Again coming to the rescue of the Chungshan University, the Administrative Yuan at Nanking has turned over $2,000,000 to Mr. Chow. Lu, Chancellor, and the contractor who stopped until he was paid, will continue the erection of the edifice that will house the law college—{$600,000 in cash has been given him on account, while $1,400,000 Kung Chi bonds, which must be sold
balance due for construction purpose:
the open "market "before "the can be disbursed, But a drop in the bucket, to this $2,000,000, "much must be added before all the proposed buildings. can be built. When the Govern mental and Party congresses shortly are convened Mr. Chow will make fan appeal for larger subsidies—$100,000 comes monthly from the Capital but it all must be used to. cover overhead, 'A special tax'on beans from China. and Manchoukuo may aid in meeting the large-size bill for making the new University plant, but it too will be far from enough, Besides none of the wholesalers who import beans have met the tax so far. Still bickering with the Government over havi hong has given a bond ce that if payment must be made the Government will not be the loser. Whatever comes. from this source, b when the dispute will have been settled, will go, into the Chungshan University's construction fund.
The Political Council.has turned thumbs down on the application for relief. Ne tional tax, on Nanking to overrule the action of the Political Council.
More Details on Catastrophe Extortionists who were not paid by the Wing Yung Yuan Ca. it is conjectured, started the re in the galley of the s, Shangshang which destroyed it at'1 am, yesterday. Rifle shots rang out afier' the discovery of the blaze, which was raging so fiercely that it was impossible to make headway" toward extinguishing it.
At 9 pin. the Shangshang cast loose her mooring lines from the dock near the YMCA. on the Car ton Bund, and at 1240 am. was 20 from Sheklung, where she would have completed her run. A late meal had been served aboard and the: cooks had left the galley where the. fire broke out.
The wildest pandemonium ensued. Alongside the "cook-house was the engine-room, and as the flames ate through the intervening wall the machinery so quickly was damaged that the Shangshang could not be navigated and she floundered in midstream. "Her thin wooden hull burn-fed through in spots and water poured in, The vessel settled in 30 feet of water, and not even a mast-head visible this morning.
Only 41 were saved and they were mostly of the crew, among whom were strong swimmers. About 123 tickets had been sold, but there were. Some passengers who had not paid their fares, Eight swan ashore and the rest who escaped clung to floating planks, or were kept above-water by life preservers or life buoys, of which there seem to have: been far too few. No boat, large or small, was in sight, and it was 3 om.
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