Peking Finds Difficulty in Replacing Finance Minister Poking, Jan, 80.
According to well-informed Chinese circles, the replacement of the Minister of Finance, Mr, Yen Tzepu, is proving very dificult, 'The post has been offered successively to Messrs. Li Shih-hao and Wang Keh-min, but, as both of them refused to' accept the portfolio, it therefore has been decided that Mr. hall continue in office 'August. If anything con~ crete were settled, he would immediately inform' the. press but, naturally, details of the proposals and disgusions could not be divalged in advance.
Important developments are pected to take place in Shanghai in view of the fact that, in addition to the forthcoming ' visit of the Deputy Inspector-General of Customs, Mr. E. Mend, the English Secretary of the Salt Gabelle, and Mr. D. MeLorn, of the Post Office, are both in Shanghai negotiating with the Nationalist Government, with the consent of the Peking. Government, while the French Df ter, H. E. the Count de May Believed to be in Nanking @ro present time—Router.
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