CANTONESE DEFINE ATTITUDE.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 17 March 1927, Page 5

CANTONESE DEFINE ATTITUDE.

WILL NOT ATTACK FOREIGN SETTLEMENTS. ' — 1 Received Wednesday, 7 p.ni, PEKING, March 15. General Ho Yingyin, commander-in-Chief of the Southern forces in Chekiang has issued, through the local Kuomintang, a statement concerning the Cantonese attitude toward foreign settlements. After requesting the foreign authorities in Shanghai to observe the strictest neutrality, it deelares that the Nationalist army • firstly will not attempt to seize the settlement; seeondly it will protect in the fullest measure the lives and property of foreign residents, and schools and hospitals owned by foreigners within the settlement. thirdly, requests the foreign forces at present in Shanghai to keep within the settlement boundaries thus avoiding un- - necessary misunderstanding which woold inevitably lead to a situation inimical to the peaceful intentions of both parties, and lastly that the Nationalist army in its campaign against Northern militarists has no intention of disturhing the peace and order of the settlement. However, should stray bxllets unfortunately fall in the settlement the foreign authorities are asked to view such accidents in the light of reason and tolerance as being beyond the Nationalists' ahility to prevent.