CHINESE TROUBLE.
[by TELEGRAPH PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
CHINESE NEWS. LONDON, March 10
The Foreign Office has not received nnd does apt expect to receive confirmation Of the rlhnour sent by several pres.'k correspondents in the Far East that appeals have been made to the British authorities in China to intervene on behalf of Mrs Borodin. Official circles comment: “Such an appeal would be too delightfully Gilbert inn to be true.”
Official despatches received in London report mob rioting at AA’uliu. A mob looted the custom house and the situation is so serious that British and other European women and children took refuge aboard a British steamer, IT.M.S. Wolseley, also standing by in case of further trouble. Local Chinese authorities sent troops to check the looting and rioting, but these did not make a serious attempt to control the crowds. Those well-in-formed attribute the outbreak to local feeling for or against the Cantonese cause, following the local provincial Governor’s recent retrocession from the Northerners to the Cantonese.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1927, Page 3
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