EXPELLED FROM CHINA
RUSSIANS LEAVE SHANGHAI TRADING UPSET. Press Association —By Telegraph— Copyright. SHANGHAI, December 20. (Received December 21, at 12.40 p.m.) The first shipload of expelled Russians has left Shanghai for Vladivostok. It comprised seventeen Russian families and the members of the consular staff. The steamer was escorted by a strong force of settlement police. The route was lined by jeering White Russians and thousands of gaping Chinese. Serious problems are facing the Nationalist Government, as the breaking off of relations with the with such drastic, suddenness is causing a state akin to panic. Chinese merchants trading in Russia are heavily involved financially, and the refusal of Nationalists to exclude, the Dal Bank from closure seriously jeopardises numerous foreign traders and virtually suspends the tea business with Russia, which amounted to 50,000,000 dollars last year. Already 1,000,000 dollars’ worth of tea has been shipped to Russia. for which payments have not been made. Merchants are petitioning the Bureau of Foreign Affairs for relief. The Nationalists’ mandate involves the closing of twenty-seven Soviet businesses.
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Evening Star, Issue 19745, 21 December 1927, Page 8
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174EXPELLED FROM CHINA Evening Star, Issue 19745, 21 December 1927, Page 8
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