MARTIAL LAW

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17572, 24 June 1925, Page 8

MARTIAL LAW

MORE VIOLENCE IN CHINA. Hi- Telegraph.—rress Association.—Copyright.—neuter’s Telegrams. (Received June 2!, 1 p.m.) PEKIN, June 23. Unconfirmed private telegrams from W'u-chow, Kwangtung, state that the Japanese Customs Commissioner was killed and two other Japanese injured. At Chun-kiang, strikers stoned the Japanese Consul, who demanded an apology, intimating that, otherwise, strong action would be taken. The Anglo-Japanese boycott is operating at Nanking. The students at Wuhu are intimidating compradores, who arc consequently refusing supplies to English and Japanese warships. Shanghai reports that coolies who were loading cargo demanded an advance in wages. The agents refused the demand and brought Russians to work. They are guarded by armed Annamite coolies. Trouble was threatened, but the police managed to control the situation. A number of ocean-going vessels are held up by the strike. The Government has proclaimed martial law in the Chinese suburbs and prohibited propaganda. They also confiscated arms and ammunition. SHOTS FIRED IN CANTON. By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.—Pouter's Telegrams. (Received June 21, 2 p.m.) PEKIN, June 23. This afternoon, thousands of students, workmen, citizens and soldiers paraded along the Bund in Canton and around the Shameen. When opposite the Victoria Hotel, in the British Concession, firing began. English and French marines replied with machineguns. The firing lasted twenty minutes, Chinese soldiers firing from the W'est Bund. A French merchant, J. Pasquier, was killed. The Commissioner of Customs, Mr Arthur Edwards, and one British marine and two civilians were wounded. Opinion is unanimous that the first shots came from the Chinese.