ATTACK ON JAPS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 86, 12 April 1927, Page 9

ATTACK ON JAPS

OUTRAGE AT HANKOW

HATE-MADDENED CHINESE '

(Received 12th April, 10 a.m.)

SHANGHAI, 11th .April. !' The first account, other .than, thnl given in a meagre official wireless moasage, of. tho attack on tho Japanese Concession on 3rd April, Ims just been received from Hankow.' Tho affair began in a small way, Chinese youths throwing stones at. Japanese sailors. Gangs of. Coolies joined in and attracted crowds by (be lower class. As there were only six sailors-they ran into a .Japanese restaurant and w;cre chased upstairs. ■ '. '

A light' ensued. 4 Soon afterwards k shout, went up outside that a .rickshaw coolie had been stabbed to death by Japanese Imperialists. Tho word was immediately Hashed to tho Rickskayr Coolies' Union and in a short time a thousand hate-maddened coolies began to attack the Japanese Concession. Tho cry went up every where: "Kill tho .Tapaneso! Murder tho Imperialists! The mob seemed to become mad with t'uvy. Tho six sailors wcro overpowered and carried to the union's headquarters iv the native city. Japanese in every district' of Hankow were set upon in the streets and beaten insensible. Some were killed. One woman, who had given birth to a child'a few days before, was dragged into the street and killed by a mob now filled with blood-lust. Hestaurants, stores, homes, and oilices were pillaged, before the Japanese Consul-General ordered armed forces ashore from three gunboats. A few squads of marines lauded.. Two short bursts i'roni machine-guns wcriv fired, and the Concession speedily clear-