* * * • C Much anxiety is being caused
by riots at Shanghai, as they seem to be only symptoms of a new anti-foreign .movement in China. On Wednesday several Europeans .were attacked. British ships arc present to lend help and American and .Japanese ships arc expected to arrive .shortly. The troubles began with a strike at some Japanese cotton mills at Tsing-Tao. Last. Saturday the students of Shanghai, whose enthusiasms are more political than academic, organized demonstrations in -favour of the . strikers and in opposition to foreign ." Imperialism.'' In particular they denounced the tin,. fortunate shooting of some Chinese strikers during one of the strike riots.. Some of the students were arrested; and the -rest tried to rescue them. The police (whose -duty it was to protect a large store of arms. and ammuni- tion at the police station) fired and seven men were killed and about twenty were wounded. Last Sunday all Chinese shops were closed in sympathy with the anti-foreign demonstration. The Municipality replied by declaring martial law. Day by day since then the riots have con- tinued, and the worst sign is that similar demonstrations have occurred in Canton, Peking and other parts of China. The Chinese students are undoubtedly in touch with Bolshevist propagandists, but Bolshevism is probably an auxiliary, not the original inspiration.
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