The Chinese papers on Tuesday contained several interesting reports with reference to the rumours that Gen, Li Chi-hsin had made arrangements. with certain British capitalists for a loan of $7,000,000 for the construction of a connecting Tink between the Canton-Hankow railway and the Canton-Kowloon railway.
Mr. Chen Kung-po, former Minister of Labour in the Wahan Government, and other members of the Kuomintang in Canton, have addressed telegrams to the Nanking Government asking for an explanetion. The writers say that, according to reports appearing in the "Shunpao," Gen, Li has been negotiating in Canton with the British authorities for a lean to construct the connecting link, which is to run between Fongtsun and Shibpai, a distance of three miles, and that he -had instructed Gen, Wu Te-chen, the Commissioner of Reconstruction, to go to Hongkong to carry on the negotiations in connection with the matter, General Li's Clementi The "Eastern Times" also pub-eaten up and there will be no hope for her in future, The Kuomintang and the Nationalist Government are requested to dismiss Gen. Li, to deprive him of his positions end to order his punishment, as well as to inform the British Government that all negotiations carried on by him and Gen, Wa Te-chen are null and void. a statement to members of the Chinese press, Gen. Li denies that he has been negotiating for the alleged loan, and says that no mention has been made of the construction of a connecting railway line. This statement was corroborated in Hongkong by Gen. Wu Te-chen,
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