Nanking, Apr. 6.
'The trouble caused by the student demonstration against the British firm, the International Export Corporation, which started on Thursday and threatened to develop into a riot of serious proportions, has been. settled and today the company's factory is working normally, and everything is quiet.
General Chiang Kaithis morning that the attempt the students to participate in the affair between the International E: port Corporation and its employees had an important political significance.
According to General Chiang, reactionary elements in the capital Communists epee! on the students with the object of c1 Gistarbances and discrediting: the National Government. They. were mistaken, General Chiang declared, if they thought that the Government would not teke drastic measures to suppress any such activities.
'The Government, he asserted, would' not hesitate to have a few Students shot and to close down fame of the universities if the students continued to create disturb-
As is usual in such cases the wildest rumours were circulated when excitement was at its height. It] was freely stated in the streets that British marines had been landed from H.M.S. Cornwall and that six workers had been killed. These ances.
General Chiang Kai-shek officially denied the rumour that "British marines had been landed on April 3 when four workers were injured fracas with other workers—
Reuter. leaving to-morrow or on Wednesday for the front and that he would go either up the Tientsin-Pukow Railway or to Hankow. He could not say definitely which place would be his destination.
General Chiang declared that he was going more to reorganize the) Government forces than to direct 2 Junker all-metal monoplane jerashed. The pilot, a Korean who was considered to be the most}
Jexporienced airman in the Shansi Air Force, and a Captain' Wang, a Passenger, were killed in the crash, which wrecked the machine.—Re ter, operations against the rebels.
He stated that a "friendly ally" of the Government would shortly start military operations against the rebels.
Though the Generalissimo did not} say who this "friendly ally" was, it-is believed: that he was referring to Manchari The Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang held a meeting this morning and expelled General Yen Hsi-shan from the Party.—
Reuter.
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