LOYAL WORKERS

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 12 March 1927, Page 5

LOYAL WORKERS

ASSASSINATIONS CONTINUE.

CONDITIONS IN SHANGHAI.

STRIKES IN COTTON MILLS

BT CAULK—PIiKSS ASSOCIATION—CUB Y iUOil'l Received 10.45 a.m. to-day. REKINu, Marcn 11. Further assassinations oi : loyal workers by hired gunmen aie reported irom Shanghai, line Chinese loreman or a Japanese cotton mill was shot dead on his way to work. A Chinese private detective empjoyed at anotner mill was killed in the street.

The Woosung railway strike continues, also sporadic strides among cotton mills. Two thousand struck yesterday because the management removed from the walls posters advocating a workers’ government and upholding the murder of loyal workers. At another mill four thousand struck, protesting against the lining of employees for negligence.

MISSION STATION LOOTED.

Received 10.45 a.m. to-day

PEKING. March 11. Chung Kiang mobs looted at Luchow the China Inland Mission premises. Arms and ammunition consigned l to Chung Kiang were discovered on a French steamer which was stopped at Wanhsien and searched by General Yang-sen’s troops. The vessel was detained.—Sydney Sun Cable.

RIOTING AT WUHU

BRITISH SAILORS HARD PRFIRSED

SUBDUING THE RIOTERS

SHANGHAI, March 10. “We cannot hold out- much longer. Essential send help.” was the dramatic message signalled from the British warship Wolsev during the rioting at "Wuhu on March 0. The message was picked up by the destroyer Emerald, stationed at Nanking. Instead of relaying the appeal to Shanghai and awaiting the Admiral s orders, the Emerald acted on its own initiative and signaled the Admiral;” “Proceeding to Wuhu immediately, and was already on the way when the Admiral’' orders supporting the action reached Nanking. It appears that the Wolsev landed a party to nrotect the evacuation of women and children and was then forced to land another body to subdue the rioting. The rioters, realising the smallness of the Wolsev’s forces, stoned the sailors. . Apparently the trouble later died down. U.S. PROTEST AGAINST LOOTING. WASHINGTON, March 10. The United States 'has sent a- protest to Mr Chen, against the looting of American property during the disorders and the Cantonese occupation of V/uhn, and asking for immediate evacuation of any American, property occupied by Chinese and its adequate protection.

OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE DISTURBANCES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 10. A serious riot occurred on Wednesday evening at Wuhu, a town on the Yangtsze, 180 miles west of Shanghai, with a population of 236,000. A mob looted the Native Customs House and the Customs Club, and some Europeans were locked in the Customs House. European women and children were withdrawn to the British steamer Shasi. A small party of troops was sent by Chen-Tiao-Yuan, the military Governor of Anhui, who was recently reported to have gone over to tile Cantonese Nationalists, but this force was apparently inadequate to restore order. Men from the British destroyer Wolsley, with assistance from the United States destroyer Preblo, helped to .remove the women to the Shasi. The British cruiser Emerald was sent to Wuhu from Nanking to protect British life and property. The latest Press reports state that the Chinese authorities later restored order, and that Cheng Chiang, commander of one of the Southern armies, has arrived and taken charge of the situation. It is not clear how the trouble arose, although some reports state that Chinese attempted to commandeer the Indo-China steamer Kutwo for troop transport, and were firmly, but tactfully, prevented bv a British naval party.