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diagnose all of these conditions, 1 believe I can confidently state that I have thus far seen no con- vincing evidence, that China's present-day troubles are in any degree attributable to the so-call ed unequal treaties, or to the imperialistic attitudo of the foreign Powers.......... On the · Con= trary, the evidence seems to be overwhelming that the troubles of China "to-day are internal rather than external and that unequal treaties, axtra territoriality, tariff autonomy, and imperialism are "political slogana which are: Avail ed of by the agitators to excite the people of China Into a, frenzy of criticism and unrest.” The Shanghai Incident WAY
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That masterpiece The members of the Japanese
of current. Parliament who passed through Chinese history, the China Year Hong Kong last July on a tour to Book for 1926, has come to us from! Java, Australia and the Philippinete erudite and painstaking Editor. Islands, for the purpose of get. Mr H. G. W. Woodhead, of ting general information as to the Tientsin.
The period covered by this. Issue social, political, economical, and particularly educational condi- of the China Year Book has been tions of those places, are returning the most critical through which to: Japan on board the s.s.. "Aki China has passed since the Boxer Maru" which is scheduled to ar-madness of 1900. Years of civil war and administrative chaos" had. rive here to-morow at 4 p.m.
produced a widespread fooling of The party is composed of differ discontent and resentment which followed by a general strike, and ent political groups, compris-needed but a spark to burst into by serious anti-foreign outbreaks ing:
flame. Ever since the arrival of in the river and coast: ports. Mesars. H. Higuchi, leader of Soviet emissaries on Chinese soft ward the end of June the trouble the party (Kenseikai). S. Euro- they have conducted intensive pro spread to Canton. whers a hostile zumi (Seiyukai), M. Koya (Singel paganda to persuade the Chinese demonstration against the Foreign Club) Y. Ikeda (Selyo konto), D.that their troubles are due to Concessions resulted in further Ishiguro, (Kenseikai). T. Shima- foreign "capitalism," "imperialism." hooting and a number of casual- sue (Seiyukat. The party is acand the "unequal trestles." Con- ties. It is significant, and" typlen! companied by Mr. M. Ohkl who tinuous trouble in the Japanese cot-of the attitude of certain mission- is the secretary of the Japanese ton mills in Shanghai during the aries towards these anti-forsign. House of Representatives: early part of 1925-which was outbreaks. that on the day follow. The delegation will continue obviously largely of a politicaling this affair, the Foreign Faculty their homeward trip on the same rather than an economic character of the Canton Christian College," on
what was steamer, and in view of the brief inasmuch as the Chinese and
afterwards publicly stay here of the "Aki Maru" no British mills, where labour, con- admitted to be hearsay evidence- definite programme of enter-ditions were in no way superior mainly the statements of students the negotiations for a settlement tainment has yet been arranged. to
of the College-adopted resolutione Japanese. of the boycott. There is nothing Should they stop in the Colony for remained unaffected-culminated in expressing the opinion that the blame, and responsibility for the some days, the Japanese com-the middle of May in an attack upon on which Hong Kong can nego-munity will undoubtedly be active. a Japanese mill by a mob merciless and unjustifiable assault tiate. It cannot make terms with The Acting Japanese Consul workers, who
down the rests upon those who directed the firing from Shameen.” the Canton Government for the and prominent members of the entrance gate, forced their way uident of the College publicly with.."
Japanese community here will go past a party of Sikh constables and curbing of the activities of the on board the "Aki Mari on its Japanese foremen, and attempted too late. however: to undo the mis
drew resolutions a few days later, pickets ashore in Canton. All arrival here to welcome the to wreck the machinery. In the that can decently be done is to visitors. exercise moral suasion on Canton
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· TAIKOO - LOSS..
FUNERAL OF MR. W. HARDWICK.
