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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1927.
YANGTSE DANGERS.
REFUGEES LEAVING ANKING STONED.
"HANKOW ANXIETY.
MURDER AT $10 A TIME IN SHANGHAI.
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STRIKE THREAT.
CN. Officers And Cut in Pay.
DRASTIC ACTION TO-MORROW?
Shanghai: March 31.
A strike of China Navigation Co. threatened for to-morrow in con-
deck officers and engineers is
nection with the ton per cent salary- reduction announced some time ago by the Company owing to trade depression.
However, the officers arnounce they will always be willing, in of emergency, to operate the
Yangtua tension continues, the latest incident being the stoning of British and American refugees going aboard an American des troyer at Anking. Anxiety is still felt at Hankow, where every-that thing is being got in readiness for a sudden evacuation, a further crisis being expected on May 1. According to the evidence of a case heard in Shanghai murders of loyal workers are committed for $10 a time at the instance of General Labour Union members..
REFUGEES STONED,
Incident During Anking Evacuation..
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Shanghai, March; 31. A message from Peking states that the American destroyer Hulbert" took off 4% British and American refugees from Anking. The refugees were stoned before embarking-Reuter,
HANKOW, ANXIETY,
Yet Another Crisis To Be
Expected.
Rugby. March 30: A telegram from Hankow states that the British Consul-Genera?
the event of it proving necessary has, however, been prepared.
A marine guard, consisting of twenty-nine men, has been placed ashore to prevent any Nationalist demonstration from approaching the foreign quarterä,
Yangise Ports. Ichang remains quiet. Tockwo" incident is being vived.
The
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NANKING LOOTING.
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Further details regarding the looting of Nanking show that the outrages against foreigners were worse than was at first realised; Sworn statements of the British Consul General, the United States Consul-General and many responsible British and American residents show that the looting was carried out."by uniformed soldiers: bø longing to the command of General Chang Chien. The looters, who were in small parties controlled by the blowing of whistles, were called off shortly after the firing from the warships began.
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SWORN STATEMENTS.
Horrors Worse Than First "Lealized,
The United States Consulate. was deliberately looted, although is was known by the Nationalist. officers, No effective steps were taken to afford protection.
Murder,, robbery and other out- Rugby, March 801 rages were committed on Ameri- Sir Austen Chamberlain, For-can and other foreigners in all parts of the city from eight. eign Secretary stated in the o'clock in the morning, and no shipa for the purpose of evacuat-House of Cominons that he was official attempts to restrain them ing foreigners of any nationality, or now in a position to supplement were made until after the naval for Naval or Military purposes the statement he made the other barrage at half past four in the
day regarding the incidents at afternoon. Nanking with facts, derived in part directly from the British Minister in Peking, and by Ameri- can and Japanese representatives. The looting was carried out by soldiers in uniform. This fact was sworn to by the British Con- sul-General, the United States
"Air Open Secret."
The American Consul-General tried all day, through official and other channels, to see sponsible officer, but no one would see him.
some, re-
there had a meeting with the lead from Ankg-baye reached Kiy the autumn of last year the China Consul and numerous responsible soldiers proceeded in banda, the
tan per
From statements made to him and many other Americans by soldiers, and from the fact that
movements of which were direct- ed and prompted by the sounding of bugle calls, he was convinced and could not possibly have been the result of the accidental get- ting out of hand of the troops.
Affairs is leaving down-river. The cut in to take effect as from
All British subjects. nt Chang-to-morrow, April 1.
Mr. John Watson, secretary of sha, with the exception of the Consul and Mother Superior have the Marine Engineers Guild of left down-river for Shanghai.. One China and acting, secretary of the China Coast Officers' Guild, gunboat remains.
Ten British and thirty-nine stated:- others foreign
"It was an open secret that in missionaries ing British merchants on March 7 kiang from up-country and will Navigation Co. proposed to bring a British and American residents,
cent. reduction of the. The looters were in small and urged them to send away at leave later for Shangh j
Although no decision with re-salaries of all officers in its employ parties controlled by the blowing once all employees who were not
such gard to the "Kutwo" inciderit has into effect. from January 2. The of whistles, and they were called that these outrages were planned | absolutely necessary for
reason given for the proposed re-off by a bugle after the firing diminished business as there was,
been reached at Wuhu, there have duction at that time was that the 40 that if
a sudden evacuation heen friendly conversations be- Co, in consequence of the prolong from the warships began.
tween the Consul and the Com-led boycott of British shipping com- should become necessary, the num
է . panies at Canton and Swatow, had bera would be reduced to a mini-missioner for Foreign Affairs.
