THE POWERS PROTEST.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18970, 7 April 1927, Page 9

THE POWERS PROTEST.

NOTES SENT SIMULTANEOUSLY. | (AUSTRALIAN ASD H.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATIOS.) | LONDON, April 5. Following on consultation with Washington and Tokio, the terms of the British No to have been telegra'phod to Sir Miles Lampson, and will be pre- j sented simultaneously with identical American and Japanese Notes to fch» Nationalist Government in Hankow. Although the terms will not bo published before presentation, the Australian Press Association learns on reliable authority that the British Cabinet somewhat modified the demands originally suggested by the Diplomatic Corps in Peking. France and Italy will not be partiea to the Notes, but they have been kept fully posted on the negotiations through their Ambassadors in Peking. It is understood that the demands include complete reparation for all damage to foreign property in Nani king, a public apology, and the trial by Chinese Courts of the officers who 'authorised the outrages or commanded the troops concerned. There is no hint obtainable of the nature of any threat of reprisals the Note may contain. In the meantime, the looting of foreign property in Nanking continues. Everything. moveable, even gas and electric fittings, has been taken. The "War Office expects the Northamptonshire Regiment of Guards to embark for China on April 11th, and the remainder of the reinforcements on the 13th. Official circles have received no confirmation of the reported' check to the Cantonese advance northwards, and do not rely on Marshal Chang Tsolin'a ability to hold up the Nationalist advance for long.

MISSIONS IN CHINA. RECENT VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS. "One of the reasons of the present trouble in China iB the conditions under which the people live. The poverty there is simply appalling," said Mr L. O. Stanton, of Dunedin, who recently returned to the Dominion after spending Borne seven months abroad investigating the work of the Oriental Mission Society in Japan, Korea, and China.

Mr Stanton was in Shanghai last November, before the hostility which was later shown towards British people began to make itself so evident but dven at that time the authorities were taking precautions for the safety of their nationals, barbed wire barricades being put down at sunset in order to prevent the Chinese from entering the foreign settlements. Martial law was also proclaimed. Indian police were present, and in Shanghai harbour there were warships at anchor. While there, Mr SUnton gave an address in a temple erected for Dr. Mary Stone, a Chinese lady doctor of great attainments. A large congregation was present, but before Mr Stanton commenced his address he was warned by the authorities that it would be advisable for him not to disclose the fact that he was of British nationality. Bolshevism was p.nothcr canse of the trouble in China, said Mr Stanton, and the Russians gained many followers because of their promise to make the Chinese rich if the principles of Bolshevism were followed. It was thuß an easy matter for tho Bolshevists to turn the populace against the British. Every year the poverty of the Chinese was becoming worse. At the present time the density of population in China was 111 people to the square mile, and although 11 babies out of every 20 born died, tho population was i increasing enormously. The Japanese were most unpopular in Korea, continued Mr Stanton, and so many of thorn were pouring into that countrv that it seemed almoßt a certainty that gradually the native population would be forced to live in Manchuria, whither -they were being driven by the aggressiveness of, the Japanese. In the southern parts of Korea the Japanese were confiscating the land of the natives. Naturally, these methods made the Japanese much hated. Mr Stanton said that the Oriental Missionarv Society now had 45 churches in Korea and 140 in Japan, while it was making steady progress in China. AMERICANS TO CONCENTRATE AT TIENTSIN. ' (»T7BTRIU*S 4*» *-S- CABI* »3SOCIi.TIOIr.) WASHINGTON, April 0. Cabinet has decided to concentrate at Tientsin, in eas< , of emergency, all Americans in Northern China, They will be protected there, as refugees from Central China are now protected by the American forces at Shanghai.