AWFUL CONFLICT AHEAD UNLESS POWERS STOP CANTON ARMY’S ADVANCE.
GREATEST NAVAL CONCENTRATION IN HISTORY NOW TAKING PLACE IN EAST.
SHANGHAI TO BE SCENE OF FINAL STAND BY FOREIGNERS IN CHINA UNLESS THE CANTONESE ADVANCE ON SHANGHAI IS STOPPED AT HANKOW A BLOODY CONFLICT BETWEEN THE CHINESE AND THE INTERNATIONAL FORCES. NOW CONCENTRA- ' TING IN EASTERN WATERS, IS INEVITABLE.
By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and X.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 14, 11.30 am.) SHANGHAI, January 14. Although secrecy attends the Hankow conferences between General Eugene Chen, the Cantonese Govern ment mouthpiece, and Sir Edward ’Malley, the British delegation secretary, who was specially sent from Pekin to negotiate for the return of the Hankow Concession, evidence is not wanting of disagreement between the confreres. The Nationalists’ policy was clearly outlined i*n General C-hiang Ivai-shek’s. Hankow speech a month ago. Part of the programme has already been fulfilled, despite the fact that at the time of the speech, foreigners in All China said that the fulfilment of the programme was impossible. Yet within a month the majority of foreigners residing in the Yang-tzse Vallfev, including missionaries, are fleeing for their lives to Shanghai, which is regarded as the place of the final stand of the British in the Yang-tsze Valley. The British Admiral then declared that there were sufficient forces to protect British lives and property, but subsequent events have proved other- “ Perhaps now, with a dozen warships anchored off shore at Hankow, we may talk bsiness with the Canton authorities, but if Britain believes that she will regain the Concession without forcible means, she is mistaken (says one writer). “General Eugene Chen, in a statement. said. “The extension of the Nationalist authority to the Foreign Settlement in Shanghai will not take place as a work of capture, but as an inevitable incident of the resistless advance
of the Chinese Nationalist movement. When that day of triumph comes we will enter Shanghai not as mere conquerors, but as administrators and conservers of the work done thtfre by the foreign nationals.’ “Such a warning cannot be unheeded by the foreign Powers. Unless the movement by Canton for the abolition of the Concessions and the expulsi'on of foreigners from China is arrested at Hankow, a bloody conflict between the Cantonese and the international forces, now concentrating in Eastern waters, is certain. Never in history has there been such concentration of foreign navies in China as at the present time, Britain’s including the latest type. The Hankow negotiations are therefore watched with apprehension.”
HINDUS URGE CHINESE ON AGAINST WHITES.
By Telegraph.— Press Assn. —Copyright Aus. and X.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 15, 11.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, January 14. A demonstration was held by the Chinese on the racecourse at Hankow in honour of General Chiang Kai-shek and the Russian, General Galen. An office was opened for the registration of the names of all Hindus. Koreans and Annamites by the Oppressed People’s Brotherhood Friendly Society. Sixteen Hindus registered, of whom eleven were given appointments m the propaganda section of the Kuomintung. These Hindus marched in procession through the Concession carrying the Nationalist flag and yelling slogans.
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