VALLEY OF HATRED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1927, Page 7

VALLEY OF HATRED.

HOLOCAUST OF CHINA. ! 1 —_ ( IP BRITAIN BUT RETALIATE.! DANGERS IN THE YANG-TSE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) ! (Received 12 noon.) SHANGHAI, January 4. ' There is strong evidence in the j hands of the local authorities that; the Kuomintung extremists, fearing i the conservative element in China, favour a friendly attitude to Britain, j This is based on the result of Sir j Miles Lampson's visit to Hankow and the presentation of the British Memorandum. The Kuomintung is deliberately forcing an issue with Britain on the counsel of their Russian advisers, who see the Soviet's influence slipping unless Britain is driven to causing an incident by firing on an unarmed Chinese mob. The Hankow events are regarded as forerunners of worse to come. It is believed that bloodshed eventually is unavoidable and the climax of the long succession of anti-British outbreaks is generally regarded as near. It is expected that the Yang-tse Valley will become a holocaust should Britain be forced to retaliate, and there will be increasingly hostile demonstrations. The valley is now seething with hatred of Britain. The anti-foreign feeling is almost solely confined to Britain, Japan and America. The other Powers are being temporarily overlooked, proving conclusively that Soviet influence is to blame ! for- the outbreaks.