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China Mail
ESTABLISH#) 1845
HONG KONG, MONDAY, APRIL 25, 1927.
No. 25,543
YANGTSE
INCIDENT.
Wuhu Mob Sets Fire To British Hulk.
FIRING ACROSS RIVER.
European Kuomintang Supports Chiang.
Further trouble is reported from the Yangtse where a Wuhu niob has set fire to the British hulk which figured in last Thursday's incident when a gang of coolies who tried to rush a river steamer were repulsed by bluejackets.
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MR. CHEN'S NOTE.
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DANGER TO FOREIGN LIVES.
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UNDER TABLE.
Capture of a Supposed Burglar.
SURPRISED ON PREMISES.
Mr. R. E. Lindsell had before
"The Minister for Foreign Affairs A burglar broke into the office him this morning a Chinese woman receipt. of H. B. M. Government's Importers and Exporters of No. of the Nationalist Government is in of Messrs. Wallamull Bulchand, charged with the unlawful posses- sion of 299 taels of non-Govern Note, dated April 11, 1927, formu- 18, On Lan Street early this morn- ment opium at 432 Queen's lating terms for the prompt settle-ing. A watchman made the dis- ment of the situation enused by the covery at 6.a.m., when he found Rond West, Gatshoor
Mr. D. McCallum for the defence, outrages against British nationals a near window on the ground | said that the position was a little committed by the Nationalist troops foor had been broken The difficult, Accused was a Northern at Nanking on March 24 last.
manager of the firm, who resided. Chinese and had not been here very: "In reply to the demand for above, was Other items in to-day's news concern the firing across the river, long. The opium was given to her, 'Complete reparation for the per-watchman's cries, and when he awakened by the to keep by man who was the support of the European committee of the Kuomintang for Gen-husband's friend., This man
her sonal injuries and material damage'came downstairs found that two was done, the Nationalist Government safes had been forced open and eral Chiang Kai-shek, and the resignation of General Tang Seng-cu the opium which he had left with damage done to the British Consu-$280 in money stolen,
wliling come forward and claim are prepared to make good all the woman because he was chung-late at Nanking on the ground that,
While the manager and watch- Ing ship.
whether or not such damage was man were collecting popers Magistrate: He is willing to caused by Northern rebels and strewn about the floor their atten- stand the racket?
Quite. This woman is
others as stated in the preliminary tion was attracted by a move- his statements issued by the Nation- ment under a table. They inves- friend's wife and he does not like list Government on March 31 last, tigated and a Chinese was pulled to see her suffer for any misdemean the fact remains that a British Con-out. In his pocket was found the our on his part.
When the man was brought into been violated."
sulate on Chinese territory has missing money. The intruder was
handed over to the police.
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Hankow, April 24.
AMERICAN SAFETY.
British Ship Chartered as
Refuge..
Hankow, April 9.
The. American Consul-General
The reason for the action of [General Tang Seng-chi in tender- has to-day arranged for charter- ing his resignation to the South-ing the str. "Kiangwo," a British ern Government, is due to the merchant vessel, in order that the failure of his attempt to obtain American community here may la vote of confidence.
he away from shore at night. The situation here is dangerous and uncertain and the Consul-
In an attempt to strengthen their hands, the Communist party
has caused to be absorbed into the
Army, here many local Labour
General has taken this action upon the strong representations made by Rear-Admiral Honry H. Unions.
Hough, in command of the Yang The situation otherwise retse Patrol Force, that it was mains the same. British Naval urgent and necessary. With this Wireless.
the entire American community is in agreement.
ROUT OF REDS.
A Pitched Battle Near Shekki.
the neighbourhood of Shekki A pitched battle was fought in (capital of Hungshan, district) early on Saturday morning, in which the local Communist ele.. ments were routed by the Moder ate authorities.
Reparations.
As regards reparation for per- sonal injuries to British National's and other material damage done, the Nationalist Government are prepared to make all reasonable¦ necessary reparation except in cases where it can be definitely proved that the same have been caused by the British-Amerlenn
JAPAN'S CRISIS.
TOKYO BANK'S MUTUAL ··
HELP.
bombardment of Nanking on March COLONIES IN MORATORIUM. 24 or by Northern rebels and agents
provacateurs.
guilt of the Nationalist Forces who to co-operate in every way possi captured Nanking. While this ble in rendering mutual assist guilt la contradicted in the preliance.
