CHINESE CAULDRON.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2714, 23 June 1925, Page 7

CHINESE CAULDRON.

EMERGENCY REGULATIONS AT HONG KONG ' Strike And Boycott All Over Country IS AUSTRALIA ENDANGERED? [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] JAust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Tuesday .1 a.m) PEKIN”, June 22. A telegram from Hong Kong says the Government has issued a proclamation containing emergency regulations, providing for the censorship of telegrams and letters, and the police control of premises, vehicles, fuel and footstuffs. The following arc exportable under license only: Rico and flour, foodstuffs, gold and silver coin, and bank notes. The Chinese compositors and coolies In the “Daily Bulletin” office have struck, and the compositors of other European printers threaten to walk out in the evening. In Canton, a community kitchen has been established, the Europeans cooking and marines operating the waterworks. Unarmed volunteers are patrolling the SlTameen. The Kwang-Tung Students’ Association has issued a statement, urging a boycott and strike, adding that all must join the soldiers to go out and fight the foreigners. HONG KONG LABOURERS’ DEMAND. SECRET COMMITTEE FORMED. (Received Monday, 8.5 p.m.) HONG KONG, June 21. The labourers have formed a secret biganisatlon styled the Hong Kong Labour Commission, with plenary powers to discuss strike matters. It is reported the Commission is functioning under the patronage of the Canton Government. The Commision has formulated, inter alia, the following demands: Firstly, freedom of speech of the press and other publications. Secondly, equality in the treatment of Chinese, no differentiation in the registry of birth and the abolition of the deportation law. 1 Thirdly, the labourers’ right to vote on the appointment of Chinese members of the Legislative Council; Fourthly, an improvement in labour conditions, the prohibition of child labour, and the enforcement of an eight-hour day; Fifthly, the revocation of the Ordinance increasing the standard rents by fifteen per cent; Sixthly, no racial discrimination, and permission for Chinese to reside within the Peak reservation. A PARIS INCIDENT. AMBASSADOR COMPELLED TO SIGN PROTEST. (Received Monday, 5.5 p.m.) PARTS, June 21. One hundred Chinese forced the doors of the Chinese Embassy, loct?Td the Ambassador in a room, cut the telephone wires and compelled him to sign a protest to M. Painleve against the presence of foreign troops in China. It was chiefly Chinese youths who Invaded the Embassy and forced the Ambassador to sign away, among other documents, a proclamation assuring the Chinese people that ho sympathised with them in their struggle against foreign Imperialists. The police have arrested one of the invaders.