CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE.

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CHINESE MURDER CAMPAIGN. PEKING, March 13. The Nationalist’ terrorist campaign in Shanghai resulted in three more murders during the neck-end, including the wife of a former chief of stuff of the northern army, whom a servant shot dead in her own house. CHINESE NAVY REBELS. PEKING, .March 12. The Chinese navy in the vicinity of Shanghai has declared its independence. The re lie I navy which totals 22 ships left to titke up positions in the river to support the .southerners. CHINESE REPORT. (Received this day at 8 a.rn.' SHANGHAI, March 12. Anticipated demonstrations in connection with the anniversary celebrations of the death of Sun Ynt. Sen’s father resulted in special precautions being taken, hut rain damped the nidour. and the day was market by few incidents. The .expected general strike failed to materialise.

Five hundred armed Shantuiigese attempted to enter the International Settlement, but were frustrated by British Guards. Two hundred British troops were ready for action and were rushed up. The Shatungese, realising the futility of attempting to force a passage, retired. In the French section a dispute took place between extreme and moderate sections of the Kuomintang. Shots were fired and two were wounded. The French police intervened and restored order. Kuomintang’s were busy distributing handbills and inciting the populace against foreigners, collected in huge crowds, which the police with difficulty dispersed.

BRITISH TACTICS. {■Received this day at S 0.m.) SHANGHAI, March I,‘i. There is a threat of the British de- - fence force extending the lines round the international settlements ai:d strengthening the forces nearest the Chinese battle area in anticipation of a climax in the present tense position between the contending armies. ALB NIGHT BATTLE. LONDON. March 13. Messages from Kuifong state that the Changtsolin forces took part in an all-night battle in a heavy snowstorm against semi-independent Honan troops at Hanehuang. between Kaifcng and Chengchow. C'hangtsolin’s men materially advanced, holding the railway station at Chungmowhsien. Further progress is likely to he checked by the delay of the arrival of reinforcements from Mukden, where the greatest of snowstorms of forty years is interrupting communications. FIGHTING RESUMES. SHANGHAI, March 13. The lull of the last few days on the Kiangsu fronts has broken and lighting has been resumed east of Taihti Lake, between Fingwang and Wukiang. Seventy armed men in mufti appeared on the Shanghai-Nanking railway, five miles from the settlement and intimidated the permanent way coolies into removing two lengths of rails. A passenger train from Nanking was derailed but there were no casualties.