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ACTIVITY AT SOVIET CONSULATE

IN SHANGHAI

ANXIETY-OVER RUMOURS OF A RAID.

MUCH BURNING OF DANGEROUS

PAPER.

The North China Daily News of April 8th gives the following picture, pot without its humorous side of the frantic efforts of the Soviet Consulate last Thursday to destroy a large amount of "paper" --- in case in a raide

Whatever else happened inside the was not, the slightest intention of Bolshevik Consulate yesterday after-invading the place. Instead, to the Boon and evening it may be said that a "certain amount of activity" was displayed by the inmates, fear ing, it is believed that a raid was about to be executed upon No. 1, Whangpoo Road,

That "the inhabitants” of that

LIFE AT KIUKIÁNG.

READY TO LEAVE ANY MOMENT.

MORE ABOUT THE KIANG- WO" INCIDENT.

A BOLSHEVIK INVASION.

KIUKIANO, March 31st. Further news is now available about the recent tommandeering of the str. Kinnguo. When the nows Arst reached tha **Nationalist "* Government as Hankow, they im- mediately protested agains! the dis- arming of the Chinese troops on great delight of the individuals | board, antirciy oblivious of the fact {: concerned, a number of the Russian that the steamer had been commin. company were told off to do "sentry charter, the foreign officers in- decred when under Admiralty go" on the entrance to the Sovietmidated at the revolver's paint, Consalate Those our representa and the steamer practically pirated. tive saw on this duty seemed

The local Chinese authorities in thoroughly to be enjoying them- Kinkiang took the only sensible selves, for they carried out their view of the cutrage and immediate work as of their whole souls were in it, and as if they enjoyed main- taining guard over a place which so many of them realised had been too active for far too long. One in parti.

edifice have been suspected for a long time past of activities inimical to the welfare of Shanghai goes without saying.

Some of those suspicions may be without founda don for the fairminded would even give the Bolshevik the bencht of the doubt, little ss it may be deserved. ealar stood at the Whangpoo Road take to pay for the detention and

entrance to the home of agitation looking as if this were the job be had been waiting for all his life while the others moved back and forth about their posts as if some- one had left them some money in- stead of work to do.

disowned the troops, declaring they were a band of Kucichow ban- dita who had only recently joined the Nationalist armies and who did not know better. Having acknow- ledged so much, they had to under- damage done and, before the arms

were returned, they paid $8,500 in cash, which sum it is estimated will cover both demurrage, coal and cost of refitting. The Kiangwa has pow gone to Hankow under escort and the Kueichow bandits have been shipped down river to the im-

That most of them have a fair substratum of fact is evidenced by the occurences of the past few years, when conclusive proof has been adduced that Soviet Consulates throughout the length and breath of China have been engaged in fos- tering that agitation which has led The Expectant Crowd, to such dire results in China to-day.

Meanwhile a trowd of ever-grow-meuse relief of local Chinese. That was possibly why so many peo-ing dimensions had gathered, one of

Strong Measures Pay. ple gathered in Whangpoo Road those cosmopolitan crowds that are

The Commanders of the British, yesterday alternoon, when they

a feature of Shanghai. Some American and Japanese Navies in learned that "something, was 'up "

watched waiting for a sensation to Edukiang, cu receipt of news of at the Bolshevik Consulate, and occur, others volubly discussed the the outrages at Nanking, sent a why some of them clamoured for a discoveries to be made in the forth-notice to the Kiukiang Commis raid to be executed on the place at coming raid, while not a few, siner of Defence that, should for- Russians as well as those of other with, the war Teasels would actively eigners in any way be interfered nationalities were loud in their as intervene protect them. sertions that the action then taken authorities have posted notices As a consequence the Chinese Bad not been soon enough.

throughout the town ordering all and aundry that foreigners were to protected and that anyone molesting ther would be punished. rabble have à quiet. The effect.. he been good and the The mer-

anice.

A Call on Senior Consul."

Following the news of the raid on the Soviet mbassy in Peking, Comrade Linde, the Soviel Consul- General, is reported to have called on the Senior Consul, Mr. N. Adli Norwegian. Consul General

The purpose of the visit was 47 announcement by the Soviet Consul to the effect that if any such raid on the Soviet Consulate took place here, as was done on the Embassy in Peking he would hold the Con- ular Body responsible.

It was understood yesterday that the authorities interested bad been

informed to that effect.

Whether the Bolshevik Consul merely anticipated what was to hap pen later in the day or not, we do not know, but his call on the Senior Consul was followed by events which attracted quite a crowd in the Whangpoo Road yesterday afternoon, most of whom watched developments with a keen enjoy

Outside the business entrance of the Consulate there was stationed a number of special police and re

gulars waiting for those who desir- ed to enter or leave the consulate. It was part of their work to search

all who passed them. This was done thoroughly without any appreciable results while our representative was on the spot.

chants and shopkeepers for a time were uneasy as they wondered whe that uneasy feeling is now passing. ther Kiukinng would be shelled, but

Chiang Kai Shek's Hominee In Charge,

General Teng, who was appoint- ed by Chiang Kai Shek, is in charge The Furnace at Work,

at Kiukiang, so that Chiang Kai Inside, however, the consular Shek and the Kuomintang right people appeared to have been pat-Valley from Kiukiang to Shanghai. wing now control the Yangtze ticularly busy and we are inform-

Demonstration Peters Out.

ed, that once the news got inside The local Labour Unions who that the place was to be "pinched" were discrganized after their fight the heating furnace Wis put with the farthers are trying to raise on vertime destroying evidence against the possible raid which was feared.

