IN SHANGHAI.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18402, 8 June 1925, Page 9

IN SHANGHAI.

jrO GENERAL STRIKE. I _ BOYCOTT TO OPERATE. LOOTING BY POOR FEARED, ;, T CABLI— JRES3 ASSOCIATION—COPiaiOHT.) (AH»ra* LUN ASD * ,z- CABLE association.) PEKING, June 5. Jho Chamber of Commerce decided against a general strike at Shanghai, Ljjf'Jnit agreed to a boycott of the goods 'and banknotes of the countries concerned in tho withdrawal of deposits from their oan^s - Strike circulars to-day call on all domestics to walk out and join tho unemployed. Russians, Boy Scouts, women, aiid foreign volunteers are minimising the effects of tho strike as regards foreigners' food, and the situation is jperely inconvenient. The poorer Chinese, however, are beginning to feel tho pinch of hunger, and tho clanger is looming uo of their looting tho provision shops. SITUATION IMPROVES. NAVAL FORCES LAND. (kutzb's tilegbamb.) (Received June 7th, 5.5 p.m.) SHANGHAI, June 7. The British Consul-General at Chin--jKiang, near Nanking, telegraphed: "ftjots in the concession. Can the Nftvy send assistance ?' y To this a raply was sent by the American admiral, who wirelessed instructing an American warship proceeding up tho Yangtse-Kiang river to put in at ChinKiang. A later message stated that '' the situation was serious. Rioting students wrecked three houses in the concession, and the Chinese police told off to protect foreigners ware absolutely useless. The rioters carried on until the commanding Chinese general hrought his own troops on the'scene. Four hours after the Consul-General aftked for assistance the Chinese general restored order, and the foreign . women and children returned to the shore from the boats in which they had taken refuge. A message to-night, however, states that the situation is , again serious. The American gunboat Paul Jones is now due at.Chin-Kiang, , and H.jrf.S. Woodlark should reach thflre on Monday. , The strike is spreading to tho French .concession. Jt was estimated yesterday that the strikers numbered a quar-

.£fer of a million, but a number of staffs :-'"ji'we resumed, including those of the ; idrcign oable companies and oommer- ■ :jcial press, also six hundred workers in ; the Japanese Bahkoong mills and five /hundred in the Riverside power staftion; ' If .defeocp. situation, is /continually •being. Approximately 'fifteen hundred marines and bluejackets have been landed from British, French;, and Italian cruisers. Seven American destroyers, ten English. French, and Japanese/gunboats, and four hundred American marines are due to-morrow. The absence of riots arid the resumption of duties by workers indicate that the students are losing- their grip of the situation, while

tne arrival of the Peking commissioners, whose mission is only investigate ory, should hejp to clear • the atmosphere. The wjde nature of the student dis-

turbances is further shown by mesajges from Hankow on Friday and Saturday, Saying that twenty fhotfB*nd are agitating! and distributing tatirforeign leaflets. The Chinese ', authorities so far have prevented big •Jemonatrations. The movement (began k ' «t Hankow on May 25th. - 1, A thousand 1 students demonstrated in I'the, native city of Tsientsin, but there no incidents. The streets are guarded by police, reinforced >by Manchurian soldiers. The prof.es*&«Ws joined the students,, who ma'de demanding a boycott of the British, and tho abolition of the cohecs/loops. Chang-tso-Jin, who is in assured tho chief of police £stA ho will back every effort to mainorder, and afeunio full responsiin the event of the Peking K.'ldovernmont countermanding the police p^Mtttea. WPfy* Japanese Navy Office advises fsfytj the cruiser Tatsuta has sailed for £?is»iighai with two hundred marines. additional have been to Shanghai, while two have been sent to Canton. fi-'* * . , : -