NEARLY HALF CHINA’S REVENUE TO BE USED FOR UPKEEP OF ARMY

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6810, 14 January 1929, Page 7

NEARLY HALF CHINA’S REVENUE TO BE USED FOR UPKEEP OF ARMY

Militaristic Outlook REGIONAL CONTROL BY WAR LORDS ABOLISHED CENSUS CALLED FOR United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. Received Sunday 7.0 p.m. SHANGHAI, Jan. 12. That Nationalist China intends to become a militaristic power is demonstrated in a statement isued by Mr Soong, Finance Minister, that henceforth 41 per cent of the nation’s revenue w'ill be devoted to the upkeep of the army. At a conference of all prominent militarists throughout the country, now being concluded at Nanking under the chairmanship of Chiang Kai Shek, the future policy was defined. The regional control which was held to be responsible for internal trouble in the past has now been abolished and will be substituted by stationing a division in defined areas which will bo controlled by the central authority at Nanking. The conference is calling for a census of China’s military strength, covering the most remote regions. Bloodthirsty Reprisals of Manchurian Dictator ABLE OFFICERS EXECUTED. FOREIGN RESIDENTS HORRIFIED BY ACT. Received Sunday 7.0 p.m. MUKDEN, Jan. 12. Tho dictator, Chang Hsuch Liang’s High-handed action in summarily executing Yang Yu Ting and Chang Yin Huai, leaders of tho Mukden military staffs, on the ground of suspected plotting against the government, has shocked foreigners in this part of China, the majority of whom regarded Yang Yu Ting as the principal cause of Manchurian prosperity and security and the backbone of the late Chang Tso Lin’s regime. Furthermore, the dictator’s action is utterly inconsistent with the western upbringing generally attributed to him.. The consensus of foreign opinion is that his action illustrates the impossibility of foreigners surrendering their oxtra-territorial rights and submitting to Chinese jurisdiction.