The properties in places other than Shanghai already have been confiscated" by Government orders and, some time ago, Dr, Ho Shih-tenn, then President of the Shanghaé Feovisional Court, was secretly ordered to confiscate the Shanghag properties, Dr. Ho approached Me, 8, Fessenden, former chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, im this connection but Mr. Fessenden refused to execute his request unlona were first shown the order of the National Government, The order being a secret one, Ho declined te produce it, and so it was not execut For this reason, the Government, fon September 16, issued n format mandate for the confiscation of the estate and three high officials have secretly. been appointed to make investigations, These officials ara Mx, Koo Y \g-fan, former Ministew of Finance; Gen. Chang Chun, Mayor of Greater Shanghai; and Gen, Niu Yung-chien, chairman of the Kiangsu Provincial Government, Tt is mot learned, concludes the Chinese press, how the mandate will be enforced but, if the authorities concerned are pressed to the fullest extent, it will not be dificult execute it,
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