emphatic Advice to Foreigners Stick Within Boundaries of Settlement Although there is little open demonstration against foreigners the crowds in Chapei are seething with excitement, The atmosphere tense and the opinion of a repre~ sentative of this journal who walked on March 25 towards North. Station, fs that it is unwise, if not actually Gangerous, for foreigners, to go Beyond the Settlement boundaries.
Our representative, who was a companied by two friends, left his car in the Settlement at the North Szechuen-road Extension outpost, passed the British soldiers and took two rieshas, While in this road there was little to show that they had entered Chinese territory Groups of Japanese sailors were scattered about; most of the shops were open and ricsha cooties had the same ingratiating grin and smatter-Sng of "twenty-cents, Mister" Engish that is such an inevitable part of the Settlement, 'A Marked Change Tt was soon "necessary to turn down a side street to the station and Smmediately a difference was noticeable in the atmosphere. The ricshas were stopped by Cantonese outposts While soldiers very naturally and Jeitimately searched for arms. The search was hardly as thorough as that of the Settlement outposts but perhaps the absence of hip-pockets Ju Cantonese clothing accounted for the fact that our representative was tapped everywhere except the natural place where a foreigner carries a revolver, However, as he was unarmed, it made no difference.
'We' riesha was first in Tine and was. allowed through without Surther bother.
'A Black Gown Executed guards a troop of soldiers grabbed a soy acca oda him away ~weRxecuted. Hie was dragged past our foreigners from the alleyways off ning men will clutch at any straw land his look of appeal as he begged for protection from the "hated foreigner" was pitiful, The soldiers dragged him up a side street towards a building from which floated enormous silk Kuomintang flags and some time afterwards a shot rang out, One can say no more.
In the meantime our representa tive noticed that his friends were not with him and glancing back, found that they were still detained at the Cantonese barrier. His riesha oolie refused to turn back but was ling to wait, Apparently the trouble was nothing to speak of and the other two foreigners soon caught up, when all three dismissed the rieshas and decided to walk through the crowded street.
The Chinese were not exactly hostile but certainly were not friendly. They had that tense spirit that needs only the proper incident to become dangerous, "You Englishman, This Chinese leountry, You go back English feountry" was one remark leered at the party by an angry Chinese, as hho jostled them off the sidewalk. No notice was taken, Anti-foreign Posters fast. significant of all, however,, was a lurid poster depicting foreign Imperialism."
Tt portrayed a European jumping.
a Chinese and about to stab him, Only one glance at the excited jerowds that gathered around it showed what effect such propaganda would have on them, nally after talking to one or two Cantonese officers. who were: most cardial, the party tuned back and a3 they entered the Settlement fan aeroplane passed overhead. Tt was declared that it carried Mr. Eugene Chen, the Cantonese Mini ter for Foreign Affai Evidence Against Southerners Yet even at the Settlement gates there is more damning evidence against the activities of Southern advance by regular troops, than [could be found in a day of Chapel.
the mud outside the barricades at NorthHonan-road entangled in the barbed-wire itself, lies the hat of Complete with stare British Tommies have two more in their possession, "And yet it was only the poor fugitive Shantung men who tried! to. get past our barricades" one lof them said cynically, Oxe oF THE WouxoeD
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