THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE Säru, 1925
WHAMPOA CADETS ATTACK SHAMEEN.
FIRE RETURNED BY BRITISH AND FRENCH MARINES
WITH MACHINE GUNS,
FRENCH
MERCHANT KILLED AND SEVERAL
FOREIGNERS WOUNDED,
CHINESE CASUALTIES REPORTED TO BE
EXCEEDINGLY HEAVY.
The Whampoa Cadets, the men trained and officered by the Rassian Bolsheviks in Canton, following in the rear of a large procession of students and school-children, opened fire on Shameen with rifles and machine guns shortly after 2 o'clock on Tuesday. The French and British Marines, from behind their barricades of sand-bags, returned fire. The Cadets son scattered and sought refuge in the doorways of the neigh bouring buildings. tiniping was continued for some time but the firing Trout machine guns Insted between ten and twenty minutes oily. Mrs J. Pasquier. the principal of the French firm of Messrs. J. Pusquier & Co., silk merchants, was killed. Mc. A. H. P. Edwardes, Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs, Canton, was wounded in the knee, and Afr. V. G. Murrel, of the Dispensary Departinent of Meyers. A. S. Watson & C., Lei, was shot in the shoulder. Several marines were injured and, an officer on one of the foreign gun-beats in the river was hit in the leg by a stray bullet. The Chinese casualties can only be estimated but eye-witnesses say that certainly between two and four hundred were killed while the wounded must have numbered nearly a thousand. The first news of the Shumeen outrage was brought to Hongkong by a Reuter's cable re-transmitted from London which came to hand carly yesterday morning. This rend: -
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Thousands of students, workmen, citizens and soldiers paraded along the Bund around the Europea quar ter and opened fire opposite, the Victoria Hotel in the British Con- cession,
British und French murines replied with machine-guns, the firing lasting twenty minutes.
The French merchant, M. Pasquier. and the Commissioner of Customs, Mr. Edwardes, were killed, whilst one British marine and two civilinas, were wounded.
All the evidence indicates that the Chinese fred first.
STORM OF BULLETS.
M. Pasquier who was killed, was a native of Lyons. He was between 30 and 60 years of age and had been resident in Canton for about 20 years, The head offen of his firm was there and there is a branch at 3. Duddell Street, Hong- tang.
THE EAST SURREYS.
A detachment of the East Surrey Regiment left for Canton last night.
BRITISH CONSUL-GENERAL'S
WARNING.
Following previous Chinese outrages theru baa always been an attempt made
CORRESPONDENCE.
A WARNING TO CHINESE.
[TO THE EDITOR OF "TER RONGKONG
"DAILY PRESS."]
Six-The peaceful Chinew people and; particularly the patriatic and intelligent Russian Bolshevists and their preffered students should beware of the treacherous.
friendship and sympathy
Is this friendship of the Russia Bolshevistas sinceret Reports and pre- paganda "material" frem Prking. Shanghai, Hankow and Canion are proof)
to fasten the blame for them on the that Russian Bolshevists and their paid foreigner. In this case there can be no] Chinese agents arn actively engaged solr. suggestion that the first provocative act ring up Anti-foreignism and the bumity came from Shamees. The following and hatred of the ignorant Chinese to- letter, which has been forwarded to uswards England, Japan and the United from the Colonial Secretary's Office, was States, whom they style the "Capitalistic written by the British Consul-General in and Imperialistic " powers. Canton to the head of the Bureau ofi Soviet Russia is raaking the attempt to Foreign Affairs, Canton, on Monday, Bolshevisa. China," and Chinese studenta June nd:-
should all unite and protect their coun- SI-I learn from sources, which I try From this great national danger, be every reason to believe to before it is too late. What is the condition trustworthy, that, in the course at a
have
patriotic demonstration arranged for to- of Bolshevik Russia today 7: morrow, the student element intend to The following damning "admission make partyrs of themselves by attacking nule by funscharsky, the Russian Soviet the bridges leading on to Shamern. am informed that they went to the Commissar for Education, speaks for length of drawing lots as to which asso- itself:-T Education Minister niks for ciation should have the honour of sacri- The incidents that followed cannot be fieing itself first in its country's caure, money to relieve "hundreds of thomaudo given in the form of a connected narra-
and that the winning number was drawn of vegrans shildren, azure degenerated į by the Liniversity of Kuangtúng. tive: After an interval of a few seconds
into a state of semi-mengery, some bor- This story may of course be the fig-dering on idiocy, while others have had the fire was returned by the machine- micat of a fertile imagination, but if, on their wits no sharpened and excited by guns in Shameen and the Cantonese the other hand, it have any solid founda- Russian drilled army wilted before the be contemplated and take place, I have tion in fact and should action of the kind
rain of bullets.". They could not face the the honour solemnly to warn the Gov- eroment of Kuangtung, through you as fire and ran, but there were so their Foreign Secretary, that any attempt of them eriwding up from behind that their movements
were impeded and it is stated by some Europeans that their dead must bare numbered two hundred whilst others put the gore at not less than four hundred. All onlookers appear
dangerous enemies of society." (Hong-| collision with life that they have become
kang Daily Prt88.)
