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A REPLY TO RUMOURS AND
SERIOUS CHARGES..
NO " VIOLATION OF ABDICATION
AGREEMENT.
BY MR. F. JOHNSTON, ENGLISH TUTOR TO THE EMPEROR."
1924
CANTON NEWS.
FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ] TRÅDERS' UNION ORDERED TO
DISSOLVE »
have lasted a few days or a few weeks longer, but the end would have been the same, la that case China to-chy would have had nothing to show for her in. creased expenditure at that time. A larger number of her warships would now
Upon the assurance of the labour see- be rotting at the bottom of the spa, andtion of the Kuomintang Political Party » there would have been no Summer Palace that their constituency will stand by the to delight the eyes and refresh the minds present regime in Canton, the Canton of countless Chinese and foreign visitors Mayor has ordered the dissolution of the Mr. Li" may have been indulging in Traders' Union of Canton, an organīža. somewhat elephantine pleasantries when tion of some 3,000 firms in the city. The he constructed his third question with Traders' Union, merly a committen of its irrelevant addenda, but he can.hardly rerchants haring opposed the war tax plend' a similar excuse for the terms of The Chinese newspapers of July 23rd. NO MONARCHIC ASPIRATIONS.
on medicine, vegetables and fruit, wax hia fourth. This question embodies an fornied but recently to oppose father 1924, published a series of Five Questions In his third question, Mr. Li asks extremely grave charge against myself encroachment from the officials in the addressed to Government by Mr. Li,
whether the Government is willing to He has heard that I make a grossly form of obnoxious imposts. It was un- Hsich-yang, a Member of the House of aequiesce in a contmercial development improper use of my position as Tuter to friendly to the Government in origin und Representatives in Peking, on the subject of the Summer Palace which by increas the Maacha Emperor by encouraging him is generally believed it will be af, no' of various rumours which have been cire culating arcently regarding innovations in the financial power of the Manchu in various unlawful activities, and by help to it and tiered it at the Suramer Palace. In the course of Emperor may bring upon the country the fociting him tis work for a restoration. municipal order to dissolve it has been
calamity of a monarchis restoration.
Mr. Li asks whether anything of these expecting for some time. The Mayor he' Before I proceed to reply to this ques-unholy doings has come to the ears of lieves that the General Chamber of Com- chu Emperor, and also against myspit Ition, I cannot rain frean drawing at the Government. Whatever the official morce of Canton is sufficiently representa These charges were admittedly made on
tention to the base and cowardly insinua answer to this question may be. I hope tive of the interests of local merchan tion that if the Manchu Emperor possess-.
the Government will call upon Mr. Li So far, the General Chamber his res a basis of more rumour, yet it does not
to produce the evidence" upon which he been very active in aiding with the pre- Seem to have occurred to Mr. Li that herd the accessary financial power. he should first have aertained whether the would, in defiance of the will of theres this seandalous and lying accusation, sunt regime, while being powerfans to rumours were true before denouncing the people of China, attempt to restore the takes no steps in this direction, I trust MILITARY USURP FUNCTIONS OF
If the Government on its own initiative pose it.
Manchu Emperor and his English Tutor
I can only suppose that Mr. Britannic Majesty's Minister will
JUDICÏANY. en the strength of them. No English 'Li is judging, the Mancha Emperor by request it to do so. If it were proved Now-a-days the people in Canton find
the standard of his own nature, and is
it easier and cheap to collect a debt vividly conscious that if he himself were
through appeal for aid to the ever-ready in the Manchu Emperor's place, and had
hringing suits before the judicial courts. militarists stationed in the city than by goll enough. he would not hesitate to buy his way back to the throne.
his remarks. Mr. Li made certain charges of a very serious nature' against the Man-
Eranslation of Mr. Li's questions, as
monarchy,
The recent
A militarist would go with a body-guart of aix or nure armed ten with, doen- cats from his client and demand a settle- of the debtor until the claim is satished ment, loitering at the shup or residence. and all ten poney and other charges paid." LITTLE WORK FOR THE HIGH COURT.
