It is said in Tientsin that both Chang Hu and Pan Fu are anxious to get back into tha Ministry of finance, on any terms, to recoup, Both are believed to have exhausted their ready resources, and'if one does not take the job the other will, just in the hope of lasting a month or so and of gathering in a. new stake. Pan Fu's new residence in Tientsin is the most palatial structure in North China and is believed to have cost him $300, C00. He has been entertaining very lavishly. Ho was a rich man before he ran his spectacular course in the Ministry of Finance a few years ago, but he is now said to have been reduced to his estate - and factory holdings and to have exhausted his ready cash, Dr. Sun' Yat-sen was a passenger in a military aeroplane which was tested on the 9th instant prior to its being sent to the East River for operations against Gen: Chen Chiung-ming, states the "Eastern Times."
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