MR. CHEN’S HOPES.

Wairarapa Age, 3 March 1927, Page 5

MR. CHEN’S HOPES.

A MESSAGE TO AMERICA. BRITAIN’S “MISTAKES.” WASHINGTON, March L The chairman, Representative Porter,of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has received a letter from the Chinese Minister, Mr. Sze, transmitting a message from Mr. Eugene Chen, the Chinese Nationalist Foreign Minister. The message expressed a “hope that the American Government would not repeat the British Government’s mistakes in its procedure in China.” The letter is interpreted in some quarters as. a suggestion that America should not land troops as Britain has done in China. The message hate caused some comment since it apparently did not go

through the State Department, which is the usual source of communication between foreign diplomats and American officials and Congressmen.—(A. and N.Z.). / TROTSKY AS PROPHET. EVENTS IN PACIFIC LANDS. (Received Wednesday, 7 p.m.). MOSCOW,' March 1. Trotsky made his first appearance in public since his dispute with Stalin. Addressing a meeting in the Trades’ Union Hall, he declared that Russians should not only sympathise with the Cantonese, but he would gladly drown in the Shanghai River foreign Imperialists daring to check the victorious course of Chinese revolutionaries. He added that the lands bordering on the Pacific would shortly be the scene of most important events.—(Sydney “Sun.”).