PREDICTS WORSE TIMES COMING FOR FOREIGNERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18013, 25 November 1926, Page 1

PREDICTS WORSE TIMES COMING FOR FOREIGNERS.

BRITISH MINISTER CALL FOR CO-OPERATION TO STEM CHINESE. REIGN OF TERROR MAY DRIVE HANKOW WHITES OUT OF BUSINESS. By Telegraph.— Press .Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and X.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 25, 10.30 a.m.) PEKIN, November 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 difficulties of conducting business and securing food. > The Japanese and British are special victims and numbers of the former have been molested outside the Concession boundaries by pickets patrolling with pistols who are threatening to shoot any selling food to foreigners. More gunboats have been ordered to Hankow. Pitched battles between 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 the pistol point. Employees of foreign firms are being intimidated and industries are being slowly paralysed. 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, which is aiming at the banishment of the foreigners from China.