TURMOIL IN CHINA.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 24 December 1926, Page 5

TURMOIL IN CHINA.

FOREIGNERS WARNED TO EVACUATE. SAFETY CANNOT BE ASSURED. (Per Press Association—Copyright.'; SHANGHAI, Dec. 23. Although the absence of violent: outbreaks in Hankow suggests quiet ness such is entirely contrary to facts. There is indisputable evidence of the Cantonese achieving their ends by subtle but nevertheless effective means, demonstrating the cunning hand of the Soviet, which is insufficient to cause the foreign intervention desired by merchants and residents, who realise that only wholesale massacre of the foreigners would cause the powers to intervene.

The Hankow situation is rapidly taking over the conditions obtaining in Canton prior to the so-called lifting of the boycott. The Cantonese, not content with establishing al Nationalist Government recognisable by the powers, are pushing the programme aiming at driving out all foreigners from China They are hoping that the relentless campaign of strikes and disorders will cause foreigners to leave disgusted, thereby relinquishing the concessions and control, which are coveted by the Reds. The cannon of the Hanyang arsenal overlooking Hankow concessions are trained on Hankow, which is regarded by foreigners as an empty but significant threat. Daily reports arriving from the interior cities state that foreigners are warned to evacuate by the consuls, who are unable to guarantee further safety.