According to a telegram received in Shanghai, the Southern Constitutional Government has been reorganized. The following are the personnel of the new Government:
Minister for Home Affairs...Dr, Sun Minister of Finance...Mr, Tang Shao-yi. Minister of Communications General Tang Chi-yao* Minister of Justice...Mr, George C. List Minister of Army Chiung-ming. Chief of General Staff... General Li Lich-chun. Chief Secretary......Mr, Ma Chiung-woo.
Temporarily represented by General Wang Pei-chun.
+Concurrently acting Minister ct Finance, Dr. Wu Ting-fang has notified the foreign Consuls in Canton, and wired to the Dipomatic Body in Peking, that no loans of whatsoever nature should be concluded with the Peking Government. These will not be recognized by the Constitutional Government.
In a second manifesto the Constitutionalists declare that the Militarists are still ruling in the North. Peking is trying to - deceive not only the Chinese but the foreigners by issuing a mandate of unification. Their aims are cheat the members of the Consortium and to get funds not for "relief work" or "'reconstruction of national matters" but for their own pockets. The Constitutional Government denounce this over and over again.
In connexion with the Constitutional Government it is stated that letters have been sent by Dr. Wu to the various Consuls in Canton and to the Portuguese authorities in Macao asking for their cooperation in the suppression of gambling.
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