SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1926.
DANGER TO CANTON?
DISSENT IN KUOMINTANG" FOLD..."
Victory May Be Sacrificed:
TAKING STOCK OF THE WAR ON EVE OF WINTER.
By "
Chung-yin."]
Factors other than the relasive strength of his opponents age barring the progress of General Chang Kai-shek'in his endeavour to convert the whole of China Proper to Nationalism by force of arms.
Cold weather has begun to set in on the Central China war zones. Indications of a la are not lacking and it may be next spring before a decision is arrived cat us to whether there will be only one government for the whole country.
Beyond an interest as to when it will all end to a penectul and prosperous Ching, Hong Kong is not interested Whether the Kuomintang, Sun. Choan-fang, or the Fengtien party wins the day is no citeer of the man in the
street.
Is History to be-Repealed? As the Southerners have lost some of the tre of their ambition. it is time to take.stock. Eventure "to predict that the Cantonese will make no serious effort by actual hostilities. So axend their scope any further until the win- ter is over.
THE CHINA MAIL.
INSPECTION POWERS, should detain him and send kim uhder escort to the judicial sec-
APPLICATION OF CANTONtion of the Department for the Pursuit of Smugglors and the Protection of Merchants, for
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OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE examination.
The following correspondence has been forwarded by the ernment for publication-
CATHOLIC FEAST.
SPECIAL MUSIC FOR THE CATHEDRAL,
"WORLD" INAUGURAL..
VT. The Inspection Corps may, in the course of their examina Gay-tien, require travellers or cap- tains, of ships and other respon-
The local Roman Catholic epm- foribly officials to answer every kind munity, in common with their co- of question: The form of ques religionists throughout the world, tions to be asked, and the answersstitution of a new festival, the
will celebrate to-morrow the in- | required will be determined later. Feast of Jesus Christ, King,
The Feast of the Regality of VII. In view of the necessity of Jesus Christ has been introduced having somewhere to carry put into the Roman Calendar by the Corps may establish examination lions of petitions received from their examinations, the Inspection presont Pontiff in response to mil offices which will be located as various countries, including those
from 578 bishops. 1. The Bund,
Examination Offices.
From Acting Minister Foreign Affairs. Canton.
To H.M. Consul-General
October 20, 1926. Sinar in receipt of a letter from the Minister of Finance fending as follows:- "Another fretor which reminds sources of revenue and putting, a With a view to protecting the me of the times of the Tai Pings stop to all forms of illegal act and Gordon is Chang Kai-shek'vity, this Minister has establish-under- abrupt turn to the easty instead of ed an Industrial Corps for the pushing due dorth. Will Sunexamination of the goods of pas- Chuan-fang prove the Gordon to.
sengers en all incoming and' out- his aspirations?
going trains and steamers in Canton and district. It is re- quested that you will inform all Consular representatives accord- fingly..
That remains to be seen.
AllImportant Line.
(1)-
If as military observers have hold on till the severe winter is reported, the Cantonese are to
A copy of the Inspection Corps over, they may be at a disadvan-examination regulations is age when they attack again nex: plowed.
I have the honour to inform you accordingly, and to transmit to you a copy of the regulations in question,
yetir
Reference to the map will be use. On Front "No. 1 Genere Yang Sea is still-or, was a few I days ago-marching down the
Yangtse
The thickly dotted line running.
·Vantage
I have, 28.
(Sd.) Ch'en Yu-jen. The Regulations
2. Honam topposite Canton): 3. Bocca Tigris.
4. Taishan (Kowloon).
3. Shumchun (Hong Kong
frontier). Should the
Elaborate preparations have been made for the fitting obser vance of this occasion and large congregations are expected at all the local Catholic Churches to morrow. There will be a genera!
nien in all the Churches in additional examination offlers may the chief cervices in connec
necessity arise, an ery hpurs of the morning. be established with the consent on with the cagbration will be of the Ministry of Finance. held the C bedru! at 3 30a.m...; VIII. The rules and expenses when the Rt. Rev. Henry Valtorta, connection with the examina-ishop of Lares and Visar Aposto tion offices will be determined tic of Hong Kong. will officiate ater by the Ministry of Finance, at Solitam High Mass, and at 4
IX. The
officials appointed! pm, when there will be a Pro- H hends.
of the
(sub-cession of the Blessed Sacrament
sidiary) inspection corps willarded the Cathedral. be under the orders of their respective superior officers:
due north from Canton denotes: 1. With a view to protecting the imaginary route Chang Kai- the sources of revenue and put- she has followed. Taking adting a stop to all forms of illegal of hostilities in other activity, the Ministry of Finance has established an Inspection Corps for the examination of the goods of passengers on all out. Seventy years ago, a Southern
going and incoming trains and adventarer dramatically conquer: "I do not scribe to him the steamers in Canton and district.
The ugly head of dissent has regions. Yang Sen is reputed to of the Nationalist Government in connetion with their corps. music for the occasion which will |
neared its head in the NationaHst raziks.
