Daring the last few days, much anxiety was felt here over the progress of the unification movement owing to General Chiang's hurried rettirn to Nanking, It wes reported that General Chiang, during his Driet interview with the. Canton Jeaders, had requested Mr.
Han-min to represent. Nanking in the peace negcti: tions, an offer which was turned down by Mr. Hu.
Air. Wang Ching-wel, in an in: terview with local press re= presentatives, said that the Can-fon delegation hod turned down, the requests to proceed to the capital, feeling that free expression of their opinions may be effected by itary force. He said that at present a unified government was of the utmost importance, and as soon Jas fundamentals of such a government were laid in Shanghai, the Canton delegation would proceed to if Nanking to hold formal confer~ lence, He further told the pressmen that declars n of the abolition of the Kuangtung Government and an an-Inouncement of the retirement of General Chiang Kai-shek had been prepared, their principal point be-"the ending of the past chaos, jand the beginning of a new era, an Jera heralding the demarcation' of politic autho Mx, Wang said that pot never be dictated by mi Of unusual interes cal circles was the ari 1 in Shanghai of Mr. Chu Cheng, an old mem ber of the Kuomintang, who had been detained for some time in Nanking. Mr. Chu is, however, indisposed and when interviewed by Jo. representative of the "North-ina Daily News" on October 25, that he came to Shanghai to.
come friends from Canton and operate, but denied that Chair-Anhui Provincial Govern Accorling toa Agency report, one of the jargent questions to be tackled at the forther ing conference will, joe the immediate appointment: of an emergency and. "unified" foreign affairs committee, to. be composed of both Nanking and Centon nominees, who will be charged with the responsi coping with the present This committee, it is suggested, should be created before the pro: posed reorganisation of the Centra Government and the dissolution of the Government at' Canton are effected. While definite information is not available regarding the personnel of the proposed com. mittee, it is reported that it will be formed through a reorganisation of the present—Special Foreign Relations Committee of the Central Political Council and the inclusion of such Canton laders as Dr. C. Wu and Mr. Eugene Chen.
chu Chao-hsi vice-Minister of Foreign and Chinese Minister to England ud Italy, arrived here on October eign Aiairs Committee. Decome a member, Tn.an interview Bir. Shao Li-tzu, Chief Secretary of the Commander-jef's Headquarters, declared
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