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SATURDAY, NOVE MBER 5, 1927.
SORDID MOTIVES.
(Continued from Pags 1.)
in existence. The Boycott So- ciety has never pretended to be similarly equipped.
From a practical point of view, the Boycott Society has not given nearly so much trouble subsc- quently as have one or two labour .unions.
I cannot but think that the Boycott Society was designed by
THE “IRONSIDES.”
INFLUENCE BEING FELT AT
KONGMOON.
THE CHINA MAIL,
POWERS DEFINED? DISPOSITION CLEAR. HONG KONG DIARY.
(Continued from page 1.)
HOW THE WARLORDS ARE DIVIDED,
Joint Objection to Nanking. The foregoing may indicato│
(Continued from Page 1.)
is going to give it a trial. At that doubts exist as to how the HINT OF HANKOW TROUBLE. Home, and at other places, Mr. powers of General Li and Mr.
Hound is rivalling Mr. Horse for Wang will be defined.
popular fancy and cash, but I ity of betting on greyhound see that the question of the legal-
But both the military and the lords this week leave no doubt as Declaration by Chinese war- in-politicians have joined voices in to the disposition of the various,
is refusing to accept the dictums of
Hope for Harmony.
halang (the "Christian General") and General Yen Hal-shan of Shansi is fighting with them a common enemy.
NOMINATION OF MAYOR..
[From Our Own Correspondent.]* Pakkai, Kongmoon Thursday. Penetration of "Ironside fluence into Canton politica being reflected here.
the Special Council which func, engaged at present in war.
The Nanking Nationalists are When the "Ironsides," who are tions at Nanking as the nominal the Canton Government to save Cantonese troops formerly under Central Government of the Na-still allied to Marshal Feng Yu-
tionalists. "face," which (in Mr.. Eugene General Li Chal-aum, the Com- Chen's words) is a mere con-mander-in-Chief at Canton, re- Mr. Wang insista on the fourth sideration of prestige." Upkeep turned from Hankow, the Kwang- plenary session of the Kuomin- of the strikers had become a pain-tang authorities invited their tang Council being held at Can-
On the other side are the Feng- ful drag on Canton's coffers but leaders to take a substantial share tou. General Li is agreeable.
tien Party, with their colleagues the agitators had to be appeased in the government. when the strike was ended by thei There is now talk that Mr. IP ist government is set up in Can-fang of Kiangau, and Gezeral If the new "central" National-in Shantung, Marshal Sun Chuan- Canton Government's decree. Hin, the mayor of Kongmoon The view suggested is that the city, is shortly to hand over his ton, with Mr. Wang at its head, Tang Seng-chi of Hankow.
it may have to differ from Gen- General Yang Sen of the upper agitators still had the anti-Bri-jaeal to a successor nominated by eral Li just as similar institu-Yangteze is trying to get what he tish boycott to play about with the Ironsides.
tions have differed from generals can for himself and the attitude even though the strike was off. New Garrison's "Curfew."
in Hankow and Nanking. How-of Canton is obscure, or probably Question of "Squeeze."
New drafts are gradually re- Fundamentally, continuation of placing the garrison at this port. ever, it remains to be seen whe-neutral.
War developments, as reported the boycott promised further in- The troops are preventing people ther a substantial number of in- come for the strike leaders who from walking on the bund after 9 fluential Nationalist politicians by Chinese observers, can be sum- had become impregnable p.m., thereby causing incon-will heed the summons to Canton. marised as follow:-- through others adopting the line venience which residents consider If not, Mr. Wang fails.
Fengtien v. Shansi: of minimum resistance. Nobody heedless.
