CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1927, Page 2

CHINESE TROUBLE.

[BY telegram rER TRESS ASSOCIATION.] HANKOW SETTLEMENT. SHANGHAI, March IT The British Concession at Hankow lias keen seized and held by the Cantonese in accordance with the ChenO’.Malley agreement. Commenting thereon, the “ North China Daily News,” an official British organ. d«A dared: ‘-It must he said the Briton's at Hankow and elsewhere look to thjd iuiurc with deep misgiving, and cannot lid themselves of the thought that the Concession ought never to have been lost. A grave blunder was committed. Britons’ interests there were sacrificed to a false political expediency. The oily < xplanation of this strange, sa<V story is that Hie British Government never meant to impose any conditions or to require any guarantees for the welfare oV it' nationals, hut made up its mind to hand over the Concession as a free gilt. By so doing they sought to appeal to the best sense of the Chinese by a supreme act of friendship.” The paper describes this act as A piece of irrational quixotism which instead of mollifying the extremists, let alone earning their gratitude, has been followed by fresh excesses against Ihe British.” The only hopeful sign, it says. i- that the Chinese are beginning to understand the madness of the course to which the Labour Unions, under the dominance of Moscow agents, are consigning them. Sooner or later they must revolt against the tvrnnnv of the Labour Unions.