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looked upon simply as the effervescence
ED BY COLONY,
of youthful spirits, but in China these TEXT OF ADDRESS TO BE PRESENT boys, by some means known only to them. selves, are able to co-erce responsible
Much interest is being centred on the business men into giving them support,
address that is to be presented to H.E and thus very frequently a student'
the Governor, (Sir Edward Stubbs, K. C. demonstration will develop into a general.G.), on behalf of the community, prior xtrike or some other equally serious inter-
to his departure from the Colony for ference with the ordinary commercial Home at the end of this month.
routine.
In Shanghai, students were the instig ators and ringleaders of the riots. "Death better than Imperialism wax We can their high sounding slogan. respect a patriot, however ill-advised we regard his actions, but we question of these very seriously whether any Shanghai boys were actuated by any motives even remotely connected with love of their country. It is rumoured that a sow of over 870,000 was distribut- ed among them and it is probable that the distribution of the dollars had far more influence in spurring them to netian than way" altruistic desire to help their fellow countrymen. The studenty gene- rally speaking have little stake in their country. They have everything to gain and very little to low in fomenting strify, and it would be well they should be taught that they cannot do is with impunity. They deserve lesson and We shall we hope they will receive que.. nyit waste much sympathy over them however sharply it may be administered.
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STRIKE FEVER SPREADS.
SHANGHAI PUBLIC SERVICES. TIED UP
ATTACKED BY мов OF."
JAPANESE. ICE-WORKS
THREE HUNDRED.
POLICE GUARDS FIRE ON 'RIOTERS..
LATEST CABLES.
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SHANGHAI, June 3rd.
PLAN FOR COMPROMISE.
SHANGHAI, May 3rd..
The address, which is one expressing sentiments of the esteem and "respect en- tertained by the whole of the community for His Excellency's character and - ministrative abilities throughout the
In connection with the efforts of the period of nearly six years, is old English! script with carved blackwood" covers, silver binding and monogram. It presenta
The strike is spreading. All foreign Chinese merchants to devise some form a very handsome appearance,
Printed replicas of the text of the admills are now involved, also the tele-of compromise, which will enditho pra- dress are being placed in the leading phones, waterworks, municipal electricity sept disorders and save the faces of ́thì
North-China Daily News, editorially b hotels, clube and other prominent places department and some foreign news Municipal Council and students, the Juring the next few days (in fact some papers.
The Municipal Council is maintaining lieves that the idea is that the students places already have them) to, that the whole of the community may have the public services satisfactorily with other should withdraw the pickets and declare peace. The matter can be referred to. opportunity of signing ships attached to Inbour. them. These slips, it is intended, will
·This morning a mob of 3,000 attacked | Peking for adjustment. The paper says, follow the address.
however, that any interference. by the the Japanese ice-works
Police guards fired on the riotefk, kill-Waichiaopu should be directed towards- ing oue and wounding five. The strikers the students after the fashion of the This address and the silk ombroidered a beginning activities in the Chinese order recently issued in Peking, order
to their class—- scroll, which is to be the tribute of the Chinese community to His Excellency, will city and Chapei suburbs. "Attacks on ing the students back be presented to H.E. Sir Edward Stubbs individual foreigners continue, Rioters rooms.
The address has been drawn by the Chamber of Commerce.
at a function to be held on June 23th.
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TEXT OF ADDRESS.
tram-cars and injured "We appreciate the efforts of the" This function will probably be the fast hava stoned
Many studens from Chinese merchants to restora order, but public appearance of Sir Edward in the several · women.
The Chinese other centres are reaching Shanghai. as these efforts are being directed at pres capacity of Governor. tribute takes the form of pannelled
Four platoona of British blurjackets sent, we tell them frankly that they are screen, about six feet in height.
and marines are being landed, this even-wasting their time. There is only on
similar number to-morrow way in which peace can be brought.back. that is by the unconditional surrender of. 30,000 MEN OUT.
the students and other agitators.
PEKING TO INVESTIGATE.
PAKING, June 2nd, The Government has appointed Mr.. Tsui Ting Ken and Mr. Teong Tsung Chien (Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs)
same.
