SITUATION IN CHINA
HOSTILE DEMONSTRATIONS STUDENTS ARMED WITH RIFLES Prc«s Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PEKING, July 28. (Received July 29, at 11.30 a.m.) The position in Swatow, Amoy, and Foochow is growing worse. On the arrival of the steamer Plaining at Swatow the officers and passengers were greeted with hostile shouting, a huge crowd lining the Swatow Bund. The Seamen’s Union officials, in a motor boat, prevented the Europeans from boarding the steamer, brandishing rifles, and threatening the boatmen with death! The Haining had similar experiences in Amoy and Foochow, the students flourishing Mauser rifles. Despite martial law, they_ are preventing intercourse with British vessels.—Sydney ‘ Sun 5 Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19005, 29 July 1925, Page 5
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