Confusion in Characters the Foundation of a Canard Peking, Nov. 19, Considerable interest was aroused here to-day owing to a report that Japan had appointed a Minister to Canton.
Some of the vernacular papers in the Orient, It transpires that a mistake owing to the extreme like Chinese characters for "Cantor "Austria" and the fact is that Mr. Ohno, the Jay "Consul General at Hamburg, has been appointed Minister to Austri Reuter, Genznat Chen Yi, Civil Governor Jof Chekiang, witha bodyguard of 20 soldiers, arrived in Shanghai on Thursday from Hangchow ut 11.45 am, and left shortly afterward for Nanking. He was met by Dr. V.
Ting and other oficlas of Shang-
Gexenat, Li Pao-chang, Commissioner of the Defence, left for Nan~ king on Wednesday to confer with General Lu Hsiang-ting, tupan of [Chekiang, and Marshal Sun Chuanfang's representative at Nanking, regarding questions of Shanghai defence. a proclamation to the public, the Chinese police authorities warn residents in Chinese territory that it is their duty when moving from trict to another to notify the focal police stations to th thus to save themselves trouble ith the powers that be. not seem interested in the of the Chinese people The communications, the supremacy avaricious war lords, amd the' end-Iece series of the manufactured tives to make civil-wars, with the Treasury of the Central Govern ron at stake, outrageous taxes merchant hes worked agsiat any ibility of the immediate formulation of a fixed policy wit regard to China,
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