CHIANG KAI-SHEK IS PRESIDENT OF CHINESE REPUBLIC

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18585, 10 October 1928, Page 9

CHIANG KAI-SHEK IS PRESIDENT OF CHINESE REPUBLIC

MILITARY LEADER ELECTED TO EXECUTIVE OFFICE. (United Press Assn.-—By Electric Telesi-aph.—Copyright.) (Received October 10, 10.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, pctober 9. Nanking officially announces the election Of General Kai-shek, Commander * in- - of the Nationalist military forces, as President of the Nationalist Government for the Republic of China, vith Tan Yan-kai, luhan Min, Wang 'hing-hui. Taichi TaO, Tsai Yuatl-pei as Cabinet mem bers. The title of President is used in the official Kuomintang News Agency despatch, although General Chiang Kaishek was previously reported to have been elected “ Chairman of the Government Council.”—Australian Press Association.

CHINESE CELEBRATE OUTBREAK OF REVOLT

SHANGHAI WHITE OFFICIALS PERTURBED

(Received October 10, 11.35 a.in.) SHANGHAI. October 9

Shanghai is the largest city in China and the sixth in the world, according to the census which has been completed bv the Bureau for Public Safety. The Census shows that Shanghai has a total population of 5J,725;940, of which 47.70 S are foreigners. The population Of the International Settlement is 827,000 Chinese and 28,000 foreigners. In the French concession there are 348,076 Chinese and 10,377 foreigners. The remaining population resides in the territory controlled by :he Chinese, and includes 9583 foreign ers. principally Russians and Japanese Strict precautions have been enforced within the foreign concessions owing to to-morrow’s celebration of the outbreak of the revolution in 1911. British troops are confined to barracks, and police street patrols h&ve been doubled, with orders speedily to arrest antiToreign agitators. The whole of Shanghai within Arid without the concessions blazes with the red of hundreds of thousands of Nation alist flags which are displayed. An elaborate programme has been planned by the Chinese populace, which is ex expected to be given free play to ait its feelings by the native authorities ift order to emphasise the success of the Nationalist move&ienfc.

The authorities in the foreign cofices sions are perturbed in view of another crime wave, which is at its height now.*-- Australian Press AssociationUnited Service.