Peking, June 21.
The truce at Shanhaikuan appears to have reached that stage where fighting may be said to have ended, but it is doubtful whether General General Chang Tso-lin is taking his Hforees back to Fengtien. Accord-jing to one foreign report, the Fengtien troops are freshly digging in outside the Great Wall.
Three hundred and fifty-three Members of Parliament have arrived in Peking up to yesterday and have registered at the £ecretarian, receiving their travelling expenses ranging from $100 to $400.
'A member from Shanghai, Mr.{; Chu Fa-cheng, recommends sending funds to Canton immediately so as! to enable the Cantonese Members to proceed to Peking.
Mandates issued last night establish a, National Finance Commission and appoint Dr. Wellington Koo Chairman and order the summoning of financial experts from all parts of the country to take part in a discussion on all the phases of the financial situation.
Commenting on the selection of Dr. Wellington Koo for this post, the vernacular papers express the opinion that Dr. Koo's friendly relations abroad should aid in securing the cancellation of the Boxer Indemnity or at least in gaining its suspension for a period of five years. They add-that in either case the revenues now allotted to the Indemnity might be allocated to the service of foreign loans. Incidentally, it is semi-officially stated that Dr. Koo's main task will be the funding of foreign loans.
The vernacular papers also say that Mr. Tung Kang, in the course of a recent interview by representatives of the Chinese press, said that while the financial prospects had much improved. immediate necessities rendered it imperative to discuss a foreign loan, but that the Government had not approached any foreign banks in that con-
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