CHINESE TURMOIL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10306, 15 January 1927, Page 7

CHINESE TURMOIL

PEKIN GOVERNMENT’S AMAZING SUGGESTION TIENTSIN CONCESSIONS SHOULD . BE HANDED OVER. (United Press Assn.—Copyright.) SHANGHAI, Jan. 13. •The reports regarding the desire of the Pekin Government to take over tho concessions in Tientsin pi'oved nearer the truth than at first imagined. Representatives of the Pekin Government called at certain legations and suggested that tho foreign concessions in Tientsin should be handed to the Chinese. Tins attitude is not considered surprising as the case of Hankow is considered a precedent which it is apparently certain Chinese intend to follow' elsewhere.

•Students ransacked a Japanese shop at Fokehow and confiscated and burnt a considerable quantity or goods.—A. and N.Z.C.A.

NEW CHINESE CUSTOM TARIFF SURTAXES FROM FEBRUARY 2. PROTEST BY JAPAN. PEKING, Jan. 13. The mandates issued impose a 2Jper cent, surtax oil ordinary goods, with a further 5 per cent, on luxuries from February 2. They declare a tariff autonomy, and instruct the Foreign Office to urge the Powers to reopen the tariff conference apparently in order to regularise these taxes. Another mandate declares that the revenue from surtaxes is to be used for the abolition of the Likin (provincial transit duty in China), the readjustment of the Sino-foreign loans, and for constructive and administrative purposes. TOKIO, Jan. 13. It is learned that the Foreign Office decided to instruct Mr Yoshizawa to lodge a protest with the Chinese authorities against the proclamation of their intention to impose surtaxes, it is unlikely that Japan will resort to force unless China attempts to collect the taxes at Tsingtao and Dairen forcibly. It is considered the Chinese declaration is intended more for the facilitation of a domestic • loan issue than for the actual collection of the proposed taxes.—A.N .Z.C.A.

TROUBLE AT SHANGHAI CUSTOMS. SHANGHAI, Jan. 12. Customs transit passes for foreign goods have been refused recognition. PRESS MESSAGES ALTERED IN HANKOW. WRONG IMPRESSIONS GIVEN TO - PUBLIC. (Received Jan. 14, 11.5 p.m.) PEKING, Jan. 13. A wireless from Hankow asserts that press telegrams are being altered before transmission from Hankow by the local authorities to convey a totally wrong impression. The message adds that the situation remains quiet. Nearly all the employees of the cotton mills at which the riot occurred have resumed work. —A.N.Z.C. A.

BRITISH COMMANDS IN CHINA

(Received Jan. 14, 10.15 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 14

An Army Order states that the China Command is organised as two separate commands, South China with headquarters at Hongkong, and North China - with headquarters at Tientsin. —A.N.Z.C.A.