UNHAPPY CHINA.
NINE MILLIONS STARVING. (by cable—press association—copyright.) (australian and n-z- cable association.) SHANGHAI, November 18. Nine million of the inhabitants of Shantung Province are starving owing to drought, a visitation of locusts, and civil war bandits. According to the reports of the International Famine Relief Committee the crops average ten per cent, of usual output. Fifty thousand " of the Nanking Army are congregated at Hankow. Firing on shipping has ceased. The Chinese authorities have expressed a desire to co-operate with the foreigners. Hostilities appear to have ended on the Yangtse, but on the north-western front are continuing fiercely between the Northerners and Nationalists. ,« - TROUBLE IN CANTON. (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. AND SUN CABLE.) HONG-KONG, November 18. Details of a coup at Canton show that the extremists known as the Ironsides took complete control, without heavy fighting. The situation in reality is a split in the Kuomintang, the Communist element against the Moderates. Meanwhile, Communist control of Canton is expected to result in increased chaos.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19163, 21 November 1927, Page 9
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