From rhe "M№obrh-ChixA pewy News" or NOVEMBER 13, 1878
Regarding the colour to be used for S.V.C. uniforms I would humbly sugges} scarlet; as in our narrow crowded freets the Volunteers would then be better able to recognize each other at distance; a dark colour would be Confusing. as the dress of the Chinese is generally of different shades of blue; and to prove what I assert, let anyone Walk down the Bund towards the Custom House when a parade is called, and he will see how the scarlet stands Out in the crowd of both foreigners, including Nos. 1 and 2 Companies, and Chinese. Some argue that scarlet is too Conspicuous and offers too good a mark for an enemy, but as all over fighting would probably be in the streets of the Settlements, it seems to me far more important that we should recognize our own people, and not fire upon them in mistake, as might very possibly happen, should the' colour chosen be a dark blue as was proposed (Extract from Letter to the Editor).
Ma. Chen Tseng-shih, Commissioner of Reconstruction for Hope, who came to Peiping recently from Tientsin to consult the Reconstruction Administration on schemes for the building of a network of highways in Hopei province, is stated by the Chinese press to have secured a subsidy of $400,000. Under the [scheme 22 highways, covering 31 hsien, will be built.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.