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CANTON AND ́AMERICA.
FURTHER PROTEST AGAINST TARIFF CONFERENCE.
QUESTION OF LOANS TO WE PEI FU AND CHANG TSO LIN.
MR. EUGENE CHEN'S WARNING.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS," TUESDAY,
AUGUST 3RU,
1926
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Signor Mussolini, the Italian Premier, in an interview in Rome with the Daily Mail Special Correspondent, Mr. D. Ward Price, explained the reasons which have prompted the Fascist Goverment to issue the decree. enforcing drastic
On July 14th, 31r. Eugene Chen, Arting Minister of Foreign Afair, wrote "to Mr. Douglaï Jenkins, the Ameri con Consul General in Cantun, pro- testing-strongly against any renump- The Kuomintang in Canton are busy tion of the Special Tarif Conference re-constructing the nine aeroplanes re-national economias. at Peking. The letter was foreard- ed to Mr. MacMurray, the American cently imported from Russia. A number Minister at Peking, who described-it of Chinese mechanics from Hongkong sevidence of a disheartening lack have been engaged to strengthen the of unanimity among the Chinese people in respect to the efforts of the mechanical force of the aviation corps. Government of the United States The aeroplanes carry machine guns and jointly with the other friendly it is said that four are, now practicably Powers encerned to carry out its purpose of bringing into effect ser ready for war service. Russians are pre- tuin re-adjustments of its treaty pared to pilet these machines if the relations with China," To this con Koumintang are unable to man them. munication Mr. Eugene Chen has fasued the following reply, dated Canton July 28thr.
Private letters from Yochow, Hunan, sent from there on July 21st, failed to Sir, I have the honour to acknowledge conarm the capture of the town by the the receipt of your letter, dated July 26th. Kuomintang, which, it was claimed, took in reply to my note of protest against the place on the 10th ult. At the time of resumption of the Special Tariff Conferwriting troops commanded by General ence at Peking. In no querulous sense do Yeh Kai Hsin were still within 20 ti of I draw your attention to the fact that Changsha Yeh's men, it is said, fell the text of your reply was handed to back from Changaba owing to the dam Reuter's Agency in time for publication are done by floods to the railway near ia Peking and elsewhere or July 24th-48 Milo station. Yeh's men were sent away hours before it was delivered at this from Changsha to avoid being cut of Ministry. While I do not wish to stress entirely. If there had been a large this lapse in procedure, you will, I do Kuomintang advance their retreat on not doubt, agree that its repetition should account of the foods would have been be avoided in the future.
impossible.
WHAMPOA PORT.
I note that Mr. MacMurray views my Government's strong opposition to the As a ärst step towards the development resumption of the Conference us evidence of the Fort of Whampoa the Canton of "a disheartening lack of unanimity Administration are organising a regular amongst the Chinese people in respect -Police-Department there comprising to the efforts of the Government of the headquarters and two sub-stations. The United States jointly with the other expenses of the police will be borne friendly Powers concerned to carry out locally by merchants who will be called upon to pay 50 cents to 4 monthly its purpose of bringing into effect cer- according to the size of their basiness. tair re-adjustments in its treaty relationi with China." But what seems to Mr. MacMurray to be a disheartening lack of unanimity" in understanding and ap preciating the policy of the United States is, in truth a convincing proof that that policy is wrong at once in conception and in application.
WHY AMERICAN POLICY IS WRONG.
POSTMEN'S STRIKE.
27th finally succeeded in persanding all The postmen who stopped work on July their associates on the outdoor staff to go on strike on August 1st, the day origin- ally 5xed.
the
These reforms, which have just come into force, include the following-
Legalisation of working day of nine
hours instead of eight. Prohibition for a year of the building of large private houses so that more urgent housing needs may be met. No new bars, cafés, or night clubs to
-be-opened
Size of daily newspapers "roduced to
six pages. Imported petrol to be mixed with 15 per cent of alcohol after November Pet Siguor Mussolini declares that these measures have been taken Italy's balance-of-trade and stabilise the exchange value of the lira.
to restore
"I know," he said, "that if I had called on Italians to work ten hours day instead of pine they would have agreed."
ECONOMY BATTLE, "There is one more battle before me which I intend to
win," said Signo: Mussolini, during the course of his con "ersation with Mr. Ward Price
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SANITY APPEAL TO COURTS.
BRITAIN MAY HAVE DEATH...
DUTIES.
JERSEY, June 27th.
The Royal Court of Jersey yesterday heard a petition to annul the curator- ship over Lady Houston, widow of Sir Robert Houston, the millionaire ship- Owner, whose estate has already been as- certained at £3,000,000, although it is not yet fully accounted.
Lady Houston was put under curator- ship a month ago by the court on the ground that neither mentally aor phy. scially was she able to take care of her- self or her fortune.
The petition was signed by a medical specialists-Sir W. Arbuthnot-Lane, Sir Thomas Horder, Sir Maurice Craig, and Dr. E. Farquhar Buzzard-all of whom declared that during an attack of jaun, | dice shortly before her busband's death last April she developed a state of men- tal confusion but was now fully restored to health and was able to take legal con trol over her affairs.
