VERY HEAVY FIGHTING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19607, 8 April 1927, Page 11

VERY HEAVY FIGHTING.

NORTH VERSUS THE SOUTH. HOSTILITIES IN PROGRESS. ANHWEi PROVINCE THE SCENE. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received April 7, 8.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. SHANGHAI, April 6. The latest reports from Nanking say very heavy fighting is reported by the British light cruiser Emerald to be in progress between the Northern and Southern armies at Kwantien, in the Anhwei produce. MOLESTING FOBEIGNEBS CESSATION ORDER ISSUED. JAPANESE STRENGTH AT HANKOW (Received April 7, 8.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. SHANGHAI, April 6. The Chinese authorities at Hankow have issued a proclamation ordering complete immunity from molestation to be given to foreigners. It is officially stated that the Japanese casualties as a result of Sunday s riots were: Five killed, and 10 missing. v Japanese m.\al reinforcements have arrived at Hankow. MANCHUKIAN FORCES. JAPANESE EXPEDITION. PEKING GUARD STRENGTHENED. (Received April 7, 8.7 p.m.) A. and N.Z. TOKIO. April 6. The Japanese Government has decided to send the Utsunomiya Division, which is largely composed of cavalry, into Manchurian leased territory. The ostensible object is to relieve the division which is serving there. Two companies also have been ordered to reinforce the Japanese Embassy guard at Peking. MISSIONEES CHASED. iNCI DENT AT NANKING. BRUTAL CHINESE RABBLE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received April 7, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. RUGBY, April 6. In the course of Sir Austen, Chamberlain's statement about China in the House of Commons he mentioned that the premises of the Weslevan mission at Nanking were broken into and the contents destroyed by a rabble composed of students and others. The members of the mission were hounded out of the place and a jeering mob pursued them to the river bank by the lights from lanterns and threatened them with violence. ADVENTURE CHECKED. BRITISH OFFICERS' PLAN. WANTED TO FIGHT FOR CHANG. {Received April 7, 5.5 P.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. April 7. Captain F. V. C. Livingstone-Lear-mouth, a descendant of David stone, desired to take a small party of "gentlemen adventurers" to China for the purpose of fighting under Marshal Chang Tso-lin in his anti-Red campaign. However, the Foreign Office endorsed his passport : "Not valid for China. This abruptly ended the proposed adventure. About 15 or 16 former officers had already joined the party. A cablegram had been sent to Chang offering the services of the officers, but the Passport Office demanded Captain Livingstone-Learmoul.h's passport and sent it to the Foreign Office, which endorsed it as invalid. It intimated that passports to China were only being issued in specia< circumstances. |