In the meantime the civil vanguards of the advancing Cantonese
are at their usual work under Russian inspira- tion. There have been many assassinations 61 manual workers in Shanghai by gun-men, who are said to have been hired for the purpose by the local Labour extremists. The object, of course, is to produce obedience by terror. The plan seems to be fairly successfnl in its way,. as there have been several strikes in sympathy with the Cantonese of which perhaps the most significant was that, in some cotton mills where 2,000 workers struck merely because the management had pulled down posters calling for a Labour Government and urging the assassination. of anti-Cantonese workers. At Wulm on the Yangtze there have been anti-foreign riots and the British Govern- ment have requested Mr. Chen to protect British life and ilroperty.. From both Wuhu and Ningpo the foreign. women have been removed, and the men remain under naval protection. * *
