MARTIAL LAW.

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

MARTIAL LAW.

SUMMARY EXECUTION Efforts to Maintain Order in Shanghai. CRITICAL DAYS. (By Cable.—Copyright—Press Association. LONDON", February 21. Official news has reached the For eign Office to the effect that martia la-w has been declared at T'.anghai. All the newspaper correspondent: record stern measures which have beei taken by the police, who are summarih beheading the ringleaders of disturb ances. Dispatches from Shanghai state tha the local authorities there are doin< i their best to maintain order. A party of public executioners i: parading the streets in the Chinese citj and executing agitators without the formality of a trial. Pickets who prevent labourers fron going to work are arrested and decapi tated. Communists who distribute handbills meet with the same fate. The British troops are still confinec to their barracks in order to minimise the danger of clashes. The Shanghai correspondent of the "Daily News" says the beheading o! nine agitators who were caught intimidating shopkeepers in the native citj has unpleasantly reminded the Can tonese that Marshal Sun Chuan-fang't authority in Shanghai has not been impaired, and has caused a slowing-down of the strike movement.— (Svdnev "Sun.")