[News Agency, an off tial spokesman Jot the Government, commenting on Mr. Tang Shao-yi's telegram to President Hoover explaining his motive in joining the Canton insurgents, said:—"Several months ago Mr. Tang Ishao-y1 volunteered to proceed to JAmeriea to negotiate on the ext ferritaciality problem with Presi. ident Hoover. The Government. then reluctantly felt obliged to decline the oer, because Mr. Tang had, for many yeats beld aloof from the national movement that i was felt he was out of touch with the ten-denies of the tine. "Te was further believed that, negotiations on such a vital quest Jed by any personal relationships.
"At about this too, unfortunately Mr. Tang offended the susceptibilities of many men in ti consulting all shades of opinion iwas contrary to unity in the direction of the government, and cluding with the flat statement th Chiang must either govern or get vernment regrets that the last surviving statesman of the Manchu era should have joined the Canton rebels, but history, to repeat Mr, Eugene Chen's favourite appeal, ix replete with instances lof the pathetic spectacle of once distinguished statement grown old trying to. stage comeback though Jeat of joint with the times"—Kno
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