The Archive · 1929

ATTACK ON, HAIHO CONSERVANCY

Foreign Administration Cut!

icized in Petition x fain ch tas opps attempts of the Greater Shanghai Sees eae One coe connote moon statement has appeared' in the Haiho Conservancy Commission im free bias, ale ado poled ly forename res Gana, Gung oh one cunt ornis of teal 10,000,000 have been expended: by. to touch upon the conservancy of ¢ho important.'

"Further, the work of river con= servancy matter of domestic administration and should, not placed in the hands of foreigners, The present Board of Ditectors of the Commission is composed of four foreigners and only one Chinese, namely, the Superintendent Customs, while the chairman of the Board is a.forcigner! All important employees, such as the secretary, the engineer-inehief, ete., likewise ate foreigners! According 40 the Natio king Treaty (2) there is no legal basis for the organization of such 2 Commission as this, 60, for these reasons, we respectfully submit that the control of the Commission should be taken over by the Chinese Gove ernment without further delay. Detailed fundamental schemes regarding the conservancy work will de drawn up as soon as the adminis tration has been taken over and, for the time being, we recommend that the Haiho Affairs Readjuste ment Commission, appointed by the Chibi Provincial—Government, should be ordered to take over the work of the Haiho "Conservancy manded the other to commit suicide, which she did. The two actors were arrested as "communist suspocts™ and executed.

"The mothers of the young mew thereupon both committed suicide, while a third concubine, terrified by, the dear disappear 4, presumably a suicide.

Nothing good about Chu Vu-jin has ever appeared in the Chinéve press, He is accused of blackmail, extortion. abduction, kidnapping, and a variety of other crimes, Bot no judge dared move against' him, and his. alleged. crimes went punished, until: finally he lost: his. bodyguard, and Shantung peasants. took the law into their own hands.

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