CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE.

[BY TELKGHArIl —I’KH I*ll ESS ASSOCIATION'.] CIIIXF.SK FIG lITI NO. . [Received this day at 8..‘10 a.m.' SHANGHAI, April 12. A serious situation is developin'; as a result of an open break between the Hankow Government and (liiang Kaishek, ('hiang descended with a force of ten thousand troops and distributee! them in the native areas, determined to exterminate armed labourers, who constitute a grave menace to the peace of Shanghai, and as an outcome of an all-night fight, killed scores ami wounded hundreds of guerillas and disarmed thousands, seizing bombs, machine guns, rifles and artillery, which they used to compel the surrender of guerillas sheltering in Chinese club houses. Foreign forces stood ready, but did not participate. Ms an outcome of the affair, the General Labour Gnion issued a manifesto warning Councils of foreign .settlements that to-morrow they inj£end seizing the Council’s buildings * and police stations. MINISTERS STATEMENT. LONDON, April 11. The Powers Ministers in Peking in a statement to newspapers regarding the notes point out that the terms are studiously moderate, covering only a of the honourable amends which would be made by any Government conscious of its own dignity and duty to friendly nations. The demands '.ire not the derogation of the sovereigniy of the Chinese whom the Governments Relieve to be friendly but arc directed at influences of both foreigners and Chinese responsible for the outrages, by breaking up friendship and sowing distrust and hatred.