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THE KUOMINTANG

AT THIRD NATIONAL

CONGRESS

GOVERNMENT VICTORY

Nanking, Yesterday. The third national Congress of the Kuomintang went into session for the first time at 10 a.m. on March 18:

delegates, no fewer than 220 pop- ported Mr. Liu Wen-tao's motion.

Marshat La Chat-sum of Centon, after a perceptible interval, sup- ported the motion.

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Yeh Chi- Shanghai, Yesterday. The Kuo Min news agency's correspondent at Changsha re- ports that troops belonging to General Yeh Chi have evacuated Chèngtao, in western Hungo, and retreated to their original garri son post at Yochow.

The proceedings, which were preliminary to the main work of

20,000 Miles of Railway the Congress and were intended to be more or less formal, were

Nanking, Yesterday. The Government won an im Enlivened by a dramatic incident in the course of the afternoon portant victory at this afternoon's when a quarrel almost developed session of the Kuomintang Con oyer the Hunan situation." The-gress, when the proposed general Congress adjourned at 6.30 pm. principles of the period of poll until March 19, ****-

cal tutelage, as adopted by the Central Executive Committee, was passed by an overwhelming majority, thus signifying the Congress' recognition of the pre sent Government.

There were 228 delegates from all over the country present, and Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, the President of the State Council, and chairman of the Central Exe cutive Committee of the Kuomin- tang Party, presided.

Memory of the Dead Marshal Chiang Kai-shek sub. mitted a report of the activities of the Central Executive Com mittee since the last Congress of the whole Party, in the course of a speech lasting more than an hour. Marshal Chiang addressed the delegates from the rostrum.

In the afternoon, General Ho Ying-chun, Marshal Chiang's Chief of Staff, reported on mili- tary affairs since the last meeting of the Congress, speaking at con- siderable length on the work ac- complished by the Disbandment | Conference.

After an address: lasting for more than two hours, General Ho Ying-ching completed his review of the military situation. He had

success spoken of the

of the Northern Expedition, and at the end, he invited the delegates to stand for three minutes in silence in memory of those who had fallen in the revolution.

..

The Hunan Problem There was a dramatic pause, after which Mr. Liu Wen-tao; who had the backing of about 40 others, rose and after a heated speech condemning the warlike activities along the Yangtsze River, proposed a motion demand- ing that the Hankow generals, Yeh Chi and Hu' Tsung-tu, whose troops are reported to be attack- Ing Lu Ti-ping's army on the Hunan-Kiangsi border, be in- structed to cease their military operations forthwith and to re- turn to their quarters,

The motion was then put to the vote, those favouring being asked to stand up. Of the 228

Mr. Sun Fo introduced his pro- economic reconstruction gramme, which includes the construction of 20,000 (miles of railway and 10,000 miles of motor roads. Mr. Sun Fo proposes rais- ing $500,000,000 yearly for fifty years, as follows:-$200,000,000 as a Government appropriation, the same amount from foreign loans, and $100,000,000 by the issue of reconstruction bonds."

Mardarin & Cantonese The programme includes the appropriation of $100,000,000 for development of Nanking, on which $10,000,000 will be expend éd yearly.

A number of important leaders

HELENA MAY FINAL CONCERT. TO-MORROW EVENING

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ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME

To-morrow evening, the last of the season's series of concerts will take place, when the following programme will be submitted:" Double Concerto for 2 Violins

and Orchestra. (Arranged for Piano: J. S. Bach).

Violins: Capt. Macnair and Mias Acheson..

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Piano:-Madame Bonenfant. Songa Negro Spirituals. (a) To-morrow you die Fisher-

Arma.

(b) Go tell it on the Mountains-

Hervey Gaul.

Mrs. Sanger,

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Violin Mrs. Aufrey. Piano Mrs. Cashman. Songs (Italian).

Lolita Bussi Peccia. If Pescatore Canta-Tosti,

Mr. Li Chur-chi.

Plano.

2 Movements of the Waldstein

Sonata-Beethoven. Introduzione-Adagio Molto.

(leading to the) Rondo Allegretto Moderato."

Mrs. Cashman. Accompanists:-Miss Braga and Professor Gualdi. ⠀ ⠀

God Save The King.

A special permit was granted

arrived

who were expelled from the Party for the export from Australia of at the Western Hills conference, two black swans, which for opposing the admission of in London for Lord Dewar. Communists to the Party, were reinstated this afternoon, among whom is Chang Chi, who was chairman of the recently dissolv- ed Peking branch Political Coun- cil

A number of reports from district Kuomintangs were sub- mitted to the Congress:

Amusement was caused through inability of the overseas delegates to understand mandarin and, for their benefit; the speeches were translated into Cantonese.

The Congress began at 2.20 p.m. and closed at 5 p.m. It is meet- ing again on March 20-Reuter..

There are four centenarians in Cheltenham, the youngest, Mrs. Mary Wilson, celebrating her 100th birthday recently.

January was the coldest month, in London since February 1895,

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