shevik Headquarters connection with the reported intention of the Soviet Authorities to import 60 Red guards for the protection of the Consulate in Whangpoo Road, we are in receipt of a copy of a petition to be ad-tressed to the Consular representa. ives, the Municipal Council, and the" Chinese Authorities," asking for the removal of "this menace" from the confines of Shanghai.
The petition which can, be simed at the offices of Mr. B. Firth, Messrs. Wheelock & Go, 2 French Bund, or Mr, H. P. King, Room 512, Building, reads as fol"
"We, the undersigned, residents of Shanghai, protest to our Consular representatives, the Shanghai Municipal Council, and. the Chinese authorities against the activities of the Red Russian element residing in the U. S. 8. Consulate General, at No. 1, Whangpoo Road, and which is the Consulate-General of a Power with which, the internationally recognized Government of China has broken off diplomatic rela: tions, after exposing to the world its subversive activities in menting trouble in China, people are the instigators of afl the law strikes, as sinations of workers, me timidation, general chaos, existing here and elsewhere China, "Their recent display, on November 7, was a direct incitement to reprisal by the White Russians, and resulted in the shooting of several of the latter, which can only be described deliberate murder and attempt ed murder. 'Their principal aim is to create anarchy, and to bring about the ultimate' ruin of the port of Shanghai, call upon the thorities to tal uch steps as the situation demands, and to remove this menace from' the confines of Shanghai, "in view of the fact that, Soviet armed forces are now on the way to Shanghai ostensibly to de the Soviet. Consulate here, all the more important that no time be lost in presenting this petition to the authorities, as the undersigned residents of the In ternational Settlement of Shanghai need scarcely emphasize that whilst it would be a comparatively simple matter to close the Cohlate now, a more difficult problem would arise should armed forces become entrenched there and who would be likely to offer armed resistance."
A Singular Deni We publish the following statement sent us by the Tass News Agency in the exact terms in which it was received, and we have no doubt that readers will appreciate the significance of the used.
Shanghai, Nov. 24, The "Tass News Agency" has been authorized by the Consulate General of the U. 8. 8. R. to con tradict a report that has appeared: {in certain local newspapers re the leged shipment to Shanghai from: Vladivostok of an armed detachment. to defend the Consulate from pos ible repetition of bandit attack:
A report that has similarly ap: peared that the Consul General has: left for Vladivostok is also without' any foundation, Four Chinese now being tended in the Lester Hospital, for bullet wounds, are said to' have beet amongst a party of strike-breakers who were being taken over to Poo: tung, when a picket in a opened fire on them. A. so similar incident happened on shore, when an unidentified man gent a stream of bullets at the gates of a Chinese mill in Seoul Road, but fortunately only one man was slight ly injured. These incidents are sup posed to form part of the tactics Jeading up to a strike demonstration on a large scale, which extremist organizations are known to have been: discussing, and because of which thd' Chinese authorities have prohibited all labour meetings. rool Gy
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