CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1928, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE.

Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) CHINESE HAPPENINGS. SHANGHAI. Jan. 22. T’ne wholesale beheading ol Communist agitators of every description without trial, prevented a widespread plot to plunge Hankow in turmoil in the Chinese New Tear holidays. Eighty heads fell in forty-eight hours and hundreds were shot. The tension relaxed through martial law being enforced. A report from Peking states the Northern Government is considering asking the .Manchurian war lord. Changtsolin. to assume the presidency, believing civil, instead ol military administration more satistactorv Irom the viewpoint of foreign relations. A conference of mi’ t ir- leaders is scheduled for 21th 2 .'ary. when it is expected a petiti •’ he prepared to request Chang to •: >siime the presidency.

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A Japanese Hag Hying at Harbin racecourse, a section ol laud leased to Japanese in the suburbs, was hauled down, the land was eonfiseaLed. and a Japanese youth aged seventeen wnmurdered in the streets ol Dairen. Three hundred casualties are reported as a result of the latest clashes between Big Sword rebels and Government troops. The Japanese Consul vigorously protested. Ihe situation is regarded as serious owing to the insolent attitude of llie Chinese towards Japanese. The Big Sword Society comprises old-fashioned Chinese, still wealing pigtails. They are peasants unconnected with the Nationalist or Communist movements. They have risen solely to combat the rapacity and misgoveriiiuent sutfereil as an outcome ol the continuous warfare in the locality, preventing peaceful industry. Dangei resulting to Japanese residents in me affected district has raised the question of the dispatch of Japanese troops ftn* protection.