NEBULOUS STATE

Northern Advocate, 15 March 1929, Page 7

NEBULOUS STATE

I CHINESE SITUATION CIVIL WAR OBVIATED. CHANGSHA AFFAIR ONLY LOCAL. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, March 13. Sir Auslen Chamberlain, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said that the Government had made'no agreement with any foreign country since 1918 for mutual defence or for other purposes, of which Parliament had not been advised and which had not been deposited with the League of Nations. Ashed to state the present position in China, Sir Austen said that Sir Miles Lampson, the British Minister, reports that the situation is at present nebulous. In Shantung, Chang Tsuugchang has been reinforced iby the. revolt to him of several thousands of ex-Northern troops, who had been incorporated in the forces of the National Government, but no serious fighting has taken place. Fight took place at Changsha in the last week of February, when a general belonging to Tvwangsi group forcibly displaced one of his colleagues. As the latter was the nominee of the Nanking Government the incident gave rise to rumours of the impending recrudescence of civil war, but according to the latest report from the British Consul-General at Shanghai, the situation appears easier and Marshal Li Tsung-jen, head of the. Tvwangsi party, who is at present in hospital in that town, has published a statement declaring- his allegiance to the National Government, and stating that the Changsha affair is of local significance only. 'The position may become clearer after a meeting of the party congress of Kuo Mintang, which, is, duo to open at Nanking on March 15.