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Premier On Our Bounden Duty."
"HALF BAKED SOCIALISTS."
1927.
YANGTSE DANGERS. necessity for close co-operation
(Continued from Page 1;) President Coolidge feels, how ever, that the Americans will co- operate with the others, and dis- cretion is left to the American The Prime Minister, in a letter commander as regards, the French of good wishes to Mr. H. Cairn concession. Router's American Hogbin, Conservative candidate in Service. the triangular contest in the Stourbridge Division, appealed as Worcestershire man to Worces-
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between the French Concessior and the International Concession at Shanghai on the doctrine of Unity of defence is the best guarantee of success."
The "Matin says the Govern- ment has been taking necessary. measures during the past four months, and had a reserve of troops in Indo-China Admiral Bezire has provisionally refused: reinforcements offered him, as experts are of opinion the French can meet any surprise with forces newspaper adds that while single control may be undesirable, it does not follow France should re fuss. to participate in common action in the event of grave perili -Reuter..
tershire men and women not to Twelve Hundred, Annamites to already at their disposal The
be "misled by misrepresentations, however cleverly phrased, into casting their votes in favour of the half-baked policy of Socialism and Communism.
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Paris, arch 29: The Government has decided to send reinforcements to the troops
Mr. Baldwin instanced the at-in China. titude of the Socialist party to- Twelve hundred Annamite wards events in China is a fresh troops will be despatched from example of "their unfitness for na-Annam to China as soon as pos- ticnal responsibilities," anti points sible:-Reuter.. out that the Socialists had taken every opportunity of misrepre- senting our intentions, not only in this country, but by direct com- munication with one of the parties Ito the civil war now being fought| out in China." Following is the full text of the letters
LIEUT. ARAKI.
The Report of His Death Incorrect.
MATTER OF HONOUR. Japanese Naval Officer's Suicide.
Shanghai, March 29.
Lieutenant Kameo Araki who was in charge of the guard at the Japanese Consulate at Nanking at Shanghai, March 80.the time of the recent outrage The announcement of the death there,. attempted to commit "Dear Mr. Hogbin-You have of Lieut. Araki, which was pub-suicide aboard the flagship "Tone""" my best wishes for your success Hished in Shanghai yesterday this morning, and is now in grave Every morning, appears to have been condition. Lient. Araki returned in your courageous fight. voter who is against Socialism and Premature.. His condition yester- Communism and wishes to make day was very grave, but it was effective use of his votes should better this morning-Reuter. give you his support. The Liberal candidate, I know, is neither So- cialist nor Communist, but judg-. ing from the fate of the Liberal candidates in the recent by elections, he can do no more than help the Socialiste by taking away votes from us.
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Clash Between Sailors and' ́· Chinese..
here from Nanking yesterday aboard the cruiser "Tenryu" to re- port particulars of the outrage at the Consulate to Rear-Admiral Araki, the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Squadron in China. It was after this interview that he attempted to take his life. Apparently Lieut. Araki was Shanghai, March 29. Following a slight excounter weighed down by the sense of re- between a party from HM.S.sponsibility for what occurred at
the "Recent events in the Far East"Woodcock"
Consulate, where he with at and Chinese and the attitude of the Socialist Changsha, the local Commissioner seven bluejackets were on guard. party towards them afford a fresh for Foreign Affairs has demanded! That he forebore to fire on the example of their unfitness for rathe withdrawal of British men-of-great mob of undisciplined Can- tional responsibilities. A state of war from the port and the hand-tonese soldiers, who attacked and civil war exists in China, and ing over of the British sailors in- looted the Consulate was solely conditions have arisen which have volved in the incident in order to because he feared that to do go caused the greatest anxiety to his enable the Chinese to take drastic would mean-as almost certainly it would the massacre of all the Majesty's Government, more par action against them. ticularly with regard to the safety It is also reported that the Consular officials and their fami- of British subjects--all workers in Commissioner has withdrawn ex-les-Reuter.. the true sense of the term intraterritorial rights from all that country. The Government Britishers at Changsha, and the have long been aware of the grow-British authorities are evacuating ing gravity of the situation in their nationals in consequence.- China, and not the least of the Reuter. difficulties we have had to contend}" "*"Times" and China. with in the delicate negotiations
London, March 29,
Farewell Message.
Shanghai, Later. Araki is dead. "It transpires he shot himself.
He left a note in the course of which he says, "I am quite asham- ed for the honor of the Japanese Navy being disgraced by the Southern soldiers. Reuter.
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we have undertaken with the rival The immediate necessity in factions has been the fact that the China is sheer physical defence, is Socialist party in this country the opinion of the "Times," in have been doing their best to stating that whether or no there, make political capital out of the be a conflict between moderates situation, regardless of possible and extremists in the Kuomin- HONG KONG & TERRITORIAL consequences to the thousands of tang, all recent events show the British subjects there resident. extremists are doing their utmost "It is the bounden duty of the to force the issue in the direction Government to protect the lives they prefer, and with such ele- THE THIRD ORDINARY and interests of British subjects ments further negotiations are "F" ANNUAL MEETING "OF in any part of the world, and in impossible." It will be time to re- SHAREHOLDERS in the Com the absence of any stable form of suime serious political negotia pany, it be held at the Office of
St. government in China we have tions when genuine Chinese Na- the Company George's been obliged to send ships and tionalism again emerges in an or on FRIDAY, the 8th April, 1927, at Building, No.6, Connaught Road, troops to Chinese waters for that ganised form-Reuter. purpose. The Socialist party have taken every opportunity of mis- representing our intentions, not only in this country, but by direct communications with one of the Empress of Russia. parties to the civil war now being
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