CHINESE DISORDERS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 64, 27 December 1935, Page 5

CHINESE DISORDERS.

MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. SERIOUS SITUATION DEVELOPS. (United Press Association—Copyright.) SHANGHAI, December 26. Martial law has been declared in Shanghai, Nanking and Hankow owing to student disturbances. A bomb exploded near the Japanese naval headquarters at Shanghai, injuring two Chinese. Japanese marines, with steel-helmets and fixed bayonets, immediately placed a cordon around the whole Japanese concession. Railway traffic between Shanghai and Nanking was resumed after the dispersal of students who were encamped north of the Shanghai station for three days. A large body of students forcibly took control of a train departing for Nanking, but the authorities succeeded in evicting them. Clashes are reported between the Manchukuo forces and Outer Mongolian forces on Christmas Day. The situation is described as acute. The Shanghai correspondent of the “New York Times” says that while he was' in the Foreign Office, Tang yu-Jen (Vice-Minister of Communications), who was assassinated by gunmen, was frequently accused of being too fond of Japan. Some Chinese newspapers even charged him with the betrayal of Nanking secrets to Tokio. The Japanese Embassy took a serious view of the crime, holding that the Chinese Government is unable to curb the activities of anti-Japanese terroristorganisations. . . The assassination, heightens the critical tension created by the students’ anti-Japanese demonstrations, which now paralyse railway traffic from Shanghai to- Nanking and North China. The day passed without violence.