FIGHTING IN CHINA

Wairarapa Age, 15 March 1927, Page 5

FIGHTING IN CHINA

OUTBREAK ON KIANGSU FRONTS.

PASSENGER TRAIN DERAILED NEAR SHANGHAI.

MORE NATIONALIST TERRORISM.

SHANGHAI, March 13.

The lull of the last few days on the Kiangsu fronts has been broken. Fighting has been resumed east of the Taihu Lake, between Pingwang and Wukiang. Seventy men armed, but in mufti, appeared on the Shanghai-Nanking railway five miles from the International Settlement, and Intimidated the permanent way coolies into removing two lengths of rails. A passenger train from Nanking was derailed. There were no casualties.—(A. and N.Z.).

MURDERS BY TERRORISTS.

NAVAL DEFECTIONS.

PEKIN, March 13.

. The Nationalists’ terrorist campaign in -Shanghai resulted in three more murders at the week-end, including the wife of the former Chief of Staff of the Northern Army, whom a servant shot dead in her own home.

The Chinese navy in the vicinity of Shanghai has declared its independence. The rebel navy, which totals 22 ships, left to take up a position on the river in support of the Southerners.— (Sydney “Sun.”).

WARFARE m HONAN,

Marek 13,

The forces of Chang Tso-lin fought a fierce night-long battle in a heavy snowstorm against semi-independent Honanites at Hangchuang; between Kaifeng and Chengchow. The Chang Tso-lin army materially advanced, holding the railway station at Chung-Wa-Hslefi. Further progress is likely to be checked by delay in the arrival of reinforcements from Mukden, where the worst snowstorm for forty years is interrupting communications. —(A. and N.Z.).