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large girls' school and a very fine church with a seating capacity of about 1,000. The Presbyterian Mission, which is near the Llama and Confucian Temples in the north of the city, has hospitals for both men and women, and is furnished with water by a windmill from an artesian well. The South and East churches of the Roman Catholic Mission have not been rebuilt, but the North Cathedral has been greatly improved. The Mission for the Blind is on Kan Yü Hu-t'ung, not far from the London Mission, while the S.P.G. Mission is in the West city.

The question of high houses in Peking is for ever settled by the erection of a two- storied residence by Prince Su, and three large blocks of similar buildings for the Col- lege of Languages by the Government. The private telegraph line from Peking via Tientsin to Taku, which was provided by Mr. Poulsen, the owner, before Peking was relieved, viz., from Tientsin to Taku, and which was immediately extended to Peking on the relief of the Legations, was handed over to the Imperial Chinese Telegraph Adminis tration on Oct. 1st, 1905. The line was used by the Generals and Ministers in Peking during 1900-1 for transmission to Taku of their dispatches to be forwarded thence by cable to all parts of the world, the Chinese line having been destroyed. On the Chinese rebuilding their line Mr. Poulsen converted his line into an inter-town telephone line, the first in China, and introduced the telephone system into Tientsin and Peking. When the Chinese Government started their system Mr. Poulsen sold his line to them.

DIRECTORY

GOVERNMENT

President-YUAN SHIH KAI

Vice-President- General LI YUAN HUNG Prime Minister Hung Hsi Ling

Minister of Foreign Affairs-Sün Poo Ki

Minister of Finance- Hung Hsi Ling

Minister of War--Tuan Chi Zui

Minister of Communications-Chow Chi Tsai

Minister of Interior—Chu Kai Kim

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry-Cheung Hiu

Minister of Justice - Leung Kai Chiu

Minister of Industry and Commerce-Liu Kuei-yi

Minister of the Navy-Lau Kün Hung

Minister of Education-Cheung Hiu

FOREIGN ADVISERS TO THE GOVERNMENT

Political Adviser to the President-Dr. G. E. Morrison (British)

Advisers for Drafting the Constitution - Professor Frank Johnson Goodnow (Amer.),

and Professor Nagao Ariga (Japanese)

Ministry of War-Lieut. Col. Brissaud Desmaillets (French), Major von Dinkelmann

(German), and Colonel Banzai (Japanese)

Ministry of Finance-Dr. G. Vissering (Dutch) Honorary, Dr. Arnhold (German

and G. Passeri (Italian)

Ministry of Communications-G. Buar (German) Technical, G. Charignon (French) Railways, Seijizo Hirai (Japanese) Railways, Henry C. Adams (American) for the Unification of Railway Accounts and Statistics, A. H. Eriksen (Dane) Telegraphs, and S. Larsen (Dane) Wireless Telegraphy

Ministry of Foreign Affairs-H. de Codt (Belgian) Legal Adviser

In Connection with Quintuple Loan-Sir Richard Dane (British) Salt, Herr von Strauch (German) Assistant Salt, N. Konovaloff (Russia) Áudit, H. Mazot (French) Acting Audit, H. Pfeiffer (German) Loans

Ministry of Interior-F. A. Larson (Swede) Mongolian Affairs