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4. This information has been passed to His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong and the Acting General Officer Com manding, South China Command, Hongkong.
C 23622/26.
No. 41.
A. J. B. STIRLING,
Rear Admiral.
The Governor of Hongkong to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Secret.
SIR,
(Received 23rd December, 1926.)
Government House, Hongkong, 16th November, 1926.
With reference to paragraph 1 (5) of my secret despatch of the 14th November,* I have the honour to enclose translation taken from the Kwok Man San Man, a Cantonese newspaper, dated 5th November, of an article describing the reorganisation and future policy of the Canton Government.
2. It is reported that Messrs. Eugene Ch'ên, Sung Tsz-man, Sun Fo, Ku Mang-yü and Hsü Chien, all prominent members of the Canton Government, leave to-day from Canton by train en route for Hankow, to make preparations for the removal thither of the Seat of the Nationalist Government,
I have, &c.,
C. CLEMENTI,
Governor, &c.
ENCLOSURE IN NO. 41.
(Extract from Kwok Man San Man, Canton, 5th November, 1926.) (Translation.) REORGANISATION OF THE CANTON GOVERNMENT AND THEIR FUTURE POLICY.
RESOLUTIONS AS TO ARRANGEMENTS FOR REORGANISATION AND FOUR GREAT SCHEMES.
(From our own Correspondent.)
As regards the reorganisation of the Canton Government, Sun Fo, Sung Tsz Man, Li Tsai Sham, Kom Nai Kwong and Chan * C.23897/26; not printed.
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Shu Yan-five in all-were appointed some days ago on the Com- mittee for drafting rules for the purpose. And, as already reported in our issue of yesterday, it has been decided that the On the reorganisation should take place on the 10th November.
3rd November, at 6 p.m., the rules-drafting Committee met for the first time, and the rules drafted were considered and passed. They have also resolved as to the future policies to be followed by the Canton Government, including four great schemes in con- nection with brigandage, labour, self-government of various dis- tricts and the peasantry. These will be taken as the chief points at which will be manifested the reorganisation of the Canton Government, and it will be made known that the reorganisation is They have intended to make Kwong Tung a model province. also made some resolution as to the reorganisation of the Pro- vincial Committee of the Kuomintang and the appointment of the Provisional Provincial Political Council. All these will be sub- mitted to the Political Council of the Nationalist Government, We have made careful and will be enforced when approved.
inquiries as to the meeting, and we now publish below for the carly information of our readers the arrangements for the pro- posed reorganisation and the four great schemes.
RULES FOR THE REORGANISATION OF THE CANTON GOVERNMENT.
1. The Provincial Government shall have the general adminis- tration of the whole Province under the guidance of the Central and Provincial Executive Committees of Kuomintang of China. and subject to the direction of the Nationalist Government.
2. A Provincial Government Council consisting of seven to eleven members shall be appointed by the Nationalist Government to carry out the functions of the Provincial Government.
3. The Provincial Government Council shall be provided with a President and two Routine Work members. These three shall he elected from among the members of the Provincial Govern- ment Council, and shall attend to the daily routine work in pur- suit of all resolutions made by the Council.
4. All orders and notifications by the Provincial Government shall, on approval by the Provincial Government Council, be issued under the signature of the President and Routine Work members of the Council and the Commissioner of any Bureau concerned.
5. The Provincial Government shall have power to make laws for the Province in particular, provided that they are not con- trary to any resolutions of the Kuomintang or any orders of the Nationalist Government.
6. The Provincial Government shall have power to appoint and lismiss any subordinate officer in any Bureau in the Province.
7. The Provincial Government will be provided with the following Bureaux:-