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TELEGRAM TO HIS OPPONENTS. COPIES SENT TO DIPLOMATIC CORPA. The following telegram was dispatched by Chang Hsun recently to General Tunn Chi-jui, of date Kwo chang, Mr. Han Shih-chang, etc., and copies of it were sent to the Foreign Misters and the Press:
JULY 24гx. 1017
ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S GRAVE WARNING
GERMAN REPRISALS "
PRISONERS,
HARDSHIPS OF BRITISH SOLDIERS.
German
CHANG HSUN'S MANIFESTO, STRIKE LEADERS IN COURT. ACTING PRESIDENT OF CHINA HIS LEGAL STATUS QUESTIONED. Mr. Wa Chung-hsi and other ex- Eight engineer strike leaders who were members of the defunct Parliament have
The two letters published below confirma arrested in several parts of the country despatched a telegram to Vice-President in connection with the strike movement Feng Kuchang, questioning the validity the accounts given in other letters which. were brought up recently at Bow-street of his status as acting-President in cons have appeared in The Times of the in- Police Court befure Sir John Dickinson,quence of his having previously violatect humanity with which British prisoners of under the Defence of the Realm Reguln the Provisional Constitution by support war have been treated by Germaus on the
that A falsely-alleged ground ing the dissolution of Parliament, tins.
translation of the telegram is as follows; prisoners of war have been employed on To the Vice-President: We are in the Western front in the fring-line zone. It was officially announced last month formed that the President is now no longer free to exercise his authority, and, that the German Government had agreed in accordance with law, you will assume
to the withdrawal of all British prisoners office as acting President in command of the army and the navy of the country, roughly 90 miles from the firing line, hotk which evidently, you have done. on the Eastern and Western fronts, but, what we desire to remind you of is that the Provisional Constitution does not the meantime, the writer of the Best only provide that the Vice President letter, Private Barlow, of the 1st West shall assume the office of the President Yorkshire Regiment, and 16 of those to tender such circumstances; the Provisional
Inspired by a spirit of loyalty to the the Imperial Ching House, from which I, togeiner with my opponents, have re- ceived many tavours, and beving that the restoration of the Uning House was the only possible remedy for the evils which have sprung up in the past six years, 1, Chang isun, have restored the Emperor Hauan Tung to the throne of bis fathers and have called upon my com rades and upon the nation for & support which had every reason to anticipate but which has not been given me.
Instead of being supported in my sin cere and honest endeavour to beneft my country and my Sovereign, I have been forced to do battle with my pledged asso ciates, with my life-long comrades in arms
and oven with my friends of a genera
tion's standing,
The Attorney General said the elvirges which it had been intended to prefer were under the Defence of the Realm Regula tions, which aide it an offence to impede the supply of munitions. It had been intended to treat the offence as an indict- able offence, and to prefer the charge before a jary. That course had, under the circumstances which the magistrate would probably think would require sunc explanation-become annecessary. The inen had signed an undertaking which he would read, as it would be relevant the position which the magistrate would adupt. The statement read:-
But
Constitution also provides that the Pre-whom he refers as "any mates,” have dird ay the result of the ill-treatment to whien. sident cannot on his own authority issue Mandates, which must be properly cou|they were subjected by the Germau mili- tersigned by the Cabinet Ministers, and the appointment of the latter mustury authorities. reauve the approval of a legally con-
undertake to adhere to the agree ment arrived at on Saturday, May 19th, 1917. between the Ministry of Munitions By these former friends and comrades 1n the Executive Council of the Amal gamated Society of Engineers acting at after power. I have had a price put upon the request of the Unalicial Strike Constituted Parliament. Only in fulfillmentichfeld, is as follows:--
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my head, and now without consideration and without the negotiations which are accorded the vanquished in every civilized nation on earth, I am told that I must he exterminated s B robber and a criminal.
mittee and on their behalf?"
UNDERTAKING SIGNED.
There never had beca any mistake in the minds of the Government of this country that the overwhelming majority af the men had been doing a great antimal work during the war, and doing it as loyally as the soldiers in the field. It was no doubt tree; and it would be range if it were not true, that these men working constantly long hours and at high pressure, from time to time Jaboured under some grievance niwding The Attorney-General went adjustmuN.
PROMOTING STRIKES.
