Finance of the Nationalist Government, has rent a memerandam to the Government Council in Nanking proposing measures which he hopes Will put an end to the eafortunace financial conditions crising from i) warfare. Mr. Soong, intieipated incerme of the Gi ment but of the expenditure and to determine which taxes are to be callested by the Nationalist Govern ment and which ty the provincial governments, It is interesting to note in this connection that Mr.
Soong emphasizes te importance of limiting military disbursements and of disbanding the army.
Unifeation Xe a Bund Mr, Soong' xemorandem Deiefly as follows:
The rapid progress: of oer armies foreshadows the specly collapse of the Fengtien militaritty und the unification of the country. The effective and lasting unification of the country presupposes a just and workable financial programme, fair alike to the has community that har borne the expenses and leases of the campaigns, und suffer~ ed from a disordered currency und irregular taxes snd contributions and the break-down tiens; fo the soldier who huve bled to make the nations) revolution possible but who sat be demobilized and returned to civilian life; to the devasted provinces of Shantung, Chibli, Honan, Hunan and Kuungtang which have eur= stituted for years the war-zone of the civil strife and have been under the heels of the militarists; and above all to eaants and Inbourers who are the chief enfferers in any. revolution. ly ference consist ing of representatives of each pro-Vineial government, supported by technical experts, who will deal with the claims of the various sections of the community, and The late Mr. Tsai Kung-shih, Commissioner of Foreign Affairs i Tsinanfo, who is reported to have been killed during the clash between the Nationalists and Japanese, had only couple of days previo a native of Kiukiang and 46 years of age. After graduating from the the Japanese Imperial University, Tokyo, he returned to China and founded the Peking Citizens' University. He took an active part in the 1911 revolution and was an intimate friend of Gen, Li Lich-chen. After serving for a time as Director)
the Bureau for the Protection of Commerce in Wuchang, he was appointed Commissioner of Foreign Affairs and Superintendent of, Customs at Nanking, in which} capacity be conducted negotiations!
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