Peking, June 3.
It is reported that a large number of employees of the Salt Administration are being dismissed in accordance with the policy of the new Minister of Finance to dispense with all officials whose posts are not absolutely necessary.
The Ministry of Finance is being) guarded to-day by gendarmerie, owing to reports that dismissed employees might make a demonstration.
In communicating to Mr. Hesuj Shih-chang the fact that the posts} of Director-General of the Tientsin-Pukou and Hsiangyangchow-Pukoa Railways had been abolished, the Ministry of Communications stated; that hereafter the duties appertain-: ing to these posts would be carried out by the Chief of the Railway Department.
The Ministry of Communications has informed Mr. Wang Ching-hsien, Chief of the Changchow-Amoy Railway Construction Bureau, that no funds are available for the extension of. the railway and that the Bureau should be converted into a department and the seal of the Bureau sent back to Peking.
The question of funds for the Chinese Chair at Paris University, was discussed at to-day's '"administrative' meeting and it was resolved that an allowance should be arranged by the Minister of Finance, while $30,000 a month should be drawn from the Peking Octvoi for the Middle and Primary Schools of Peking.—Reuter.
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