AFFAIRS IN CHINA.
NATIONALISTS’ PLANS. PROPOSED NEW NAVY. FOREIGN CONTRACTS REVISED. (By Telegrapli—Press Assn. — Copyright.) (Australian Press Association). SHANGHAI, August 18. Nationalist China is planning to build a modern navy, with ships totalling 600,000 tons, within ten years, as part of the .programme of national reconstruction, according to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, in a speech he made at the launching of the first Nationalist gunboat for the Yangtse River service at Shanghai. * Among the resolutions passed’ at the national communications conference at Nanking yesterday were the following:—That the contracts between ■ China and the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, the British Great Northern Telegraph Company and the Danish Company be revised, and that the Japanese Mitsui wireless agreement be annulled; also the abolition of the powerful French radio station in the French concession in Shanghai. It is sought also to allocate th. Boxer indemnity, which was refunded by Britain, to complete the repair of the Chinese railways.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17485, 20 August 1928, Page 7
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