CHINA AND JAPAN

Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1931, Page 6

CHINA AND JAPAN

THE NEW ADMINISTRATION. AIM TO UPHOLD CHINA’S RIGHTS. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) CANTON, December 17. The party leaders, immediately upon their arrival at Nanking, issued a statement declaring that the foreign policy of the new administration was based upon the determination that none of China’s rights shall be impaired, and that the name of the country shall not he disgraced. They promised to exert every effort for the early restoration of China’s lost territories and rights, thereby fulfilling the wishes of the nation. This particularly applies to Manchuria. The voluntary resignation of Marshal Chang Hsuchliang at Mukden as War Lord has been accepted.

STUDENTS’ RIOT. CHINESE SITUATION GRAVE. STERN CLASH WITH POLICE. SHANGHAI, December 17. Students, assembled at Nanking, went rampage,, and attacked the “Central Daijy News,” the official leading newspaper of the capital. The staff, anticipating an attack, barricaded the premises with sandbags, and armed themselves with bags of lime for the purpose of throwing in the faces of students. The students, several thousand strong, following} a. preliminary, uneventful demonstration at Government headquarters, invaded the newspaper offices and overpowered the staff. They completely wrecked the modern plant, and destroyed the editorial circulation and advertising departments. Police and soldiers were rushed to the scene and a free fight followed. Student reinforcements arrived, compelling the troops to shoot, but details of the casualties are lacking. The troops were reinforced and succeeded in dispersing the students, a large percentage of whom were girls. Tile troops whacked the students severely with bamboo clubs, and arrested thirty Communists. Outbreaks on a larger scale than any heretofore in Central China are indicated by the re-appearance in Shanghai of several notorious Red agitators. CHIANG’S DRAMATIC DEPARTURE SHANGHAI, December 17. Ninety minutes before the southern delegates arrived at Nanking to open the conference for the purpose of establishing the new Government, Chiang Kai Shek made a dramatic departure from the capital in a private aeroplane to Fenghua.