The Archive · 1928

TING T. WAN Quick Action at Washington

New York, June 17, According to a report from Washington Dr, C. C. Wo, claiming to represent the new Nationalist Government at Nanking, has asked the State Department to negotiate a new treaty giving China manages ment of her own finances and Reuter, CHIANG CHANGING 1S MIND?, Resignation Said to Have Been Withdrawn The wanderings of—Generat Chiang Kai-shek have produced somewhat of u sensation in Chinese circles, because it is uncertain, exactly what he intends to convey by them. General Chiang resigned all his posts and announced that he was going to the village of Fenhua near Ningpo, to rest, to cure a. toothache and' to study. Furthermore, he was to have' come to Shanghai to Inepect the student Instead, he went, to Silver Island, {just off Chinkiang, and only a few hours from Nanking, where ho stayed two days or 86, enjoying the waters of the Yangtze and the company of the Buddhist priests. There is a spot on Silver Inland, where the water of the Yangtze rush by with great rapidity. The Chinete have a tradition that if one peers long into the flood at. this point, his mind becomes purified. There are other pretty places on Silver Island off Chink: ang. It is good place place to rest from wearying labours, Now, General Chianse ix back in Nanking, It is said that he has agreed to withdraw—hix three resignations. The puzzle is why he resigned and why he withdraws his resignation and what all the trouble is about. Mr. Chiang Chinge long, the senior Genro of the Ku mintang and a powerful citizen, is also piqued and is now in Shang ha, apparently quarrelling with, Nanking It is suggested that Mh Wu Tue-hui, another Goro sand philosopher is here too, also. not so sure of the success of Nan"

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