CHINESE TURMOIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1925, Page 2

CHINESE TURMOIL.

[Australia A N.Z. Cable Association.] CHINESE OUTRAGES. PEKIN. June 14. According to Chinese unofficial report. the Catholic Church at Kaifeng was burned down yesterday. One Italian priest was killed. It is persistently reported that the Foreign Alinister at Shenjuailin was going into hiding, tearing the students will persist in extreme demands whereto he cannot agree. PEKIN, June 11. There is an incsieasing feeling ol serious concern among responsible foreigners that the Chinese Government is pandering to the strikers. The reason for this is believed to be mainly a matter of Home politics, the Government fearing Ihe public opinion will veer to opposition. .Meanwhile the strikers attitude increasingly indicates the belief that the Government is with them. Anti-foreign propaganda is more pronounced and the situation m tlic interior generally is getting worse. CHINESE BUTCHERY. IKK IN. June 14.

ATianaiiese debacle is complete. The cold blooded butchery of defeated forces i.s rife. Stragglers caught in the Build were stabbed with bayonets, riddled with bullets and thrown into the river. Fleeing officers endeavouring to escape by steamer to Hong Kong were intercepted and killed or taken to the Bed Navy, stripped of practically everything of value and then mercilessly killed.

Kouinilltegg. a society leader at Hong Kong, repudiated the intention of establishing a communistic Government in Canton. They denied there was any alliance with the Soviet. As it is impossible to find one man in I Sun A'at Sen’s place is intended to create a Commission to carry on the work of administration.

CANTON QUIET. PEKIN. June 15,

After orgies at Canton oil Friday night and Saturday, the city is quiet-

Considerable damage has been done along the Bund at Hankow. Another rioter died from wounds. The dead now number nine. The situation is quiet. Defence forces are still standing by.

General Liachulung. whose Hupeh troops have arrived to strengthen the Chinese guard at the international concession, lias issued a statement that, pending the result of the Central Government’s investigations at Shanghai, quiet must he maintained here. Tf anti-foreign disturbances continue. the result will he a repetition of the Boxer trouble, and Allied troops will be landed.