CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 August 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE.

AFFAIR WITH CHINA. BRITISH CONSUL PROTESTS. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received this day at 11.1) a.m.) SHANGHAI, Aug. 17. Tlie detention by Chinese of a British military aeroplane, which was forced to land in Chinese territory was the subject of negotiations, which were reported yesterday to lie proceeding between the British Consul and the Chinese' Commissioner of Foreign Affairs. No satisfactory conclusion' has been reached and the Consul deported, warning the Commissioner that unless the aeroplane’s wings were released by eleven this morning, steps would be taken of a retaliatory nature in order to secure satisfaction. An official statement issued says, at tho time stated, no snch instructions were issued by the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs to the general officer commanding North China, Commander Duncan therefore ordered posts south of Hangchow railway and south of Sooehow Creek to be occupied, as from two o’clock this afternoon, and at four the railway will be cut at a .level mossing immediately south of Sooehow Creek, which orders arc lieing carried out. This point of the railway is adjacent to a largo British encampment, and has been picketed since the earliest arrival of the Shanghai defence force. It is a strategic point in the local military communications, and an open railway along this line is vital in the present military crisis developing in Shanghai.