President of the Shanghai Provisi Judge Loo Being-yuan, fore al Court, has gone to Canton, Messrs. Koo Shing-yi, Yao Tz-zah and Wang Yi-ding have been elected joint chairman of the Shanghai District Chamber of Commerce, Mr. T, L. Soong, brother of the. Finance Minister, has formally taken up his new appointment as Director of tha Shanghai Office in succession to Di. G. Zay Wood, The Panchen Lama is due to arrive in Nanking shortly from north China and he will be guest of the Nationalist Government, wh fare making elaborate prepara to welcome and accommodate him.
Dr, Wang Chung-hui, the famous Jurist, has tendered his resignation:
Nationalist Minister of Justices but has been urged to remain, Dr. Wang has also resigned from all of his concurrent offices Mr, Theodore Con-hin Char hag been admitted as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Iilinoigy Mr, Char is a graduate of the University of Illinois, from which institution he obtained' the degree of Bachelor of Seicnce in Commerce, Admiral Yang Shu-chuang eft Shanghai for Foochow on board the gunboat Chien An to take up his concurrent appointment 13 chairman of the Fukien Provincial Govern ment. He will remain, of course, Commander-in-Chief of the Fleet, Gen, Vu Vu-jen, former Governor of Shensi, we is now a member of the Nationalist Government Council, is shortly to leave for a tour abroad with Mrs, Vu, whose health, we are glad to say, is improving. 'They will visit Japan, the United States and Europe, Gen, Vu, who la tone of the best known' scholars of the day, is one of the oldest mem= bers of the Kuomintang. 1 to be fearing rice and con! shortage, sy tht Chinese press. On Sunday remained' 48/00 pluto and 11,000,000 piculs of coal.
The "Eastern Times" con= tained the important statement that an agreement has been reached between Mr. T. V. Soong, Minister of Finance, and the local bankers, that, should the Bankers Association' undertake to subscribe $1,000,000, towards the rehabilitation fund, the Government will permit the Chung Shing Mining Ca. to manage. its own affairs and will cancel tha order for ts confiscation.
I the course of an interview given'
Japan, Mr. T, Funate, Dirvetor of the Japanese Cotton 'Spinners? Association in Shanghai, said that) the adoption of a strong policy by' Japan in regard to the treaty rev ion was only natural as long China persisted in carrying: out the treaty abrogation. Further: more, ho added, " the Government, would not waver in its present ate) titude on this point, "Mr. Funated declared that the attitude of the Nationalist Government as regard the treaty revision is extremely a sound. In conclusion, he remarked that he commented on the question' purely from his own private cone vietion and nothing else. of trouble caused by disbanded soldiers were men= tioned in the Chinese press on Septy T At Hsuchow, they" ate said to have boarded' train on which) they were not supposed to. travel. When told by a policeman that] they would have to leave, therer was a general fight in which thei Policeman and a comrade were me Jured and had their rifles. taken! away. 'Troops were quickly ruched to the spot and the trouble waa quelled. "In the second instance, at Chinkiang, the disbanded troops' were said to be dissatigied with! their treatment and to have object ed to being searched by gendarmes; there was a fight in which battalion commander and five gen darmes were injured. The insuring ents sized several rifles and opened! fire at random but fortunately no body was shot, Upon the arrival off reinforcements for the gendarmesy{ they surrendered quietly.
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