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regret my inability to have accom- CONSIGNEES": NOTICE. plished anything during the past Few months. As a new adminis- LETTERS OF MR. C. C. WUtration is about to be ushered in, 1 doem this an opportune moment AND MR. SUN FO."

for me to tender my resignation. 1 request, therefore, that I may be relieved of my various offices in or der that the present administration' be wound up and a now regime be inaugurated..

Shanghai, Dec. 29.

In a letter, to the Nationalist Government, dated. December 28, Mr. C. C. Wu, resigned his post as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Wu's resignation, as he him self explined, was prompted by sense of regret "of his inability

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on from port to port to the final port no useful purpose in his continu- 1 shall proceed to Shanghai on of call to which the option extends.

All broken, chafed, and damaged ance in the office.

the presentation of this dispatch: Punding the appointment of his Mr. Quo Tuf-chi, Vice-Minister for goods are to be left in the Godowns, successor by a new administra Foreign Affairs, has been instruct-where they will be examined pú any Tuesdays and Fridays between the tion which is about to be ushereded by me to assume temporary hours of 10.45 a.m. and noon within in." Mr. Wu, in the letter, also in-charge of the affairs of the Ministhe free storage period. formed the Government that he try, has instructed Mr. Quo Tal-chi, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, to assume temporary charge of the affairs of the Ministry....

The following is a translation of Mr. C. C. Wu's, letter of resignation to the Nationalist Government:

Nanking, 28th December, 1927, (Signed) CHAO-CHU WỤ,

Sun Fo's Resignation.

The petition for the acceptance of resignation of his post as the Minister of Finance of the Nation Following the reunification of alist Government was submitted to the Government on December 27 the Nanking and Hankow groups in the Party and the consequent by Mr. Sun Fo. in the petition, reorganisation of the Nationalist Mr. Sun set forth at length the reu Government, I was instructed to sons compelling him to resign, of continue to serve na Minister for which the following is a resume. Foreign Affairs. Unworthy na 1| am, I felt in duty bound to accept the momentous task entrusted to me in view of the fact that at that time the political situation was just being stabilised and there was an urgent call for my services, Since the establishment of the Government, however, the political stiuntion, especlälly as regards the Central Government, has been con- tinually in an unsettled state, so much so that the realisation of various plans. in connexion with foreign relations, has become im- budget.

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After having reviewed the cir cumstances leading to his accep tance of the Finance portfolio on always reserved for the Central October 1, Mr. Sun gave the re- Government. But Cheklang ex- calcitrant-attitude-of-Anhui-and-pressly telegraphed the Govern Chekiang, particularly Chekiang,ment not to send any official for as the dominant reasons for his that purpose. The regulation goy- resignation. The declaration of erning the Examination of Deeds, financial independence on the part promulgated by the Central Gov- of the above-mentioned two pro-ernment, was objected to by the vinces not only made Mr. Sun's Cheklang authority as conflicting scheme of financial unification im- with the regulations drafted by possible, but actually hampered the provincial government. The the practical task of meeting the establishment of the Cheklang Opium Monopoly Bureau, in the face of the Central Government's possible. I need, scarcely point In the case of Anhui, the Direc-general scheme for the suppres- out that foreign relations are in-tor of the Opium Suppression aion of opium, and without the per- of internal affairs. Where inter- Rolled Tobacco Tax Bureau, ap- an open and flagrant violation of timately wound up with the state Bureau and the Director of the mission of the Ministry, is again nal dissensions exist, diplomatic pointed by Mr. San's Ministry the order of the Government. success is impossible. It is within ivere prevented from taking up Finally, Chekiang refused even to easy recollection that soon after their posts by the illegal interven-pay over to the, Central Govern the Nationalist Armies captured tion of the military/authorities of munt the monthly sum of $500,000, Wu-Han, we succeeded in securing the provinces. Furthermore, An-on the ground that the Govern the retrocession of the Hankowhut' established its own specialment still owes Cheklang Province and Kiukiang Concessions, and our Kerosene Tax Bureau, in contra- $70,000,000, as military funds ad- renewed strength at that time com- distinction to the one created by vanced.".. pelled the attention of the whole the Central Government, so that world. However, when the Nan-the officials appointed by the the petition, stated that he could Mr. Sun, by way of concluding

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because Anhui has always been also in consideration of the im-- Labouring as I have done under placed under militaristic rule; but portance of Chekiang to the fin- difficulties when the Central Gov in the case of Chckiang, which ance of the Government, Mr Sun ernment cannot always compel the advertised itself to be under strict- thought best to resign his post as enforcement of its orders withinly civil rule, under the sponsor-the Finance Minister, which, may, and without, I feel that, while ship of a group of scholars, theho hoped, clear the way for an ought not to evade responsibility, situation is more difficult to ex-abler administration, more no useful purpose can be served plain. The reclamation of waste genial to the

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