CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE.

[llY TEI.EGRAPH —TER TRESS ASSOCIATION

A CHINESE TIMAI

(Received this day at 10.16 a.niA SHANGHAI. February b 1

An amazin'! trial tliut could onl_> .J happen in China is transpirin'! in Wuchang city, which was besieged fni forty days in October. Anti-Red Con orals responsible for the* resistance, arc being charged with defending the city against the Cantonese army. The .Judges are fourteen Nationalist appointees, and include women from the women’s political party, and assorted union delegates. The prosecutor an linn need lie was representing Ihe people of Wuchang who were forced to suffer by the military resistance. They > starved, ate animals and trees and Minnies and homes were* burnt-. Ollier charges are lighting revolutionaries; secondly, killing members of the people’s army; thirdly, opposing tile revolution. During the cross-examination of the

general, strenuous attempts were inadi to obtain an admission that British gunboats assisted the anti-Rods, bu; Hie defendants denied this. The concensus of opinion is that the death penalty will follow and that the trial imerely a formality. JAPAN’S DECISION. TOKYO, February 16. It is understood that Cabinet lias decided to reply to America accepting the proposal for the disarmament conference, subject to imperial sanction. Replying to interpellations in the Upper House, the Premier stated the decision to participate in the proposed conference did not warrant a postponement of the naval hill as it was impossible to foretell the result of the conference.