CHINESE TURMOIL

Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1925, Page 3

CHINESE TURMOIL

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[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] STRUCK SPREADING. (Roceive-1 tliis day at 9.40 a.m.) PEKIN, June 21. 'Die Government has given notification that it is determined to take severe measures against persons endeavouring to disturb the peace and goodwill of the colony, offering rewards tor information leading to the arrest and conviction of offenders. Makadai was returning to the I’ank with live thousand dollars in a bag. His assassin escaped with the money. The general strike at Hongkong is spreading, The motormen and conductors on the electric tramway have struck and the service is temporarily suspended. Chinese house servants in European employ at Kowloon have struck, and it is expected the movement will be genral throughout the colony. CHINESE REPLY TO NOTE. PEKIN. June 21. A Foreign Office Note in reply to the Powers Note regarding riots and antiFo reign sentiment in China, slates accounts of the different incidents given therein are not in accord with local Chinese authorities reports. The Note gives a lengthy C hinese version of the recent occurrences. It says in Hankow’ the British volunteers suddenly opened fire on an unarmed crowd. The British authorities should assume full responsibility for their violent action. At Kiukiang. during an altercation between police and a small number of workmen, fire suddenly broke out in Taiwan Rank. During the confusion and owing to the time occupied in putting out the lire, slight damage was caused to sundry articles iri the English and Japanese Consulates. Such damage was accidental. Regarding the killing of the British subject in Shanghai, he was outside the settlement where the municipality huilt roads without China’s consent. The motives of the criminal were not ascertained. It is regrettable for the abovr reasons that the incident occurred. With the exception of the killing of the Rritish .subject at Shanghai till incidents happened as the result of the failure to obtain a prompt, fair settlement of the Shanghai ease. There never existed any anti-foreign tendency. Since the Shanghai occurrence the Government has issued mandates ordering the people to exercise self-restraint and has instructed the provincial authorities to maintain order. In view of the present circumstances the Government hopes that -Ministers of the Powers will promptly settle the Shanghai case. Then the present indignation will bo appeased and the excitement subside. TWO YELLOW PERILS. WHEN CHINA AWAKENS. JAPAN NOT A DANGER. •Received this day at 9.45 a.m.] LONDON, June 21. The “Sunday Pictorial” in an article explaining the Chinese uspiratTous, from the viewpoint of the present dis- * iiirliiinees says: Two yellow perils are • head of the white, civilisation. First, Jiere is an industrial yellow peril, and ;his includes Japan, which is already mderselling Europeans in (lie Eastern markets and when China takes to in- | lustrinlism in earnest she will underive and undersell to an extent even greater than Japan ; secondly, the day 1 s coming when China, possessed of treat fleets and millions of armed ‘ .roops, will become a first rate power n the Pacific. The fines Lion will then ' issuine a different aspect with a puslilile alliance between Japan and 1 Hi inn. Although the Chinese hordes nay march on Europe an aerial ittva;ion is possible, and it is certain that Chinese naval squadrons will some day :c* seen in European waters. * The paper goes on say that it is ilso tolerably certain that a‘united and trong China will some day seize the mpty and prolific northern territory of Australia. Japan is at present the Instralians’ bogey, hut they are lookug in the wrong direction. The .lapnose belong to a temperate •■'.one and 11 ould not thrive in the Northern Terri-. I nry. The Chinese could thrive equally « veil in the Northern Territory and the I forth Pole. Europe’s prestige has suf- 1 ered terribly as the result of the war " ml Orientals were amazed at the four u nd a-half years’ gigantic devastation tl lid senseless mutual destruction. Now- c days even the nerveless Peking Gov- ti rninent sends impertinent messages to lie European Legations because the i> ’hinese know that Europe is prostrate ii nd unwilling to engage ill hostilities a nywhere. ' h

JAPANESE SHOT. fjßeoeived tin’s day at 10 a.in.) PEKIN. /Tunc 20. A telegram from Canton states Xakadai Japanese treasurer of JTuktini Hospital was shot dead hv an unknown Chinese outside the French gate. Shaniceu (Japanese Consul) notified the public safety bureau and requested police to be posted outside Slinmcen. He also made a formal protest and re tained the right to claim an indemnity. Hukuai is a semi-official intitution connected with Formosa Government. Cocal authorities claim the case is not connected with the present threatened strike against foreigners. 'Che Japanese Consul advised Nationals living in Canton to come to Miameen.