CHINESE UPHEAVAL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 15 July 1925, Page 9

CHINESE UPHEAVAL.

WORK OF AGITATORS. PROTECTION OF FOREIGNERS. Hi CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received July 15, 12.30 p.m. LONDON. July 14. The French Ambassador, M. Fleurian, at a reception to the French colony on the occasion of the national fete commemorating the storming of the Bastille, in referring to the opiiosition in China, said that the existing system of treaties could not be touched without exposing foreigners in China to the greatest dangers. Agitators who excited good Chinese against foreigners would not engage in their deadly work unless encouraged from outside. He hoped all Governments concerned Avould unite to defend their nationals, not merely now by concerted measures for immediate protection, but in the future, by retaining the guarantee lof the old treaties until China is able herself to completely assure the safety of the lives and property of all residents of China. He concluded with a statementthat world peace depended on the Anglo-French Entente. —A. and N.Z. Assn.

THE DOSSER CASE. ALLEGED BRIBERY. SOVIET OFFICIAL ARRESTED. Received Julv 15, 1.35 p.m. Bering, July w. Eugene Fortunanoff, the Soviet consulate doctor, has been remanded on a charge of offering to bribe a public official in connection Avith the Dosser case. The police assert that he offered a municipal policeman ten thousand dollars to sign a document declaring that he forged Dosser’s certificate, by the instructions of his British superior officer. He pretended to comply, and the police arrested Fortunanoff Avhen he attended the tryst Avith ten thousand dollars in his possession, Avhich the police seized. Dosser, Avhen examined, declared the certificate to be a forgery. He denied that a branch of the Soviet Communist Party existed in Shanghai.—Reuter.