No Settlement Yet: Proposalsfor Maintaining Peace in Shanghai The vexing question of the appointment of a successor for the late Gen, Hsu Kuo-liang, Director of Shanghai and Woosung Native Constabulary, continues to be a thorn in the side of Chinese officialdom. The deadlock is as strong as ever and no settlement appears to be in sight, as both sides are holding out firmly in their demands to appoint the new chief.
Gen. Ho Feng-ling's (Military Governor of Shanghai and Sungkiang) appointee, Col, Lu Yung-chien, continues to hold the local Police Bureau, and is steadfast in his absolute refusal to permit Gen. Sun Chen-kiang, the. nom-ince of the Civil Governor of Kiangsu, who has been appointed by Presidential mandate, to take over office.
Meanwhile, no public trial has taken place at the local Military Governor's yamen of Li Dah-sung, the murderer of the late Director, although promises have been made that a public trial would be held. A number of local gentry. have addressed a note to Gen. Ho urging an early trial and an exhaustive examination in order that the whole details of the case may be properly studied and the names of those actually responsible-for the intigation of the murder made known to the public. There can be no compromise in the matter, the writers state, because compromise is likely to lead to warfare in Shanghai.
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