JAPANESE IN ACTION

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 4 May 1928, Page 5

JAPANESE IN ACTION

CLASH WITH NATIONALISTS LOOTING AT TSINANFU. ACTION TO PREVENT IT. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELEC'TRK TELEGRA PII—COPYRIGHT.) CAUSTRALIAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received 11 a.m. to-day. SHANGHAI, May 3. Acording to a Japanese news agency word has been received confirming independent British reports that Japanese and Southern troops at Tsinanfu dashed, following the looting of Japanese shops. The later messages are brief and lack details. The Japanese are apparently determined to save Tsingtao from hostilities, and have established a. 12 miles’ cordon of 2000 troops. It is announced that no "hostilities will be permitted within this line; _ nevertheless the majority of the highest Cliinese officials are evacuating towards Manchuria. Chang Tso Lin has issued orders to hold Tsingtao at all costs. SHANGHAI. May 4.

Further details state that General Chiang Kaishek is unable to control his undisciplined troops, who are_ looting and firing Japanese houses indiscriminately. Japanese troops intervened. and were fired' on by the Na r tionalists. There were casualties on both sides. Messages state that fighting between the Japanese and Nationalists was still in progress on Thureday afternoon, but the extent was unknown.