Proposal by Feng Adopted by the State Council Nanking, Oct. 16.
At the first meeting: of the State Council today Marshal Feng Yuhhsinng proposed the radical reduction of salaries of all government officials. The motion was adopted In principle and a special committee has been appointed to work out its also decided at the meet~ ing that senior members of the. Government might hold more than. one office but were not to receive extra pay for such work, The per sonnel in government offices, however, are prohibited from taking up more than one post. Any one guilty of violation of either of the above rules will be Hable to punishment for defrauding the "government.—Reuter. portant subject of the conversations. T can only say that it is a matter] of greater importance to China than it is to Japan. What it is T Teave you to guess."—Reuter.
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