TURMOIL IN CHINA

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 30 December 1926, Page 5

TURMOIL IN CHINA

THE BRITISH PROPOSALS. ACCEPTABLE’TO CHINA. (Per Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, Dec, 29. • Although the Government has notyet received official replies to the British memorandum to China, it is semi-officially stated that it is acceptable to Italy, Belgium and the United States; while France maintains an attiftide of reserve and Japan is inclined to be critical. All the Chinese parties, though , not enthusiastic, are likely to accept it, particularly the proposals relating to the immediate imposition of the Washington surtaxes. REFUGEES POURING INTO SHANGHAI. CANTONESE ATTACK IMMINENT IN CHEKIANG. SHANGHAI, Dee. 29. Refugees are pouring into Shanghai from Hangchow, the capital of the province of Chekiang, distant from Shanghai one hundred milbs, indicating that a Cantonese bid for the possession of Shanghai is imminent. During the pest fortnight the Cantonese have been busy spreading propaganda among the Chekiang soldiery, and succeeded in causing the latter to declare independence from Sun Chuan Fang, the Governor of Shanghai, who is thus stripped of a considerable portion of his army. The remainder, amounting to twenty thousand, are suspected of disloyalty. Telegraph communication between Shanghai and' Hangchow is interrupted. Fighting is reported between Sun Chuan Fang’s forces of Chekiangites who are virtually Red, and the Shan tung army, which is at present stationed at the Nanking-Yangtse railway terminus, which was expected to rush to Shanghai to prevent the entry of the Cantonese. This is not expected to transpire, according to private information, which states that one :>f Sun Chuan Fang’s subordinates, is jstatioaed. midway on the railway, commanding a sizeable force, which threatens to prevent the advance of the Shantungese.