CHINESE CIVIL WAR

Grey River Argus, 9 December 1926, Page 5

CHINESE CIVIL WAR

HANKOW FEELING. Favours Cantonese. PEKIN, Dee. 7. Hankow unrest - promises to inAn intense undercurrent of anti-for-eignisni prevails. A society sponsored by the military, has been formed for the purpose of overthrowing the British Political Department. The Beds, hitherto working secretly, are now openly inciting anti-foreignism, and have printed instructions to soldiers, naming British and Japanese as the chief enemies of the revolutionary movements. Tim objects are recovery of the foreign concessions, and driving out all foreigners, which doctrine is inflaming «he populace. Despite a general strike failure, the Labour unions are becoming bolder daily, inflicting the greatest hardships cm foreign residents, many of whom, residing outside the concessions and unprotected, have been ejected from their homes, and their belongings thrown in the streets and looted. Servants, encouraged by the soldiers, are heaping indignities on the heads of Britishers, French and Japanese. CANTONESE ANTI-CHRISTIAN. PEKIN, Dec. 7. Missionary reports from the interior declare that strong anti-Christian spirit follows the path of the Cantonese. A number of schools and. churches are closed as the result of ultimatums from the students. NO FRENCH TROOPS BEING SENT, (Peed. Dec. 8 at 10 p.m.) PA BIS, Dee. 7. M. Painleve (Minister of War) denies the report that French troops arc being sent to China.