A NEW CHINA.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 2, 3 January 1925, Page 5

A NEW CHINA.

ANCIENT ABUSES END. CRIMINALS TO SUFFER. HOPES FOR BETTER DAYS. .-pr Cable. —Tress Association.—Copyright.) ißeceived - p.m.I I'EKING, January 2. A mandate grants an amnesty to all irisoners excepting T=ao Kun, who must •"ace ;i public trial by members of Pariiamcni concerned in Asao Kirn's election, who will be placed before the forthcoming national conference, and offendjr; charged with robbery, murder, rape, qrson, and breaking of ditches. The mandate says the disturbances which have lasted \.i years and abuses for which the military are responsible, resulted in the destitution of the people, „nd many persons have been led to qfjend against the laws. _ general amnesty i< proclaimed to mark the epochal event in the lives of the people and the history of the Chinese Republic Another mandate abolishes the Collie of Marshals. Chih Sich Yuan ha- unexpectedly left TCanking- He is taking refuge in Shanghai. After 'lis departure Chih iSieh y nan's bodyguard, who had not received any pay. looted and burned a number of the largest silk stores there, doing damage to the extent of 500,000 dollars. It is reported that a detachment of American marines landed at Nanking to protect the foreign residential district, as the danger is not yet over.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)