FAMINE IN SHANTUNG.
STARVATION OF MILLIONS. COMMUNIST PARTY SPLIT. A. and N.Z. SHANGHAI. Nov. IP. According to reports by the International Famine Relief Committee, 9,000.000 inhabitants of the Shantung Province arc starving through drought, the visitations of locusts, the civil war and banditry. The crops average only 10 per cent, of the usual output. There are 50.000 Nanking troops congregated at Hankow. Firing on shipping has ceased. The Chinese authorities have expressed a desire to co-operate with foreigners. While hostilities appear to have ended on the Yangtse River, on the north-western front, there is continued fierce fighting between the Northern armies and the Southern Nationalists. Details'of a coup at Canton show that the extremists, known as tho Ironsides, have taken complete control without heavy fighting. The situation in reality is' a split in the Kuomintang, the Communist Party, against the Moderates. Meantime while the former are in control it is expected that increased chaos will be the result.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19799, 21 November 1927, Page 9
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