CHINESE TURMOIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1925, Page 2

CHINESE TURMOIL.

| Reuter Telegrams.] STRIKE AT FOOCHOW. I’KKIN. June 1(1. The Government has issued orders for the special protection of all foreign employees and foreign trui-Hors • n the railways, h also instructs the railway police eliiels to provide efficient police for (Ids purpose, in a previous order the Ministry instructed the foreign employees to remain at their posts and carry on their usual work. As the result of representations hv foreign authorities, Chinese J roups are patrolling the city. Special guards are placed outside the offices and residences of the officials of the principal foreign firms. Changtsoliil. the Alaiichuriaii Chief has despatched reinforcements to the troops at Pekin. llankow reports that out of seven Bolshevik agitators arrested by the Chinese authorities, one was shot by them. Foochow reports that the students there are urging the foreign employed Chinese to strike and urging and appealing to the Merchants Guild there, lo support the strikers. The Military Governor of Foochow posted guards at tho foreign quarter, where all is quiet.

CHINESE REFORM. (Received this day at 9.‘id a.in.) DEICIN', June IT. After a victory over the Yunnanese mercenaries the authorities at Slianghai claim that they disarmed fourteen thollsalid mereena lies. An important meeting at Muomatitnng’.s headquarters decided on the abolition of the tivil governorship and the placing of the Government ill the hands of a Commission of seven. As regards finance all funds are to go through the civil treasury, the military commanders being forbidden to levy taxes, while many of the present taxes are to he abolished. The authorities expect to meet expenditure without gambling revenue. Gambling houses will consequently he suppressed and I opium suppression will he enforced. 1