SHANGHAI RIOTS

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 12 June 1925, Page 5

SHANGHAI RIOTS

TRIAL OF STRIKERS

FIRING ON THE CROWD

AY AS IT JUSTIFIED?

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received June 11. 10.15 a.m. PEKiNG, June 11.

The trial of seventeen peisons arrested in connection with the recent riots in Shanghai is proceeding. An English missionary, who was an eye-witness, considered the shooting was unavoidable, under the circumstances. Two American missionaries, wild were also eye-witnesses, considereu the police were not justified in 10 1 ng. The victims were only sympathetically demonstrating in favour of the imprisoned students. Inspector Everson, who ordered the firing, said that the crowds were absolutely uncontrollable. Asked hv the Chinese magistrate n firing against the 'egs of the crowd would not have sufficed, lie replied that it was contrary to his instructions, which were to fire only as a fast resort and then to shoot to kill. A quantity of Bolshevist literatuie seized at Shanghai University was admitted as evidence. Reutoi.

STUDENTS LEVY TRIBUTE

MORE ANTI-FOREIGN RESOLUTIONS. PEKING, June 10. Students and pupils from American missionary institutions are picketing all the streets, practically compelling Chinese pedestrians to contribute 30 cents each towards the support of the Shanghai strikers. A demonstration of students, workers and others at the city gate, numbering 75,000, carried resolutions urging the Government to send troops to Shanghai to take hack the foreign concessions and recall the British and Japanese Consuls. Five thousand demonstrators subsequently marched -to the Foreign Ministry, where deputations presented these resolutions. Dissatisfied with the Ministerial replies, they smashed several windows and did other damage. They then visited Tuanchijui and made similar demands, and received a promise that the _ demands would he placed before Cabinet to-morrow. No attempts have been made so far to molest any foreigners at Peking.