CHINESE BOYCOTT
BRITISH SPECIAL VICTIMS REIGN OF LAWLESSNESS FOREIGN MINISTER’S WARNING. (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Australian nnU N.Z. Cable Association.) ■> (Received November 25, noon.) PEKIN, November 24. Hankow is experiencing a reign of lawlessness unequalled in the history of the Chinese treaty ports. The boycott is stiffening, and threatens to compel foreigners to abandon trading, owing to the difficulties of conducting business and securing food. Japanese and British are special victims. Numbers of the former have been molested outside the concession boundaries by pickets patrolling with pistols and threatening to .shoot sellers of food to foreigners. Move gunboats have been ordered to Hiinkow. Pitched battles between foreign police and " Reds ” have narrowly been averted on several occasions, the result of the latter swooping into the concessions and commandeering whole garage fleets at pistol point. Employees of foreign firms are being intimidated, and industries are being slowly paralysed. The retiring British Minister at Pekin predicts that a worse situation is certain. and pleads for British and American co-operation to meet the rising tide of Chinese nationalism, aiming at the banishment of foreigners front China.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16200, 25 November 1926, Page 7
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