CHINESE SITUATION

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 60, 4 December 1926, Page 9

CHINESE SITUATION

BRITISH AUTHORITIES AWAIT INFORMATION

MISSIONARIES SUFFERINGS HOMES LOOTED The British Minister in China says the authorities in London are awaiting more information before deciding on protective measures. Missionaries have broadcasted details of outrages they have suffered from troops, their homes being entered and furniture destroyed or stolen.

BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION Copyright. Peking, December 2. The Chinese Navy at Foochow lias gone over to the Cantonese, who are expected to occupy Foochow to-mor-row without fighting. This is another reverse for Sun Cliuan Fang.

General Chiang Kai Shek’s recent declaration of friendliness for missionaries prompted the Kiu Kiang missionaries to broadcast details of outrages suffered from Chiang’s troops. Their homes were forcibly entered furniture was smashed, and everything saleable, such as organs, sewing machines, pianos, medicines, and surgical instruments were auctioned. All books and Bibles were burned, and .“ le ! r clothes were ripped by bayonets.. 1 heir homes were occupied by soldiers ana the owners were driven out. There are similar reports from other sources. American missionaries in the Honan province requested the Peking Legation to supply them with rifles for sendefence, but the Chinese authorities refused permission, declaring that such a procedure would be dangeious. The situation at Hankow is easier as the result of the Japanese agreeing to the humiliating demands of tne strikers. Essential .services are being maintained, and the pickets are reported to have been withdrawn from tne concession. . Mr. M. W. Lampson, the new British Minister from London, is proceeding to Hankow by the cruiser Petersfield on Saturday, ignoring tlie Peking view of the up-river situation. He states that the authorities in London are awaiting more information before deciding on protective measures. Dissension between Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin has caused an abandonment of the attempt to recapture the Wuhan cities.