CHINESE SITUATION

Evening Star, Issue 19519, 29 March 1927, Page 6

CHINESE SITUATION

Quiet Day in Settlements

Demonstration in Native City

Return of Concessions Demanded

British and French Defence

Agreement

(British Officials News.) Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright.

RUGBY, March 28. (Received March 29, at 11 a.m.) Yesterday passed quietly within the international Settlement and the French Concession at Shanghai, which were completely closed and heavily guarded. Chiang Kai-shek, the Cantonese Commander-in-Chief. arrived at Shanghai aboard a Chinese gunboat at midnight. On Saturday he attended a demonstration in the Chinese city, at which resolutions demanding the return of the Settlements to Chinese control and a general strike to enforce this were passed. Tho meeting also despatched a telegram to Hankow urging that steps to recover the Settlement by diplomatic representation be taken.

refuge in the Japanese Concession, and arc preparing to board the steamers. American women and children have already left. The Japanese gunboat Adaka has gone to Hankow. Delayed messages from Hankow show that the labor unions, there as in Shanghai, are completely dominating the situation.

Curfew was enforced within the Settlement last night with good results, volunteers, police, and special constables rounding up loiterers unprovided with permits. An agreement has been reached for an improved system of co-operation between tho British and French for tho defence of Shanghai. This decision does not imply single control, but there will be greater co-ordination than hitherto with the system adopted for the protection of the French Concession and the International Settlement.