SHANGHAI, June 2nd. The strike, which as, generally speak-
It is estimated this evening that 30,000 are on strike. The police have since
i released 300 of those arrested.
Many minor assaults, chiefly against Japanese, are reported to have taken place to-night..
ESCAPED THROUGH TUNNEL. A member of the staff of the
News, who was present at the time,
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High Commissioners to investigatë the Shanghai affair. They are exprotek to leave for there to-morrow..
The Waichinopu sent a Note this after noon to the Italian Minister, in his capacity as Senior Minister, of the inter- ested Powers, relative to the Shanghai situation. The Note protests against the shooting of the students and requests him to bring the Note to the knowledge of the interested Powers.
The text of the address is as under:-ing, and a Every European resident in the Far
"To H.E. Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs, morning, East. we believe, will desire the Shang Knight Commander of the Most Distin hai "authorities to stand arm against the guished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Governor and Commander-in- unreasonable demands which are now Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its being made upon them both from Peking Dependencies and Vice-Adiniral of the ing, caly partial, chiefly affects the Your Excellency-We the signatories of Japanese cotton mills, although some of and by the Chinese Foreign Commissioner in the International Settlement. As Far this address being members of the British the tramway, electrical and other Muni and Foreign Communities of the Colony as enn be judged from the cabled reports of Hongkong and its Dependencies avail cipal employees have gone sut
Your Execlency's approaching departure the Police and the Volunteers handled ourselves of the opportunity presented by an ugly situation with wonderful re- for England to express in this manner the sentiments of esteem and respect we straint and patience. When a mob is entertain for your character and admini invited to attack those engaged in the strative abilities throughout the period. of nearly six years which has elapsed maintenance of law and order. and lives since we assembled to present the address are lost as almost inevitably they will of Greeting on your arrival, as Guvernoy, a period which has had its moments of be, it seems to us that the ringlenders grave anxiety. but you have unheld the dignity of your high office and promoted in the riot should be held wholly reap the pence, harmony and unity of the many sible.
The Chinese stadents.bowever, elements which comprise this community.
The many complex problems. resulting says that seren rioters fired revolvers at appear to think that the Police are to
from the rapid growth of the Colonyan American Troop in Burkill Road
MAY FORMULATE CLAIMS. be blamed for defending themselves and have been faced with a firmness, fairness
from distance of seven fert, killing unfortunately, such is the extent of their and forcaight, which have won the appro
bation of all classes.
two horses and wounding Doctor Me-
The Foreign Office's protest reserves "the right to formulate claims which influence, they are often able to obtain Your Governance will to be reinem Martin, while other rioters also fred.on hered for its breadth and vision and the
may result from this, deplorablo‹ incident, fhcial support for their claims.
progress made in the transfer of military the troop from a verandah.
The attackers quickly rushed anong for which the authorities of the Inter- THE SHANGHAI RIOTS. example, the Cabinet in Peking has lands, in Port and Harbour development, in water supply schemes. in improved instructed the Walchinapu to draw up a means of communication and in town the crowds and disappeared A lull national Concession, are entirely respon~ The" riots in Shanghai will, we hope, at note of protest to the Diplomatic Corps planning. It will be remembered also for occurred until firing was opened from sible." The Note requests the Ministers the measures taken suppress and last convince the Powers that firm against the action of the Police, and the for the sureste into sul tas piraty - the "New World Theatre, to which the to give urgent necessary instruction to measures must be taken to save China Chinese Foreign Commissioner has de-justice were held evenly against the con- Volunteers vigorously replied with a the Consular Authorities in Shanghai to
Bet at liberty those arrested?? ficting interests of landlords and tenants Lewis gun and rides. from herself. We in not wish to minded the release of the arrested during a period of unprecedented expan-
SITUATION IN FEKING. exaggerate the seriousness of the dis-rinters, compensation for those who lost turbances which have been reported their lives and punishment of those res- during the past few days, but, unfortu-ponsible for the deaths. "These prepox nately, they cannot be regarded simply terous claims should be treated with as local disturbances due to some parti-contempt. It would be a grave mistake cular incident. They are symptomatic of ever to admit that they might form the the condition into which China has fallen basis of discussion. The law should be Those rioters The alleged killing of a Chinese workman allowed to take its course,
The Daily Press.
