Feb. 5.
The proposed Bill of Rights and its rejection by the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang have been dealt with at some length in these columns. But the sequence of events both before and since the C.E: C.'s vote is so interesting and throws so much light upon the straggle going on in Nanking, that it is worth detailing in the proper order. As generally known, the trouble began with. the ma! administration of the Tang Pu, or Kyomintang District Councils, composed for the most part of youths from about seventeen to twenty-four years old and vested with absolute power. Even the best of. intentions apparent passion for changing things merely for the sake of change has caused inconvenience and distress; other actions arp laid to their. charge which ave altogether beyond excuse. Just before Christmas, the Government issued an order that, without its special permission, the
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