"
ALL QUIET IN CANTON
CGOVERNMENT TROOPS IN COMPLETE CONTROL
OF THE CITY.
FIGHING.
SOME INCIDENTS OF TEE
COMMANDER OF H.M.S. "ROBIN " AND OTHERS 'SAVE
SEVERAL LIVES FROM THE CROWD.
MOB RULE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1925
There was a lull for an hour and a half and then a great commotion arose from Sha-ki. T went to the French bridge and saw three Cantonese beating, a Yunnanese, who all the while WAR
SITUATION IN SWATOW. }:RUMOUR «OF A GENERAL STRIKE.
A Swatow correspondent, writing on Saturday, saYS: "I have just heard that a goderal strike will be declared in Swatow on Sunday or Monday. In some quarters, it is reported that only ser vants in British or Japanese employment will be affected
There has so far been no meeting of the Consular Body to report upon affairs and residents generally, therefore, are in the dark regarding the position. The ap pearance of a British gunboat would be
very
welcome.
CHAN LIM PAK.
Reports from Canton during the week- and state that everything is quiet in The City: The Yunnanese were so com- -øletely routed during the startling events of Friday that the general impression is they no longer exist as a fighting force. No further opposition is anticipated from kow-towing and presumably asking for them, and the one question now exercis-merer. Two distinct shots rang out and AMUSING STATEMENTS BY THE ing the mind of the foreigner is. What policy will the Kuomintang "adopt? Are we to have a period of peace or is there to be under the Bolshevik influence, grem recrudescênce of tabour troubles
REUTER'S CABLES.
Reuter's telegrams re-dispatched iron London on Saturday evening describe the - rapture of Cantón as follows:
the poor fellow went down in a heap.
MR..
"CANTON GAZETTE."
The latest startling discovery" of
KLJOMINITANG AND HONGKONG.
QUESTION OF YUNNANESE RE-INFORCEMENTS.
The Canton Gazette, the organ of the Canton Goveryment, in its issue of Wednesday, sa3I --
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We are compelled to put a straight question to the Coloniat Government of Hongkong: Is it not a fact that six hundred Yuananese soldier dressed in civilian clothes have been allowed to be brought to the Colony for the purpose of transporting them to Canton to fight on the Yunnanese side against we Kuomin tang Government? And is it not a fact that when the Chinese sailors prevented the Yunnanese soldiers from boarding the vessels which were to take them to. Can- ton, the Hongkong authorities protected, lodged and fed them? If it is way and we have no reason to doubt our inform- Subsequently the mob took charge and
aut, does it not constitute an act of inter- amased themselves with chasing in-
forenes in the internal affairs, of China.j adividual Yunnanese wherever they could the Cantin Gaiette, the resourceful
not to speak of it as a fagrant violation find them. Two pour wretches were organ of the Kuomintang, is given below of that neutrality which it is the duty rushed to the water's edge and thrown taken from Thursday's issue of the of the British Colony to maintain in this in. Que swam away. but the other was paper" --
and every other conflict in China?". stoned to death Within ten minutes the
It is now definitely known that the
Such questions as these would naturally first swimmer, unable to find any place notorious Sheen compradoer of the lead the reader to believe that the Hong- of safety, had to return and he toe was Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cor-kong Government are in sympathy with, killed with a blow on the head trom a poration is behind the marauding sold-if not actually supporting, the Yun- nanese faction. Possibly this is why they plank.
iery of the Yunnanese and Kwangsi-ites.
are asked. The whole policy of the Kuo- There is your other link between Mili-
mintang is apparently to inffime popular tarism and Imperialism. There is the feeling against the foreigner, and one additional explanation why the Hong of their favourite methods of accomplishi kong newspapers speak of certain ining this object is to suggest on every quential persons wishing the Yunnaness possible opportunity that the foreigners to win. On the one side Yunnanese sold are acting in league with the “mili- iers in civilian clothes are being allowed tarists who are endeavouring to crush to be transported to the battle, are being the legitimate aspirations of the Chinese protected, sheltered and fed in Hong- People.
ong and, on the other hand, the notor- ious, compradors of a foreign bank is, collecting the wherewithal for these
Ten thousand Cantonese troofis erossed the river from Honam and landed to the est of Tungshan. They routed the Yu- isanese after fighting in the neighbour beod of Shameen, the European quarter. where sandbag barricades had been erect- ed and machine guns placed in position.
