POWERS AND CHINA.

Grey River Argus, 11 April 1927, Page 5

POWERS AND CHINA.

POSITION UNCERTAIN. Soviet Question. (Sun Cable.) 1 (Received April 10 at 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, April 9. Five Powers, including France uni, Italy, are presenting to the Canton authorities identical Notes regarding the Nanking outrages. U.S.A. Policy. NOT YET DEFINITE. (Received April 10 at 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April e. It is stated here that the French Foreign Office, if correctly reported m press despatches from Paris, was premature in announcing that France, Britain, Japan and the United States hau instructed their Ministers to present a joint Note of protest against the mis treatment of their nationals in China. The State Department is still considering whether to go ahead with its original plan making its representations independently, or to join in with the other forces. It is understood that the State De partment is debating the relative weight of what advantage is to be gained in making it evident to the Chinese that, in relation to compelling satisfaction for such outrages as that at Nanking, all the countries are united on the one hand, and on the other the danger of provoking criticism in this country for entering into entangling alliances with Europe. MORE U.S.A. FORCES GOING. WASHINGTON, April 9. Fifteen hundred marines who were mobilised at San Diego on April I have been ordered to proceed to China. A laek of army and navy transport necessitates the use of commercial vessels. The American forces in China now number 5200 marines, 3500 bluejackets and thirty-five warships. It is expected that if there is need of further marines, they will be taken from Nicaragua.

Manchurian Danger. RUSSIAN FORCES COMING. WILL CHANG TSO LIN PLAY IOL r WAIL t '7- - i 1 (Received April 10 at u.o p.m.) ] TOKIO, April 9. The newspaper Myako Shimbun . states that four thousand Soviet re- , gular troops have filtered into the city of Harbin, in Northern Manchuria, with rilles and grenades in their possession, while arms are being actively smuggled in from Siberia. These arms are a present being stored in various Soviet Consulates in Jlanchuna. - The paper adds that despatches from Mukden (in Central Manchuria) state that the uneasiness there is >n«easi.g, the fear being that Chang so . will next seize the Chinese Lasten • rAi. +n incite Russia into Rail way > in or( * er to inc Japan. INDIANS GAOLEd"aT SHANGHAI. by THE BRITISH. (Received April 9 at 5.5 p.m.) SHANGHAI, April 8. Three Sikhs at Shanghai, who were attempting to seduce the Indian troops here, have been sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labour by a British Consular Court. FRENCH COMMUNIST. CHARGES GOVERNMENT WITH ANNEXATION PLAN. (Received April 10 at 5.5 p.m.) (“Times” Cable.) LONDON, April '■>. “The Times’s” Paris correspondent says that, following on a decision ot the Minister of Justice to prosecute :i Communist Deputy, Dr Doriet. for an anti-French agitation regarding China, the Procureur General applied for the suspension of Dr Doriet’s legal immun ' Doriet, it is alleged, accused the French Government of an intention to annex Chinese territory, and of participation in a “British massacre of Chinese in Canton. ’ ’ It is also alleged that when speak ing at Canton, Dr Doriet urged the Indo-Chinese to revolt against French