CHINESE FIGHTING
NANKINGITES AT HANKOW FIERCE FIGHTING ON NORTHWESTERN FRONT. NORTHERNERS & NATIONALISTS [By Cable —Press Assn. — Copyright.] (Received 19, 11.15 a.m.) Shanghai, Nov. 18. Fifty thousand Nankingites are congregated at Hankow. Firing on shipping has ceased. The Chinese authorities expressed a desire to cooperate with the foreigners. Hostilities appear to be ended in the Yangtsze, but on the north-west-ern front are continuing fiercely between Northerners and Nationalists.— (A. and N.Z.) THE CANTON COUP. EXTREMISTS IN CONTROL. (Received 19, 8.5 a.m.) Hong Kong, Nov. 18. Details of the Canton coup show that extremists, known as the “Ironsides,” gained complete control without heavy fighting. The situation is in reality a split of the Kuomingtang Communist element against the moderates. Meanwhile, the former control Canton and the expected increased chaos is the result. —(A. and N.Z.) NINE MILLIONS STARVING. DROUGHT, LOCUSTS AND BANDITARY. (Received 19, 11.15 a.m.) Shanghai, Nov. 18. Nine million inhabitants in Shantung province are starving owing to drought, a visitation of locusts, and civil war and banditary, according to reports of the International Famine Relief Committee.
The crops average 10 per cent, of the usual output. —(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 19 November 1927, Page 5
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189CHINESE FIGHTING Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 19 November 1927, Page 5
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