23 APRIL 1927, Page 1

News of the Week

SHE lamentations of the Chinese merchants and the sufferings of the Chinese labourers who have been ding the excitement of a revolution and a civil war con- eted on Bolshevist lines a poor substitute for wages and near food are at last having their effect. General Chiang i-shek has evidently come to the conclusion that the mg against Bolshevism and all its ways is running ng enough for him to take the bold step of breaking is of suppression. In Shanghai on Tuesday, April leaf was thus taken out of the book of Chang Tso-lin nking. He prepared the way for this stroke by various h, a raid was made on the headquarters of the Reds. Accordingly he has set up a rival Government at O a few days before had raided the Soviet Embassy Peking where the usual Bolshevist documents were overed explaining in detail how the anti-foreign olpaign was to be carried on and not stopping short at tements to murder.