With regard to the Salt Administration it is understood that an official is coming from Nanking to take over the archives. Much anxiety is felt on the question whether the Salt Gabelle will continue to function and what will be the fate of the loans secured om ite Tu any event, i€ the Salt Administration is moved to Nanking, it will mean that more modern offices and residences will be without @ tenant.
Tu view of China's poverty after many years of civil war and the famine in Shantung, and elsewhere, the need for vast funds for the rehabilitation of the railways and uetive purposes, it is wsideved that it' would ho a very wasteful policy to spend many millions on now buildings when very suitable ones already exist in Poking.
A Second Angora,
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