CHAOTIC CHINA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 9 December 1924, Page 5

CHAOTIC CHINA

ATTEMPT TO SECURE UNITY. RIVALRY OF THE LEADERS. CAUSE OF THE WAR. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. lfeeeived Dec. 9, 11.20 a.m. PEKING, Dec. 8. Dr. Sun Yat Sen is ill and his departure from Peking for Tientsin has been postponed. JN$- doubt the Bolsheviks are looking for Sun’s arrival as an opportunity to bring Communism prominently forward. A number of Communist demonstrations have been arranged. The Minister of Education lias circularised colleges warning them against mass meetings and processions when Sun Yat Sen arrives. Having promised to surrender the post of Inspector-General in the three eastern provinces, Chang Tso Lin, in a circular telegram, cancels the expedition against Wu ; Pei Fu „and expresses pity for the killed and wounded in fighting their own countrymen. He candidly avows that the cause of the war was the rivalry of the leaders. He proposes to take all his forces back to Manchuria and promises hereafter to obey the orders of the Central Government. thus demonstrating, that he intends to live up to- the policy of nonintervention in politics on the part of militarists.

. Thirty-eight Chinese memners of*the staff and students at Canton Christian College were kidnapped on Saturdav night while proceeding to- the College from Canton aboard a launch, by six well-dressed bandits, who’, mingling with the passengers, at a given signal took charge of. the vessel, which twas living the American flag. The vessel wa-s sent back with one foreign ladv and a number of Chinese girls who were -aboard. AW the men were taken inland.