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“BLACK WEDNESDAY.”
SOME OF THE INCIDENTS RECALLED
BERVICES IN MEMORY OF CANTON MERCHANT VOLUNTEERS.
[BY OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
-October 15th.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY.
CANTON AND THE CUSTOMS
TARIFE.
OPPOSITION TO THE FORTH.
COMING CONFERENCE. [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT; } The supporters of the present Kuomin- tang régime in Canton are opposed to the coming Tariff Revision Conference at Peking. At a mass meeting bold at the Water Melon Garden, Canton, on Octo- ber 19th, previous to a patriotic parade in which more than 100,000 persons repre- |
As previously mentioned the Bolsheviks now dominating the Canton Cloveroment in the name of the Kuomintang wish to disband the merchant volunteers in and seating the Government, army, zavy, labour, student, trade, and charitable and around Fatshap. although these volun- civic organizations participated, numerous teers have been re-organised in accord-resolutions wore passed including one anee with the latest rules and regulations referring to tariff revision and another to
The the settlement of the boycott. prunndgated by the Red régime.
Referring to the settlement of the strike headquarters of the Fatshan Volunteer Corps at Chang Yee Temple were seized and boreult, to end which the workmen by the Reds of Uctober 9th, and 110 are making certain proposals, the resolu
tion, in part, said: rifles and some ammunition confiscated.
Wednesday, October 15th, is known in Canton as "Black Wednesday," On this day, last year, it will be remembered, more than 700 shops, inchiding those in Ta Tung 'Street, the Wall Street of Cun- ton, were destroyed, as the result of Dr. Sun Yat Sen's order that the Canton Merchants Volunteer Corps should be suppressed.
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Many relatives of these vulunteers who met their death in the street shooting held sacrificial worship in Canton and Hongkong yesterday, where some of the former Canton volunteers have an in- formal organization, a memorial service! was held at Shelley Street, and the day was observed as a day of fasting-only vegetable food being taken:
It may be well to recall what led up to the disaster of that Binck Wednes day of October Inst. In August, 1924, the Norwegian ss. Har arrived at Can ton with more than $1,300,000 worth of
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To-day is the anniversary of the Reroletion of 2911, the aim of which is to overthrow all special interests and power and to establish a true, free, in dependent nation. Unfortunately, the work has been intercepted and, before the labour of revelation is completed, the tyrannical oppression on the part of special powers has strengthened and has suppressed the progress of the people. Until all special interests and powers (meaning all concessions given to foreigners) are abolished and the Chinese, free, the labour of revolution is incomplete."
Upon the question of tariff revision, the language of the resolution was more direct and to the point. In part, it says:
CANTON RIVER DANGER. CHINESE LAY MINES OFF BOGUE FORTS.
WARNING ISSUED TO VESSELS. As mines have been laid off-the-Bogne Forts, vessels proceeding to Canton are warned to take on special pilots when navigating the mine held.
The notice containing this warning va cahibited in the Harbour Office yesterday and was issued to the press.
OCTOBER 16r8,
HOME NEWS ARRIVES.
THE SIBERIAN MAIL CLOSES THIS AFTERNOON. Yesterday afternoon two batches of mail from Home arrived.
There
Tho P.&O. 88. Mantua tied up st the Kowloon wharf about 3 o'clock and between then and 4 o'clock 300 bags of lotiers and papers from Home and Europe via Suez (London, September 17th) and 197 bags of parcels from the United Kingdom were landed. The above information was imparted were no less than 110 bags of letters The letters to H.B.M. Consul General at Shamaeen and papers from Home by the Canton Government.it was learn-wers sorted by just after five o'clock, the ed yesterday, and he in turn forwarded papers will not be ready until eleven Parcels will be it to the local naval authorities. It is o'clock this morning. further reported that Consular action ready for collection and delivery Inter has been taken in the matter.
in the morning. With regard to the necessity for special) Tho as President McKinley arrived in pilots. our representative learned that port about five o'clock with mail from when the oaam reached the area where the U.S.A.. Canada, Japan and Shang- the mines are laid yesterday,, on her way nai and also letters from Europe vid to Hongkong, a special pilot launch, Siberia..
understood to be provided by the Canton Altogether sbe brought over 400 bags of authorities, guided the Honum through mails, including 18 baga el Siberia. the danger zone. At the same time as Owing to the lateness of the vessel's ar- the enam reached this spot, the Faishan rival, her mail will not be landed until passed her on the way to Canton and was this morning, but will be dealt with by No pilot came on the sorting staff immediately and should similarly piloted. board the steamers, the launches acting be ready to send out from the Post Office a guide.
before titin.
The 8 Mishima Maru from Aus- tralian ports and Manila landed 85 baga
The Caston Government may have been influenced in mining the Canton River by the presence in South China.of two yesterday morning. Chinese cruisers from the North."
