CHINA’S ANTI-FOREIGN CAMPAIGN

Taranaki Daily News, 5 January 1927, Page 7

CHINA’S ANTI-FOREIGN CAMPAIGN

OUTRAGES AND INCENDIARISM SPREADING KIUKAING SITUATION PREGNANT WITH DANGER lUTHORIT4ES POWERLESS TO RESTORE ORDER

(Press Association —Copyright.) SHANGHAI, January '3.

Messages from Kiukiang state that the situation is pregnant with danger •for foreigners. A general strike has been declared again the British concession to starve out the residents, necessitating food supplies and relief being rushed Aom Hankow in an attempt to break the boycott.

frix naval vessels which are guarding lives, landed every available man for protection and to demonstrate. The concession is picketed by strikers to prevent food entering. The Chinese authorities declare their helplessness to restore order at present. The lighting is cut off, and H.M.S. Wyvern and other vessels are awlsting with their searchlights. The anti-Christian feeling and outrages in outlying provinces have inereased to such an extent that all missionaries have been advised to proceed tti safety tones. The hitherto peaceful country folk have been stirred to high fanaticism by agitators and are perpetrating outrages and incendiarism. All the Catholic bishops and nuns in the districts surrounding Hankow were ordered to evacuate after the mission at Yangshinsban had been attacked by II mob of 600. The priests were assaulted and driven out,' and the church set On fire and destroyed. The priests' and nuns escaped over the walls of the (own, pursued by howling mobs. A seminary in the vicinity of Shasi was looted and destroyed, the priests being stripped of their clothing. The church at Huseph and the mission homes were burned. The mission at Tungehansien, in the vicinity of Wuchang, was destroyed. The nuns in the convent at Sbinshinkaf were compelled to flee Owing to continued interference by soldiers.