REPRISALS?

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19827, 29 April 1927, Page 7

REPRISALS?

A CABINET MEETING Situation Discussed With Navy and Air Chiefs CHINESE ATTACK WARSHIPS GUNBOAT BETUBN3 ELBE ON YANGTSZF. IB? Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.] Received April 28, 11 pun. (A. & N.Z..) LONDON, April 28. Cabinet to-day discussed the Chinese situation, and consulted Earl Beatty I and Air Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard. It is understood with reference and to the possibility of retaliation if the Cantonese continue firing on river steamers. One of the latest incidents in the Yangtsze region is the attack which was made yesterday near Chinkiang on the British gunboat Cockchafer. The Cockchafer returned the fire With her main armament of two 6-in.ch guns The Cockchafer was the gunboat concerned in the Wanhsien action, where her commanding officer, Commander Acheson, was wounded. SAILORS ATTACKED IN STREET A Shanghai message states that two British bluejackets gave two rickshaw coolies more than double the legal fare, but the coolies demanded more. When the sailors refused the coolies attacked them, others joining in and one sailor being stabbed The Chinese police, instead of assisting the sailors, carried them off to the police station, whence they were escorted to their ship. None of the coolies was arrested.

A SEVERE REVERSE EOUTHEHNEBS DEFEATED IN HONAN REPOET FROM HONGKONG Received April 29. 1 a.m. JA. &N.Z.) HONGKONG, April 28. Reports from the Honan front state that the Southerners met with a severe reverse in an engagement with Fengtien troops.