These cruisere, it is believed, have been detailed to prevent the smuggling of arms into Kwangtung province, and
two
"We oppose the coming Tariff Con- ference. It is an Arrangement by which Tuân Chi Jai is seeking to increase the Customs duties by two and a half per it is also reported that cent só as to strengthen further his cruisers now at Foochow have been order- militaristic policy with funds to beed to come South. Another story, is that furnished by imperialists with whom he the Peking Government have received in is plotting against the freedom of the people.'
There was a rash of outward mašla yesterday with the s.s. Empress of Asia. making up the largest list.
Contrary to previous announcements, other the mail to Europe rút Siberia and for the North will not close until 5.30 pln. to-day and will be despatched by the s.. Mantun which sails for Shanghai at 5
formation that a Bussian steamer, under p.m. convoy of a Russian warship, is shortly expected to arrive in Canton with in large quantity of atras and anununition. This might well account for the presence of the Northern men-of-war in Southern
ATTITUDE OF JAPAN. According to the Asiatic News Servier, a Japanese message from Tokyo reports that the attitude of the Japanese Govern-waters. ment towards the Chinese Customs Con
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The Fing Feng, the flagship of the
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MURDER CHARGE. SEQUEL TO TAI KOK TSUI STABBING AFFAIR.
As a sequel to the stabbing affair which
arts and ammunition for the import ofference to be held at the end of October! Canton naval squadron, which has been occurred at Tai Kok Tsui on September which the Volunteers had taken out all was decided upon at a session or October un patrol duty in the Canton delta, is 20th, and resulted in an old man's death,
Jegal documents, including a peruát Trom the then Minister of War, General Ching
Chirm.
5th of the preparatory committee of the Foreign Office.
stressing the determination of Japan to treat all matters in accordance with the spirit of the Washington Treaty and to assist China to overcome her financial difficulties.
said to have withdrawn further up the river than the Bosca Tigris forts, and the launches in charge of strike pickets
IMPRISONED PRESSMEN. CANTON OUTRAGE DRAWS EYES
OF WORLD ON HONGKONG.
Cheung Hi, a shop foki, was charged with the harder of Kam Lau, before Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Kowloon Magistracy Prisoner was uzdefended, and Mr. T. Whyte-Smith prosecuted for the
Crowe.
Mr. Whyte-Smith, outlining his case, said that prisoner was a felt employed a painters shop at No. 35, Nam. Cheung Street. The owner of the shop
at
Dr. Sun Yat Sen, however, sion reached by the Japanese Govern It is stated that according to the deci- realizing the growing strength of the rent, Japan will authorize its delegation, have also disappeared from their usual Yesterday afternoon. people's self-defence movement and fear-at a suitable time during the course of haunts. ing that it would be unfavourable to bin the conference, to publish a communiquë and bis party, cancelled the permit and, finally, withheld from the volunteers their imported property. The issue, ultimately, onded in an armed conflict between the army of the late Dr. Sun and the Vulun teors with the defeat and temporary dis- organization of the latter. The defeat was followed by a wholesale persecution of members of the volunteer movement throughout Kwangtung, and many further arrests were made. Most of the leading
officers of
the
The Tokyo newspapers' also state that
The recent disgraceful incident at was named Cheung Kee, but it seemed Japan will recognize the increasing of tariffs by two and a half per cent, hall Canton, fully reported in our columns that his wife ran the business. On the to be used for Chinese administrative at the time, in which two Hongkong night of September 20th this lady net expenditure and half providing security journalists, representing the Daily Press an old man who said he was searching for foreign loans so far unsecured." Con- cerning the abolition of extra-territorial and South China Morning Post respec for a man who was employed at the shop. ity by the Treaty Powers, China and tively, were thrown shackled into gol The mistress gave him permission to Japan are said to be in favour of gradual removal of the limitations on Chinese by the Strikers Army, has received wide search the shop, which he did, but he autonomy within about Efteen years publicity in a great number of parts cf did not discover the man for whom he Canton Volunteers were
beginning with the signature of the agree the world where the English language is
was looking. Witnesses would say that? either shot or arrested, and the remainderment. The Japanese delegation to the
spoken.
the old man had a stab wound in the made good their escape to Shanghai, Peking conference headed by Mr. Hioki
Papers to hand from Australia and abdomen. Subsequently, the old man was to lenye Takyo yesterday. Peking, and Hongkong.
other Dominions give the full report reported to the Police, and he was taken sabled by Reuter's agent here, while from the Station to the Kwong Wah cables from the same source and from Hospital, and afterwards to the Govern special docal correspondents have been ment Civil Hospital. He was suffering prominently set forth in the London from a very serious wound, and was press,
operated upon by Dr. Craig. Two days later peritonitis set in, and he died.
Yesterday's Home mail also brought us a large packet of cuttings from a news- paper-cutting agency, showing that the unpleasant experienes of the two journal ists was reported by cable in the columns
Since the final overthrow of the Can- ion Corps, all reorganized volunteer
THE "HONAM." forces, although entirely self-supporting, financed, “armed, und equipped by them STOPPED LIKE THE FATSHAN, selves, must have their officers appointed,
The Honum which left here on Wedics or at least approved. by the Kuomintang day for Canton was stopped in a similar Government in Canton.
on Tuesday, to the Futshan Consequently, manner
namely by signals hoisted at the forts when she was approaching Canton...
