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HOW GREATER BLOODSHED WAS AVERTED.
FOMENTERS OF UNREST?
The
British Co-operating With the Powers.
Had the mob in Shanghai seized the arms in the Police Station on May 30 there would have been greater bloodshed, declared Mr. A. M. Samuel in the House of Commons, when he pointed to the co-operation of the Powers and the surest remedy for the disturbances..
LABOUR CONDITIONS.
(Reuter's Service.)
London. June 15. The position in China was the subject of a number of questions by Labour members and others in the House of Commons.
Replying to a suggestion by Mr. Will Thorn (Labour) that the trouble in Shanghai was due to low wages and the employment of children. Mr. A. M. Samuel, Parliamentary Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade. for the Foreign Office emphasised that the British Government had done all it could to improve con- ditions of labour within the Inter- national Settlement and had no control outside. The mob at Shanghai was very large and murderous. Had they succeeded and seized the arms at the police station there undoubtedly would have been greater bloodshed. The British policy in respect of the f trouble in China had been adopt- ed in concert with the other Powers interested and no points of difference had arisen. 31r. Samuci paid a tribute to the firm and tactful manner in which the Italian Minister. Sign Cerruti, ! the senior diplomat in Peking. I was handling the situation. He (Mr. Samuel) emphasised that the Government respected China. and would gradually lend all sup- port with view to securing China's prosperity and peace The casualties in Shanghai were 21 Chinese killed. 65 Chinese wounded. and One American
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The Hankow Affair. The British Consul at Hankow reported that the firing there was inevitable. Had the Chinese authorities co-operated with the defence force, a deplorable loss of life would have been avoided.
The disturbances in Hankow and Shanghai were a symptom of the deep and widespread unreft exploited by interested parties to stir up feeling against those Powers with the largest interests in China who, therefore, were deeply concerned to co-operate with China in the task of progress and reform. The surest remedy for the anti-foreign feeling in China would lie in an attempt by the Treaty Powers to carry out the decisions of the Washington Conference in regard to co-opera- tion between China and the Powers in measures beneficial to China. The Government was considering the best means of overcoming the difficulties aris- ing largely from the absence of an effective Government in China.. It trusted that the forthcoming conference on the internal Tariff of China would afford an oppor- tunity of removing such obstacles. dissipating the present atmos- phere of distrust and inaugurat- era of fruitful co-opera- ing an tion between China and the Powers.
An Important Point. Mr. Samuel emphasised that no Chinese were killed by British forces. The casualties were in- flicted by the Police of the Inter- METAL ROOFING national Municipality of Shang-
hai.
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Asked whether he would order that future demonstrators would not be fired on with ball cartridge,
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Optimistic View, Replying to Mr. Ramsay Mac- Donald Mr. Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister, gave the assur- ance that the Government. was co-operating with the other Powers in taking every step pos- sible to prevent the disturbances becoming a really big Inter- national trouble in the Far East. There was every reason to believe. that the Powers, and
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THE HANKOW RIOT.
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Before Mr. S. 3. ETMcElderry, at the Central Magistracy this orning. Matthew Tonkin. 37, native of England. and Moses Sansonovitch, 52, native of Brazil, both merchants, were formally charged with the unlawful importa tion of drugs into the Cology.
Terrible End to a Motor Car Drive.
Shanghai has been shocked by the brutal and wanton murder of a British resident whose fate was narrowly escaped by a lady who was with him at the time.
The
FATAL SHOTS.
(Reuter's Service.),
Shanghai. June 16. Rritan Mr. William Mackenzie was murdered last night while driving his car outside the Settlement boutalaries with a lady, Miss Dungan, who was wounded.
Seven Chinese stopped the car and turned flashlights en the
The prosecution was a sequel to the discovery of a large quantity of heroin packed in tin tahes and Leonealed in the leg posts of a con- The British Note in reply to the signment of sixteen cases bed- crepants,- Chinese Note as regards the riotsteads consgned from Antwerp to
Peking. June 15.
