CHINESE TURMOIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1925, Page 3

CHINESE TURMOIL.

[ Renter Telegrams.] VICHY UNSETTLED POSITION. PEKIN, June 17. Despite' an official statement that every elforl would Is? made* to prevent anti-foreign riots, nothing has been done to hinder a dangerous inflammatory agitation. Thousands of incendiary, provocative posters are posted throughout Pekin, depicting British police shooting and bayonet ting defenceless students, women and children, lying on the ground. \ ernneular papers are mostly refusing to print reliable telegrams, and are inserting an absurdly garbled version ot events. ■Shanghai reports the shipping strike is becoming worse. Pootung wharf coolies struck, also DO per cent ol the Shanghai Tug and Lighter Company lightermen. Ninety ex-M unicipal police) led a huge procession which .smashed the windows of shows of An-glo-Jnpaneso goods until Changsnebliang’s troops Interfered and subdued the crowd who subsequently sent a deputation to ask Chaitgsuchliaiig to throw in his lot with the strikers. Chang counselled prudence and patience. Late last night the strikers set fire to Japanese Kungdah cotton mill, hut the police extinguished it, and little damage was done.

NF/IOTfATfOXS BROKEN OKE. PEKIN. June 13. After several meetings between representatives of the Chinese Government and interested Powers at Shanghai, to discuss the situation and endeavour to find a. solution of the difficulties, negotiations wore broken oft owing to a divergence of views, which developed. The Chinese delegation presented a. series oi demands which the foreign representatives insisted that they were not authorised to deal with. The Chinese were insistent in pressing these matters, consequent l.v a. deadlock occurred.

The foreign delegates have return ed to Pekin.

Two brigades of War .Minister. Wakwangltsin’s .Mukden troops hate arrived in the vicinity of Pekin, ft is explained that they will act as a special guard for the chid executive. Changtsolin also sent a battalion bn special police duty at Peirin. A wireless from Shanghai says the agitation has again flared up and the situation is critical. The British consul has been forced to leave the consulate, and has taken up his residence in Lungmen temple. Britons have been stoned and assaulted in the streets. The warship Teal is protecting the Asiatic Petroleum compaitys installation. There is no news form Amoy and Foochow. The position at Kiukiang is improving. Hankow is quie. At. Hongkong, some of the older students of Queen's College struck in sympathy with the Shanghai movement. Parents of others escorted them to tho college as. a precaution against possible intimidation, heeling amongst leading local Chinese interests is strongly against Hongkong being involved m the genera strike troubles.

CHINESE' SEAMEN STRIKE. IIOXG KONG, Juno ID. There are indications of a Chinese seamen’s strike. The crew of the British steamer Sitntar, trading to Hong Kong, struck. The Hong Kong-Canton-Maono Steamboat Company have cancelled sailings to ( antmi. j {r|T AIN’S I >ETERM IN ATI ON. • Jtoeoived this dav at P* a.m.! LONDON, June 29. In the House of Commons, in answering a question. “ M hat. is the British Government going to do?” in the course of a debate initiated by tbe Labour member, Mr Trevellan, on the situation in China, Mr Austen Chamberlain said that in common with, the other powers interested, the .British Government would protect the life and propertv of British subjects in China and hold the Chinese Government responsible for all injuries and damage wantonly inflicted, either on British subjects or British property. 'I here could he no weakness or hesitation. It was the fundamental duty of every British Government, which any British Government must dicharge. It was not a remedy for the situation, hut it was a necessity arising out of the outrages which had occurred.