SITUATION IN CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 19588, 21 June 1927, Page 5

SITUATION IN CHINA

WIDESPREAD RUSSIAN INTRIGUE

GENERAL CHANG'S DECLARATION

COMMUNISM MUST BE SUPPRESSED.

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright.

SHANGHAI, June 19. Chang Tsp-lin is assuming the position of Generalissimo for tho suppression of the Reds. This office becomes virtually a dictatorship Tor Northern Chinn. , ~ Interviewed by the North China Daily News,’ he said that Russian intrigue was so widespread and so effective that it was now apparent that nothing but concerted action by those opposed to Communism could save the country from being overrun and destroyed by mob rule under Russian instigation. 1 * I was therefore obliged, said the new Generalissimo, to invite all officials still holding out against Bolshevism at Peking to confer with me upon the matter of forming a single organisation to save the country, there was a frank and honest exchange ol opinion during the conference, and we nre convinced that if wu can effect a closely-knit consolidation under a single central authority the Government of China has sufficient military force to savo the situation. On this basis it is possible to reorganise tho Peking Government, which we shall support and defend as tho Government of Qhuia until wo succeed in blotting out completely the political disease with wliicu F e Russians have inoculated our people, and until we have restored tho country to sanity with sound, honest government representative of the "'hole Chinese people, both 'North ftnei bouth. —Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.

SHORTAGE OF RICE AT HANKOW

(Official British News.) Press Association—By Wireless-Copyright.

RUGBY, Juno 20. (Received June 21, at 11 a.m.) Hankow telegrams report an acute rice shortage as imminent. Supplies from up and down the river are being blocked.