CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 April 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE.

[by telegraph —PER press association.]

IN THE COMMONS. LONDON. April 7

lii the Commons, asked by Air Keiiwortliy whether lie was satisfied with the force available at Tientsin and Peking, Mr Worthington Evans replied that the Government acre closely watching the situation hut he was unable to make a statement on the subject. A fresh brigade recently ordered to China was at present under orders to go to Hongkong. Air I .ocker l.ampsoii said he had no precise information as to the climbers ol Britishers in Peking. Air Joyiison Hicks announced an agreement was reached lor a new scale of taxicab Ices, namely sixpence for the first two-thirds of a mile and threepence for each additional onethird, with four shillings an hour for

waiting. Mr Worthington Evans .stated the sum required to carry out works at Catteriek migrants training camp was £1,<138,000 sterling, which was sixtytwo per cent above the original estimate. Sir Joynson Hicks in answer to a question said the amount paid to the Exchequer in 1923 in respect to lines under motor car acts of 189 G and 1903 was £119,380 sterling, and the number of persons fined ] 3d,98"). SOVIET TROOPS LONDON, April 7. Soviet despatches received in London report the missing of at least three Russian battalions on the borders of Manchuria and .Mongolia, -Some believe that this is connected with the strained relations between China and the Soviet, hut official circles deprecate an.v alarming interpretations. Official circles particularly 'deprecate the idea that this may portend a Chino-Soviet war. Tt is pointed out that Russia is unlikely to forget that a declaration of war would only recoil on herself, because it would frustrate the Soviets present methods of conducting a world wide Communist campaign. "For example, Britain would lie enabled to intern or depart every Hessian intriguer and agitator, and. presumably every British dominion would take similar action. Well-informed sources regard Ike presence of the Russian troops on the frontier as being rather a threat, with the view of preventing Chang Tso I,in proceeding furlhcr south against the Cantonese troops. RUSSIAN WAR SUPPLIES. LONDON. April 7 'Phe Soviet is despatching Ocncral Lehoder to command the Russian troops on the Manchurian frontier. The Trans-Siberian Railway is now choked with war supplies.