HEARING ADJOURNED. The Attorney-General intervened la the bearing and expressed the opinion that the court would be justified in departing from the normal procedure by grantic immediate relief to Lady Houston.
Advocate Le Gros, for the curator, ob-, jected and declared that even money could not override the law, to which the At- torney-General restorted: duz grends maur Les grands remèdes (desperate- diseases demand desperate remedies).
The court decided that Jersey law re-
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"It is the battle for the economic re- storation of Italy. In the other battles quired that a written statement was not which the Eascist régime has had to sufficient, and adjourned the proceedings to allow the medical specialists and ex- fight victory has already been won. We have won the
battle against factions pert alienists to be heard on oath. Parliamentary opposition. We have been Lady Houston, who had been in readi successful in combining all the produeness to depart from Jersey in her yacht tive forces of the nation into one co directly she left the court, was distressed pestive state We have triumphed at the court's decision and had to be the field of national finance and con- assisted out. verted an annual deficit into a surplus of nearly 2,000,000,000 lire. I-new-now giving earnest attention to the restora- tion of our balance of trade and the stabilisation of the exchange value of the lira."
"In
"A LEGAL LUNATIC." To-day I called on Lady Houston at her home, Beaufield, St. Saviour, writes. a Daily Vail correspondent.
"Surely," she said, as she led the way to the lawn laughing heartily," the public is not interested in me now that I am a legal lunatic."
Lady Houston ordered tea and served it herself, all the while talking jocularly of her position. For self-possession Ery complete, and she discussed in detail the principal social and political events of the past week in London and Paris and revealed a particularly intimate know- ledge of the facts of the British coal dispute.
Her actions and speech were those of a normal person, and she was always in the calmest mood when referring to her curatorship.
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"I was described in court to-day as a resident of Jersey. That is nonsense I have never wanted to be here, and I am really a prisoner in Jersey.
"The statutes of this island were
but the fact seems to have been lost sight framed specially for the local population, of that I am not a Jerseyite but an Englishwoman.
HOW IT IS DONE. Mr. Ward Price asked Signor Musso. lini how the striking results referred to General Li Tani Hsin, now abave had been achieved. "By first ting tourander-in-Chief during the_scoing clearly the aim and then going absence of General Chiang Kai Shek, is straight for it, was his reply. I study being asked to intervene and to use force, the Lgures of our national trade, and see if necessary, to settle not only the post plainly that we are importing more than men's strike but other labour difficulties is good for the economic interests of the which are upsetting Canton's normal life.nation. The railway men are still at work al
consultation with experienced The policy is wrong because it is an though efforts were made to induce them advisers I drew up a first list of remedies expression of American failure to realise to join the Postal strike so that all forms to be applied, and those remedies have now been announced to the nation. that the Chinese situation is fundament of communication might be paralysed.
The Kuomintang "Bre
particularly They may involve hardship to individual ally a Revolutionary situation and that, anxious now to put да end to these persons or classes, but it better that
"Of course," she said, "I am osten- therefore, Revolutionary, ic., a funda- labour troubles. August 1st was the day those should suffer" rather than the mental solution is necessary as opposed fixed for the issue of the second series nation as a whole. In a storm at sea, if sibly the owner" of £8,000,000, but if a of war bonds to the value of $10,000,000, the captain decides that goods belong beggar came this way now I would have to a solution involving a series of 20 but the stoppage of the newspapers and ing to passedgers must be thrown over to be so humble as to admit that I have cälled "evolutionary" re-adjustments. the strike of postmen have seriously board to lighten the ship the owners do Lot even a pennypiece to give him. not protest because they know that the Even all my jewels have been taken away And the situation is Revolutionary be affected the Bnancial campaign.,
sacrifice being made for the general from me; my own private income of £6,000 or £7,000 yearly is not allowed me, cause the principle of Change implicit
good is consequently for theirs.
"I am certain that the new, restric-and I could not even pawn this (picking in the Revolution of 1911-12 has not yet
And externally, foreign trade:
tions when I have imposed upon the up a silver sugar bowl) if I wanted to, been worked out in the life of the Nation, dominating feature of 2. fundamental particularly in its politico-economic solution of the Chinese question is that economic life of Italy will be accepted although I bought it.
enthusiasm. I know that I had called aspect, owing to the constant interfer. America should revise its present pol not only without opposition but with of bringing into effect certain re-adjust- ence and intervention, direct and ia ments of its treaty relations with China on Italians to do ten hours' work a day instead of nine they would have agreed. direct, of certain Foreign Powers who and, recognising the necessity of a "They realise it is not governmental (to cite some signal instances) first sup relations instead of readjustments on the behind these regulations. They know I General He-adjustment of such treaty caprice but national necessity that is ported" Yuan-Shih Kar in his attempt to instalment plan, satisfy the demand of set an example by working myself 14 or destroy the Chinese Republic and fin- Nationalist China for the substitution anced him with the Reorganisation Lean of the unequal treaties for other treaties even 18 hours a day.
consistent with the real independence LABOUR'S CO-OPERATION. of 1913, next supported Tuan Chi Jui in and sovereignty of China. This is a "It was the bead of the Italian Federn his Anfu days and financed him with the policy that has been definitely brought tion of Labour who, when we were con within the range of practical politics and
an increase in the Nishihara and other loans, then support proved to be both practicable and ex- sulting him about ed Wu Pei Fu and financed him with pedient by the bold statesmanship of hours of labour, assured the Government that the Italian workers would be pre- Customs and Salt surpluses, and are now. Soviet Russia.