Six Spanish priests, including inturred heavy losses on the ship one who was wounded.. in the ping service which normally would course of recent rioting, have left have been serving those ports. Wuhu for Shanghai.
Strenuously Opposed. Looting at Nanking.
"The proposed reduction was There has as yet been no inter-strenuously opposed by both Guilds course at Nanking between the and after protracted negotiations, British and Southern, authorities and in view of the fact that to owing to the non-appearance of
mum.
All is quiet at Hankow at present. and Chinese feeling is easier, but it is expected that it critical time will be May 1, when the fourth all- China Labour Convention meets there.British Wireless Service.
SHANGHAI MURDERS. The Price for Killing A Loyal Worker.
Shanghai, March 31: Ten dollars a time is the price of assassination in Shanghai ac- Scording to the evidence of a case just dealt with by the Provision al Court in which a Chinese was convicted of the murder of a loyal fore-woman of a British cotton
mill.
"The sentence was imprisonment
for life.
The prisoner confessed that he shot the woman at the instance of
the latter.
Conditions in the City are still unsafe for foreigners and it is understood that looting of the British consulate continues.
Rifle and machine gun fire on ships continues and, to put a stop to this, one of the guns of H.M.S. "Lion" is being trained on all British ships under way.
"Surplus members of the community at Hankow are leaving for Shanghai. There is no other change to record.
Mr. T. V. Soong at Shanghal. “
Shanghai, March 31.
AN INDIAN HELEN.
Serious Religions Fracas Over Woman.
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Foreign Women Assaulted. The British Consul-General was
Japanese Ordeal, surrounded, and sentries were
With regard to the Japanese About thirty soldiers the following was the position. posted. spent the previous night in the On March 24 about 150 soldiers the Nationalist. Vice-Consul's house, which was belonging to unoccupied at the time, and raised Army occupied the Japanese Con-
They were in uniform, wore mili the revolutionary flag on the en-sulate for four and half hours. try of the looters,
tary caps and were armed with rifles,
Foreign women, including Mrs. Giles, wife of the British Consul General, were thoroughly search- ed and rudely stripped of their Many valuables.
had their clothes torn off. These facts could be established by sworn de- positions.
Karachi, March 30. It had been learnt that foreign- Forty-seven people have beeners were not molested by North- sent to hospital with injuries as
ern troops, nor by the local in- result of a serious Hindu and
habitants, but that the latter were Sind, as a result of a Moslem fracas at Larkana, Upper friendly throughout, and assisted-
dispute
foreigners.. over the possession of a woman. and her three children.-Reuter.
Mr. T. V. Soonx, the Nationalist wards the end of 1928 both Canton a prominent member of the Gen-Minister of Finance, a brother of and Swatow were once more open eral Labour Union who gave him Madame Sun Yat-sen, and a mento British shipping and that no $10 beforehand. promising him a her of the Right Wing has arrived other port or ports were closed; the further $10 on the return of the there from Hankow.-Reuter. pistel with which he was furnish- ed-Reuter.
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CHIANG KAI-SHEK.
Politicians and the. Foreign Settlements.
Berlin, March 30, General Chiang Kai-shek, in- terviewed by the "Vossische Zeitung's Shanghai correspon- dent said he was preparing plane for the conquest of North China, but he needed time.
He denied that he had an under- standing with Marshal Chang Tso-lin.
W
LATEST UNION.
Tenants to Pay Only Half Rent.
Shanghal, March 31, The latest of Shanghai's numerous new unions is an "association for
fty per cent. rent reduction."
The members who are all tenants In the Chinese City, to-day passed A resolution only to pay half the usual rents to the landlords.. M the latter do not accept this they will pay nothing-Router.
Troops Fire at Steamer.
Shanghai, March 31... A brief message from Nanking
He said he was without means states that two British steamers
to conquer the foreign Settle-leaving Nanking this morning were ments, which could be left to the fired on by Chinese troops.Reuter. politicians.
As regards propaganda, Gen- eral Chiang Kai-shek desires to: oust all foreign news agencies and establish national Chinese agencies..
He admitted that he was hav- ing difficulties with the Com- munista-Reuter.
POSITION REVIEWED.
Taking No Chanees At Foochow
TIENTSIN'S FATE.
Timely Word To Sir Austen
Chamberlain,
Tientsin March St.
looting and destruction
The
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They began looting at once. One party attacked the offices and residencies of the staff, and others attacked the residence of the" Consul, who was ill in bed and fired at him, at members of his staff, at a naval officer and mar- ines, and at Japanese civilians who the Consulate, and were at threatened them with bayonets.
The mob took away everything belonging to members of the Con- sulate and civilians.
