SERIOUS STRIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 87, 13 April 1927, Page 7

SERIOUS STRIFE.

OPEN BREAK IN CHINA Chiang Routs Guerrilla Gangs at Hankow. CLEARING THE NATIVE CITY. Copyright.—Press Association.) (Ilcceiveil 11 a.m.) SHANGHAI, April 12. A serious situation is developing as the result of an open break between the Hankow Government and Chiang Kai-shek, the Nationalist Generalissimo. Chiang descended with a force of 10,000 troops and distributed them in the native areas. He is determined to exterminate the armed labourers who are constituting a grave menace to the peace of Shanghai and as an outcome of an all-night fight, killed scores and wounded hundreds of the guerilla gangs. He disarmed thousands, seizing bombs, machine-guns, rifles and artillery, which were used to compel the surrender of the guerilla fighters who were sheltering in a Chinese club house. A foreign force stood ready but did not participate. As the outcome of the affair, the General Labour Union has issued a manifesto warning the councils of the foreign settlements that to-morrow they intend seizing the councils' buildings and police stations.

SCOTS GUARDS LEAVE. FURTHER BRITISH TROOP?. LONDON, April 12. The Scois Guards, four companies of the Northants and Welsh, and drafts from the Middlesex and Green Howard Regiments, all in a most cheerful spirit, entrained at various depots this morning for Southampton. From there they sailed in the afternoon for China by the steamers Derbyshire and City of Marseilles.— (Sydney "Sun."')