Nanking, Mar. 29. Mr, Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government, laid the corner-stone of the $240,000 building of the Central Supervisory Committee in a simple ceremony this morning, more than 200 high Government officials and members of the OSC. attending. The aged President placed a copper box _containing the names of all the OSC. members in a cavity in the cornerstone. He then shovelled in the first spade of cement to seal the stone, an inscription on which was written by Mr. Wu Tse-hui, the veteran Party Teader.
The "greund on which the new building is now under construction once was part of the site of the palace constructed by Emperor Chu Hung-wu, founder of the Ming Dynasty, about the year 1368, after the had successfully overthrown the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty.—Central News.
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