CIVIL WAR INEVITABLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18253, 23 November 1933, Page 7

CIVIL WAR INEVITABLE

UNREST IN CHINA ALLIANCE WITH “REDS” NEW PARTY’S ACTIVITY (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Nov. 23, 11 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Nov, 22. In view of the disturbed Fukien situation, Nanking has ordered the police at Shanghai, Pekin, Hankow, and Nanking to take extra precautions to secure the maintenance of peace, particularly in consequence of the F ukien People s Government” affiliating with the Communists. It is reported that the Fukien regime has concluded an armistice with the Communists whereby Fukien will supply the “Reds” with 300,000 dollars’ worth of salt, a similar amount of medical supplies, and 100,000 dollars’ worth of ammunition, in order to stave off Japanese intervention. It is feared that civil war in southern China is inevitable, with the alignment of the Fukien and Kwangsi forces against Kwungtung. WAR ON RUSSIA JAPANESE INTENTIONS LORD MARLEY’S OPINION (Received Nov. 3, 11 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 22. Lord Marley has returned from a tour, of China, Manchuria, and Russia as chairman of the Anti-War Congress. He says it is clear that the real danger of war in the Far East is based on Japan’s serious economic position. Japan may find in war a means ot escape from its economic difficulties. There is widespread evidence of a belief in the Far East that Japan will undertake a war against the Soviet at a n earlv date, using Manehukyo as the base for an attack. If she did decide on war, he thought it. would he extremely unlikely that other nations would bo able to withhold from the struggle.