PARTIES IN CHINA.

Wairarapa Age, 8 March 1927, Page 5

PARTIES IN CHINA.

MODERATES AND EXTREMISTS AT ODDS. NEW PARTY ANTICIPATED. UNDER CHIANG KAI-SHEK. PEKIN, March 6. Both Chinese and foreign newspapers are giving daily prominence to the alleged conflict of moderates and extremists within the Kuomintang, which is stated to be going on in Canton as well as at Hankow and Nanchaag. Hsuchien, Nationalist Minister of Justice, leader of the Radicals, is reported to be determined to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek, while Chiang is anxious for the expulsion of Borodin.. Some of the vernacular papers foresee the formation of a moderate party, led by Chiang, opposing both the Bolsheviks and the northern militarists. — (A. and N.Z.) THE MILITARY SITUATION. LABOUR WITH THE NATIONALISTS. (Received Monday, 10.45 p.m.) SHANGHAI, March 7. As the military situation develops, both sides are hurrying forward reserves. Reinforcements continue to pour into Nanking. Yesterday six thousand crossed the Yangtse en route to various points of the Nanking railway. It is stated that a Japanese resident of Shanghai offered to supply the Northerners with ten thousand modern-pattern Japanese rifles and a thousand rounds of ammunition for each at a low price. The Labour organisations are working feverishly in an effort to assist the Nationalists to gain control of the city and are raising funds to supply them with arms. The General Labour Union is instructing unions to be ready to rise upon definite nows of the next Nationalist military success.—(A. and N.Z.) COMPENSATION PAID. FOB DAMAGE AT KIUKIANG. (Received Monday, 8.45 p.m.) SHANGHAI, March 7. Mr. Eugene Chen (Nationalist Foreign Minister) has handed to Mr. O’Malley, a cheque for forty thousand dollars, covering the damage sustained by British subjects at Kiukiang. Notes were exchanged between Mr. Chen and Mr. O’Malley on March 2 in which, the British Government agrees to cancel the British municipal regulations, and hand over unconditionally the administration area at Kiukiang to the Nationalist Government from March 15. The Nationalist Government agrees to confirm the existing bund frontage licenses issued by the British authoritcurrent for ten years. The distribution of the forty thousand dollars is left entirely to the British Government. —(A. and N.Z.)