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YANGTSE DANGERS.
Outlook Uncertain and Menacing.
EVACUATION PROCEEDING.
Consuls and Warships Being Withdrawn.
The Yangtse outlook is described as uncertain and menacing Complete British and American evacuation, Including the closing of consulates and the withdrawing of warships, is now proceeding at certain ports. This action is being taken because it is feared the situation may get out of hand at any moment.
TAKING NO CHANCES,
Why The Evacuation Is Proceeding.
The following "wireless mess- nges have been received by the local naval authorities:-
Owing to trade being at a standstill during the progress of the present Revolution and Civil War, the British and American, communities, the Consul and gun- boats are being withdrawn at Chunking because recent events have shown that the situation. may at any moment get out of hand and endanger the lives of foreigners in the zone of hostil- 'ities.
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Warning to Chinese. The women and children have already been taken away from those towns, and for the past few days, the men have been collected! in the buildings on river front.
The present decision is not due to any definite new threat.
The local Chinese authorities are being informed; and advised they will be held responsible for the safety of British property.
"
The British naval forces at the gunboats these ports are "Mantis." "Widgeon" and "Teal". at Chungking, the "Woodcock" at Changshan and the "Gnat' at Ichang
Extremist Activity.. Other information from the Yangtze is that at Chungking there is increasing extremist acti- „Americans Being Evacuated.
vity, in spite of official Chinese- The British and American com-directions to suppress it. munities, the Consul and gun- boats at Ichang also are being withdrawn after completion of the Chunking evacuation and for the
same reasons.
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British and Americans at Changsha are being withdrawn in the same way as at Chunking and Ichang.
Considerable troop movement at Hankow is reported.
The American community at Hankow is being reduced to a
minimum.
It is hoped to transfer the negotiations at Wuhu regarding the sinking of a military launch by the s.s. "Kutwo" for settle- ment at Hankow.
Chiang Postpones Visit.
normal.
Later.
MR. TOM MANN.
Disowned By British Labour.
COMPLETELY REPUDIATED.
London, Fab. 23.
ANOTHER CLASH.
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Singapore Disturbances Message by Secretary of
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POLICE BATON CHARGE.
Singapore, March 29. The authorities,view seriously the disturbances going on since the Sun Yat-sen celebrations,
Public vehicles and police are frequently attacked.
· Mr. "Havelock Wilson, president of the Seamen's Union, speaking at a luncheon at the Hotel Cecil, referred to Mr. Tom Mann's activities in China. He said it was surprisings that such men were not exposed: Mr. Mann wrecked tradea unionism in The police made a baton charge Australia and had done his best and effected many arrests of to ruin it in Britain, yet he was Chinese. the type of man Mr. Ramsay Mac-
Mr. Havelock Wilson
He
At Shashi the gunboat "Cock- chafer" ordered Cantonese sel- diers to disembark from a British steamer which they had boarded.. When the gunboat arrived the Donald meekly followed. soldiers "declared they were only added that the seamen in 1921 visitors.
at Hankow, where the river is rejected nationalisation of which rising, the strike is still unsettled, they had experienced in the Ame
rican State-owned ships as well as and the foreign banks are closed..
It proved a At Wuhu the women and child. those of Australia, ren have been evacuated, and the tyrannical system. Australian- meat have been concentrated in owned ships were "something A boycott dreadful.”
hulks in the stream.
There was another violent clash to-night.
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"The Magistrates are inflicting salutary sentences.
Armed troops are standing by at the police stations.-Reuter.
for political ends in our own country. The passage is so signi- ficant that I quote it in full:
"The Communist party reminds the workers that the Baldwin Government, which renders pos- sible these murders, is prepared to carry out the same murders in this country, as is shown by the recent speech of Mitchell-Thom- son, threatening that Socialists who fight war will be shot, and menacing similar action in the event of a general strike in this country to preserve rights such 28 our Chinese comrades are fighting for,
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"Direct action to stop munitions | against China, to secure the with- drawal of the troops, and to bring. Government is necessary, not only about the downfall of the Baldwin
as an act of solidarity, but in de- fence of British labour."
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Flat and Final. "In an effort to ascertain to what extent Mr. Tom Mann had receiv ad any mandate to give the greet ings of the British workers to the Communist delegates of the in- Cantonese Nationalist Army 1 ternational proletariat, recently went down to the headquarters of arrived in Canton. They ex- the Trades Union Congress in At Kiukiang, as compensation pressed their sympathy with the Eccleston-square. There the Gen-
is threatened and the situation is uncertain.
Firing on Ships.
State.
FUTURE OF THE COLONY.
