FOREIGNERS IN PERIL.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18891, 5 January 1927, Page 7

FOREIGNERS IN PERIL.

CHINESE STIRRED TO FANATICISM.

ATTACKS ON MISSIONARIES.

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SHANGHAI, January 3,

Messages from Kiukiang state that the situation is full of danger for foreigners. A general strike has been declared in the British concession to starve out residents, making it necessary to rush food supplies and relief from Hankow in an attempt to breat the boycott. , , ~ Six naval vessels landed every available man for the protection of foreigners and to demonstrate against hostile Chinese. The concession is picketed by strikers to prevent food entering. The Chinese authorities declare that they are unable to restore order at Lighting is cut off, and H.M.S. Wyvern and other vessels are assisting with searchlights. Anti-Christinn feeling and outrages in outlying provinces have increased to such'an extent that all missionaries are advised to proceed to safety zones. Hitherto peaceful country folk have been stirred to the verge of fanaticism by agitators, and many are perpetrating outrages and acts of incendiarism. All Catholic bishops and nuns in districts surrounding Hankow were ordered to leave after the mission at Yang-shih-shan had' been attacked by a mob of 600. Priests were assaulted and driven out, and the church fired and destroyed. The priests and nuns es' caped over the walls of the town, pursued by a howling mob. . A seminary in the vicinity of Shasi was looted and destroyed, and the priests stripped of clothing. A cnuran and mission homes in another town were burned. . A mission at Tung-chanihsien, m the vicinity of Wuchang, was destroyed. _,. , . , . Nuns in a convent at SmnrShin-kai were compelled to flee, owing to continued molestation by soldiers.