AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 14 March 1927, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN CHINA.

SDN-YAT-SF.N ANN IVERSARY. PASSES OFF QUIETLY. KOMINTaNG DISPUTE IN FRENCH ZONE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT. SHANGHAI, March 12. In anticipation of demonstrations in connection with the anniversary celebration of the death of Sun-Yat-Sen, the father of the revolution, special precautions were taken, but rain damped the ardour of the’ occasion. The day was marked by few incidents. The expected general strike failed to materialise. Five hundred armed Shantungese attempted to enter the international settlement and ware frustrated by British guards and 200 British troops ready for action were rushed up. The Shantungese, rearising the futility of attempting to force a passage, retired. > the French section a dispute took place between the extreme and moderate sections of the Kuomintang. Shots were fired and two men were wounded. The French police intervened and restored order. The extremists were busy distributing handbills inciting the populace against the foreigners. They collected huge crowds which the police with difficulty dispersed.

SIR FRANCIS AGLEN. TRIBUTES TO HLS SERVICES. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, March 11. Prior to his departure from Peking for London yesterday, Sir Francis Aglen, retiring Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime Customs, had experienced a fortnight of banquets and receptions, during which all sections of the foreign community had shown appreciation of his loyal services to China and to foreign interests in the Customs. The culminating event was a luncheon arranged by the Netherlands Minister, who is the senior Minister in Peking, the Japanese and British Ministers and the chairman of the AngloAmerican Association, and all the leading members of the Peking and foreign communities attending. * The gathering was a. unique demonstration of the esteem in which Sir Farads Aglen was held bv all nations during his 40 years in the Chinese Government ‘service, and 17 years as head of the Customs.

TERRORIST CAMPAIGN. THREE MORE MURDERS. CHINESE NAVY JOINS SOUTHERNERS. PEKING. March 13. The Nationalists’ terrorist campaign in Shanghai resulted in three mere murders during the week-end, including the wife of the former chief; of the staff of the Northern army, whom a •servant shot dead in her own home. The Chinese Navy in the vicinity of Shanghai declared its independence. The rebel navy, which tota'e twentytwo ships, left to take up a position in the river to support the southerner®. INCREASED ACTIVITY. FIGHTING ON KI ANGST! FRONT. SHANGHAI-NANRING RAILW A Y LINE DAMAGED. Received 9.50 a.m. to-day. SHANGHAI, March 13. The lull of the last few days on the Kiangsu front has ' been broken,, and fighting has ‘been resumed east of Taihu Lake, between Pingwang and Wuikuang. Seventy armed men in mufti appeared on the Shanghai-Nan--king railway, five miles from the settlement, and intimidated the perm anl ent wav coolies into removing two lengths' of rails. A passenger train from Nanking was derailed, but there ■were no casualties.