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GROUPING OF THE FORCES. SIR PERCEVAL LANDON'S REVIEW
OF THE SITUATION. **
An interesting study of the military
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DISUNITED POWERS.
In some ways the Peking, Conference presenta resemblances to that of. Laus sanne, the course of which may usefully be studied now. Whether actually on the agenda or not, fiscal autonomy and aboli- obstinately upon the Peking programma tion of the Capitulations will figuro as
as at Ouchy. The role of Greece, ny the
RIVAL LEADERS IN THE NORTH.
THE CHINESE CONFERENCE. LITTLE BASIS FOR WAR RUMOURS,
DANGERS AND DIFFICULTIES freak our OWN CORRESPONDENT }!
THE INFLUENCE OF MOSCOW. MUKDEN, September 29th So far as absence of unusual military
authation in China is contained in a Sir Perceval Landon, in a lengthy preparations in Mukden may be ach
Peking message from Sir Perceval meage in the Doly Telegraph, deals Hwith certain aspects of the approaching cepted as a guide there is nothing here Landon to the Daily Telegraph. to support the apparently prevailing
Customs Conference at Peking, which, opinions expressed in various parts of
For the time, the south and south he says, will be a grim struggle, in which only possible armed agent of the Allies China that civil war ja again imminented from the greater problem of North States, and, indeed, of China herself. are of a civil war inviting the intervention of westerly frontier States may be eliminat-on the one side the interests of foreign in an emergency right--and in the event True, there is every reason to believe China. The Province of Kwangtung is believed to be vitally concerned, while Russia, must-be played by Japan. Onco that the existing rivalry between Mar- hai Chang Teo Lin and Marshal Feng
so occupied with its own inter-nocine the other side is blindly convinced that Allies and the inability of others to inter more the known unwillingness of some Yu Hsiang can not be much longer pro-tables and the tide of reaction against nothing less than Chinese independence fete, will again be a trump card in the tracted without a military decision bei
Borodin and the Soviet domination of
hands of our opponent; and we may be ing attempted, but so far as
Canton that Chiang Chia Shik confines is at stake. The prospects of this Con- certain that any reasonable concessions can be guaged here the time is not yet ripe for capture of Kwangsi and the subse brightest, and the best hope of achievinga kant of which Gordius might be proud himself to boasting of the impending ference, he concludes, are not of the on our part will be trumpeted through China, a proof of our weakness. It is such action. All kinds of rumours are in circulation, the latest and perhaps neither of which is likely to occur for eyes to certain obvious difficulties and would he sheer folly; yet to refuse to quent invasion of Hunan and Kiangsi- some success rests in not shutting our For the Allies in Peking to go outside the exact letter of the terms of referènce most absurd being that published in the many months. Szechwan is, as usual, in dangers, which, if taken in time, may discuss the matters that China is more vernacular press here to the effect. that a state of internal chaos, and is impotente dealt with, though they cannot be tariff will infallibly revite the anti-foreign the Christian General is planning to affect the Northern situation. Tunuan
intent upon than any mere raising of the carry out military maneouvres in the
avoided.
haired in an acutet form than ever, neighbourhood of Shanhaikwan!
and weichow may also be omitted from The following is an extract from Sir the present situations.
Of the two protagonists it may be said that Chang Tso Lin controls the North- east and East of China down to Shang hai, Feng Yu Hsiang is dictator of the North-Western frontier of Shensi and Kansu. The Metropolitan Province of Chihli is divided between them. Jehel
Perceval Landor's article:
and it is certain that our action here will The resources of diplomacy are great vindiente our good faith at Washington; The first point to be horne in mind is but over this Conference there seems to hang the need of a second at a later date, that the Allies-it the this may be allow-when, to a united China which has proved ed, without indicating in any way antion and without injustice, a full measura her capacity to govern without corrup identity of interests are dealing with a of independence shall be willingly con shadow Government that has no power ceded by the world Still, it would be either to conclude a treaty or to enforce that, however generously the Allied dele
a dangerous illusion to cherish the hope
duties, chey will succeed in holding up gates way interpret their rights and
the present anti-foreign movement which is carrying the red flag of Moscow into every corner of the Chinese Republic,
THE BRITISH DELEGATION.
tion of the British delegation to the
In this connection it is interesting to: note that the Marshal in an interview which he granted to Mr. Roy Howard, had of the United Press Associations of America, a week ago, expressed him- self very strongly on the subject of Bolshevism and deprecated the fact that a certain militarist gave countenance to and Tientsin are under Chang: Kalgat any part of it, except by permission of the Bolsheviks, meaning the Christian where a striet boycott against British and at the direction of a military auto- General. Yet we read of Marshal trade is enforced-and Peking are con- . Chang Teo Lin having presented Mar- shal Feng with 150 pieces of artillery and we also read of representatives of Fongtien and of Kalgan foregathering weekly in Peking at dinner in order to cement their friendship? Truly, appear cances are deceptive in China.
trolled by Feug.
