REDS IN CHINA FACE HOSTILITY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 201, 14 November 1927, Page 1

REDS IN CHINA FACE HOSTILITY

IMPERIAL BANNERS WAVED AT FUNERAL OF ATTACK VICTIM 3y Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 10.30 a.m. SHANGHAI, Sunday. Special police were called out and the regulars were confined to barracks on the occasion of the funeral of the youthful victim of Monday’s attack on the Soviet Consulate. A huge procession of White Russians followed the coffin to the cemetery amid a profusion of Imperial Russian flags. Agitation meetings are reported to have been held at Mukden, advocating wholesale assassination of Soviet agents in China. The Soviet consular staffs have demanded police protection. A marked growth is observed in the White hostility toward the Reds, in contrast to their erstwhile submissive docility. It is feared that a reaction has commenced and that the Soviet representatives will be eventually compelled to evacuate. —A. and N.Z. Last Monday an attack on the Soviet Consulate was made by a thousand male and female Russians, who stormed the building, stripped it of its red bunting and forced an entrance. The Soviet Consular staff used firearms to repel the attack and killed one and wounded six. The police, after a riot in the square, restored order and stood by throughout the night.