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FURTHER RAIDS AGAINST COMMUNISTS.
CANTON CITY EASIER.
LOYAL TROOPS UP-COUNTRY VICTORIES.
Further ralds against the Communists are reported from Hang how, Ningpo and Wusih, also from Amoy, where the extremists have been dealt with."
A die-hard few in Canton still defy General Chiang Kai-shek's authority, but the position in the city is generally easier. Loyal troops have won victories up-country.
BREACH WIDENS..
Further Anti-Communist Raid.
-Rugby, April 18. -- Reports from various Chinese centres indicate a widening of the breach between General Chiang Kai- shek and the extremists.
At Hangelow, Ningpo and Wusih as well as in Shanghai, anti-Com-
General Ching Chien, Comman- der of the 6th Nationalist Army.
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THE FIRING ON SHIPS..
Nanking, April 18. Whilst firing on ships up to Beven miles above Nanking con- tinues, fac dring across the river has decreased (below Nanking). The remainder of the foreign commercial. community. hitherto evacuated are now being sent to Shanghai.-British Naval Wireless.
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POWERS TO SEND A STRONGER NOTE.
TIME LIMIT LIKELY.
PEKING MINISTERS IN FULL AGREEMENT.
Mr. Eugene Chen's reply to the Powers' Note regarding the Nanking outrages is considered by the Ministers at Peking to be quite unsatisfactory.
It is now considered probable that the Powers will send a stronger Note to Mr. Eugene Chen demanding a specific answer to their claims and fixing a time limit.
"EQUIVOCAL"
[A report published yesterday indicated that General Chang Trouble also broke out in the Tsung-chang's Northerners of prosperous town of Futshan Shantung had advanced along the where Commander Chien Ta-north bank of the Yangtse River Mr. Eugene Chen "Overreaches chun's "peace protection corps" (up-stream) as far as Hochow, has taken over control.
which is about 80 miles above Curfew in Honan.
Nanking. Apparently, the rival In Honan, that part of Canton outposts on the two banks of the| city on the aduth side of the River, are firing at each other, river, operations were carried out above Nanking, and that a lull by General Fook-lam's 5th Na- has set in below Nanking and as tionalist Ariny. Martial law was far as Chinkiang, where Marshal imposed during the week-end and Sun
Chuan-fang's Northern curfew was imposed at 11 o'clock Army is being held back by the for the gambling houses and Nationalists on the River and on opiym divans.
the south bank.]
A body of Communist students stubbornly resisted a company of 5th Army troops, inflicting a num- ber of casualties before. they were overpowered and captured.
General Li Chai-sum (General Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff in Canton) has strictly forbidden-
the release of any Communist captured, irrespective of the sure- 'ty offered. The principals are being removed to Bocca Tigris
Forts for detention.
Tension Eased.
still
Some of the Cadets at the Whampoa Academy arc under suspicion. Government forces on both land and sea have taken precautionary measures.
That the tension in Canton city has eased is evident from the des
.. CAUGHT IN TRAP?
Northeners at Pukow and
Their Line.
While pro-Canton reports ad mit that the Northerners are still in Pukow (the terminus of the railway to Tientsin), which faces Nanking from the opposite side of the River, the Shantung Army is still spoken of as "remnants."
The case made out for the Southerners is that they have enticed the vanguard of the Pukow Railway while the left Shantung men down the Tientain
1st.Army has diployed and push (western wing) of the National-
Himself.
Rugby, April 18. The Peking Ministers of the five Powers who sent identic notes to the Cantonese National- ist Government regarding the Nanking outrages have had under consideration the replies received. from Mr. Eugene Chen, the Can- tonese Foreign Minister.
It is understood that Ministers have unanimously decided to send identic.recommendations to their respective Governments.
4.
all classes of the native commun- ity a considerable atmosphere of uneasiness prevails. British Naval Wireless.
[Changsha,is an inland port on the Siang River. (a southern tri- butary of the Yangtse: It is on the road between Hankow and Canton.
The 4th Army is commanded by. General Li Chai-sum; of Canton and is loyal to General Chiang Kai-shek; but one division and a part of the 10th Army, both believed to be at Changsha, are on the Extremists: side.]
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Club Looted.
Wuhu, April 18. The premises of the Recreation The general view taken by the Club, which were entered by British Press of Mr. Chen's troops and partially looted, have unsatis- now been cleared and the situa- reply is that it is an factory and equivocal document tion has improved. British Nava which fails to meet the demands Wireless, set forth in the original com-
munications from the Powers.
