CANTON RIOTING
INVESTIGATION
WOMEN FLOWN OUT SHANGHAI, Sunday.
A Chinese Ministry of the Interior official will leave Shanghai to-mor- row for Canton, South China, to investigate anti-British riots which took place there on Friday, when the British Consulate-General was set on fire. Rioting followed eviction by British authorities of Chinese in condemned huts in the Kowloon area of Hongkong.
The official will ensure that the ocal police are taking "effective steps to protect foreign national, All British women and children have eft Canton, which is still under nartial law, and arrived at Hong- cong by air to-day.
Only one Chinese passenger ship ind two cargo vessels are now sailing on the Pearl River between Hong- <ong and Canton, other services having been cancelled. Hongkong Airways are still flying a daily service.
Apart from isolated student de- monstrations all was quiet in Canton to-day. The British Consulate- General in Shanghai was under strong guard as students had threat- ened to demonstrate.-Reuter,
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Daily Telegraph
19 JAN 1948
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