A CHINESE APPOINTMENT.
By Telegraph. \«=ooi«tinti Copyright.
London, April 12. Dr. Morrison, the I'ekm correspondent of the Times, states that Tang Shan yi, the ablest Minister of the Wai-wu-pu and a strenuous advocate < f reform, has been appointed Governor of the Mukden province, which is practically exile. He relinquishes various metropolitan functions which yielded him an income of £25,000.
The Shanghai correspondent of the Times, writing pome time ago, said, ii> reference to the Wai-wu-pu: "Its President, Prince Clung, fittingly represents the complacent, ignorance ami corruption of Old China. Were it not for one man. 'I'.o Shao-yi, who combines patriotic ideals with a shrewd business quality trained ii America, the. Wai-wu-pu would he to-day more hopelessly inefficient than it was ir 1860."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13462, 15 April 1907, Page 5
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