The Archive · 1928

Nanking, Dee. 5

This morning the committee of the Legislative Yuan was sworn in the presence of Gen. Chiang Kai-[shek and other high officials.

Gen, Chiang Kai-shek, addressing' the gathering, said he considered! the Legislative Yuan the most important department of the govern-mont as its duty was to make the, which would define and protect! the rights of the people.

Mr, Hu. Han-min, President the Legislative Yuan, responded. He said that before the foreign! Powers would give up their extraterritorial rights in China the civil, trade, labour and land laws of China lad to be drafted and enacted and torts would be dircetdl to-wauls accomplishing this in the shortest possible time—Reuter

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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