Horstone, Jose H, 1925.
Por
by a Japanese during the recent cotton who are captured should stand upon their mill, strike is said to have been the trin and, if found guilty,hould be punished. They should be treated as PRINCE LINE FAR EAST SERVICE immediate cause of the present outbreak. criminais and not as political offenders.
II, however, that excuse had not beenj afforded we do not doubt that some other pretext would have been found to serve the purpose equally well. For years
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM NEW YORK,
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MOORISH PRINCE"
Mr. Hamilton, residing at No. 14, Leighton Hill Road, hus reported to the Police the theft of a camera, valued at
haring arrived from the above Port on 30th China has been gradually drifting to 367, from his ball-stund.
brokeon;
examined
All Claims must be presented within 15
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of the Steamer's arrival hers, after which salvation. date they cannot be recognized
She has been given plenty
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aion in the population."
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When the Volunteers rushed into the Our good wishes attend your Excellency building, they rounded up several hun- and Lady Stubbs, whose personal charm dreds of men, who were escorted to the The police have released and enthusiasm for all good causes that police station and searched. No arms lay within her sphere in the Colony have were found.
the arrested men. won the hearts of every class
We look forward to your continuing and It is believed that armed rioters escap completing a long career of public useed through a tunnel under the street fulness and distinction in the service of the old New World" building. His Majesty which will always he followed with the keenest interest in this Colony.
We beg that you will convey to Lady Stubbs our warmest greetings and wis de- sire to convey to you our sincerest wishes for happiness and prosperity in the future
THE CANTON CRISIS. ANTI-FOREIGN DEMONSTRATIONS. CONSULS WARNING TO NATIONALS.
SCHEME THAT WENT WRONG.
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PEKING, June 3rd. The students of practically all the Universities and Colleges in Peking are striking to-day, an a protest against the Shanghai affair. They are holding a monster demonstration and parade this
-afternoon,
The Legation guards are confined to The rioters who fired on the Volunteers barracks and, strong picketa are pesterl yesterday bad taken up strategic posi- at all entrances to the Legation Quar- tions, intending to fire on ratepayerster. motoring homeward in large numbers from the special meeting. The early termination of this upset their pro- grammne.
FURTHER CLASHES.
SHaxo, June 3rd. Many of the dreigners attacked have The failure to secure a quorum was been rescued in outlying districts by active patrols. Further clashes have due to the absenes of the Japanese,
A foreign woman has died as the re- sult of a blow on the bead from a brick thrown when rioters attacked a tram.
Armoured cars were rushed this even-
a District, where the rating from Chapei e control of which useful baw of opera-
Don
No Claims will be admitted after the Good of opportunities but has never taken fall from an upper floor to the street. Samaui for the railway, stopped, and the colleges at which they made extravagant Kuburb. the Chi,
have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain ing undelivered after the 8th June, 1925, will be subject to Rent
Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that
they most produca an Import permit signed by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, Hongkong, hefors Bill of Lading can be countersigned.
advantage of them and, in view of the country's importance to other nations, it should be recognised that the time has come for intervention. It is manifestly impossible to allow the present state of affairs to continue.
Suffering from injuries sustained in ̈à a Chinese was admitted to the Govern. ment Civil Hospital on Tuesday, and died very shortly afterwards.
