CHINESE COMMUNISTS.

Grey River Argus, 28 November 1927, Page 5

CHINESE COMMUNISTS.

ATTACK SHANGHAI MILLS.

(Auscralixn and N.Z. Cable Assn.; SHANGHAI, November 25.

Chinese Communists launched . a widespfead 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 nas 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 soldi"rs ar® 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 tljro Settlement, declaring it a menace to peace and good order. The Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Nationalist Government has issued a manifesto announceing the abrogation of all sino-foreign treaties on their expiration. They are renewable only with the Nationalist Government