Canton, Sept. 5.
The gradual rise in the value of Canton Government paper money, which reached 75 per cent. of its face value on August 30, points to the belief that the provisional Civil Governor-elect will fulfil his} pledge to improve the local financial condition. The Kuangtung Provincial Assembly will hold another special session to consider measures which may be referred to it by the new Governor after his inauguration on September 4.
The Bureau of Foreign Affairs at Canton has been notified by the local British Consulate-General that the Hongkong Government is remitting $1,000 to each of the five victims killed by the Hongkong police during the seamen's strike last March. Leung Wo, a Chinese seaman who murdered Leung Yuk-tong, a steveflore, last March in connexion with the strike, was executed for his crime by the Hongkong authorities on August Reports from Kaochow and Lui-chow districts received during the last few days state that pro-Sun Yat-sen forces under General Huang Ming-tang had to retreat before Gen. Chen Chiung-ming's troops.
Admiral Sah Chen-ping, on be half of the Peking Government and other parts of the Chinese Navy, is communicating with the Chinese Fleet now in Canton waters for its early return to the North, assuring the officers that their rank and record of service will not be affected because of their sojourn in Canton and their support of the 'Constitutional' cause Admiral Tang Ting-kang, now commanding the Chinese Navy in Canton waters, will return with the fleet to the North as soon as the formal announcement of reunification is made, declining any offers to serve under the Provincial Government of Kuangtung. He has been nominated as one of the associate Director-Generals of the Kuangtung Reconstruction Bureau.—Reuter.
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