In China the Nanking Government has taken up the revision
of a " national " tariff, and apPointed a committee to recommend increases together with the abOlition of Li/sin and the reorganization of the national loans. Perhaps it is a result of H.M.'s Minister'S tour that the Nanking GoVernment has established mandates which, in effect, accept its responsibility for punishing the Coinmunists who were guilty of murder and looting in the outrages at-Nanking a- year ago. Chiang Kai-shek con- tinues to prepare his further northward advance, and Li. Chai-Sum, the General who has been in control at Kwantung, has gone to Nanking to 'Meet him. Peking is apparently defaulting in the payment of interest on the Crisp loan, as no funds are available from the Salt Gab*, and the position of the foreign. col3ifector- General of the Posts, which waS''secured by agreement at the Washington Conferefice,is to be underinined unless the protests of the Foreign MinisterS have some effect.
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