Mandated as Foreign Minister Peking, April Mandates issued early this morn-; ing accepted the resignation of Mr. Huang Fu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and appointed Dr. ling-ton Koo Acting Foreign Minister.
The Government has forwarded a despatch to Parliament stating that, owing to the urgency an enterprises. With cheap labour thee appointed Dr. Wellington Koo: ailures of China's industrial }importance of foreign affairs, it and an inexhaustible supply of raw] acting Foreign Minister,—without] materials, there are immense Pos-/nwaiting Parliamentary ratifica-! sibilities in the development of the'tion, but the despatch expresse country's natural resources.
Forjthe hope that Parliament will this reason the Society, apart from! speedily ratify his appointment. other activities, offers itself as It is expected that Dr. Koo will consulting body to capitalists and assume his duties to-morrow. promoters of industrial enterprises Later. to whom technical advies will free-, It is semi-officially announced! ly be given whenever. sought. The that the Mandate appointing Dr. Society's Journal is a biannual Wellington Koo was issued without' publication. The first volume ap- his consent. No date can be fixed peared. in January and contains for his assuming the duties of many articles of technical interest,'oreign Minister.
If Parliament: amongst which the papers on "Chin-' yat'fies the mandate, he may accept ese Drying Oils" and "Soya Bean ihe portfolio.—Reuter.
Industries" may be specially mentioned. The Journal may be obtained at the Peking Educational, Supply Ca,—Tung-tan-pailou, Owiye to, the turn in affairs in Fukien, the Chinese press states that the military authorities in Shanghai have been instructed to despatch two brigades now lying at Woosung to Fukien.
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