CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE.

[r.Y TELEURAPn—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NORTHER,NEILS SUCCESS. (Deceived this tiny :it 9.30 a. ill.) LONDON. April 10. A wireless from C'hinkiang reports a Nationalist expedition up tlu- Grand (himil met with ;i serious reverse ;it the hands of reorganised reiniU'uts nl •Suchunnfung’s army, wliicli recently evacuated Shanghai. 'I his army is steadily driving hack the Southerners tow/.irds the river and reached Yangchow at. the confluence of Yangtxe and Orand Canal. One hundred Nationalists were wounded and are being brought to Ohinkiang where Nationalist Mags are henig hauled down, pro paratory to departure. Two other Northerners victories are reported. 1 he Southern troops advancing -dong Zent-sin-l’eekow line acre driven hack towards Kengyang. Southerners also suffered defeat on the ninth hank of the Yangtse opposite Kialigyin. Heavy lighting continues in the irons mentioned. The evacuation of foreigners from ports Fbovc Hankow is completed and the Yangtse is nearly empty of foreigners. The Japanese garrison at Mukden lias guaranteed the protection of all foreigners. Americans at Yanglumg hue been officially ordered to evacuate and proceed to Hongkong. The presentation of the Powers joint note regarding Nanking outrages has been held up due to Japan's reluctance to participate in an economic blockade and military occupation of Chin.l. The search of Peking Soviet Embassy resulted in the discovery ol turther proof and anti-Hritish and ninja pa nose propaganda. CHINESE 11 A PPKXI NOS. (Received this day at 11.0 a.m.) SHANGHAI, April 10. It is reported from Hankow that Eugene Chen lias requested the Japanese Consul General to transmit to Tokyo, an offer that the Nationalist Government agree not to interfere with the Japanese concession tit Hankow, not to demand its retrocession and imincdatcly suppress all anti-Japanese agitation in China, provided Japan agree not to join Britain and America in an ultmntuin. A wireless from Hankow states the Nationalist troops at Wuchang declared allegiance to Chiangkaishek. ft is reported the Nationalist capital will shortly he removed to Nanking.

A wireless from Chekiang reports the .southern forces have reached three points on the north hank of the Yangtsze, opposite Cliinkiang. Nationalists are falling hack from Cliinkiang along the railway to Chongchow and Nan king. There are also signs nf the Nationalists withdrawing from Pukow. Many junkfuls of soldiers have departed. Diplomatic relations between Moscow and Peking tire broken off according to Soviet and Japtme.se reports, as the outcome of the Embassy raid. SIR A. GEODES’ VIEWS. LONDON. April 10. Sir Auckland Gcddes, speaking at Ashford, declared Americanised Chinese were partly responsible for the trouble in China. China was full of young Chinese who had visited America and “had absorbed American shibbloIctlis about British imperialism. They been mo leaders of the anti-British movement, and aimed at getting .something that never belonged to them, which their race had never created, namely, European cities. It was into such Government infl»euee that the Soviet came. OFFICIAL NEWS. LONDON, April 10. '1 lie Foreign Office has received confirmation that the Cantonese have been driven out of Cliinkiang. an important strategic point, by Northerners, commanded by Suneliuanfang, ex-Gov-ernor of Shanghai. who it was thought had been retired from military and public life. Other official news shows that Borodin on return from Hankow, delivered violent anti-foreign speeches. Tlie diplomatic body in Peking informed Changtsolin that they expect a proper trial of those arrested on Soviet premises.

Tbe five powers’ identical notes relating to the natonals will lie .simultaneously published throughout the world, when they are handed over to tlie Cantonese. The Notes do not contain threats, sanctions or time limit. CHINESE ACKNOWLEDGING. SHANGHAI. April 10.

General Ho Yingyen, commander of the first National irmv, and director general of operations on the eastern front, has issued an order to Nationalists troops in which he admits Nationalists were responsible for the Nanking outrages and says in view ot too fact that the incidents at Nanking were caused through ignorance of certain friendly troops, who attempted to seize the property of foreigners rind the subsequent illegal bombardment tr British and American gunboats. all members of tlie Nationalists army are ordered to refrain from firing on foreigners, seizing foreign property, (, r in any vmy repeating the Nanking incident. The statement continues:— “Nationalists are waging war against Imperialism not against foreigners. AVe will deal with Chinese Imperialism first and then foreign Imperialism but wo want to avoid international complications.”