BREACH WITH SOVIET
RUSSIANS LEAVE CHINA. FINANCIAL CONSEQUENCES. OF NATIONALISTS’ ACTION. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received 1.25 p.m. to-day. SHANGHAI, Dec. 20. The first shipload of expelled Soviet officers has left Shanghai for Vladivostok. It comprised seventeen Russian families, members of the consular staff. Tiie steamer was escorted by a strong force of settlement police. The route was lined by jeering "white" Russians and thousands of gaping Chinese. _ A serious problem is facing xhe Nationalists Government in the breaking off of relations with the Soviet, the drastic suddenness of which is causing a state akin to panic. Ciiinese merchants trading in Russia are heavily involved financially. The refusal of the Nationalists to exclude the Dal Bank from closure seriously jeopardises numerous foreign traders and virtually suspends the tea business with Russia, which amounted ffo fifty million dollars last year. Already a million dollars worth of tea have been snipped to Russia, for which payments have not been made. Merchants are petitioning the Bureau of Foreign Affairs for relief. The Nationalists’ mandate involves the closing oi twenty-seven Soviet businesses.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 December 1927, Page 9
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177BREACH WITH SOVIET Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 21 December 1927, Page 9
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