Nanking, Aug. 25.
Chinese newspapers this morning state that the Finance Minister, Mr.
Soong, will shortly. leave _Hapkow, where he arrived on Saturday, and will proceed to Tsinan in order, to start the re-organization of, the financial. administration in Shan. tong. salaries of those members of the Chinese staff who had not already benefitted by the proposals previously made relative to the lower ranks and in regard to the Ohinese members of the Police Force, and requested that it be clearly uniter. stood by the Chinese members of the Council that "any temporary bonus absorbed the compassionate allowance granted to the lower paid married foreign employees. The expediency of granting relief to employees in receipt of salaries of Tis, 1,000 and upward was subsequently questioned.
The general out! adopted by the Com follows:—
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