WARFARE IN CHINA

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3493, 1 November 1926, Page 10

WARFARE IN CHINA

SHANGHAI “REIGN OX ? TERROR.”

[By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.’ 1 PEKIN, Oct. 29. With heads falling under the executioner’s knife daily, with suspected Cantonese agents marching shackled through the streets to the native tribunal, and with dozens guilty of acts of treason facing firing squads the Shanghai native districts recall the terrorisms of the French revolution. The Chinese soldiery and police arc unceasingly scouring the territory adjoining (he foreign concessions. Hardly a day passes without dozens of suspected Kuoinintung spies being executed. By day and by night military patrols force an entry into Chinese homes, drag suspects to the military court and after a brief trial they arc executed or released, according to the effectiveness of the prisoner’s bribe. Many bouses have revealed KuomIntung flags, pistols, bombs and Bolshevik literature, frequently causing the beheading of the occupants immediately and without trial, the heads being stuck on telegraph polos. The principal of the Nanchang University, one of the leading colleges in China, was executed yesterday owing to supported encouragement of recruits for the Military Academy ot Canton.