Chinese students should take care that to penetrate on to the British Cances- sion at Shameen will be resisted by force this horrible state of affairs is not intro- of arms, and that for the consequences duced into China by the Russian Bel- the Government will be held individually shevista. Russian Bolshérists are cunning- and collectively responsible. As I had
the honour to inform you yesterday Ily striving to bring about the "expulsion do not, nor have the right to, preof all foreigners from Chias." What test against any demoustrations, which
to be agreed, however, that the wound-Chicese citizens in Canton may choose! madness?
"Return all the Foreign Settlements"
ed must have been over a thousand to organise, and if there be such I have Both the dead and the wounded were warned all my nationals to be very care is the poisonous parrot cry of their paid ful not to mix themselves up therewith, carried away from the scene of the action and in general strictly to refrain from agents and-" slaves." They are simply as quickly as possible by the Chinese Provocative action of any kind in order fooling the Chinese. Wax
in carts. All the sampans on the ereck
About half an hour later came a further cable from the saine source stating. that M.. Edwardes. wounded and not. killed.
Siner then a Dady Press representa crowded to the Shameen side, as soon as Bring commeived and remained in com. tire has been in communication with a
parative shelter so that the cadets had number of the European residents of
na means of crossing the water, Shameen who came to Hongkong on board the Honum yesterday afternoon, The accounts of what happened "differ alightly in detall but the established facts are these.
EXPECTED.
THE GUNBOATS.
acerbated. that the present situation be not ex-
According to message from Rosta Due orecautions are, how- ever, being taken to guard against nets Agency, dated Moscow, June 6th, 1825, of mob violence, euch as have. occurred M. Trotsky, the Head of the Serieb and should unfortunately they occur here, on current events in China, says:—” at Chinkiang, Kinkiang, and Hankow, Russian Government, in an article the blood of those who call upon crowd psychology to commit deeds of violence! will be on their own head.
I-write in this serious strain so that
"Chinese house belongs to Chinese. One can enter only after having knock. ed at the door. The master of the house has the right to admit only his friends and to turn out those whom h
(Hongkong considera as his foes."
‚¦ Daily Press.).
it may not be said hereafter that brutat imperialist rifles wantonly massacred noffending Chinese youth (A copy of this despatch is being sent to quarters. where it will remain on recozd.).
The words "The master of the house I would in this connection call your tax the right to admit only his friðads attention to the urgent matter of clear and to turn out thone whom he considers ing the Shaki Creek, with regard to which representations are being made to or his joer are significant. the Chief of Police and would ask you
There arems to be some doubt as to what part the foreign gün-boats took in the action. Some say that they fired a number of three inch sbells; others that they Gred two or three rounds of blank and still others that they did not fire at all. In any case their participation, if there was any, had little effect on the issue.
The damage was done by the to be good enough to support them in machine guns.
so far as you may be able to do so.
TROUBLE Everyone on" Shamesa anticipated that trouble would arise from the dennusten tion which it was known would take place in Canton on Tuesday. Representations were made in the Cunton Government on the subject, but these Authorities gave the most definite assurances that the Acting in accordance with the plans procession would be an entirely peaceful made in readiness for any such emer gency as this, the women and children
one and that no untoward incident need
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WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
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All Chinese students should "know, that i
the rast territory of Siberia with an area |of over 4,000,000 square miles and a po population of over 4,500,000 inhabitants mostly of Mongolia and Tartar descent, has been taken from China, by the
History tells us that a band of Cossack
SHANGHAI AND THE DERBY. Shanghai had more than ordinary Russians. interest in this year's Derby in that Mantin, ridden by no less a celebrity than
on Shameen, as soon as the trouble Steve Donoghue, is the property of a well- rubbers under their chief Yermak began be feared What afterwards happened started, gathered together at the A.P.C.known ex-Shanghailander. Harry Morriss, proves that they were either deliberately building and were taken from there on to give the owner of Manna the name by the conquest of Siberia in 1580 and de- attempting to conceal their intentious, to the different gunboats. Most of them which he is known on the China coast, feated a small band of Tartars on the
is not a newspaper man himself, but the Tobo! River. er wére absolutely ignorant of the plans were ecommodated for the night on family fortune he inherited and extended
of their own soldiers which must have board, the U.S. gunboat dshville and all been carefully prepared some time pre-
speak in very high terms of the courteous viously. There was no question "of the
and hospitable way in which they were firing starting in any haphazard way.
THE PROCESSION.
treated.
