CHINESE TROUBLE
[et telegraph—per press association*
CLASH WITH F.S. DESTROYEK
PEKING, March 15,
Chinese soldiers interfered with the Standard Oil Company’s launch near Wti.hu. The I'niled States destroyer I’rebles, intervened and put an armed party aboard. Utter, she was escorting the launch when soldiers fired on tho vessels. The Trebles bridge was
hit twice hut there, were no casual tie. l The Trebles replied with machine gnu:
HEAVY FIGHTING. PEKTNG. March II
There is 1 1 envy fighting in Ihe vicinity. Nationalists launching desperate offensives on a twenty mile front. Thus fnr there are no details how the light is gong.
A CHINESE PUNISHMENT. PEKING. March 15
The acting-Chinesc Commissioner of Customs at Wuhu was dragged through the streets on two successive days with a placard reading:—“He accepted H bribe from the Jardino .Matheson Coy. to release a steamer, whereon woro British refugees.” The mob bent and stoned him.
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Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1927, Page 3
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149CHINESE TROUBLE Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1927, Page 3
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