They fired at Mr. Mackenzie who
at Hankow was handed in to the Shanghai by the ss. Glentara, had restarted the car. He was
Ender-Secretary of the Waichiao-The seizure was made by revenue hit in the neck and fell forward,
LAST NIGHT'S HEAVY RAIN,
Part of Wongneichong village showing where roofs have given way and walls collapsed through the floods.
pu last evening.
:
few
STOP
PRESS.
PROTEST AND REPLY.
(Reuter's Service.)
Hankow, June 15.
Miss Duncan, though wounded, took the steering wheel and guided the car more than a thousand yards, when it ran into a ditch near the Columbia Country Club, to which she ran.
FIRST HAND VIEWS. In the course of a letter dated Shanghai, June 10, Mrs. Herbert Sutor writes to her father, Mr. D. McNeill, in Hongkong:
**You are not getting many letters these days, but things love been
worrying and unsettled that we have not had time or heart to write. The Police did all they could do to quieten the moh, but it was useless. The drove the Police from Sineere's to Lonza Station, and then in the end the odds were great that the Police had to fire. Faney six men against a mad mob jet 3,000.
$0
“We could not got fresh meat for some days, but did quite well. The French told the shopkeepers that if they closed up they would lose their licences. They called off the bovott from the French Concession very quickly. Many-- in fact, nearly all-have been left tolo for ourselves, but we do not mind that.
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The Shanghai Scots have their MACKINTOSH
headquarters in the Golf Club on the Racecourse, and the Ameri- cans have theirs in the New World. During the worst part of the trouble the Chinese were kept off the Nanking Road. It was inst like a military town. But for a week we were at their merer, the Chin- nitting, throwing bricks. and zuining, whilst our'none boys] wone alreed dronning with fatigue, (after orunding 36 hours!
"Whilst it is certain that the Manicited Council will not stand any nonsense, it is felt that only informational intervention can settle the trouble effectually."
́CITY NOW QUIFT.
CANTOV SETLTING
DOWN
A STRIKE UNLIKELY.
(From Our Own Correspondent.)
CANTON, June 15 Fighting was audible yesterday afternoon to the North of Canton
The Commissioner for Foreign|where, presumably the Cantonese the are following up the remnants of
officers who found on a minute ex- As Shen Jual-lin could not be amination of the bedsteads that the found, it was stated that he was legs were mule to screw off, in hiding from the students.
Mr. H. A. Tavlor, Assistant | The Note says:-
Superintendent of the Imports and
informed "From your Note it is clear Exports Office.
His that your Excellency is not in Worship that the actual amount of possession of the true facts. the seizure, had not yet been ascer which are as follows:-At, tained, burit was about 150 lbs. seven o'clock in the evening of of heroin. He asked for a June 11, a mob broke into the days adjournment as he consider- to British Concession at Hankowed that it might be necessary armed with stones, with which send a cable to the Colonial Office Affairs has protested to they attacked the police and regarding the matter and probably British Consul regarding the firing the fleeing mercenary armies.
Most of the Yunnanese who re members of the Municipal await evidence from there.. Mr. on the mob. He says the firing: Council.
evidence was unnecessary and holds the mained behind were either dis- - Sailors from His Taylor said that the Majesty's gunboat Bee were against the first accused was quite Consul personally and the officer armed, killed, or taken into custody verv who ordered the firing, to be by the victors to save them from the landed, upon which the mob clear, but so far there was were dispersed without firing. little evidence against the second responsible therefor. He requests wrath of street mobs. Canton is the withdrawal of the Naval con- now quier and the Kuomintang is As the situation became criti-sccnsed. cal, the Volunteers were called
Mr. C. H. Ly-on appeared for tingent and that orders should in process of restoring the old
given to refrain from firing in order of things out. The mob then attacked the defence.
future. the Volunteers and the nuval The case was adjourned until:
The Consul replied yesterday posts with poles and stones, in-noor on Friday, bail being fixed at:
evening that the protest was not ficting some slight casualties. | ST0.000 and $500) respectively.
