HEAVY FIGHTING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 24 May 1927, Page 5

HEAVY FIGHTING

NORTH ADVANCE RESISTED.

SIEGE OF WUCHANG,

TERMS STILL BEING DEBATED

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 10.35 a.m. to-day. ” SHANGHAI, May 23.

Latest information) shows that Communist and Nationalist forces are vigorously resisting the Northerners. Streams of wounded are arriving at Hankow, confirming reports of heavy fighting on the Honan; front. The situation in, Hankow has eated, and there is less panic as the result of stern measures enforced by the military. . ... , Wuchang Communists are :.Ull deliberating on the surrender terms advanced bv Yang Sen’s forces, who are encamped in proximity to W uchang awaiting the answer.

OIL COMPANY’S" TANS AFIRE

BOLSHEVIK INFLUENCE ON THE

WANE

SIR MILES LAMPSON’S NEW QUEST.

HONGKONG, May 23

A naval wireless Ijrom -Chinkiang states that, during a leree bombardment from the Northerners, a fire commenced in the Standard Oil Company’s tanks and seriously menaced the city before it was controlled. Heavy damage is reported. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 21.

Commenting on the visit of Sir Miles Lampson to Shanghai, “The Times” expresses the view that the Bolshevik influence will linger on for a time, and will continue to complicate affairs _in China. With the now obvious decline of the Bolshevik factor, however,, a more nearly typical Chinese situation i? again arising on the Yangtsze. It is the unknown possibilities of this situation that Sir Miles Lampson now has to investigate. Whether it contains any elements that may prove susceptible to the recent declared principles ow British policy in China, it is hard to say. These principles there is no question of modifying them. A search for a Chinese authority in association with whom they may be successfully applied in practice is difficult, and demands great patience, but a search for a friendly and reasonable China will be maintained, in spite of all the hitter disappointments that have been experienced during the last few months on the Yangtsze.