NEW CHINA

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 93, 14 January 1929, Page 9

NEW CHINA

AIMS TO BE MILITARISTIC POWER UPKEEP OF ARMY TO TAKE LARGE PART OF REVENUE (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. January 13, 5.5 p.m.) Shanghai, January 12. That Nationalist China intends to become a militaristic Power is demonstrated in a statement issued by Mr. Soong, Finance Minister. Henceforth 41 per cent, of the nation’s revenue will be devoted to the upkeep of the army. At a conference of all prominent militarists throughout the country now being concluded at Nanking, under the chairmanship of Chiang Kai Shek, the future policy was defined. Regional control was held responsible for the internal troubles in the past, and now has been abolished, and will be substituted by stationing a division in defined areas, which will be responsible for peace therein, controlled by the central authority at Nanking. The conference Is calling a census of China’s military strength, covering the most remote regions. MANCHURIAN DICTATOR HIGH-HANDED ACTION (Rec. January 13, 5.5 p.m.) Mukden, January 12. The Dictator Chang Hsueh Liang’s high-handed action in summarily executing Yang yu Ting and Chang yin Huai, leaders of the Mukden military gf-nff, on the grounds of suspected plotting against the Government, has shocked foreigners in this part of China, the majority of whom regarded Yang yu Ting as the principal cause of the Manchurian prosperity and security, and the backbone of the late Chang Tso Lin’s regime. Furthermore, the Dictator’s action is utterly inconsistent with the Western upbringing generally attributed to him. The consensus of foreign opinion is that the action illustrates the impossibility of foreigners surrendering extraterritorial rights and submitting to Chinese jurisdiction.