The letter, which was
dated from Fried- of these provisions on your claim to
I told you in my last letter that we were the succession of the office of the Presidi-
As Vico President you going to be removed, and so we have, to ent be. valid.
a worse pluce than we have ever been automatically become the President, when the latter is no longer capable of per forming his ofheinl duties, but only in conformity with the provisions laid down in the Provisional Constitution, other wise, you will certainly, be regarded by the public as caring more for your own interest than for the observance of the fundamental principle of law. We are curious to learn your justification for this.
· LOYAL ACCEPTANCE.
They
in. We have been moved right up behind the firing line, and where we go to work is right in the fire zone, where the sheils are dropping, and it is very dangerous. The work we do is digging trenches and felling trees; also carrying then, which is very hard.
moved.
So will you please show this letter to somebody of higher rank in order that something can be done, because if this
We are behind the Russian and German firing hues, and if you have any idea what a Russian winter is like you will know how things are with us. It is about fortnight since we came bere, and that is a fortnight too long. God help us if we have to stop bere much longer. (Semence here crassed on by Censor) account of frost-bites, so you will see how keen' it is.
The hours we work are very long, but the worst of it is we are not allowed to smoke, and that is awful, so please try and do your hest, because we can't stick this much unger, as (we are all getting weaker every day.
Mr. Ellis Grithth, representing five of the defendants, said his clients did not siga the undertaking as a matter of form, bud intended loyally to abide by it. The
The second later, received by the hon- defendants in what they did were not
orary director of Dr. Barnardo's, Homes, actuated by any anister motive.
is from an old Barnardo boy at present a had been loyni throughout in the true The dificulty all sense of the word.
Just a few lines hoping you are well. through this strike had been a conflict Prisoner of war on the Russian front: within the ranks of the trade unions as I wrote you a little while ago in answer to the best trade union organisation. to your letter, but this one is a different That was the real substance and signi affair altogether. When I wrote to you
It was urged, last I was at Liban. Since thea ficance of the whole thing. rightly or wrongly, that a grievance in 400 other Englishmen have been sent up Ito the Russian froutier, where we are com.... the shop was a matter which could be better dealt with by the shop stewards.pelled to work for the Germans, such as carrying trees, digging trenches, etc. On behalf of his clients he said he was
The weather is very cold up here. glad the Attorney-General had felt it his duty to take the step he had done,had a 38-kilometer (22) miles) march from station, with our blankets on our and he was sure it would produce a better hacks and other smaller gear, I and my atmosphere. He was sure that it was recognised that all stoppages and all unrest imperilled the safety of the Empire.AN
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That undertaking had been signed by every one of the defendants, and it was proper that be should state in the plain It is not fitting that I insist upon my est possible language that had not that Let undertaking, couched in these terms, been sincerity and honesty of purpose, Heaven and posterity judge me if I am reservelly accepted by the defendants, forced to preserve my honour and that the proceedings would have been prose of my men by dying in battle with the cuted by the Goverment until they had cnomies that hem me ju. The cause which reached a coméhmion before a jury at the
We live in a hunt, which is partly heat- we came to support is dearer to me than Bessicus. The magistrate had justly
It will be recolleted that in aed, but it is very cold. When we wake my life and the lives of my men, und 1¦ observed that the matter was a most grave reiterate that if I am not to be accorded one, and if every one of these defendants recent telegram you urged the dissolution up in the morning our booty are frout. An opportunity to negotiate for the wei was indicted he might have been subjected of Parliament and tendered your resigna-The reason we have been sent here is that fare of my sovereign and the safety of my to a maximam penalty of penal servitude tion as Vice-President of the Republic.they say our Government hase Gerutan prisoners doing similar work, and that following in this hour of trial, I can for life. In those circumstances, it would This shows your unwillingness to acknow, prove iny hosty by dying with honour. prolably require on his part some expla-ledge the Provisional Constitution as the they have sent them behind the Bring line,
and the sooner they move their men to do not propose to shame what I believe nation of the circumstances, in which he fundamental law of this land. Though just and righteous cause by surrender underlook the responsibility for the by virtue of your office as Vice President, better place the sooner we shall be re- ing as a criminal.
grave course which had been adopted that you are entitled to act as President, the Why am I not accorded the custordary
day. It was well known amongst certain validity of your Vice-Presidentship de right of an honourable negotiation?
