REIGN OF LAWLESSNESS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 53, 26 November 1926, Page 11

REIGN OF LAWLESSNESS

BEING EXPERIENCED IN HANKOW

BOYCOTT STIFFENING JAPANESE AND BRITISH SPECIAL VICTIMS Hankow is experiencing « reign of lawlessness. The boycott is being stiffened and t threatens to compel foreigners to abandon trading owing to the difficulties of conducting business and securing food. By Telegraph.—Press association. Copyright. Peking, November 24. Hankow is experiencing a reign of lawlessness unequalled in the history of the Chinese Treaty ports. The boycott is being stiffened, and threatens to compel foreigners to abandon trading Giving to the difficulties of conducting business and securing food. Japanese and British are the special victims. Numbers of the former were molested outside the Concession boundaries by pickets patrolling with, pistols and threatening to shoot sellers of food to foreigners. More gunboats have been ordered to Hankow.

Pitched battles between the foreign police and the Reds were narrowly averted on several occasions as the result of the latter swooping into the Concessions and commandeering a whole garage fleet of motor-cars at the pistol point. , Employees of 'foreign firms are being intimidated and industries are slowly paralysing. The retiring British Minister at Peking predicts a worse situation as being certain, and pleads for Anglo-American co-operation to meet the rising tide of Chinese nationalism aiming at the banishment of foreigners from China.