To-day is to witness the opening, of the Kwangsi Provincial Conference at Nanning presided over by Marshal Li Chang-yin and the Governor, Wang Yuk-tso., Incidentally it will witness a strike by the motor car drivers. Recently. a car struck a small child, killing him and overturning the ear.
The accident] th happened in the Ping, Tang. district. The magistrate of this district is the well known Dr. Tang Meo-u, the leader of the mass education movement. "Dr. Tang who is a Ph.D. from Columbia University only regently "came to Kwangsi from ig. His purpose in coming to Kwangsi was to devote two years establishing a model district at Ping Tang.
The two drivers of the car were taken before the magistrate and they were condemned to die. Within two hours they were in the execution field. "Both were made to! Knee! but only the one driving the car was made to pay the supreme Penalty, the other receiving a bad fright.
At first the news was discounted when it was received at Nanning the pao" the Government organ, con-capital, But later Nanning firmed it.
The motor driver labour guild has demanded "the ment, of Dr. Tang by death. Claiming that the executed man had mo chance for defence for his life.
The friends of Tang _hope some explanation will be forthcoming to explain" satisfactorally, this most unpleasant incident.
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