CHINESE CAULDRON
HOSTILITIES CONTINUE
SEIZURE OF CHEFOO,
BRITISH RESIDENTS SAFE.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received noon.) RUGBY, October 27.
In a statement on the general situation in China, Captain R. A. Eden, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs) said that reports had been refceiveft of hostilities in Szechuan .and'- Shantung. In Shantung, Chefoo had changed hands, having been occupied with 11 out disturbance by the /forces of Gener Han-fuchu, chairman, of the Provincial Government. Fighting was- continuing, but no danger to British life and property was apprehended. • Some improvement appeared to have been effected in the Communist situation in central and south China during the past few months. Military operations had succeeded in driving Communist forces a distance from Hanchow, and’ in particular clearing the Han Valley. Normal conditions, however,' had not yet been restored along the Pek-ing-Hankow railway. .
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Northern Advocate, 28 October 1932, Page 5
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