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NANKING DEMANDS.
POWERS CONSIDER UNITED ACTION.
“TERRIBLE INCIDENTS.”·
STRONG STEPS TO PREVENT REPETITION.
Determined to secure reparation for the Nanking outrages, the Powers are considering united action, and measures of no weak "nature" are expected to prevent any repetition of outrages, which are described as being too terrible for some of the details to be published.
UNPRINTABLE. Impossible to Publish Details.
firing, as follows:
CHIANG KAI-SHEK.
Important Shanghai
Interview
"UNAVOIDABLE INCIDENTS.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
AMERICA INSULTED.
STARS AND STRIPES TORN DOWN
CONSUL ON WARSHIP
STORY OF A GRIM HANKOW. FARCE.
Shanghai, April 1 General Chiang Kai-shek, in the cone of a two-knyhaterview syft foreign Prossmen this afternoon reierring to the Norking incident. declared that full investigation was Bulate and where the Consul and V Consul have taken up their being made, and add sk; “If the qitars on an American warship.exican firms have closed. result ises responsibility on the Nationalist forces, I am prepared to give full satisfaction, even an indemnity for the wor add and the families of the killed."
Growing anti-Americanism is reported at Chunking, where the Stars and Stripes have been torn down from the United States Con-
"
un-
› CHUNKING OUTRAGE.
Stars and Stripes Torn,
Down.
Shanghal, April 1.
An eye witness of events from
General Chiang Ki -abek added) the "Noa's" bridge reports that Lieut-Commander Smith, on re- that he regarded the British and
American bombardmdat as ceipt of the S.0.5. signal, gave justifiable and a great indignity." the command which opened the He went on to refer to the un-Growing anti-Americanism is favourable impression produced by the presence of foreign warships reported at Chungking. The con
aul and Vice Consul have taken up their quarters on an American gunboat. American firms, have closed, and Americans have con- centrated near the water front.
London, March 31.
"Well, I'll either get a court It is authoritatively learned that a draft of the demands for martial or a medál for this. Let reparation for the Nanking out-'er go. Bennie." rages has been formulated by the Powers concerned.
The question of united action is being considered,
There is absolute agreement cannol be that the incidents overlooked
The terrible, almost anfor- givable nature, of the incidents is...| emphasised.
It is impossible to publish some of the details in the interests of ¡decency.
.
"Bennie" is Lieutenant Benja-J min F 'Staud, the "Noa's" exe- cutive officer.Reuter,"
SPIRIT OF INSULT.
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Lord Birkenhead's. Stern Warning..
Lord Birkenhead, in a speech at Coventry, with regard to China, said he was not without hope that the realisation would.. spread that while the threat was now primarily addressed to Bri-
If the Powers' demands are not comp with immediate atten- tion be given to what steps shall be takendo enforce them.
The Chinese policy of the Britain, in its certain extension, it must' affect equally every other tish Government is unchanged, but incidents like Nanking make nation which had great interests
In China it increasingly difficult to pursue Eit..
There is a strong determina- tion to prevent the possibility of future outrages and possible joint action of no weak nature by the Powers is foreshadowed-Reu ter.
Another Version.
Rugby; March 31, Draft demands for reparations to be presented to the Cantonese authorities as a result of the Nan- king outrages have been formu- lated and are being considered by the Powers concerned.
What steps should be taken in the event of the demands not be- ing met will also receive imme. diate attention with the object fof preventing anything like a re- petition. British Wireless Ser- vice.
FURTHER LOOTING. ↑ Cantonese Truculence Increasing.
Rugby, March 31, To-day news from Nanking is that the attitude adopted by the Cantonese there towards for eigners and foreign property is increasingly truculent.
The most recent outrages
General Chiang Kai-shek.
It is learned that Chinese tore down the Stars and Stripes from the Consulate on March 24 Reuter
Changsha Unsafe.
Rugby,March 31. All British subjects except the Consul and Mother Superior, have Heft Changsha,British Wireless
Service.
An Admiral At Wuhu,
Shanghai, April 1. Troops continue to leave Wuhu by river otherwise the altuation remains the same.
The US. Admiral Hough has
affected the Americans and and military, forces at Shanghal arrived at Wubu British Wire Japanese perhaps even more than and the defence measures of the less
International Settlement and the they affected the British.
The spirit of insult and reck-French Concession which he re- lessness abroad in Chins would garded as a serious reflection on Nationalist ability to maintain law certainly require for its correc-
und order."
EARY BİRKENHEAD tion the counsels of the civilised and anti-Bolshevist nations of the world.
"
In these deliberations the fore- most, if incidental step, would be to require some suitable repara- ittion for the intolerable insults, murders and outrages already committed.-Reuter.
Conditions on shore made unsafe for foreigners to land.
Two foreign vessels which last night left the port were heavily fred on from the land, and gung on Lion Hill and the city walls. are turned on all vessels enter- ing the port.
Further foreign property has
Wireless" heen looted-British Service.
NANKING MURDERS.
French Consul Lodges "Protest.
Shanghai's Future
GRIM FARCE.
Hankow Police Assist
Kidnappers
the
WOOSUNG ORDER.
Freedom For Warships Reserved.
