Peking, May 7.
Mr. Chu Ao-hsiang, Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Northern Coal statement to-day in with the Customs revenue at Tientsin, There was, he declared, "new money" at stake, namely the extra amount coming in as the result of the enforcement of the national tariff, which Mr. T. V. Soong had found useful to pay troops and buy explosives. If Mr. Soong had secured his own loans on this tariff, was his look-out, Mr. Chu Ao-hsiang went on to say that General Yen Hsi-shan had determined upon the drastic action of appropriating the "additional" revenues, after a reasonable delay, in order to prevent these sums going to the Nanking leaders.
Steps. ha been taken, he continued, to convey a last warning to the Commissioner of Customs, If the warning failed, the matter would be settled by other means, Mr. Chu Ao-hsiang declared that the location of the Customs house in the French Concession should not be @ cause of difficulty, but he did not think that matters would come to pass necessitating police action.
Tu conclusion Mr. Chu Ao-hi that he had. received torical assurances that none of Legations proposed to intervene in 'a matter that strictly concerned only China.—Reuter,
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