CHINESE SITUATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19828, 30 April 1927, Page 7

CHINESE SITUATION

COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA Suspension Ordered by Moscow International BRITAIN WILL EXACT REPARATIONS. [By Telegraph—Per Piess Assn.—Copyright.] (Received April 29, 11 p.m. (A. and N.Z.) LONDON, April 9. The Riga correspondent of the Daily Mail states that the International has ordered the suspension of all propaganda in China and has closed the Harbin office and transferred the organisation to Irkutsk, from which centre Moscow’s agents will in future be strucredThe diplomatic correspondent of tho Daily Telegraph says that the British Government is thoroughly resigned to the prospect of having to exact reparations for the Nanking outrages without American co-operation. Probably a stronger Note, signed by three of 1h« four powers, will be sent to Mr Eugene Chen. This will be more effective than the document which was emasculated in order to secure a more academic endorsement by Washington. Official circles report that the sixth Cantonese Army has posted notices at Kiukiang attacking the Nanking Government, and demanding the execution of General Chiang Kai Shek, whose First Army is now advancing towards Kiukiang. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that reports from Moscow repeat the story that a great concentration of troops is going on on the Manchurian border. Some quarters assert that the purpose is an offensive in Northern Manchuria.

The Secretary of State for Air, replying to a question in the House of Commons, stated that the strength of the air units in of on their way to China was the equivalent of five squadrons of aeroplanes, with a personnel of 700 of all ranks.