TROUBLED CHINA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 123, 22 April 1927, Page 7

TROUBLED CHINA.

SECRET COURT-MARTIAL.

TRIAL OF COMMUNISTS,

HONG KONG, April 21. A secret court-martial of 2000 Communists arrested in the recent raids has commenced at Canton.

Fighting is in progress against 8000 Red peasants concentrating between Sunkai and Yingtak. A naval wireless message from Hankow states that the exodus of wealthy Chinese continues. A financial panic is likely to eventuate. Coolies are organising food-looting raids. . A large fire has broken out at Nanking.—A. and N.Z. cable.

DOCUMENTS SEIZED

COMMUNICATIONS WITH MOSCOW

PEKIN, April 20. An investigation of documents which the Russians were discovered hastily soaking with kerosene and attempting to burn when the Soviet Embassy was raided proved that the Soviet military attaches’ office was used as a clearing house for communications with the Moscow Red agents. Many of the documents were blurred, some with their edges charred, but some were intact. They consisted of hundreds of thousands of letters and reports relating to propaganda, proving that the Soviet War Commissariat provided the salaries of agents. One dispatch is a strongly-worded complaint against Chinese stupidity. and the necessity for continually gingering up the Chinese propagandists.—Times.

ACTIVITY IN MANCHURIA

TOKIO, April 20. Harbin reports the dispatch of a reconnoitring force from Tsitsihar (a town of Manchuria) following a report that .50,000 Mongolians, including many Russians, have gathered in the direction of Chahaerh Payantala.— Sydney Sun cable.