CHINESE UNREST

Gisborne Times, Volume LXII, Issue 10039, 16 June 1925, Page 5

CHINESE UNREST

ANTI- 1311ITI SH FEEL ING

NOTICEABLE FEATURE OF RIOTS

IS RUSSIA THE INSTIGATOR?

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPY RIGHT; (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.|

PEKIN, dune 14

A noticeable feature of the trouble in Shanghai and elsewhere is the tendency of students and the Government to detach Britain from the other Powers and make her responsible. A sample of this is a note banded to the Brtish Ambassador, protesting against British volunteers using machine-guns against Chinese in Hankow and stating eight persons were killed and eleven wounded. The Note claims that such action violated the principles of humanity.. The Foreign Office therefore formally protested and requested the Charge d’Affaires to instruct (lie consular authorities to refrain from similar acts.

The Note reserves the right to make further demands when the case has been more fully investigated.

Foreigners generally regard the Note as a sign that the Government is yielding to clamor of Bolshevik and other extremists, who are pressing a demand that China should deal with Britain alone. The students’ demands now include the recall of tre British and Japanese Ministers from Pekin, Consuls from Shanghai, punishment of Foreign Chief of Police, and the permanent withdrawal of British and Japanese gunboats from Shanghai.

COLD-BLOODED BUTCHERY U\ CANTON

YUXNAXESE DEBACLE. MERCILESS TREATMENT OF PRISONERS (SYDNEY SUN CABLE.) PEKIN. June 14. The Yiiunancso debacle is complete. In Canton the cold-blooded butchery of defeated forces is rife. Stragglers caught in the Bund are stabbed with bayonets, riddled with bullets, and thrown into the river. Fleeing officers endeavouring to escape hv steamer to Hongkong were intercepted and killed or taken to the Red navy, stripped of practically everything of value, and then mercilessly killed.

The Ruomintogg Society leaders at Hongkong repudiate the intention of establishing a Communistic Government in Canton. They denied there was any alliance with the Soviet. As it is impossible to find one man to fill Sun Yat Sen’s place, it is intended to create a Commission to carry on the work of the administration.

GOVERNMENT PANDERING TO THE STRIKERS ANTI-FOREIGN PROPAGANDA MORE PRONOUNCED PEKIN, June 14, There i.s an increasing feeling of serious concern among responsible foreigners that the Chinese Government is pandering 1u the strikers. The reason for this is believed to he mainly a matter of home politics, the Government fearing that public opinion will veer to the opposition. Meanwhile the strikers’ ' attitude increasingly indicates a belief that the Government is with them.

The anti-foreign propaganda is more pronounced and the situation in the interior generally is getting worse. CATHOLIC CHURCH REPORTED BURNED CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER MISSING PEKIN. June 14. According to Chinese unofficial reports the Catholic Church at Kaifong was burned down yesterday. One Italian priest was killed. It is persistently reported that the Foreign Minister. Shenjunilin, has gone into hiding fearing that the students will persist in extreme demands. whereto he cannot agree.

CHINESE SEAMEN’S UNION

PROTECTION FOR FOREIGNERS AT SHANGHAI ORDERED

PEKIN. June 11

The Chinese Seamen’s Union propose to strike on the 15th on the steamers of the Indoehine and China Nagivation Companies. They threaten a general strike on the 20th. In connection with the Shanghai troubles the Cabinet has instructed the provincial authorities to protect foreigners.

CANTON NOW QUIET

A SALUTARY WARNING

(REUTER’S TELEGRAM.) (Received June 15, 11 p.m.) PEKIN. June 15

After the orgies at Canton on Friday night and Saturday, the city is quieter. Considerable damage has been done along the Bund at Hankow. Another rioter has died from wounds. The dead now number nine. The situation is quiet. The deienee forces are still .standing by. General Liachulung. whose Nil Poll troops have arrived to strengthen the Chinese’ guard at the international concession, has issued a statement that, pending the result of the Central Government’s investigations at Shanghai, quiet must be maintained. If antiforeign disturbances continue, the result will be a repetition of the Boxer trouble and Allied troops will he landed.