ORDERED TO QUIT

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 145, 16 December 1927, Page 9

ORDERED TO QUIT

SOVIET AND CHINA

NATIONALIST DEMAND

TIME LIMIT TEN DAYS

(United Press Association.—Copyright.)

(Eeeeived 16th December, 1 p.m.)

SHANGHAI, loth December.

M. Koslovsky, the, Soviet Consul, was handed an official statement by the Nationalist Government ordering tho closing of all Soviet Consulates in Nationalist territory. The statement reads: "The Nationalist Government, has for sonic time.been informed from various sources that the Soviet Consulate and the Soviet State commercial agencies' areas within the jurisdiction of the Nationalists have been used as headquarters for Hod propaganda and an asylum for Communists, the exposure of which was withheld in view of tho international relations between China and Eussia." The mandate cites the Canton revolt and the evidences of Russian connection with it. The revolt is mainly attributed to the fact that Communists availed themselves of the Soviet Consulate and commercial agencies as bases for their operations. It expresses a fe&r of similar occurrences elsewhere.

M. Koslovsky is requested to leave by the first availablo steamer. A time limit of ten days is fixed for the closing of all f^iviet institutions.

Nationalist troops are: already rounding up Communists in the Chinese territory surrounding Shanghai,, and have raided several' notorious institutions. Wholesale arrests were made, and large caches of arms unearthed. The Provisional Court at Shanghai announced that. drastic new crime laws had been promulgated by the Nationalist Government in order to meet the crime wave which reached unaparalieled proportions in the city's history'in November and December. The new code provides the death penalty for sixteen-separate offences, the majority.of which were previously only minor charges. The present code is more severe than in any western country.