AMERICA TO PRESENT NOTE

Evening Star, Issue 19003, 27 July 1925, Page 5

AMERICA TO PRESENT NOTE

NEED FOR GENERAL OVERHAUL Press Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. WASHINGTON, July 24. America bas prepared fresh demands to be presented to the responsible Central Chinese Government following on the receipt of news of the killing of Sir Palmer in the Sungari River district This has long been a lawless part of the country; therefore Air F. 15. Kellogg (Secretary of State) cannot definitely blame the Peking Government, hut there is a lecling hero that there is need of a general overhauling of the whole Chinese situation in an attempt to stabilise conditions and make it possible to circumvent the Bolshevist campaign now being assiduously pressed by Russia. —Sydney 1 Sun 1 Cable. BOYCOTTING DENIED. THREAT BY STRIKERS. PEKING, July 25. The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce denies the report that it has decided ou a boycott against British and Japanese goods. It desires a speedy settlement of troubles ou the linos of international justice. Shanghai reports that most of the wharf coolies, have now resumed work. Many indignation meetings have been held against closing labor unions, and threats have been made that unless the policy is modified the strikers will resort to assassination. —Reuter. ' GERMAN POISON GAS SUPPLIES FOR THE CHINESE. LONDON, July 15. In the House of Commons the Secretary of State for War, Sir L. Worth-ing'ton-Evans, in answer to a question, said the Chinese had engaged German chemists to manufacture poison gas, and wore also employing Russians to form their military plans. “DYNAMITE IN THE AIR.” A DRAMATIC DECLAMATION. CHINESE PROFESSOR’S SPEECH. HONOLULU, July 15. In an address preceding the closing of the Peciiio Relations Institute Conference, Dr Chon, professor of sociology at Tsinghil College, Poking, declared that, as the assassination of the Austrian Crown Prince had inflamed the whole world, the killing of a few students had ignited a conflagration that now surged in the minds of 4000)00,000 Chinese. Ho added that the situation was fraught with danger and the atmosphere was charged with dynamite. Like the rest of the world, China now possessed a keen spirit ol nationalism. In Shanghai the Chinese constituted 90 per .cent, of the population and paid 75 per cent, of the taxes; yet they had no voice in the city’s government, and the request for such had been flatly refused by foreigners. Under the cloak of extra-territorial-ity, the Chinese had been subjected to ill-treatment of all kinds. They were conscious of being the only nation in the world burdened with the shackles of, extra-territoriality, and also were aware of what recently happened in Turkey, so that the attitude they now took was pregnant with serious consequences.

HONGKONG. STRIKE A FIASCO. HONGKONG, July 27. (Received July 27, at 10.55 a.m.) At tho end of the fifth week there is abundant evidence that the participants recognise tho futility of their efforts to paralyse Hongkong. The strikers have been served a lesson which they will not easily forget. The Government and the largo employers’ refusal to consider reinstatement without loss of benefits and privileges earned by long service has had .salutary elf of ds. There are largo numbers of applicants for the tram, ferry, steam launch, and oilier transport services at reduced wages, and hotels and private houses are steadily replacing the strikers on the employers’ own terms. —Reuter.