Dr. Sun Yat-sen has held another council of war to devise new means of capturing Waichow. Who fall of Waichow has. several times been reported by interested parties in Canton for political purposes, but there is no foundation for these reports.
Coolies and persons belonging to the labouring classes are still being pressed. into military service by the police when asked to supply labour for the military. Since the beginning of the fighting, early last spring, some 40,000 coolies have been drafted into service. But, according to a statement made by Gen. Fan Shek-sheng, of the 2nd Corps of the Yunnanese Army, the other day, he has not received a single man from the Commissariat-General of the Constitutional Army for carrying parties, notwithstanding the fact that several thousands of coolies have been pressed. Dr. Sun is ordering Gen, Hsu Chung-chi to look into the state of the finances and the working of the Commissariat-General, through which most of the war funds have been spent.
M. Borodin, the Russian Trade Commissioner, is now in Canton.
formal negotiations have been arranged between his government and the local authorities.
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