ANXIETY FELT.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 8, 11 January 1927, Page 7

ANXIETY FELT.

Position in the Event of

Attack.

CONCESSIONS TO BE DEFENDED

(Received 12.30 p.m.)

SHANGHAI, Januarv 10.

In view of the anxiety of foreigners in Shanghai as to whether, in the event of attack the International Settlement would be defended, the Municipal Council ot the International Settlement has issued, a statement.

This says the Council takes no official interest m party politics and has prohibited political meetings, demonstrations, speeches, or political propaganda of anv description within the settlement. The Council will continue to co-operate as heretofore with whatever Chinese administration controls the territory adjoining the boundaries under its own jurisdiction, and will direct all its energies and resources towards maintaining order and ensuring the safety of life and property within the area under its control. The Council will rigorously suppress all forms of violence and disorder and will not hesitate to use all the means at its disposal. The situation in the interior of Southwestern China is steadilv becoming worse. In addition to the British, manv Americans are leaving towns in the interior. All American women and children are evacuating Ichang. Anti-foreign disturbances have occurred in Chung-king, where Cantonese soldiers and mobs desecrated the foreign cemetery, smashing and overturning the tombstones. = HANKOW QUIET. CHINESE CLAIM JUSTIFICATION SHANGHAI, January 10. Matters are now quiet in the British concession in Hankow, which is under the regime of a provisional administrative council. Rabidly anti-British sentiment still sways the native city, however, and there is a feeling of expectancv. Trade remains" almost at a standstill. This feeling al?o prevails at Wuchang. Ichang, and Shasj, where anti-British demonstrations have been held. All offending posters in Hankow have been removed by the authorities. The popular view of the position as expressed in the local newspaper is that the Chinese Nationalists did the right thing in taking back the British concession in view of the fact that the British authorities were incompetent to protect their own nationals. I