Arrival of the Acting IG. in Shanghat 12% Per cent. and Autonomy: Peking's Reported Proposal the Southern Government, the National Tariff Committee, which was proposed in the memorandum submitted by the Deputy Inspector-General of Customs, should consist of delegates of all the governments and should be held elsewhere than'
Mr, A. H. F. Edwardes, acting Inspector-General of Customs, arrived in Shanghai on Saturday morning aboard the D. K. K. S. Dairen Maru and is staying with Mr. C. M, G, Burnie. Mr. Edwardes has come south at the request of the Nationalist Government in Nan king, and with the consent of the Peking Government, to discuss cer tain tatters connected with the Tt is understood that Mr. Edwasdes " began his _diseussions with Mr. T. V. Soong, Minister of mance of the Nanking Government on Monday. The discussions, according to reports in reliable Chinese quarters, will not be limited to the question of the appointment of the substantive Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime Customs, but probably will jnelade all the outstanding problems arising out of the fact that the Customs have to function fas a single organ in the territory of several regional Governments.
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