TENSE SITUATION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16360, 7 June 1927, Page 7

TENSE SITUATION

IN CHINESE STRUGGLE MOVE TOWARDS PEKIN (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.' (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.; (Received June 7, 10 a.in.) SHANGHAI, June 6. The second battalion of the Border Regiment has embarked fur North China. The Middlesex battalion will embark shortly. The Northern situation is tense. There is a slight rupture among (he Northerners, one faction favoring ■withdrawal from Pekin and preserving tho army* intact, and the other insisting on the status quo. A compromising Cantonese and Manchuria coup d’etat is reported to be developing and is having the support of the younger element.

RED BLIGHT IN CHINA MILLIONS STARVED OR KILLED WHERE TRADE UNION FEES GO SHANGHAI, April Uh The Chinese Merchants’ Association of Shanghai has issued a manifesto regarding the effects of Communism in China. It states that: Millions of Chinese have been bereaved, starved, or killed as the result of Red rule; Numerous factories have boon forced to cease working;

Thousands of businesses have been obliged to close; and that Tens of thousands of people have been made bankrupt. Concerning the spiritual and intellectual lift of China, the manifesto states that religious observances are being oppressed or suppressed and that students have given up learning. Farmers have ceased to a large extent to cultivate the land through the laborers declining to work.

The manifesto declares that the leaders of the labor unions have so far collected' more than £1,250,000 in membership fees, with which they are “out-capitalising the so-called -capitalists by purchasing motor-cars, houses, and concubines.” The manifesto concludes: “We cannot and must not sit patiently by while the Communists are spoiling our country. Never in its history has there been such tvrannv in China.”

SOVIET HOSTILITY ANTI-CHRISTIAN PROPAGANDA (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. The insidious and openly hostile Soviet , propaganda and bitterness toward Christianity displayed by the “ Red ” forces are two of many aspects of the situation in China of which Dr. Phyllis Haddow, who returned to Auckland by the Maunganui, can speak with authority. After serving for three and a-half years with the Church Missionary Society’s Hanchow hospital, Dr. Haddow was obliged to llee with other Europeans when' the Southern forces took the city. For two and a-half months she sheltered as a refugee in Shanghai. Dr. Haddow said Soviet propaganda saturated the country. Printed in Chinese and English, it found its way everywhere. One circular she saw stated that the “ British came with smiling faces, gave the people the Bible, extended them kindness, and then took them into hospital and killed them with injections of morphia.” Many Chinese girls dressed in men’s uniforms were used as propagandists.