OUT WITH THE FOREIGNERS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 25 August 1925, Page 9

OUT WITH THE FOREIGNERS.

SOY 1 FIT PROP AG ANDA. HATRED OF THE BRITISH. Biedsheyist tactics of intimidation and terrorism have had full swing in Hongkong in recent months, according to ia letter received by a Devon - port (Auckland) resident. The writer veils graphically of the difficulties of the domestic! and political situation. “As your papers will have indicated,” he writes, “there is trouble in China. There certainly is. For the i a-sit. mjouith in Hongkong we have been, and isltii'll are, in the throes o.f a general strike. The Chinese, here—cooks, house .servants, boys, launch men, factory men, fitters, mechanics; m fact, all and every Chinese who had any connection (bar office lilt boys) whatever with Britishers and. Europeans went on strike, and, a.s I write,, there is practically no Chinese labour in the colony. Even the Chinese -clerks, as well as all the office staffs in the Government and every other employ, struck, forfeiting pension and everything else. 'The Canton Government, 30 miles away, is red hot. RoJisheyiisitie —a Government dictated to and run by Moscow, which has agents in Canton and all over the Chinese Republic. They have been preaching ‘China for Chinese, ‘Down wisi Imperialism, ‘Chase lluo foreigner ourt. of . dupa, etc- As one step in. this direction, and as ope avowed step in the downfall of the British' Empire, the Canton Government, by the aid of 'agitators and in.tiimklators, has caused the stoppage of all -Chinese labour for -the Europeans in Hongkong. They come round one’s back do-or and tell one s boy or amah, ‘You mutst .stop work. We give you warning that if you chq not, 'you or your wife and family will be killed. Come to Canton, where you will get free meals and no work. And the "Chinese boys, tram drivers, eto., believe this, and quit. “While we call .this a strike, it really is an .attempt against all law and order, engineered by Russian, ana Chinese Communists. The strikers demand nothing. They have neither asked for higher pay nor 'better conditions, or anything else. There i* nothing for. the Hongkong Government to enter into negotiations wit! them upon. They have .simply obeyed the mandates of Canton, to which place 200 000 of them have flocked f rom Honvkong. Now they realise that oh been fools : they do not get free meals, and they do not get no work.’ They want to come bade here, but are -prevented from so-, doing by •soldiers at Canton. Many have been forced to become soldiers or else starve. So much for ‘Bolshie’ promises. “Business is absolutely at a standstill in every line. We also have ovei 30 ships laid up with their crews on strike, and if there were crews there is no place to take cargo, anti, no coolies to handle iit>. Resides that, .-here is a boycott of British goods throughout China, and everywhere there is a nasty anti-foreign feeling about especially anti-British, caused by Bolshevist lies all over China. “You will have read of the shooting affrtavis in Shanghai and Canton. In Hongkong there lias neither -been shooting nor riots, but these have only been prevented by our day and night patrols of police, volunteers, the East Surreys, and the lads of the Navy. These lads stand no nonsense, 1 can toll you. ’.L'lierc is noti & nui.ii in Hongkong —British, America n, Euioooan, ana many loval Chinese —-who is hot doing his bit. The essential businesses! ol; the colony are. being entiielly run iby vc-Lu ll toeas ; pio&t ottico, -eUciiDnc iio ht, t-i'aimis, 'Vauucnes, and sanitary arranigemeinta. it it were out* colu weather ilt would not be sp .bad, but i i,s July, our midsummer, and as hoy as a tropicaL .summer can -be, and believe mo it tides one physically and mentally doing the ordinary white man’s work. Manual work day after day in tho very humid temperature oA JO decrees tries our temper, but we carry on. Wben this will all ceu.se and the Chinese return here no one knows. It .is -a political demonstration, the vicious part being the nasty anti-foreign feeling engendered, unu the racial hatred has many possibilities. China to-day is the hotbed oil R-itssiianx XlolisUeiV'iisit i likitiguo p i op'cU* ra.iida directed against the foreigner. The Chinese up-country are told that the Hongkong Government is shooting their compatriots down, and that the. arcs being retfiiscil water, etc. llie»se i'Tnorant people believe ilt.. All they ask is to be left alone to live in peace, as they have dome for more yeans than the mind can visualise, .with their families, theiir pigs, and .‘paddy fields. Along comes your Moscow Communisibita University-trained Chinaman and .stirs him up. One paper published in V.ladivpistook, Red .Russia., gave a, full-page picture the other day of ai British Tommy with a fixed bayonet, ancl on that bayonet wa-s a Chinese baby, and under it was Written ‘British. Culture.' ”

DEATH. COSGROVE. —At Hawera on Tuesday, August 25th, 1925, Maude Christina, dearly beloved wife of Janies A. G. Cosgrove, of Manaia; aged 35 years. Deeply regretted. 8.1. P. FUNERAL NOTICE. The funeral will move from the Catholic Church, Hawera, for the Hawera Cemetery, on THURSDAY, the 27th, inst., at 2.30 p.m. Friends please accept this intimation. ARTHUR’S LTD., Hawera.