London, Dec, 31.
Replying to New Year greetings from General Chiang ok, His Majesty the King cabled:- With much pleasure I receiv-your kind message of New Year greetings on behalf of the National Government and peop!
of the Republic of China and I sincerely reciprocate your good A Tsinorao telegram to the "Sinwanpao" says that merchants there threaten to declare a general strike if the proposed increase of stamp tax is not cancelled by the Local Chinese authorities.
Paton to his departure for Nanking on New Year's Eve, Mr. M. Shigemitsu, the local Consul-General, denied that the Japanese Government had threatened to take reprisals against China if the National Government insisted on opposing the appointment of Mr. T, Obata as Japanese Minister to China.
Posters bearing the following slogans, and purporting to emanate from the Ist District Kuomintang, were found posted in the vicinity of the Great South-Gate, City, on the afternoon of January 2:—Support the Cancellation of Ext territoriality, Abolish all uneqt treaties, Overthrow Iniperialism of any description, Adopt the National Calendar (the solar system), Support, the Kuomintang.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.