On the other hand, Mr. Wang Fengtien forces still making succeeded in divorcing the Strike After a long lapse, work has may make no attempt to lay down progress on northern sector; but Executive's revenues from the been resumed on the highway be the law to General Li even if a are marking time on the southern private purae of the management tween the cities of Kongmoon and central" government is formed sector, and Shansi ravers still who were, therefore, not going to Sanwui and it is hoped that the in Canton. In that event, har- hold Chochow, 40 miles south of give up their lucrative positions road will be completed by the end mony should reign in Canton, Peking. without compensation.
with General Li co-operating with Fengtien v. "Christian General": of the year. Changes gradually took place Uneasiness prevails in Kong-
the politicians, each in their re- Pro-Fengtien troops from Shan- in the Canton Government, with moon city following the suspen-
spective spheres,
tung have taken all that part of the Rightist (or moderate) sion of payment, within two
from the "Christian General" and Honan north of the Yellow River element supplanting the Leftists weeks, of two native banks. The
fighting continues: (or extremists). The Strike failure of these two firms came as
Fengtlen v. Nanking: Executive was curbed, and the a surprise. Boycott Society confined itself to propaganda among merchants and shopkeepers and to examina- tion of imports.
No Public Support.
́SILVER COINS.
CHANGES IN BRITISH DESIGNS.
Reports are current in
POPULAR
MR. HOUND
tracks is being actively raised, and if it is ruled beyond the law to put a bob each way on a dog, it may be taken for granted that the sport will fop. This has been proved in the case of Australia. In Sydney they used to get 20,000 people at an evening meeting. Then betting was prohibited, and according to the latest report the that of the batch of twenty agita-
one thousand. This, however, is Canton
average attendance is less that tors arrested this week for taking part in the procession to petition
hardly a criterion, for nobody would expect an Aussie, least of Mr. Wang Ching-wel for the re- Icase of Communists from jail, are It seems that the Nanking Na- all a Sydneysider to spend time likely to be shot very shortly. tionalists-although engaged in over a sport on which he couldn't Women's Part in Politics. an expedition up the Yangtsze bet. You can's talk to these birds Meanwhile, General Li is still against General Tang Seng-chi- about the wonderful symmetry of making changes in the military can still spare sufficient troops for the hounds in flight, the graceful administration of the whole pro- operations up the Tientsin-Pukowagility of their jumping or the vlace, the purport of which can Railway against Marshal Sun poetic motion of a pack in pursuit Rugby, Yesterday.
only be the better distribution of Chuan-fang, who is an ally of the of the little tin hare. I know 'em. Several changes in the designs The strikers have taken refuge of silver coins as well as the re-his troops for defensive and anti-Fengtien Party. in Kwangtung and we have affor-Introduction of five-shilling pieces, coup measures.
Independent sources report
I see that the Govern- ed them an asylum. We shall do which have not been minted since Among the units marching back actions between Mingkwang and Friday. ment is maintaining nothing which can make them 1902, are announced in a proclamato Canton is the 3rd "supplemen- Pengpu, indicating that the Nan-
the spirit it displayed tion, signed by the King yesterday,tary" division. A batch of hos king vanguard has advanced in answering recent questions re- The chief alterations are on the pital cases" from this division about 30 miles and must now be garding the shooting of dogs in reverse side of colna. Acorns, pak Passed through flong Kong this about 90 miles distant from the branches and oak twigs are intro-week, by steamer for Canton.
It is interesting to record that north bank of the Yangtze. duced into the designs of sixpences
in a week of welcomes and other Hankow v. Nanking: and threepenny bits.
A complete Iull has set in on comes The proclamation
into functions following Mr. Wang effect
December
the lower Yangtaze. 1-British Ching-wei's return to Canton, Wireless Service.
women's organisations have
Nanking suggests that internal taken a bigger part than hither- dissent has undermined the posi- to; and these have been partial to tion of General Tang Seng-chi at Mr. Wang's party.
Hankow, the "turncoat" troops This may be due to the pre- being under a general who for- merly seceded to the Nationalists
The Canton Government once said: "The boycott is a patriotic movement against Great Britain.
ineffective in their struggle."
In a communique shortly after H.E. Sir Cecil Clementi arrived in the Colony as Governor, the Canton Government said: "The .strike was
a political when later a boy- one cott was instituted, Canton me chants and workers joined in us principals
Even though the four Cham-
An
bera of Commerce in Canton similar lines. Small contributions
passed a resolution at about the have been made by such esence of Mrs. Liao Chung-kai,
Political Factor.
