Fnom Oce Own Conntsroxoext, Tsingtao, Apr. 6.
Shantung Railway circles are stil violently perturbed and the latest report is that General Li Chung-yuh concurrently Managing-Dires for of the line, is ready to quit his railway post and will send in his resignation to the Ministry of Communications, General Li has found lit next to impossible to carry oni the instructions of the Ministry and at the same time remain in the good. leraces of the Shantungese.
It is well known that General Li was ordered to make a thorough probe into the recent railroad strike when the natives of the province in the employ of the line struck as protest against the administration of Managing-Director Kan Tao and Vice-Managing-Director T. C. Chu, alleging they had been disjcriminatory against the Shantung-
The Ministry had previously expressed itself as not at all sympathy with the aims "of the strikers, largely due to the ousting Jof the management, and had come to the defence of Messrs, Kan and Chu, alleging they' had been harshly and unfairly dealt with. It appears that the Ministry is of the belief that the sivike was engineered by a small group of railway men, These men, recording to report, were to be dismissed by Managing-Director Li when he hal made "sure who they were, Insistance on Mr. Hu wral Li has found it a most Jdificult matier to carry the order of the Minisiry into "effect. In open but to matter as the winning over Mr. MY, Director. Mr, Hu under appointment to the post by the Ministry left Peking several weeks ago-on He got only as fas where a turbulent demot inoed him of the desi lity of returning post-haste the capital. The Ministers, Mr. Yoh Kung-cho, i said to have been creatly angered ly' the incident and determined that Mr. Hu should assume office reganiless nf the wishes ut the Shantungese. The main objection to Mr, Buy as far as can he learned, was that, he was not an the province Thix also enters into General Li's case "ince he is a Cantonese. Simi-from Anhui, quarters since he is
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