Li Hung-chang's Among the Properties Selected Shanghai, Feb. 3.
Following the raids on the property of the late Sheng Kung-pao, Minister of the Board of Communications under the Manchu! regime and founder of the Chins Merchant S. N. Ca. and the Hanyang Iron Works, the late Marquis Li Hung-chang, Gen. Tseng Kuo-fong and Gen. Tso Tsun-tang, who were noted for the service in the Suppression of the Taiping Rebels, are now the target of Kuomintang attacks. Upon the recommendation of the Third District Heal-quarters, the local Municipal Ku mintang' Office has prepared a petition to the Central Party Headquarters in Nanking requesting that the temples and properties attached thereto of the three prominent Manchu servants should be confiscated for the welfare of the wat Li Hung-chang was him in his successful cam-any, that he was merely employing' his own fellow-countrymen against his brother on behalf of the Manchu rulers" commented the Kuomiatang in their petition to the Central Party Headquarters. "Apart from the so-called meritorious service for their Manchu superiors, what could wwe expect from them in educational culture oF political reform?"
Continuing the statement points! out that instead of rendering the country meritorious services they. had moulded the Hunan and Anhui armies into the notorious military faction. Yuan Shih-kai, Feng Kuo-chang, Hsu Shih-chang, Tsao Kung and Tuan Chi-jul were typical Peiyang militarists, off: spring of the Hunan and Anhui armies.
Furthermore, the message goes on to say, in Yuan Shih-kai's attempt make himself emperor of China, Mr. Tsong Kuang-lien, grandson of late Gen. Tsong Kuo-fong, petitioned Puan pledging his loyalty to the would-be-emperor, In the late Gen. Chang Hsung's attempt to restore the Manchu boy emperor, Li Chin-hsi, nephew of the late Marquis Li Bung-chang, and Tso Hou-tung, grandson of Tso Tsun-tang, jointly expressed their loyalty to the boy the jocal Kuomintang' states that "They might be regard~ meritorious servants urder the Tshing Dynasty, but to us alists they deserved no special rights or privileges. It is, therefore, strongly recommended that the temples and properties attached thereto should be confiscated for} public education. Meanwhile in so] doing the feudal impression will be done away in the mind of the public.""—Kuo Wen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.