Canton, Jan. 2.
Mr. Cheng Tze-liu, chief of the purchasing department, and Mr. Lee! Shuckan, chief of the locomotive department, of the Kuangtung section of the Canton-Hankow—Railway, With offices in Canton, have been rested in connexion with g1 charges preferred by the Kuomintang' against Mr. Chan' Hing-hon, former managing director of the line, and several other officers of the company. "Tt is alleged. that over-charges and under-weights were some of the means employed by the Mr. Lee Chuck-fung, deputy chief of the Commissary of Reconstruction of the Kuomintang, is investigating the matter on behalf of the authorities, Mr. Lum Chih-min is the present ied" Chief directing the line, but in order to assure himself of the: support of the railway employees, who are not all Bolshevists, he has arranged to protect the men working on the road from further wage arrears by raising a rate of 20 per cent. on-the freight and passenger tariffs, making a total increase of /87 per cent. since January, 1924. Reuter's Pacific Servica,
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