Peking, Sept. 29, Tt is expected that the Cabinet will accede to Mr. Chang Hu's (the Minister of Finance) request for 10 days' leave of absence, appointing Mr. Ho Ten-lin, the Vice-Minister of Finance, to take charge of the affairs of the Ministry.—Reuter.
Gex. Feng Vu-hsiang, the Christian soldier, has increased the strength of his uth Army Division by two mixed brigades, reports the "Journal of Com-meyer."
Memuers of Parliament in Poking are reported to have addressed letters to the Italian Minister requesting him to prevent the sale of Italian arms to Marshal Wu Pei-fu or the Chihli party as all such will be used in causing bloodshed among the Chinese people, and suffering generally to the world as a whole. is is rather taking it for granted that the "world as_a whole" will not look after itself.
Tie new director of the Shanghai Mint has proposed to the Peking Government' the negotiations of a loan of $3,500,000 from certain banks in Shang! with the salt surplus as secur The loan, he states, can be repo in instalments of $70,000 monthly. Tke "Shanghai Journal of Commerce" states in this connexion that Mp. Chu Vu-tsi, the director in question, leaves for Peking within a few days.
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