Doubt has been raised as to the! apportionment of the grant. The "Bastern Times" and other local vernacular papers publish the fol-owing report:
"The compassionate grant issued the Shanghai Municipal Council on January 24 to the families of the victims of the May 80 incident was handed to Ho Zang-sun and Chen Fu-zay, representatives of the Wasociation of Relatives of the May! 30 '\Victims, and the money was distributed on the following day among the relatives of the victims at, the San Peh Steam Navigatica Company office. $2,000 each was paid to the families of those who were! illed during the incident, $500 each each to those of the wounded and 95,000 each to those who have been incapacitated, Thos the Company's offices to re money are all residents of Shanghai. Those who have not yet registered with the Association have to furnish guarantors before they can be paid.
"However, Fu Ven-pau, Chen Tihmei and others are not satisfied with ithe distribution for the following reasons:
"#(1) Only five or six persons attended the meeting and they feannot be accepted as representatives of all the relatives of tke May 30 victim (2) For those who were killed during the incident there was given only $2,000 each, while Ho Zang-sun and Chen Fu-zay, who were incapacitated, were given $5,000 each. As regards Chen Fu-zay, one of his legs has been disabled, but as he is employed with the San Peh Steam Navigation Ca., he can still support, his family. The amount he received is much larger than that received by the families of the persons Killed. Moreover, one Chen Pau-' ching was also incapacitated and hho received only $500, "(3)_ Doubt has. been raised about the office expenses, amount Mr. G. A, Herbert of the British Consulate hastens to duty ing to'$1,710, of Ho Zang-sun and Chen Fu-zay during the past 57 moons.
"The relatives of the May victims will bold a meeting to discuss the matter. They have forwarded a petition to the Shanghai Special District Kuomintang requesting that.an investigation be made.
From the figures published, will be seen that there is a large sum left over to be used in' further expenses for the cemetery' and for the May 20 Victims Association. 'The committee has already deducted $70,000 for the expenses incurred in building the cemetery for the victims, according' to one of the committeeman. The accounts, therefore, work out as.
$2,000 each "rt $600 each 2 wounded, of $6,000, Sach cemetery, already pal Dalanee in hand Total Apart from the atfeged inj of paying larger compensation to tone wounded man to.another, it will be noticed that the actual amount in hard cash paid out to families of victims is $40,000, or little more than what is left in the hands of the committee, $38,290, for further expenditure on the cemetery and for the use of the Association of Re-natives of the May 30 Victims. 'Actually it seems that the building: of a mausoleum has been considered much more necessary than the needs of families presumably deprived of their breadwinners, as this has already swallowed up' $70,000 and there is apparently more to towards it from the balance in hand.
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