UNREST IN CHINA.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 December 1926, Page 5

UNREST IN CHINA.

SITUATION AT HANKOW. SAID TO BE EASIER. Press Ajsociation-Electvic Telegriiph-Copyright. (Received Friday, 10.10 a.m.) PEKING, Thursday. Foochow’s navy has gone over to the Cantonese, who are expected to occupy Foochow to-morrow without fighting. This is another reverse for General Sun Chuan. .Fang. Cliiang Kai Shok’s recent declaration of 'friendliness towards the missionaries has prompted the Kiukiang missionaries to broadcast details of the outrages' suffered from Cliiang’a troops. Homes were forcibly entered, furniture smashed, and everything saleable, including organs, sewing machines, pianos, medicines and surgical instruments,; was auctioned. All books' and Bibles were burned and clothes ripped by bayonets. Homes were occupied by soldiers and the owners driven out. Similar reports were received from, other sources. American missionaries in the Honan. Province requested the Peking Legation for rifles for self-defence, .but permission was refused by the Chinese authorities, who declared that the procedure ;'was dangerous. Tlie Hankow situation is easier, as the result of the Japanese agreeing to the humiliating demands of the strikers. Essential services are being maintained. Pickets are reported to- have been withdrawn from the concession. Lampson, the new Minister from London, will proceed to Hankow by the cruiser Petersfield on Saturday, ignoring Peking, to view the up-river situation. He states that Loudon is awaiting instructions before deciding on protective measures. Dissension between Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Lin caused the abandonment of the attempt to recapture Wuhan cities.