CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1927, Page 2

CHINESE TROUBLE.

[by TELEGRAPH —PER PRESS ASSOCIATION-J SOVIET INVOLVED. SHANGHAI, March 0.

There is a report current that tho Northern military authorities at Tsiuanfu have shot the three Soviet diplomatic couriers who were, arrested with Madame Borodin (wife of the Soviet Envoy in Canton), when carrying propaganda. munitions and military information to the Nationalist headquarters at Hankow. Madame Borodin is still a prisoner. The entire episode is construed as having the gravest international significance. It is declared by the Soviet Embassy at Pekin to be an act of piracy and murder. BRITISH NEGOTIATIONS. LONDON. March 9. The Foreign Office announces the appointment of a Commission consisting of representatives of the British and tho Peking Governments to consider a modification of the present system of administering the Tientsin' British concession which is different from all the other British concessions in China. It: is wedged between the French and the ex-German concessions, while the ■ i main thoroughfare is occupied by Chinese, Austrian, Russian, French and 1 and American and German stores: and the American Consular buildings are situated in the centre of the concession which the waterfront, though used by other concessionaries, is entirely British-owned. Owing to the many interests affected, the Commission’s , r task will be very complicated and diffilt cult. Official circles emphasise that tho j s appointment, of the Commission is an- „ other step like, the Hankow Agreement ” towards liberalising tho conditions of the concessions and 'settlements in c , s China on the basis of the British offer [ 0 to the whole of China, or to any Go- ,, vermuent in China.

LABOUR, LEADERS ARRESTED. PEKING, March 9.

Tho police have raided the headquarters of the General Labour Union at, Shanghai. They arrested fifty of the delegates, who were discussing plans for a general strike. The police seized a mass of anti-foreign literature.

SHANGHAI, March 10. The notice raided the headquarters of the Postal AA’orkers’ Union during a meeting that was discussing preparations for another general strike. Seventy-nine members were arrested. A quantity of strike literature was also secured.

The Labour Union representative and the Secretary and Treasurer of tlte Postal AVorkers’ Union was detained. The others wore released.