It scorns advisable to the Local]
Committee of the Kuling Council to unform Landrenters and other friends jof Kuling of the steps taken to protect the interests of Kuling from repeated acts of aggression and Joneroachments, and of the measure Jof success which has thus far attond-Jed the Council's efforts.
Passing over the seizure and mill-{tary oceypation of the Estate in-the summer of 1927 under the Hankow Communist regime, and the return of the Estate to the Kuling Coun at the end of that year through the not with "individual land-holders within the Estate, To this it was replied bluntly that "regardless of previous status, in future the Lushan Area would be treated as one unit." A further letter of Mayor Wood's dated August 21, 1929, add-Jed the statement that the residents jof "Kuling, -Laling (the former Russian Valley) and Lushan as whole.. both Chinese and Forjeign, must knead together as one lump whole, while any former organization or Company-like system (that is, "the Kuling Annual Landrenters' Meeting," with the elected Kuling Council as its executive) tective assistance of the Consular yoely)" must give way to the new} briefly the second attempt to seize Body at Hankow;' and dismissing Teang.gzehucl (a proposed' new] jcontrv! of the Estate in June of this council under the Provincial Government to control the entire mountain year (1929), which was an effort to range).... which is to be formed in make it an adjunct of the municipal government of Kiukiang, with the a few months." That is to say, the demand for all Estate taxes in the Jannouncement is made that "the Hfuture unconditionally; we come at boundaries, administration and other prerogatives of the Estate are to be once to the immediate situation, submerged without reference which may be said to date from August 20, 1929, when the Council legal owners, in a new area by an} was informed that this second at-arbitrary act of Nanchang officials. tempt at seizure had been with.
Thus the new claim not only brushes drawn, we may believe in conse-aside all previous rights included quence of the Council's official pro-the deeds of purchase, all long-cstest, coupled with wide publicity, {tablishied precedents acknowledged not only throughout China, but also by successive Chinese governments, in other countries, both Manchu and Republican, but} 'A concise summary of conditions: also contravenes openly the oft-re-they are found at the time we peated promises of the Nanking Nationalist Government fare sending out this open letter is Jeontained in the following para- Prt graphs from a communication sent bby the Local Committee to the. proper Consular authorities under date of November 15:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.