The following items from the Chinese press deal with the Nationist threat to introduce tariff autonomy on September 1. As ale ready reported, considerable space is being devoted in the Chinese papers to this matter and, though the merchants as a whole are non-committal,
siid to-be favouring the"scheme. most of the merchant-paliticans arg Ching. Tien-koo, Director-Genera} of the: Nationalist, Customs! Service, was guest at a reception|- held at the Chinese Chamber of 'Commerce on Tuesday afternoon and he made a lengthy speech, in the] course of which he said' that forefignors, since assuming control of the Customs, had benefited to the, extent of' Tls. 4,364,570,000. 'The Customs, he said, had tied China down for many years but now the Nationalists were going to release the Chinese people from bondage by declaring autonomy, so' he hope would support the Government in its military and civil officials of the Nanking "government" complaining that they have not received their newspaper. for the past week.
is tends to support information we have received that had. the Postal Commis-joner here ignored the "order," which was sent in the absence of Chiang Kaishek at Pengpu, nothing more would have been heard of it. had been proclaimed. This ig what we. merchants shave been praying for-day and night.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.