CHINA AND THE POWERS

Evening Star, Issue 19952, 23 August 1928, Page 4

CHINA AND THE POWERS

RUSH FOR CONCESSIONS REVISION OF TREATIES. Prcs'J Association —By Telegraph—Copjrighf SHANGHAI, August 22. As a result of the satisfactory settlement of the Nanking incident of March, 1927, Mr W. M. Hewlett, the British Consul, is proceeding to Nanking to take up his residence ashore for tho first time in seventeen months, the British consular duties at Nanking since the incident having been carried out on board u warship anchored at tho Nanking waterfront. It is reported that Germany is transferring her Embassy from Poking to Nanking, and is thus the first Western nation to recognise the Nationalalists. There appears to he a scramble among the nations to secure the special trade concessions which were promised by the Nationalists to nations quickly revising their treaties on a basis of equality. Following - closely on the heels of tho conclusion of the new Si noGerman commercial treaty pledging equality of customs treatment, it is reported that the Belgian Charge d’Affaires made a special journey to Nanking to discuss treaty revision. The Nationalist Ministry of Foreign Affairs and America have already concluded a new treaty, while Portugal and Britain have expressed their willingness to do so. Italy and Japan alone are adamant.—Australian Press Association.

RUSSIAN AGITATOR ARRESTED. RELIEVED TO BE BORODIN. TOKIO. August 22. An unconfirmed Harbin despatch says that the Chinese secret police arrested a Russian agitator styling himself Levin, who is believed to lie the former Chinese Nationalist agitator, Michael Borodin. Ho arrived at Harbin from Harbarovak, —Australian Press Association. TROU B LeTx MANCH UR IA. REBELS STILL ACTIVE. TOKIO, August 22. Despite oliicial Chinese statements that flic rebellion in the Hulumpnir district, in North-east Manchuria, had been crushed, the Japanese Press and official advices indicate that the rebels arc still active, while representatives of Chang Hsueb-liang at Hailar are attempting to arrange a settlement on the basis of granting _ Hulumpnir, sometimes called Huiumbail, autonomy. The Foreign Office at Tokio explains that Japan's declarations, which arc of special interest in Manchuria and Eastern Mongolia, do not- include tbo Huhnnpuir area, which is remote from the Japanese sphere.—Australian Press Association.