British Consul at Hankow Asks For Protection From Rioters
Appeals to Army and Police as Students Plan New Demonstrations Over Evictions of Chinese From Shacks at Kowloon
By the Associated Press
Island, Canton, where a mob fired
HANKOW, Jan. 19.-The British the British Consulate. Consul-General, Gerald Stockley, No woman could be induced to
leave the island to go into Canton proper, and foreign children were kept off the streets.
Chinese
authorities enforced
appealed to the Hankow garrison and police today for "adequate protection" for British citizens and property, while students of three semi-martial law on the island, as the debris of six burned buildings universities planned demonstra- still smoldered. tions over the Kowloon incident. Chinese maintained heavy guards The trouble arises from the Brit-on causeways connecting the island ish evictions of Chinese from with the city of Canton and kept shacks in Kowloon, on Crown ter- guards around the ruined buildings. ritory opposite Hongkong.
Hankow managers of British Missionaries Evacuated
commercial firms took special pre- cautions, and, extra police guards
HANKOW, Jan. 19 (A.P.).—The were posted on several buildings. second emergency air evacuation Student sources said that several of missionaries and their families thousand students from Chunghwa, from Communist-threatened Lao- Wuhan and Hwangchun Universi-hokow was completed today. ties planned to demonstrate.
Passengers aboard the Chinese
At Peiping. Lord Killearn, Brit-transport plane included Mr. and ish Special High Commissioner for Mrs. Brede Mella, of Oslo, and their Southwest Asia, told reporters that nine-day-old son. Twenty-one were the anti-British riots at Canton evacuated yesterday. were "absolutely calamitous" and it was unfortunate that so serious a development resulted from such "a small bagatelle as the Kowloon evictions."
'Pravda' Reports Victories
MOSCOW, Jan, 19 (A.P.).— "Pravda" said today that “military A second statement. accusing conditions in China now show that Communists of responsibility for the Kuomintang army has gone the rioting, came from Wu Te-chen, over to the defense on all fronts secretary-general of the Kuomin- and the people's liberating army is tang in Nanking. British sources winning victories." have already dismissed the accusa- The latter, it asserted, is "suc- tion against the Communists as cessfully conducting the battle for "unlikely."
the complete cleaning up of Man-
Fear continued to grip Shameen churia.”
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