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Show Dominant Elements of North-era North-era and Southern Governments Govern-ments Join FIRST PRESIDENT ' ACTIVE MEMBER Students' Union Praise Refusal Re-fusal of Nations to Lend Money SHANGHAI, April 21 (By the Associated As-sociated Press) Dominant elements of the northern and southern Chinese governments will merge and organize a united parliament, .probably in this city, in a short time, said Wu Ting Fang, administrative loader and minister min-ister of foreign affairs of the southe: ' government, on arriving here. A constitution con-stitution and peace program will be drafted at the meeting, he said, thus terminating the Canton government. Sun Yat Sen. first president of the Chinese republic, and leader of the constitutionalists, and Tang Shao Yoi, former premier of the Peking government, govern-ment, are here and ninety of tho 3001 members of the Canton parliament I have arrived. Wu Ting Fang the consortium in which Japan, the United States, France and Great Britain would playj a dominant role in the financing of ( Chinese undertakings, but opposes loans now pending j Refusal Applauded CHANHAI, March 17, Refusal ofj Ajn1?rIc1nr.BriD Kfrcarry through a proposed loan of I ip,000,000 to tne Peking government,! hffityJed tho National Students union and. the Shanghai Students' union to address (o the leading French, American Ameri-can and English banking houses in China messages expressing gratitude for the decision reached. Messages ofj the same tenor were also forwarded to the ministries of the three countries coun-tries in Peking. Talks on China. CHICAGO. April 21. China stands in the position of the United Slates fifty years ago, entering an era of development and progress, said Chas. R. Crane, newly appointed minister to China, wlio lert today to take hiu post at Peking. "Perhaps the country's biggest problem prob-lem Is that of transportation," he said. "There are more miles of canals in China than of railroads in the United States, but railroads aro badly needed "If we have peace, in tht Pacific." Mr. Crane said, "there is no reason the Pacific of the future should not repeat what has been accomplished in the-trade the-trade channels of the Atlantic." co |