CHINESE TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 13 January 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE

[Australia & SLZ. Cable Association.] A CHINESE MURDER. (Received ibis day at 11 0 a.m.) SHANGHAI. .Inminry 12. Tlio Cliine.se foreman of Shanghai foreign settlement triumva.vs while driving n ricshaw in a quiet part ot tlhe settlement was attacked by three Chinese and shot dead. The assailants escaped. The victim was a man who, following the .May .‘loth, 1925, affair, did more than anybody else to get the tramDWy services resumed and keep Chinese workers at their posts. The authorities consider Hie crime more than ordinarily significant. It. is known the Reds have marked down for killing several keyworkers, whose opposition to strike agitations stand in the way of their itfms. The present victim was one. '■

SftAXG IT AT CONDITIONS.. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.)

SHANGHAI. Jan. 12. The first disorders presaging an era of unrest and the possibility of a general strike, occurred in a riot at the British cotton mills, no doubt instigated by Red agitators. Three thousand male and female workers .attacked a handful of foreign overseers and (mashed tho machinery, necessitating polico reinforcements. Several officers were badly miauled, but fire hoses and a revolver display dispersed the mob after an hour’s light. It is expected that the trouble will spread— to rl'l otbej mills and eventually there will bo a repetition of events preceding last year’s disorders culminating on May 30th with shooting. The authorities are awaro that a plot is ifoot to cut off rice supplies from ■llianglini, Cantonese intending to throw a belt round the producing areas r>f the country and preventing entry uto Shanghai, .thereby increasing the liscontent among labourers, and causing riots. Tho Municipal Council is •ecruiting volunteers to assist. the nival forces 'and police in the defence o£ the settlement. As a response to Nationn.'ist troops icizing American mission property at Iteowu and other part of Fukien. American authorities have ordered mislionari/es to lc,ave in some places, and prepare for an immediate departure in ithers.