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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19767, 15 February 1927, Page 7

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ENGLISH TROOPS LAND INFANTRY AT SHANGHAI CHINESE WELL ARMED COLOSSAL TRADE IN MUNITIONS [By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] Received Feb. 14, 10.40 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 14. Tho Shanghai correspondent of tho “Daily Express” says the first English troops landed this morning, when the second Durhams and the second Gloucester disembarked. They will be confined strictly to the British settlement. Tho first landing of white troops at Shanghai since the Boxer troubles today was made the occasion of a great, though quiet, public demonstration by the foreign population. Headed by their colours and their own bands, with a Marine band from His Majesty’s vessels in port, 1500 men of the' two battalions, in full kit and with fixed bayonets, marched five miles from the docks to theor quarters, through tne principal streets. Immense crowds of Chinese lined tho route, but there was no sign of hostility. There now 2,000,000 men under arms in China, and great quantities of aeroplanes, machines guns and small arms are coming in, not only from Russia, which is the principle source for the Contonese, but from France, Germany, Italy and Japan. Not a little is being landed openly by German steamers, Germany not being a party to the Washington Agreement. Trade in smuggled arms has been going on on a colossal scale since 1923, including a quantity of Remington rifles and other stores left in the neighbourhood of Vladivostok when the American and Allied forces were withdrawn in 1918. The Chinese also have arsenals at Mukden, Hanyang, Nanking and elsewhere. LEAGUE’S HANDS TIED INTERVENTION IMPOSSIBLE APPEAL TO AMERICA SUGGESTED Received Feb. 14, 10.40 p.m. GENEVA, Feb. 13. League circles agree that successful intervention in China is impossible, because at the present no single Government is recognised by the other members. The conviction is growing that the only solution will be to ask tho United States to re-summon the signatories of tho Washington Treaty. Mr Chu, the permanent Chinese representative here, nevertheless declares that he will represent both Peking and Canton at the next Council meting on March 17. “We may have internal differences, but we aro united in our external policy,” ho said.

POSTAL APPOINTMENTS NATIONALISTS’ ACTION THE RIVAL GOVERNMENTS Received Feb. 14, 10.40 p.m. SHANGHAI, Feb. 13. All the postal commissioners are foreigners, bnt it is believed that the Nationalist attitude is intended more as a protest against the Peking Government’s right to make any appointments, especially in Nationalist territory, than hostility to foreigners. It is reported from Japanese sources that the Peking Government has informed London that any agreement regarding Hankow must be ratified by Peking. THE SOCIALIST VOICE DEMAND FOB RECALL OF TROOPS A SWEEPING RESOLUTION Received Feb. 14, 10.40 p.m. PARIS, Feb. 13. The executive of the Socialist International, at which Mr Arthur Henderson presided, carried a resolution demanding the recall of foreign troops and warships from China and the abolition of foreigners’ extra-territorial privileges, in favour of the absolute sovereignty of the Chinese people.