CHINESE TURMOIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 April 1928, Page 3

CHINESE TURMOIL.

CHINKSE BAN DITI! V BAAII’ANT. NATIONALS («HEAT SUCCESS. tU. I !!iterl Press Association.—By Electric 'Telegraph. -Copyright,.) {Received this day at, 8..'10 a.in.) SHANGHAI, April 20. Northern Shantung is reported to have heenme the hunting ground of deserters Irotn the Northern Army and bandits. Scores of towns and villages have been sacked and looted. The erstwhile Shantung Army has heroine a leaderless ramble. Chang-chung-ehang, Provincial Co. y ventor commanding Shantung forces, is reported to have lied to Tsingtao. where he had previously sent his family. and deposited seven million dollars with loreign hanks. There have hoen no roporls of for‘eigners lining molested with the cxc’optioa of the murder of l)r Walter Seymour, an American missionary. The eyes of the entire Far Fast tire now towards Cliangtsolin. wondering , what steps the Mukden War Lord will take to stem the Nationalist tide and save Peking from Soul hern ivinqili-t. It is rumoured the Dictator a ill withdraw within the Drear. Wall and abandon Peking, concentrating on the defence of Manchuria. Nationalists tire cmdidcul of reaching Peking and forcing the Powers' mvjgiiilion of the Nationalists as Phi nose rulers.