RIOTS IN CHINA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 June 1925, Page 5

RIOTS IN CHINA.

ANTI-FOREIGN CAMPAIGN.

A CRITICAL SITUATION.

1 tens Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyrigl PEKIN, Friday.

A message from Shanghai states that a mass meeting of students and working citizens at Kwarigtung University decided to call a general strike, and affio declared a general boycott of British, Japanese and American goods. The date of the strike is unknown, but it probably will be the 20th or the 22nd. '

It is feared that anti-foreign outbreaks will follow. —Aus. and N.Z Cable Assn.'

A GENERAL BOYCOTT.

PEKING, Friday.

A message from Shanghai states that a mass meeting cf students and working citizens at Kwangtung University decided to call a general strike, and also declared a general boycott of British, Japanese aud American goods.

The date. of the strike is unknown, but probably will be June 20th or 22nd.

It is fe'ared anti-foreign outbreaks will follow. —Reuter.

SEAMEN’S STRIKE.

. HONGKONG, Friday. There are indications of a Chinese seamen’s strike.

The crew of the British steamer Suitai, trading to Hongkong, have struck. The llongkong-Canton-Macao Steamboat Company have cancelled the sailing to Canton. —Reuter.

SUPPRESSED EXCITEMENT.

(Received Saturday, 10.35 a.m.)

PEKING, Friday. Ichang students are promoting an anti-foreign .strike.

Kiukiang, Kuling and Chinkiang are quiet, but the Nanking position is uncertain.

Much suppressed excitement necessitates continued- precautions being taken. Considerable unrest is jeopardising the position of Anglo-Americans and Japanese.

'Reports from Hankow state that the Chinese authorities at Chunkiang allowed the strikers to get out of hand, and many foreigners took refuge in gunboats. -■ - The foreign telegrams from Hankow speak of riots in Chungkiang on Wednesday as tnough acute trouble had passed, and the absence of further wireless from the Chungkiang naval division endorses this view.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.