CHINESE TROUBLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 April 1927, Page 3

CHINESE TROUBLE.

[ey TELEGRAPH —PER TRESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received this day at 12.25 p.tn.) LONDON, .March 31. , Heinous as Nanking acts were. Llie of the British policy are ' v ~ijffllicha)ige(l, hut all negotiations based on a conciliatory policy are out ol the (|Uestion till the Cantonese show reparation, and prove they do not intind to repeat the conduct at Hankow and Nanking, which were hath experiments in the direction of seeing how lar they can go on halting foreigners. OFFICIAL KURORT. (Received this day at 12.25 p.in.) LONDON, April 1. “Nanking outrages and the Cantonese increasing truculence mark the turning point and have changed the whole aspect of the Powers’ relations with them,’’ declared an official spokesman at Downing Street. Draft demands for r+ieavv reparation for Nanking events are being formulated in London, Washington and Tokio. M Though France and Italy are not concerned in the Act at Nanking, they will be fully informed of the negotiations. The P<rit i4i view is that a. Cnited international stand is imperative. If the Powers’ demands are not complied with, a question of /.nlorcement wTlTbo immediately considered. Latest reports show that Cantonese Vdflicials’ and offirci jimi-foreign aggression is increasing vwhere, even in Shanghai itself. British ships are hci.. ■ ' r'-‘! upc from Nanking, where an!"'-,.-a- have mounted additional guns for the pm' pose. It is now unsafe for ain loreig. er to land there. One woo vecitir'-i ashore was horse whipped and chimed hack aboard the ship. Extremists’ activities at entrances lo the French Settlement, in .Shanghai have became more daring, with the result that fourteen hundred arrests have been made under curfew proclamation. Official circles emphasise the point that outrages against women at British, American and Japanese Consulates in Nanking are so hideous that fullest details thereof are unprintable. “We have reached a stage when the Cantonese must definitely check the horrors of violence which their cxlromist leaders have led them in Nanking.” It would be the easiest thing to demolish all the up-river cities, hut bloodshed and destruction as a punishment is not at present contemplated. There are other more effective moans of humiliating the Cantonese and bringing them to their senses, and that is by concerted international action.

MISSIONARIES LEAVINCi INTERIOR LONDON, March 31. Lord Birkenhead, at Coventry, said the exodus of American missionaries homeward had commenced, as it was impossible to resume for many months. The Americans in Peking are leaving China immediately in large numbers. The authorities have advised the women and' children to leave American missions, and are urgently calling in members from the interior. A steady stream of refugee ships are pouring down the Yangts/.o Kiang to Shanghai duly convoyed, hut all had to run the gauntlet of heavy fire from the hanks

of the river. British and American destroyers are engaged in collecting foreigners at every Yangtszo town. Complete .foreign evacuation is in progress, the few' officials remaining being quartered on the gunboats. Signs had appeared of returning disorder and the assassinations of the Mill executive where work was restarted. - The arrested Chinese admit that they are paid ten dollars by the Labour Union. At the international settlement there was a demonstration of dissatisfaction with, tee delonce P'-'U-; in the French c.mcossion. They. erected miniature sY>t tresses on the Trench hour Try and doubled the hurricanes. The French authorities are displayin ' a disheartening bixiiy regarding defence.