TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1927.
DEFENCE FORCE.
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SINGAPORE TRAGEDY.. Offcial Report From Straits Governor.
London, March 14.. In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. F. W. Pethick.
RIVER PIRATES.
Latest Reports From the
Sze Yap.
SEDITIOUS LITERATURE SEIZED.
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From Our Own Correspondoni,]| Pakka Kongmoon, March 12, Anti-Nationalist documenta Lawrence, Mr. L. M. S. Amery, falleged to have been bized by a Secretary of Colonies, read the military expedition into a robber Governor's report of the disturb-stronghold at Namaha.
ance at Singapore on the occasion of the celebration of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, stating that mol attempted to rush the police, Who were compelled to fire. Seven Chinese were killed, and fourtcon wounded. One European inspec tor of police, four native police and one native tram conductor were wounded. The town is now quigt.
Mr. Pethick-Lawrence asked would it not have been possible to disperse the mob without the use of lethal weapons.
Mr. Amary said he presumed those considerations were in the mind of the police.
My Oswald Mosley Labour) asked whether, no other warning had been giver before the firing. Mr. Amery said he presumed so, but he had no information on the point.--Retter. ¿
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POLICE OFFICER MOBBED.
Civil Authorities "Beaten tip."
The soldiers had been sent to
and up the outlaws but the latter were not "at home," having gone out to plunder.
Evidently there was something i wrong with the intelligence corps of the military, but they made amends by finding the literature without, having to fire a shot.
There has been a split in the Teng of pirates.
famous" Kwangtung į camp of the
Three leaders his own branch. have now sprung up, each leading
"Phantom" Black Launches. Kwanghol city has been quiet ever since the siege and the capture of the notorious bandit, Chan Chuk" sum. It is now learned, however, (that small roving banda have beep (attacking small villages (vicinity of Kwonghof during thei
lust two weeks.
the
Anxiety is felt locally at the ap pearance of the two black launchos at: Gaemoon. Some Kongmoon "bonts mad these "phantom pirates. from a long distance and immediate- Phy put back to part.
The local naval authorities have receivedy the following, Wireless messages:-
Generals Wang Fu and Chien Chang-ng are reported to have left Wuhu, for Tuiping-fu, taking most of the troops with them.
All the civil authorities have either left or else been in the actual words of the message); "Beaten up."
The City is in the hands of] "some kind of Kuomintang" andiaj Commished at present..
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The law Courts there are- re- ported to have been entered and the 2nd Police Officer dragged] through the streets,
The Senior Police Officer Kas vanished.
SHANGHAI INCIDENT,
Chinese General Visits General Duncan.
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Shanghai, Mar. 15. General Pi Shou-chen called on General Duncan and in the course of a friendly conversation it came out clearly that the altempt of his i troops to enter the Settlement last Saturday was due to a misunder-. standing.
Genel Pi Shou-chen stated his desire and ability was to maintain! law and order in the Shanghai area Reuter,
LOOTING LOSSES. „
Distributing the Nationalist Compensation.
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London. March 14. In the House of Commons, replying to Mr. H. W. Looker (Conservative). Sir Austen Cham- bérlain Foreign Secretary, said that the Government would dis- tribute among the British sub- jects who had Sustained damage"] owing to the leating at Kiukiang the money paid by the Nationalist] authorities a compensation in this respect.Reuter.
MR. CHEN'S THREAT.
Home Secretary and Moscow.
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A plain warning that the Gov- ernment intends to protect British
nationals in China, whatever the result of the negotiations regard- ing treaty rights muy be, was given by the Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson-Hicks, in a mess- age.read at a Twickenham (Mid- diesex) meeting.
Owing to his recent liness Sir William is not at present allowed to-address public meetings, and his son read the message, in the course of which the Home Secre lary wrote:-
Anti-British Campaign."
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of the party at the Enlarged Plenary Session of the Eexecu- tive Committee of the Com- munist International: " is perfectly clear that we musi now concentrate the principal and central attack 02 people of the Chinese
ists
of
the Kuomintary *and the Communist Party into a war against foreign Imperial during the great English strike, during the great China revolution OUT party ... hew shown it- self in the forefront.”\x
Karakhan's Speech, Karakban, ex-Ambassador of Moscow, and now again in China, addressed a meeting at Vladivostock at which he said: "We do not attempt to convince China to emfark upon Socialist activities and to organise a So- viet Republic. We are merely saying. You are being robbed: oust the robbers. I think that, this policy of encouraging and assisting by advice based on our owir experience, taking advan- tage of which the Chinese might more effectively and speedily expel the Imperialists from their native country-this policy will not be changed:"{
The anti-British direction of the movement manifested it- self in a series of labour strikes affecting British. concerna which culminated in a boycott, of British goods, at Canton. Thereafter the Nationalist Can- to.se forces occupied Hankow.
