EXPELLING THE REDS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 9 April 1927, Page 7

EXPELLING THE REDS.

COMMUNISTS NOT WANTED IN CHINA.

STRONG ACTION TO BE TAKEN.

(Per Press Association—Copyright.)

SHANGHAI, April 8.

The action against the Soviet in Peking, Tientsin and Shanghai synchronises with the strengthening of the important anti-Communist move by Chiang-Kaischek, Generalissimo, who has issued strict orders that no civilian may possess arms in the streets.

This is aimed at pickets and Communist civilian army. Several armed agitators near ths west gate of the native city, refusing to disarm, were shot dead by Southern troops. All vernacular printing offices have received notice prohibiting the publication of anything from the Political Bureau, Hankow, or any advertisement containing malicious propaganda, and threatening punishment for disobedience of the notice. Chiang-Kaischek is also making elaborate preparations, both military and politically, to fight the Communists in the party. His pressent difficulty is that no rule of the Kuo-mintang bars Communists from membership. Therefore he cannot expel them without a new rule, which may only be passed by a party convention. This Chiang-Kaischek intends to call at Nanking in the near future.

Meanwhile he is receiving solid support from all the middle class Chinese, who are daily carrying resolutions and issuing manifestos urging the expulsion of the Reds. China’s banks are supplying all the funds Chiang-Kaischek needs. He is receiving additional Customs surtax amounting approximately to a million taels monthly. An important conference of leading Southern generals was held at Shanghai .at which strong antiCommu'nist resolutions were passed. The only one published urged strong action. The others were not published because they stipulated specific mesaures in that direction.