CHINESE REPLY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17570, 22 June 1925, Page 1

CHINESE REPLY.

EXPLANATIONS AND DENIALS. BLAME PUT ON POWERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Reuter's Telegrams. (Received June 22. 0-45 a.m.) RISKIN’, Juno 21. The Foreign Office Note in reply to the Note from the Powers regarding riots and anti-foreign sentiment in China states that the accounts of the different incidents given therein arc not in accord with the reports uf the local Chinese authorities. The Note gives a lengthy Chinese version of recent occurrences. It says: “In Hankow the British volunteers suddenly opened fire on an unarmed crowd. The British authorities should assume full responsibility for their violent action. “ At Kiu-kiang, during an altercation between the police and a small number of workmen, lire suddenly broke out in the Tai-wan Bank. During the confusion and owing to the time occupied in putting out the fire, slight damage was caused to sundry articles in the English and Japanese Consulates, such damage being accidental. Regarding the killing of the British subject in Shanghai: Jle was outside the settlement, where the municipality built roads without China's consent. The motives of the criminals have not been ascertained, and it is regrettable for the above reasons that the incidents 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 prompt and fair settlement of the Shanghai case. There never existed any anti-foreign tendency. “ Since the Shanghai occurrence the Government has issued mandates ordering the people, to exercise selfrestraint and has instructed provincial authorities to maintain order. In view of the present circumstances the Government hopes that the Ministers of the Powers will prompt Unsettle the Shanghai case, then the present indignation will be appeased and the excitement will subside.’’