RIOTING IN SHANGHAI

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19498, 5 June 1925, Page 9

RIOTING IN SHANGHAI

EXTENSION OF STRIKE. CASUALTY' LIST GROWING. BRITISH BLUEJACKETS LANDED. Press Association—By Telegraph Copyright. PEKING, Juno 3. The Shanghai strike is spreading. All the foreign mills rue involved, and also the telepnones, waterworks, and municipal electricity department. Some of the foreign newspapers counsel maintaining the public services satisfactorily with .Other labour. A mob of 3000 attacked the Japanese ice works. The police guards bred on the rioters, killing one and wounding nve. Attacks on individual foreigners continue. Tho rioters stoned the traincars, and injured several women. Many students irom other centres are rescuing bhangplatoons of British bluejackets and marines arc landing in the evening, and a similar number in the morning. The Evening News, the only evening paper published, considers that the situation is not so grave. No doubt the Chinese arc feeling the cutting oil of che food supplies much more acutely than the foreigners, as the latter possess large reserves of imported foods. The arrival of the troops is relieving the volunteer police from the heavy strain and continuous duty, but there does not yet appear to be any common ground for a compromise. The foreigners are determined to suppress the riots, while tho Chinese are too excited to listen to calm counsels, and the arrival of fresh batches of irenaied students reinforces the waverers. Steady rain to-night is again emptying the streets. Many of the attacked foreigners were rescued from “ le outlying dstricts by the active patrols. ihere have been further clashes in the centra, districts, during which rioters were killed and injured. The known, casualties so far among the strikers arc 21 killed and 65 wounded. The. defenders had one man seriously wounded and several slightly hurt. A foreign woman died from a blow on the head with a brick, which was thrown when the rioters attacked a tramcai. Armoured cars were rushed to the western district, where tha rioters are concentrating. The Chapei suburb, whicn the Chinese control, gives them a usciui base for operations against the set-tle-The train service to Canton is entirely suspended on all three railroads entering Canton. There is a large troop movement in the city. Tho situation is grave.— Reuter. RIOTERS FIRE ON TROOPS. ROUND-UP of malcontents. SHANGHAI, June 3. Later reports show tthat seven rioters fired revolvers at the American troops or. Burkill road, killing two horses and wounding Dr M’Martin. The rioters also fired on tho troops from the roof of « verandah adjacent to the garage. ibe attackers quickly rushed among the crowds and disappeared. A lull occurred until firing opened from another bmlduig, to which the volunteers vigorously replied. When the rioters ceased, the police and volunteers rushed the building and rounded up hundreds. . ' It is believed that tho armed rioters escaped by means of a tunnel under the street. , , . Tho rioters had token up strategic positions, intending to fire on the ratepayers as they motored home from a special meeting, the early termination of which upset their programme. The meeting failed to secure a quorum. Owing to the absence of the Japanese, the situation in the international settlement is becoming more tense. The fresh food markets and Chinese shops are closed. The rioters are assaulting and terrorising the Chine.se remaining in the employment of foreigners, but tlm French concession so far is not affected, cfeuter. PRESERVATION OF ORDER. JAPANESE ATTITUDE STATED. TOKIO, June 3. Japan is willing to co-operate with file Powers in preserving order in Shanghai to ‘the extent of landing mantes She is quite unwilling to entertain plans for extending international control outside the settlements. According to the Foreign Office, the Japanese pplicy is not only to hold her own hands oH Japanese sovereignty, but to oppose further encroachments on the part of others. Japan recognises the danger of the Shanghai situation spreading into a general anti-foreign movement, but she Sedarcs that nothing has happened to dale to alter her fundamental policy—namely, to give assistance to establish a stable government, the regaining of complete sovereignty, and the surrender of extra-territorial rights. This is the official attitude. A section of the press sees the Bolshevist hand behind the students’ riots. —Sydney Sun Cable. RIOTERS LOSING FAITH. APPEAL TO PEACEABLE CHINESE. PEKING, June 4. (Received June 4, at 11.35 p.m.) The Shanghai rioters seem to be losing faith in their frenzied attacks on foreigners. There wore no collisions today, but the strike is spreading, and it is now estimated that 100,000 have walked out. Coolies greatly predominate in North China. The Daily News, in an article addressed to the peaceable Chinese at (Shanghai, says: “Sooner or latex 1 the rioters and agitators will bo beaten. Meanwhile life will not be pleasant for anyone, but that will not deter foreign authorities or their compatriots from standing firm or doing their utmost to crush the revolt and restore order. How long this threat to your peace, welfare, and safety will last depends largely on yourselves. I ” —A. and N.Z. Cable