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VIOLENT PICKETS.
Tchang Salt Gabelle Office Wrecked.
THE CANTON SPLIT.
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Borodin Denies Seeking British Help.
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The Intest. Yangtse outrage is the wrecking of the Salt Gabelle Office at Ichang because posters were removed from the gate:
The Nationalist split appears to be growing daily and it show reported that the moderates are gaining ground.
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M. Borodin, the Nationalist Government's chief adviser, has issued a statement denying that he asked for British help to secure
the release of Madame Borodin.
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CHINESE RUT.
Singapore Procession Tragedy.
POLICE STATION RUSHED.
Singapore, March 18. The police fired twice, killing six Chinese and injuring eleven, when crowds got out of band arising out the element at tending a demonstration to cele brate, the anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
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S.S. "Fatshan" To Sail To-morrow.
STRIKE CALLED OFF.
On the ground that the Kwong Trouble on the China Naviga- Yee Tong (oricklayers guild of tion ss. "Fatshan" has blown Hong Kong) was an illegal over and the boat is to sail for Society in that it hadi as insepar-Canton at 8 a.m. to-morrow.
Police action in removing twe able from its principal obfecti an illegal restraint of trade, Mr of a series of coloured posters on Justice Wood in the Summary the ship's side was referred to in Court this morning.dismissed the Saturday's report.
On Saturday afternoon, Euro- A large party of night scholars, claim of certain of its officials who marched in procession, for alleged arrears of payments peans from Mesurs. Butterfield & blocked the traffic. A European by a member of the Guild Swire's boats and from the Hong Kong, Canton & Macao Steamboat police inspector and two con- (Tsang Kam-ch!).
Co., Ltd.," took, the vessel to an- the front, chiefly towards the stables trying to clear the con- Anhui border. They include gestion were assaulted and com- 3,000 Russians under General Pelled to use their truncheons.
The mob later attempted to Nechaeff.
General Chang Kai-shek is said rush a police station and an to have been in negotiation with inspector was severely wounded Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, the in the head, whereupon the police reported basis being that the lat- The situation at Shanghai atter should withdraw his Russian the time of wirelessing was gen-troops to Shantung, while the erally quiet.
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Ichang Salt Gabelle Office Wrecked.
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Cotton mill employees, includ- ing those of one British mill who struck on the 10th and 11th inst., are still out.
Sun Yat-sen anniversary ob-
·servances passed off quietly, prob- ably due to the rain in spite of rumours of a one-day strike from many quarters..
"Red" Gunmen's Crimes.
SHANGHAI INCIDENT.
Possibly The Result of a Misunderstanding.
fired Reuter.
Judgment was, with costs.
A stay of execution pending a chor at Kowloon Bay. possible appeal was granted.. This morning the "Fatshan" In the course of his judgment, went back to the Steamboat Co.'s His Honour" said that he had wharf to receive cargo and pas- considered the evidence, both oral sengers for to-morrow's depar- and documentary, and assessed ture.
It is understood that the head the balance which plaintiffs could'
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***$249.92 as had been claimed.. Two of the delegates of the Union. Shanghai, March 12. On behalf of the defendant it branch on the ship have gone to On the occasion of the second had been submitted by Mr. D. Canton for instructions. anniversary of the death of Dr. McCallum that the Guild was an As the result of a meeting, the Sun Yat-sen many members of illegal Socfety on the ground that fen have called off the strike.; the Right Wing of the Kuomin-ite principal object involved an tang Purty went on a pilgrimage reasonable restraint of trade. If this was proved, plaintiffs had no right to recover,
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The rule of Common Law under. which the submission was made was that it is unlawful to fetter by agreement the freedom of any one engaged in trade as a trader or employer or workman except in
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Rugby, March 13. The newspapers report that Bri- tish troops yesterday refused to. permit a body of Shantung troopa to enter the International Settle The activities of "Red" gunmenment, Shanghai. are increasing as evidenced by The Chinese were first stopped three murders of Chinese in by British sentries, but on the at- to his old residence.in the French so far as such fetter is reasonably hai continues to be very disturbed authority on March 11, including tempt being renewed, a party of Concession to pay their respects necessary for the protection of and Red activities are growing a private detective and foreman British infantry were sent to the to the memory of their late the person seeking to impose more Intensive.
Assassins yesterday shot dead of two cotton mills and at ac-scene, and the Chinese retired lender.
such fetter upon others." countant of the Shanghai Tram- peacefully.
