SOVIET AND CHINA

Grey River Argus, 29 March 1928, Page 5

SOVIET AND CHINA

QUESTION OF IMPORTING ARMS. (Received March 2S, at 10 p.m.) LONDON, March 28. British United Press Moscow correspondent states: Protecting she never did intend, and never in future intends to introduce arms into China, the Soviet has declined Japan’s invitation to sign the Peking Convention of 1919 prohibiting the importaofficial’s illtreated . Chinese, but tion of arms into China. Tho Soviet also repudiates the charge that a

the newspaper “Isvestia’’ simultaneously records that several hundred Chinese have either been arrested, or deported from Soviet territory on charges of smuggling or speculating in CHINESE BOYCOTT JAPS. SHANGHAI, March 27. The anti-Japanese boycott feeling is intensified at Amoy, necessitating additional naval protection. Strike pickets, preventing shipping activities and attempting to seize all cargo landed, resulted in a serious conflict with Japanese naval men. The Japanese had previously notifit.d the Chinese authorities that the pickets would be treated

as pirates, in the event of seizing cargoes of Japanese vessels. A cargo lighter was seized by pickets, and was chased by a launch containing Japanese naval men. The lighter was captured and the pickets detained.