TURMOIL LIKELY IN CHINA
SEPARATION OF THE SOUTH
INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT
WIDENING OF THE BREACH
THE PEOPLE’S CONVENTION
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Shanghai, May 1.
Serious political disturbances on the eve of the first people’s convention, called for May 5, at Nanking, are likely to throw the country into turmoil, as the result of ths threat of the Cantonese to establish an independent government in Southern China.
The breach between Nanking and the cliques in the Kwantung province (which includes Canton) is widening, following a hostile gesture denouncing the Chiang Kaishek regime.
The Government is visibly embarrassed, since the announcement was made to foreign Powers that a united China would assume jurisdiction over all foreigners following the people’s convention, which may now prove impracticable. _ Persons travelling to China must in the future have their passports properly visaed, as the new passport regulations, (o be enforced as from to-day, necessitate a full examination of all foreigners entering the country. <
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 May 1931, Page 7
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