SHANGHAI RIOTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19497, 4 June 1925, Page 9

SHANGHAI RIOTS

PATROLS MAINTAIN ORDER.

CONFLICT WITH AMERICANS

Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright. PEKING, June 2. Numerous foreign patrols maintained order in the central district of Shanghai until evening, when shots were fired on an American volunteer mounted patrol from the New World modern Chinese Variety Theatre in the centre of the settlement. . An American trooper was wounded in the thigh, and his horse was killed. Lewis gunners replied, and also the Americans. ... Light horsemen later entered the building, which was crowded with rioters, and rounded up SCO, who were taken to the police station and locked up. One Chinese wa.s seriously wounded, and several were slightly wounded. Keuter.

THE ARRESTED RIOTERS.

THEIR RELEASE DEMANDED

SHANGHAI, June 2,

The Chinese Foreign Commissioner presented the following demands to the Consular body at Shanghai: --The release of the arrested rioters, compensation loi the deaths, and punishment of those responsible. ~ A meeting of Consuls to consider the demands has been called for dune 4 at Peking. The Government is not Glacially connected with the demands. The accused rioters appeared before a Chinese magistrate and an American assessor. After evidence of arrest they were remanded. The precincts of the court were heavily n-uarded. There was so disturbance. As a result of the strike, the freshfood markets were not opened this morning. There were a few minor disturbances.—Keu ter.

FOREIGN LEGATIONS ACT. PEKING, .June 2.

Cabinet has decided to protest to the Diplomatic Corps against the action of the police in Shanghai, where another disturbance is reported in the vicinity of the waterworks. The strike is spreading. The council Ims appointed food and transport controllers. Fifty Italian marines landed from a cmiser, and Americans from destroyers, constituting an advance guard of kOOO sailors and marines, who are going to Shanghai in accordance with instructions from the Legations in Peking. . Other advices state that the strike in Shanghai is only partial, chiefly affecting the Japanese cotton mills, though some of the tramway, electrical, and other municipal employees have gone out. It is estimated that 31,000 ore striking. The police have since released 300 of those arrested. Many minor assaults, chiefly against Japanese, are reported. The. foreign Legations in Peking demand that tho Chinese Government recall the Chinese Foreign Commissioner from Shanghai, n.s Ins presenco will inevitably have the effect of stiffening the rioters. Tho position is already becoming steadily worse.—Reuter.

FOREIGN OFFICE PROTEST.

NOTE TO CONSULAR POWERS

PEKING, June 3.

{Received Juno 3, at 10 pm.) The Foreign Oilico has protested to the interested Powers relative to the Shanghai situation reserving the right to formulate claims which may result from this deplorable incident for which it declares the international concessions entirely responsible and requesting ministers to give urgent and necessary instructions to tho consular authorities at Shanghai to sot tho arrested persons at liberty.—Reuter.