LAWLESSNESS IN CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1926, Page 7

LAWLESSNESS IN CHINA

BOYCOTT OF FOREIGNERS EMPLOYEES INTIMIDATED GUNBOATS SENT TO SCENE ✓ By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Peking, Nov. 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 difficult ies of conducting business and securing food. The Japanese and British are the 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. More gunboats have been ordered to Hankow. Pitched battles between the foreign police and the Reds have narrowly been averted on several occasions, as the result of the latter swooping into the concessions and commandeering whole garage fleets at he pistol point. The employees of foreign firms are being intimidated and Industries are be-’ ing slowly. paralyser). 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 from China.