CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE.

[ey teleokaru—run. tress association.]

SHANGHAI HKPORTS. CKeceived this day at 0.30 a.m.) PICKING. .Mnit!i 11. Reports indicate that the Cantonese. > drive to the coast oil a hundred mile front commenced simultaneously with fierce lighting, hut the Cantonese are not achieving the success anticipated, meeting with deadly machine gun and stocks gunfire of the Shangliai-Chihli allied forces entrenched on the Sluing* hai-Nanking railway, which is the objective of the Cantonese. The latter launched and re-launched an offensive simultaneously on several points, hut were out-numbered and repulsed with herfvy losses. Anti-Rod reinforcements vire arriving to strengthen the defence. The present battle, if it is conducted, will decide the fate of Shanghai. The Reds have not yet attacked in foil

Jk strength. Tile majority are still erossing the difficult lake district between ..Hangchow and Nanking. The defence lines have already been pierced by a force, cutting communications, derailing military trains engaged in the maintenance of communication between the defending points. Numbers of troops were captured and were executed immediately. Tn the meantime Cantonese agents at Shanghai are ’.'.aging a deadly • war on the anti-strike leaders. Daily a couple of mill fore-

men and forewomen who refuse to obey T the orders of the general labour union >are murdered, but in one instance the assassins were arrested. The killer confessed that lie was paid ten dollars by the union to slay the forewomen. The matter is reaching a climax. The authorities believe they must take drastic action to protect the workers, otherwise the latter will he compelled to strike to save their lives.