MUST DISTURBING

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10512, 6 April 1927, Page 4

MUST DISTURBING

CHINESE SITUATION HORRORS CONTINUE. Electric Telegraph—Press Association SHANGHAI, April 4. The situation is generally most disturbing. Reports from all parts of the country tell ol uprisings anj outrages against all classes of foreign life and property, despite the presence of large international military and naval forces. The trouble appears temporarily to have reverted to Hankow and the river ports, and thretens to spread northwards to the treaty ports. Marshal Chang Tso-lin is desperately warring with the Cantonese in Anhwei Province to stem the Red. tide. But his victories are counterbalanced by the activities of plain clothes agitators striving for a repetition of the Nanking outrages at Pekin, Tientsin and other places where foreigners are congregated. The evacuation continues everywhere. Later details of the Nanking outrages equal the horrors of the Boxer rebellion. These are mainly committed by uniformed coolies upon white women and girls, principally Americans and Japanese women. Reports of these and other indecencies have aroused tlie indignotion of foreigners throughout China to a high pitch of fury. The arrival at Hankow from Canton of the International Labour delegates. Messrs Mann, Browder and Woriot, prompted a revival of anti-foreign demonstrations. i>elegates including Russian speakers

addressed huge mass meetings denouncing Imperial ism and advocating the overthrow of the Right (non-reactionary) Conservative Wing of the Kuomintang . A Japanese naval wireless from Hankow says it is expected that the evacuation of all Japanese except the staffs of two firms which are surrounded by pickets will be completed dui-ing the doy. Twenty-five Japanese have refuged on the warship “Bee.”

There are already five warshipsat Hankow. Three are hastening thither and three leave to-morrow morning escorting three Japanese steamers which are taking food supplies.