Governor of Shantung, arrived here this morning to offer his congratulations to President Tsao on the occasion of the latter's birthday. Gen. Cheng Shih-chi, Tuli of Shantung, telegraphed to the President saying that the efforts to effect the rescue of the French priest, Father Frederic, were engaging his persona] attention, but that he had sent a deputy to Peking, Mr. Sung Tab-pai, to convey his congratulations.
Marshal Wu finally decided not to come to Peking, but Mme. Wu and Mme. Chang Fu-lai, wife of the Honan Military Governor, arrived here last evening with congratulatory messages from their husbands. Gen. Tien Chin-chang, representing Gereneral Ma Lien-chia (Tuli of Anhui), arrived there last night for the same purpose.—Reuter.
Nov. 28.
President Tsao Kun entertained Mr. Tsao Jui, former Civil Governor of Chibli, and other mensers of the Tsao family last evening.
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