The Bank of Japan has stated minary statement issued on March 31, a rigid Government enquiry is that it intends to extend help to being conducted in order to ascer- all banks, including those which tain the exact facts of the case, in-hed no transactions with the cluding verification of the outstand Bank of Japan - ReuterŁA
Effect in Formoзà, la a ng facts reported to the Military
vas Tokyo April 25. Council by General Chong Chien
Tokyo, Apr 26. punishment for Commanders of the tend the Moratorium to all The demand for "adequate The Cabinet has decided to ex-
troops responsible for the murders, colonies except Formosa. N Disturbances reached such n the personal Injuries and indigni- [General Tang Seng-chi com-
The member banks of the pitch that a number of people ties and material damage done as Tokyo Clearing House have issued. mands the 8th Nationalist Army. All Hankow Americans went left by junk for Hong Kong,also of all persons found to be ima statement that they have agreed He has the biggest array at Han- aboard the ship to-night, taking Macao and other ports where re plicated" necessarily assumes the kow and the two Hu provinces. their personal baggage with them. fugees also arrived on Sunday. The Hankow clique appointed the They will sleep on board for at Some of the Barbour Unions at Christian general as commander- least ten nights, the minimum Shekki are alleged to be at the in-chief of the Communist Army period for which the ship has bottom of the plot but the local with General Tang Seng-chi been chartered, taking care of
Peasants Corpa was in the thick as associate commander-in-chief. their business ashore during the
of the fight. The Village Volun teers assisted the loyalists.. Speculation has always been rife day as usual. as to whether this man is a Com- It is impossible to foretell when Relations in the Heungahan' munist or a Moderate. He is des the next, mob riot will be brought district have been strained since cribed as very conservative and about, or when the Nation at Good Fridean In Canton but unfavourable in Colamumsan but troops here will endeavour to eat dia sot have he took Nanking, that his forces &The breasiness due to the sh
sufficient troops until the arrivalrounded up and captured approxi he may have been tethpted by thepeat the atrocities against for- possibility of succeeding General eigners which they committed at
of small reinforcements from mately 30,000 Northern soldiers Pension of the Bank of Taiwan Canton. It is thought, however,
with rifles, besides thousands of synonymous with the Bank of Chiang Kai-shek.]
Nanking on March 24. At pre- that the trouble at Shekki was not
camp followers, inside the city of Formosa has resulted in a general Hulk Burnt Out.
sent the activities of American connected with the abortive ris-Nanking itself. General Cheng strike of the Formosa employees business men here are directed to ing at Canton on Friday last. Wuhu, April 24.
In several parts of Kwangtung ward salvaging what they can There was a sequel to-day to from their disrupted concerns, in the incident of Thursday when a gang of coolies who endeavoured an endeavour to make their losses to rush a river steamer. which as small as they can by the time went alongside Butterfield and expected orders to evacuate may Swire's hulk were repulsed by a
be given. British guard.
province, the Communiat causo is still firmly entrenched, if not in Canton.
At Kongmoon, the Peasants Corps and Leftist Unions are in fairly strong position but there has been no trouble.
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Chien has also reported that a num- demanding better treatment, al CAMERAS
ber of those implicated, have been factories in Formosa being closed. executed. The Nationalist Govern- The Government has decided to ment propose that the question of suspend further shipments of punishment should await the find-specie to America. inga of either the Government en- In spite of the moratorium the quiry now in progress or by an In- Yokohama Specie and other ex- ternational Commission of enquiry to be immediately Instituted by the Nationallat Government and H.B.M.
Government.
International Enquiry. As the laws of Nations and the settled practice of civilised states prohibit the . massacre of the citizens of a friendly state, the
change Banks will continue tran actions in cheques and drafts, whilst life insurance companies have mutually agreed to pay out whatever is due during the mora- torium-Reuter..
British Residents Too. The hulk in question has been
Hankow, April 10. used as a depot to safeguard and facilitate the work of consignees.ków to-day received instructions The British community of Han- To-day, the hulk was set on fire that before to-morrow evening and burnt out.
they are all to be aboard one of The premises of the Interna-'the British merchant ships lying tional Export Company, which off the former British Concession. Court Mr. McCallum described him more so when such citizens are in·· have been subject to periodical Buildings on the waterfront as a fireman on board the a.B. "On their own territory, and also pro- looting by the mob have now been which have until now been recog- Tung." occupied by Chinese troops and nised by the British Navy as suit- the looting has stopped.
in Court.
BORODIN SEEKS SAFETY.
hibit the bombardment of the cities
Hankow, April 17. Questioned by the Magistrate of a friendly state, the Nationalist ML Berodin and Teng Yen-ta able dwellings and covered by the the man admitted he had brought Government propose that the said (head of the Political Bureau) Firing Across River, Navy in case of need for evacua- the opium from Macao..
Mr. Lindsell directed that the International Commission of En-have moved from the native elty to Chinkiang, April 24. tion have now been declared out
stances of the bombardment of the French Concession, ostensibly for The guns of the Southerners of bounds. All must be aboard man be charged and brought back quiry shall investigate the circum- the International Hospital in the on Hsia-san-shan Bluff opened fire ship. Those disobeying this order
Later the fireman appeared in unfortified city of Nanking on a rest cure bat really for safety. on the Northerners on the North will be given no protection in ease the deck and admitted that the March 24 last by the Naval forces The International Hospital, which bank of the river yesterday. of trouble.
opim was under his control. He of H. B. M. Government as well as is conducted by French Catholic Their fire has not so far been re-
sala a man in Amoy paid him 20 the other outrages committed suc-sisters and which may be said to turned.
cents per tael to bring the drug cessively by British controlled arm-be internationally protected, is the here. He merely left it for a time ed forces at Shanghat on May 30, safest place here at the moment. In the woman's house,
1925, by British armed Marines Where were you going to take and Volunteers of the Shameen on the stuff to 7-I was going to trans-Jane 23, 1925, and by British Naval fer it to another ship to be taken forces at Wanhsien:last year. The to Singapore the
The Southerners have mounted guns on Gold Island. Bri-
tish Naval Wireless.
normal,
Shanghai Quiet.
