CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 19 March 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE.

[by telegraph—PEll press association.]

ftIODEKATO.iI’,S VIEWS OF CHINA.

WANGANUI, March 18.

Referring to the latest c-ahled news from China regarding the restriction of missionary activities by the Nationalist authorities, Rev. CL IT. McNeur (Moderator of t! c Presbyterian Church of New Zealand), who resided at Canton for twenty-live years, being engaged in the last ten years in educational work there, stated that the facts relating to registration of private schools in China have I een well known to all missionaries for over a year. Although the Nationalists (Threaten some restrictions to missionary education it is believed by a majority of educational missionaries that a satisfnteory readjustment can he made to meet the requirements of the Chinese Government regulations which aim at nationalising old schools within China and to prohibit teaching of religion, whether Chinese or foreign, within school hours. It is just a reproduction of the- seeulnring education as carried out in the United States and New Zealand. In thqsc days of developing nationalism, the Chinese Government looks with suspicion on any cultural influence that might seem to threaten such a development. Mr McNeill- believes the cabled statements are a deliberate misuse and distortion of the facts for the purposes of anti-Chinese and anti-missionary propaganda and should not !c takdn, seriously.

INDIAN AGITATORS. PEKIN. March 17. An attempt to create dissatisfaction among the Indian troops stationed at Shanghai has been discovered by the Military Police to-day. The police arrested three Indian agitators at the Military Camp at Ynngtsepoo. One is notorious locally for his anti-British activities. lie is the head of the Sikh-Mahva faction, and hi' was recently sentenced for sedition, in India. "When they were arrested, all three were in possession of handbills and literature of a violently anti-British nature, urging the Indian troops to refuse in interfere v.-jtli the Chinese, who were striving for the same object as was India—i.c. or the overthrow of the British yoke.

The authorities have of their activities for some time, but had been unable to arrest the leader until today.

There was a violent .scene in the court when the leader declared that India will soon follow China's lead, and would emancipate the people by a world revolution.

SHANGHAI STRIKE. PEKING, March Is

The General Labour Union at Shanghai has called a general strike beginning to-morrow. lasting till the Nationalist army enters Shanghai. The Union states the strike is purely political. Four armed Chinese entered the house of an old man, G. E. Geddes, formerly head of well known English firm at Shanghai, locked the Chinese servants in a cupboard, tied Geddes’ legs, and hit him on the face and lioa-.T with a revolver till lie signed cheques totalling eight thousand taels and released him in an exhausted condition, after "the cheques were cashed.