I asked about the confiscation of houses. Both Dr. Sun and Dr. Wu assured me that the reports of this were - exaggerated. Only house property built on reclaimed land along the river and where the old walls and moat had been, and for which the owners could show no title, was affected, the Government contending that this was Government land. Dr. Wu quoted the case of one man who, on the south bank, had annexed a quantity of land and sold off what he did not want. The owners of the latter portion, producing their deeds of purchase, were told by the Constitutionalists that.the man they dealt with had no power to sell, that they must now repurchase their houses from the Government and could sue the -mnan whom they had paid in court.
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