Shanghai, April 24.
Reports from the Yangtse in- dicate that general activity in forts on the Yangtse is steadily Increasing. British Naval Wire less..
[The Nationalists hold the
JAPANESE RESIDENTS.
J
Ask Government To Use Firm Polley.
re
demands for an apology in writing but to see that effective measures. "Toho News Agency" reports
Mr. McCallum Bald the Magis by the Commander-in-Chief of the are taken to afford proper proter- The situation here is generally that a message from Hankow retrate knew from long experience in Nationalist army including an ex-tion. to. foreign lives and proparty.
Unequal Treaties. ceived Monday afternoon states such cases that the woman was press written undertaking to
The Nationalist Government, that the Japanese residents at made to pay the penalty. He sub frain from all forms of violence and Hankow unanimously passed the mitted that accused had been very agitation against foreign lives and however, would be lacking in can following resolution regarding the chivalrous in coming forward and property, is, so far as an apology dour if they should fail to declare recent Hankow riot
making a straightforward state is concerned, justified only on the and emphasize that the best guar- ment. He suggested the Magla-proof of Nationalist guilt for the antee for the effective protection of British and other foreign lives and The Japanese residents at trate should count that in the ac disturbances at Nanking,
hus- Hankow are now reduced to a cused's favour.
Question of Apology. property in China lles in the re- moval of the fundamental cause of most miserable condition. As the Mr. Lindsell: The woman's result of the attacks made by the band probably and etion in Com therefore, propose that question of tionalist China and the Powers who
had something to The Nationalist Government, the present trouble between Na Chinese mobs on the Japanese ing forward. Chivalry may not an apology should also await the continue to sustain the regime of Concession on April 8, the Japan have anything to do with it at all
The fireman was fined $25,000 or ess influence and foundation which was built up by our thirty 12 months' jall and the woman was long years' hard toil and labour mulcted in the sum of $50. was ruthlessly destroyed by the Chinese mobs in a day.
south bank of the Yangtse and the River is closed to Northern naval forces. The Northern Allies hold the north bank and the indication of these reports is that the Northerners are unlikely to make a bid for the south bank.
PRAISE FOR CHIANG,
Kuomintang European Com
mittee's Statement::
We warn both the Government and people at home not to be misled by groundless and
WEATHER FORECAST.
fabricated reports on China and cloudy, is the forecast for
determination of the question of the Unequal Treaties. It is these. guilt either by the Government inequitable treaties that constitute Enquiry now in progress "or by the chief danger to foreign lives the proposed International Com- and property In China and this mission of Enquiry. In the danger will persist as long as effec meantime, the Nationalist Govern- tive government is rendered dim- ment bereby repent the expression cult by foreign insistence on condi of profound regret which the Min- tions, which are at once humiliating flater for Foreign Affairs communi- and a menace to a nation that has NE winds, moderate; fine to cated to the British representative known greatness and is to-day con the at Wu-Han directly it was reported scions of renewed strength. The to him that the British Consulate Nationalist Government according- Nationalist Government, as a res-point delegates to negotiate with A statement by the European
Anticyclones are central near ponsible governing body, naturally delegates of H. B. M. Government s committee of the Kuomintang, The Government, seing through: Moderate monsoon may be expect form of violence and agitation and differences, pending between Shanghai and Vladivostock 2 cannot countenance the use, in any satisfactory settlement of issues. which appears in several news the real state of the organisation ed along the 3.Eicosat of China against foreign lives and property: Nationalist China and Great Bri papers, emphasises the deter and system of the Nationalist and over the China Sen. mination of the Party leaders to Government, choukl abandon its comb out the Communists, present Chine policy an The statement warmly praisestablish, with firm resolution General Chiang Kai-shek, making positive policy order to deal it clear that while breaking with" Moscow, Chiang Intends to fight Marabal Change Tho-lin-Reuter,
-Paris, April 24.
not to be fascinated by the pro- twenty-four hours ending at noon at Nanking had been attacked. The ly are prepared and ready to ep- Japanese propaganda of the to-morrow. National Government.
pror
Continued on
Indeed, the, protection of foreign tain on terms which, while assuring Jives and property has been repeat the legitimate interests of the lat edly declared to be the settled ter, shall modernize International polley of the Nationalist Govern-intercourse between the two coun ment The proper authorities of tries and define and work out their the Nationalist army will of course, mutual interests and relations on of the dollar, bet Instructed not only to give a the basis of equally and Fecipro was-2/03/16/writi
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