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TROUBLE ON YANGTSE.
American Ships Warned Not To Carry Britons.
TYRANNY OF THE UNIONS.
Threats to Kill Chinese In British Employ
MARINES HERE.
'Minnesota' Arrives With 1,000 Aboard.
TO LEAVE FOR NORTH.
The sa. "Minnesota," with 1,000 marinos on board; arrived in har hour at 11 am to-day and proceed. Further trouble on the Yangtse is reported in the latest navaled to buoy in midstream. wireless messages received in Hong Kong. American steamers have been warned not to carry British passengers and threats have been to kill Chinese in British employ. A strike of the A.P.C. em- made ployees is threatened.
AMERICAN STEAMERS.
Warned Against Taking British
Refugees.
The troops may be allowed ashore "stretch their legs but they will not be disembarked here for any length of time.
The "Minnesota," with the troops, will be leaving to-morrow or Friday for Shanghai.
On board the 3.a. "Minnesota" the Base Commandant of the Shanghai Defence Force (which is up to the strength of a division), Colonel H. de C. Martelli, D.S.O.,
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Sensational Shanghai Developments.
SHELLING OF ARSENAL."
French Concession and Native City Struck.
There have been sensational developments in Shanghai, where two of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's cruisers have joined the South. They fired on the Kiangnan Arsenal. Five shells fell in the French Concession and five in the Native City. The British forces are standing by.
CRUISERS FOR SOUTH.
Shells Fall Into French Concession.
and nearly all the trams running, the situation is a little brighter, despite the fact that the local shipping is virtually tied up.
tion representative, was now pro.... ceeding to Klukiang to discuss with His Majesty's consul the question of compensation.
A proclamation by the Chinese Shanghai, Feb. 23. Defence Commissioner which was The following wireless mess-
Asked by Sir Kinloch Cooke who is the "Colonel on Staff" in the
list of appointments made under Two Chinese cruisers lying in posted up at the main post office ages were received over-night by whether British subjects at Han-Major-General John Dunean, the Whangpoo above: Shanghai that any employees not returning the local naval authorities
kow would receive the same com-; Colonel Martelli was formerly a to-day were deflected from Mar to work would be executed ended Forty-eight refugees have left persation, Mr. Locker Lampson Gunner officer and his last appoint-shal Sun Chuan-fang" to the all picketing and. also brought Ichang down river in an American said that he understood that ment before coming out was as com Southerners.
back many strikers. steamer.
there was intensive looting at manding the Royal Artillery (dom- They fired on Marshal Sun Executions which are The pilots have been intimidat-Kiukiang which was not the case rising the 61st. 52nd and 3rd Chuan-fang's Kiangnan Arsenal tinuing, although on a amaller
at Hankow,
Field Brigades) in the 55th (The which is almost on the boundary scale, have been effective in Threats have been made
West Lancashire) Division, of the of the French Concession Sir Kinloch Cooke interjected: Western Command at Home.
bringing back the rank and file to against American ships for carry-
"Oh, yes it was."-Reuter ing British passengers and for
The special appointments under Concession and five in the native the activities of the agitators who Five shells fell in the French work, but have greatly increased
["leading" British ships down the
Colonel Martelli, as cabled out on city, the latter killing two Chinare directing affairs from the river...
Settlement.-Reuter.
Fed.
More British Troops..
London, Feb. 22. Threat of Death.
The Secretary for War, Sir L, The Kuomintang and Labour Worthington Evans, speaking at Unions at Changsha have threat-Colchester, said that more British ened to condemn to death all in troops would reach Shanghai on British employ and all supplying, Feb. 28, March 1 and March 2, with necessities British subjects when there should be a suficient in the neighbourhood.
force to protect British lives and Coal contractors have been seiz-1 property, but if no attack were ed under the proclamation that made or life in Shanghai that fhas been issued to this effect for force would never be
supplying the Consulate.
Reuter,
The British Concession at Han- kow will be transferred to a Chin-
COMING TO CHINA,
Eighth Destroyer Flotilla's Progress.
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Port Said, Feb. 22. The Eighüly Destroyer Flotilla has arrived here and is leaving for China to-morrow--Reuter.
ese Municipality with British participation on March 15
The situationn at Hankow re- mains the same.
A.P.C. Phone Cut.. More troops have proceeded down river from Kiukiang.
The telephone service of the Asiatic Petroleum Company was cut off yesterday morning but was repaired later in the day.
A strike of A.P.C. employees is threatened.
The Soviet aeroplane which ar- rived at Kiukiang from Hankow over the week-end has left down river.
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CHIEF OF STAFF.
Lord Gort's Wonderful Record.
Jan. 26 wore
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'est. D. A. Q. M. G. Major W. W. Wagstaff (Bedford & Herts).
DAP.M. Captain J. A. Jervois "K.O.Y.LI).
Senior Chaplain: Rov, M. W. Shewell.
Officer attached to RA: Lt. Col. T. C. G. Heywood.
