Politically, the hope of reunificntion ix the aftermath of the over turn of the Canton regime, If Chen Chiung-ming can seatter the 10,000 Reds, then a situation will be created, it is anticipated,—which would hold the greatest. promise of reunification. The anti-Communists in the Kuomintang, shorn of military power, could not rebuild a new independent Government, or per= petuate the "old, Chen Chiunig= ming, or the stecessful_ militar Jeader, even' without any under standing with the Government, could scarcely essay another ex: periment in a rival government, after the disillusionment of the Cantonese with separatism, Many suspicions and doubte about the Canton situation prevail in Peking, the uncertainty about the math that is the only fly the ointment of the present m of the Kuomintang moderates (0 have done once and for all with their Bolshevized col leagues:
May 30 last in the course of which certain persons lost their lives and other persons suffered injuries and considerable damage was done to property, "And whereas inquiries instituted by us have shown that it would be desirable that the matters referred to should form the subject of public judicial investigation, now, therefore, "We, the diplomatic representa ti at Peking, of the American, Belgian, British, Danish, French, ' Italian, Japanese, Netherlands, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish governments do hereby request the American, British, and Japanese representatives.cach to designate a jurist to be a member of a commission of inquiry, which commission shall also include a Chinese jurist, if such should be designated for that purpose by the Chinese Government to investigate the origin and character of the disturbances which took place at Shanghai on or about May 30, 1925, the reasons if any that existed for disorder, the precautions were or might have been adopted to prevent the same, the measures taken to suppress it and the circumstances in which certain persons lost their lives and other persons suffered injuries, and to report their findings.
"The commission shall have power to determine the procedure to be adopted for the purposes of the inquiry. The sittings of the-Commission, other than those held for the' purposes of determining its procedure and of preparing—its report, shall: be held in public, The commission is authorized so far tion of documents and to take evidence on oath,
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