Hankow Gesture."
In view of the fact that the Success of any conciliatory policy might be endangered if resort were had to, defence by force, the concession was tem porarily abandoned. Whether this gesture will have the effect of bringing home to the Chinese the sincerity of our assertions! that we are willing and anxious to negotiate a revision of existi ing treaties remains to be cren. The gesture cannot be re- peated, and if the threatened advance on Shanghai involves a repetition of what occurred at! Hankow, the Government have
no alternative but to take auch steps as lie within their power
to protect the lives and pro. perty of British subjects in that city. :
While our diplomatists are negotiating with Mr. Chen he does not hesitate, in a telegram: to the Labour Party here, to utter threats and to speak of Government with;
the very which he is negotiating in any- thing.. but amicable. terms. Such actions do not make for the smooth passage of negotia- tion.
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EARLIER MESSAGES.
Worker and Cigarette. Factories.
THE CHINA MAIL
HANKOW INTRIGUE.
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blind the people, to make them their tools, and to eliminate those whose ideas are not in common with their own.
To Uphold Authority,
As chairman of the Central Executive Committee and the Political Committee of the Kuo- mintang. I will see to it that my duty in preventing the authority of the Kuomintang and the Na tionalist Government from being broken or influenced by any
General E Chai-sum, comman.... der-in-chief at Canton.
selfish person or persons is car- ried out. This is also a respon- sibility in which every member of the Kuomintang has a share. Let me ask those who advocate the principle of uplifting and cen- tralising the nuthority of the Kuomintang whether they can tell me who has reduced the au- thority of the Kuomintang? Can they tell me where its authority has been broken that they want to" centralise it?
A Second Napoles." "Furthermore, certain persons allege that the Nationalist Gov- ernment is being directed towards an autouratie tendency and they
Dental Chang Fah-hui, who awson to power following the Kuomintang conference at Han- kow.
fear that a second Napoleon will make his appearance in China. Others say that the Central Ex- ecutive Committee is the highest committee and that there is no other equivalent in power to it. I do not understand what this
other committee is or what it indicates........
"There can be no other com- mittee equivalent in powers to the Central Executive Committee be.
It is unfortunate, and not a little peculiar, that the Chinese Nationalists' anti-foreign bias) should have directed mainly against the British. For this it seems, certain the Soviet Gov-]: ernment are largely responsible. It is only necessary to read the
Shanghai, March 14.. published utterances of some of A delayed telegram from Han- the responsible Russian leaders[kow, dated March 10. states that to see that the Soviet je wishful the workers of the British. Cigar- to help the Nationallets in the ette Company, which closed down) move against foreignera gen- their factories on July 9 owing to erally, and it may reasonably be the unreasonable attitude of the assupied, in the light of Rus-funion leaders and the generally nian propaganda in this country unsettled conditions, are threaten cause it will impair the central and elsewhere in the Empire, ing to take over and control power. In case there is one, it is that their efforts have been the establishment unless the the joint conference in Hankow," directed against Great Britain management re-opens. Early which has no historical back- in particular.
this morning the employees ground and which they advocate entered one factory and started as a higher authority. If they To quote two instances:-up the boilers, but when want to uplift the authority of Bukharin, one of the leading the whistle blew for starting work the Kuomintang, they chould and members of the Political only the mechanics responded. At must first plve this Confer Bureau of the Communistin later meeting, the workers ap-ence as
Cases in Point.
Party, which is the real con-pointed 2% directors to make plans trolling organ of Government in and raise capital to run the fac. Russia, said at the conference torki “Reuter
General Chan Ming-shu, sald to have left Hankow because of pro-Chứng Kai-shek tympathies.
Committee and the Cen
ecutive Committee, it was decided to dissolve the Joint Conference at Hankow and, instead, to form: a political committee but thesa | people insist that the Joint Com- inittee should be upheld. They have, therefore, defed the au- thority of the central authority of the Kuomintang?.....