It is pointed out that Mr. Chen in a palpable effort to use the occasion for propaganda purposes. ins notably overreached himself
SILVER EMBARGO.
Hankow Nationalists' Latest Move,
in his references to the "Anglo-
Hankow, April 18. American bombardment of
On the ground that they must fact that the bombardment by the deavours of General Chiang Kai- Nanking." entirely ignoring the "counteract the combined-en-
three Chinese casualties, alone create an economic crisis by the warships, while causing only shek and foreign imperialists to
munist raide have taken place, patch of troops to the outlying ed northwarus, cutting the enabled the party of foreign men, removal of silver from Hankow,"
while at Changalia the extremists have dealt drastionly with the more moderate Chinese elements.
At Canton the walls are plaster- ed with "Down with Communiets,”
and at Hankow with "Down with Chiang Kai-shek.British Wire- Jess Service;
Genezal-Joins-Extremists.
Kiukiang, April 18.
The Southern authorities here are expecting the arrival of Gen- eral Ching Chien who is reported to be very much opposed to Gen- eral Chiang Kai-shek and has thrown in his lot with the Ex- tremists against Chiang. Gen- eral Ching Chien is on his way, from Wuhu, British Naval Wireless.
[Kiukiang is further up the 30 cts. 40 cts. 60 cta pes-Yangtse than Wuhu, which is not
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CANTON REDS..
Die-Hard Few Still Defy Government.
. Isolated challenges are being made to the Canton Government in spite of Good Friday's drastic
coup.
Even in Canton city itself, a minority of die-hard Extremists holds out in defiance of the authorities.
From up-country come reports of further victories for the loyal
troops:
districts and the gradual return of loyal reinforcements to their stations.
Emergency measures are still being carried out politically but the Moderate element prevails overwhelmingly in. Kuomintang
counsels.
A scheme is in hand to bring all Labour unions and organist
the control of a tions under "Moderate" general union.
AMOY SITUATION.
Agitators Arrested: Moderates
vince.
In Control.
Northerners of communica tions-at-Fengpu, much further
north.
women and children who were at the Nationalist Government to- the time under the fire of the l | Cantonese soldiery to escape with British Wireless
This has not been confirmed by their lives. foreign observers. Kuomintang Service sources claim that their left wing has dealt a mortal blow at the ad- vanced Northerners and that the latter are surrendering-in-hun- dreds, prisoners having been sent along the Nanking Railway to Shanghai..
Logic of Events.
It is further stated that the Nationalist left wing has sent a detachment to round up the Northern "remnants" in and near Pukow, while the main body is pushing on to Hsuchow, where General Chang Tsung-chang has his first line of defence for Peking,
NEW NOTE.
Powers to Demand a Specific Answer.
London, April 18. Reuter understands that the five Ministers at Peking are in complete agreement and have now reported to their respective Governments regarding Chen's replies to their identic
Notes.
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Mr.
CANADA ROUSED.
Murder of Missionary And Daughter.
Ottawa, April 18. The Government has cabled the British Foreign Offee asking for information regarding the murder of a Canadian missionary and his daughter in China. It is under.
stood the Foreign Office will be
requested to demand the arrest. of the malefactors, Reuter.
They consider the former quite. Communists have also been dealt with in Amoy, the treaty
unsatisfactory and no answer to day issued an order prohibiting. Pengpu is on the Pukow-Tien- the charges in the Notes, and are the Chinese banks from redeem- part in the south of Fukien pro-tsin Railway. Should the South calculated to cause procrastina- ing their own notes by the pay- erners be approaching that point tion and, if possible, discord ment of silver, and declared a At Amoy, the authority is vest-without regard to alignment, it among the Powers.
total embargo on silver. Soldiers. ed in a subordinate of General is only logical to assume that the Ho Ying-yam, Chiang Kai-shek's Northerners would have realised that a further communication, Chinese banks to prevent the re- It is now considered probable pickets are posted outside the lieutenant, who marched all the their position, given up Pukow presumably a joint one, will be moval of silver from the vaults. way up from Swatow, subdued again and retreated once more. made to Mr. Chen, with the object It is believed that the Nation- Fukien and helped in the con-Nor would the Northerners have of eliciting a specific answer to alist Government's plan is to con- quest of Chekiang province before advanced further, southwards the points in the first Note. fiscate the total silver in all the grand arrival at Shanghai. along the bend in the Yangtse, to It is expected this new Note banks at Hankow.