The victory is attributed to the Aradership of Russian officers all of whom were wearing red neck-ties.
All is now quiet. The victors shot a dew looters.
ENGLISHMEN INTERVENE. There was chase after chase. One man was thrown into the water two yards from the French bridge and then two Englishwen, accompanied by a blue. jacket, decided to intervene, saying that they could not stand watching any more. men being done to death in this way.
They persuaded the policeman to open the gate and went out, and I slipped out with them. The mob fell back and the
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It is greatly feared. after this waxy victory that the Bolshevik soldiers will
poor fellow in the water was saved. encourage unti-foreign feeling.
Fater. Router cabled With the Cau Then there was a disturbance further off
As reported in the Daily Press á ceri tain number of Yunnanese, camé, to Hongkong with the idea of joining the forces in Canton. They were refused
Yunnances to carry on the war with the passage by the Shipping Companies and donese seizure of Canton the local way and another man was seen being chassit Kuomintang Government. And yet there are now in the Colony waiting until the
has ended.
Happily for him he turned in our dirus “Crussing the river was effected under Lion. He was struck down just" at our the protection of gunboats. Thousands feet but we managed to pull him into
<if Cantonese poured into the City "in pursuit of the Yunnanese Fighting in the eastern part of the City was severe and the casualties numbered several han- drei."
STORY OF AN EYE WITNESS.
MiLfety
ARGUING WITH THE CROWD.
are some gentlemen who are apparently Authorities can find a favourable op- shocked at our repeated harping at the portunity of sending them back to their perialists and their tools. We cannot starting point. They have no money
help it: It in the truth and the naked and no prospect of securing employment truth is sometimes very shocking.
It would obviously be impossible to allow
therefore they have to be treated as vag- them to wander freely round the streets. to become a menace to the residents and
trants.
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We were now joined by the Commander Kuomintang and the anti-national forces The battle between the forces of the of the French gunboat Arges and we is still raging, the result is not yeter "tried haranguing the crowd. It is very known. But Chan Lim Pak is alrendy
The Colony would mach prefer their significant that they listened quietly to
making preparations for entry into room to their company and to suggest, in Canton. He has already instructed his the circumstances, that the Government bogus organisations to welcome him are protecting, lodging and feeding them "home" and to nominate his creature to serve some political purpose, is grò- for the civil governorship.
tesque.
A correspondent of the Daily Prax, what we had to say.
writes:***
A Chinese replied, in good English, that the people had suffered greatly and that the Yunnanese were entirely respon- sible for the spoliation of tho Province and the ruin of peaceful traders. We did not argue these questions, but simply
That the actual power will be in the hands of those same Yunnanese who for years have been mercilessly exploiting
if the position had been reversed and of economic, political and moral degra they had been at the mercy of the Yun-dation is, of course, nothing to Chan Lim new. The Chinese spokesman replied Pok. The money power which he repre- that as he had been for eighteen years sente will not only not suffer thereby; resident in Hongkong he knew that that on the contrary, it will thrive so much.
wus true.
STRAIGHT TALK TO THE CHINESE STUDENTS.
FROM ONE OF THEIR OWN COUNTRYMEN.
"It may interest your readers to know what I saw from Shameen of the events sa Friday about 1.30 pm, it was re- ported that the Cantonese troops had Janded on the East Bund, and crowls of inteigners went on to the French brides pointed out that we would have done our the province, and keeping it in a state) to watch what was happening. Govern best to save the lives of the Cantonese ment flinches were noticed making their way towards the Bund, hat it was not until 2.45 that shots were heard. When it appeared that the fighting was coming! close there was a stampede on Sham cen for shelter and the French bridge was quickly deserted. Then we saw a for- cigner of the Postal Department asking the policeman to open the Shameen gate. He was allowed inside and about 30 of is Chinese staff, came in with him." YUNNANESE WITHOUT LEADERS.
