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INNOCENCE OF GEN.

BLUCHER!

SOVIET "NOT LOOKING FOR WAR."

NO "ACTIVITY" ON TRANS. SIBERIAN RAILWAY.

The Shanghai Stove reprints an interview with the Commander of the Soviet Army on the Mar churian border, General Blücher, by an Italian journalist, Signor Carrado Tedeschi..

IN

Blücher are modest and simple several big maps of China on the walls, and a big map of Northern Manchuria just in front of his deck. When I entered, a medium-sized, fair haired man about 40, in mili- tary uniform but without the suili- tary mien, rose to his feet to meet me. We sat down. and Blicher was first to speak. He talks calmly, and, accentuating every sentence, said:

CONFISCATING CONFUCIUS' ESTATE,

PROTEST BY 77TH LINEAL DESCENDANT..

CONSTERNATION AMONG LITTERATEURS.

TELEGRAM SENT TO NANKING GOVERNMENT.

A Simple Soldier Män, ̈ "I am a simple Russian work- man, who fought as a private in the ranks of the Tsarist Army during the war with Germany, was wounded and promoted to non- least, his 77th direct descendent,

China's Sage, Confucius, or, at

Inheritance Rights.

"In 1997, M. Kung Lin Yib, of commissioned officer, and, after the Mr. Kung Teh Cheng, is the latest the 76th generation of Confucius's to be singled out by the National, Kung Teh Cheng, the 77th direct family, passed away and since then October Revolution, enlisted in the

with

Red Army, and fought against the Government in connection armies of Admiral Koltchak: now their programme for the confises our government has appointed me

to

the inheritance rights of the family lineal descendant, have taken ever

and possession of the propertice left by Confucius and other ances

ors.

Pel,

"I would like to point out," the writer says, "that on my whole way out from Moscow to Vladi vestok I have not noticed any signs of preparations for war, not a sing- command the Special Far- tion of "enemy propertica," le troop train, no crowded soldiery Eastern Army,...

The estates of the late Mr. Sheng in the railway stations. My atten "I firmly insist that the Soviet

Quiet unexpectedly, Thai Yuan tion to this fact was drawn by the Government is not looking for war, Kung Pao and General Chang Hsun

Only to-day I signed an appeal to having been confiscated to satisfy Government, who, hopes to confis

a member of the National group of Soviet journalists, repte- sentatives of the Leningrad and

all Red soldiers to maintain com those in control at Nanking, it was eate these private properties of my Moscow newspapers, who were sent plete calmness. I am not a politi-thought that the properties of other ancestors and mine, made a pro- as correspondents to the Sino- cian but a simple soldier, so it is high officials of the Manchu regime posal to the National Government Soviet border.

dimcult for me to answer your and of past Republican administra. aeking that my properties should "My first long stop was at question as to how and when the ticus which have not been too well be illegally disposed of." Habarovsk, General Blücher's head- Sino-Soviet conflict will be settled.disposed towards the Nationalist Inheritance rights have been quarters. On the day after my I have information that the Chinese Party would be seized.

given to me by God and, according árrival, I was received by Blücher | Army is preparing for a winter But news to the effect that "the [to law, I am privileged to enjoy at his headquarters. The interview | campaign." I deny most emphatic crate of Confucius is to be confesuch rights just as "do" members of lasted over an hour and dwelt exally the rumours that the Soviet caled has been received with the other families in China. "Why clusively on the question of the troops were the first in the over-greatest surprise and consternation, should the Confucina frmily be să Sino-Soviet condict

the-border raids, The facts will especially by the literary classes. exception! disclose quite the opposite""

Kuomintang Agitation. › Circular Telegram.

For these reasons, I strongly News of the National Govern-oppose the proposed confiscation of

given in a circular telegram des-ancestors and I wish to lodge a patched by Mr. Kung Teh Cheng, most vigorous protest against it. à direct lineal descendant of Co-I earnestly request the National fucius, on October 29, A copy of Government to reject Taai Yann which appeared in the Eastern Fei's plan so that the rights of the Times.

people may be protected and that Confirmation of the reported ustice may be upheld." nction of the National authorities It is not known by whom the was lacking as D. II. H. Kung, honorary title of Yea Sheng Ring Minister of Industry, Commerce was conferred, but it is presumed and Labour, who also is a member' that this was granted hundreds of of the Sage's family, is still in years ago and that the title has Xanking.

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Subject:—ADAM AND FALLEN MAN. The Sunday School is held on Sunday. Morning at 18 o'clock.

Wednesday Evening Meeting at

The honorary title of Ten years. Shen King, conferred upon the Though no reasons are given as direct descendants of Confucius, to why Mr. Kung Teh Chang volun- has been voluntarily ́ abolished by tarily relinquished the title, it is the writer. The famous Confucian believed that he took such action forest in Shantung, the well-known because" China is no longer an em- Confucian temple, the Confucian pire and because members of the library, the agricultural lands and Kuomintang are strongly opposed other properties which the passes to the use of titles conferred upon sor of the title holds were all left their fellow-countrymen by forme › Tuesday and Friday, 10 x,m. tơ 12 Noon. by Confucius and, my other ances. Imperia]' rulers and "they (the | tors and all have been in existence Kuomintang) are agitating for their for more than 2,000 years.

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