TURMOIL IN CHINA
MORE SEVERE FIGHTING. ! (Received 10 a.m.) [ PEKING, February 2. A telegram from . Shanghai states that severe fighting is reported between Wu Pei-fu and Yueli Wei-chun, northward of Sin Yan-ehow.—Reuter. HOSTILITY TO BRITISH. VERY PRONOUNCED. BRISBANE, This Day. According to Miss E. Stevens, who is proceeding to Sydney by the steamer Arafura, after four years at Shanghai, tho whole of China at present is' in a state of tumoil. The feeling of the Chinese was very bitter against British subjects, most of whom wore going about armed. The position generally was much more serious than people in other countries realised. Miss Stevens added that since serious rioting in Shanghai in May and June a marked difference was to be noticed in tho demeanour of Chinese servants towards Britons. v The usual civility was being replaced by insolence and hostile looks. Open hostility was shown by the Chinese in the; streets. Several English people ■■ who had been in Shanghai for twenty years or more were selling up their . homes and leaving the country. .In some places Britons were absolutely boycotted. Riots often, occurred. She was glad to leave it all. |
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Northern Advocate, 4 February 1926, Page 5
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