CHINESE TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1928, Page 2

CHINESE TROUBLE

Australian Press Assn.—United Service NANKING SETTL EArENT. NATIONALISTS BUSY. LONDON. Aug. 22. As the result of a satisfactory settlement of the Nanking incident of Afarch, 1927. Air Hewitt, British Consul, is proceeding to Nanking to take up residence ashore for the first time in seventeen months; British consular duties at Nanking since the incident liavng been carried out aboard a warship anchored at the Nanking waterfront.

It is reported that Germany is transferring her Embassy from Pekin to Nanking. She is the first western nation thus to recognise the Nationalists.

There appears to ho a scramble among the nations to secure . the special trade concessions promised by the Nationalists to nations quickly revising treaties on the basis of equality. Following closely on the heels of the conclusion of the new Si no-German Commercial Treaty, pledging equality of customs treatment, it is reported that the Belgian Charge D'Affairs made a special journey to Nanking to discuss treaty revision with the Nationalist Alinistry of Foreign Affairs, and America has already concluded a new treaty. Portugal and Britain have expressed willingness, Italy and Japan being alone adamant. REBELS ACTIVE IN AfANOHURIA. TOKYO, Aug. 22. Despite an official Chinese statement that the rebellion in the Hulumpuir district, north-east Alanchuria, has" boon crushed, the Japanese press and official advices indicate that the rebels are still active, while representatives of Changsucliliang at Hailar are attempting to arrange a settlement on the basis of granting Hulumpuir (sometimes called Hulumbnil) autonomy.

The Foreign Office at Tokyo explains that Japan’s declarations of special interest in Alanchuria and eastern Alongolia. do not include the Hulumpuir area, which is remote from the Japanese sphere. * An unconfirmed Harbin despatch says that Chinese secret police arrested a Russian agitator styling himself as Levin, who is believed to Ik? a former Chinese Nationalist agitator, named Michael Borodin. He arrived at Harbin from Harbarovsk.