Position of Mr. Berube Made Untenable Tientsin, July 13.
It is learned on good authority that, owing to repeated threats and Foreign reports from Honan give lurid picture of misgovernment land unbearable taxation with the occupation and looting of mission property there. These reports cite, as examples, that cotton in transit taxed $63 per bale at Chengchow while such exports ax come from western Honan pay over $2,000 for 'a 20-ton truck via the Lung-Hai railway to Hsuchow.
The Chinese here affirm that the July 18.
It is now stated that General Yen Hsi-shan will not proceed to Taiyuan fu before going to Nanking. He iM attend the fifth plenary session of the Kuomintang and afterwards will go Shansi—Reuter.
News has been received from Canton by the vernacular press the Kuangt Kuangsi coercive measures, Mr. Berube, the [exhaustion his domains prompted military authorities are no longer Salt Inspector at' Chefoo, volun. General Feng Vu-hsiang to contem- recruiting troops. tarily evacuated his official resid- late a coup @état here, which, howence on June 9, For ten days the ever, he abandoned because of the liminary proposals by General situation had been untenable in [obvious solidarity of Chiang Kai- Chiang Kai-shek and are awaiting and the shouting view of the fact that his telephone 's league with General Yen|a reply from Mukden.
put out of commission and his Hsi-shan and General Li Chung-'There are at least two difficult Ihouse picketed by pi -clothes-men, Jen, the favourable progress of the questions to be surmounted; firstly,) He counselled ce-operation between while he was receiving threats of latter's Fengtien negotiations and whether the present leaders shall be levietion by armed force. the conviction that a coup woul ld|allowed to remain in control of bring Japanese intervention.
Manchuria or whether Kuomintang It appears that Mr. Chang Yen-[yn claims that he has been appoint-'Two Knotty Points with Fengtien nominees shall replace them; and, secondly, the return of the rolling-fed Salt Inspector by the Ministry Peking, July 17. stock which was commandeered in of Finance, but he possesses 10 roof of thi Contrary to the report issued wholesale fashion when the Fengtien] ese Merchants' Club at which over Mr. Berube, though locked out, from Nanking yesterday thet th holds in his custody, on behalf of for Mukden, the latter are el here Marshal Chang peace delegates had left this armies retreated to Manchuria. In tion it is reported that Chang Heueh-liang is the chief inspectors of the Salt this afternoon. Tt is understood willing to return half, but General Gabelle and group banks, assets|that they have referred to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is demanding the totalling $400,000—Reuter, Chang Houeb-liang certain pre-! return of all of it—Reuter. victorious advent has been completely ignored and that they are Jeut off from the Legation Quarter by an icy barrier of indifference They protest that they expected a warn entente as the result of reunification on an anti-Red basis and seem surprised that the unsettled Nanking question and the continuea abuse of foreign property and the feontinued anti-foreign propaganda should be considered obstacles to the warmest relations.
When the influx of Bolshevik agents and the decoration of the palace in imitation of the Krem: in were cited as obstacles to the fullest confidence in Nationalist goodwill, the highest political adviser te Chiang Kai-shek and Li Chung-je> expressed surprise that the foreignfers should be so sensitive about such superficialities when they ought to know that the propaganda was only permitted because the suppression thereof would deprive thousands of Kuomintang workers of employment,
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