CHINESE NATIONALISTS

Evening Star, Issue 19632, 11 August 1927, Page 5

CHINESE NATIONALISTS

THE NORTHERN DRIVE FURTHER EVIDENCE OF REVERSES Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. SHANGHAI, August 10. Reports have been received of the capture of Pcngpu by the Northerners, who are pressing on pukow, which is the Yangtse terminus of the TicntsiuPnkow Railway and the connecting link with the Nanking-Shanghai Railway. The Nationalists are removing all the munitions and military supplies from Pukow to Nanking, where there is growing restlessness in civil and military circles at the approach of the Northerners. Thousands of wounded have returned to Pukow from the front, testifying to the heavy nature of the fighting. A cargo of 3.200 cases of dynamite was seized by Nationalist soldiers on a small Chinese steamer anchored at Woosung, at the mouth of the Shanghai River, frustrating what is believed to be an attempt to blow up the Woosung forts. Eight of the crew were arrested. JAPANESE MILL-OWNERS’ PROTEST, SHANGHAI, August 10. The Japanese mill-owners'are alarmed at the Nationalists’ contemplated tax of 12 per cent, on manufactured goods, enforceable on September 1. The revenue is estimated at 11,000,000d01. A protest meeting decided to send Mr Funatsu, director-general of the Japanese Cotton Mill Owners’ Association, to Japan to confer with the Government. The mill owners state that in the event of the Chinese authorities insisting on the tax they will suspend work en Woo, putting 60,000 Chinese laborers out of work.