Evening star., 1927-01-26
CHINESE STOP OWN OUARRELING
TO WATCH ANTI-FOREIGN MOVE
Cantonese, Having Seized Other Cities
Where Aliens Had Wealth, Look
Toward Rich Shanghai Prize.

house three brigades of troops which
are due from India and England be
fore the end of February. in ware
houses and other buildings of the city.
Barbed-wire barricades have been
erected in every street where the
French concession adjoins the native
city. The international settlement is
heavily wired in the vicinity of the
railway stations.
Feeling of CneasinesS.
There is a general feeling OF uneasi-
ness especially among women. many
of whom are preparing to leave. Con-
siderable removal of household goods
TO warehouses has taken place in
readiness for shipment homeward.
The war risk insurance business is
booming.
Aggressive anti-foreign and anti
Christian agitation and action vir-
tually has been confined to provinces
under Cantonese control, although
northern militarists and politicians
are watching sympathetically the
Cantonese gains at foreigners eX-
pense.
While business men, especially
British, are feeling the evils of the
Cl6h tledNuy, lDc
worst sufferings have been borne by
the missionaries American and Brit
lsh alike, they usually are farther
from foreign protection than are bus
mess men. Moreover, the anti-Chris
tan phase of the Nationalist propa-
ganda has been especially virulent.
Under this pressure and the con-
slant threat of maltreatment at the
hands of unruly mobs of students and
laborers, the almost total evacuation
OF foreign missionaries from Szech-
wan, Hupeh, Human. kiangsi and
fhklen provinces and from the re-
glon about the city of Swatow is
steadily progressing. Some mission.
aries are remaining at their posts.
but against the advice of foreign Off
cials
Missionaries in Honan province,
where the northerners and southern
ers still contend for mastery. report
there has been virtually no anti-for-
elgn activity, although the province
is overrun by soldiers and bandits.
Throughout the rest of the north,
into which the Cantonese have not
penetrated, antiforeignism is still
passive.
Origin of Resentment.
1t would be inaccurate to describe
the anti-foreign wave as an outgrowth
OF the 1926 civil war. Civil war has
been constant in China since the
revolution of 1911-12, which trans
formed China from an empire into a
republic, but the present anti-foreign-
ism had its genesis in the events of
May and June of 1925 in Shanghai
and at Shameen, the island upon
which foreigners live at Canton.
The affair in Shanghai grew from
a strike in the Japanese cotton mills
by Chinese workmen. These attacked
the mill and attempted to wreck the
machinery. During the disturbance
the Japanese fired, killing one of the
workmen. Demonstrations that fol
lowed against foreigners in general
eliminated May 80 in an attack on
the Louza police station of the inter-
national settlement. The police fired,
killing IL and wounding 1S Chinese.
This incident was followed by a
general strike, with serious anti
foreign outbreaks in river and coast
ports. The trouble spread to Canton,
where at the end of June a hostile
demonstration by thousands of
Chinese against the foreign concession
resulted in a number of Chinese
being shot.
Then was begun the year-long
boycott struggle whereby Canton
strikers attempted and partially sue
ceeded in strangling the trade of
Hongkong with the interior.
The anti-foreign agitation burst
into new flames along the YangtZe
River as the Cantonese carried their
arms and Russian-inspired propa-
ganda into central China.
In the early stages of their 1926
campaign the Cantonese preached a
crusade against native militarists and
foreign imperialists alike. But anti
foreignism took first place in the
program of extremists as soon as the
armies reached the rich foreign settle
ments of the triple cities Of Wuchang.
Hankow and Hanyang. This was in
August and September.
Then the Cantonese established
their headquarters and capital in
Wuchang and began to look hopefully
toward the immensely richer prize of
Shanghai, 5S5 miles down the Yangtse.