sections of the pupulation, that, in the pends entirely upon the Provisional Cen- am told to come out disarmed and t
main, the engineers, and those who work stitution. Since you have refused to re; surrender unconditionally, on the on
or a shell puts us out of our troubles the hand, and, on the other. I am advised that with them, had been carrying on the cognise the same, your claim to succeed so much longer the sooner a bullet work for the manufacture of munitions the President and to exercise the power I have to expect the slaughter of my meh
me and my mates, of which there am 500 and the sacrifice of my life together with and other implements of war, and that provided therefor is dubious from theter: so please try and do your best for What alternative is there here they had laboured in the common cause legal point of view. Even though dis of us; all of which are the lads who came my cause.
out with the first British Expeditionary regarding what has happened in the for a man of honour? What inducement of this country with our soldiers in the is there to spare the populace in Peking field, though under conditions which were past, the fear mill exists that after your Force, and since we have been prisoners the fright which a final combat would safer and easier than was possible for the necession, you may continue to ignore we have had to go through it, nobody
the Provisional Constitution. This fear knows but ourselves, give them? I am as solicitous for the soldiers in the field. welfare of the people of Peking as my
makes the ardent supporters of the the opponents, but I am more solicitous for
Republic hesitate in recognizing the welfare of the Ching House and for
validity of your claim to the Presidency, the humour of may following and myself.
However unpleasant this may sound, it Hion can I ask my followers, bemmed in
is our sincere opinion and we hope you and outnumbered by men who promise
will give it your due consideration.": the destruction and the wreck of the in- terests in which they have followed m, to abandon their cause, to discard their weapons, and to walk into the ranks of their opponents, without guarantees of safety, or a pledge of the fair treatmest, which we must be assured will be recorded the Imperial Family before we consider in say that there had never been me any other alternative than a fight to the monent when the Government of the end!
country were not prepared and anxious If my former colleagues, now my op-
to listen with the greatest sympathy to ponenta and oppressors, are so profoundly the expression of just and reasonable interested in the peace, and welfare of demands; but it was essential that the the city of Peking, in the peace of mind Government should deal with the excon- tives of the tende onions, and not with of its population, and in the safely of
Otherwise, the Diplomatic Body and of foreign re- unofficial bodies of the men.
He concluded by sid nts, let then deal with me as an hon- there would be chaos. ourable opponent, inspired by honest saying that the agreement signed by the principles, and not as a brigand, upon defendants made it possible for him to whose head there is a price, dead or alive. withdraw the prosecution,
Whatever terms come to me, as from one sincere man to another. I shall consider The Attorney-General said if the with an open mind, and shall be prepared defendants could induce their fellow to make whatever concessions are consis-members to elect them to the responsible tent with my honour and my principles, positions in the trade union, the matter for the sake of peace, which I had no assumed a totally different aspect, and in
chum brought a decent-sized box with us. desire to violate at any time, and in these circumsinners they would find the
By the time we had done half the journey interest of
our men were getting fagged. After that For the present I am on the defensive.Government as loyal to them as the
a good many men dropped on the march I shall keep the peace in the City, I shall Government had been loyal during the
Mr Slenger who represented the ball through snow sometimes past our not fire until I an fired upon, I shall de negotiations to those who at this moment honourably with envoys, but until. I have alone stood in the position of constituted defendant Kealey, spoke in a similar knees in depth. We had Uhlans to keep us company, and they kept us moving, been dealt with fairly and reasonably authority in the trade union, Proceed strain..
MP Arthur Neal, solicitor for Burgess too, with their Innees. When we got to shall not move a pace from my presenting, he said he did not wish to may a position, nor abandon my moral obliga single word which might breed bitterness and Hill, expressed thanks to the Governor destination, which was a very miser
in the future. He would address his few men for the course they had taken, andable-looking place, we had to put up in. Lions to the Imperial Household.
no part of his tent, where we are staying, three or Before I consider any concessions what remaining words, not necessarily at all said that there was
We ever, the terms of an honest settlement to the defendants; he said quite plainly Majesty's dominions were loyal than four kilometres off the firing line, must be arranged and proper guarantees that there were men who had been Sheffield. His client would not thank the have about 12 small stoves in the tent. be given for the observance of these terms. forward in promoting the recent strike Attorney General and the Government for We are not allowed to have our kit baga, I appeal to the Honourable Diplomatic whose motives, in the judgment of the withdrawing the proceedlings if they left which contain our clothing, etc. representatives of the Treaty Powers, in executive, were not primarily motives of. the court under suspicion that they had cannot have our parcels now like we did the interests of humanity and peace, to calling the attention of the authorities been acting with the desire to interfere Liban, We are not allowed to smacke or play cards. We do not know what to Whit further the consummation of such ar
with the output of munitions. to grievances or hardships He was
do with ourselves here: rangements, and to these honourable speaking to really educated and extremely they desired was the establishment of The simple reason of us being sent gentlemen I pledge myself to observe able men who could very well understand machinery for the speedy settlement of up here is because England sent some of faithfully and honestly whatever agroea what he said, and very well understand their differences. Mr. Neal pointed out the German prisoners of war in front of ments I find it possible to raake with my the indications of that which he left that the engineers had been working at the firing line. So we have been told by opponents.
high pressure day and night, week days reports. So the Germans are doing like unsaid. (Signed) CHANG Hsun.
