CHINESE DISORDER

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 November 1927, Page 7

CHINESE DISORDER

COMMUNISTS ATTACK MILLS.

(Austrulian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

SHANGHAI, November 25.

Chinese Communists launched a widespread attack on local mills, and indulged in picketing. There have been several cases of murdering loyal workers insisting on working. There is irrefutable evidence that the plot was inspired by the local Soviet Consulate. Those arrested admit that they were promised cash rewards of a thousand dollars for each mill they succeeded in closing. The Settlement authorities anticipate a recurrence of the industry paralysis of 1925. Already twenty thousand are idle. Wholesale arrests are carried out, the majority being found in possession of modern firearms, and plentifully supplied with ammunition. The disclosures coupled with the report that fifty Soviet soldiers are en route to Shanghai to guard the Soviet Consulate, the result of the recent White Russian attack prompted nonRussian foreigners to appeal to the authorities to expel the Soviet Consular staff from the Settlement, declaring it a menace, to peace and good order. . - , > . The Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Nationalist Government has issued a i manifesto announcing the abrogation of all sino-foreign treaties on their expiration. They are renewable only with the Nationalist Government.

MANCHURIAN LOAN.

TOKIO, November 25.

Washington cables report the Government’s endorsement of the Morgan South Manchurian Loan negotiations of thirty miilion’sterling, at six and a-half per cent. The loan money will be used in extending branch railways and developing mining in Manchuria. The “Japan Advertiser,” representing American interests, intimates that Washington is now prepared to approve, nothwitnstanding China’s protests against political loans, to interests at present actively absorbing one of China’s richest territories.