Peking, Jan. 18.
It is understood that funds are available for the payment of one month's salaries to the staffs of all the Ministries and the gendarmerie, which is more than they received at the Autumn Festival—Reuter.
Cot, Tai Shih-fu, Commissioner of Public Safety, has requested the authorities to pay his men before the Chinese New Year, especially wages still in arrears.
Yunwanru, Jan. 1:—Yunnantu has been honoured lately by the vi of a deputation of six Japanese business men, who have been sounding the possibilities of increasing business in Yunnan, which to say the least of it is very enterprising, and sets a' good example to those of other nationalities—Reuter.
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