FRATERNISING.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 43, 21 February 1927, Page 7

FRATERNISING.

Greetings Sent to Chinese Reds. AUSTRALIAN LABOUR. (Received 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. A meeting of unions held under the auspices of the Labour Council decided to send fraternal greetings to the Chinese Nationalists on the eve of their victorious march on Shanghai. It was also agreed to appoint a committee to work with the Trades and Labour Council to organise a mission to the East and to the Soviet Union. PUBLIC EXECUTIONS. DECAPITATION AS WARNING. (Received 12.30 p.m.) SHANGHAI, February 20. While strike agitators in the French »ncession are given practically a free hand, this is not the case in the Chinese city, where Sun Oman-fang's Commi3-1 sioner of Defence, General Li Pao-chanc, I has issued a proclamation that any per-1 son found inciting the people to strike j or interfering with the workers will be, summarily executed. i Three persons have already been decapitated in the Chinese city on charges of being agitators, but those' executed are reported to number at: least twenty. The three mentioned were beheaded in the street and their heads were hung on posts as a warning. i WASHINGTON ANXIOUS. MARINES MAY BE LANDED. WASHINGTON, February 20. The general strike at Shanghai is viewed with real anxiety in Washington, owing to possible violence by mobs menacing the safety of foreigners. Should such a development occur to. an extent which would effect the well-being of American subjects, it will lead to the landing of American bluejackets and marines. No one in Washington will attempt t<--predict the consequences of such a step. Dispatches to the State Department describe the strike, but contain no forecast of the possible results. Experts are of the opinion that as far as the military objectives of the Cantonese are; concerned Shanghai will do them little; good if they do not control the 1 Yangtse River. For this reason Nanking and other j river cities are considered to be the real military objectives of the Chinese; Nationalists.