THE FAR EAST

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 April 1927, Page 5

THE FAR EAST

THE CIVIL WAR.

NORTHERN SUCCESSES. - YANGTSZE NOW EMPTY. BY CABLE—CRESS ASSOCIATION - CUl’l KKi.U Received 11.20 a.iu. to-day. LuNi)O.N, Apm 10. A wireless message irtmi Uiinkiang reports that a Nationalist expedition up the Grand Canal met witii a se.ies of reverses at the hands 01 the reorganised remnants of San ( tiding’* army widen recently evacuated Shanghai.' ’This army, steauily driving bade the southerners towards the liter, reached Yaugcnow, at the confluence oi the Yangtsze and the Grand Canal. A hundred Nationalists who were wounded are being brought to Chinkiang, where the Nationalist’s tlags are oeing hauled down preparatory to the departure. Two other Northerner victories are reported. . Southern troops advancing along the Tientsin-Pukeow line were driven back towards Fengyaug. The Southerners also suffered defeat on the north bank of the Yangtsze, opposite Iviangyin. Heavy fighting continued in the areas mentioned. . The evacuation of foreigners from ports above Hankow lias been completed, and the Yangtsze is nearly empty of foreigners. The Japanese garrison at Mukden has guaranteed protection of all foreigners. The Americans at JvwaHtiinfi have been officially ordered to evacuate the place and proceed to Hongkong Ttie presentation of the Powers’ joint Note regarding the Nanking outrages has been held up, due to Japanese reluctance to participate in an economic blockade and the military occupation of China. A search of the Peking Soviet embassy resulted in the discovery 01 further prool of anti-British and antiJapanese propaganda.

BRITISH i i/i'.STiiuYKIl Sru.Ll.Ci>

PRESENTATION OF NOTES

SATISFACTION EXrEv Tm >

LONDON, April 10

The Admiralty announces mat me destroyer Veteran was nred on wit.li shrapnel and rifles near Chinking. ine Veteran replied, and dismounted rtie Chinese gun 1 . There were no mitisn casualties.

The “Doserver” says that Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the tinted States will present identical Notes, demanding redress for the Nanking outrages, to both Air. Eugene Chen and General Chiang-ixaishek, witnin a day or two. All tne Powers are confident that the Cantonese will give satisiactiou, owing to their desire for recognition as a Government. “The Times’s” Paris correspondent says that following a decision oi the Minister ot Justice to prosecute’ the Communist Deputy Doriot for his anti-French agitation regarding China, the procurer-general has applied lor the suspension of Doriot’s legal immunity. Doriot, it is alleged, accused the French Government of an intention to annex Chinese territory, and ot participation in “the British massacre of Chinese in Canton.” It is alleged that, when speaking of Canton, Doriot urged au Indo-Chinese revolt against French tyranny.

UNEASINESS IN MANCHURIA

SOVIET REGULARS APPEAR

TOKIO, April 9. The newspaper Myako rib im bun states that 4000 Soviet regulars filtered. into Harbin with rifles and grenades, while arms are being actively smuggled in from Siberia, these are being stored in the various Soviet consulates in Manchuria. Despatches fiom Mukden state that the uneasiness tnere is increasing, the fear being that Chang-Tso-Lin will next seize the Chinese Eastern .Railway, in order to incite Russia into reprisals which will involve Japan.

IDENTICAL NOTES

BY FIVE POWERS

PARIS, April 9. Five , Powers, including France and Italy, are presenting identical Notes regarding tlio Nanking outrages.

THE SOVIET EMBASSY

WITHDRAWN FROM PEKING

MOSCOW, April 10. The Soviet has informed the Chinese Charge cPAffaires that it has decided to withdraw the embassy from Peking as a protest against the embassy affair, leaving only the consular officers.

VMERK‘AN ATI’ITUDK

STILL BEING DEBATED

FOBCMS IN CHINA

WASSINGTON, April 9. Fifteen hundred marines mobilised at San Diego have been ordered to proceed to China.. The lack of army and navy transport necessitates the use of commercial vessels. American forces in China now number 5200 marines, 3500 bluejackets, and 33 warships. it is expected that, if they are needed, further marines will be taken from Nicaragua. It is stated here that the French Foreign Office, if correctly reported in Paris press despatches, was premature in announcing that France, Britain, Japan, and the United States hud 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 the original plan of making its representations independently, or joining With the other Powers. It is understood the State Department- is debating the relative., weight of advantage in making it evident to the Chinese that (in relation to compelling satisfaction for such outrages as that at Nanking) all countries are united and the danger of provoking criticism in this country lor entering entangling alliances with Europe. SEDITIOUS SIKHS. SHANGHAI. April 8. Three Shanghai ,Sikhs, who were attempting to seduce Indian troops, were sentenced to 18 months’ hard Inborn bv tlie British Consular Court.