SHANGHAI SHAKEN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 5

SHANGHAI SHAKEN

BIG SOVIET PLOT. COMMUNISTS ATTACK MILLS. INDUSTRIAL PARALYSIS EXPECTED. (By Cable — Press Assn. — Copyright.! (.Receive 26, 8.55 a.m.) Shanghai Nov. 25 Chinese Communists launched a widespread attack on local mills and indulged in picketing. There have ba*n several cases of murdering loyal workers who insisted on working. There is irrefutable evidence that the plot was inspired by the local Soviet Consulate. Those arrested admit that they were promised cash rewards of 100 dollars for each mill they succeeded in closing. The settlement authorities anticipate a recurrence of the industrial paralysis of 1925. Already 20,000 arc idle. Wholesale arrests were carried out and the majority were found in possession of modern firearms and plentifully supplied with ammunition. These disclosures, coupled with a report of 50 Soviet soldiers in route to Shanghai to guard the Soviet Consulate as a result of a recent White Russian attack, prompted the nonRussian foreigners to appeal to the authorities to expel the Soviet Consular staff from the settlement, declaring it was a menace to peace and good order. The Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Nationalist Government has issued a manifesto announcing the abrogation of all Sino-Foreign treaties on their expiration. They will be renewable only with the Nationalist Government.—(A. and N.Z.)