Peking, Aug. 10.
At the extraordinary Cabinet meeting held to-day at 4 p.m. to consider the Note submitted by the Diplomatic Corps to the Waichiaopu, after a report made by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, is was decided to send two delegates to the Waichaopu from each of the Ministries of Home Affairs, Finance, War, and Communica: tions, to make joint investigation into the matter. A Chinese news agency reports as follows:—While no objection is taken to indemnity, or to the punishment of Mr. Chang, the chief of the police guards of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, and also chief of defence of trains of the Railway, the punishment of Gen. Tien Chung-yn, Tuchun_ of Shantung, and Gen. Ho Feng-yn, Pacification Commissioner of Yenchow, should be considered further.
To organize a special police force to be put under the control of foreigners means foreign interference in the domestic affairs of China in that by so doing China's sovereign rights are infringed. For this reason, such a proposition can never be complied with. The Chinese Government, therefore, has decided to make Dr. Wellington Koo, Minister for Foreign Affairs, conduct negotiations with the Diplomatic Corps on the points referred to above.—Eastern News Agency.
Peking, Aug. 11.
Chinese political circles regard the indemnity demands and the dismissal demands, excepting that of the Tuchun of Shantung, embodied in the Lincheng Note, to be acceptable but the opinion is expressed that there will be difficulty over the foreign supervision of railway guards. However, the Chinese Government's reply will not be made before the Diplomatic Body has presented its plan for railway protection.
The Chiaofungpu announces the appointment of Lt. Gen. Munthe, Commanding the Chinese Legation Guard, and Major Wang Kea 0 make same date Pre: king-Hankow, PPeking-Mukden, parations for icing the 'e-Tientsin-Pukow, Peking-Suiyuan, Kiaochow-Tsinan and Lung-Hai lines and to submit their proposals to the Ministry.
For the purpose of providing funds for carrying out such improvement, the Ministry appoints Mr. J. E. Baker, its railway adviser, and Mr. S. Y. Chen to devise means and to submit their Prcroals to the Ministry.—Reu-for.
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