A PERILOUS POSITION.
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(Australian snd N.Z. Presa Association. 5
TEN THOUSAND AT BAY. j I behind barbed wires. hemmed in by fanatics.
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Received Thui*sday, 11.49 p.m. SHANGHAI, March 24. The decision to call off the strike was the result of pressure hy General Paichunghsi, but so far only a few liundred seamen have returned to work. The railways and other public services still remain idle. Nine square miles of foreign settlement are sheltering sixty per cent. of the foreigners in China. Ten thousand British civilians are held at bay by a horde of antiforeign- Chinese, including thousands of armed fanatics in addition to the Cantonese army. Within the circle of barb wire, guarded by soldiers ,and sailors oi a dozen nafions, the international settlements are trying to continue business. The conditions are appalling. The radical elements of Kuomintang are rapidly emigrating from Hankow to Shanghai, where a scramble is proceeding to fill the offices vacated simultaneously with. the capture of Shanghai. There are dozens of nominees for each post. The Nationalist Foreign Minister and his colleagues are en route from Hankow to establish an administration. The authorities anticipate that the methods adopted will be similar to those at Hankow, and are conferring regarding the future of the administration of the settlement and meet the changes inevitable in the new regime. Events are rapidly shaping themselves - in a parlous manner, Com- j munistic organisers arranged a procession and distributed manifestos and handbills. The former allege that the British are really responsible for the sacking, burning and murders, because had they not given refuge to the Shaiigtung general, Pishouchen, the latter would have been able to order the Shangtungers to keep quiet, whereas the trile facts are that the settlement could not refuse entrance to Pishouchen, who w.as unarmed, and that the British officials and soldiers risked their lives in order to save Jhe lives of others. American destroyers are leavin % for Shanghai immediately.
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North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17167, 25 March 1927, Page 5
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327A PERILOUS POSITION. North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17167, 25 March 1927, Page 5
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