No Action to be Taken by Chinese Municipality The Greater Shanghai Munici" pality will not interfere with locat temples unless they are unused and absolutely useless, a representative of the "North-China Daily News" was informed by asecretory of Gen. Chang Ting-fan, the Mayor, Our informant stated, in reply to questions, that, up to the present, no orders had been received from the Nanking Government to transform public buildings into schools and colleges and he thought that an order would not be made. the Municipality of Greater Shanghai," our representative, was informed, "will, however, require the registration of all temples, ete., and will take steps agaist monks and nuns, who are making a. nuisance of themselves by going from door to door and asking for subscriptions. We propose doing this to restrict the activities of idle persons such as these, There will no confiscation of any public property, but we shall take steps to control it, Up to the present, we have only taken over one temple, the Wen Mino, inside the Chinese City, which we have transformed into' a public library for residents of the city, We shall have another library and propose to make use of the grounds allotted as n memorial to the late Mr. Sung Chiao-jen (former Minister of Education, who was assassinated in the Shanghai-Nanking—Railway Station in 1914) for this purpose. Other than that, we do not propose to confiscate or take over any public properties, Different Story in Peking, In. this connection, it is of me terest to note that, in necordance with instructions from Nanking, the Peking Political Council have order ed the confiscation of all public properties, temples, monasteries and nunneries and forbidden the worship of Buddha, They say, however, that individuals may do us they please in the matter of worship, Meanwhile, the Ministry of Edu:
ion is reported to have ordered the transformation of all such buildings, referred to in the prece.- ing paragraph, as well as ancestral temples, into schools and colleges.
On the other hand, a large temple is to be constructed in' Peking, recording to a Chinese press tele: gram, in memory of the soldiers who fell during the anti-Northern expedition, Tur Bureau of Reconstruction is reported by the Chinese papers to be establishing in Shanghai international news service Foun arrests have been made (including a woman) in connection with the piracy of the Laou Kung Mow launch which was on ite way to Changshu from Shanghai some days ago. Tt will be recalled that passenger was shot in cold blood and that the launch was pirated by gang who posed as passengers, connection with obtaining this release. In addition he has been informed that the union intends to take drastic measures against him, until he recognizes their power,
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