The party afterwards visited In order to find whether this the foroman of a Japanese cotton way Company,
Possibly the episode was the re- the headquarters. of the Left Society was an filegal one. His mill and escaped. «·
There are an increasing number A three-days' holiday has been sult of misunderstanding, since it Wing in another part of the Honour continued, it was necer- of posters in mills urging workers decreed at War haien in memory of has been clearly stated by the Concession, where a clash ensued. sary to examine the purposes for to raise immediately and seize the Sun Yat-sen, but it appears that Settlement authorities that armed Shots were exchanged, one man which the Society was formed and administrative power" and lauding there will be little enthusiasm Chinese troops are not to be per-being surfthanded and sent the means whereby it proposed to the assassination of loyal workers.. throughout the observance, mitted in the Settlement, and that to hospital. Several received effect those purposes. If either There have been no military de-
No untoward incident marked a complete neutrality between the demonstration at Ichang in mem-contending Chinese forces is, and wounds of a minor character! A of these be illegal, it might be velopments. The rain is continuous.
number of arrests were made.-necessary to examine more closely and the ory of Sun Yat-sen.
will be, maintained. - British
into the nature of the illegality Reuter. Reuter Wireless Service.
Chairvances in London.
to see whether it was of such kind London, March, 12.to taint the whole constitution of
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Bridge and British, Japanese, Chinese and the Society and make it an aon, world tourists arrived to-day other admirers of Sun Yat-sen illegal Society.
the "President assembled at the Chinese Lega-: The Guild consisted of over Euren." Mr. Bridge is a rancher tion, London, to-day and paid 5,000 members, continued His of Acamp, California, where he tributes to his memory.
Honour, but it did not comprise owns large grape vineyards. Geneva, March 13.
The Chinese Charge d'Affaires all the working bricklayers of Talking to foreign Press cor-delivered the preliminary ad- the Colony. At least one other "Going on a tour of the world, Mr. respondents after the close of the dress, standing before a sort of guild of such workmen Was R. J. Wright, an electrical engineer meetings of the Council, M. altar decorated with flowers, known to exist. According to of Cleveland, Ohio, arrived from Briand, French Foreign Minister, above which hung a portrait of the evidence of the Chairman of Shanghai on the "President Van referring to China, 'remarked that Sun Yat-sen surmounted by a the plaintiff Guild its purposes Buran" from Shanghai this morn- the League could only undertake laurel wreath."
were to organise certain festivi-ing questions which it could juridical- Sun's declaration of policy ties, to provide funeral benefits ly take up. China was divided, made on his death-bed was then for deceased members and to Asked by whom, then, an appeal read, and subsequently Mr. regulate the trade of bricklaying.
Pickets" Violence.
The Salt Gabelle. Office at Ichang was wrecked by pickets because posters had been remov- ed from the gate.
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CANTON SPLIT.
Moderates Said To Be Gaining Groundi
"Advices from Canton on March 10 confirm the split in the Kuo- mintang ranks, General Chang Kai-shek and Hau Chien (the Minister of Justice) representing the moderates and extremists, re- spectively. Matters are expected to come to a head very shortly.
CHINA AND THE LEAGUE
French Foreign Minister's Statement.
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to the League should be made and George Lansbury made a speech It was a voluntary Society. Its the rejection by the building in what conditions, M. Briand saist attacking capitalism.
affairs had been conducted un-owner of a legal award on that in principle the thing was not impossible should events take a the portrait, a band played the
After the audience had saluted methodically.
arbitration. By its language It Affording Trade Protection. endeavours to place the building turn enabling the League to c-Chinese National Anthem, and. In order to analyse the charac owner at the mercy of an cupy itself with the Chinese the "Internationale "Reuter question-Reuter,
ICHANG CLASH.
Labour Union's Absurd Demands.
Paris, March 12,
ter of the Guild.it was necessary arbitrary contractor. This rule Mecting in Paris.
to analyse its rules. After de-is detrimental to the public good. tailing these rules, His Honour it is inequitable in its conse- The anniversary of the death of said that he had no hesitation in querces. A full legitimate pro- Dr. Sun Yat-sen waa celebrated by a Communist meeting at which, deciding that the principal pur-tection for the members of the according to "L'Humanite the Pose of this Guild-to which its Guild could be designed without speakers included Kuomintang mem- other purposes were subordin- disregard of contractural obliga- This restraint is un- Further details have been re-bers who addressed the gathering inated-was to afford trade pro-tions. Changsha reports state that the ceived in Hong Kong regarding English speeches and hailed the tection to its members. This reasonable, oppressive and de- split between General Chang Ka- the recent incident at Ichang "awakening of the staves of Im- object was lawful. Combinations structive of personal liberty." shek and Tsang Sung-chi is an acwhen R
to better the conditions of labour The other question (2) was clash occurred between perialism"-Reuter.