I tell them, and I tell them plainly," and Sundays, and something must be wise with us. We have water to wash said the Attorney General, that their allowed for the psychology of the moment, ourselves, and a good many of us have comings and goings, the ramifications of The undertaking had not been given at no soap. So now you can judge what the EXCOMMUNICATION OF WAR their society, the terms in which they a price. The Attorney General had not hard lot of a prisoner of war is. If the have communicated with one another, the asked a price, The signing had been German prisoners are sent away from the objects which they have expounded in a willing act of the men, who desired firing line, then we will be sent back to You may please their correspondence, I tell them they that their differences and that their respectable camp.. are as well known to authority as they grievances, large and small, might be yourself what you do with this letter. are known to themselves. (At this point speedily adjusted, so that the work of See if you can use your influence a bit. there was a laugh from among the crowd the nation might be resumed. It must I should like the proper authorities to Both Chang Heon, the Military Sage.
in court.) This Government cannot, if not be taken that the men had admitted know about our treatment, here" and Kang Yu-wei, the Scholar or Modern this issue be raised again, avoid the moral guilt in any sense They were Suge, are strong supporters of the so issue, however dark and perilous it may not humiliated men, or condemned men, called Confucian Religion. They have he, if that issue be again challenged and they were not men who had purchased been looked upon as the only persons who during the conduct of this war. I wish their liborty by the sacrifice of principle: could save it from destruction. However to make it is plain as any words of mine the Confucian Religion Societies, which can make it, that if there be a recurrence noticed that these sages are unreliable of a deliberate attempt to incite strikes with the object of impeding the supply elements, excommunicated Kang Yu-wai munitions, there will be no line drawn in the 3rd month, and have now issued If there be any who leave these pro another circular excommunicating the ceedings with their hearts unpurged of Military Sage","
They have now addressed the following bitterness I most solemnly warn thers that telegram to Chang. Heun: "Some time the next breach of the law will be dealt ago you tried to maintain the Holy He with at the sessions by a jury of their The muagistrate said, after the speeches ment Railways) recently said at the countrymen. The decision upon that will of defending counsel and the application Through Traffic Conference in Tokyo, ligion, and on account of your efforts you taken by no Government, but by that made by the Attorney General, with the key to travel and trafie facilities were elected by us as Chief of our socis jury, and I have no doubt that those to deep sense of responsibility, he thought on the continent of Asia - ties. You have now become an usurper whom these words are addressed will ask he could allow the charges to be with Much has been left for China to do by obeying the dictates of Kang Yu-wei,.
their own consciences what the result of drawn. He the discharged the to bring her equiprient up to first-class and on account of your crimes every
such a trial will be. I will tell the defendants. inch of your flesh should be cut to this, that they can ask for no merey if pieces. Members of our societies have. a verdict is given against them." The unanimously opposed your unsurpation, Attorney-General then formally applied therefore you are informed that you bave been excommunicated from our Holy for leave to withdraw the charges.
(Continued at foot of next column>" Religion.
my
Rovereign.
SAGE.
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The Attorney-General said that the toneO BETTER TRAIN ACCOMMODATION ANTWHERE:
ELSE IN THE WORLD.”' of the speeches of defending counsel was the best justification of the course taken
The Far Eastern Review of May, by the prosecution. He accepted the tone and spirit of the speeches as representing in its leading article, contained the the defendants and he drew more com- following words of praise in regard to fort and thore bone from them than from the South Manchuria Railway, which is,
of the ind any circumstances of the industrial as Baron Goto (Japanese Home Minister dispute,
and President of the Imperial Govern-
standards to match with the solendit With the withdrawal of the prosecu- service of the Chosen and South Man-* firns against the strike lenders, the menchuria Railway Travellers are willing at Sheffield and Barrow immediately to admit quits freely that no better decided by overwhelming majorities to train accommodation can be secured any. --start next day.
where else in the work."