Hankow, Jan. 1
A new administration for the Wu-hon area is likely 10 be established in April or May and it may exercise Jurisdiction over the three provinces of Hupeh, Hunan and Kiangsi, Japan authorities here told newspaper men today.
Prior to the inauguration of a new Hankow government the present! Peace Maintenance Commission of the three Wuhan cities will be reorganized and incorporated as a municipal administration, while provinelat governments will be set up in Hupeh, han and Kiangsi, Japanese authorlpredicted.
Population of the Wuhan tri-cities now exceeds three-quarters of a mi lion. Leading citizens of the Wuhan tarea who took refuge in Shanghai, Honitkong and Tientsin were return:
{ng home, the Japanese oflcials said, 'Miss Kawashima, proprietress of a Chinese restaurant on' Matsushima Street in the Japanese Concession hhere, is the daughter of the late Prince Ssu of the Manchu. dynasty who fled to Port Arthur in 1912. She was adopted as a child by Mr. Naniwa Kawashima, adviser to the jold Chinese Imperial Government. [She was reared and educated in Japan jand was once married (ea Mongol prince. whom she later divorced. She often disguised herself as a mat The slayers of Mrs. Wang were captured by the French police—Domei.
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