The Washington times., 1925-06-05
Missionaries Are Taking
Part of Strikers; u. S.
DisapprOves Activity

The Chinese government has
sent Admiral Tsai- -Ting-Kan and
Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs
Eseng to Shanghai to report on he
facts of the present striking and
rioting and to attempt q peaceful
adjustment OF the situation. F'erdi
nand L. Mayer, American charge
d'affaires, at Peking informed the
State Department today.
American and ether foreign mis-
sioffaries according to information
reaching Washington today have
taken the part Of the Chinese
strikers and denounced the Shang-
hal police.
The missionaries. it is alleged. are
actuated by the fact that IL they
do not stand by the students, they
win lose. their influence among the
people and their efforts to Christ
ianize China viii be seriously niti-
gated.
1t is understood that American
Charge Mayer al Peking has in.
formed the American missionaries
that there interference in the sit
uation at the present time does
not meet with the approval Of the
United States.
At the request Of the Chinese
foreign office, the foreign legations
have asked their consuls at Shang-
hal to give friendly assistance to
the Chinese governments ennis
saries.
A large demonstration. partici.
pated in by several thousand stu
dents representing twenty-three
schools, including missionary insti.
tutions, was held in Picking yester-
day, according to dispatches re-
ceived by the State Department to.
day from Ferdinand L. Mayer, the
American Charge d'Affaires.
After meeting in Central Park
and denouncing the Chinese gov
ernment and foreign nations, the
students paraded through the
streets Of the city and called on
Chief Executive Tuan Chi-Jui and
the minister for foreign affairs.
The students parade attempted
to enter the diplomatic quarter. a
small area set aside by treaties,
exclusively for the foreign lega-
tions, but were refused admittance
by the Chinese police on duty. A
small band of extremists, headed by
a woman student attempted fore
ibIe entrance to the quarter \ but
failed as the gates were closedH
Other entrances were guarded
and no clashes occurred.
Radical lecturers continued to
harrangue on the streets in Peking
and, Mayer reported, the students
plan to hold systematic and con.
tinued demonstrations in sympathy
with the Shanghai strikers and
rioters.
There Is apparently little local
interest except among the students
and Chinese journalists, Mayer
stated.
At the students meetings hand
bills were distributed and speeches
made demanding the abolition of
foreign concessions and extra-terri-
.orialty; the release and indentifica-
ion of arrested students, apologies
from the foreign governments to
the Chinese people, the withdrawal
Of foreign military and naval forces
from China, and the abolition of
all unequal treaties and special
privileges.
At the same time the students
demanded the overthrow of "the
traitorous Chinese government" be-
cause Of its failure to protect the
strikers and rioters against the
foreign police.
The students are carrying on a
campaign urging an economic boy
eott against all foreigners, although
Mayer reported, Japan and Great
Britain have been singled out for
the most bitter attacks.
Great Britain Is blamed for the
action of the Shanghai police as the
officers are all British, and the
Sikhs are British subjects.