*
that it is determined to do all within its power to combat the dangerous disease of rabies. I am not sure, however, that to include animals of any age in the term "dogs" will meet with general ac- There are already ceptance.
amongst the open murmura puppies of less than three months. Our's has definitely declared his objection to being muzzled, and I should not be surprised if some of
same time, that the boycott was chants to the Boycott Society for who has also just come back. from Wu Pei-fu.-). a patriotic demonstration of the carrying on propaganda and main- Her husband was a notorious ex- On the other hand, Tang Seng-these doggie youngsters do not people for the honour
of the taining pickets. And the Society tremist and Communist who was chi can still spare units for an band together and brief say, Mr. country, no fair-minded merchant is not the "public" organisation assassinated in 1925. Since then offensive from Hankow, up the Alabaster to put their case before in Canton will still maintain that it ought to be.
she has been head
Then after having of the upper Yangtaze, against doubtful the Council. the Boycott Society has the good-
women's department in the Kuo divisions at Shasi and Ichang their disconcerting move broad- will of the public.
The nonchalance of the Can-mintang and, in this capucity, (over 300 miles above Hankow) casted throughout the Press, ar- Legacy of Bolshevism.
ton Government is due entirely to served in the Hankow Govern and, possibly against the attempt range for their lawyer to have a Moreover, as Sir Cecil Clementi political reasons. Disruption of ment
ed invasion by Yang Sen.
heart-to-heart talk with the Un- pointed out in the Legislative trade and the presence of unruly Where the Money Goes. However, Tang Serig-chi does official Members and perhaps get Council, the boycott was "main-elements serve to deter factions How the Canton Government is not appear to be too comfortable the second reading of the Ordin- tained to the detriment chiefly of which may be plotting to super-erdeavouring to divert funds for in Hankow and the "Christian ance held up. The law officers of their own (the Chinese) country-sede the administration. men."
But the Canton Government channels is revested in a Chinese opposing him.
military expenditure to ather General" has joined Nanking in the Crown could then give it fur- ther consideration as to whether If pressed, the Boycott Society may be forced to act, should the report from Canton.
Hankow's Troubles.
amendments could be made which might be able to produce tangible movement spread-not in the in- At one time, the provincial
Hankow, Yesterday. would meet the puppies' objec-1 proof of a large and influential interests of trade, but to assert treasury received over $8,000,000
The authorities here are short tions. membership, although it is com- its authority.
a month. Partial drifting away of funds and complications may posed mainly of riff-ralf and sue- Arbitrary power for the pickets of up-country administrations ensue. ceasors of Strike officials. The is tantamount to creation of a has loosened the centralisation of Labour unions are restless and reason behind this also explains state within a state-a condition france and the revenue dropped causing some trouble.-British why their pickets are still toler-which portends dire possibilities to about $6,000,000. The Com-Naval Wireless. ated to-day. It is because both for the administration.
munist invasion of Swatow-made the Chinese merchant and work-
further inroads into receipts but
"Mild" This Time.
CHRISTMAS DAY.
'AN ADDITIONAL BANK HOLIDAY.
The Fengtien Drive.
Peking, Yesterday. er does not wish to face the an- One relieving feature this time it is now hoped, continues the The Fengtien push into north
Rugby, Yesterday. tagonism of an institution which, is that, up to the time of writ-report, that the total will reach Shansi continues, according to
Christmas Day this year falla on being the legacy of Bolshevik in-ng, no violence has been report- $1,000,000 again.
official telegrams,
Sunday and this, in the ordinary trigue, possesses a degree of dar-ed.' As compared with the ruth. The "war office" needs about The Cabinet claims that the course, would have meant depriving ing when it knows the ground is lessness of the Strike pickets, the $6,000,000 a month, leaving very Fengtienese have entered Tso the worker of a day's holiday. As clear. A merchant will rather acts of the Boycott pickets are little for the civil administration, yun, 30 miles west of Tatung (or was the case in 1921, when Christ- pay "squeeze" to get British
mild. The latter have function- Officials are now at work trying about 100 miles behind the Shan-mas Day last fell on a Sunday, the goods through if he can still
ed for months but have given to cut down this outlay to not si frontier.Reuter.
