CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 April 1927, Page 2

CHINESE TROUBLE.

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CANTON LEADER’S BID. _r PARIS, April 23. General Chiang Kai Slick, in a mes- f sage to France, states that lie intends to seek the Powers’ support of the Chinese Nationalist movement, now that it is free front Soviet influence. He is willing to co-operate with Chang Tso Lin, if the latter will recognise the Nationalist principles. He is determined to punish Nanking for the outrages. and to exclude all Russians front the Chinese forces.

CHIANG’S SON AT MOSCOW. MOSCOW, April 24. “Chiang Ivai Shek was my father and my friend in the revolution. Now he has passed to the enemy camp. Down with Chiang Kai Shelc! Long live the*victorious Chinese This is the conclusion of an article L> Chiang Kai Shell's eighteen-year-old son, who is now attending the Sun Yat Sen University here.

POWERS WAITING. LONDON, April 23. The Observer's diplomatic correspondent states:—■Until civil war within civil war decides whether Mi Eugene Chen or General Chiang Kai Shek is going to control Southern China, oi whether there is going to he a tlier subdivision, the Powers’ negoFintions regarding tiie Nanking outrages are at a standstill.

BLOCKADE BY POWERS. LONDON. April 24. Official circles hint that the despatch of further troops to China in the neat future is not improbable, though they are still hoping that the economic weapon, of which Mr Chen is now feeling the pinch at Hankow, may vet decisively affect the Cantonese. CHINA THE TEST! WASHINGTON, April 23. Senator Borah has sent a cablegiam to the “Manchester Evening News,” which had requested him to comment on an invitation extended to him bv Lord Derby yesterday on the occasion of a Manchester Chamber of Commerce luncheon, at which Lord Derby said “There is one prominent American politician who always seems to think that we in England are ogres' The cablegram which Senator Borah sent the paper, with his comments, states: “1 need not he shown that the English people are not ogres. I have never said anything of that kind and have never thought anything of that kind. Quite the opposite! 1 should like to know on what Lord Derby bases bis desire to enlighten me on this titular subject. ] appreciate bis missionary spirit, but 1 do not teallv feel the need of his gospel of enlightenment. I have no doubt that there are millions in England just as anxious foi industrial peace and for world peace as Lord Derby indicates, and I have no doubt that their enlightened conception of industrial peace and international justice is quite as exalted as Lord Derby indicates. I trust that they, together with I-ord Derby, will exert their influence along these lines on their Government in the Chinese affair. China is going to be an aid to test whether the nations which have . been preaching peace want peace, which they have been preaching international justice want international justice: and whether the industrial peace which we covet for our own people is to be extended to other people! I would really like to visit England, and I hope I may find an opportunity to do so. Mv mission, however, will not be bunting wild game such as ogres, but to see and know better a people whoso highest encomium is that of always having been loyal to their own flag an attribute which prevails rather strongly in the United'States, and which I think worth preserving.”