CONSUL ATTACKED.
INCIDENT AT SWATOW. CONSULATE GUARDED BY SAILORS. BY CABLE--PRESS ASSOCIATION—COP YRIG HT. Received 1.25 p.m. to-day. PEKING, May 24. The British Consul at Swatow, while removing Communist posters from the walls of'the consulate, was attacked by a number of pickets. He defended himself with a walking stick, escaping with slight injuries. Subsequently an armed guard from the British gunboat in the harbour was posted to defend the consulate, and the Chinese commissioner was informed that it would remain until an official apology was tendered and assurances given that there would be no recurrence of such acts. —Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1926, Page 9
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99CONSUL ATTACKED. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 25 May 1926, Page 9
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