Reports current last week-end that Mr, T, V. Soong had resigned from the BMinistey of Finatce have again proved to be canards, Most rumours of this nature are distributed by speculators in Government bonds and may safe-be discounted.
The essential fact in the situation was the passage measure at the Third Party Con-ress giving the Government a free Hand in determining what shall he done with regard to the Hunan. affair. A resolution was introduced by Mr. Lu Wen-tao, the Hunanese who is most actively anti-Kuangsi in the Congress, authorizing that Government to take whatever mea-ures it deems fit, which, in effect, gives General Chiang Kai-shek the {ull sanction of the Congress in any punitive measures, which he may Secide upon, The next business of the Party Congress of any importanes is the election of a new Central Executive Committee. Although Tittle has appeared in the press with regard the Congress, the sessions have for been as smooth as a safe majority would seem to indicate, It 4s expected that there will be many surprises in the organization of the next Central Executive Committee.
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