On the
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ed half of the country. first flush of success he moved rapidly northwards. Instead of making for Peking to drive out the Manchu Emperor he tablished his own court at Nam-- king, on the southern Bank of the Yangtre River, a Bttle above Shanghai.
Too Many Generals.
1.
„A number who joined the nibel, Cause were made Princes by the Tai Ping Thief bado. Nothin could stop them at first but when they started Raaurelling among themselves, the foreign legion recruited in Shanghai by the 'Monarchy, and afterwards led by the late General Gordon of Khartoum, hud Ettle difficulty in crushing the rising.
Chang Kai-shek drove all be- fore him if the earlier ages of the campaign. Ahol a dozen leaders have been created: gen- erals in his army. Oter these 'new corps, he has not the direct .control that he has over the seven-
original detachments.
Got What They Wanted. By their attitude in the last few weks and by their apparent preference to consolidate their positions. General Tang Sang-chi and General Liu Tso-long have lent colour to the rumours that they would fight no more, having got what they sought when they espoused the Kuomintang cause.
Tang Sang-chi was "pretender". to the tuchunship of Hunan pro- vince. Wa Pei-fu's subordinates: drove him into Kwangtung till Chang Kai-shek took up the cudgels. on his behalf. The result is history.
Hunan was subdued. Pushing .on, the, Nationalists wrenched Hupeh province from Wu Pei-fu. Significant Pact.
At the start of the Cantonese Expedition, Tang Sang-chi was. appointed commander of the 8th Nationalist Army. In the assault on Hanyang, Liu Tso-lung turned over to the Southerners afid be- came the General of the 15th Army.
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From a few thousand troops each these two leaders have added to their strength. Tang is said to have 30,000 men and Liu about half that number.
They are accused, according to several sources, of having entered into a pact by which Lin will allot to himself the province of Hupeh (where he was at the beginning) and Tang will take Hunan (the prize he originally coveted.)
be making for the centre of that all-important line...
Wu Pei-in's. Part.
WHERE THE RIVAL FACTIONS CLASH.
HONAN
LLANHUL
222/2
HUPEH
Hanikou
Hanyan
Yochow Changisha
HUN AN
KWANGSE
3 "Nanchang
3
KIANGSI
KWANGTUNG
FUKIEN
Hong Kong
This rough sketch map of South and Central China will assist non-Chinese in understanding the situation. Names of provinces are in capitals. The river running right across in the Yangtae. Four provinces are now held by Canton, viz., Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Hunan and Kupeh. Marshal Sun Chuan-fang is head of the five federated provinces of Kiangsu, Anhui, Chekiang, Klangsi and Fuksien. Marshal Wu Pei-fu holds just that portion of Honan province shown in the map. General Yang Sen, (Wu Pei-fu's professed ally) is in Szechuan
in the left top
The arrows, denote in which direction the Allies hard sent troops' to fight the Southernery.
The 1's are the front on which Yang Sen.is trying to get down to cut the Cantonese line at Changsha and Yochow.
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The 'w denote where Wu Pel·ľu in" counter-attacking "the Cantonëse out- posts.
The 3's show the Klangsl front where Sun Chuan-fang: is hoping to break through to reach. Wuchang and Hankow,
2.
The 4's are on the Kwangtang-Fukien border, where the Nationelists have crossed the frontier and defeated the Northerners,
Local Services. for the carrying out of all duties organist, has arranged special Father Riganti, the Cathedral
X. in view of the fact that include Mauri's beautiful Mass in there will be correspondence to D Major (for the Pontifical High. Write and various matters to deal Mass), Caudana's "Lauda Sion" with, the Inspection Corps may which will be sung by a mixed: engage clerks, whose number shall choir before be reported to the Department which has been erected in the a temporary altar for the Pursuit of Smugglers and Cathedral compound, and from protection of merchants for ap-which Benediction will be given- proval.
XI. These regulations shall"Tantam Ergo Sacramentum," and a new setting for the hymn come into force from the date of which has been composed by promulgation..
Father Riganti himself.
The Ministry of Finance may revise the foregoing regulations as the occasion demands.
The afternoon service will com- mence with the Rosary in the Cathedral A procession will fol. low around the Cathedral to the temporary altar for Benediction,. From Acting Minister for after which the Bishop will preach Foreign Affairs.. Canton..
Opium Smuggling.,
To: His Majesty's Consul-Gen- eral.
October 23, 1926.
in the Cathedral..