A Japanese school, hotel and pletely looted and turned Into two private hospitals were com military headquarters. The sol- diers at length threatened to set fire to the Consulate.
were worse than at first realised.
carefully organised. The attacks on foreigners were Consulate Special Objective. The British Consulate-General
At this point the Chief of the Company, in a letter dated Decem-was the special objective. ber 22 and addressed to both Guilds, consular party had lost every withdrew the proposed reduction, thing. They were robbed of PoEtical Bureau of the Sixth but reserved the right again to con- their valuables at the point of Division of the Second National- aider the matter in three months guns. Their houses were burned 1st Army intervened, followed by after being looted, and the furni- the Commander of the Sixth time."
The three months elapsed and the ture was used for firewood. Mr.Division, and guards were posted Company wrote, giving notice of the Huber, the Harbour Master, was for the protection of the Consul- ate. The next afternoon the Con- reduction as from to-morrow. killed.
treatment sular party made their way to The Gull full statement ap- In regard to the peared in the Monday's Chine suffered by Americans at Nan-Japanese destroyers in the river.. Mail"]
STOP PRESS.
REME French Concession 'Storming."
REPORTS DENIED.:
king, Information was that after the murder of an American mis- sionary and the attempted mur- der of many others by National ist soldiers, the Chinese Police warned the American Consul that his party would be destroyed un lesa he could escape
Sir Austen, Chamberlain added that he had sworn statements by Mrs. Giles, wife of the British Consul-General, and Mr. Brown, a British citizen.
Lieut. Commander Kenworthy (Labour) asked what was the next step it was proposed to take.
Sir Austen Chamberlain replied that the steps which it might be. proper for the British Govern and other Govern
Accordingly his party of one officer, eleven sailors, nine civil lans and two children, escaped under constant fire across.countryment
The following wireless, meas ages, have been received by the local naval authorities: Nanking, and Chinklang" have which he describes as a small diately around the house and the men to urge the Nationalists, to
to Socony House, on the Standard ments to take whose citizens had Oil Company's. Hill above the city been treated in this way and walls, where American and Bri-whose flag had been outraged,
were under consideration. Shanghai, March 31.
Liah already weres dan
Although robbed and repeated-
Chinese, Regret. The reported storming of the
Geneva, March 80. French Concession defences by ly threatened by the Na the mob last night is denied. In tionalist soldiers, the Con- The Chinese delegate, Mr. Chao. The loading British paper, the the course of a statement issued sul, with the Vice-Consul and Hsin-cha, has published a tele- "Peking and Tientsin Times" envisaging the melancholy prospect to Reuters by the French Consul- the Standard Oil Company Mana gram from the Chambers of Com of retrocession of the Tiuntain General this morning, ger, managed to keep the Chinese merce in Shanghai and Chapel, It is explained that a small out of his house for two hours.and the bankers, stock exchange, British Concession, speculates on the disastrous results of the "fatal crowd of loafers gathered and be- Flaally they broke in. Seeing a cotton mill owners and various policy of patience and conciliation" gan storming the defences but a number of people in the house ather guilds regretting the Nau- in leading the extremists to believe Bentry fired a shot Into the air and they retired and commenced firing king cutrage and urging patiente upon them in ever increasing and continued confidence in the
Chinese that British subjects exfar only to the crowd dispersed. be outraged and their property to The statement also denies the umbers. be footed with impunity report that the Consul General in United States, and British ves Mr. Chan Hain-chu replied, The paper asks whether Wahu, terfered personally in the affair sels then dropped shells immeasking commercial and industrial sar party were enabled to escape over protect foreigners and prevent B
the wall.
récurrence of the Nanking incl quiet.
Chamberlain that his bellef in the
Regarding forcible removal of American Consul Fired at dent Reuter The Consul is in close touch Hankow agreement is illusory.
Bwoya Statements Issued. with the authorities and does not The paper suggests that he ap- two fron gates from the borders The Nationallat soldiers de- anticipate trouble.ply his own distum, namely to be of the Consession, on the evening liberately fred at the United v
London, March 30 azch explana-States Consul knowing him to be The Foreign Office has issued The Commissioner for Foreign assured that Chinese authority can of the 29th, the
the Consul, and with the inten- Affairs and the Chinese naval preserve order wherever that tion is that the gates no lon
tion of killing him. When the authorities appear well disposed authority is extended before any formed Frut
happened he had just riven his and have given assurances that surrender de made of further in-
card and asked to see their off Form
The situation at Foochow is failed to convince Bir Auston Police Insident.
they will suppress any disturb terests-Reuter
ances. A plan of evacuation in (Continued from 26385
sworn statements by Mr. Giles, wife of the Consul General, and Mr. Brown, a British citizan, re- tarding the Nanking outrages.
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