NEW WAY OF STAGING A PROTEST.
Received Wednesdav, 8.20 p.m. NANKING, iMay 14. To foeus attentipn 011 tlie pliglit iu wliicli ('hina fmds itself as the resull of the civil war and eeonomie difficul ties, 1000 former army offieers staged a mass weep at Dr. Sun Yat Sen's tomb at Nanking todav. The participants also complained that tho Government had neglected their welfare since they were discharged. " If the central authorities intend that we live on they sliould give us a bo.wl of rice. If they intend that we die they should give us coffins, " deelared one former Lieuten ant General.
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 May 1947, Page 5
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