CHINESE PROTEST.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18409, 16 June 1925, Page 9

CHINESE PROTEST.

BRITAIN SINGLED OUT.

GOVERNMENT YIELDING TO

CLAMOUR.

SERIOUS CONCERN AMONG

FOREIGNERS. (bt CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COrTJUQHT.) tUDTU'9 TXtSOKAMSj PEKING, Juno 14. A noti&nblo feature of the trouble in Shanghai and elsewhere is tho tendency of students and the Government to detach Great Britain from other Powors and to make hor responsible A samplo of< this is tho Note handed to tho British Embassy protesting against British voluntoars using machine-guns against tho Chinese in Hankow, and stating that eight were killed and 11 wounded. Tho Note claims that such aotion violates tho principles of humanity. Tho Chinese Foreign Office thercforo formally protests, and requests tho Chargd d 'Affaires to instruct tho consular authorities to refrain from similar acts. The Note reserves the right to mako further demands when tho case has been more fully investigated. Foreigners generally regard the Note as a sign that the Government is yielding to the clamour of the Bolsheviks aud other extremists, who arc pressing the demand that China should deal with Great Britain alone. The students' domands now include the recall of the British and Japanese Ministers from Peking, and Consuls from Shanghai, tho punishment of the foreign chief of police, and tho permanent withdrawal of British and Japancso gunboats from Shanghai. There is an increasing feeling of sorious concern .among responsible foreigner that the Chinese Government ja pandering to the strikers. Tho reason for this is believed to be mainly a matter of homo politics, the Government fearing that public opinion will veer to the Opposition. Meanwhile the strikers' attitude increasingly indicates the belief that tho Government is with them. Anti-foreign propaganda is mora pronounced,, and the situation in the interior generally is getting worse. According to Chinese unofficial re ports a-Catholic church.at Kaifeng was burned down yesterday, and one Italian priest was killed. . It is persistently reported 'that the Foreign Minister has gono into hiding, fearing that tho students will persist in extreme demands to which he cannot agree.

SAVAGE VENGEANCE.

FLEEING REBELS MERCILESSLY. KILLED. (atjstbalujt ajjd a.z. cable association) PEKING, June 14, At Canton the debacle of tho Yun-i nanoso mercenaries is complete, and cold'bloodcd butchery of the defeated forces is rife. Strngglera caught in the Bund have been stabbed with bayonets, riddled with bullets and thrown into tho river. Fleeing officers, ondeavouring to escape by a stoapicr to Hong-Kong, were intercepted and killed or taken to the Red navy and stripped of practically everything of value and then, mcrci* leesly killed. The Knomingtang (People's Party) leaders at Hong-Kong repudiated, any intention of establishing & Communistic Government in, Canton. Thoy denied that there was any. alliance with- the Soviet.

A» ifc'is impossible to flnd one man to 011 tho late Dr, Sun Yat-sca'B placo it ia intoadW to create a Commission to carry on, tho work of tho Admlnis' tration.

CANTON QUIET.

HANKOW. GENERAL'S WARNING.

(i.TJBTBAI'ttS JUsTI y.JS. CABM! ASSOCIATION.) (Eetralved June XStb, 10.50 p.m.) PEKING, June-15.

After.tho orgies at CiMiton on Fri* day night and Saturday the city J» quieter. Considerable damage b-M been, done along the Bund. At Hankow another rioter ha* died from wounds. Tho dead there now number nine. The situation is quiet, but the defence forces are still standing by. General Liaehulung, whoso Hupeh troops arrived to strengthen the Chinese guard at the International concession, issued' a statement that pending tho result of tho Central Government's investigations at Shanghai, quiet must be maintained. If iintiforoign disturbances continued the result would bo a repetition of tho Boxer trouble and Allied troops would be landed.