THE KUOMINTANG

Grey River Argus, 13 March 1931, Page 6

THE KUOMINTANG

MEETING AT WELLINGTON. AIMS AND ASPIRATIONS. Air Yue Chun-hsien, who was commissioned by the headquarters of the Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party, at Nanking to attend the conference of j the delegates of the branch parties in Australia and New Zealand, held at Sydney recently, addressee a very large gathering of Chinese Nationalists of Wellington and representative Chinese yesterday at the Kuomintang quarters. In the course of his address, Mr Yue said that last year the forces of the National Government under the leadership of President Chiang Kai-shek, the Generalissimo, overcame the reaction-[ aries and militarists, and unified China. There now remained to be dealt with the menace of the. Communists, to the suppression of which the National Government is now devoting its whole at tention. AL Yue said that the develop ment of China is now progressing b> means of railway extensions and the construction of roads. FOREIGN RELATIONS. Air Yue reviewed China’s foreign relations during the last few years. Natio:ialist China’s foreign policies, he said, were based upon the principles enunciated by the late Dr Sun Yatsen as well as upon the resolutions adopted by the Second and Third Kuomintang National Congresses, and the resolutions of the Central Political Council relating t 0 the. ifrogramme of the National Government during the period of political tutelage—namely, to abolish the unequal treaties and to elevate the international status of China. With respect to Customs duties, nominally China, has exercised tariff autonomy since Ist February, 1929, but tariff automony did not become actually an accomplished fact until 18th November, 1930, after the conclusion of the Sino-Dutch Treaty regulating tariff relations. Air Yue also spoke upon (1) the abolition of concessions and the resumption of leased territories; (2) the making treaties ;.f equality; (3) the doctrine of ex'raterritoriality; ft; the control of iuLuid navigation. iuo<’< particularly a R re,fi-d s foreign ships. He said L».at t.i:i > i iwtjcs eg see ab unequal tr-aties, including Consu’&r p.r7«dicr.o;i, abolis’i-j.i v ithjr a or two. Air Yue left for Fiji, via Auckland, last night. He* hopes shortly to r,eturn to China by way of Auckland and to arrive in time to attend the meeting of Chinese delegates from all parts of the world to a national convention to be held at Nanking to decide upon the date for the promulgation of the Con stitution; also to enact and adopt a provisional constitution to be applicable before the promulgation of the permanent constitution during the political tutelage period.