Nanking, Jan. 26.
By mandate of the State Council, all passes for froe transportation on the various Government railways in the country, which have been issued to a number of Government Oficials, are to be cancelled forth This action is taken on a petition from the Ministry of Railways, pointing out tat, since the unification of the com try, no such order has been issued; and while on many of the Goverment railways the issuing of free passes to officials has been discontinued, the practice still persists, especially on the railways in the north. This means a considerable loss of revenue every year.
Moreover, the petition states, the number of Government officials demanding free transportation in the name of public duty is rapidly increasing so that the only way to get ¥id of this practice is to cancel free passes altogether—Kuo Min.
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