War Lords Depart

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 659, 10 May 1929, Page 9

War Lords Depart

apart from kwangtung china is quiet CANTON SENDS GUNBOATS British Official Wireless Reed. 11. S a.m. RUGBY, Thursday. Mr. G. T. Loeker-Lampson, the Foreign Under-Secretary, made a statement in the House of Commons regarding the present situation in China. He said there has recently been an appreciable improvement in the situation in the middle Yangtze Valley, which is now entirely under the control of the National Government. Three of the defeated Kwangsi generals expressed their willingness to leave Hupeh if they -were given safe conduct under the British flag. Marshal Chianga Kai-Shek formally requested that this should be done, in order to hasten the termination of hostilities, and they have accordingly been conveyed to Shanghai in a British warship. In Shangtung, Chang Tsung-Chang has been definitely beaten, and has lett the province. Marshal Feng YuHsiang’s forces have been withdrawn from Shantung into Honan, and the control of the former province has been given to Nanking. The general Nanking troops are being transferred from the Tientsin area to North Honan. The Shansi troops are being withdrawn to their own province from Peking, and sent to re.inforce the Shangsi-Honan border. All Marshal Feng’s adherents have left Nanking, where his quarters have been occupied by the local troops. On May 4, Kwangsi troops advanced into Kwangtung. The local authorities of Canton have sent gunboats to check the invasion. The reports received do not indicate anxiety regarding the safety of British subjects, except for one missionary, who elected to remain. All the British subjects have been safely evacuated from Chang-Te.