CHINESE TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1929, Page 5

CHINESE TROUBLE

STEAMERS FIRED ON. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this day at 8 a.m.) HONGONG, Dec. 17. 11.M.5. Sea mew whilst on patrol dntv River, was fired on by Kwangsi rebels. One bluejacket was wounded. Tho Seamow returned the fire, but its effect is not stated. A British naval wireless reports a recrudescence of firing on merchant ships. The Yangtsze steamer Iping Uing, owned by Yangtsze Rapids Company has been under heavy fire forty-six miles alxivo Ichang. The report does not mention the damage. CIiINESE UPK ISLNG. SHANGHAI, December 17. Chinese reports from Hailar, indicate a coming Moi/golian uprising for the purpose of declaring independence. The movement is believed to be of Soviet origoiK Mongolian horsemen reinforced by Russians forcebly took possession of Hailar on the loth. Refugees from Hailar who have arrived at Harbin, declare Hailar inhabitants are starving, and the arrival of the Mongolians will aggravate the position. A CHINESE MOVE.

SHANGHAI. Dec. 18!

An important decision involving another step by the Nationalist Government, is a proposal completely to eliminate foreign enterprise in China, taken in Nanking when the Administrative Council adopted, a proposal to take over within the next year, all foreign steamship companies operating on Chinese internal and coastal trade routes.