:
The strike situation in the Inter- taken place in the central districts, in national Settlement is slightly more which rioters have been killed or injured. tense. The fresh food markets and It is known that the casualties up to Chinese shops are close The rioters are the present among the strikers are. 21 Reparts from Canton which filtered aaulting and otherwise terrorizing all killed and 65 wounded. The defenders instant, Consignees of Cargo are hereby inwards bankruptcy, chaos and anarchy and
The forthcoming wedding is announced througli at a late hour last night were to Chinese remaining in the employment of have had one man seriously wounded formed that their Goods are being landed as
influences at work, there are many
the effect that the city and district ro- foreigners, but the French Concession and several slightly. their risk into the Godown of the Hongking and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, apparently, whose sole object appears to of Mr. Frederick Maria Gutieres, mer-mained quiet and peaceable But, accordig so far unaffected. »
-STUDENT "HOT HEADS." Limited, Kowloon, and stored at
cantin assistant, of Shanghai, to Missing to a passenger who arrived on the at. Consigned risk and
be to plunge her into the abras. As the Margaret F. Barnes, of No. 3, Lycemun B. Langahan shortly before midnight,
P ехренье.
ING, Juun 3rd. the whole situation was very critical chafed and damaged Goods are Daily News remarks, it is too late now Villas, Kowloon.
There was danger in the air and conflict The students again held no public to be left in the Godowns, where they will be
to leave China to work out her own
wae probable, at any time.
meeting yesterday, h the vernacular ing into the Wer on Friday, 5th June, 1925, at 10a.x.
Yesterday the ferry from Canton to papers report various meetings, in the rioters are through trains from Canton to Kowloon demands such as the withdrawal and gives the strikers have also ceased,
punishment of the British Consultions against the Settlement. On the Chinese section of the Kowloon- General at Shanghai, the police who kill.
PRESS IS "HOPEFUL. Canton Railway, it is believed that the ad the students to be sentenced to death
SHANGHAI, June 3rd... Canton employees have gone on strike an indemnity paid to the dead rioters": The driver of the motor-car, which was as a protest against the presence of mer-relatives, the British Government to be
The Errning News is the only mening made to apologise to the Chinese people, responsible for killing one coolic and cenary troops in Castou..
situation is not so grave. Na doubt the seriously injuring, another at the june In the City itself, there was apprehen-in addition to demands for the return of paper published to-day. It considers the tion di Pokfulam Road and Queen'ssion of dark events to come. Though the concessions, etc.
Chinese are feeling the cutting off of IL understood that the National Road Weet on Monday night is being Kuomintang were very powerful they bad not the military backing, while the Yun- Power in China would seem to be charged with manslaughter.
navese mercenaries were the real military University, which usually leads student food supplies much more scately than divided between the military satraps,
the arrival of troops relieves the Volan- "Brilliant Chang," who arrived in foret. However, the Yunnanese were agitators has decided to strike from the foreigners, the latter passing each working for his own ends, and the the Colony last Thursday by the very much afraid of the Russian instruc- to-day as a protest, and is calling all large returves of imported foods, while Belder following deportation from tors who were drilling the Red troops students to gather there, to-day for n student organisations. The latter, com England, where he had served a sentence into a wonderful state of efficiency, and demonstration against British Imper teera and Polices of the heavy strain of relations be severed with Great Britain appear in common ground for a com promise. The foreigners are determined posed chiefly of youngsters in their
tion with cocaine trafficking, and who wery fierce. 'teena, appear to possess almost incredible has been detained in the House of Many anti-foreign demonstrations had and Japan, and that (Chinese) deposits to suppress the riots, while the Chinese influence over their fellow countrymen. Detention at the Central Police Station been held in Canton, hut at these meet be withdrawn from (British and Japan-are Loo excited to listen to calm They froth and blaster abbut imperialismsines his arrival, is to be deported to ings, Yunnanese troops were present to reo) banks, the banknotes of the two connsels. Again, the arrival of Tresh
is to at control the demonstrators and see that countries not to be accepted and no pro- Shanghai. Brilliant Chang'
A steady rain to-night ip again empty, and unequal treaties. In Western coun- tend at the office of the Secretary for no disorders took place. It is under. visions to be sold to their nationals, batches of frenzied students reinfores Chinese Affairs to-day to receive his destood that the foreign Consula in Canton Chinese employees to be induced to leave
ing the strepte, tries such ebullience would be regarded partation order for Shanghai, whither he have advised all foreigners to remain 28 British. and Japanese employers and
students to lease their schools. much as possible in, the Shameen: with an amused tolerance, It would be has expressed a desire to be sent
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