Chinese Government or put afterwards into force.
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crat. At the moment it is the Soviet In Central China it is less easy to
Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang-whose" out." define the spheres, partly because of the breathings of war and sinughter against | necessity maintain the respective foreigners will be fresh in the memory There is no cavilling at the composi-" military bases in the Far North, and of Englishmen who has the Peking Chinese Tariff Conference at Peking, partly because Wa Pet-Fu remains an Government under his absolute control. says the China Express, and Telegraph. unknown quantity. Nominally he is in Without his assent from Kalgan or Kansi As expected, Sir Ronald Macleay is to At any rate it may be presumed that retreat at Yochow, on the shores of Tung. not a clause will be stcepted by that be chief delegate, 'and 'he is to havo the Marshal is not concerned immediate ting Lake, but there is no doubt that the ly with warlike preparations of raising of his standard' would attract burried nature, for he has gone to Kao very large numbers still from what are Shan Tze, his birthplace, to give atten- and probably also from the troops now known the five Yangtsze Provinces, tion to the shrine which he is having serving under Chaug or Feug. constructed there at the tombs of his an cestors. When he visited the ancestral combs two months ago on his way back from the abortive conference at Tientsio he was highly incensed that the shrine had not been carried out in accordance with his wishes, and his present visit is to see the completed work.
The Sino-Russian Conference is ex
ils.
THE OPPOSING ARMIES.
Appointment is regarded with great satis faction în comunercial,, circles. The news will also be hailed in Shanghai, where. his business career there in his father's Mr. Stewart is well known, having begu. rm, Messrs. Stewart, Thompson and Co., hal, and on his return to England, in Ltd. He spent sixteen years in Shang- 1919, took up duty as a director of the firm at Manchester. He is also a director of the associated fires of Thorne and Co., and W. N. Dunlop nad Co., of Bradford Stewart, Thompson and Co. and the associated Shanghai wuetion firin of Mait- land and Co. are among the largest and
Mr. Stewart has taken a keen interest best-known cotton piece goods firms in China Since his return to Manchester in the work of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, and particularly in the
financial and commercial sides of the splendid expert assistance on both the
question. Lt. Col Sidney Peel. Financial Adviser to the Foreign Office IN A HOSTILE "CAPITAL
at the close of the great war and u The second point of practical" import-Pence Conference. Less generally known member of the British delegation at the
ance is that the conference will be held perhaps is Mr. K D. Stewart, whose in a hostile capital. In itself this char. that while Feng hugs the Northern de
From the above note it will be seen acteristic distinguishes this conference vrts, scross which Russian assistance from any other international discussion in sonstantly reaches him. Chang holds recent years. In the event of a dissolu- open communication with Japan, Shansi, tion of the congress without achieving a authority along the sea coast, and is in under the moderate rule of Yen Hei satisfactory result, this fact is worth Shan. maintains so far independence of both, except that the Northern quarter while bearing in mind. To judge by the of his territory is subject to Feng, as insults already directed against our own Tupan of the frontier districts. To this Legation and that of the United States, rough summary might be added specul points of influence like that of Chang incidents may occur which may seriously Paoting. It will be seen that strategic spect of these insults, the shadow Govern- at Hankow, and, in a lesser degree, at complicate subsequent relations. In re wedge pointed by Peking itself at the ally Feng aims the thick West to East centre of Chang's line in Tientsin; that the latter offers from the need of pro military autocrat might precipitate grave At the last election of directors of the testing his long lines of communication and retaining a fairly strong force to trouble. Such behaviour as sanctioning Chamber he was nominated and elected bold in check the Bolsheviks along the the action of those who are terrorising a member of the hoard. Chinese Eastern railway; but Feng's pro- the Legation servants into desertion is fessed religion creates difficulties which, inconceivable in
any civilised Govern by the way, are strenuously denied-with both ancestor worship and lafame with ment, but the fact remains that the supplies reach Feng
Government still tacitly endorses this actoss Eastern Mongolia, and, en Chang's new arsenal at Mukden turne strike continues. It will be in an avowed the other hand, intimidation, and, that consequently the qut easily all the munitions he now needs, ly anti-foreign atmosphere that this de- and, with stricter supervision, production bate will take place. The real enemy will could be increased fivefold.
