Reports were current recently te the effect that the military authoritjes of Hupeh has ordered the con. fication of the properties in that province of the ex-President, Gen, Yunn-hung.
Upon hearing of this, says the vernacular press, Generals Tan Yen-kai and Li Lich-chun, who are old members of the revolutionary party former colleagues of the ex-President, at once. telegraphed to Hankow asking if the reports were true. 'They suggested that it would be wrong to confiscate the proper-tes since Gen. Li Yuan-hung fought hard for the revolutionary cause and is an old member' of the Kuomintang.
Gen, Chang Chi-pan, the Hankow Garrison Commissioner, has now replied (according "to the Chinese Papers), denying that such action ever was contemplated. "Indeed, he says, special men have been detailed
arties. to protect the ex-President's prope
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