TROUBLE IN CHINA.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 23 April 1927, Page 8

TROUBLE IN CHINA.

THE RUSSIAN ATTITUDE. I Per Press Association — Copyright). LONDON, April 21. Telegraphing from Shanghai, An Bartlett sums up the new situation as follows: The war between the North and the South has been temporarily suspended. General Chiang-Kai-Shek and General Chang-Tso-Lin are actively negotiating for a common movement against the Communists. Thus far General Sun-Chan-Feng hns not shown a desire to co-operate, but is likely to come into line. DESPATCHES FROM THE SCENE OF TROUBLE. PEKIN, April 21. The situation at Hankow is growing worse; even the Communist leaders are terrorised by the mob rule. There is now a provisional Government formed in Nanking, with General Tsai-You-Uo, as temporary chairman, pending the elucidation of General Wang-Ching-Wei’s position, a.s it is doubtful whether Wang has gone over to the Bolsheviks or is forcibly detained at Hankow. It is evident there is a great reaction against the Bolsheviks, owing to fear of action by the great Powers. Moderate Nationalists desire to show they can govern China, and wish the Europeans to regard them as friends. The movements of the Fleets and the continued flights of aeroplanes have persuaded the Nationalists that the Powers are serious in their demands for reparations for the Nanking outrages. THE NEGOTIATIONS. PARIS, April 21. Official circles announce that France is soliddly with the Powers demanding reparations for the Nanking outrages, and is even prepared to go the length of applying sanctions. Official quarters tone down the earlier story that Britain wishes to blockade the Yangtze river, and explain it was only intended to isolate Hankow, where there are now fortythree warships. SITUATION VIEWED AT HOME. LONDON, April 21. Foreign Office circles do not expect an improvement in the Nanking situation, till General Chiang Kaishek has tjpie to assert his authority. from which high hopes are entertained, based on his good influence in the other storm centres. A despatch has been received from the British Consul at Hankow, regretting the exaggerated press accounts that Britons were subjected to indignities and assaults. All these are untrue.