King has declared Tuesday, Decem- make a profit.
little trouble, making small seiz-more than $4,000,000, to spend
[ber 27, an additional Bank Holiday Economically Unsound. ures in isolated instances but $2,000,000 on the civil side, and
In England, Wales and Ireland.~- To give another quotation obeying the authorities when to obtain another $2,000,000 (per
British Wireless Service. which is from a statement by the called upon to return their illegal month, of course) for construc- British official delegation to the ly gotten goods.
tional and development schemes. "peace" conference at Canton in Because of the presence in Can- July of last year: The ab-ton to-day of influential politicians atention (meaning the boycott) is who are striving might and main not a voluntary one. It is impos- to set up a civilian government ed on an unwilling people by &based on the Nationalist Party, small but powerful organisation General Lt Chai-sum will not risk of persons who maintain the toy-offending anybody if he has any cott by force of arms and who do other alternative. The politicians not hesitate to shoot down their are seeking the goodwill of the own fellow countrymen when the public, in which the voice of in- latter try to continue those nor-stitutions such as the Boycott mal relations which ought to Society is heard to loud effect. exist between close and friendly
No Need For Alarm.
FATAL ACCIDENTS.
MORRIS LORRY KILLS AGED
-PEDESTRIAN.
شیمی
BOY KILLED BY TRUCK.
The driver of one the military six-wheeler Morria lorries attach- ed to the Mechanical Transport Company has reported to the Police
neighbours, and which will cer- If the Boycott pickets take that he knocked down a Chiness:
at the junction of Nathan Road, tainly, sooner or later, burst heart from this week's seizures and Argyle Street, Kowloon. through the artificial and econo-they may extend the intensity and The Chinese, who was a man of mically unsound barriers which the scope of their cordon around advanced years, was crossing the prevent their free action at pre- the Canton Customs house and road at the time and an accident Bent."
the steamboat wharves. The would have been avoided if he had
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A point from the reply of the more likely happening is that they not turned and attempted to re- Chinese delegation is always will be induced by the author-cross in the direction from which worth remembering. It admits ties
to confine themselves to he came. The off mud-guard of that the Chinese have suffered examination of incoming mer him to the ground. He was taken the lorry caught him and knocked from the boycott, reading:-chandise. "The large unemployment in con-
to the Kowloon Hospital and died Having gone through much shortly after admittance. sequence of the break of normal worse during the last two years, paja relations between Hong Kong and Hong Kong need not be unneces❘ SHAMSHUIPO FATALITY, Kwangtung
sarily alarmed at this sudden w Sordid Motives.
trend of events until it becomes A Chinese boy who was playing Excesses by the advocates of apparent that the Canton Govern-on the Shamphulpo reclamation boycott have brought logical re-ment is behind the movement. I ground, where work is still pro- sults. The Strike Executive has think the majority of those inter greasing, was knocked down by been restricted and its members ested in the issue will agree that one of the trucks yesterday after- have been arrested. Pickets the present Canton Government noon. He was taken to hospital
and died shortly afterward have been forbidden. have been forbidden to carry is "disinterested."
Opinion is unanimous that the Still, there are merchants who boycott the term being used in favour a boycott of British goods. its corrupted sense is involun- It is notified that the Road The motives are sordid the tary and only a pretext by the Bridge between the Kowloon- chance of profit to themselves be professional agitators to make tan Railway and the Causeway cause they deal in non-British more squeeze after a thin Talpo will be open merchandise, or inducement: on period of Inactivity,
Thursday next.
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Peking, Yesterday. General Chang Tsung-chang's headquarters claim that apart from bands of fugitives and small garrison at Sinsiang that and that Chihli-Shantung troops there are now no Kuominchun are enveloping Sinsiang, the fall troopa (under the "Christian Gen- of which is believed to be im- eral") north of the Yellow River minent.-Reuter,
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