CRISIS IN CHINA
RED ARMIES THREATEN
HANKOW
RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP AND
FINANCE
BRITISH WARSHIPS RUSH TO PROTECT FOREIGNERS
(United Prou Association.—Copyright.) PEKIN, 2nd September. The situation in China is the most critical that has arisen since the revolution of 1911.' The Central Government is threatened •with extermination by ' Bolshevik I Chinese forces. An expedition under Russian leadership threatens to capture Hankow, 600 miles Treat of Shanghai, on the Yahgtsze. Marshal Wu Pei-fu, the defending commander, was wounded in the chest to-day. The tide of the battlt favours the Cantonese. Defence reinforcements are being rushed from the north. Yesterday Wuchang was1 captured, and the "Bed" forces are threatening the city. British warships are rushing marines to the defence of foreign residents in Hankow, and are convoying merchant* ment. They threaten to lire at the first shot from "Bed" force*. Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, controlling Shanghai, is sending reinforcements to assist. ■ There is no doubt that the Banian Soviet is largely financing the whole expedition.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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161CRISIS IN CHINA Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 9
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