FUTURE OF CHINA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14987, 14 August 1919, Page 6

FUTURE OF CHINA.

WANTS TO SHAKE OFF JAPANESE

INFLUENCE,

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lUnlted Service.) (Received August 14, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, August 13. A Shanghai message states that Kungsin Chang,, acting-Premier and Minister of Finance, in an interview advocated international financial aid for China, in place of exclusive Japanese assistance on which China haß relied recently. China's refusal to sign the Peace Treaty is evidence of her determination no longer to allow Japan disproportionate concessions.

He is optimistic that Northland South China will be a reunited people. They already are united in sentiment. Constitutional, difficulties alone remained. Wealth and industry were progressive, despite internal disturbances, and China had (ample S ecuri)ty for all' developmental loans.

He wag confident that China eventually would shake off the excessive Japanese influence. Forty per cent, of the Chinese revenue was spent for military purposes, and Japan last year loaned twenty-four million sterling to the Centra ilGovernment militarist leaders, and the result was a maintenance of civil war and the creation of local militarv tyrannies. J

Chinese militarists had been cloeely associated with Japan or under Japanese control, but in recent months the militarists influence had notably weakened The interview i a significant in view of i™? 81 " C" 8 - 11 ? being a member of the political group which supported the militarists.