Vindication of Kueichow Governor: Famine Funds Intact Prom Oun Own Conassronenr Kueiyang, Kuei, Feb. 15.
The engineer who has been surveying the motor road route to. the south has returned, and already a start has been trade on actual work.
Tam not quite sure as to the route, but understand that it goes through Kueiting, Tuyua, Tuhshan, and Lipohsien; i this' is correct, it will more directly south than was: originally proposed.
At yesterday's meeting of _the Kueichow Famine Relief Com-rittes, it was stated that n Shanghai vernacular daily paper recently Dublished some scathing criticisms of the Kueichow provincial government, most, if not all, being without any truth." The committee is concerned with but one charge, namely, that Gen, Chow Hsi-cheng, the Governor' appropriated the sum of $800,000 from Kueichow famine ict funds to finance the: Hunan expedition of 1926.27. There Jo not word of truth in this; the Go-
Yernor has not taken famine relief funds for this purpose and the committee had not such e sum as $800,- (00 for him to take!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.