CHINESE COMMUNISTS

Evening Star, Issue 19724, 26 November 1927, Page 5

CHINESE COMMUNISTS

ATTACK SHANGHAI MILLS PLOT INSPIRED BY SOVIET INDUSTRIAL PARALYSIS FEARED. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. SHANGHAI, November 25. (Received November 26, at 10 a.m.) The Chinese Communists launched a widespread attack on; the local mills* and indulged in picketing.' There have been several eases of murdering of loyal workers, who insisted on working. There is irrefutable evidence that the plot was inspired by tho local Soviet Consulate. Those arrested admit that they were promised cash rewards of l.OOOdol for each mill they succeeded in closing. Tho settlement authorities anticipate a recurrence of the industrial paralysis of 1925. Already 20,000 are idle. Wholesale arrests were carried out, and the majority were found in possession of modem firearms and plentifully supplied with ammunition. The disclosures, coupled with the report that fifty Soviet soldiers are cu route to Shanghai to guard tho Soviet Consulate as a result of the recent White Russian attack, has prompted the non-Russian foreigners to appeal to the authorities fo expel tho Soviet consular staff from the settlement, declaring that it is » menace to peace and good order. * The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist Government has issued a manifesto announcing the abrogation qf all Sino-foreign treaties on tbjfir expiration. They arc renewable only with the Nationalist Government.