CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1927, Page 2

CHINESE TROUBLE.

■ * [by TELEGRAPH—PER TRESS ASSOCIATION'.] CHINESE REPORT. LONDON, April 19. An Admiralty communique states Chiiiugkaishek announced lie has definitely broken with Chinese Communists' and Hankow Nationalists and intends to proclaim an independent gMernineiit with the capital at Nnaking.

Ships on the Yangt.se river are being fired oil from both banks.. Executions of wealthy Chinese at Changsha continue. Large numbers ol rich Chinese are leaving .Hankow where uneasiness is increasing. Japanese have landed field guns at Hankow. Changes of views regarding the five Powers proposed. in reply to Chen s insolent rejoinders to demands for reparations for Nanking outrages hut consultations between London and Paris front Tokio and Washington and their representatives at Peking have long drawn out the process. Meanwhile the situation in China is changing with such rapidity that the Powers are necesarily thrown back to a policy of wait and see.

Awthoritive news received in London coil linns the thoroughness with which Chiangkaishek is rounding up Communists. Of fifteen hundred arrested in Canton, hundreds have been executed. Similar aiiti-Comimmist activities are being carried out at Swa tow. Fuchow, Wusliah, Hangchow and Ningpo. REPLY TO SOVIET. (Received this dav at 9.30 a.i11.) MOSCOW, April 20. Cliangtsoliu’s reply to the Soviet’s protest against the Peking raid defends the action. He says lie is not prepared to accede to the Soviet s demand for redress. SHANGHAI, April 20. Official reports from Nanking state after the formation of the Cabinet Chiang'-Kaieshek intends to continue the campaign against .North and the Now Nationalist Government, anil has not changed his views regarding the Chinese Militarist and Foreign Imperialists. Chiang-Kaishek next expected forceful action frQin Hankow, as lie has more than three hundred thousand troops immediately available. The new Government desires friendship with ail countries, but insists oil the abrogation of unequal treaties.