CHINESE TROUBLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19348, 1 July 1925, Page 8

CHINESE TROUBLE

HONGKONG TEAMS RUNNING. MANNED BY BRITISH AND PORTUGUESE. Received June 30, 10.30 p.m. HONGKONG, .Tunc 30. The tramways have resumed a limited service. Cars are. manned by Britishers and Portuguese. The labour controller reports that practically the whole population, exclusive of Chinese, some of whom have enrolled, have registered for essential services. Those registered comprise twenty-four nationalities. The British cruiser Brisbane (from the Australian station) and the American destroyer Simpson have arrived.

CHINESE BOLSHEVIKS ARRESTED

Received June 30, 10.30 p.m. PEKING, June 29.

A telegram from Tientsin says a hundred suspected Chinese Bolsheviks wore arrested, including five domestics in the Soviet consulate, which lodged a protest against its household being- thus disrupted.

STUDENT TROUBLE IN BERLIN

Received June 30, 10.30 p.m. BERLIN, June 29.

Chinese students, emulating their compatriots in Paris, threatened the life of the Chinese ambassador unless he signed a document calling on the German authorities to expel General Hsu, recently arrived from Paris. The ambassador at first refused to sign anything, but yielded when the students threatened a raid on the general s house. The ambassador then signed a document giving- a solemn assurance that General Hsu was not purchasing weapons and not raising loans against the revolutionaries.

MORE DEMONSTRATIONS

Received June 30. 10.30 p.m. PEKING, Juue 30.

Students are demonstrating and parading regarding the Shameen affair. At a meeting yesterday they passed a resolution thanking Russian students for their telegram of sympathy. They decided to protest to the French Minister against the expulsion of Chinese students from France, and ask the Italian Government’s attitude in connection with the Shanghai affair. The demonstration parade which is being arranged in Canton to-morrow, will not pass Shameen.