CANTONESE PLAYING FOR TIME.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17170, 29 March 1927, Page 5

CANTONESE PLAYING FOR TIME.

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MASTERS OF SIY^atION. * BRITAIN MUST LQOK TO HERSELF.

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Received Monday, 10.45 p.m. LONDON, March 28. The "Times* " Shanghai correspondent's grave warning indicates that Britain's faith in 1 the Cantonese is of no avail. ! He de,clares that the Cantonese three thousand troops have no power or control over the Communists. There is a local Com- ; munist Government with the ! slogan, "Take back the settle- [ ment!" Thexe is not the slightest reason to suppose t/hat the | Cantonese will attempt to rej strain the- Communists but in- ! stead will aid Britain's exiemy. Brit'ain m'ust look to herself. The foreign defensive forces | are inadequat'e. The French Concession is a very weak spot ! and is insufficiently held. The | whole position needs reorganisation. More weakness in the, China news will reverbrate throughout Asia vrith unforseen results. The Cantonese are masters everywhere south of Yangtse and control more than half the - country. They can beat the only remaining important militarist Chang Tso Lin. They can be in Peking when they please. The Cantonese wanfc a clean sweep of every foreign treaty, right and privilege. Then they will gracious-Iy negotiate from the treaties on severely equal terms. The Kuomintang split has been overstressed. Both elements are working to complefely destroy foreign treaties. The Hankow' signature is not of the j slightest use. The Cantonese I are only biding time to apply > the same methods to Shanghai. j