were not unlawful In Common perhaps more difficult. Accord- Law.
ing to Halsbury "an agreement
complished fact. The latter re-stevedores and British blue* presents the Left wing of the jackets. These detalls come from Kuomintang.
an authoritative source,
Extremists Resign. "
The bluejackets were supervis- A conference of the Farty lead- ers was held at Hankow on Marching the transfer of missionaries' baggage to the steamer "Tung 10, and it is understood that Hsu Wo." This led to bad feeling Chien and Liu Wen-te (also a pro among the stevedores. minent extremist) have resigned and left Hankow. Apparently the moderates are gaining ground BORODIN'S DENIAL.
"British Intervention Not Asked.
H.M.S." “ARGUS.”
CURIOUS AIRCRAFT CARRIER
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CONVERTED MERCHANTMAN,
It became necessary to con-was vitiated if the legal and sider whether the means or any illegal parts should be so, mixed of the means by which the Guild as to be inseparable. Any dif proposed to effect: this object ficulty that he (His Honour) felt, were illegal. The only rule was due to the fact that this rule which in His Honour's opinion alone, among the regulations of Subsequently a fracas arose
could be substantially challenged the Guild seemed to be tainted between the stevedores and the
Passengers on the harbour" fer- was No. 6 which prohibited any with illegality. An amendment navy men in which a lieutenant rien have had a good view this member from completing a con- to its terms so as to include an of H.M.S. Gnat" had his armweek-end of H.M.S. "Argus," the tract made by another member in arbitration as precedent to the broken and three of the stevedores fairgraft carrier which arrived from respect of which a dispute might prohibition of workmen from were injured in the heels with Home on Saturday, having made the have arisen and be still unsettled. engaging in an uncompleted con- batons..
voyage from Portsmouth in a little Any restraint of trade in tract would, in His Honour'a The labour union later made over three weeks.cidental to other rules of the view, render the rule innocuous. demands through the Commis The ship gives the impression of Guild semed to His Honour Judgment With Costs Hankow, March 12.
sioner for Foreign Affairs, includ- tremendous bulk due to the tower plainly to be proportional to the Nevertheless, His Honour did The National News Agency ing the immediate withdrawal of ing sides, the absence of tower, advantage of members contemnot doubt that the officers of the quotes M. Borodin as saying the gunboat, the recall of the funnel and superstructure and the plated therein. Two questions Guild who framed the rule re. that he had not asked any British officer responsible, an apology immensity of the beam, arose out of this consideration garded it as one of the cardinal authority to interfere on be from the British Legation repre- The Argus is a converted (1). does it prescribe restraint matters in their genera! half of Mrs. Borodin. "The Chin-sentative, Mr. Teichman, and the merchantman, having until re which extends further than is plan. For this reason His Hon- ese people are well able to prevent payment of a preposterous indem-cently been attached to the Naval necessary for the reasonable pro- our concluded that the rule arly harm to Mrs. Borodin and nity.&
Reserve. She is of 14.450 tona tection of members of the Guild? was, in the words of Halisbury, effect her release." He denies Failing a reply within twenty, with a horse power of 20,000, hav and (2) if it does, is the rule an "so mixed up with the other that Mrs. Borodin was carrying four hours, the union said that ing a speed of a little over 20 knots, essential part of the principal provisions for the protection of military secreta to the Southern-fall responsibility would rest with The "Argus" is commanded by object of the Gaild, or is it this trade as to be inseparable
Mr. Teichmana...
Commander M. W. Boucher, D.. separable from it so as to leave from them: The trouble arose through a and captained by Lieut-Gomman- misunderstanding in which the der AR Palmer The latter's the operation of the remaining The Kwong Yee Tong therefore majority of the blame did not rest appointment came rather as of with the bluejackets. Yet at a surprise but the promotion was ye meeting of labour union leaders cornead a tribute to a hard with the Commissioner for For working and ome
Flat Commander Faimer has seg Shantung troops of superioreign Affairs and Mr. Teichman. service in command of submari quality are pouring into Nanking the labour union leaders would
droots and the sorp The majority are proceeding to (Continued on Page
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Generals to Get Rid of Kussians7+
rules inacz?the remai being an Illegal Society the offi Fenslising Butiding Owners, cers could not claim in respect of have no hesitation," said His alleged rears and judgment Honour,in answering (1) in would be with costs. the affirmative. Such a rule of Mr. FH Loseby, for the Gulld prohibition makes no reference asked for a stay of execution whateve to the marits of the pending consideration of sypéal
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