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which provoked considerable adverse comment, but it must be regarded as another sacrifice of the picturesque and historical to the utilitarian. A Grand Trunk Central Station is contemplated, and when this is completed travellers will have little to com- plain of in the matter of convenience.

A Tramway scheme has been drafted for some time, but the privilege of constructing it is a subject of contention, and the project is accordingly delayed. Meantime, a motor-car service is being advocated and may materialise before very long.

In addition to opening all available gates, the authorities have constructed several new streets at vast cost, and are giving access in certain localities which were formerly badly served. The Imperial City Wall is now pierced in a dozen places, and three new thoroughfares have been opened, viz., the Nan Ch'ih Tzu, the Nan Fu K'ou, and the Fu Yu Chieh, the last mentioned providing a well made road alongside the western wall of the Imperial city. Building is proceeding apace, and, now that there is no objection to structures higher than the Imperial Palace, many large edifices are being built throughout the city, but particularly near the Legation Quarter. The Dojin (Japanese) Hospital, a large well-equipped institution, was completed in 1917, while the laying of the foundation stone of the new Rockefeller Foundation Hospital in September marked an important epoch in the history of Peking. Peking, it may be added, is exceedingly well policed.

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There are now at least 200 motor cars in Peking, motor cycles are numerous, and bicycles are to be reckoned in thousands.

DIRECTORY

GOVERNMENT

President-FENG KUO CHENG

Prime Minister-Wang Shih-chen

Minister of Foreign Affairs-Lu Cheng-hsiang Minister of Finance-Wang Ko-ming

Minister of War-Tuan-chi-kwei

Minister of Communications--Tsao Ju-lin

Minister of Interior-Chien Nun-hsun

Minister of Agriculture and Commerce-Tien Wen-li

Minister of Justice-Chiang Yung (acting)

Minister of the Navy-Admiral Liu Kwan-hsiung

Minister of Education-Fu Tsen-hsiang

Chief of General Staff-General Yin Chang

FOREIGN ADVISERS TO THE GOVERNMENT

Political Adviser to the President-Dr. G. E. Morrison (British) Adviser for Drafting the Constitution - Professor Nagao Ariga (Japanese) Ministry of War-Lieut. Col. Brissaud Desmaillets (French), absent, Major Generaf

Aoki (Japanese), General Munthe (Norwegian

Ministry of Finance-G. Passeri (Italian), G. Padoux (French)

Ministry of Communications-Seijizo Hirai (Japanese), Railways; Henry G. Adams-

(American), for the unification of Railway Accounts and Statistics

A. H. E. Eriksen (Dane), Telegraphs; S. Larsen (Dane), Wireless Telegraphy; and

H. Van der Veen (Dutch), Conservancy

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

In Connection with Quintuple Loan-Sir Richard Dane (British), Salt; N.

Konovaloff (Russian), Audit

Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce-W. F. Sherfesee (American), Afforestation;;

H. J. Jobson (American) Cotton; Dr. J. G. Anderssen (Sweden), Mining