STIRRERS OF STRIFE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16768, 29 June 1925, Page 7

STIRRERS OF STRIFE.

SOVIET. DELEGATION TO CHINA

TRADES UyiON MOVEMENT.

(Sydney Sun Cables.) (Received June 29, 10 a.in.) MOSCOW, June 28. The Soviet Government is sending a trades union delegation to Shanghai to encourage tlie Chinese strikers. The Chinese Trades Union Federation has telegraphed the chairman of the Soviet Trades Unions: “Warmest gratitude for moral and material assistance so far rendered.”

CHINESE BANKS RE-OPEN. NAVY SUPPLIES STORES TO SHAMEEN. (Reuter’s Telegram.) (Received June 29. 11 a.m.) PEKIN, June 28. Chinese, hankers in Hongkong at a meeting carried a resolution to re-open on Monday. A committee of the Sharebrokers’ Association decided to fall in lino with this action. The Stock Exchange will re-open on July 7. Naval ratings' with stores have hern sent to tins Shameen.

A gang of coolies, under police protection, discharged cargo from the German steamer Anlial, at Kowloon wharf. Tlie Chinese crew tampered with the engineis of one of the Kowloon, ferry boats before deserting. The French Admiral lias gone to Canton from Hongkong. All is quiet in Shanghai, Tientsin, Tsingtao, Chefoo, and Pekin.

BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA. SHANGHAI, June I.—New outbreaks in the Japanese spinning mills strike agitation continued to-day, resulting in the killing of four more Chinese students, bringing.the total dead to sixteen since the ribting started in the streets on Saturday.

A clash between police and the disturbing element resulted in the wounding of more than twenty agitators. The total number of wounded as a result of street fighting thus far was given at twenty six. Included were several known to be mortally wounded. Three Russian agitators were arrested near the scene of the outbreak in the .business district. This morning the police charged, after the first outbreak on Saturday, that Bolshevik propaganda was responsible for the demonstration by students.