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Crowds Move on British Concessions at Hankow and Kiukiang in China

Trouble flared Monday at two Yangtze river ports where Britain holds treaty concessions, as the Nationalist movement presses its campaign against foreign privileges.

By the Monochrome Chronicles desk, from reports by Foreign Relations of the United States, Evening Star and Wikipedia
Edited by Daniel Varrone · Archive edition, written , about events of

File photo: a view of Hankow, China, from the early 20th century.
File photo: a view of Hankow, China, from the early 20th century.Photo: “Hankow view (NYPL Hades-2359206-4043562)” by Scan by NYPL, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Crowds of protesters moved into the British concessions at Hankow and at Kiukiang, known in Chinese as Jiujiang, on Monday, according to Wikipedia’s chronology of the month; the Kiukiang part of that account is not independently confirmed. Both are ports on the Yangtze river, and in each a district is administered by Britain under treaty rights.

At Hankow the unrest is better documented. The American minister in Peking, John V. A. MacMurray, wrote in a Jan. 6 telegram to the State Department (a later source) of conditions that had existed at Hankow since Jan. 3, with large crowds along the bund and the British concession in the hands of Chinese military. The Evening Star of Washington said on Jan. 5 that British marines had used bayonets to protect the British concession there on Monday. Accounts of casualties differ, and none are stated here.

Sources

  1. Foreign Relations of the United States (State Department), Jan. 6, 1927 (later source): MacMurray’s telegram on Hankow conditions since Jan. 3 <https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1927v02/d214>
  2. Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), Jan. 5, 1927 (later source): British marines used bayonets to protect the British concession at Hankow on Monday (Library of Congress, Chronicling America; read as a search excerpt) <https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1927-01-05/ed-1/?sp=5>
  3. Wikipedia, Oct. 30, 2026 (later source): Jan. 3, 1927 entry on crowds in the British concessions at Hankou and Jiujiang <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1927>

This article was drafted with automated tools from the sources listed, checked by a review pass, and published by Daniel Varrone. Corrections: editor@monochromechronicles.com

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