that I, a British subject, were or had far as I am aware, has yet appeared in
been engaged in fomenting, a political the foreign Press, heuve it is on the
revolution in China, the lightest punish Chinese original that I base my own
ment that could befal me would be my remarks. But even if foreign editors
immediate expulsion from Chinese soil: treat Mr. Li's questions with the con- But perhaps we should not pay Mr. Linor would the British Government think tempt they deserve, the letters which the poor compliment of taking seriously it necessary to delay action until it had have reegived from foreign newspaper his suggestion that an income derived received Tron, the Chinese Foreign Office correspondents, and others" during the from the commercial exploitation of the an official request for my deportation. past few days show that the qüestions Summer Palace, could provide the Man-n the other hand..if Mr. Li fails to have not` escaped the attention of for chu Emperor with the necessary financial produce any evidence that I have been eigners who can read, Chinese. More basis for a movement aimed at the over guilty of so gross a misuse of my position at Canton, supposed to have jurisdiction The Kwangtung High Court of Justice ovey, it is evident that a good deal off throw of the Chinese Republic. Mr. Li's and opportunities in the Forbidden City, aver all civil and criminal cases on au misunderstanding exists in foreign circles faith in the stability of Republicam in hope it is not improper to suggest that real in the province has now to reduce regarding what i netually being done at stitutions in China would be weak indeed the Chinese Govertinent should call upon cial support for the Canton (over- its personnel and staff for lack of finan- the Summer Palace, and it seems deif he hênestly feared they could be en; him to offer me a pible apology for his ment For a long time this court has sirable that this misunderstanding should dangered or overthrown through the in baseless insinuation or acmsation. existed only on fees collected from the... be cleared up. For these reasons I have strumentality ef a financial power based he isa gentleman, he will, as a matter of litigants and finds imposed. Since Dr. fawn up the following memorandum. on the sale of tea fish, lemonade and pic- course, offer that apology without wait Yat-sen has lost all but about 19 of which not only embodies the general par- ture-postcards at thus Summer Palace, orang to be called upon to do so. He will crat Chen Chiang-ming has opened courts the De districts in Kwangtung, and Gen- port of Mr. Li's questions and my own replies to them. but also contains a de
even on the proats of a dozen hotels and
in territory he controls, the Kwangtung tailed account of present conditions at restaurants. In her fact, there is just
There are some 760 enses on its calendar High Court now. has but little to do the Summer Palace and the steps which a hope that by carrying out various, much
awaiting trial still, but either one as both are now being taken to alter them.
neeled and long overdue reforms in the
of the parties to the suit are residents ABDICATION AGREEMENT NOT
administration of the Palace estate, and
of districts outside the present Canton by a reasonable development of existing
roginié and a call for a hearing is impos- sources of income (a development which will by no means ruin the Palace a Place of residence for an aperer), those this question of Mr. Li's was deliberately prisoners under the supervision of the
I fear there is reason to believe that
VIOLATED.
also he most anxious, if he is a gentle man, to offer his deepout apologies to the Manchu Emperor for suggesting that is Majesty is willing to employ as his Tutor a foreigner who seeks to involve him in dangerous political intrigues.
of
ANTI-BRITISH SENTIMENT.
บ
sible.
STARVING PRISONERS.
Not only the court staffs but also the
Mr. L prefaces his first question with a reference to newspaper reports that the Summer Palace is being converted into commercial emporium, under the direction of the Manchu Emperor's Eng- lish Tutor. Tenders are being received difficulty succeed in making it self-suplaboriously drags into it a reference to stringeney. Many a time the warders in charge of the property may with framed with a view to stirring up anti-judicial department of the Canton regime
British sentiment in Chine fur the lease. vi
for ho are suffering from the present financial lands, and premises, with a view to the establishment of various porting Even then it is to be feared allegedl British encroachments or usurpa have been unable to raise funds them- commero'al enterprises, such as five for that there will be little no surplus left tions in Tibet. Apparently my suspected selves to feed their charges, and the eign restauranta, ve Chinese restaur- out of which to pay for the adequate attempts to foarent new Chinese revolu- rations accorded to the unfortunates had' ants, two photographic studies, ten tea- houses. public baths,
upkeep of the buildings, many of which under the nominal leadership of the peen most miserable. recreation
Manche Emperor are connected in some months several attempts at gaol break- Lu the last six ground, and four residential hotels out through unavoidable neglect, are already mysterious way with deep laid British ing took place at the Canton District sile the walls. He declares that in deal beginning to show signs of decay, ing with the Summer Palace in the way
