TONING DOWN

Northern Advocate, 22 June 1925, Page 5

TONING DOWN

CHINESE FURORE ANTI-FOREIGN PROPAGANDA. JAPANESE OFFICIAL , SLAIN. (Received 10 a.m.) PEKIN, June 20. Delegates representative of 48 colleges sent a deputation to interview the Foreign War Minister, demanding severance of diplomatic relations with Britain and impeachment of the Hankow Tupan. The situation, outwardly at least, is quietening. There are no signs of a boycott strike. Numbers of students have returned home during the past week. Shanghai is quiet, but there is no cessation of anti-foreign propaganda. The decision to reopen the banks and shops is favourably affecting the general situation, but merely reflects the necessity of the Chinese to end a phase of the situation which is causing them much more severe losses and inconvenience than foreigners.

j The flipping strike, which is a strong J anti-foreign -weapon, is not weakening. The strikers are beginning to kidnap Japanese employees, who are taken to a distance, robbed, and beaten, and only released on payment of money and promises to quit their employment. I A telegram from Canton states that Nakadai, Japanese treasurer of the Hunai Hospital, was shot dead by unknown Chinese outside the French gate of the Sliameen. —A. and N.Z. and Reuter.