CHINA.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1919, Page 5

CHINA.

A GRAVE OUTLOOK.

EXTREME FINANaAL.sSTRAITS:,

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received June IS, 55 p.m.

London, June 10. The Times Peking correspondent says that the Chinese Government is reduced to extreme financial straits. The northern army, which is largely composed of professional brigands, insistently demands money, under threat of a mutiny. Supplies from Japan have ceased, and frantio schemes are afoot for raising the wind, including an internal loan and a high land tax. Meanwhile the Shantung commltion intensifies, and the boycott of the Japanese is extending. The whole outlook for China is exceedingly complex and unsolvable in-. ternally. The alternative to a general collapse, failing armed intervention, is the collective preventive action of foreign Powers.—United Service.

ANTI-JAPANESE AGITATION. Received June 19, 1.30 a.m. London, June 18. Dispatches from Tokio say that the anti-Japanese agitation is spreading in Shanghai, Canton, Hangkow, and Nanking. Japanese warships have hurried to Shanghai.—Aus-N.Z. Cable Assn. | AUSTRIA.A OOUP D'ETAT FOILED, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Copenhagen, June 15. Communists in Vienna attempted a coup d'etat. A huge crowd assembled to storm the prison and release political prisoners, but the Government troops and mounted police opened fire and the crowd fled panic-stricken, many being killed or wounded.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. UNREST PREVALENT. Received June 19, 1.30 a.m. Vienna, June Id 1 . Unrest prevails in face of the approaching crisis. Communists threaten a great demonstration. Troops are held in readiness. The feeling between the Socialists and Communists is acute and open strife is expected every moment—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.