C.R.E. Major E. A. H. James.
Two British and two American homes were damaged, but no for eigners were injured.
Marines
are guarding the French Concession boundaries and the British troops and naval | men, are standing by.
REFUGEES IN MANILA.
Advised Not to Leave There.
con-
According to Dr. T. H. Coole, medical missionary who arrived from the trouble zone about throa weeks ago, the heads of both schools informed their teachers who left via gunboat and passer- ger vessels, that it would be all right to return, «
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Manila, Feb. 16.. Teachers in the Women's Col- Chinese refugees are pouring lege of South China and the Of the 10,000 or so troops from into the Settlement from the Na Anglo-Chinese College at Foo- used.-Home on account of the crisis intive City-Reuter,
chow, now in Manila as refugees. China, the frat batch to arrive
Not the Biggest.
who recently were requested to directly from the Old Country are Sun Chuan-fang's "holding return to their duties received on the "Minnesota,”
11 constitutes by no means the full orders by cable yesterday to re This boat was formerly the strength of the Chinese Naval main here. troopship "Zeeland" and was re-forces. named shortly before departure on Marshal Chang Tso-lin has Jan. 26.
more and bigger ships further The 1,000 Royal Marines on North than Shanghai. board waited practically a week at Other cruisers and gunboats, Gen. John Duncan's Chief of Portsmouth before embarking as nominally loyal to the North, Staff in the Shanghai Defence the "Minnesota was held up by were at Foochow until Fukien Force is Colonel Viscount Gort, fog. V.C, D.S.O., M.C., Grenadier" Guards, whose record in the field during the war was one of the most distinguished. In addition to winning the V.C, awarded two bars to the D.S.O.
M.C..he D.S.O., and
Sand "was mentioned nine times in despatches. He has been Chief Instructor of the Senior Officers" School, Sheerness, since 1928.
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was
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bónts.
Yesterday, a message received | from Mr. E. B. Price, the Ameri- can Consul at Foochow, stated that neither the legation at Pek-
of refugees now.
Bishop Brown, of the Methodist Church, at Foochow, also sent a cable to Manila refugees yester day, telling them to remain here until hearing further from him.
province Tell - Inationalist The battalior of Marines is com-hands. The attitude of these manded by Lt.Col. Gorge Carpenter. boats is now doubtful. O.B.E., D.S.C., R.M., who has been
At Canton and elsewhere in in Hong Kong before.
Kwangtung province, the Naval LE-Cal Carpenter Inst anrved at strength is confined to one obso-ring nor he approved of the return the Royal Marine Depot at Deal Helete cruiser and a number of gun recently complèted 30 years' service with the corps. He was awarded the
Hitherto the "Navy" has taken D.SC. for services during landing operations in the Persian Gulf in a very small part in China's civil 1915, Colonel Carpenter has also Wars. So-called squadrons, and Been service in China. From 1905 flotillas have been boasted by the According to a writer in a Home
to 1907 he was musketry instructor faction with which they have re Upon receipt of the communica- paper, Lord Gort is a descendant! at Hong Kong.
mained until prospects of a more tion from the heads of the two of John Vereker one of the 49 off-
Hagb crowds extending three prompt paymaster were found. institutions, gossip in refugee cers deprived of commissions by miles long said enthusiastic fare- History Repeated.
circles indicated that several pos- Cromwell for Royalist sentiments.wells to the Marines who marched In his break with General Chan sibly would return to their posts "went over to Ireland, preferring singing and whistling. "The 49," says Lord Orrery, with bunda playing and the men Kwing-ming in June, 1922, the Pt Foochow in a few days. The late Dr. Sun Yat-sen claimed the messages received yesterday from the hazard of their lives once There are also on board the same control of the first Northern Mr. Price and Bishop Brown, country." more before the servitude of their ship two fights of the Royal Air Cruiser Squadron (then at Wham- however, indicate that no return Force; additions to the flying poa) but only his flagship remain of missionaries to Foochow will To-day's Lord Gort, too, has strength out here, and also 80 Naval ed loyal to him-after his bom-be made for some time. "hazarded" his life, as his V.C.ratings, these being reliefs for the bardment of Canton-and the and his D.S.O. with two bars. in-
China Station.
Fother boats gradually stolo, away When the "Minnesota" left Ports-to form the nucleus of Marshal dicate. When he cannot get fight- mouth on Jan. 26, there was A ing he loves yachting.
rousing farewell. unparalleled even Chang Tso-lin's fleet, now directed Mention of Lord Gort reminded during the great war, Friends and by General Chang Tsung-chang of a milltary friend of an incident relations thronged the quayside and Shantung. which happened during the Great the marines rushed down the gang- With the lead given them, it is War. This man had under his ways and hugged their wives and not improbable that the remain. command a Ford box car, and was sweethearts, Three bands played ing units of Sun Chuan-fang's "In the House of Commons, using it to get to St. Sixte, where lively airs, the marines and their naval arm will also go over to the
farewellers roaring the choruses: asked whether the Shanghai com- Capt. G. M. Garro Jones (Liberal) the 19th Corps was stationed, Finally the ship East off to the Cantonese who will find them when he was stopped by a young strains of Auld Lang Syne" amid very useful for minor actions on been authorised to colonel, who asked him to give a wonderful demonstration conclud- the Yangtse River. résist the entry of any Chinese him a lift, and this with Staff carsing with cheers for the ship and
counter-cheers from the quayside. forces victorious or defeated, into thick on the road!" Shanghai. Capt. Douglas King, Financial Under-Secretary for War, replied it was not in the public interest to disclose the in- atructions given to the G.O.C..