schemes to reduce China
the same sort Court gaol At present, the inmates of described. the Manchu Emperor has
I hope Mr. L''s anxiety (if he spoke supposed already to have reduced Tibet. he permitted to enrole in the "dare to vassalage to which British gule is the Nanhoi Prison are asking that they violated the terms
Abdicationeously and not in jest) about the pos- Al. wild statements about Agreement, which designated the Sun sibility of the surplus revenues of the of, which by evidently knows very little
matters dic corps of the Canton Army. mer Palace as the Emperor's place of Summer Palace being used to destry the suggest to me the whimsical notion of a residence. He asks whether the Govern Republic, will now be set at rest His Delai Lama aud
THE MILITARY SITUATION. ment sanctioned bis action, and whether question is, however, accompanied by wriggling together like meshed in erlend little encouragenient to Dr. Sun Yat- Manchu Emperor Reports froin Kwangsi the last few days it authorised. General Nieh Hsieh fan to me comments which should not
Fishes in a close-meshed not of surrender control of the Summer Palage allowed to pass unnoticed. He makes a British intrigue. I suppose Mr. Lich
General Shen Hung-ying of a to the Imperial House,
charge (wholly uncalled for The obvious answer to this question is place)
and out of regards me as a wicked instrument of a wangsi mercenary army, who duped Dr. against the Ma
fanchu Emperor
forsalevolent Government in the curreng |
Sun early in 1923 and again early in 1024 that the Government did not sanction any
in wrongful occupation of the Im- violation of the terms of, the Abdication
out of sinister schen.es whereby
by Erat offering him nominal support and Palace
in Pel Agreement and that no sigh violation long of thing and naks how and Lhasa are to be chained together then descrting him after getting the fumis
things is as been perpetrated. Nor did the Gov- tolerated. He seems to imply that the imperialism over a roadway strewn with himself with General La Yung ting, at
he and made
to irng the chariot of British and aminuitions desired, has again allied ernment authorise General Nich to sur-Emperor is render his control of the Summer Palace Replicas Government to turn him out.
Sur Palaces in defiance himself those the writhing bodies of Chinese, and one time the forecast war lord in Sonth of the efforts of the Tibetan slaves. Anti-foreign" tors China and a former superior officer of because its administration was never in Here again it is diffealt to believe that of these pleasing pictures, which if reported of having received encourage his hands and he had
tators liberty to make what use like Shen in Nanning and Canton. They are Palace is Mr. Lin surrender. The Sumrefore nothing
can be serious. Has he ench a handled by a skilled draughtsman, and meat from General Wn Pei-fu of the part of the private property of the Man mean opinion of his Government's sense judiciously displayed.might prove very Yangtsze Valley Command to encroach chu Imperial House and an attempt has of public duty.. or of its power and pres effective in using the patriotic indign- upou Dr. Sun in Canton, ever been made by the Republican Gov ige. that he believes it expable of tamely ation of the einment, or any of its responsible officers, acquiescing in an
an act r.f usiirpation by
Reports from Dr. Suu's sources claimt to deny the right of the Imperial House defenceless boy, who in spite of
de
and his
of Western Imperialism. gnities
that his men are still-in control of Hoi- to administer the property in any was capty title of Emperor is without finan his fifth and final question. Mr. Li, Yenping, and Loting, the three it thinks fit.
al. military or political resources. wants to kuow whether the
districts General Chen Chiung-ming's blame for the COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENTS.
whose person, and liberty are wholls 'nt Emperor's alleged commercial exploita fortes" occupied for some weeks before that Government's disposal? How can ton of the Summer
should be being pushed back last month. defiantusurper of "Forbidden City
In the East River regions of Kwang- from, which he could be ejreted at an heur's notice by a single polies constable armed with a warrant from President or Cabinet
+
to be
nt Are
against the horse mass #feld. ini-
of China
In his second question, Mr. Li asks the Manchu Emperor be said to be à borne by "Generni. Nigh Helen-fan or tung. General Chen Ching-ming is stil
whether the Government approves of the Mancku Emperor breaking the terms of the Aldication Agreement by turning the Summer Palace into a commercial em porium.
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23
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clares that the Manchu Emperor has is command. His forces have regained accepted by the Government." He de forfeited his right to the Summer Palace control of Pokte, a city which has ex because the Abdication Agreement de changed aside more than 14 times in this signated it as his ultimate place of last 12 months. On account of lack of residence and he has failed to make use food and anamuuition supply from Dr. of it as such.