Developments there were not cause the cross-river firing above will be more vigorous in tone and unexpected, as the Moderates are Manking, as reported by wireless. might possibly include a time
Chinese cables report that limit for compliance.-Reuter. in power and the mass of the people are staunchly anti-Red. Hankow is sending a force north- During the week-end, detach-wards to meet the Fengtien ad- ments of soldlers and police pa- vance from Honan province, this
mea- latter being referred to below, trolled the streets while sures were adopted to quell the Extremists.
Two agitators who arrived on a coasting steamer were arrested by the Amoy officials.
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A Further Restriction.
Hankow, April 18. The only currency which the Nationalist Government at Han- kow, will recognise, according to a proclamation issued to-day are the notes of the Bank of Coni- munication, the Central Bank of Hankow, April 18.-
China and the Bank of China. The Peasants' Union at Hwang-
Seventy-one has been fixed as Shanghai, April 18. chow has been creating trouble Such reports as were obtainable and it is reliably reported that the taol's rate (to the silver dol-- yesterday indicated that the North- the Roman Catholic Mission there [The Central Bank is a Nation
lar)-British Naval Wireless. ern advances rumoured the previ- has been looted by them."
Refuses to Fight for Chiang Kai-shek,
I
In one or two places, Commun- ist institutions displayed inscrip- tions to the effect that if the Government would not let them live they were prepared to be! shot; and if the Government did not wish them to stay in their cup last Friday, it is strange, to ported except through local Kuo- Hankow and large numbers of the have their headquarters in Pek- native Kwangtung, they were will- Gazette" that a number of Rus- Sun Chuan-fang's several columns the district.
read of a report in the "Canton mintang supporters That Marshal more wealthy classes have left ing.] ing to become exiles,
In view of the anti-Communist
ous day had been substantial Chinese of all classes appear to ton in 1925. The other two banks alist institution, started in Can- enough, but no further movements be anticipating trouble here at of a spectacular character were re
cans, being the delegation repre- had, they neytre had At Oncheng there are 10,000 Then, again, an orator or two senting the Soviet Trade Unions, advanced as far down the railway troops of the 8th Army-British has got up a street corner and arrived in Canton, on April 14 to as Penniu, was satisfactorily con Naval Wireless, cried "Down with Chiang Kai- take part in the Pan-Pacific Confirmed. The 8th Nationalist Army is shek.", Such speeches have not ference of Trade Unions on May. 1. Chincee reports had it yesterday commanded by General Tang lasted more than a minute or two. The report gives the names of that various Communist armies,
Mechanics Help Troops. those in the delegation, including such as that commanded by General Seng-chi of Hankow, who is An encouraging feature of the some of the most notorious agita Ching Chien, acting under orders allegedly unfavourable to General from Hankow, had everywhere re Chiang Kai-shek, and the "strong campaign against the Farmers' tors.
fused to fight in support of Genora! man" of the Extremists.] Corps in Yingtak, who have been
Chiang Kai-shek, their purpose.be
Japanese Field Guns, reinforced by local banditti, 18
ing to bring about his collapse and that the Mechanics' Union (com.
Changsha, April 18. posed of Rightists) is working overtime to get the trains run has asked the Canton Provincial tang conference at Nanking, ning from Canton up the North Government to protect his nationals (according to a report in the "Can- River, so that military move toz, Gazetto"); in view of the eva- ments can be facilitatedcuation of British and American Three villages have been burn residents from Kwangtung Thie ed down in the course of opera-district magistrates have bean sup- tions against the Communist plled with a list of foreign missions element around Yingtak..
which it is their duty to protect
...
RUSSIAN MENACE.
Chinese Awaking To Their Danger.
Rugby, April 18.
The German Consul In Canton prevent the prospective-KuomField guns have been landed in that what was now called
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Sir Francis Aglen, for many years Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime Customs, has arrived in London. In a state. ment to the "Times," he declared the Japanese Concession by the Nationalism was largely the old Japanese naval authorities anti-foreignism which was ex- Parts of the 10th and 4th pressed in its extreme form in the Nationalist Armies are now here. Boxer rising, and which had been It is reported here that large exploited by the Russian Bolshe- numbers of the wealthy classes avista for their own purposes. Hankow are leaving in anticipa ton of trouble and that among
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