CHINESE TROUBLE.
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)
SOUTH CHINA FERMENT. HONG KONG, Oct. 12. Swatow reports the position is still uneasy there. A. British naval party boarded a British steamer, driving off three hundred soldiers seeking a forced passage. At Canton* the situation is critical, Li-Chni-Sun, a Moderate, being ousted by Chang-Fat-Kwai, who is well known to be a Red Labourite, allied to tho Hankow clique. There has been much faction fighting I in the Canton streets. Tho Chinese steamer “ Shingon,” trading between Hong Kong and Wueliow, was pirated on the West River, and sixty Chinese passengers were kidnapped. The ship was ransacked, much booty being taken.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1927, Page 3
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106CHINESE TROUBLE. Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1927, Page 3
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