CHINESE TROUBLE

Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE

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BRITISH DECISION

(Received this day at 0.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, Jan. 23. ‘ Tho decision of tho British Chamber of Commerce at Hankow that British banking and shipping companies and merchants should resume trade on the twenty-fourth was reached after consultation with -Mr O'Malley. It was felt this would he a gesture of confidence In tho Chinese, and would assist in creating an atmosphere favour- ' able to negotiations in regard to the British concession, now in progress. Advices from Siangfiriu in Hunan province state there was a big antiBritish parade there on the sixteenth. The inob fired tho Asiatic Petroleum * Company’s installation. Tho liro destroyed two thousand tins of oil and f tho company’s buildings. V Anti-Christian agitation is rampant. i Many chapels were seized and stripped of furnishings and bibles and tracts were torn up. ORDERED TO EVACUATE. PEKING. January 23. American missionaries are hastening to the coast from the interior of Fukien. It is expected the province , will be evacuated in a fortnight. American women and children in Foochow Consular district have been advised to evacuate, but only a few Rritish have departed. TROOPS PREPARING. LONDON, January 23. First Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire and Frist Borgor regiments at Malta have been ordered to he ready to proceed to China. Officers on leave are ordered to rejoin.