Cantonese General to Be Inaugurated in Office Next Month: Magistrate Indicted -Fnont Oun Oww Connesroxsext Canton, Aug, 20.
Acting on the advice of his physicians, General Li Young-king has followed up his resignation from the vice-superintendency of the Yintong Miltary "Academy "by resigning a5 Military Administrator of the "East River District, For some years the General has been a sufferer from a brain emiction, and he has been advised that complete recovery will be a slow process, and of all things he is not to overwork. Therefore, he wants only to retain his command of the Third Army.
Tt is heard that General Chen Chi-tang will grant the request. Instead of sending Cheung Mui-san to the police department as its head, he will im the Military Administrator Saturday. Fully 1,000, when the zain began to beat down upon them hurried to the Neang Yan Temple, but it was then 7 o'clock in the evening, and the doors were shut at 6 pin:
Entreaties did mot bring sympa. thetic response from the Buddhist priests inside, and the crowd grew Impatient, and stones were thrown through windows, Impatience grew Into furious anger with the stoneyhearted priests, and the doors were battered down, and the mob rushed By then a lieutenant from the Sha Hok Police Station had arrived and he induced the Buddhists to open all September 1 has bes day when the inaugurations of Lam Shi-ching as. vice-Superintendent of the Yintong Military, and of Li Shuechung as Commander of the Military Police will take place, The "Kai fongs" of the Little North Gate section of Canton had sought moratorium for a year so that all Whose homes were flooded during the June storm could avoid paying their police taxes. While General Chen Chi-tang has established the yearly moratorium for those the walls Of whose residences gave way when the waters undermined the founda-on, it is not extended to others who Jost tess, In four counties, Szwul, Koming, Kwongning and Samshui, 15 per cent:
to be knocked off of the land taxes for 1935, This relief comes because so many sustained heavy losses when the river rose and overran its banks. Presuming that one has already settled for his 1095 taxes, he may then get this reduction when he pay? them for 1938, One hundred thousand dollars has been drawn on by the residents of eight districts, the money having be t aside by the Provincial Treasury to assist flood sufferers. It has now been altogether exhausted. Magistrates drawn portions of Ivan. given daily allowances, to farmers while they were rebuilding roads and field dykes.
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