Allocation Nanking, Apr. 14.
Permission is granted to the Ministry of Railways to purchase eet through the London Purchas-Commission the first consignment of railway materials not 3 faceding £500,000 in value, it wi decided at the second general meet ing of the Board of Trustees for the administration of the British Boxer Indemnity Refund yesterday. The, meeting was presided over by Mr. Chu Chia-hua, Chairman of the Board *With the personnel! of the London bby the National Govern causation " announein {ation is to be Immediately issued.
the various cultural and educational Inraapect to the applications tions for financial. hel annual interest den the Indemnity Refund, the Board Gecided to refer the matter to the Standing "Committee to. x. annual the Goverment was unequivocally determined foring about the abolition of extraterritoriality by May 5. He urged ithe entire motion to rally to the support of the Government striving for the realization of this foremost aspiration of the peopl Dep'oring the fact that the Powers still refused to treat China Jon the basis of absolute equality, Mr. Shoo pointed out that human progress was possible only through the preservation of permanent inter-
"Reflecting the widening requi ments of the public', Minister Soong, wrote, "we have seen each department of the Government. pursuing its own pet projects, all of them involving huge expenditure. - Doubtless many of these projects are in themselves sound but they must be lunrealizable because of the "known lack of funds and the fact that they fare not ce-ordinated with the projects of other departments."
Benefit to Country After referring to the Soviet national peace and that nothing] s, japreme Economic Council as the Jeould be more conducive to peace outstanding example of deliberate Jand goodwill than mutual respect State "planning, Br. Soong con. Jamong nations. tinued, "*Surely' a case has been Turning to the purposes of the made for discarding the haphazard, 'State, Mr. Shao said that the dut unrelated and clashing programmes} government was three fold, lof the various branches of the Gov-'(1) protection of the people fe aggression and rament and' the creation "of really effective planning organizs Hon, which would guide The prod Jof the productive activities of the ce, (2), promotion jo. forces of the country, people, and (3) education of the ordinate the Act people in order that they might lous Ministries, and rigidly map out contribute to the development of the essential ends which for a given society—Kuo Min. course of years each of the different] London, Apr. 15. components is. obliged to. pursue.
Replying in the House of Com-With such ce-ordinated and pur: pose ful. activi mons to-day to Sir Kingsley Wood, ity within the Govern- i ment, whereby it is made a untied Nanking, Apr. 19.
The fourth anniversary of the establishment of the national capital Jat Nanking was celebrated here yesterday.
Upwards of 400 Party and Government officials attended the me-Jmorial service held at the National Government Building under chairmanship of President Wang [Chung-hui of the Judicial Yuan, President Wang dwe®t in partijcular upon the political as well. as material progress which the National Government had been able achieve within the brief span of four years. "He said that four years lage, Nanking with its narrow streets; jand' sparse population presented a mot altogether encouraging specta-ide. The people were rather skepti-Jeal about the ability of the JGovernment and generally shunned ithe new capital. 'The rapid growth lof population in the Capital to-day' was in itself a proof of the grow-
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