ARRIVAL IN HONGKONG,
be derives from journalism. Soon after
lo 1643-30, seventy years after Yermak's
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the opening of the first Treaty, ports in plundering expedition, Russian Concks China, a printer named Pickword settled. in Shangbai and began a amail newsheet took possession of the Amur District of for the benefit of the tiny British com-China. munity. His two daughters beiped in the Can Chinese students forget this? working of we simple machinery and the At five o'clock yesterday morning many me the nucleus of the great business friends are so friendly disposed towards If M. Trotzky anul his Bolshevik distribution of the paper. The paper be of them were put on board the Honam which now centres round the Worth the Chinese, why doesn't he urge his The procession, as stated, was compos- ed of great numbers of students and and these arrived in Hongkong at 3 China Daily News and North Chine o'clock in the afternoon. The Japanese married brokers on the Shanghai Ex-
Heart. Both of the Miss Pickwood Government to restore Siberia to China? school children "carrying banners. They
Officers of the Russian Eolshevik Army came on board the Honam in the first change, who made fortunes, and one of came along shouting American college instance, but then decided that they theater like himself, was a promin in different parts of China.
ladies.was Harry Morrisa's mother.
are at present drilling Chinese students Bolshevik crics, 2nd looked peaceful enough. In would not proceed to Hongkong as they ent owner of racing ponies on the China Russia is inserting the thin end of the fact appearances were sp deceptivé that had few friends here. They were, there coast, and his race.
tiffons"
adjoining wedge, and Chinese students should be several Europeans, although they had fore, traushipped again to a Japanese were among the big social events of the ware lest they are made the tools and
the grand stand on the Shanghai course been warned not to do so, exposed them-gunboat and will, it is stated, be convey year in the Treaty port. The fortunes of the slaves of Bolshevik Russia, selves in order to get a clear view of the ed to Formosa There are also a number Manna would be followed by the large
I am a Chinese and I would say to my proceedings.
of Shameen residents still on the Ashville. sporting community of the Modal Settle- One of these was M.
ment, and no doubt he carried many tacls countrymen. Awake before it is too late! Many Hongkong people were at the for sentiment, if nothing else. It was Yours truly, Pasquier and this fact probably accounts
Steamboat Co.'s wharf to meet the thought last year that Manna could not
WARNING. for his death, for behind the students' Hout on
stay sufficienly well to win the Derby, and her arrival, including the for this reason he was given a thorough
Hongkong, June 24th, 1995. procession catue betweon fifteen hundred Attorney-General, Sir Henry Pollock, preparation for the Two Thousand and two thousand Whampoa cadets the Hon. Mr. P., H Holyoak and Dr. Gainoas, which he won from end to end. Donoghue rode him, a peculiarly favour
THE NEW ORDER. They were led by men on horse-back.
able circumstance. Manna is a small but MAN WHO BROKE IT LOSES MONEY. Alt were fully, ormed "and" they had a
very perfectly made colt by Phalaris out amars named Waffles. The mare's number of machine guns with them..
breeding suggests statina; the sire's
At the Kowloon Magistracy: yester- breeding speed. It was a popular victory day before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, a when Maana won in a canter by eight Chinese tem shop, coolie was charged, lengths, and will have been equally po- pular on the China coast-Ching Express under a new Proclamation issued by the and Telegraph.
Government on Monday, with unlawfully exporting 360 in notes and $14.80 in Canton silver currency,
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G. D. R. Black
Among the passengers were Mr. Ed
of a wardes and Mr. Murrell, who will have their injuries, which are not regarded as serious, attended in Hongkong. Mr. Edwardes has been taken to the Peak Hospital
A GIVEN SIGNAL. The procession passed the French Bridge, which was heavily barricaded, without any action being taken, and con- The Harbour Master and his staff were tinned until they came near the English responsible for making arrangements bridge where the barricades were prac for the accommodation of the tically all hidden from view. It seemed fugees." Those who have no friends here a vulnerable spat Then just as the will stay for the time, being on the cadots arrived" opposite to Messrs. Honum and the Sas On which have boon Watson's premises a signal was given. commandeered for the purpose. Other The men
turned with the precision boats will be requisitioned as may be of a machine and immediately opened fire. necessary.
Commander Sir Thomas Fisher, K.B.E..
Defendant stated that he was on his R.N. (retired), of Sloane-street, A. W., and of Waterloo place, S.W., general way to Canton when he was arrested. manager of the Canadian Pacific Steam- He intended visiting his mother who was ships, Ltd., who saw active service during the Boser Campaign in China and an invalid and he had no knowledge of during the Great War, and who died on the new order. Web. Fish, aged 41, left state of the gross tion, and his money with the exception value of £43,184, with not personalty £39,290.
Defendant was discharged with a cau-
of 85 was forfeited.
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