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coolies and members of Unions were their heads again. Yesterday al ordered to attend a large parade held at the West Gate to com- memorate the deaths of the two We understand that there is at were killed by the farmers recently. present no intention of raiding the All those ardered to attend hail to

ties attendant upon such a process saying that as many as 10,000 were. place First because of the difficul-be there for fear of reprisals, so the parade was quite a large one, some

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place like Shanghai, and present. But there were soldiers there too and they prevented any The Consulate Patrolled. secondly because a raid would not

processions being formed, so in About 3 pm. a number of the bring forth any more information end the assembly broke up, a miser- Russian

Company S.V.C. theas to Soviet activities in Shang-able failure. "Martial Law is still in force and armed Chinese troops Folice and the Special Police, num- bai than that which is common pro- patrol the native streets and the bering in all about 30 men, descend-perty to the man in the street, nor Concession." ed on the Soviet Consulate. There further proof where pone is needed.

ment.

THE HUAI VALLEY'S FLOODINGS.

HARVEST ANXIETIES.

CHENOYANGKAN, Anhui,"

March 22nd.

U.S.S. "Hulbert's" Rescue Work: On March 29th, the U.S.S. Hul bert received news from Anking that 30 or so missionaries there were in difficulties and so she amaller places. They have been for steamed down stream to their relief. the most part well-behaved, but The whole party, including 10 British, wero successfully evacuated their presence cannot but be a bur- without trouble, spart from a little den to the community. They have

stone-throwing. Two men, bow- to be provided for, with or with ever, who refused to leave, wore Tout pay. When public and semi-left behind, one of them with a public buildings are sufficient for wife and children whom he insisted housing purposes, they overflow on keeping. into private houses. Almost all the

Traitor Tom Mann.. We have had 12 local shipping, native bonts as well

distinguished"

The autumn, winter, and spring have been somewhat remarkable for

ed for military purposes. Also Mana and bis party at Kian, in

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8 and 9, BEACONSFIELD ARCADE,

HANKOW GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE.

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The Japanese Navy has four des troyers, two small cruisers and one gunboat in the harbour. The Commanding officer insista that he will protect the Concession and Japanese residents at all costs. Conditions in Hankow have gone

At Chungking all Japaness from bad to worse, is the latest citizens are being sent out as soon information received from that as steamers arrive. There are still

ار

General Strike at Kinklang."

the abundance of their rainfall as steam launches, are commandeer-visitors too. We first heard of Tom point, for, although a number of Americans in Chengtu, the The wheat harvest of the ixtensive there is very great demand for the far south of the province, business men are carrying on a capital of Szechuan, two at fachow Husi River Rats has never failed farmer's carts, animals, and men where Mann was described as the best possible with a view to pro- and one person at an nknown

for all sorts of military transporta leader of the British Labour Partytecting their establishmente, no one point. of 1910-11-12. Before that it had tion. The cities are being fooded In Kian he made a speech which doing any business and no hopes not been reaped during several suc- with Shantung military notes re- was reported by a native in the cessive years. The weather seems

deemable at any place within reach, following terms:--

are entertained of indents in the to run in cycles. We are apprehen if at all. The loss from these is "Mr. Tommy Mann is one of near future. As a matter of fact sive lest the wet cyale has come very great. In Yingchowia the the best orators. His subject is round again. There has been Chamber of Commerce took them up mainly against the British In all are exceedingly pessimistic. grent floods since the time referred at 30 per cent discount, iauing in perialism. He also said that the to shore, but they have set in after their stead their own notes, not re- British Government has entirely no the wheat harveat had been reaped.deemable at present.

power to open war with nation at

A general strike against all for- siggers was declared in. Kiukiang Japanese residents are being yesterday (April 7th): This includ- evacuated on steamers, as quickly ed house servants and domestics, as Of course, any year some of the Since the beginning of the pre-present.'

as transportation is afforded. The well as clerks and shroffa, cto. At lowest stretches of the flat may be sent month there have been exten- A party of Bolsheviks perem remaining British and Americana Changsha, a similar boycott was flooded before wheat harvest, sive movements away from this bulated the Concession two days

are living as close to the water- instituted, especially against Amo- section, but though thousands have ago and it is supposed that Tom

ricans yesterday:The U.S. Consul gone, there are still mary theu Mann was of the party. Aa, how it as possible, and are ready sands lelt..

ever, Mann failed to call on any of to evacuate on a moment's notice.is closing that office prior to the loca? British residents it is not About 105 Americans are still in evacuating Opium Addicts.

possible to confirm whether he was

Over-run With "Troops.

For more than two months there have,, beez constant movements of tropps in this corner of Anhui. The Northern soldiers have been pour. The opium habit is very much in zetually in this party, which spent the port, including business heads In Hankow 100 French, &wice ing in by thousands, and have been evidence among thea Northern one day in Kiukiang and then left and persons from up-river, avait and Belgian subjects remain. Two quartered in the main cities; Show-ofhcers and men, and they do not by launch for Hankow. The Chi- ing transportation. Within a week, counted for to date, D-0 Daily chow, Chengyangkuan, Yinshang impress us as being very likely nese papers say he was-North it is expected that the total num-News.

Japanese anilors bayo not been ac hsien, Yingehawful; and in many victory winners.

China Daily News.