Officials to be Converted A proposal was recently made by the Shanghai District Kuomintang or the confiscation of the temples built in the various provinces. honour of the Into Marquis, Tseng Kuo-fan and Marquis Chu Tsung-tang, two famous generals of the Manchu Dynasty wh sible for the to convert these temples into school buildings. Accordingly, the Ad~ ministrative Yuan issued an order to the various provincial and city government, ordering. the confisen~ tion of all temples built in memory of the two generals. with govern~ ment funds, but excepting those Luilt by the families or descendants fof the generals with their, own money.
The proposal submitted. ky. the local "Kuomintang Headquarters suggesteil that, with the exception of the Tseng Kuo-fan temple in Changsha (Tseng being a native of Hunan Province) and the Cha Tsung-tang. temple in Sinkiang, all temples built in honour of the twa generals in other places should be confiscated and converted into school The Administrative Yuan's order says that the Governnient respects the people's right to own properties and has, therefore, decided that the descendants of the two generals should be allowed to maintain memorial temples built with their own money for thei, ancestors, but temples built for the two generale with government funds are to confiscated and converted into school A similar reline has been issued in connection with temples built to perpetizate the memory of Li Hung-chang, the famous states juries and chocks. There was a passenger tarriage at the end of the train, bring tue back week-end: cers who got off with only a shaking, the car keeping to the rails, Bething has already' bowen in the ax usual there have been some sta sians have been demned dle aged man one a student and the third a young woman. It is a wonder that there re not maze boating mishaps, es there are now, several high-specit_ motor-beals which tear up and down the river and are a source of danger to the numerous rew-hosts, all lorded with human cargo, erossing from out side of the tiver to the other.
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