ut by the native press. It appears that it been the custom for two-thirds of the salt tax of the province to be collected at Yangchow and sent to Peking, the remaining third being forwarded to the pro-Vinelal authorities in Wuchang. Recently, Mr. Miao arranged for the whole of the tax to be detained at Yangchow, so that Peking. receives the ' whole, and Hupeh Joves @ monthly revenue of $120,000. Hsiao Yao-nan the Tupan was na-taraily annoyed at this and hence the arrest of Mr. Miao, who is still in prison. Though it is not stated in the Chinese account, Mr. Miao was undoubtedly acting "under orders from Peking, #0 that the question is one of loyalty to the Central Executive.
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