STILL FIGHTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 245, 15 October 1926, Page 7

STILL FIGHTING.

TH E CHINESE WAR. CtASH WITH FRENCH. jSOOPS HBE ON GUNBOAT. r ble.~' Piess -Association.—Copyright.) ' PEKINC4, October 14. üble has arisen between the U and Fmlch UIX the Yan « tse L where Chinese troops opened fire • c: ' j- ren ch gunboat Alerte, on the : cB above Kiu-kiang, which is about : :I 'fi miles south-east of Wuchang. One ] ' l was killed and another wounded. ■ The French Admiral, with two gunha* left Shanghai for the scene ■ [eats, J»"= ,| the outrage. m O>S ALLIANCE WITH , " BEDS." , JOJIBER OF GOVERNMENT. ' jjtjNITIO NS FROM MOSCOW. —— LONDON, September 5. i new but by no means unexpected ! -i.velopment jas taken place in the • Lildering kaleidoscope ot Chinese nolitics and militarism. * 'ihe "Kuomintang," or Red Central tautive Committee, otlicially announces the admission of General Feng ' Vu-hsiang (the "Ked" "Christian" ■ General, and former Commander of the : Kuomincliun) into the party and his ' .npointment as a meniber of the • Nationalist Government of Canton. ' Jena's alliance with the Russian ' Bolsheviks is, of course, notorious, and that he has now entirely thrown off the mask and cast in his lot with the Cantonese '"Reds" will create little, ii any surprise. What effect his action nay have upon the existing situation remains to be seen. Ihat Feng's forces were openly supplied with munitions and money by Moscow is not seriously denied. During the recent fighting at the Nankow Pass it was found that a large number of the sjells used by Feng's erstwhile friends, tie Kuominchun, were marked ■■U.S.S.E." Moreover, his recent visit to Moscow was for the purpose of obtaining further aid in the shape of arms and funds from the Soviet Government. In some quarters Feng's open adhesion to the Kuomintang is believed to be connected with his project of forming a separate State out of Western Mongolia and Cninese Turkestan and the three important provinces of Szechuan, Kansu, and Shensi. This State would be more or less under "Red" domination from Canton, st all events until Feng felt himself strong enough to pursue his old tactics of repudiating his new allies as soon is he had got out of them all that he could expect to obtain.