CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1927, Page 2

CHINESE TROUBLE.

Try telegraph—per press association.] SECRET COURT MARTIAL. HONGKONG. April 11. A secret court martial at Canton has commenced ol two thousand Communists arrested in the recent raid. l ighting ii in progress against eight thousand Red peasants concentrating between Suukai and Yingtak. A naval wireless from Hankow states an exodus of wealthy Chinese continues. A financial panic is likely to eventuate. Coolies are organising food looting raids. A large lire has broken out at Nanking. HARBIN REPORT. TOKIO. April 21. Harbin reports the despatch of reeonnoitering forces from Tsitsihar, following on a report that fifty thousand Mongolians, including many Russians, have gathered in the direction of ( hahaerh and Payantala. RAID ON SOVIET EMBASSY LONDON. April 20. The “Times’s” Pekin correspondent states: An investigation of documents which the Russians here were discovered hastily soaking with kerosene and , attempting to burn, when the Soviet Embassy was raided, proves that .tho , Soviet military attache’s office was used as a clearing house for eotnmuni cations with Moscow Rod agents. , Many of the documents were blurred, and some had the edges charred, while some were intact. They consist ob hundreds of thousands of letters and ’ reports relating to propaganda, provI ing that the Soviet War Commissiariat , provided the salaries of the agents. , One despatch is a strongly-worded complaint against Chinese stupidity and the necessity for continually gingering up Chinese propagandists.