Merchants' Renewed Demand for Disbandment Formation of a Budget: Debts Ever Higher and Taxes Heavier Chinese business organizations Shanghai, who have been growing visibly dissatisfied with the geners state of affairs in China for som months past, have now sent a strong petition to " Nanking, calling for troop disbandment anda thorough military reorganization. This petition is signed by, the Shanghai Chinese General Chamber of Commerce and 15 other public organizations in Shanghai and is addressed to President Chiang Kai-shek of the State Council, the Presidents of the five Yuan, the Ministers of the various Ministries of the Executive Yuan, and the Chairmen of the varies Divisions of the Central be unified. Yeu are, therefore, quested to call a disarmament ennference, a buder conference and financial conference as ble in onder to netiods Connected. with the dishondiieng of the army in order that oun plans for reconstruction may be pt ito fore, Likewise the District Kuomintang. (6th section) has telegraphed to the Central Government sui immediate convention of a di ment conference in onder 1 army may be reorganized. The only way to save China, in the writers! opinion, ig to reduce the army. If any military leaders absent theme selves, they must be considered coun-
Political Council, The Promise of June ter-revolutionaries and must he dealt with as much so that the peo-pie's welfare may be protected, According to the Kuo Min ne: agency, the petition first recalls that the Economic Conference held in Shanghai in June (this was composed of all the leading Chinese Lankers and merchants and presided over by the Minister of Finance) unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the disbandment of all surplus troops "as a means towards the unification of financial control and the formulation of a national budget. This resolution was subsoquently fully endorsed by the Commander-in-Chief and the—con manders of the various Group Armies, But, the petition continues, juring the past few mouths there has been much talk of military reorganization, but no actual dix andment has taken place. Various rational and provincial revenues have continued to be detained and national budget has been promulgated. Qur debts mounted higher and higher and taxes have become heavier and heavier and still the treasury: mains empty.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.