The Archive · 1927

Apparent Breach of Pledges

Peking, Sept. 9, Foreign officials are surprised the report that the law on the abolition of transit dues and the tariff law are operative in Kuangtung and Kuangsi in view of the very definite pledges of the Nation allot Government. that the impos tion of the mew duties would be Postponed everywhere.—Reuter 'THe "Central China Post" is informed that the China Merchants }Steam Navigation Company shortly will resume fall sailings the Nationalist Government' have {turned all the ships they have been keeping for #0 long."

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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