Rugby, March 81- Consequent on the naval action between the Northern and South- ern forces Admiral Wang \{D
Northern Commander-in- Chief has requested that foreign shipping should only pass the Woosung entrance of the Yang- tse during daylight.
The foreign senfor officers have consented to this only in case of merchant shipping, reserving full freedom for warships British Wireless Service.
CHINA AND LEAGUE.
Neither Faction: Seeking Intervention,
London, March 81-
the House of Commons, in answer to questions. Mr. G. Locker Lampson, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that no Information had been received from any party In China with re- gard to submission of the pro- blems in dispute between China and the Powers to the League of Nations-Reuter
EARLIER MESSAGES.
Home Paper & Pointed
criticam
It was undeniable the wing tol the existence ni murtad law in the
London, March 31 Settlements and the numerous
Shanghai, April 1 "If the barbaricles, at Nanking defence measures, feeling between the Chinese populace and the
The following, is one of many were deliberately planned there 18 Nationalist forces on the one hand Reuter messages from Han-no security there or againat and the foreign community on the kow recently suppressed by the wherever the Nationalist troops: other is growing tenser and tenser Hankow censors. The message are in control," says the "Man
chester Guardian" in a leader de- every day" Such a situation could is dated March 16. not long continue,
Although the ratepayers of the claring that there is every sign Regarding the International former British Concession (now of the appalling outrages and Settlements, he declared it was the the special administrative dis deliberate savagery being the settled policy of the Nationalist trict) voted yesterday an increase carefully organised work not of Government not to use force or in the 1927 police expense bud- unlicensed but of fully licensed mase violence in any form to effect get of 11.000 taels over 1926, in soldiery a change in the status of the foreign compliance with the demand of The paper expresses the opinion Only peaceful means were con- the Chinese, there is no sign of that since it la manifest that the bombardment alone saved the. templated, but "so long as foreign adequate police protection. troops and warships undertake the On Monday a Chinese employes Hives of the unfortunate foreign protection of foreign lives and pro- was dragged from the British-residents, Chiang Kai-shek's pro- American Tobacco Company's pre-test is absurd and suggests that mises and arrested by the union, an inquiry is likely to be simply To-day another was dragged the means of exculpating Cheng away from the Company's office Chien, and the union is threatening to take six more:
Settlements.
NEARLY £37,000,000 DOWN,
London, March 81 The Exchequer at the close of the financial year nows & deficit of £36,693,794 Reuter.
The leader concludes by stating that the country will be glad when Sir Austen Chamberlaincan state that every British citizen has not only been advised to seek security but has been afforded the means of escape. Reuter.
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Tis. 20,000 Cargo Stolen. This morning a lighter bearing a hundred cases of the Company's products, valued at: 20,000 taels, was stolen by pickets and strikers.
Labour's Attitude, perty and the Chinese have no share alongside Messrs. Butterfield and in that protection, so long will we Swire's hulk and done away with
London, March Siw- Mr. Ramsay Mardonald, speak take no responsibility thereanent."
Police who were watching did no ing at Glasgow, refuted the state Unruly Labour..
thing to prevent the theft. On Questioned regarding events at Hankow and Changsha, strikers to kidnap one of the lives in China without
recent the contrary they assisted the ment that the position of the Labour party was to leave British Threat To Shoot British. The French Consul has protest-General Chiang Kai-shek, aald Company's employees-Reuter
He declared that Labo Shanghai, April 1. ed to the Nationalists against the "China is
never said the Anti-foreignism is rife at Nan-murder of two Jesuit Fathers in revolution and such incidents are.
of unavoidable," king and it is dangerous for for-the Nanking incident, one
Chinese whom was Italian and the other eigners to go ashore.
assert that messengers
the French-Reuter crowds threaten to shoot any British subject landing.
2.
The Nationalists are setting up artillery on the hill overlooking the river and guns have been trained on a foreign, warships.
Reuter
FIRST SHELLS: Fired By The American Warship.
Shanghai, April 1. Lleut. Commander R, C. Smith, Jr. Commander of the "Noa," who was Senior American Officer Nanking prior to the arrival of Admiral Hough, interviewed, emphasised the close co-operation between the British and Ameri cans at Nanking on March 24
There was no question of the British leading the Americans in- to this affair. We acted in per fect har ong after full and
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CONFERENCES
London, March 81
In the throes of
As far as Hankow is concerned he believed the present situation was possibly due to the activities. of pickets and labour unions “who not altogether under control,"
FRENCH SEPARATED."
British Residents Express Concern.
Asked whether the Nationalist The following wireless mess troop at Hankow were under bls ages, have been received direct control and whether he took local naval authoritien responsibility for their actions General Chiang Kai-shek replied; The troops stationed in Hupeh and at Hankow are under the con- trol of the Government who will take responsibility for their ed along
The official list of representa-actions
tives of the Colonies. Protector Gertral Chiang Kai-shek said ho
Conce zitish
ates and Mandsted Territories for had instructed the Nanking gafri-trict of the International the Colonial Office Conference in 500 commander to protest the May includes
British and American naval
authorities against the bombard- ment-Reuter, voy
Mr E. Miles Palestine
Japanese Report. Ceylon Mr. E. B. Alexander. Malay States,
Kwa Shanghai, March 31. Mr.RO. Winstedt.
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