As to the relative strength of the two not be directly represented, but every rivals, the following estimate, though move in China's game will have been from the best available source, must be suggested or sanctioned from Moscow and regarded as approximate
ment has turned a dent car to protests, and a similar attitude on the part of the
work of the China and Far East section.
pected to open hers within a few days, The contemplated flight to Japan from here of Chinese aviators scheduled for next month is still engaging the atten- tion of the aviation authorities At first it was proposed that two avintors should make the journey but now it is thought that three men will be selected for the trip. The type of machine to be
He has, of employed has not yet been decided apan,
course, an intimate knowledge of the Foreign newspapers recently carried
position in Shanghai, and of the Shang- the report that upon representations
hal point of view. Besides, he has special made by the Japanese authorities the
the last revision of the Chinese tarius qualifications for his appointment. When Mukden Government closed the French
of Commerce, of which he was an active took place in 1919 the Shanghai Chamber wireless station in this city. No such
member, nominated him as chairman of station ever existed here, wireless being
small advisory committee to go through in the province, a German monopoly,
the schedules of the Chinese tariffs and draw up a scheme of revision. This was, CHANG TSO LIN'S STATEMENT.
naturally, an arduous undertaking, and the manner in which he fulfilled it stamp Regarding the war rumours in North
played across the council table by Mr. Ted him as an expert upon whom the China, says the Asiatic-News Servier, 157,000; (b) Chili, 68,000; (c) Shantung, and the most thorough adherent of the the Far East, can rely completely for
Chang Tao Lin: (a) Manchuria,
Manchester trade, which has in recent, Wang, the ablest of Chinese politicians, times had serious difficulties to face in Marshal Chang Tso Lin, after the visit 55,000; (d) Shanghai (?); total, 200,000. of Mr. Tseng Yu Chun, former Minister
Feng Yu Haiang: (a) First, Army, he believes that he is merely using Mos of its point of view,
Soviet Government in China No doubt sympathetic and competent presentation of Communications and now political representing besides Yuch Wei Chun's
80,000; (b) Second Army, 120,000 (but cow as a tool, but the recent experience delegation are Mr. Baril Newton, of the Supporting the adviser to the Chief Executive, to Muk-men, a large, undisciplined banditry); should teach him that he who saps with Commercial Counsellor to the Legation of the unhappy Hu Han Min in Canton Foreign Office, Ir. F. H. Fox, C.M.G. den, wired to Marshal Tuan Chi Jui ex. (c) Third Army, 54,000; total; 254,000.
It will be noticed at once that, even
the devil needs a long spoon. But for at Peking, and air. E. Teichman, C.LE, plaining his pacific intentions towards added together, these numbers do not tile driving force behind the Conference such
the moment it is only the avowedly hos- Chinese Secretary at the Legation. With" · all factions at the present moment and approach the estimate of 1,300,000 which that I wish to emphasise.
