TROUBLE IN CHINA

Hokitika Guardian, 14 September 1926, Page 3

TROUBLE IN CHINA

[Aufltralia & N.Z. Cable Association.] - THE CANTON ARMY. 'LONDON, Sept. 12. Mr Percivnl Phillips, writing in the “Daily Mail,” says; “Bolshevist Russia' is behind the anti-British movement in China. Tho new crisis is one threatening the British position in the Yangiso River valley. It is tho logical development of a Russian-controlled campaign. which was inaugurated at Canton in December, for a boycott of Hongkong, and for tho exclusion of British goods. Jacob Borodin, a Lettish Jew, was sent by the Soviet to Bolslievi/.o South China. He has personally supervised the boycott. Ho has distributed funds for tho creation and the equipment of the Red Army, controlled by a big military staff. Other Red armies were organised in North Chinn. Russia intended to move the Red Canton Army northward to Hankow, and eventually it was to junction with the other Reds. Experts point out that the Chinese equipment includes many of the Soviet’s latest all-steel aeroplanes. Tt is asserted that never previously hive Chinese troops been so admirably disciplined and organised.”

.BRITISH ATTACK NOT LIKELY. LONDON, Sept. 12. Tho “Daily News” says: “R can definitely bo stated that Britain v. ill employ force only in the last resort in connection with tho AVanhsein incident on the Yangtse River, especially in view of the position of the British people who are resident in the interior of China. There (are six hundred British people in tho province of Szechwan, to which tho Yangtse Hirer ' s the high road of safety. Hostilities against Yang Sen’s forces might clear the wav for their escape, but more probably it would increase their clangor.

OPPONENTS RETREAT FURTHER. PEKING, Sept. 13. Ohusa Rang has ordered the Kiangse armies retreat to the Hunan border, stating that they are not ready to oppose the Southerners. Tt will take a month before they are sufficiently strong.