Fifth Plenary Congress of Central Executive Committee:
Leaders Arrive in Nanking but Gen. Yen Stays Away Nanking, Julf'31.
The inaugural ceremony of the Sth Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang will be held to-morrow morning, at the Assembly Hall of the Central Party Headquarters. Owing to the fact that a nuffber of members are still on their way to Nanking and will not arrive in time for the opening session, only preliminary meet~ will be held on the first three ys, from August 1 to August 3, for 'a general discussion of the various proposals and an informal) exchange of views among the members already in Nanking. The first formal session will, therefore, be held on August 4, when various proposals will come up for discussion and ction according to the agenda.
According to latest reports received by the Secretariat, Dr. C. C. Wu will soon be returning fron: America while General Li Chi-sen has also' wired announcing his early arrival at Nanking.
The Central Assembly Hall where the 5th Plenary Session will be held ig on the first floor of a new two-storeyed building which has Just been completed for the purpose. tao arrived at Pukow this morning about 11 o'clock and were met Generals Chiang Kai-shek, Tan Yen-kai, Li Lich-chun and other high Nationalist central authorities at the Tientsin-Pukow railway station. They erossed the river immediately to Nanking and were entertained at a formal dinner at the Central Government Council by 12 a.m—Kuo Wen.
Nanking, Aug. 1.
The first preliminary meeting of the Sth Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee was held this afternoon at the Assembly Hall with 24 members of the Committee present.
No ceremony of any kind was observed and the main business of the afternoon was devoted to a general exchange of views among: the members. The second preli-minery meeting will be held tomorrow when several of the more important and urgent proposals will be brought up and explained by the various proposers concerned.—Kuo Min.
YEN HSI-SHAN SAID TO BE ILL,
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