Under Instructions of the Secre- [tary of State for the Colonies; the Governor of Hong Kong issued the following communication at a meeting of the District Watchmen Committee held at Government House this morning:
"His Majesty's Government would be glad if you would con- vey to the District Watchmen Committee and to the whole community of Hong Kong their sincere sympathy in the great difficulties with which it is beset and their admiration for the energy and resource which have been displayed in fäcing these difficulties. His Majes- ty's Government have noted) with the greatest satisfaction the loyalty of the whole com- munity, and particularly of the Chinese, to the Hong Kong Gov ernment, and they feel con- fident that the fortitude and re- solution shown in the trying circumstances of the past two years by all concerned are a guarantee that when normal conditions have been restored "the Colony will continue to pros
per in the future as in the past. You can, of course, assure "the Committee and the Colony that His Majesty's Government will give the fullest protection "to Hong Kong and its mainland territories during the civil war now unhappily raging in China and that they have no intention whatever of surrendering Hong. Kong or of abandoning or diminishing in any way its rights or authority in any part of the adjacent. mainland ter- ritories under Briäsh adulinlä- tration to the maintenance of Which His Majesty's Govern- ment attach the highest import-
ance.
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PRESS.
HANKOW CRISIS.
Conditions For: Foreigners Impossible.
Shanghal, March 30.
le being paid for commandeering aims of the Chinese Nationalist eral Council was holding a specia! STOP the British steamer "Kiangwo." Reds. They stated they had come meeting, and repudiation of Mr. the arms and ammunition left on to Canton to study the situation Mann was flat and final. "His The situation at Wuhu is board have been returned to the and to establish contact with the last connection with us was when
Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Chinese for the furtherance of the he was secretary of the Amalga "Katwo" negotiations are con-
At Nanking firing occasionally world revolution movement. They mated Engineering Union. Quite takes place in Hsaikwin, but exhorted the Chinese people to definitely he has no authority tinuing.
Retaliatory measures by for ships have not been under fire, and continue in their struggle against whatever to speak as the repre- eign, men-of-war in view of the the situation is improving.
foreign domination. The Chinese Commissioner for
sentative of the organised constant firing on river steamers
Mr. Tom Mann, the former workers of this country." The
The following message, dated and naval vessels have been ap-Foreign Affairs, who has been ap- proved.
The message, does not pointed, expressed a desire to call British Labour leader, who was Labour party gave an equally March 26, has been received from state what form the retaliatory on the cruiser "Emerald," where present at a banquet given to the emphatic denial of any knowledge Hankow
the wounded British Consul-Gen- delegates, expressed the indigna- that Mr. Tom Mann contemplated With Communisra now" in full There is no change in the situa-eral and certain members of the tion of the English working a visit to China, or that he had rower here, conditions for foreign- tion at Shanghai.
Chinese Customs and British classes against the conduct of any authority to speak for them. ers-especially British have be-
"British Imperialist pirates." He They had made careful Inquiries, come impossible. General Chiang Kai-shek, who firme are living. was to have met Admiral Williams on board the U.S. flagship "Pitts- burg yesterday, sent a message pointing his visit to some future date.
measures will take).
...
below Nanking is increasing, espe- cially at Kiangyin, Tungehow and Vinepaint.-British Wireless Ser
Rifle firing at foreign ships urged the Chinese people to con- because some weeks ago in South A few foreigners-all men- tinue their fight for the deliver-London a little meeting of ex-still remain, but must live on the ance of China from the tentacles tremists one Sunday morning was waterfront, from which they can of British Imperialism.
informed that Mr. Tom Mann be quickly evacuated in case of was about to leave for China to personal danger. encourage the Cantonese cause.
vice.
AMERICAN FORCES: "
Co-Operation. With Other Powers.
COMMUNIST MESSENGER
Woosung Shipping Order.
Even the American Consul.is "Duke of Plazo Toro." forced to live on the waterfront, Yang Chu-chuang (the North-
Any obcurity about the purpose. Mr. Fenner Brockway, secre- and has advised all Americans to era Admiral who turned over to
of Mr. Tom Mann's presence in tary of the Independent Labour do likewise. the South and whose action";
China was removed when I saw party, and editor of the "New Kuomintang Moderates have" brought about the firing on the i
Mr. Albert Inkpin, secretary of Leader," left no room for doubt been utterly "downed" and even Kiangnan Arsenal) has issued
Washington, March 20. the Communist Party of Great by his very categorical statement, Mr. Eugene Chen is now powerless notices requesting all sea-going It is stated at the White House Britain, wrote the "Daily Tele "Say definitely that Mr. vessels not to enter the entrance that the
Tom although, it is probable, that he American forces in graph's Labour Correspondent Mann went without our know will continue to be used for his of Woosung from sunset to sun-China will not be merged with in mail week. "Who sent Tom ledge, and certainly without our success in dealing with the repre- rise.