A special committee appointed! for the occasion has carried out an elaborate scheme of decoration, Sir, am in receipt of a letter and weather permitting, the from the Ministry of Finance stat. pecasion should be an historic one ing that communication had the history of the Cathedral. been received from the. Opium
There will be High Mass at St. Suppression Bureau pointing out Joseph's Church at 10 o'clock. that the West River was an im with a sermon in English by Fr. portant artery of communication Riganti. Immediately following between Kwangtung and Kwangai this service the Bishop will give and a pivot of commercial interBenediction. course. An examination office
Christ as King..
had already been established at In the course of his Pastoral Dosing for the purpose of putting Letter dated October 10, hisi a stop to smuggling. Hokow, in lordship states:- the lower reaches of the West. "As the Pope points out in his River, was also a place of import- Encyclical Letter, the evils that ance from the point of view of the have ever afflicted and now afflict transport of goods and an addi-human society have always come tional examination office should be from the fact that many have established there in order that by tried to exclude Jesus Christ from means of inspection all loopholes the life of the individual as well might be closed up. Mr. Liu Yies of society and wanted to ea tu had already been appointed tablish a social order independent head of Hokow Examination of the law of Christ. They have Office and would shortly establish tried again and again, and have the office in question and com-aways. failed to succeed, because mence examination. An announce they cannot hope to enjoy a true) ment to this effect had also been and lasting peace and order unless circulated.
they acknowledge the supreme All steamers of, whatever na dominion of Jesus Christ over tionality must, on arrival at the mankind. They are now trying examination offices established by it once more, after having seen the Ministry of Finance, stor for the horrors of the last world war examination before they will be and its millions of victims, and allowed to pass, and they must not they have started a League of attempt to force their way past in
Nations with the very praise- worthy intention of doing away notification to this effect had been
with wars in future. Will they II. The Inspection Corps will circulated, and this Ministry is re-
Uulese succeed?
they accept be under the direct control of the quested to inform all Consular Christ and His law of love. Ministry of Finance Department representatives accordingly with real practical love one, towards for the Pursuit of Smugglers and a view to the necessary instruc. the other, they are again doom- the Protection of Merchants, and tions being issued to the merchanted to failure, always and every will be constituted, after the man vessels of their respective nation where. We may have revolution ner of the Merchants' Protection alities.
or bolshevism" or war, but never Corps, into one main corps, with I have the honour to observe the peace we desire. three secondary corps under it.
that traffic in opium has been long Christ be acknowledged as our "We must then work that III The duties of the Inspec.regarded by all nations as a thing tion Corps are set forth here which should be stopped, and the Supreme King. He is to rule in under:-
examination at present carried our minds because He is the out at the office established at Truth; He is to rule in our will Dosing in the interior is being because He is Holiness and Good- done in accordance with the authness; He is to rule in our hearts ority of the administration.
because He is Love, He is the I have accordingly the honour to re- Sacred Heart. Such a kingdom, quest, that you, will instruct all with Christ as King, is indeed the foreign merchants (of your na-ply possible reign of universal tionality) to comply with the love and real universal brother- above.
bood.
noble motive of restoring his All duties in connection with the leader (Wa Pei-fu) but if he gets said examination will be carried any further, then the two Gen-out in accordance with the pro-contravention to this ruling.
erals who are said to prefer peace to fighting will certainly offer resistance as their immediate holdings will be at stake.
In the North, Wu Pei-fu is still trying to extend his scope back to Hankow but has not met with a great deal of success against the Cantonese outposts at the end of the dotted line. He is forced to do as he is hemmed in by so-called allies further north. Operations on this front (No. 2 in the map) 'may continue as Wu Pei-fu's men are used to cold weather.. <
No Immediate Danger, but The heaviest fighting has been on front No. 3, usually referred to as the Kiangsi front. Sun Chuan-fang is still trying to eject Chang Kai-shek from the footing he has gained there and his effort. is mainly directed towards
Cadets Not Invincible. Their plan is aaid not to go as far as deserting Chang Kai-shek, Wuchang, by way of the Yangtse but to be a principle of not fight-River. ing elsewhere for Canton's benefit.
Cantortese have Won several
Troope which won honours in Frent No. 4 has only recently this war have now become tired come into the picture where the men. The Cadets do not now inspire the awe they used to do, when the mere mention of their name struck terror into the hearts of an enemy,
'
That they are not invincible is evident from the severe defeat in- "flicted on them by Chan Kwing
ming, on the East River, shortly 'before his last debacle.
A New Gordon?
vctories and appear to have the stuation well in hand. 1
Is Canton then in danger of defeat? There is, no prospect of immediate danger on the horizon but some of the fruits of victory may have to be sacrificed.
And that means that the cam- paign will be a long one.
It is notified that, at the expira- If auch da the present position, tion of three months from date, The a reason becomes obvious for the China National, Tobacco Company, 'Nationalists throwing out Army Limited, and the Nani King Ree- ..commanderships to all and sun-taurant, Limited, will, unless cause dry. Some of the twenty or '80 is shown to the contrary, be struck generals on the list have not more of the register of companies and than a bare staff loyal to them. the companies will be dissolved.
visions of these regulations."
1. Matters connected with the searching of outgoing and Incoming steamers...
2. Matters connected with the searching of incoming and outgoing trains.
3. Matters connected with the examination of passengers or their luggage.
4. Masters connected with the examination of passengers" documents or passports.
5. Matters connected with the examination, of all goods., imported into and exported from Canton.
6. Matters connected with the examination of all contra- band goods.
Detention Proviso.
I have etc.,
(Sd) Ch'en Yu-je.
A
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