40 YEARS' RESIDENT.
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those in
the
broke
The Pre-
course of the melee the Japanese chief they had dones fired. with fatal results to one of It was unfortunate that at the moment the Shangha} shooting the workmen. Demonstrations of and to point out to her the plain!
jan anti-foreign character followed, occurred several of the Foreign duty of suppressing the pickets
which came to a bead on May 30 in Eveys to Peking were absent. a serious riot in the Nanking Road, The American Legation was await entirely in the interests of inter-
the main thoroughfare of the Intering the arrival of a new Minister. national trade. Hong Kong can-
Inational Settlement.
The British Legation was' in charge An attack on not go cap in hand at this: late
Louza Police Station resulted in of a Counsellor of Embassy who date and plead with tears in its | The funeral of Mr. W. Hardwick, orders to the Police on duty to fire had only just arrived from Japan, which they obeyed, causing 29 the Minister and the Chinese Secre- eyes for Canton pickets to cease of Taikoo, who passed away at the casualties, of which eleven proved tary being absent on leave. The.
Government Civil Hospital-yestär- from troubling. So long as Can-day morning, took place at the fatal. Of the persons injured, alx Dutch Minister was also on fur-
lough. ton continues to connive at the Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley, were students. anti-British boycott ways must be yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Hardwick had resided intese authorities to riotous students Within a few days of the trou- found other than by meaningless Hong Kong for just over forty years in other cities, including the Capitalbie a Diplomatic Commission was negotiations which are a pure in the course of which he had made itself, seems to have created a despatched to Shanghai to make waste of time to terminate a wide circle of friends by whom general impression that they were investigations on the spot.
he was held in much esteem. He privileged clase, and the action task it accomplished, but the de- state of affairs created and sup
62 years was
Mo the Shanghai Municipal Folce, mands put forward for a settlement ported by a so-called friendly pro-Hardwick, who is survived by his on this occasion, proved to be the by the Chinese investigatora. proved Hongkong, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1925 vince of China. The greatest less wife and three children (two sons spark which started a nation-wide to be beyond the scope of its
Resentment in the long run will not fall on of Hunslet. Leeds. He was a keen ostensibly because the Police Com- further negotiations to the Diplo
being in the Colony) was a native conflagration.
was authority, and it had to return to concentrated upon the British.
Peking, and leave the conduer of Hong Kong but on Canton, as has follower of sport and for many missioner at Shanghai, the Inaper-matie Body. Within a few days of been amply demonstrated up to years looked after the recreation tor in charge of Louza Police the Commission's return it became the present.
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POSITION IN CANTON.
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Disputes in Sport.
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of age.
greens at Talkoo, Club
The tolerance shown by the Chin-
Chinese Demands.
This
Recent reports show that the
Father Page officiated at the Station," and most of the foreign known that the Diplomatie Body Canton authorities have been
funeral, the family mourners being members of the force, were British had ordered the censure of the Mrs. J. J. Blake (sister-in-law), ft. subjects. Chinese at home and Chairman of the Shanghai Munici- given an opportunity to perform
and Mrs. Johnson (sister, and abroad conducted intensive propal Council (Mr. Sterling Fessen- their own natural duties by ade-
brother-in-law) and Mrs. A. Paganda against the "massacre of den, who is an American citizen) quately policing the river and be regretted that so many dis-
In a good many ways it is to Stock:
students by "the British. Certain and the dismissal of the British The coffin was borne by four cot-missionary organisations chiefly Police Commissioner, and also of guaranteeing that passengers and putes crop up in the local realm leagues of the deceased. Messrs. American-at once participated in Inspector Everson, who had actually cargo proceeding to and from of sport. Faddiets have gone to J. C. H. L. Smith, H. Wilson, H. this campaign, protesting against ordered the firing. It was generally the use of violence in quelling stu- assumed, therefore, that the Diplo- Hong Kong vessels shall be free the extent of proving how sport Dinnen and T. Grimshaw,
