Shanghai Alone is Safe for Foreigners

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3575, 5 April 1927, Page 7

Shanghai Alone is Safe for Foreigners

NANKING EVENTS GIVE LIE TO -ASSURANCES. (Received .Monday, 10.45 p.m.) SHANGHAI, April 4. The American Chamber of Commerce has issued a statement that repeated assurances by militarists and other spokesmen of the political fac-tions-that they can and will protect the life and property of foreigners are irreconcilable with recent events leading to the necessity for the 'evacuation of the entire Yangtse valley. The adoption of a conciliatory policy by . foreign Governments is merely strengthening the lawless elements and encourages outrages like that, at Nanking. Of all the Yangtse valley Shanghai alone Is comparatively safe for foreigners. This i s due entirely to the presence of foreign warships and military. It is obivous that a protective policy applying to Shanghai alone will not enable China to put her house in order nor prevent enormous losses, from the evaluation of the interior districts. Wo. are convinced the future welfare of the Chinese people and the ultimate safety of American and other foreigners in China can be attained only by the unified action of the Powers to suppress disorder and restore conditions favourable to the formation of a, responsible Government. JESUIT FATHERS PUT TO DEATH AT NANKING. BODIES MUTILATED AND UNBURIED, (Received Monday, 7 p.m.) \ PARIS, April 4. Newspapers are giving prominence to the fate of two Jesuit Fathers, Dubois and Manama. It is officially announced they were put to death at Nanking by the order of the Cantonese authorities. Their bodies were mutilated after execution and left uninterred for several days. FIRMNESS FOLLOWED BY MODERATION. WILL BE TONE OF UNITED 'STATES DEMANDS. (Rfcceivcd Monday, 7.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 4. The New York “World’s” Washington correspondent states that .whatever demands the United States Government may make on the Cantonese Government as a result of the Nanking affair they will be couched reasonably with a view to insuring compliance. The Administration is apparently disposed to make allowances for the disturbed conditions at the time of the incident, namely,the withdrawal of he Northern forces and the subsequent taking of control by the Cantonese.

Tlio policy adopted will be firmness followed by moderation, on the theory that extreme demands would be, useless and probably only aggravate an already tense situation. An effort will be made to imprest the Cantonese authorities with the seriousness of the outbreaks against foreigners and the representatives of foreign Governments, which are virtually attacks upon those Governments themselves. JAPANESE BLUEJACKETS CLASH WITH CHINESE. 5 SHANGHAI, April 8. It is reported from Hankow that Japanese bluejackets clashed with a mob of Chinese 4nd that the evacuation of all the Japanese from the concession has been ordered.