CHINESE WAR

Gisborne Times, Volume LXI, Issue 9853, 5 November 1924, Page 5

CHINESE WAR

WUPEfI'V LEAVES FOR PE.TTSANG FRONT. PEKING, Nov. 5. Wupsifn went to longku early this morning, presumably with the object of hoarding a ship and going south to the Peitsnng front, just northward of Tientsin, which is completely unbroken.—Renter.

INTERNATIONAL TRAIN FIRED ON. NO DAMAGE DONE. (Received Nov. 4 11.15 p.m.) . PEKIN,. Nov. Z. Fongyuhsiang’s representatives domantled that Isaohun hand over all seals. The international tram from liontsm has arrived. It was fired on when passing Fengyuhsiang’s lines, but no damage was done.- —Router.

“FROM BAD TO MORSE.” “The situation in China, which has been going from bad to worse during the past three cr four years, has now assumed a Till me which threatens grave danger to all foreign interests in the country, and may, conceivably, end in o general civil wet. have passed through many serious upheavals in the past, hut at no time—r.ot even in the Boxer Mar of 1900— lias foreign prestige sunk to a loner level nor has there been such a widespread end wilful disregard of foreign rights. From. 1900 to 1920. a period for a good part of which I can speak from personal experience, marked respect was r-aid to foreigners everywhere, and I could almost count on the fingers of one hand the few cases in which snv serious trouble occurred from 1903 to 1920 between the Cbm<c=c people paid . the thousands or British subjects scattered throughout the vr.-t territory of China. Now all is changed, and scarcely a week passes in which some grave incident affecting foreigners is not recorded.”—Sir John Jordan, in the Observe!.