CHINA: Anti-Foreign Revolt

Last week's major events in China's Eastern Provinces (TIME, June 15 et seq) :

Peking. An exchange of notes between the Diplomatic Corps and the Chinese Government brought the latter out into the open. The Diplomats charged the Government with wilfully misrepresenting the situation in China, and declined to accept responsibility for it. The Chinese Government retorted by demanding revision of all treaties with foreign powers. Such a demand was clearly impossible.

On Dragon Day—during which students dragged a monster illuminated dragon, several hundred feet long, through the streets—banners inscribed "Death to the...

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