Dpusinens haw focussed attention for The temporary lull in the Charhar the time being on the equally feated, "though. "perhaps Jess dangerous, situation in the Tan River district, where the Luantung Hetrocenaion Commission—so_ they all themselves—have already, for Some days, been trying to take o¥er ihe gate hi peeling Slowly and unsatifacto 4 the constant fresh demands of Li eshte eet foe shane spenses," another and. polite form ests for "als po cements and so. untouched by the damp and insects. It is said that the quantity to be reported as missing and damaged to be a large one. According to the Chinese. Press here, there isa proposal on foot in Nanking to raise a loan in order to erect a building in which to house the Museum trea fof zeal to take over the area, when they, are confronted with a demand for $500,000, So. back they Tush to Peking to see the leaders in clunon of tei Lake es, Who, find any money "at all, send "the ready at their wits end
commissioners back with s counteroffer of $200,000, the greater part of which, by the way, $s to be appro inted from" the' funds of the king-Mukden Railway. Thus bargaining proceeds, so that it can be tmderstood that the taking-over {ig rather a slow and diffeult process. The' genoa opinion appears fo be that fis area, whatever the nominal arrangements of the Dairen Ufacussions: may have been, will re-fain in the hands of Li Chi-chun, new semi-independent satrap and them in the flesh of the harassed Gentral authorities, though whether hig'new constellation will remain in the Chinese orbit or will gravitate towards that of the new planet, fanchouko, remains an pet des Reforming Peking 'Meanwhile our new mayor, Mr. 'Yuan Liang, in order, no doubt, to id future which he made to us on cary out those promices of a splen-his taking over the post, has started out on what in the States, is, T be-Tieve, called a Moral Purity' Campaign. Peking, however, is such a model city that apparently a certain amount of difficulty was experienced
moral broom.
nding a suitable object for, There is no opium no heroin oF ed; the lighting of the brilliant in the extreme: the mu cipal finances are in perfect ord trade and industry are simply flo ishing. So that this keen and ener-
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