Nanking, Oct. 29.
Foreign traders in China will be asked to use. the new system of mottle weights and" measures. roe" mulgated by the National Government in all business transactions, In a petition to the Ministry ments Indtry the Weights and Menus urea urges "that. the Ministry of Foreign A(tairs be 3e-quotted to notify the various foreign Powers so that their respective: nationals may conform to the new system. The Ministry of Finance ig also to be asked to revise Customs Import Tariff' to conform: with the new system.—Kuo Min, he was unable to make these public Lin, the President is expected to"
According to oficiais close to Bx. retin to Nanking in a few days, his presence in the capital being urgently needed. During his trip: from Amoy, Mr. Lin, was ace companied by only a secreta mendations "deemed prejudicial to sovereign rights and and_administrative integrity he official refused to say to Jwhich of the above categories the venous Lytton recommendations
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