takes a greater share of attention Among those present were Mr. D. dent demonstrations, and adopting matle Commission had found the from molestation On this under-
in this Colony than is due. Templeton (manager, Taikoo Jugar many of the catchwords which had Council and its officers to blame, and standing it is unofficially reported they are right, there is all the Refining Co., Ltd.,) Mr. H. C. been made familiar by the Soviet this belief persisted in Foreign aut that the British gunboats have more reason to regret the series Resker, assistant manager; Mr. K.Emissaries. The unequal Trea Chinese circles until the publica-
of recent incidents been withdrawn from the wharves
connect Grieg, dockyard manager, Taikoo, ties were represented as the causation of the Diplomatic Commiation's éd with
Mr. F. E. Edwards, Dr. M. Vof the whole trouble, and the report, at the end of the year, when. play and recrea- of the Hong Kong, Macao;, and
tion. Some of the matters Obrembski, and Messrs. S. Boulton, Chinese and their raissionary cham to the general amazement. it was Canton Steamship Company. are sub judice, others are strictly J. Mitchell, W. Wier, M. H. Wallace, Plone-numerically only a minority found that it severely censured the Naturally the British Naval partisan. Seldom is useful pur. R. Dunlevy, J. McIntyre and many of the Protestant Mission body local Chinese authorities for their preceeded to clamour for their negligence, and made drastic re2 pose served by going into the others. authorities reserve the right of rights or wrongs and contro Hardwick and her two sons, and of extraterritoriality, the restora-ganisation of the Police in adjacent Two wreaths, one from Mrs. abrogation, involving the abolition commendations regarding the reor. further action if Canton's under- versies have raged hotly over the another from other members of the tion of the Foreign Concessions, Chines Territory, but contained taking is not carried out. So far, slightest allegation. Can any family were placed in the grave.
and the grant of Tariff autonomy, nothing reflecting upon the Council then, the matter of molestation by branch of sport be singled out for
Other floral tributes were sent etc. The Legations, and Foreign or its officers. The Shanghai Muni- the pickats may be regarded as larly free from quarrels, deserved
special mention as being particu-by the following:
Governments and legislators were cipality refused to accept the orders Mr. and Mrs. D. Templeton, Mr. bombarded with having been satisfactorily adjust
protests and of the Diplomatic Body on this oce ed. The Canton authorities have been taught by a simple demon stration that if they are either unable or unwilling to police the river and to place an effectual ban on the illegal activities of the pickets that duty will be exeout ed for them by the British Navy
interests of in, the
British
or undeserved? The scope being and Mrs. T. Grimshaw, Mr. and demands from Chinese and mis-casion, and were supported for their too small, professionalism exists Mrs. Wm. Ironside, Mr. and Mrs. sionary sources, Tale intensivo objections by the British, Cougul in only the minority of forms of A.R.H. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. propaganda produced results which General. Later in the year an in- sport, We cannot lay the blame Barclay, Mr. and Mrs. at the door of the paid player but Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. A. Craig, Senator Borah (Chairman of the ion of American. British and James encouraged the Chinese extremists vestigation was held by a Commia- is the amateur also free from Mr. W. D. Bell and family, Mr. and Foreign Relations Committee of the Japanese Judges, all of whom blemish ? Governing bodies are Mrs. G.. F. Bird, Mr. and Mrs. Senate) was reported in the middle found that the shooting was in the ing of weirdly worded rules. Dis-Smith and family, Mr. and Mrs, abolition of Extraterritoriality; and the American Judge considered that constituted to construe the mean Boulton and family, Mr. and Mrs. of June to have advocated the early circumstances unavoidable, though cipline must be enforced even on G. A. Burn, Mr. and Mrs. W. Kerr, reply to a protest from the the Police Commissioner had not the playground but not the dis: Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Mackenzie, Mr American Chamber of Com had a proper appreciation of his cipline of the Prussian Army and Mrs. J. B. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Merce
