POLICE PROBLEM.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1927, Page 9

POLICE PROBLEM.

ARRESTED CHINESE. Awkward Question of Court of Jurisdiction. GRUESOME WABNDTCr. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 1.30 p.m.) • SHANGHAI, Febrr .:y 21. i An awkward situation has arisen owing to the demand of Sun Chuan±ang3 headquarters that the Provisional Chinese Court in .he international settlement should hand over oO persons charged with assault on Saturday aftd Sunday to be dealt with by the military. The Chinese judge, realising this would probably mean execution, finally remanded the cases. If he decides to hand over and the accused are executed, "there is certain to be a Nationalist outcry against the International Settleme'nt authorities, who are mostly British, for arresting Chinese. c Moreover, the knowledge that any Chinese whom they arrest for a comparatively minor offence, mav be executed, is creating a difficult problem for the British police. Four thousand employees of the largest publishing house in China, "The Commercial Press," have walked out, while Chinese papers are suspended, allegedly owing to the strike, but really because they fear their news and comments incur the displeasure of the authorities on one hand and the strikers on the other. Reign of Terror. The strikers are somewhat subdued by the wholesale deqyntations of agitators or those suspectedTby Sun Oman-fang's officials in the native city, where there is a veritable reign of terror. Dripping heads are hanging from most gates. This, however, is affecting the strikers more than the leaders, who are mostly directing affairs from the settlement. It is estimated that those executed number between 30 and 100. It is impossible to drive outside the settlement or even on the settlement boundaries, without seeing the most revolting sights. Heads, still bleeding, are stuck on poles nailed to the walls or placed in small baskets like chicken coops. The exact number executed is unavailable because the military never make a report, they just shoot "and behead the agitator where he stands and leave the body for his relatives to find.