Officials of Old Regime Held Up and Compelled to Render Account From Our Own Correspondent. tsingtao, April 5:
Cine sensation now follows the heel of another, the latest TBing the frustration of an attempt on the part of Mr. Tsou Wen-wei the former Director of General Affairs, "to slip. out of town unobserved, He has been under surveillance ever since the advent of the Kao Administration " although he was in all. probability unaware of it. Tu any'ease, when he attempted to slip out of town on, the evening of the 3rd, he was politely requested not to gain.
The present Administrat intends to hold Mr. Tsou strictly responsible for the millions which have disappeared from the Trea. sury here. When the archives of the old. Administration were taken over, the chief of each department thought it" was only Recessary to hand over the existing records together with what-over money was available, without aging 8 rie accounting. Mr.
'20 Eu-hung apparently. thou for he required the old 10 be fully gone into, As already reported, there have boon wholesale dismissals, only 3 couple of men of the old regime being taken over by the new Administration. "They. include Mr. D. ¥. Lin, the Chief of the Agriculture and Forestry Bureau. This. is, undoubtedly, a. wise decision, for Mr. Lin is not onl an expert in his Tino and -well Reproduced
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