at Hankow to the effect responsibility in the maintenance of With a certain amount of "give S. Amery, Mr. and Mrs. Arch. that such an attitude was "dis peace and good order within his life and British property and take" broadmindedness and Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Thirlwell tinctly untimely and calculated to jurisdiction as shown by his ab There are to be no more risks a constant endeavour to play for and family, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. embolden certain disruptive ele-sence from his station during the taken. The Canton Government the game's sake, unpleasantness Warnock, Mr. and Mrs. H. Stainfield, ments in China," he cabled back afternoon of that date" (May 30) realises the determination of the necessary to ask for a decision. Mr and Mrs. Wallace, Mr. and part of the Imperialistic trust which Inspector Everson subsequently can always be avoided even if it is Mr. and Mrs. J. Whyte and Jenny, that the American Chamber was The Police Commissioner and British Naval authorities and has There is that time-honoured re- Mrs. J. Simpson, and family, Mr. exploits the oppressed peoples of resigned, their resignations being wisely relieved them of a duty ply to "playing for the game's and Mrs. D. Austin, Mr. and Mrs. the East, especially the people of accepted with regret by the Munf that ought to have been Canton's sake which may be taken to I. C. Mair, Mr. and Mrs. John China, and now they endeavour to cipal Commeil. And the Council mean: but try to win by fair Ferguson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Pat the responsibility for the unoffered a compassionate grant to own duty many months ago. means if you can as the victory Muirhead and family, Mr. and Mrs, avoidable results on the shoulders the families of the victims of the
With the adequate policing of is the essence of competition. J. Mitchell, Mr. and Mra C. C. of others...
May 30 Speldent, which was refused. the Canton river it is natural that well ask do you play merely to family, Mr. and Mrs. G. Morrison,
Carried a step further, one may Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Dransfield and Troubles Internal The questions arising out of this It may be mentioned, in this.con-affair still remain to be settled, but a greater movement of trade be-use yourself or to try and win7 Mr. and Mrs. N. Drummond, Mr. nection, that Mr. Silas H. Strawn, a more reasonable spirit seems to tween Hong Kong and Canton The attempt to triumph, we sub-and Mrs. R. A. Ferguson, Mr. and American Plenipotentiary Delegate have prevailed on the Chinese side should be evidenced, although it mit, is the motive that sustains Mrs. James Slogy and family. Mr. to the Tariff Conference, and since the inauguration of the is too much to expect already that sport but playing the game is the and Mrs. Peoples, Mr. and Mrs. America's representative on the "Greater Shanghai" profeet by Mar-
thing
R. H. Morton, Mr. and Mr. J. Wald. Extraterritoriality Commission, who shal San Chuan-fang the pickets will altogether decert
Mrs, R. Carroll, Mrs. AJ Stock, came out to China In October, 1928, To publish detailed accounts of the streets of Canton Deprived
Messrs. K. C. Grety JH. In the course of an address deliver all anti-foreign outrages during the of a lucrative occupation on the
Simmons, F. Edwards. H. Dineley, ed at Taing Hus College, naar period under review, together with F. Clark Richmond, E. Hawell, Peking, on January 15, 1928, said the official correspondence relating river it is only to be expected that
S Hamer, F. P. Lenfesty, A, We hear much about China thereto, would require a volume-at they will concentrate, their ener
McPherran, WJ. Johnston, E. being the victim of unequal least as large as this issue of the gies to a greater degree than
Tokyo, September 14, Moore, H. Wilson, MacKechnie, W treaties; that she is being around Year Book,... In - Chapter XXVI. It is learned from an authorita Brown, M. Obrembaki.“ heretofore on preventing goods tive source that Baron Gnidebara, Harry, Florrie and Benny, Agnes,
under the heel of imperialiam; however, the reader will and what that her people are suffering from it is hoped will prove a sufletently getting down to the river and Bri apeaking separately to the Ameri- Gertia, Kathleen and Bertis, Willle the, injustices of extraterritorial compreliensive description of the tish getting into the city Minister yesterday
can Ambassador and the Chinese and Mimi, Mary, Dolly and Albert,
everta leading, up ng the Gladys, Arthur And Ivor, May and from outside. Thus, it would be Chinesa situat
digh Elija and Jakin, Gladys and ridiculous either to call the atte
Cheone Nin Justment of the river policing question a truce or to declare thr the time is ripe for TED
JAPAN'S NEUTRALITY.
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assert that.