REDS OUST CANTON RULERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 206, 19 November 1927, Page 9

REDS OUST CANTON RULERS

NATIONALIST BREAK CHINA’S CHAOS INCREASED K.v Cai |-\ — l*rcss Association. — Oopijrt '' ' Reed. 11.5 a.m. HONG KONG. Friday An unexpected coup at Canton has resulted In the overthrow of the exit-l-ing regime there, resulting in the breaking down of the authority which has given unity to the greater part of Southern China, and breaking another important factor into the confused state of Chinese affairs. Details of the coup show that extremists. nown as the “Ironsides." are in complete control. There was no heavy fighting. The situation is in reality a split in the Kuomingtang Communist elemeit against moderates. Meanwhile the former control Canton and it is expected that increased chaos will result. —A. and N.Z. MILLIONS STARVING HAPLESS CHINESE LOCUSTS THE LATEST ENEMY By Cable.—Press Association. — Copjrrifrht. Reed. 10.30 a.m. SHANGHAI, Friday. Nine million inhabitants of the Shantung Province are starving through drought, visitations of locusts, civil war and banditry, according to the reports of the International Famine Relief Committee. The crops average 10 per cent, of their usual output. Fifty thousand Nankingites are congregated at Hankow. The firing ou shipping has ceased. The Chinese authorities expressed a desire to co-operate with the foreigners. Hostilities appear to be ended on the Yangtsze, but on the northwestern fighting continues fiercely b tween the Northerners and the Nationalists. —A. and N.Z.