OUTRAGES IN CHINA

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1926, Page 7

OUTRAGES IN CHINA

MANY INDIGNITIES SUFFERED

HANKOW SITUATION EASIER,

(United Pre* Association.—Copyright.) (Received 3rd December, noon.)

PEKIN, 2nd December. The Chinese Navy at Foochow has gone over to the Cantonese, who are expected to occupy Foochow to-morrow without fighting. This is another reverse for Sun Chuau 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 liomes wore 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 their clothes were ripped by bayonets. Their homes were occupied by soldiers and tho owners were driven out. • There are similar reports from other sources. American missionaries in the Honau province requested the Pekin Legation to supply them with rifles for self-de-fence, but tho permission of tho Chinese authorities was refused, they declaring that such a procedure would bo dangerous. The situation at Hankow is easier as tho result of the Japanese agreeing to the humiliating demands of the strikers. Essential services are being maintained, and the pickets are reported to have been withdrawn from the con concession. Mr. M. W. Lampsou, the new British Minister from London, is proceeding to Hankow by the cruiser Petersfield on Saturday, ignoring the Pekin 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.