"There are people who say that the Kuomintang" is directed to wards an antocratic tendency. but. I do not know who this autocrat
ROYAL NAVY.
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entered it asking other nations to consider our special difficulties in the same way that we should un-" doubtedly respect and consider theirs." (Cheers).
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There were special circum- stances with regard to the British is to be or who he is taken to be. Navy which were totally differ- "If they mean that the comont from those of any other coun mander-in-chief (Gan, Chiangtry. Our obligation was to main himself) is an autberat, they are tain our entirely wrong. and far misled. strength with any other Power,. flect at equal_naval The commander-in-chief possesses and to provide reasonable secur no authority of his own but what ity for safeguarding trade and has been granted to him by the communications: Central Executive Committee of
The only chance of success for the Kuomintang and the Nation- the conference was that the Pow alist Government. He has been erg entering it, were perfectly appointed and become comman-frank with each other, and said der-in-chief by mandate of the why they wanted the strength Government and in accordance they wanted: with the Kuomintang principles and rules of order.
He hoped France and Italy would reconsider the question and join in after all. (Cheers).
He expressed the" opinion, that be achieved without risking the very considerable progress could obligations which the Admiralty and Fleet must carry out.......
"You May Shoot Me." "I believe that Mr Hsu Chien and only Mr. Hau Chien is an huto- crat. He has taken over the chair manship of the Joint Conference in Hankow to himself and he has attempted to direct the Govern-Reuter. ment. Aside from Mr. Hau Chien and his Joint Conference in. Han- kow, there is no other man or or ganisation in the Kuomintang is autocratic.
America and France.
Paris, March 14.
A further effort to persuade France to participate in Fresident "I am the chairman of the Coolidge's disarmament confer- Political Committee of the Kuo-ence is being made by the United mintang. Any of you may ask States Government, who handed the members of this committee the Ministry of Foreign Affairs a whether any resolution in the Note replying to France's objeq minute books expresses my soletions. whil
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"If I am an autocrat. then you can regard me as an enemy of the Kuomintang and not a follower of the late President Sun Yat-sen. You inay punish me then in accordance with the law or shoot me If you think lific
Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MA UL"
Entertainment.
March
16 Queen's Theatre;
Theatre
"The Circle."
March 15--Worl "Classified."
March 15-Star Theatre; "The Woman Conquers," "The Lover of Camille."
March 17-Musiele at Helens 34ny Institute.. 5.30 p.m.
March 19-Concert, and dance at City Hall, given by Morrison Hall, (University Hostel, members,
p.m.
The Note which concluded by inviting France to be represented in some way" at the proposed conference, intimates that each participating Power could come with a programme which seems it to it and points out that the conference so far from injuring can only help the League of Na sions which is at present con- sidering disarmament problems.—— Reuter.
Interesting Suggestion.. Mr C G Ammon (Labour); pleaded for a naval holiday. Hei described "the reorientation of the Navy in Eastern waters” as a danger to world peace.
Comdr. Kenworthy suggested that at the forthcoming disarma- ment conference the three prin- cipal naval Powers should enter a convention for mutual assistance: in the event of unprovoked ag- gression.
Japan might agree to safeguard our sea route in the Pacific, and we to safeguard Japan's trade route in the Mediterranean.
In the
March, 19The Hong Kong
same way America LA.DC. presents the brilliant might safeguard our trade routes comedy by Frederic Lonsdale, "The in the West Atlantic, while we Last of Mrs. Cheyney" at the Thea- guaranteed the Mediterranean. tre Royal. 9.15 p.m.
March 21 & 22-astha Heifetz at the Queen's Theatre. 9.30 p.m.
Sport.
March 26--Annual Athlette Sports meeting of HK. University at Pok- ffulam.
Monti,
March: 15-MithLevel Residents Assen. Meeting. Ladies' Recreation Club, Peak Road,. 6 p.m.
March 18-Annuri meeïing of the Focisty of St. George, Hong Kong, in the Bhart Room of Messra, Jar | dine, Matheson & Co., Ltd; 5.30 p.m..
"Mana ungu 1
Comdr. C. Bellairs (Conserva- tive) suggested that Japan might The given an expansion of territory if she agreed to disarm.-Reuter.
Estimatea Passed.
Later.
After a Labour amendment" to reduce the Navy's personnel had been rejected by 250 to 91 votes the Navy Estimates were agread to: Reuter.
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