Aug. 11.
The announcements this year. of a compassionate allowance to municipal servants, and an adjustment of exchange with ference to one-third of their salaries is eveating a certain amount of anxiety in Shanghai. In March the Council, in order to meet the fall in exchange made a compassionate allowance rénging from 20 per cent. on salaries below Tis, 250 to 15 per cent. below Tie, 500. That, it should be said at once, appeared to be 'a very proper allowance in view of all the circumstances, for it is the man who draws the
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