CHINA

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 January 1927, Page 9

CHINA

UNREST IN PEKING AMERICAN PRECAUTIONS PROTECTION OF NATIONALS. BY CABLE-PREPS ASSOCIATION- COPYRIGHT. Received 12.50 p.m. to-day. PEKING, Jan. 21. The American Minister, Mr.. McMurray, who was going to America to confer with Mr. F. B. Kellogg in regard to affairs in China, has been recalled to Peking by a cable from Washington. Hitherto there has been no signs of disturbance's, strikes, or anti-foreign feeling here, but the authorities; are baking all precautions. It is believed that Tengtien or Manchurian forces are determined to prevent trouble. Double guards, with fixed bayonets, are posted outside foreign residences, and picked patrols march the streets all night with orders to ruthlessly suppress disturbers of the. peace. The American authorities ha.ve warned their nationals that the signal- of trouble will be: In the daytime, the Blue Peter blown below the Stars and Stripes on the wireless tower of the legation; and at night, six red lights. On receipt of these warnings Americans are instructed to concentrate on three given points, from which they will he escorted to the legation.

CONFERENCE WITH PARTY LEADERS. LONDON, Jan. 20. In accordance with custom. Sir Austen Chamberlain had conferences with Air. Ramsay MacDonald and Air. Lloyd George separately, as leaders of the Opposition, and explained the position regarding China, especially the precautionary measures which the Government is adopting.