CHINA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 13 June 1925, Page 7

CHINA

ANTI-FOREIGN RIOT AT HANKOW MOB FIRED ON EIGHT DEATHS (By Electric) Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Router's Telegrams.) PEKIN. June 11. A report from Hankow slates that an anti foreign riot occurred last night. Volunteers were called nu't and the rioters rushed the Bund, tore tip seats, destroyed Japanese shops, and severely mauled Japanese shopkeepers. Later rioters broke, down the barricade and attempted to rush the British volunteer armoury. The. rioters were in heavy numbers, totally outnumbering the defence force of the armoury. Tiie fire brigade ineffectually hosed the mob. after which the position being a state of extreme emergency, under orders of the navy the rioters were bored on by machineguns. Eight were killed. The number of wounded is unknown. Quiet has been restored and the Chinese authorities guarantee continued pence. A message from Canton states that the report that the Christian College is besieged is untrue. Suiinanese and lluimanese troops loyal to the Cantonese are nearing Canton from the north. Firing is continuous along the native Bund. The Portuguese gunboat Pntria .arrived. Four British, two American, two Japanese and two French gunboats were already here. MASS MEETING RESOLUTIONS PEKIN, June 12. A mass meeting of 25.000 students and workers at Shanghai passed the following resolutions: —(1) To sever economic relations with the AnglciJnpanese on 12th June; (2) to urge the central government to secure satisfaction for the shootings on 30ili Aiav from the British and Japanese; (3) failing .settlement in a fortnight to declare a general strike, throughout the country. The meeting afterwards inarched in procession through the native city. During the march two Japanese posing as Chinese students were violently handled. Tlic-y were taken to the police station and locked up. PEKIN, June 12. Among the damage in the British concession at Hankow, rioters broke down the boundary wall. The situation this morning is still quiet. Chinese authorities are patrolling the outer boundaries of tin* British concession, and volunteers and naval men are guarding the inner defences. Discord among the striking elements are exemplified in Chinese circulars distributed in the French concession, accusing Communists of taking advantage of disturbances to carry out their own plots. The circulars assert that the Communists received large funds from Russia. adding, "We weep at the deaths of brethren, while they laugh in the dark. We tire fighting for national rights and freedom, while they arc selling our freedom to Russia. Citizens it is not foreigners wiuj are killing us, hut Communists, who cry. 'Overthrow Imperialism,’ while acting as hounds' for Russian huntsmen." Attacking Communists’ circulars contain usual demands for redress for foreign aggression. MOSCOW, June 12 Many meetings of protest against the action of foreign police in Shanghai were hold in Moscow. Resolutions of sympathy with tile National movement in China was adopted. Studoiifsi demonstrated to show solidarity with Chinese re.volutionary studcnls. According to the Rosin- News Agency, the General Council of Trade Unions and the Soviet Union, telegraphed 50,000 roubles to Pekin to help the Chinese strikers and families of those killed in the riots.