Major-Gen.
Morioka felt that the best method for the birth and development of a new regime in the Wuhan area, was to establish a special municipal government with jurisdiction over the three cities of Hankow, Hanyang, and Wuchang, which were formerly three separate administrative areas. A programme with such an end in view is now being considered, he was reported to have said.
"It is more important to assemble [men of talent from various quarters than to make haste in the establishment of a new regime," he remarked. "It will not be too late to attend to the establishment of a new regime after men w ho can command the respect of both Japan ud Chinese lore gathered.
"As the Wuhan area is in the fore-162 front agains: Chungking, it is theorem Vong Chang-chuan, a warder at the Ward Road Prison, was brought before the First Special District Court yesterday. He pleaded guilty to receiving money from a convict's elatives but denied that he himself had written the chit which caused the relatives to pay. He was remanded in custody for a week pending further investigations.
Police evidence was that Wong went to 20-38 Lungmen Road recently with a chit supposedly written by one Siao Ching, a con-Viet who was sentenced to three years' imprisonment some time ago for being in possession of opium Following the instructions given in the chit the convicts wife gave $20 to the warder for his service and also two tins of cigarettes.
On Sunday. it was alleged, the warder visited the woman again asking for $50 more for a "special treatment" he promised for the convict. The convict's brother telephoned to the Chengtu Road police which brought—Detective-Sergeant A. E. Taylor to the house to arrest the accused.
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