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THE CHINESE DISORDERS.
BRITISH NOTE TO PEKING.
ENGLISHMAN SHOT.
SAVAGERY AT CANTON.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PEKING, JUNE 15.
The students went in procession as usual to-day from a rendezvous at the Pałaco entrange to the Wiachisopu Foreign Office). Onlookers estimated that 90 per cent. were children ranging from six to 18 years old. British and Japanese banknotes are being boycotted, and British and Japanese nationals are not welcomed in the shops.
Otherwise there is little to indicate that thera 13 any general antipathy to foreigners.
Mr.
The British Legation replied yesterday to the Chinese Note in regard to the Hankow outrage. Mr. Palairet cites the facta of the
they cage, and obviously clear the local British authori- ties of the charge that the laws of humanity had been disregarded. Palairet explains to the Chinese Foreign Minister that they were unable to obtain prompt and adequate protection from the Chinese, and they were obliged to act for themselves, and, he continues:-"I can- not refrain from reminding your Excel- lenay that I have repeatedly warned the Chinese Government of the grave re sponsibility they were incurring in allow- ing the present anti-British agitation to proceed unchecked."
Mr. Palairet then earnestly bega his Excellency to fake energetic measures to discourage an agitation that leads to such disastrous results. He refers to the men- dacious accounts appearing in the local Press, and regards the dissemination of these calumnies as dangerous in the ex- treme."
He concludes by inviting his Excellency to place the Chinese public in possession of the real facts in order to dispel the atmosphere of prejudice and misunder- standing created by these false rumours.
Altogether a telling letter, but not in the least likely to impress & foreign Minister whose diplomatic correspondence written for him by a junta of schoolboys, from which, incidentally, he is actually hiding himself.
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Beyond nows that anti-foreign fealing is running high at Nanking and an urgent request made for naval protection, little of importance has reached bere from the provinces, though there is anxiety as to what may happen at several points.
Plans made some weeks ago for quarter- ing an important detachment of Chang Teo-lin's army at Peking are reported to be on the point of execution. Half of the large barracks surrounding the city have been evacuated by Feng Yu-hsiang's men, and those remaining will depart later, movements which, when complete, will leave the Mukden War Lord in sole military control of the capital. In fact the process of substituting one militarist. for another at the seat of government Kommences at the moment when the public is much excited and the bellicosity of the students, supported by Feng Yu-hsiang and his Kuomintang federates, suggests the possibility that the change might not be effested so quietly as was formerly expected. The Kuomintang have just scored an import- ant victory at Canton, and their emis- saries, abetted by the Bolshevists, are successfully making hay on the Yangtze, while the Tuchun of Honan is "sitting on my horse, rifle in hand," ready to make war in the national cause, a series of facta calculated to make the Christian genera!! wonder whether he has been wise in throw- ing up the sponge so easily.
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It would dangerously complicate the position from the foreign standpoint if die military rivals in North China selected this unpropitious moment to begin to fight,
Tiny
JAPANESE PROTEST. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
TOKYO, JUNE 15. The murder of a Japanese at Hankow lias called forth a vigorous note of protest from the Japanese Minister in Peking.
Toxyo, June 15.-The Japanese Navy Department announces that a dostaoyer. flotilla has been ordered to be in readiness to proceed to the Yangtsze from Sasebo.- Ieuter.
ENGLISH ENGINEER
MURDERED.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
SHANGHAI, JUNE 15.
Mr. William Mackenzie, of the Elec- tricity Department, while motoring with Miss Duncan just outside the settlement to-night was shot dead by Chinese.
Miss Duncan was wounded, but not seriously. The murderers escaped. PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AT SHANGHAI,
MEETING OF DIPLOMATS AND CHINESE. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
SHANGHAI, JUNE 15.
The representatives of the Diplomatic Body and the Chinese delegates begin their discussions on the position here to-day. The preposterous demands of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce will not be officially brought to the notice of the diplomatic delegation; this one stumbling- block is therefore out of the way.
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Meanwhile it begins to be felt that even if the negotiations succeed in restoring peace in Shanghai-the temper of the Chinese makes even this difficult enough-no settlement will endure which does not provide for the adjustment of the larger issues between the Chinese and foreigners, Such an adjustment must put the status and rights of foreigners,
as the chief con- | far at least so
per- cessions
concerned, are manent footing, while satisfying the national aims of the Chiness and their for a fair not unreasonable desire representation in the administration of those concessions. To this end it is felt to be most desirable that the British Government should appoint a special representative with supreme powers over all British officials in China, and even in Hong-kong, inasmuch as the different points of view of the Colonial and Foreign Office administrations are a frequent source of friction.
Cbang Hsueh-liang, Chang Tso-lin's has quickly shown himself
ordet. He Bud the side of law
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has issued a strongly worded pro- clamation saying that no disturbance will be allowed at Chapel, where his soldiers are patrolling the streets, and has personally promised to protect workers who desire to return to work.
Much hatred, however, is concentrated against all British institutions. This is undoubtedly due to Russian Bolshevist influence. It is significant that, whereas domestic servants generally remained at work, those at the houses of the American Consul and Judge, which adjoin the Soviet Consulate, were called out the first day of the strike.
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The slupping strike continues spread, and all the coast vessels at Ewatow are laid up.
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