UNREST IN CHINA.
THE POSITION QUIETER. By Telegraph.—Prest Assn—Copyright. Received July 9, 5.5 p.m. Pekin, July 8. Owing to the Shanghai strike and the disturbed condition of the country generally the Customs revenue for the six months ended June 30 declined one and a half million taels. Shanghai reports that the situation there continues more hopeful. Matters are quiet vvith the exception of further kidnapping of tramway and other employees, such as foreign residents employed as house servants, There were numerous cases of confiscation by strikers of milk, vegetables and other foods supposed to be- for foreign consumption, these goods being distributed to strikers and students. Coolies confiscated a hundred cows at the railway station and took them to the union headquarters in Chinese territory. The tram service is somewhat curtailed in Peking.
ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA.
Received July 9, 7.45 p.m. London, July 9. The Daily Telegraph publishes a facsimile of a poster displayed in Pekin depicting John Bull with his foot planted or. a Chinese baby.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 July 1925, Page 7
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