BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 21 January 1927, Page 9

BRITISH POLICY IN CHINA.

Attitude of Great Powers.

“ENDORSED AND SUPPORTED.” Bv Cable —Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received January 20, 9.40 p.m.) LONDON, January 19. Cabinet again considered the Chinese .situation, and is gratified at the assurances from other Powers endorsing and supporting the policy of the British Government regarding the protection of Shanghai. The “Daily Mail” says that copies of telegrams from Hankow show that the censor suppressed messages reporting the speeches made by Gcneial Chang-Kai-Shck (southern commander) and General Borodin (Russian adviser), in which they said the ground in the British concession belonged to them, and they were going to fight to keep it.”

PLANS OF NATIONALISTS.

NANCIIANG CHOSEN AS

CAPITAL,

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 20, 9.40 p.m.) PEKING, January 19.

A meeting of nationalist i>ilitary leaders resolved to make Nanehang, eighty miles to Lite .south of Yangtsze, their capital, the chief reason being that it cannot bo attacked from tho ,sea. This replaces the earlier plan to incorporate Hankow, Hanyang and Wuchang into one capital, to bo named Wuchan.

AMERICA'S “WAIT-AND-SEE” POLICY. ANXIETY IN OFFICIAL CIRCLES

By Cubic —Press Association —Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (.Received January 20, 8.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 39.

With the increasing evidence of a •neater tide of anti-foreign sentiment rising in China, official circles feit that a test of the situation may occur in Shanghai shortly. it is hoped, however, that the'sweep of the Cantonese armies towards Shanghai, where the Americans are most numerous in China, will not make necessary forceful measures by the United States. The American policy towards China, meanwhile, is unchanged. There is no indication that recognition will be extended to tho Canton Government, irrespective of British action thereon. There is every expectation that unless conditions become acute, the State Department will make no move until after Mr Kellogg (Secretary of State) sees tho American Minister (Mr Murray) who left Peking yesterday to confer with tho State Department regarding the whole situation.

PEACE IN PACIFIC NOT MENACED.

MR. BRUCE’S VIEWS

By Cable—rress Association—Copyright.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received January 20, 8.5 p.m.) HONOLULU, January 19.

Mr Bruce, en route to Australia, expressed the opinion that peace in the Pacific was not threatened by the chaotic conditions in China, but the world might expect a long struggle in China’s aspirations for self-expression.

ORDERED CHINA.

By Cable —Press Association —Copyright,

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 20, 10-30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 20.

Singing songs entitled “Shanghai,” with a band marching ahead, great crowds cheered 300 Royal Marines, who left Chatham for Portsmouth, under orders to proceed to China. The War Office denies sending tanks to China.

CANTONESE VIEWPOINT.

ANTI-BRITISH OUTBURST,

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 18. Tho “Daily Express” publishes a special dispatch from Mr Eugene Chen, in which, describing the recent events in Hankow, ho charges the British with bayoneting several Chinese forming part of a loyal crowd on tho boundary of tho British Concession. He also gives details of tho events which lead to the Municipal Commission taking charge of affairs and goes on to say: “Britain, in tho first place, subjected China to th 0 political and economic control of the West, typical features of which were expressed m British control of Chinese Customs, tho extra territoriality of alien administered settlements and other limitations of Chines© sovereignty contained in unequal treaties. The country is so controlled that it is fettered and obviously not independent. Chinos© SNatioixahsin therefore, demands the handing back of tho lost independence of China. Our terms are the cancellation of unequal treaties upon which the regime of foreign Imperialism in China is based. Tho situation arising out of the new status quo in. tlie Caoncession is not only profoundly significant as an act in

history, but it is a direct summons to British statesmanship to take the lead in recognising the justice of the Nationalist demand for Chinese independence, and to proceed to redress a great historic wrong. I categorically repudiate the suggestion that the humiliation of the British is desired by us. We demand a settlement o£ the question of the Concession, which shall not deny its effective re-incorporation within the Chinese territorial system subject to a Nationalist recognition of the validity of all property rights of British Nationalists in the Concession. ’

WARLIKE PREPARATIONS. TANKS AND AII?CRAFT FOR CHINA. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N,Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 19. The “Star’-' states that the Government is despatching tanks and more aeroplanes to China.