Offer of Shansi Authorities to Assist British in Inquiry Peking, Aug. 23.
The Shansi authorities have approached the British Legation with 4 proposal that they take joint steps order to solve the mystery of the disappearance of Lieut. T. Knowles of the East Yorkshire Regiment who disappeared while on a hunting trip in the Western ills last autumn, at the beginning of the war between Fengtien and Shansi caressing satafcton at the pro-'Each party will appoint two Relogates to [proceed to. the. Hills and make inquiries and search for traces of the missing officer—Reuter, INWANPAO" reports from Peng-te that practically the entire crops of the districts surrounding that town have been damaged by. Tocusts, hordes of which are still about and "darkening the 'A proposal has been made by the authorities of Soochow, with the approval of Gen. Chien Ta-chun, the Gendarmerie Commissioner, whose! phere of influence extends from Sungkiang, on the Shanghai-Hang. how Railay, to Chinkiang, on the for the construction of a. network of roadways from that ey. These will include highways to con-ect Soochow with Shanghai and with Nanking. A commission been formed to deal with the mat-toy and the troops of Gen. Chiex be placed on the work at once, the Chinese vapors report,
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