Col. J. C. Wedgwood (Labour) enquired the cost of the Shanghai Defence Force and whether a con- tribution would be obtained from the beneficiaries there.
SHANGHAPS DEFENCE...
ti
Contribution From Beneficiaries Suggested,
mander had
London, Feb. 22.
He allowed the colonel to climb into the back of the car, and so carried Viscount Gart hunched up. on hia, way to see the Earl of Cavan.
Some folk say that Lord Gort has won more medals than any other British officer, but I am not repeating this as truth infallible.
Besides yachting in summer, he usually spends his Christmas holidays at St. Moritz, where he
AMERICA'S POLICY.
President Urged To Negotiate Independently.
LATEST NEWS.
4.4.
SUN NOW OUT OF THE
WAR.
DEFENCE OF SHANGHAI
Shanghal, Feb. 23.
EARLIER MESSAGES.
The Housing of Troops In Shanghai,
Shanghai, Feb. 22.
AMOY STRIKE.
WILL THE PRESENT TROUBLE SPREADT
Conflicting reports reach the Colony about the possibility of a general strike at Amoy
Beyond the report that "tramp" cargo-bosts (.e., those plying for hire in the port), are idle, there is no indication of any change. cording to the best Bources.
ac-
informed
la also gathered that negotia- tions are in hand to end this specific dispute..
However, private Chinese cables hint at an under-current of agita- tion which may nullify the efforts of negotiators. One report to a local The Suffolks have landed and | fzm goas so far as to say that only are occupying the quarters of the Punjabis on the racecourse. The latter are leaving for Hong Kong this afternoon.
The problem of providing space. for British troops here which threatened to become: acute, has been satisfactorily solved. To
Chinese steamers will be worked and that all foreign vessels will be boycotted.
SOME DRIZZLE.
The weather report issued this morning by the Royal Observatory states:-Pressure has decreased
Capt. King replied that the cost would be dealt with in the forth coming supplementary estimate.
"excels In.. winter sports, and he Chang Tsung-chang entered He declined, in spite of Col. Wedg. also takes a great interest in the Nanking to-day and assumed convert possible protzats from other sonsiderably over N.E. Japan and wood's pressure, to make a state-
theatre. He once told me that one trol of the city by arrangement rationals against troops being slightly over 8 China. It has in- ment as regards a contribution of his ambitions was to write a with San Chuan-fang. Arrange- from the beneficiaries.
successful play, ****
ments are being made for the quartered in international pro- creased considerably over S.W. Fengtien troops taking over and Perty, so far only British pro Japan, moderately over the Loo choos and slightly over Formosa. garrisoning the railway south Perty has been used.
Yesterday the British Consul! It is nearly stationary over the of Nanking, thus enabling General applied to the municipal. Philippines. the Northern Army, approximat-ity for permission to use the Jess- NE. of Japan.
The depression has moved to the ing 30,000 men, which is at prefeld Park. The municipality not The anticyclone is probably mov. sent entering Nanking being only agreed but intimated that all ing saatward." rapidly thrown into the defence of municipal property auch. 28 Shanghai, Indicating that Sun le schools, etc., would be placed at now practically eliminated as a the disposal of the defence force factor Router.
required-Reuter.
Hong Kong, rainfall for the 24 Executions Continue.
bours anding at 10 am. to-day, 9.00 inch Total since January 1, Shanghai, Feb. 22.
4.60 Inches, against an average; of It is estimated that there are
2.77 inches, Merke still 100,000, labourers atrikfag, Forecast for the 24 hours ending but with a partial resumption of at noon- to-morrow ----N-E./ winds, the postal service, with all the fresh, overcast, some drizzle or International Settlement buses mit.
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Losses From Looting. Mr. G. Locker Lampson (Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs); replying to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour leader, said that the agreement signed at Hankow on Feb. 19 as regards the Kiukiang Concession provided that if any direct losses due to
Washington, Feb. 21. nctions or the culpable negligence The "House of Representatives of Nationalist agents had been by 259 to 44 votes passed a resolu suffered by British subjects in the tion recommending President recent disturbances at Klukiang, Coolidge to negotiate with China such loases would be compensated"Independently of other nations." by the Nationalist Government. The resolution has been sent to!# Mr. Locker Lampson added that the Senate-Reuter's American | Mr. O'Malley' the British Lega... Service.
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