Changchun, Apr. 30. is officially announced that subsidiary nickel coins of five and ten fronts will be put into circulation by the Central Bank of Manchoukuo on, May 20.—Reuter. white: the Nanking leaders. go. on calling conference after conference without alleviating China's calamity. [They further believe that the peop! will be quite satisfied if the government goes ahead to stamp out the [Communists and drive out the from Manchuria. Tf those two major matters are left undone, these southwest leaders think the [coming provisional. national gress is Sut a waste [should not be convoked at Editorial Comment The local very influential and conservati Chinese daily' here, carried an elusive story that' if the Nanking frovernment insists on convening the Provisional national. Congress: the wuthwest provinces will assemble a similar "Congress, in" Canton and invite all sympathetic members the C.E.C. to go to Canton to take In' the second telegram to Nai king, the Kuomintang leaders in the [Southwest emphasised that the oh ect of the Congress was to convene People Nationa Convention, but according to the Fundamentals of National' Reconstruction as concely~ fed by the late Dr. Sun jen such convention should be called after focal autonomy was effectively: car-fied, out, for only" in such event }would the people be able to voice their opinion in the convention.
'While political observers' and Chinese newspapers' editors here {think that the views of Mr. Hu Han-min and his comrades are sound and constitutional basis, these publicists are of opinion that the jooming provisional national Con pass resolutions affecting Jor abolishing the status of the Kuomintang Southwest Executive Com. mittee," and Southwest Political By virtue of these two organiss tions Which were created byt Fourth National Congress in De ber 1081, the two Southwest bodies are practically replacing the powers of the National Government and the Central Kuomintang as regards of feast Kuangtong and Rwangsi. Hence Mr. Hu and the others do not approve any Congress which can shake ter xeadque.ters in. the South.
The Southern Taritt Chinese manufacturers in Hongkong have petitioned to the Southwest Political Council in Canton to abolish the present high tarift_on focal manufactured goods imported Kuangtang. Under present conditions, goods manufactured here by [Chinese "workers with Chinese jeapital are deemed as foreign products and are taxed in the same manner as if they were from any other foreign country.
The grievances of the Chinese lucers. were brought home to courtesy visit to this port as guest yor Liu Ghi-wen while he was on the Chinese Chamber of Com: merce. Mr. Littds.also." member of the Southwest Political Council and Iwas urged to use his influence "to should be granted to Chinese producers running their factories Hongkong, and he even charges that people in Hongkong have been eneax ing in extensive smuggling of ovis from here to viv ports.
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