Well-informed observers here dis cerned the makings of a_ single political party centred round the Hsin Min Society following the remarks made by Mr. Wang I-tang Chairman of the North China Political_Affairs Commission.
The Hsin Min Society, these observers said, will probably be made the nucleus of a party in the same relationship to the Commission as the Kuomintang is to the National Government in Nanking.
North China, always semi-autono~ mous even under the former national regime now in Chungking, will thereby have greater control over its own affairs in line with the most modern developments.
Following the institution of new political structures la Japan and also' in Manchoukuo, North China under, the leadership of the' Hsin Min Society and the Political Affairs Commission, both now headed by Mr. Wong i-tang, will probably follow sult, these close observers of the nation here coneluded—Domel, Boxer Fund Studei To Go to Canada Chungking. Aug. 15.
The 7th group of British Boxer Fund scholarship students is at pre sent en route to Canada for higher studies following a temporary change of plans, due to war conditions, regarding the sending of Chinese students to England.
The group, ntimbering 2, left China fon August 8 for Canada. They were to have left China for England last September, but the outbreak of war Europe interfered with plans "The Board of Trustees administer ing British Boxer Fund originally Hlanned to postpone the departure these students until the close of the pean war. but as no early peace was in sight it decided to send the students 10 Canadian universities, including Montreal, Toronto and During the past year these students continued research work in Chinese Genena, Chiang Kai-shek has personally contributed. a sum CN$50,000 for the relief of refugees in Chinghai, East Chekiang, who have been affected by the recent hostilities that area, says a report to the "Sin. 'Wan Pao." In response to public appeals, General Huang Shaohsiune, chairman of the Chekiang Provincial Government, has also ordered the provincial authorities to defray' Snother CN§50,000 for the same pure pose, the paper states.
Wang Ching-wei Shanghai, Aug. 20.
A Chinese report {rom Hongkong states that Mr, Ling Kung-how, gen= feral secretary of the Shanghai Bankfers Association. arrived in. Hongkong fon Sunday. by. boat. The report quotes Mr. Ling as denying the re~ Fort to the effect that he has sur-Tendered to Mr, Wang Ching-ye who has black listed him, Mr. Ein ill stay in Hongkong for a! long time and will make a report on conditions Shanghai to responsible quarters.
will be recalled that Mr. Ling's name is one of the first few mentioned in' Me. Wang's first black list in Which 83 persons are "mentioned. Since the publication of the List, he had remained in Shanghai until very recently when he lett for the colony. Besides serving as general secretary of the Association, Mr. Ling Is cot nected with a number of other pub-Jie "and philanthropic - organizations and business houses, He is one of the best known civie leaders in Shanghai, working also as a Chinese committeeman of the Shanghai
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