About fifty yards from the French Bridge there was a group of some 70 Yuunanese soldiers. They were standing eiguera. under the portico of a building and seemed to have little to do but fan them- selves. Twenty minutes later Cantonese oldiers, who had just landed, came
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESS."] the more. Trouble in the province affects
SI--The best and the safe thing for all in the first place native banking and finance. This means greater profit and students in China would be to leave off. dividends for his foreign banks Why, at once meddling with the foreigners then, should he not favour the Yu and to stop this nonsense of riots and nanese; why should he not favour tur-j moil and trouble in the province. strikes. As things are, it would appear
NO ANTI-FOREIGN FEELING. We were talking for about forty-five winutes with this crowd of three or four hindred people, and during the whole of
It is clear now that when Chan Lim that these constant disturbances in China that time no one raised a finger to touch | Pak used his “Paper Tigers" to try to, will lead to intervention by the Japanese the two shivering, half-clad Yunnanec overthrow the Kuomintang Government,"
he did not mean to free the province and the European Powers," China is very who had taken refuge behind us and, to from the maraiding soldiery. For had weak. The students and the people must our utter astonishment, not a single un- this been his purpose he would now have not think for a moment that she is advantage of the fact that the Govern pleasant remark was made concerning forment is ready to deal with this maraud. strong. With the whole of her military ing soldiery and come to its aid, as the forces combined, China could never fight real merchants have who are really against the well trained and experienced terested in the peace.
When the Police duly arrived on the scene they willingly undertook to protect
forces of Europé
At. the time of the conflict with the the Yunnanese from further barn.""". so called Merchants Volunteers even, Chinn The only way to save China is for the running towards Shameen from the Cus- The incident closed, the Commander Lim Pak did not raise the issue of Com students and the military forces in
munism. He claimed to have organized toms side. We wondered whether the of the Argus exchanged compliments with his Paper Tigers only for the pur-Chins to join together to drive out the Yunnanese would fight or retire. Then the two" Englishmen who had taken the nose of fresing the province from mili Bussian Bolsheviks.
tarism and of souring good government. we saw a white fag flying.
He criticised the Government for its con-
Foreigners will not trouble or harm Action with the militarists who were us unless we attack them first. It is sapping, the province dry, But now the Bolshevik doctrines that are caus that the Government is going to do the very thing he wanted, he runs to the aiding all the trouble in our country. blame Chin Lim Pak for this, to say Chins we should obtain the help of the of detestable militarista. We can hardly If the Russians refuse to get out of
the least, hypocrisy. It is the tragedy
leading part in it. They turned out to The Caston troops seized the foremost be the Commander and Medical Officer Yuanünese, snatched away his rifle, tore of H.M.S. Robin. The gallant Comman off his cap and took away his tunic.der of the Robin knows Cantonese, and he When they turned their attention to the used it on this occasion to good advan
others, however. one of these fired a tage. shot and the Cantonese appeared" to
FESTIVE PREPARATIONS:
friends. *!!
Bolshevism means the ruination of a nation There is enough misery in China at the present time and we do not
of the tools of Imperialism. Their soul American, English, Japanese, French and is not their own: it belongs entirely to the Italians to drive them out. America melt way." We could not say at the Our representative who went aboard the Imperialista. They miserable people and England are China's stanach time whether, they went to fetch re the Tung On which arrived in port last interest of their province and their coun kay to do their masters' bidding. The enforcements or simply thought "discre- tion the better part or valour." The night was told that except for a les try must give way to the interest of their Yagnanese, now gathered in two clusters, bullet marks along the front, anyone who master were apparently without leaders and had been in Canton before the trouble seemed to be entirely at a loss what to started would hardly have known there festivity and high holiday. Yesterday want the Russians to make it a million had been any fighting, so little damage there were small processions through the times worse. If China wants to be res has been done. There are a few deadlocks and minor discharges of crackers, pocted by the civilised world she must and today's big procession has been bodies to be seen floating in the river organised with crackers on a large scale not adopt. Bolshevism.
and these are being collected.
The inhabitants are so pleased that
Half an hour later the Cantonese re turned in greater numbers. Several of the Yunnanase gave up their arms and were quickly divested of their caps and
miforms.
Others took to their heels nothing more serious, has happened and Shata were fired after them but with no damage to property has taken place what effect I cannot my. Thus was the that during Saturday and yesterday they battle won and lost, as seen from the have been busy making preparations for French Concession.
(Continued at foot of next Volumii.)
The people are wearing red rosettes and neckties. E
Business will I resumed in the normal
Labour Unions and the students should stop, the agitations against the foreigners.
way from to-day and boats going from They should make friends with the for go their own wharves in safety. Hongkong to Canton will now be able to eignere and recognise the Russian Bol
shovies as the only enemies of China. [The Daily Frese learns that the com- Yours faithfully, mander of the Yannanese forces is at present in Hongkong.) ·
Canton, June 7th.
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