CHINESE CUSTOMS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2728, 10 July 1925, Page 5

CHINESE CUSTOMS

Strike Causes Heavy Fall In Revenue CONFISCATION OF FOREIGNERS’ FOOD. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.} (Received Thursday, 7 p.m.) PEKIN, July 8. Owing to the Shanghai strike, and the disturbed condition of the country generally, the Customs revenue for the six months ending June 30, has declined by one and a-hal£ million taels. Shanghai reports state that the situation there continues hopeful. Things are quiet, with the exception of further kidnapping of tramway and other employees, such as foreign residents employed as house servants. There have been numerous cases of confiscation by strikers of milk, vegetables, and other foods, supposed to bo for foreign consumption. These goods were being distributed to strikers and students. Coolies confiscated one hundred cows at the railway station and took them -to their union headquarters in Chinese territory. The tram service is somewhat curtailed in Pekin. A PEKIN CARTOON. JOHN BULL AS BABY-KILLER. (Received Thursday, 7.45 p.m.) LONDON, July 9. The "Daily Telegraph” publishes a facsimile of a poster display in Pekin, depicting John Bull with his fool planted on a Chinese baby. FENG APPEALS TO CHRISTIANS. THE CRUELTY OF ENGLAND. 1 PEKIN. July 8. General Feng, who is a professed Christian, quoting the anti-British versions of the Shanghai, Hankow, and Canton shooting incidents, urges Christians all over the world to demand justice for China. He concludes: "If Christians sit still in silence, then the Chinese will think they sympathise with the cruel English jDolicy.” RIGHT TO MIGRATE. A CHINESE DECLARATION. HONOLULU, July 8. Speaking at the conference of the Institute on Pacific Relations, Mr Ta Chen, of Pekin, vigorously attacked the exclusion laws, which he said were unjust, because the principal grounds of discrimination were race aad colour. “Migration is the natural right of the world, and is a common possession,” he said. “No people can be justified in withholding unused land that other people can use and need urgently.” He said the Chinese were not unassimilable. It was nearer the truth to say that no serious attempt had ever been made in the Pacific at’ any time to assimilate Chinese. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of the Stanford University, in addressing the Rotary Club, said the Institute, although unofficial and informal, was nevertheless . destined to become a permanent and effective instrument in moulding public opinion throughout the world.