CHAOTIC CHINA
TROUBLE FEARED AT CHEFQO
BRITISH WARSHIP STANDING
RAID ON BANK FEARED
HONGKONG, Get! 19
A naval wireless message from Chefoo, -where tlie warship Vindictive is guarding the _ Hongkong and Shanghai Lank, owing to tlie Chinese threat to remove the salt revenue funds, indicates that the, situation is tense. Sixty thousand dollars of the same fund was forcibly removed from a-Chinese bank,, and-a- demand- was promulgated that the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank should hand over the funds. Trouble is feared.
News from Canton shows that the extremists are again in partial control, and there is much talk of another anti-British campaign. Reports from all districts reveal till! utmost chaos regarding administration. The whole of China is in an appalling ferment of unrest, thanks to the militarists and “Red” emis-saries-.—Sun.
BRITISH SQUADRON TO LEAVE
HONGKONG
REJOIN MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.
LONDON, Oct. 19. The First Cruiser Squadron, which consists of the Frobisher, 10,000 tons, Delhi, Dragon, Dauntless and Dauae, each 4500 tons, is leaving China waters, where conditions are now considered to permit of its withdrawal to its normal' station with the Mediterranean Fleet. The squadron will leave Hongkong on November 8, and passing via. Singapore and Colombo, will reach Malta on December 5. The aircraft carrier Hermes arrives at Portsmouth from China on October 20.—British Official Wireless.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 10413, 21 October 1927, Page 5
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