Simultaneously men drawing public pay will have to wear prescribed Kinds of clothing. If of the military branch, civil attire must not be worn, It of civil branches, it will be optional to dress in' long Chinese gowns or the "Chung Shan" style, the mode devised by Dr. Sun—a modified Western style, the coat collars being cut like, those of rulitary uniforms, No other garments will be permitted.
Ordinarily the Provincial People's Council does not send bills that has passed to the Government until final adjournment. The importance of the measure, however, calling upon the authorities to cancel its orders for the registration of all native sugar shops was deemed vf Such importance that as soon as a vote was taken last Friday the bill was laid before the Provincial Government, Tt has just been given out that on Monday the Council was apprised that it was impossible to defer to the wishes of the people's vopresentatives, In smuggling foreign sugar into Kuangtung, the answer explained, a clever subterfuge has been resorted to. White grains have been dyed yellow so. that the foreign brands become indistinguishable from native products, That is why particularly close watch is kept on stocks of local sugar, Even before the enactment of the embargo on foreign sugar, it was ranch cheaper than even the most Inferior local classes. On the average sold here, after the smugglers have taken their out, for $6 a picul, and the best that is produced in native mills cannot be sold much below $14 a picul.
Military, Reorganization The second major recommendation of the Provincial People's Council negated by the Government, proposed that the four military administration distriels "into which Mr. Timperley Enters
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