Convicted of Instigating a Foreign Menace to Star Nanking, Apr. 5.
General Chin Shu-jen, former Governor of Sinkiang. was sentenced today by the Nanking District Court ment. to three and a half years' imprison-
He was found guilty of instigating a foreign menace towards the State that he concluded 2 provisional \greement between Soviet Russia and the Sinkiang Provincial Government without the approval of the Central authorities.
General Chin was acquited of three other charges, one of embezzling public funds, another of murder and arson and the third robbery.
Tt is understood that he will appeal to the Supreme Court—Reuter. was no question, he said, of China's, autonomy in tariff matters; it was merely a "question of whether China's own" interests" would. be served best by a general tariff increase at the present moment. He thought the obvious answer should be an emphatic negative—United Press.
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