CHINESE TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1928, Page 2

CHINESE TROUBLE

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

(Received this day at 8 a.m.) HONG KONG, March 28.

A naval wireless reports Swatow disloses a serious situation by the defeat of the Government troops by Communist forces. Some troops have treacherously gone over the Communists city in a state of panic for the police force honeycombed Communist cells.

Reports from the neighbouring countryside tell of a Communist i>easant uprising and a march of peasants „„ the city. The fall of the city is feared imminent.

SOVIET AND CHINA

QUESTION of importing arms

LONDON, March 28.

British United Press Moscow correspondent states: Protesting she never did intend, and never in future intends to introduce arms into China, the Soviet has declined Japan’s invitation to sign the Peking Convention of 1919 prohibiting the importation of arms into China. The Soviet also repudiates the charge that a number of Soviet officials ill-treated Chinese, but the newspaper “ lsvestia ” simultaneously records that several hundred Chinese have either been arrested or deported from Soviet territory on charges ol smuggling or speculating in arms.

CHINESE BOYCOTT JAPS,

SHANGHAI. March 27

The anti-Japanese boycott feeling is intensified at Amov, necessitating additional naval protection. Strike pickets, preventing shipping activities and attempting to seize all cargo landed, resulted in a serious conflict with Japanese naval men. The Japanese had previously notified the Chinese authorities that the pickets would he treated as pirates, in the event of seizing cargoes of Japanese vessels. A. cargo lighter was seized hy pickets, and was chased hy a launch containing Japanese naval men. The lighter was captured and the pickets detained.