FESTIVAL, Mayor's Order Forbidding the Giving of Costly Presents For the purpose of cultivating the simplicity and thrift 7 local oficals, General cial Municipality. of Shanghai, Mr. Chin Ao has been nominated Mayor of Peking; Mr, Nan Kuei hsing as Mayor of Tientsin; Ger eral Ho Cheng-chun as Chief of th he Public as Chief of the Public Peace Preservation Bureau in Tientsin, but they do not seem to be willing to assume their posts, The Peking Branch of the Polit -al Council is confronted with the difficulty of selecting a suitable Derson for the Chairmanship of the Branch Counci Such being the cease, it is generally believed th at it will be many days before the administrative constitution in the Metropolitan District and Chili Province has been completed.
The situation here is gradually returning to normal, and'there are no indications of unrest—Toho,
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