CHINA SETTLING DOWN.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2053, 9 December 1924, Page 5

CHINA SETTLING DOWN.

MANCHURIAN TROOPS WITHDRAW. STUDENTS KIDNAPPED. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) Peking, December 8. Dr Sun Yat Sen is ill, and his departure from Peking to Tientsin has been postponed. No doubt the Bolsheviks are looking for Sun Yat Sen’s arrival as an opportunity to bring Communism prominently forward, and a number of Communist demonstrations have been arranged. The Minister of Education has 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 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, and 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 non-intervention in politics on the part of the militarists. Thirty-eight Chinese members of the staff and students of the Canton Christian College were kidnapped on Saturday 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 was flying the American flag. The vessel was sent back with one foreign lady and a number of Chinese girls who were aboard. All the men were taken inland.