CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 August 1927, Page 2

CHINESE TROUBLE.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

AFFAIRS IN CHINA. SHANGHAI*. Aug. 10. Thirty-two hundred eases of dynamite were seized hv Nationalist soldiers on a small Chinese steamer, anchored at Woosuug, at the mouth of the Shanghai River, thus frustrating what is believed to be an attempt to blow up the Woosuug Forts. Eight of the crew were arrested. Reports have been received of the capture of Pengpu by the Northerners, who are pressing on Pukow, which is the Yangtze term Ants of (Tientsin. Pukow is the railway connecting, link with the Nanking-Shanghai railway. The Nationalists are removing all munitions and military supplies front Pukow to Nanking, where there is a growing restlessness in civil and military circles, at tlie approach of the northerners. Thousands of wounded have returned to Pukow .from the front, testifying to the heavy nature of the fighting.

NATIONALISTS’ TAX. SHANGHAI, Aug. 10

Japanese mill owners are alarmed at the Nationalists’ contemplated tax of 12 per cent, on manufactured goods, enforcahle in Septenilier, to find revenue estimated at fourteen million dollars.

A protest meeting decided to send Funntsu, director-general of the Japanese Cotton Mills Owners’ Association, to Japan, to confer with the Government mill owners, to state that in the event of the Chinese authorities insisting on the tax, tliev will suspend work on bloc, idling CO.OOO Chinese labourers.