HANKOW'S BREAK

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 24, 20 April 1927, Page 13

HANKOW'S BREAK

DEFIANCE BY REDS CHiANG SUPPLANTED NATIONALISTS’ SPLIT By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 10 a.m. SHANGHAI, Tues. According to Chinese reports, the Nationalist Government at Hankow has issued three mandates. The first dismisses Marshal Chians Kai Shek from the post of Comman-der-in-Chief of'the Nationalist forces and orders his arrest and punishment. The second appoints Feng Yuh Siang to succeed Chiang Kai Shek with Teng Seng Chi, the military governor of Honan, associate com-mander-in-chief. The latter has been ordered to advance on Nanking and attack Chiang Kai Shek. The third mandate announces the severance of all relations with Nanking and Shanghai.—A. and N.Z.

YANGTSE STRIFE

CRUISERS ENGAGE FORTS CHINESE FLAGSHIP DAMAGED * (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 10.55 a.m. RUGBY, Tuesday. According to the latest advices from China, rifle-firing on ships is taking place from both banks of the Yangtse to seven miles above Nanking. The execution of wealthy Chinese continues at Changsha. Large numbers of wealthy Chinese are leaving Hankow and an air of uneasiness is increasing. The Japanese have landed field guns in their concession there. The Roman Catholic mission at Hwangchow has been looted by the peasant union, and at Wuliu the recreation club was partially looted by soldiers on Sunday. There is general activity at the forts below Chingkiang and a Chinese cruiser exchanged gunfire with the Siloa Island forts. The Chinese flagship engaged a battery and was hit near the bridge and badly damaged.—A. and N.Z.

CHIANG’S POLICY

FOLLOWING SUN YAT SEN NEW CAPITAL AT NANKING By Cable. —Press Association.—-Copyright SHANGHAI, Monday. Every political development emphasises the divorcement of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, commander-in-chief of the Nationalist armies, from Soviet influences. This accounts for his determination to pursue the Chinese revolution on the original lines of the policy laid down by the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen. Chiang has ordered the removal of the Nationalists’ capital from Hankow to Nanking. He has established a new Ministry of Conservatives, and has thus become the dominant factor in Chinese military and political circles. The centralisation of the Conservatives’ military forces is proceeding. The first step is to be an immediate anti-eommunistic campaign, destined to eliminate all vestige of the Radical wing. The platform of Chiang’s Government includes the restoration of the Kuomintang to a Conservative basis, the prosecution of the revolution until the political and military unification of China has been secured; the overthrow of militarists, Imperialists and communists; the cancellation of the unequal treaties, and the restoration to the Chinese of the foreign concessions by negotiation.—A. and N.Z.