# array of excellent adviser: that his full attention is now directed accepted as the number of men under
associated with him Sir Ronald Macleay, Thirdly, it must be remembered that a man of courage and resouree, commande arms in China. towards the development of the vast strength of what is loosely called the Custom duties, to which the Allies are, undertaken of restoring our, old friendly Of the balance the additional revenue from the increase of the fullest confidence in the task he has territories of the Northeastern Pro Yangtze forces is reckoned at 476,000," vinces which have been placed under his scattered brigades and battalions of the treaty is signed. To give it to Peking ed its sense of the importance of the course, pledged, will in itself cause relations with China and her people. leaving about 300,000 to represent the acute dissension in China, even before a The Foreign Office has certainly manifest- control by, the Central government. The turbulent South and South-West. The is tantamount to giving it, through Feng, coming, negotiations in the selection it Mukden over-lord refutes all war Yangtze forces include large numbers for the spread of Soviet propaganda tas made. rumours as having been fabricated by of the Northern quarrel, but disinclined other Tapans would only see in the grant normally attached to one side or the other throughout, the Chinese Republic. The interested politicians and bond specula to move out of their own province and a subsidy given by foreign influence-to fors whose aim is to cause disturbances of doubtful loyalty, contingents like the Peking for their undoing. Among these famous Third Division are now relapsing latter Chang Tso Lin himself must he in the political and financial fields for into brigandage; and, of course, the ranked, unless he manages to obtain at selfish objects. He asks that all rumour great proportion is composed of men least his full share of the increment by mongers, when caught, should be severe waiting for W. Pei Fu's ar to rise a private arrangement with his inevitable The Shanghai Interport Bowls Team ly punished as a warning to other bad. again. Bat the numberis largo enough enemy, Feng. Moreover, we should not were due to arrive in the Colony by the characters. Marshal. Chang again as and both men are relying upon assiduous from Yochow, whither Wu Per Fa has vessel, however, was delayed in leaving to give paush to both Chang and Feng, overlook the recrudescence of activity B.M.S. Empress of Asia yesterday. Thes sures the guvernment of his ancondi-iatrigue rather than force to win strength betaken himself. On the one hand, Shanghai, and is not row, expected until tional support.
from this, uneasy and suspicious aggre- nothing is so likely to arouse civil war as ten o'clock this morning. gation of more or less trained men, the handing over to Peking and Feng
There have been several changes in the Not the least interesting sign of Yu Hsiang of any largo, share of the pro- Shanghai team as originally selected. It Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang has also ment between the protagonists of the other hand, nothing will exacerbate anti R. P. Phillips (Captain), T. Main, S. L the moment is a certain wary rapproche ceeds of these increased duties; on the now comprises the following players - wired to Marshal Tuao, the Chief Ex-North. No one who has studied the foreign hatred more than any, attempt of Bidrshall. G. Johnston, A MeLeod (in ecutive, re-affirming his support of the situation can doubt that the final issue foreigners to control or deal in any way place of Mr. Melure) and CA Pratt. central Government and stating that he must some day he fought out between with this new surplus. It will ho useless Mr Marshall is already in the Colony and his subordinates are busily engaged Chang and Feng-probably with the as- for foreigners to pretend that, after secur
The first match in the series will be
NOAMBITION IN POLITICS."
INTERPORT BOWLS. SHANGHAI TEAM DELAYED.
with the construction of railways and distance on one side or the other of Wuing the loans, the use made of the extra played this afternoon against the Kow- roads between Chahar and Kansa, the Pei Fu. But the approach of the Con- revenue is no affair of theirs. The time loon Dock Recreation Club while the introduction of reforms "in Chinese ference persuades both sides that force has gone by when indirect responsibility Interport Match is fixed for to-morrow industry, and with improving the ad must for the time give way to diplomacy. can be repudiated in China. Certain afternoon, commencing at 10 p.m. In ministrative system of the Chahar, Shui-Thus, it is significant that a large num- European nations who used this excuse this connection, a special car will leave yuan and Kansu provinces.
Marshal Feng states that he has not to Feng from abroad through Ticntain, China during recent years see now regret where the game will take place on the ber of motor cars which were consigned for pouring arms and ammunition into the Post Office at 245 p.m. for Taikoo the slightest ambition in politics, bat and were, of course, held up by Changing their action. If the Conference uses Taikoo Club Bowling Green. A launch. he fears there will be no permanent peace Tee Lin's lieutenant there, have been re-its unquestionable right to assign these will leave also Kowloon Police Pier a in Ching until all the important mili leased by Chang's order. These guarded extra revenue to Peking the prisoner 2.5 p.m.ANAGE tary, leaders realize the dangerous Chinacnities do not affect the position of of each military autocrat in turn-it can. The complete list of fixtures in con ese situation and devote their full the Conference in the least, nor the sub- not plead irresponsibility if the civil war nection with the visit of the Interport attention to the national railways, roads sequent hostilities which the Conference which it has been the constant endeavour team was given in yesterday's - Daily and industry in view of keen competition cardiot control, and, seemingly, must prelazes up again more savagely than ever. represent Hongkong in the contests from foreign countries"
of all foreign diplomacy, to extinguish Press together with the team that wil cipitate,