The city for some time past has been pasted all over, In the most suitable and unsuitable places, and] on every single telegraph polo and electric light standard, with a hideous, gaudy, red and yellow. poster advertising some Japanese} patent medicine. A few of the shop-hoopers at first protested, as did the police, but their protests were ignored, as the bill posters were accompanied a Japanese, For weeks every part of the city has been disfigured by these unsightly posters. At last, after long and delicate negotiations on this most important question, the} Chinese authorities received the kind, permission of the Japanese Legation fo remove the posters, which is now being slowly carried out.
The most important social (it not political) event in recent times, that has violently excited Peiping, was the celebration here of his father's both birthday by Gen, Hsiao Cheng-ying, the Mayor of Tientsin, "It was 3 most elaborate and costly affair. Special trains brought friends from 'Tientsin, over 800 persons sat down to. the banquet, and Gen. Hsiau's home was crowded with visitors from morning to night. The whol? thing Is said to have cost. well over $100,000 and to have been the most Tavish entertainment that' has been given in Peking these last 25. year: Everybody is wondering, what it war really for, as a 60th birthday is no very special event, and less. than a. ying was
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