those of the other Powers, Pre Mann to China?" I asked him at support. He had no credentials sentatives of foreign Powers.. Senior Naval Foreign officerssident Coolidge holding the opin- the close of the Communist execu- from the Independent" Labour The foreign Banks are all closed are meeting to-day (Wednesday) ion that the American military tive meeting. We did," replied party, and had he asked for them owing to the impossible 'demands to discuss whether or not this authorities can maintain their in Mr. Inkpin, "as part of an inter he would not have received them." of employees "and general dif- action shall be emulated.
dependence.
national delegation, to convey the Mr. Tom Mann, the stormy ficulties put in the way of doing (Continued on Page 12.)
greetings of the British workers petrel amongst the leaders of or business.-Reuter. to the Cantonese. Nationalist ganised labour, was until recently Papers Closed Down. GOING NORTH. movement, including the Army. the chairman of the Minority The two newspapers, respectively He is our only British representa-Movement, which is the trade British and American owned, arq closed down. The Political LATEST MOVEMENTS OF tive, and others have gone from union wing of the Communist still
TROOPS:
the Communist parties of France, party. The All-Russian Soviet Bureau managed this by the simple Germany, Russia, America, and made him one of the twenty-five process of securing the withdrawal Czechoslovakia. They have just commanders of the world, an oc of the labour necessary for their arrived, and I received a card casion which provoked Mr. James production. The Editors complain It la rumoured that on the from him dated from Vladi- Sexton, MP, to liken him to the ed to Mr. Eugene Chen who, how- "Bellerophon" and the Vasna,"vostok."...
Duke of Plaza-Toro. At sixty-ever, was able to do nothing. The eight he is an uncompromising ad graph news sheets which could be newspapers then published mimao- which are due to sail from Hong
vocate of the class, war and the obtained by calling at the offices. Kong for Shanghai this after-
Mr. Inkpin also handed to me a social revolution The situation at Shanghai. is re-noon, in addition to the troops
But pickets arrested the messengers ported to be quiet at present, already mentioned, there will be manifesto issued by the Political
who were sent, for the sheets, the Bureau of the Comimunlar party, although agitators show consider-on board the Ist/Cameronians:
H.M.S. Cricket" is standing-by at Woosung ready to receive evacuees should it be decred necessary,
Ningpo is quiet.
REVIEW OF THE POSITION.
Outlook Uncertain And Menacing.
Rugby, March 29.
HONG KONG'S SHARE.
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Pernicious Manifesto,
St. John Ambulance, Brigade will issue of which was consequently
FURTHER TROUBLE.
Another Shanghai General Strike.
able activity. It is understood If the Cameronians leave, there declaring that responsibility for give pubile vaccinations this Sun suspended. Thus, the Political that French and American re- will remain but one Battalion in the murder of twe trade union-day, from 2.30 pm to 5 pm. Re- Bureau succeeded in supressing inforcements are being sent. Hong Kong other than is for organising a general sidents are invited to send their all printed news and opinione ex-
It is stated that General Chiang the Garrison Battalion, the strike at Shanghai falls entirely Chinese servants, who wish to be cept Red.--Router. Kai-shek vialted the United States 2nd/K.O.S.B. 8. upon the Baldwin Imperialist vaccinated. No fees are charged
or may be accepted. cruiser "Pittsburg" to-day to dis- The troops already mentioned Government, cuss with Admiral Williams as aboard the two troop ships This manifesto declares that arrangements for reserving order salling to-day are the lat/Green Sen was only enabled to gender in the district. The Southern Howards, 18th Infantry Brisade more troops to the front, thanks The richa coolles, numbering Chinese Admiral Lo visited Headquarters Staff, 18th Brigade to the arrival of British reinforce- many thousand in Shanghai, are be- Admiral Williams yesterday, Signals, reserve drivers for the ments. Then it becomes very ing forcibly enrolled as Union mem The situation up the Yangtse 5th Armoured Car Company, Ist procise in advising, direct betion bars. Twenty thousand miscellane fe uncertain and menacing. The Field Brigade RA, Headquarters
ous wozkara remam on strike>:
Hanky British authorities have decided to and 4th Pack Brigade, BA and
The Hit evacuate all British at Ichang on the Royal Artillery Signal
the Yangtze River, 165 miles west Ninety-nine. French ti (soldiers of Hankow Changsha 100 passed through the Calonyyester.
Candrat
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Shanghai, March 80. Intense activity is still being Isplayed in Shanghai by the
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