NATIONALIST CHINA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 January 1929, Page 5

NATIONALIST CHINA.

HAS MILITARY AMBITIONS. ATTENTION IN GOVERNMENT. (Australian Press Association —United Service.) SHANGHAI, Jan. 12. That Nationalist ‘China intends to become a militaristic Power is demonstrated in a statement issued) by the Finance Minister. Henceforth 41 per cent, of the nation’s revenue will he devoted to the upkeep of the army. At a conference of all the prominent militarists of the country now. being concluded, at Nanking under tire chairmanship of General! Chiiang Kwei Shek, the future policy was defined 1 . Regional control was held responsible for internal troubles in the past, and is now abolished. It will 'be substituted by the stationing in defined areas of a division which wiill be ireisponsible for the peace in the area. The division will be controlled by the central authority at Nanking. • The conference is calling i\. senses of China’s military strength covering Hie most remote regions.

SUMMARY EXECUTION. MANCHURIAN DICTATOR’S HIGHHANDED ACTION. MUKDEN. Jam. 12. The high-handed action of the dictator of Manchuria, General Chang Hsueli Liang, in summarily executing, Yang Yu. Ting and Chang Yin Huai, leaders of the Mukden military staff, on grounds of suspected plotting against the Government, ha® shocked foreigners in this part of China, The majority of the foreigners regarded Yang Tu Ting as the principle cause of Manchurian prosperity and security, and the backbone of the late Marshal Chang Tso Lin’s regime. Furthermore. the dictator’s! action is utterly inconsistent with the western upbringing generally attributed toi him. The consensus of foreign opinion is that the nothin illustrates the impossibility of foreigners’ i slur rendering extra 'territorial t rights and submitting to Chinese juris'diction.