RISING IN CHINA.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 June 1925, Page 5

RISING IN CHINA.

DANGERS IN THE FUTURE. GROWTH TO BIG POWER. MENACE OF PACIFIC PEACE. >7 Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, June 21. The Sunday Pictorial, in an article explaining Chinese aspirations from the viewpoint of the present disturbances, says; “Two yellow perils are ahead of the white civilisation. The first is industrial and includes Japan, which is already underselling Europeans in the Eastern markets. When China takes industrialism in earnest she will underlive and undersell to an extent even greater than Japan. ‘'Secondly, the day is coming when China, possessed of great fleets and millions of armed troops will become a first rank power in the Pacific. The question will then assume a different aspect, possibly an alliance between Japan and China. Although Chinese hordes may not march on Europe aerial invasion is possible and it is certain that Chinese naval squadrons will some day be seen in European waters. “It is also tolerably certain that a united and strong China will some day seize the empty and prolific Northern Territory of Australia. Japan is at present the Australians’ bogey; they are looking in the wrong direction. The Japanese belong to the temperate zone and could not thrive in the Northern Territory. The Chinese could thrive equally in the Northern Territory and at the North Pole. “Europe's prestige suffered terribly as the result of the war. Orientals were amazed at the four and a-half years’ gigantic devastation and senseless mutual destruction. Nowadays even the nerveless Peking Government sends impertinent messages to the European Legations, because the Chinese know that Europe is prostrate and unwilling to engage in hostilities anywhere.” EXTENT OF THE RIOTS. THE CHINESE VERSION. Peking, June 21. The Foreign Office Note in reply to the Powers’ Note regarding the riots and anti-foreign sentiment in Chinastates that the accounts of different incidents given therein are not in accord with the reports of the local Chinese authorities. The Note gives a lengthy Chinese version of the recent occurrences. It says that in Hankow the British authorities should assume full responsibility for their violent action. At Kiukiang during an altercation between the police and a number of workmen a fire suddenly broke out in the Taiwan bank. During the confusion and owing to the time occupied m putting out the fire', slight damage was caused to sundry articles in the English and Japanese consulates. Such damage was accidental. Regarding the killing of a British subject in Shanghai he was outside the settlement where the municipality had built roads without China’s consent. The motives of the criminals have not been ascertained. It is regrettable for the above reasons that the incident occurred. With the exception of the killing of the British subject in Shanghai all the incidents happened as the result of the failure to obtain a prompt and fair settlement of the Shanghai case. There has never existed any anti-foreign tendency. Since the Shanghai occurrence the 'Government has issued mandates ordering the people to exercise self-restraint and has instructed the provincial authorities to maintain order. In view of the present circumstances the Government hopes the Ministers of Powers will promptly settle the Shanghai case; then the present indignation will ibe appeased and the excitement subside.

RIGHTS OF CHINESE. DEMANDS OF LABOURERS. Received June 22, 8.15 p.m. Hong Kong, June 21. Labourers formed a secret organisation, styled the Hong Kong Labour Commission, with plenary powers to discuss strike matters, and it is reported the commission is functioning under the patronage of the Canton Government. The commission formulated, inter alia, the following demands: (1) Freedom of speech, press and other publications; (2) equality of treatment of Chinese, no differentiation in registry of birth, and abolition of the deportation law; (3) labourers’ right to vote for the appointment of Chinese members of the Legislative Council; (4) an improvement in labour conditions, prohibition of child labour enforcement and an eight-hour day; (-5) revocation of the ordnance increasing standard rents 15 per cent; (6) no racial discrimination and permission for Chinese to reside within the Peak reservation. INCIDENT IN PARIS. Received June 22, 7.15 p.m. Paris, June 21. It was chiefly Chinese youths who invaded the embassy and forced the ambassador to sign away among other documents a proclamation assuring the Chinese people that he sympathised with them in their struggle against foreign imperialists. The police arrested one of the invaders.