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THE CHINESE DISORDERS.
FUTILE PEKING
PROPOSALS.
MONG-KONG BOYCOTT
MORE WORKERS DESERTING.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PEKING, JUxn 25. The disquieting incidents reported at Ningpo, in Chekiang, and Hoibow, a port on the north of the Island of Hainan, are overshadowed by the news of the dan- gerous encounter at Canton. Details are lacking, but if it be true, as it appears to be, that Regular troops joined in the un- provoked attack on foreigners at Shameen, the promises of the local government to maintain order and protect the foreign quarter are not worth much.
The sharp Note sent yesterday by the Diplomatic Body to the Waichiaopu Foreign Office] does not appear to have had a chastening effect. In a Note to-day the Waichiaopu puts forward as a basis of negotiation in regard to the Shanghai situation the 13 points already discussed' at Shanghai with the Diplomatic Dele- gates and pronounced by them to be inad- missible for negotiation. They include the punishment of the police, the dismissal of the secretary of the Municipal Council, and an apology, demands which involve the assumption that the municipal authorities were at fault. It is certainly unfortunate that there has been no judicial inquiry into the affair at Shangasi, for until the facts are properly established the Chinese will adhere to their view that un- justifiable violence was used,
The Note concludes with the brusque statement: "The Chinese Government deems it absolutely necessary that the un- equal treaties between China and the Powers should be revised." This Ian- guage in hardly coming in a Govern- ment enjoying so little respect at home or abroad.
In another vein is a second Note ad- dressed individually to the Legations, written in the orthodox diplomatic style and distinguished by the usual platitudes relating to international amity. In this the Chinese Government observes that the treaties are out of date and reminds the Powers that encouragement was given to China during the war to hope for improve- ment in her international status and urges the readjustment of treaty relations on an equitable basis in satisfaction of the legi- timate aspirations of the Chinese people. In the first Note may be detected the uncouth hand of an angry student, in the second the studied elegance of the flower of Young China as represented at Ver- sailles and Washington, and behind both Notes is evident the intention to make the most of the present disorders and en- deavour to rush the Powers into premature commitments in order to escape present enbarrassments,
Undoubtedly there is room for improve- ment in regard to the treaties and reason for the plea fur concessions to the aspira- tions of the Chinese people. At the same time, the Government has the duty to pro- teot foreign interests, and any inability to do so invalidates its claim for considera- tion. It should be a preliminary to any discussion of the treaties that the Chinese Government promptly puts an end to the present dangerous campaign against foreigners, which could easily be clone by 1139 molitary gilborities at all in.
8.
REPORTED BOMB PLOT
IN SHANGHAI.
POLICE PRECAUTIONS, (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
SHANGHAI, JUNE 25. After several days of quiet public anxiety has again been aroused Last evening the police heard of a plot on the part of the students to hire motor-cars and drive round the Settlement to-day throwing bombs. Extraordinary precau- tions were immediately taken. All public garages were fortiden to let cars out on hire, and special patrols were placed every- where, so that not a Chinese could move unquestioned. The Dragon Festival thus passed off quietly,
So fer as can be seen, the merchants and the shops will restart business to- morrow. The decision reached at yester- day's conference still stands, and to-night the Chinese Chamber of Commerce ob- tained the permission of the Municipal Council to send coolies round the streets to distribute leaflets calling on everyone to resume work.
The attitude of the labourers, the sea- mon, and the employees of British con- cerns is still uncertain. The strike has been so great a failure from the point of view of the Chinese, resulting in loss of "face" and money, that the agitators will Assuredly concentrate all their efforts to make the boycott a success. As previously pointed out, the shipping strike alone has an economic side. The deciding question ia probably whether sufficient strike funds are available.
TIENTSIN, June 25.-Chang Hsueb- liang, the son of Chang Tso-lin, has arrived here from Shanghai.-Reuter.
**A letter from Shanghai describing the writer's experiences on the outbreak of the disturbances in China appears on page 13.
THE CANTON SHOOTING.
CONSUL-GENERAL'S REPLY TO GOVERNOR'S NOTE. HỌNG EDXe. June 25.-The Governor of Canton, in his Note to the Civil British Consul-General with reference to the shooting in Canton on Tuesday, in addition to stating that the British and French had started the firing, said that a Portuguese gunboat fired its big guns. He added "The killed and wounded to- talled over a hundred, and this brutal killing was premeditated and secretly planned."
The British Consul-General in his reply points out that the Portuguese gunboat did hot take part in the affair.
The British senior naval officer and myself were," doclares,
he standing anarmed by the bridge
for the special purpose of guarding against any precipitate or nervous action on the part of the defenders, and we only escaped with our lives out of the bail of bullets which was directed against us. It was only then that in self-defence fire was opened from Shameen and by the French forces, who wars similarly attacked. Firing from Shaman ceased even before the sniping from the tope of houses opposite Was discontinued by the Chinese
You state that the action taken by the British and French authorities
was pra meditated. This I absolutely deny." Pro meditation was on the part of the Chinese Troops or military studente, the Copaul. eneral declares, and proceeds to state that
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