No one came on board, however, and the vessel proceeded to her destination without molestation. The Fanam was not stopped on her way to Hongkong, so of a considerable number of provincial it is apparent that the Canton anthori- ties only trouble themselves about vessels Papers all over the United Kingdom.
"It would appear that the journalists entering,
The voyage Wag otherwise without zeal on behalf of their respective new incident. All the passengers, who num- papers has had the additional result of bered over 100, were landed, as was cargo for Shameen. The vessel brought nearly drawing the eyes of a vast section of the
all the volunteer corps now in Canton are either directly controlled by Reds or by others who may be relied upon not to oppose the Bolsheviks.
SHEK KI INCIDENT.
CHINESE OFFICERS KIDNAPPED.
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At about 9 am on September 18th, defendant and another man belonging to the paint shop were engaged on the roadhide at Tai Kok Tsui scraping the paint off some railings. Suddenly one of their irou scrapers was missed, and pri soner Enid it must have been taken by an old man who had just passed them Prisoner run after the old man and ac cused him of taking the scraper, but this
sixty passengers to Hongkong yesterday. English-speaking world upon. Hongkong ho denied. This old man happened to
The Faithon left bere yesterday morn. ing with passengers and returns this afternoon.
FISHING JUNK SUNK.
"HONAM" IN COLLISION
NEAR CAPSUIMUN.«
And incidentally upon its position in regard to the revolutionaries in Canton.
JUNK-MASTER'S DEATH.
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[BY A CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.),
The passenger junks" hitherto plying between Shek Ki, the capital town of Heung Shan district, and Canton, Kong- moon and Macas have been commandeer- ed by the troops. The passenger service is suspended and communication between these places is now completely cut off.
The troops under Chiang Kwang Mei
a fishing junk in the Capsuimun Channel Channel, between the Dutch steamer have been despatched to the Eastern Front and there romains only one battar the South-west point of Wa Wan hambaugh and one of a fishing fleet, Island while on her way up to Canton
lion of soldiers under the command of Major Lu Lan Fei, whilst Chia Shan, near Macao, is entirely without soldiers.
Lack of adequate protection has result ed in cases of kidnapping and piracy. Junks dare not asil. On October 12th a wealthy merchant together with two majors of the Third Division and a few others hired a boat to convey them from Canton to Shek Ki. When they were not very far from their destination the boat was pirated and the full complement of passengers kidnapped. It is stated that about $10,000 in cash was taken away from the officers
S.S.,
FATAL COLLISION RECALLED. The fatal collision which occurred last The ss. Honam, which returned from Canton yesterday afternoon, collided with Thursday afternoon in the Tat Flong
be a kiend of the deceased, and prisoner evidently made up his mind that the scraper had been passed over to the deceased.
The same night prisoner visited the deceased and demanded the scraper, but deceased denied that he had it in his possession. On the 20th, when the two men from the paint shop were finishing the work on the railings, deceased came along the road, and the man who was with prisoner would say in evidence that prisoner again demanded the scraper. prisoner draw a knife and stab the de- There was a quarrel, and this witness saw
and he left prisoner and went back to ccused. This man was very frightened the shop. Shortly afterwards the old man Prisoner, did not return to the shop, hand in Wanchai, where he slept the but went down to a job the shop bad in night. The man had no right whatever According to a report made yesterday to attach himself to this gang of workers. next day when he was arrested by the was struck amidships on the starboard. by one of the crew of the junk, the He was working on this job in Wanchai
fishing junk Police. master's death occurred on
on Wednesday morning. The collision is recalled by the news that the master occurred at 6.10 and alter drifting for a of the sunken jurk has died. - ahort time, the junk became water-logged
and sank near the Ma With Lighthouse.
As a result of the collision the junk was
All the members of the crew were broken in two and sunk almost immediate into the shop looking for prisoner. Kaved a few who were taken on board ately, twelve out of the twenty-five people the Haram had to proceed to Canton. on board loning their lives. The remainder were rescued by other. fishing junks in the vicinity.
eide.
The junk
다.
Tune Hing Kwong master of the junk at the headquarters of the feet, at Cheuriz Dr. Craig gave evidence to the effect reported the matter to the Police yeater:Chow. The man stated that, the master that when the deceased was admitted to
It was learned on the one that all died from internal injuries
day.
the nets, etc.. helonking to the junk were. The loss sustained through the sinking recovered. Efforts were in progress yes of the junk amounts to $13,000. terday afternoon when the Honam passed It is probable that a Court of Enquiry the root, where the collision took place will be held in due courses. to raise the junk
the Government Civil Hospital he was suffering from a stab wound in the lower part of the abdomen. He died two days later as the result of the wound. --
At this stage His Worship adjourned the case.
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