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promotion of Europeans or Americans, the full emolument of salary plus expatriation allowance is still paid at

the rates hitherto obtaining. But it will, of course,

be possible for the Chinese Government at any time to

decide that in future posts, which have hitherto been in the Foreign Inspectorate, shall be offered in the case of new appointments at the "salary" only, without the "expatriation allowance", in which case the emoluments would most probably be too low to be acceptable to

Europeans or Americans.

3. It is, of course, evident that, while the suspension of all recruitment of Europeans and Americans for the Foreign Inspectorate must in the course of time automatically extinguish that service, the expedient of paying reduced salaries, less expatriation allowance, would be a means of accelerating such extinction.

4. I may add that the Ministry of Finance of the Nanking Government has recently announced the appointment of two Chinese Commissioners of Karitime Customs, namely,

These are the Hessrs. Oong Zur-tseng and Ho Chi-fei.

first Chinese ever appointed to the rank of Customis

Commissioners in China. Mr. Oong is a native of Seochow,

and has been for a number of years in the Statistical Department of the Shanghai Customs House.

He was

appointed to the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Customs at Shanghai last year, and has now been appointed Acting Commissioner of Customs at Scochow. r. Ho is a native of Canton and has been for many years Assistant Statistical Secretary in the Inspectorate General at Shanghai. He was promoted to the rank of Deputy

Commissioner