UNTOLD TERRORS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17178, 30 October 1926, Page 7

UNTOLD TERRORS

EXECUTIONS IN CHINA WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER FRENCH REVOLUTION RECALLED. (Elec, Tel. Copyright-United Press Assn (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.! (Received October 30, 11 a.m.) PEKIN, Oct. *JI>. With heads falling under the executioner’s knife daily, suspected Cantonese agents marching shackled through the streets to the native tribunal, and dozens guilty of acts of ireason facing firing squads, the Shanghai native districts recall the terrorisms of the French revolution. Chinese soldiery and police are unceasingly scouring the territory ad mining the foreign concessions. ll:mllv a day passes without dozens of suspected Kuomintung spies being exei utod.

By day and night military patrols force an entry into Chinese home o aml drag suspects to the military court. After a brief trial they are executed or released, according to the ability of the prisoners to bribe the officials. Many houses revealed Kuomintung Hugh, pistols, bombs, and Bolshevik literature, frequently causing the beheading of the occupants immediately, without trial. The heads are stuck on telegraph posts. The principal of Nanehang University, one of the leading colleges in China, was executed yesterday owing to his supposed encouragement of recruits for the Military Academy of Canton.

SUN TO BE DEPOSED

UNCONFIRMED STATEMENT SHANGHAI, Oct. 20. Contrary to expectations General Sun Chuan-fang has decided on an invasion of Chekiang. In the last two days lie has concentrated his available forces from other fronts south of Kiang-su until lie lias there an estimated strength of 8000. The movment commenced in the early hours of this morning and reports indicate that already he has passed Sung-kiang to which place the Chekiang forces retired on Monday. Sun’s movement apparently . was necessitated by fear of a further uprising of Cantonese supporters in Shanghai. It is widely reported in Shanghai this evening that the Cantonese have an army of 10,000 waiting for the signal to rise, in which event it will be necessary to drive the Chekiang forces back from Shanghai as far as possible. An unconfirmed Chinese report slates that Marshal Chang Tso-lin lias unpointed Marshal Chang Chun-chang to lie Inspector-General of the live

eastern provinces. „ If this is true it constitutes a serious blow to Sun Chuan-fang, Marshal Chang Chun-chang is an avowed enemy of Sun, and only ]iatched up peace with him at the dictation of Chang Tso-lin for the purpose of allowing Sun to fight against the South. While the report is unconfirmed it is significant that certain officers under Sun have been moving valuables inside tlm international settlement for safe keeping. This is regarded as an indication that, while Sun is militarily successful the political situation gives cause for considerable uneasiness.