In view of the fact that "at the pared to do the extra hour's work a We realise," contemplating the support of a composite moment there exista no central govern- day without any extra pay.
"The circumstances in which I was strong man in the diversified persons of ment supported by all sections of China ho said, that it is in cur interest that Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Lin and the and recognised by the interested Powers the industry of the country should be put brought to my present plight were really outrageous. A week after my husband's It is only in trades which feel the death a party of people, about whose financing of this brace of militarists with with which to deal on a basis of mutuality upon a basis of prosperity.
of responsibilities," it would be proper the proceeds of a loan to be secured on and pertinent for Mr. MacMurray to ask severity of foreign competition, like the visit I had not been warned, entered my with whom is America, either alone or textile industry for instance, that an bedroom. Naturally, I was indignant, the promised Tariff surtaxes.
in conjunction with other Powers, to extra hour will need to be worked at the as that should have been the time when Persistence in such a policy makes not negotiate regarding a general re-adjust ordinary hourly rate of pay. In thriving a widow would look for help and sym- only. for Chinese disorder and what is ment of China's treaty relations with businesses I shall expect the wage for pathy rather, than being further embar called "chaos" in this country but for Foreign Powers. The Foreign Fowers the extra hour to be fixed by negotiation rassed.
can only negotiate, in, the interests of all between the organisations representing the intellectual confusion and moral bank concerned, with a National Government employers and employed. There will be wrote were not allowed to leave the ruptcy of the diplomacy of the Powers of China whose authority and power is no difficulty in this, for all these organisa-island. But instead of losing pluck, I tions on both sides are composed of have developed it in this emergency & Fascists and they know that the Fascist hundred fold, and during the whole And naught but a "disheartening lack reality.
Government will held the scales even period my mind has been raporlike in its of unanimity" will manifest itself when-
between them and will prevent either sharpness. ever the Government of the United As there is not such a government at side from exploiting the other. States is moved to apply its "evolution- the moment, I have the honour to repeat I am determined to develop Italian ary" policy to the Revolutionary facts of the warning that the Nationalist Govern-economic prosperity to the highest pos- ment, whose authority is now extending sible point. The fall of the franc has "the Chinese situation
to Central China, will repudiate all and inevitably had its effect on the exchange every loan to be concluded with the value of the lirs, and for many raw FUNDAMENTAL SOLUTION, agents of Wa Pei Fu and Chang Tao Lin materials we are dependent on imported Nationalist China insists on a funda Peking, and to add that the resump supplies; but I intend to reduce these tion of the Special Tariff Conference will
to a minimum. a mental solution of the group of issues be viewed by my Government as a de known as the Chinese question. Interberate attempt on the part of the United States and the other interested
REPEAT WARNING.
THE BOLSHEVISTS' FAILURE. "Such measures as I have taken, and
Has anyone ever heard before of a woman who was very ill physically when her husband died being put under guar dianship and being declared-unable to How could manage her own affaire any woman manage her own affairs at such a moment of her life?
· ́ ́ OUTRAGEOUS."
"No lettera reached me and those that
FIGHT TO A FINISH.
"I refuse to be beaten at this stage of the disposal of the Houston millions, and next Saturday I propose that the court shall bear not only the four dis- tinguished London doctors but also three other eminent specialists, two from Parif and one from Scotland.
This money has so far been nothing but a curse to me.
ally, this means that the new military and Powers to convert the Chinese Maritime those which I have yet to introduce, As regards the claim of the British political technique which has enabled the Customs from a politico-fiscal organ into could not possibly be adopted under a Treasury for the death duties, which will Nationalist Government to unify the an engine of war-finance and foreign régime of Socialism or of vain parlia- form a colossal total, I can say definite- intervention in China's civil or rather mentory discussion. They can only ly that Big Robert took a domicile în Liang-Kwang militarily, fiscally and poli-evolutionary wars. In this event the originate in the wise, firm, and benevol- Jersey solely to defeat that demand, but tically must be applied on a national Nationalist Government will be compelled ent authority of the State, uniting in 1 am certainly not going to encourage itself the forces both of employers and resistance to the British Treasury claim. "scale" in order that the Chinese people to take certain defensive measures.
elaployed and using them for the good of Thers are no duties payable to the Jersey may work out their own salvation in the
the community as a whole,
Exchequer, and so far as I rm concerned I am content that they should be paid to Interests of themselves as a whole and
Great Britain. I expect there will be im- not to subordinate the same to such alien
mense trouble before I am finally released interests us foreign high finance and
from my bondage, but I shall fight to a Arish" (Continued on next column.)
Ihavo, ote,,
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CHEN YU JE, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Honourable Douglas Jenkins, American Consul General, Shameen.
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