It will be recalled that General Chen Chi-tang, together with his arly. was ordered to remain in Hongkong by General Chiang Kalshek, chairman of the "Executive Yuan, pending an enquiry into the Gnances of Kwangtung under the administration of General Chen by the Nanking authorities. It was for this Feason that the Nanking Government Fefused to issue him a passport visa, General Chen and his party were not in possession of proper passport visas when they left yesterday.
Although the departure of Genera! Chen is widely reported in the Chi nese. press here no confirmation or Genial" of the current report could be obtained from the general's family fof from those closely associated with im in Hongkong. As a result of the prevailing rumours several news papermen from. the Chinese press went to enquire yesterday afternoon at the general's" residences at 13 Macdonnell Road and an unnumbered house in Village Road, Happy Valley, but obtained no satisfactory result at either place. "When they insisted on fan interview with the general the Inmates of the house told them that General Chen was indisposed and had given orders "he. was "not going. {2 Fecoive anyone. Finally, the reporters explained that they wished to have 2 glimpse of the general so that they could be certain of his presence the house but this was also refused bby his inmates and. bodyguards or the ground that he was asleep and could not be disturbed, Tur piracy of a number of Chinese Junks in the neighbourhood of Kiang Ying was disclosed in a letter' add-essed by the local office of the Chinese junk owners guild to the Kiangsu Provincial Water Police who have. been asked o suppress the marauders. The pirated junks, according to the letter, were engaged in carrying cargo from Shanghai. to Yangtze ports, and recently, eight junks were held "up at. Kiangying by seven or eight armed men who had a boat at their disposal and who: boarded the junks under the pretext of searching for "prohibited goods tone occasion, a member of the junks" crew was fired at and wound-Every piracy was perpetrated at midnight andthe outrages were committed by men in grey uniforms, aerording to' the letter.
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