NATIONALIST CHINA
HIGH STATUS IN VIEW
MODERN NAVY NEEDED.
REVISION OP CABLE CONTRACTS,
(Australian Press Association.) (Received 10 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 18.
Nationalist China plans to build a modern navy, aggregating 600,000. tons, 'within 10 years, us part of the programme of national reconstruction, according to Chiang Kai-shek, in a speech at the launching here of the first Nationalist gunboat for Yangtszc River service. The present navy consists of 40,000 tons of obsolete shipping.
Chiang Kai-shek said: “Wo want to recover our national rights and privileges. We must first build a very large naval force, in order to elevate-; China to the rank of loading nations of the world.
Among resolutions passed at the Na-, tional Communications Conference at Nanking yesterday was one that the contracts with the China Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, the British Great Northern Telegraph' Company and the Danish Company bore Vised, also that the Japanese-Misui w'ireless agreement be annulled, and that the' powerful French radio station at the French concession at Shanghai bo abolished.
' It is sought also to allocate the British Boxer indemnity refund tO “ complete repairs to the Chinese railways,
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Northern Advocate, 20 August 1928, Page 5
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