CHINA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16466, 19 June 1919, Page 6

CHINA.

GOVERNMENT IN DIFFICULTIES. NO APPARENT WAY OUT. By Telegraph—Press A&Sii. —Copyright. LONDON, June 10. , The Times Peking correspondent says that the Chinese Government is reduced to extreme financial straits. Tlie northern army, which is largelycomposed of professional brigands, in-* sistcntly demands money,,under threat of a mutiny. Supplies from Japan have ceased, and frantic schemes are afoot for raising the wind, including an internal loan and a high land. tax. Meanwhile the Shantung commotion intensifies, and the boycott of the Japanese is extending. The whole outlook for China is exceedingly complex and unsolvable internally! The alternative to a general collapse, failing armed intervention, is the collective preventive action of foreign Powers.—United Service. ANTI-JAPANESE AGITATION. LONDON, June 18. Dispatches from Tokio say that the anti-Japanese agitation is spreading in Shanghai, Canton, Hangkow, and Nanking. Japanese warships have hurried to Shanghai.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.