CHINESE WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 28 November 1929, Page 5

CHINESE WAR

MILITARY CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH

[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) SHANGHAI, November J 7. Following the abrupt te mini a turn of the Government campaign in central China, troops are being hurriedly with-

'drawn from Honan and Hupeh and bc--4 despatched to Nanking for transference to the south, where a military campaign on a huge scale Is contemplated. Owing to Clmngfakivqi’s ad- ' vance on Canton efforts to effect a peaceful settlement were fruitless.

Latest messages from Harbin report all. territory between Mancbuli and Hailar is held by Soviet forces. The population is experiencing war hoi rors. Red planes are continuing bombing on a tfide scale.. CHINESE PROTEST. ATI- SOVIET SOLDIERS’ CRUELTY (Received this day at 11 n.m.) SHANGHAI, Nov. 27. The cruelty of the Soviet soldiers is unprecedented in the history of the . "world, declares a telegram suggesting an : international commission -of inquiry into the Soviet aggressions in,North Manchuria,' and common action to. maintain the spirit of the Anti-War Pact, which was forwarded, to Premier MncDonald,.. P.resjdent' ..Hoover and other world leaders, by a group rejireientingT Chines© organisations in 1 Manchuria. The message claims the,Russians repeatedly pillaged Chinese t'wns and massacred innocent Chinese citizens, ■white Chinese troops, consistently confined themselves to defensive measures, never setting foot on* Soviet, soil.