Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED OVER 50 YEARS.] THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1925. POSITION IN CHINA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 December 1925, Page 4

Wairarapa Daily Times. [ESTABLISHED OVER 50 YEARS.] THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1925. POSITION IN CHINA.

The cables yesterday indicated that there is serious trouble brewing in China. In Mukden matters are SO' serious that .Japan has had to issue a warning to the warring generals. In the south the position lias been complicated by Chinese generals, who, in the prevailing confusion, have resumed their brigandage. Foreigners have been -assaulted and their property has been destroyed. Moreover, the movement has become more- specifically anti-Brit-ish in character. At Hankow, where protection from the Chinese Government was not forthcoming, the British residents had to defend their lives against a murderous rabble. The Chinese Government lias allowed the anti-Brit-ish agitation tO' continue unchecked, and therefore cannot divest itself of responsibility for what is happening. In this new development the hand of Russia dss clearly visible. The Soviet is fond of fishing in troubled waters, and is imbued with au unappeasable hatred of Britain. It did not need the testimony of the documents found in Shanghai and elsewhere to establish Russia's complicity iu the affair. Officials of the Soviet have openly announced that it. was behind the .strikers. Not only does Russia hope to extract some advantage for herself out of the- situation, but on general principles, whenever she sees an opportunity of doing Britain au illturn, she is prompt to take it.