Canton, may nanese gerecnary troops Sun Yat-sen's General Readquarters in were forced during the last month to sur- commander in Eastern, Kwangtung, render to General Lin Hu, 15 Chen's
t
Cumparary or permanent place of dwags minicus episodes in roodern text for eonfiscat do would be to
**
BOXING AT SHANGHAI, Johnny Hill made short work of Lenardo Carcia, in the main event before it inge crowd, on the Carlton roof garden laxt second and mining the verdict on knock-out in the third found.
suggest, as a fitting answer, that the Emperor has no intention of trans
NO SUMMER PALACE. forming the Palice into a commercial em! Mr. Li makes another quant comment.
Even if it were true that the Emperor puitum, it is unnecessary to consider to the effect that if the Summer Palace intended to turn the Palner into a what the attitude of the Government is provided with popular attractions, the thriving centre of commerce and industry would be in such a contingency. It may Chinese people will gradually forget the
more than doubtful, na I have la added. however, that the Government circumstances in which it was orginally already ponted out, whether the Govern could hardly legitimately interfere; if the built, that it was erected out of naval ment would have the right to forbid him serial
family. besides using the Palace funds, and therefore
to do so.
In any and stand, al of one off could not honourably use this as a pre-
should to
1 any case, the Government Commercial possiblities. That the Gov. Chinese bestors, her, disastrous defeat, it could
were to develop some of its the most
the place: the meet erument has no ubjretion in priparial Mr. Li is apparently one of those foolish ecmmerellising schemes and, request it week, striking the decisive, blow in the
to thirty years ago, at the hands at faran inform the Imperial Household of its commercial levelopment of
reasons for ohjesting to the proposed properties is clear to
isly ign
ignorant arquinted with the present condition of naval funds had not been diverted to the to devise other means of meeting the
persons who believe that (the Hunting Park") and construction of the Summer Palace penses of maintenance. One such both of which.
properties China
"navy would have been strong means, obviously, by which these ex- Passed by the Imperial House enough to defeat that of Japan. China's peases might be met would be by induc
Hill's weight at two o'clock on the day to persons who are or were of the Government itself, and fet ve been of land military weakness at the time ing the Government to pay at least 135lis. and Garcia, two pounds more.
the China-Japan war
small fraction of the mullions of the lightweight title was not at stake. The latter being and pound overweight, owes the Im- dollars which it now considerable
scale. So far as I am period long anterior to the time of the
Bobby Favach (152lbs.) was awarded under that very Abdicaticu aware Dther Mr. Li nor anyone else late Empress Dowager. I am far from
the decision on points over Iron Bax bas raised any objection to the erection
Agreement of of hotels and dwelling-houses by Republi- was not partly indeed very largely, due
wishing to suggest
that China's collapse
edly constituted himself so edger and zealous a champion
great deal of punishment, but he did can officials in the leased properties, to the incapacity, corruption, ignorance final question is that no binme what much out of condition and was blowing though on "arsthetic grounds their pro- and folly of the Court during the closing ever attaches either to the Government by the second round, while Favacho, as The obvious answer, then, to fr. Li's little attacking. He entered the ring very would have received port of all Chinese and foreigners who emphasise is simply this, that the cun
the ready sun decades of Marchu rules what I wish to realise how terribly the natural, beauty struction (or rather
or to General Niech for what is now take cool as the proverbial cucumber but very of those parks has been anerifend to the the Summer Palmer reconstruction) of the lace at the Summer Palace, and slow, danced round him, piling up points
that interests of commercial exploitation.
was only a minor tract has been committed either by the face. Before this contest commenced it no wrong, injusties or breach of con by hitting bind in the lower part of the and relatively unimportant caus6 China's defeat. Had that Palace never heen rebuilt, had the best possible as
Manchu Emperor himself or by those was announced that Nick Harle chal- who are responsible under him for its lenged the winner, a fight which rbould been made of all the funds at the dis administration, posal of the Naval Board, the war might |
arouse a great deal of interest.--Shanghai Mercury.
very
was due to
commercinliked by thoxe officials ch many causes, some of them dating from perial Hou, which Mr. T has incxpect (156lbs.) niter eight rounds, Bux took a
"Mr. Johnston was formerly a cadet in the service of the "Hongkong Govern- ment.}
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(To be Continued)