CHINESE WRANGLE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 25 January 1927, Page 5

CHINESE WRANGLE.

THE OLIVE BRANCH. A BRITISH GESTURE. 1 Press Assodiitiou- Electric Telegraph-Copyrigh SHANGHAI, Sunday. Tie, decision, of the British Chamber of: Commerce at Hankow that British banks, shipping companies' and merchants should ’resume' trade on January 24th was reached after consultation with Sir Edward O’Malley, Secretary of the Legation. It was felt that this would be a gesture of confidence in the Chinese, anil assist in creating an. atmosphere favourable to the negotiations' in regard to the British Concession now in progress.• Advices from Siangtau, in the Hunan Province, etate that there was a big anti-British parade -there on January 16th. The mub set lire to the Asiatic Petroleum Company’s installation. The fire destroyed 2000 tins of oil and the company’s buildings. Anti-Christian agitation is rampant. 4[any chapels have been seized and stripped of- their furnishings, and Bibles and tracts torn up. BRITISH TROOPS READY. LONDON, Sunday. There is great activity at the York headquarters of the- Northern Command, where four battalions are under orders, comprising the loth Brigade. A mobile force not attached to any division, and the 'Green Howards’, who only recently returned after long service in the'Far East. The total is now seven battalions, apart from the marines standing by. TROOPS FROM INDIA. (Received Tuesday, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Monday. The War Office has officially announced that the Government of India is arranging to despatch to Shanghai, two British and two Indian battalions'. JAPANESE CHANGE. TOKIO, Monday. The Navy Department announces the despatch of four destroyers for Shanghai, to-day, on receipt of word of a more threatening situation. CHANG TSO-LIN INTERVIEWED. LONDON, Monday. The ‘-Daily Expresss ’’. Peking special correspondent, interviewed Marshal Chang Tsb-lin, who said: “We in Southern China are not waging war on Southern Chinn,"-but we are engaged, in a struggle against Bolshevism. '"“.We have eight hundred thousand to a million .men under arms, and .we earnestly _ hope for the moral support and enicouragement of. Britain. 5 * . , •»;, The Marshal is a wizened little figure of 5 feet 5 inches, far from the Mussolini style of man, but his narrow black eyes glinted with the fire-of grim determination when he received the correspondent in one of the Emperor’s palaces in the Manchu city. Marshal Chang Tso-lin continued: — “We are determined to wipe out all Russian undesirables. We have the fullest evidence that the Bolsheviks are supplying'the-Nationalists with munitions; and funds. Russian schools are springing up everywhere in the. south. The British Government should realise' that it is' futilg to lieg'otiatie with Chen (the representative of the Canton Government).’’ OPIUM WAR PROPAGANDA. CHINESE STATEMENT. (Received Tuesday, 9.30 aan.) SHANGHAI, Monday. Eugeen Chen, the Nationalist Foreign Minister, has authorised a statement which explains Britain’s despatch of troops to China. Ex parte, he says: “The question is uot what Britain and the Powers wish to grant to China, in order to meet the legitimate aspirations of the Chinese, but what China may justly grant Britain and others, whose regime of international control is now definitely shar- ' ing the fate of all historical systems of political subjection. The system of international control, as known tO' the foreign imperialist', has necessarily involved such limitation of Chinese sovereignty, economic, judicial and political, that real independence has not been enjoyed in China since England imposed the Nanking Treaty. Therefore, it is historically true to state that the British ,having defeated China in the opium •war, deprived her of her independence. ' English men of the present generation have perhaps forgotten, but Nationalist China, with the old iron of defeat in her flesh, remembers. China’s dominantaim to-day is the recovery of the independenee'lost at the hands' of the British in the opium war. Until this is accomplished there cannot be real peace j between Chinees nationalism and British imperialism. “A nation which is not dying cannot be at peace with its conqueror, but will strike at a selected moment. The selected moment of Chinese Nationalism came when the British controlled rilles . were ordered to shoot to kill Chinese students on Chinese soil, on May 30th, at Shanghai, and when, following the further killing of Chinese students and others, by foreigners, at Canton and elsewhere in June, an economic weapon was! forged by Chinese nationalism. In South China the struggle has spread continuously, and will not cease until complete independence has been won.” ANTI-FOREIGN OUTRAGES. V n ■ PEKIN, Monday. Further reports from Foochow reveal ■ many antiforeigu outrages, especially ' towards religious institutions, and wholesale looting by Soldiers of the ; Southern Army. v

£3O. Fifty more Americans have been sent to Manila by a gunboat. Two American doctors were severely beaten in the Foochow streets. Two ladies were attacked in a Church of England school and driven into the street. Most of their clothes were ripped off, and they were surrounded by an. infuriated mob. but managed to escape to the, South Gate', ultimately reaching the 'Catholic Foundling Home, where they were later escorted to the foreign settlement at Nantai. BRITISH DEFENCE FORCE. (Received Tuesday, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, Monday. The War Office has announced theformation of the Shanghai defence force of twelve battalions, ineluding the Coldstream Guards, .also-an armoured car company, which will proceed to China as 1 soon as transports are ready. SOVIET PLOT REVEALED. (Received Tuesday, 11.15 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Monday. Light is thrown on Soviet troop movements oil the Manchuria border by the arrest and execution of General Yang- Chow, adviser to General Chang Tsolin. When the Soviet coup to ’overthrow the Mukden War Lord was frustrated, documents seized revealed a huge scheme ,involving Soviet military plans to capture' the three Eastern provinces and exterminate General Chang Tsb-lin and construct a huge arsenal, located at Harbin, for the distribution of arms to the followers of General Yang- Chow. Prior to his execution, General Yang Chow was tortured and revealed the entire plot, implicating Soviet officials at Peking and elsewhere. - ' ’ Japanese and other diplomatic circles view the matter seriously.