Gen. Chiang was accompanied by two stuff officers and a small body-geard and was met at the: railway station by a party of local officials and merchants. Following tha usual salutations, he went house at $11 Route de Jo Tour and, during the (he day, called, upon Messrs. Chung Ching-kiang, Wu Te-hui, and Li Shih-tseng who have come to Shanghai and have refused to return to Nanking. to attend the Kuomintang Plenary Congress. In the afternoon, received a number of visitors.
When questioned by members of the press, Gen, Chiang was reticent and declined to make any statement. He expressed, however, the hope that there would be harmony in the party and that Messrs. Chang, Wu and Li would return to Nanking with him, The three gentlemen: wera inter-vernacular they also viewed by representatives of the papers, but fact that their absence from Nan-King would not influence the resulta of the Plenary Congress
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