Hankow Pact Signed by Chen

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3539, 22 February 1927, Page 7

Hankow Pact Signed by Chen

Not Believed Will Affect Shanghai SUMMARY DECAPITATION OP AGITATORS 1 A / , ——— [By Electric Cable—Copyright.! [Aust. and N.Z. Oole Association.] HAHAOVV, Feb. 20. i It is officially . announced that Messrs. Kugeuo Chen, Chinese Nationalist Foreign Minister, and Mr. O. St, Clair o’3lalley, of the i; British Legation in China, have signed an agreement covering the control of the British Concession iu Hankow. PRESENCE OF TROOPS a;. V '; ESSENTIAL. • ■■ ■■■' —' LOCAL AUTHORITIES DOING * THEIR BEST. ' ' (Received Monday, 8.5 p;m.) LONDON, Feb. 21. There is no expectation that the settlement at Hankow ’ will affect • Shanghai, where the situation closely resembles that of Hankow before its occupation by the Cantonese. > . So long as a mob attack is threatened the presence of European troops is essential: for . the protection of foreigners. Meanwhile’ local authorities are doing their best. A squad of-public executioners arc parading tho streets of the Chinese city in Shanghai and executing agitators without trial, or formality. Pickets preventing labourers from going to work are arrested and de- > capitated. Communists distributing handbills are meeting a similar fate. V Meanwhile the British troops are confined to barracks to minimise the danger of clashes. V NO CONFIRMATION OF AGREE- •• MENT. : MARTIAL LAW AT SHANGHAI. v " : Monday, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 20. The Foreign Office to-night is without confirmation that the Hankow agreement has been signed: but this was expected to follow the now instructions given to Mr. O'Maiiey, the representative of tho Foreign Office. •These largely detach local from general problems., . Sir Austen Chamberlain declines to comment, hut is likely to mako a statement in tho House of Commons to-morrow. Official news has reached the Foreign Office of the declaration of martial law at Shanghai. All newspaper correspondents record stern measures by the police who are sum-marily-beheading the ringleaders of disturbances, affixing tho head on long bamboos as an object lesson to -■others.,, The “Daily Telegraph’s” Pekin correspondent says it ,1s believed that the agreement covers the Concessions at Hankow and Klu-kiang. CALLOUS METHODS BEAR FRUIT STRIKE MOVEMENT SLOWS DOWN. (Received Monday, 5.5 p.m.) •LONDON, Feb. 21. The “Daily News” Shanghai correspondent saws that the beheading of nine agitatorscaught intimidating shopkeepers in the native city has unpleasantly- reminded the Cantonese that General Sun Chuan-fang’s authority in Shanghai has not been impaired, And has caused a slowing down of the strike movement. northerns palling back on SHANGHAI. SHANGHAI, Feb. 20. The Sun Chuan-fang forces are reported to have retreated, to Hashing, about fifty miles south-west of Shanghai between Hashing and Sung-Kiang. : General Sun is stated to have 40,000 - men. , SOVIET AMBASSADOR TO CANTON DANGEROUS EMISSARY ’ : ’ ' APPOINTED. '(Received Monday. 8.5 p.m.) V . RIGA, Feb. 20. . M. Aralbo. the Soviet’s Assistant- , Commissar fbr Foreign Affairs, one of the most dangerous of Moscow's emissaries, has been appointed Bolshevik Ambassador to Canton.