POWERS ACT IN CONCERT

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1930, Page 9

POWERS ACT IN CONCERT

- . , MENACE OF REDS IN CHINAS . ’• .'L ■ ‘"/.L ;'M?: PROTECTION OF FOREIGNERS ■ . KITTLE HOPE IN • / By Telegraph--Press Assn. —Copyright, vx. Rec. 5.5 p.m. London, August. 9; ' The British, American, Japanese ( and French Governments are consulting with a view to concerted naval measures for,' th© safety of their own nationals at Hankow and other Yangtse porta threateq,cdJ)y Communist forces, says th®(- dip£gtyatt<l. editor of the Daily Telegraph, is inspired purely: by humanitarian^,^j vC j|; and should in nowise be construed : vention in China’s domestic feuds. Vhey will operate only w&cre tho Nanking Government is unable foreign;

and property. “It is most gratifying,” says the paper, “that the leading treaty Powers have been able to agree promptly on a common plan r of action. Tho agreement between, the Governments follows fine co-operation, by . responsible local representatives of the fouj Powers. The military prospects of Chiang,/ Kai Shek and the Nanking Governments., are not regarded as hopeful in view o! • the southern Communists’ advance down the river. Chiang Kai Shek’g chief diffi" cultj r is a shortage of money. The Com*! num ist armies are really groups of organised, armed and financed by. Soviet agents.” EXECUTION OF COMMUNISTS, AUTHORITIES COMBING CANTON. Rec. 7.30 p.m. Hongkong, August 9.' Following tho Nanking Government's in-’/ structions to the Kwangtung provincial Government Canton's authorities are carrying out searches city for Communists. Yesterday”' 3ver lOul were tried and 14 were immediately exs* " cuted. Other executions are probable, in. dicating.a firm desire to stamp out the extremists.