HANKOW PARLEY

Wairarapa Age, 22 February 1927, Page 5

HANKOW PARLEY

MR. O’MALLEY AND EUGENE CHEN SIGN AGREEMENT.

AN OFFICIAL INTIMATION. EVENTS IN SHANGHAI. HANKOW, February 20. It is officially announced that Messrs. Eugene Chon, Chinese Nationalist Foreign. Minister, and Mr. O. St.C. O’Malley, of the British Legation in China, have signed an agreement, covering the control of the British Concession in Hankow. (A. and N.Z.)

CHINESE METHODS. DEALING WITH COMMUNISTS AND AGITATORS. A SQUAD OF EXECUTIONERS. (Received Monday, 8.5 p.m.) LONDON, February 21. There is no expectation that the settlement at Hankow will affect Shanghai, where? the situation closely resembles that of Hankow before its occupation by the Cantonese. So long as mob attack is threatened, the presence of European troops is essential for the protection of foreign residents. Meanwhile, the local authorities are doing their best. A squad of public executioners is parading the streets of the Chinese city of Shanghai and executing agitators without trial or formality. Pickets preventing labourers from going to work are arrested and decapitated. Communists distributing handbills are meeting a similar fate. Meanwhile, the British troops are confined to barracks to minimise the danger of clashes. —(A. and N.Z.) AGITATORS BEHEADED. REMINDER TO CANTONESE. (Received Monday, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, February 20. The “Daily News’s” Shanghai correspondent says that the beheading of nine agitators caught intimidating shop keepers in the native city has unpleasantly reminded Cantonese that Sun Chuan-fang’s authority in Shanghai has not been impaired and has caused a slowing-down of the strike movement.—<A. and N.Z.) THE SOVIET IN CHINA. NEW AMBASSADOR TO CANTON. (Received Monday, 7.30 p.m.) RIGA, February 20. Aralov, the Soviet’s Assistant-Com-missar for Foreign Affairs, and one of the most dangerous of Moscow’s emissaries, has been appointed Bolshevik Ambassador to Canton.-—(A. and N.Z.)