NEW CHINA

Hokitika Guardian, 21 August 1928, Page 1

NEW CHINA

programme of., reforms. Australian Press Assn.—United Service SHANGHAI, Aug. 18. Nationalist China plans to build a modern navy aggregating six hundred ihousand tons within ten years as part of the programme of national reconstruction, according to Marshal Cliiangkaishek, m a speech at the launching of the first Nationalist gunboat for the Yangtsze River sef-1 vices here. The present Chinese Navy consists of forty thousand tons of obsolete shipping. Marshal Chiang said; "We want to recover our national rights and privileges. We must first build a very

large naval force, in order to elevate China to the rank of the leading nation of tho world.” Among the resolutions passed at a National Communications Conference held at Nanking yesterday, were as follows • That the contracts between China and. the Eastern Extension Telegraph Coy, the British Great Northern Telegraph Coy., and the Danish Telegraph Coy. he revised ; that the Japanese Mitsui Wireless agreement be annulled; that the powerful French Radio station at the French Concession is abolished. J It is sought also to allocate British boxer indemnity refund to the complete repair of the Chinese railways. JAPAN’S GRIP. SHANGHAI, Aug. 18. An Economic War agaiust Japai(

is advocated, it is likely to eventuate ’ in the .Mancha region for the purpose of weakening Nippon's position there--1 in. ' | To-day’s dispatches from Mukden reveal that every provincial guild and trade assembly is combined to support the ant i-Japanese movement. Anti-Japanese sentiment is rapidly intensifying, principally due to a widespread belief that Japan instigated the assassination of Changtso- ■ r. lin. Tiie Japanese threatened to intervene in the event of Mukden hoisting the Nationalist flag. This resulted in a postponement of the hoisting for three months. Economic warfare is now voted the best means of ousting Japan from Manchuria and of unifying both north and south China under one fiH*