CHINA'S ANNIVERSARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20074, 11 October 1928, Page 11

CHINA'S ANNIVERSARY.

SHANGHAI CELEBRATIONS. STRICT PRECAUTIONS TAKEN. Australian Press Association—United Service SHANGHAI. Oct 9. Strict precautions have been enforced within tlio foreign concessions at Shanghai owing to to-morrow's celebration of the anniversary of the outbreak of tho Chinese revolution in 1911.

The British troops arc confined io barracks and (lie police street-patrols have been doubled. They have orders speedily to arrest any anti-foreign agitators. The entire city, within and without the concessions, blazes with the red of hundreds of thousands of Nationalist fiags. An elaborate programme has been planned by tha Chinese. It is expected that the native authorities will give them free play to air their feelings, in order to emphasise the success of the Nationalist movement.

The authorities in the foreign concessions are perturbed in view of the fact that another crime wave is at its height.

GROWTH OF SHANGHAI. LARGEST CITY IN CHINA. DETAILS OF LATEST CENSUS. Australian Press Association—United Service SHANGHAI, Oct. 9. Shanghai is the largest city in China, and the sixth largest in the world, according to a census just completed by t lie Bureau for Public Safety. '] his shows thai Shanghai lias a total population of 2,726,946, ol whom 47,768 are foreigners: The population of the international settlement is 827,000 Chinese and 28,000 foreigners. In the French concession there arc 348,976 Chinese and 10,377 foreigners. The remainder of the population reside in territories controlled by the Chinese and iiicludo 9383 foreigners, principally Russians and Japanese.

The five cities larger than Shanghai are London, population 7,742,212; Now York, 6.103,384 (1925); Berlin, 4,013,588 (1925); Paris, 3,000,000; Chicago, 3,102,000. Buenos Aires, Osaka, Tokio, and Moscow, have each over 2,000,000 inhabitants. .

JIASSACUE IN KANSU. MOSLEM INSURRECTION. REPORT OF 200,000 KILLED. Australian Press Association—United Service NEW YORK. Oct. 3. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, chairman of tho China Famine Relief Organisation in New York, received information to-day of the massacre of about 200,000 persons by fanatic Moslems in tho province of Ivausu, Western China. Dr. Cadman received tho information in a letter from tho Rev. Lcighton Rand, of the China Inland Mission at, Lanehow, tbo capital of Kansu, in which ho says tho horrors of tho famine situation were intensified by a Moslem insurrection. 110 writes: " From reports already received it is known that tho number of those massacred exceeds 200.000. Villages were.pillaged and burned."