CANTONESE AIM TO OUST ALL FOREIGNERS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 7

CANTONESE AIM TO OUST ALL FOREIGNERS

By Telegraph.—Frew Assn.—Copyright. (Sydnev "San" Cable.) LONDON, November. 30. The “Daily “News” says that besides the British China Squadron there are many warships of other nations off Hankow. The fact remains that Hankow is 600 miles from the coast, and that the level of the Yangtse river will fall in the next three months. The 700 foreigners at Hankow are a more handful among a population of a million. A high authority in China says that mere rescue measures' will be insufficient. If Great Britain yields Hankow she must yield Shanghai and Tientsin, which would lead to disaster. Mr Gull, secretary of the British Chambers of Commerce, who has arrived in London, says that a member of the Cantonese Cabinet recently inciaiininiiiiiiiimiiiiiiHiiiiiniiiiiiiiiimiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimiiaiiiimiiiHniiißiini

' formed him that the Can tones© wore aiming at control of the whole of China, and were determined to deprive foreigners of the treaty rights obtained in 1842. They were antiBritish because they believed that the British are the chief obstacle to their ambition, but they would not abandon their Bolshevik connection until other foreigners were ousted. The Bolshevik menace in' China was very real at present, and was greatly under-rated. “The present trouble at Hankow was foretold to me by a Cabinet Minister,” Mr Gull said. “Tho Cantonese believe that • a complete paralysis of trade and industry at Hankow, and later at Shanghai, will be their most effective weapons. Britain should continue to be ready to Negotiate, hut ought simultaneously to make it plain that she is determined to defend her subjects’ rights.”