Rumours of a general strike are The Volunteers showed great
current in Canton. However, the The value of the seizure amounts reasonable and without foundation
in fact. He corrects erroneous stoppages engineered by
the restraint and refrained from to about $15.000.
statements contained in the pro- Cantonese to hinder the mer- firing. even when the mob
test. He says that the firing was cenaries cannot very well be charged almost up to within the
assistant most necessary in view of the described as being in sympathy|♬ bayonets. At nine o'clock, the Consul-General appealed to the managing director of Messrs. W. S. danger to foreign lives and pro- with trouble at other ports. Foreign Affairs Commissioner Bailey and Co., Ltd., has author-perty in the Concession, parti-i
state cularly following the serious for protection. After some deed the "China Mail" to lay, the latter arranged for that there is no foundation in a re- damage already done by the riot- the despatch of troops, but in port published this morning that ers and the murder of a Japanese the meantime the mob attacked the shipyard employees, about 700 the same evening. He also states and looted a Japanese shop, and in number, may go on strike to-day, that fire was opened only as a next beat the inmates, one of Messrs. Bailey and Co. add that last resort and even then was most whom died from his injuries. the rumours are entirely without restricted.
Mr. T.
The mob, which was highlyfoundation.
excited, shouting "Kill the for- eigners!" attacked the British
Ramsay.
A Chinese coolie working at the post guarded by barbed wire. Government quarries at
North
A fire-engine held back the mob Point was killed yesterday when a for twenty minutes, but in motor. lorry loaded with stone ran spite of this the mob forced over him. their way through the barbed
Hankow Quiet.
Some Yurnanese detachments have been incorporated in pro- Kuomintang contingents.
A Gorel's Moustaches. A story, not without its humorous aspect, is related by the vernacular papers regarding the flight of General Yang Hsi-man (Yunnanese commander-in-chief) from Capton. He proceeded to Shameen by motor car on Friday when the debacle began. Accompanied by one of the British Vice-Consuls, so the story goes, he embarked on one of the night boats for Hongkong, Hankow, June 15,
still wearing his moustache, "after The situation remains quiet. the style of the Chinese characterfor The volunteers and Navy men are eight." A previous allusion to the still standing by. H.M.S. general's having discarded his Despatch is expected this after-moustache to disguise himself had wire and, armed with long that the arrival of
caused much amusement. poles, began, to climb it, shower- machinery meant that hand pack- The Consular body has written On arrival in Hongkong he was
re- escorted by the Police to ing bricks upon the defenders, ing was to be dispensed with al-to Tupan Hsiao Yao-nan several of whom were badly together, have agreed to recom- capitulating the circumstances of King Edward Hotel where a guard hurt. Then only firing took mence work, all misapprehensions Thursday night's-riot, saying that of detectives was mounted.
According to the report, Yang place, killing three or four and apparently having been cleared the disturbances need not have!
recognised on the river happened, requesting that proper was wounding the same number. up.
and had to part with The mob retreated, and the The management confidently measures be taken to prevent a steam.er
$3,400 in notes-all that he had wounded were taken to the Bri- hopes for a resumption of work recurrence. tish Hospital. All the foreign to-morrow morning.
The British Cigarette Com-with him-so that he would not be naval forces co-operated in the The friendly attitude of these pany's workers, who struck on molested and to assure his passage. In Hongkong he is said to have defence of the British, French workers and their stated willing. May 23, following the arrival of and former Russian Conces- ness to resume is important in new labour saving machinery and given the detectives the slip by on the 1s. President sions. Your Excellency will view of recent events and the re- the previous dismissal of a num- see from the above account sultant possibility of a general ber of women workers due to the Jackson for Shanghai without the
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