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CANTON'S LABOUR
TROUBLES.
TROOPS USED TO SUPPRESS STREET FIGHTING.
OFFICIAL BULLETINS PUBLISHED AGAIN.
STRENGTH OF CHINESE SOVIETS."
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT-]
The labour war in Canton between
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 9ræ, 1926
FIGHTING IN THE AMOY ELECTRIC LIGHT. THE POST OFFICE STRIKE IN
NORTH.
HEAVY GUNFIRE HEARD IN PEKING.
KUOMINCHUN'S DEFEAT ·AT
NANKOU.
CANTON'S DENIAL..
PEEING, August 7th. Heavy gunfire was heard in Peking this morning and afternoon. The Chinese
SPECIAL MEETING OF
-RATEPAYERS.
TENDERS CONSIDERED.
MATTER LEFT TO SUR.COMMITTEE.
EZRÖM, OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.}
Amor, August 8th.
SWATOW.
QUICK, ALLIANCE WITH REGULAR-
****PIQKETS.**
5.5." TAI LEE AGROUND,
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. }
SWATOW, August 6th.
the Kuomintang Workers" Conference military officials assert that the Kusmin- for the installation and operation of a declined to return until an increase of
(tas extremists) and the Central Labour Union is still in progress but the fighting has not been so serious as during the first three days of laat week.
chun were making a counter-attack with a view to covering their retirement from Nankou for Yenching:
This morning's attacks were repulsed but the Ruominchun renewed the assaults
On August 7th a conflict between the tea house workers ("anti-reds") and the noodle lunch room workers (zeds" this afternoon.
resulted in seven killed and eighteen Reuter. wounded.
The Kuomintang employed troops to suppress this street fighting for the first time during the week-end.
-STRIKES" SETTLED,”...- The Canton Postal Service is to resume its regular routine to-day (Monday) when the Kuomintang will stage a parade tu
Fighting contiques.—
UNCONFIRMED REPORT.
PEKINO, August 8th.
It is unofficially stated in military circles this morning that news has been received to the effect that Nankow Pass was captured by the Fengtion and Allied
1. The Jardine Engineering Corpora-
tion.
The Amoy Electric Co. (Chinese Company now functioning in Amoy City).
The Post Office Strike, which began on Monday morning, still continues. With the exception of one or two loyal clorks every employee in the service has A special meeting of ratepayers was struck work. As usual in an affair of recently held at the Kulangsu Municipal this kind the chief demand is for more Council to discuss and consider tenders dollars. It is reported that the staff has
new electric lighting plant. The present 30 per cent. is granted and salaries are plant is considered inadequate to cope paid in taels instead of dollars, at that with the increasing demands for current. the actual demand is for 100 per cent. Accordingly the Council invited tenders rise all round. Obviously there is little about two months ago, and the four fol- chance of an early settlement. Business lowing companies responded
has been, thoroughly dislocated. and it surely cannot be long before the Chinese & protest. merchant community. raises The foreign community is not greatly troubled for it is reported that the Con-- 3. The Kulangsu Electric Light Co. sular Body took prompt action in advis. (formed by a group of local Chinese)ing other ports to have special, bags of 4. The Kulangsu Public Utility Co. foreign mail matter made up which can
styled an International Syndicate formed by local foreign and Chinese be effectively dealt with on arrival here. business men).
An interesting sidelight on the dispute is seen in the rapidity with which the Post Office strikers and the regular pe
tary Governor sent à party of soldiers to land the military mail from the China From the formidable attitude of those Merchants s.s. Irene; the pickets tried voters who came
with cut-and-dried to interfere but thought better of it schemes and a determination to carry when the troops rattled their belts Dow then through, it was evident to all that and again. Incidentally the_Trene" left the discussion to follow would be of a rapid firing sort. And such proved to be the case.
The meeting was largely attended and provided no little excitement. In the
celebrate the victory. of. the Postmer's troops at 9 p.m. yesterday; but no official absence of Mr. Hewlett, British Consul, kets became allied. On Monday the Mili. confirmation, so far, is forthcoming. Mr. John R. Putnam, U.S. Consul, took Beater,
Union The Kuomintang is contributing $2,000 towards the strike expenses.
The Propaganda Bureau of the Kuo- mintang Army has resumed publication -of-its-daily-war bulletins andother party.
information. The strike of workers in its printing office has been settled by paying up part of the arrears in wages and by promising an increase in the wages for the future...
CENSORSHIP.
u
CANTON'S COMMUNIQUE... The Canton Information Bureau has issued the following communiqué through Reuters
CANTON, August 7th..
the chair.
The General Staff at the front have
The first ballot returned a vote of 93 telegraphed to the Nationalist Govern-in favour of the Kulangsù Utility Com ment reporting the defeat of Wu Pei Fu's pany, but as this was a special mesting, troops under Ho Yao Tso on the Chang-it was necessary to obtain a two-thirds teh front, North Hunan. The enemy re- treated northward to Keng Yan-hsien and The Shih Shao-hsien pursued by Nationalist
Mail and telegraph consorship by the newly organised Board of Censors in Canton City will be extended to include Swatow, Hoihow, Pakhoi, Wuchow, Nan- ning, Kongmoon and other ports. Board WAS formally inaugurated oa forces. Thursday. In the past both the Chief of Police and Army Headquarters have sent censors to the post offices, but now the inspection of mail matter and other com- munications is to be directed by this
vote, and there were in all 46 voters
present. A second ballot gave this Com- pany 97 and the third and fourth ballots produced the same result.
Mr. Bromfeld, Chairman of the Council and Manager of Tait & Co., was strongly The message from Hankow "reporting of the opinion that the voting on the the Kuominchun's defeat at Nankou near tenders should be done at once and de- Peking, is categorically denied here. The precated any long discussion over details, Kominchus inform the Nationalist Gov. but there were others who held the opposite view. Mr. Bromfield's chief
the port with scores of bags of mail, foreign and Chinese.
The whole City is placarded with the most violent attacks on the Chief of the Postal Service in Peking, the local P.M.G., Mr. Poletti, and the few loyal employees. In a few days we should have
stroll round the city when they get bored a procession. They always fall back on z
with striking. I hope it rains.
Note: As our readers are awaré, `ac- cording to reports from Canton, the Posta: Strike has now been settled by the Kuomintang agreeing to pay- the workers a subsidy pending nego. tiations with Peking"
CHINESE 5.S. “TAI LEE.”
This vessel, ex-Jardine's Wingsang,
central board which has been given juris ernment that Wa Pei Fu's mctley troops opponent was Mr. Francia R. Smith went aground yesterday on the bar. She
diction in this respect in all areas under the Kuomintang rëgime,
**CHINESE SOVIETS.” The Chinese Soviets," as represented by the Kuomintang Peasants' League, have, according to the latest statistics, the following strength. It the Province of Kwangtung, there are 4,797 leagues with 647,766 members; Kwangsi, 36 leagues, 844 members; Honam, 274 leagues, 270,000 members; Szechuan, 80 leagues, 6,683 members; Hunan, 7 leagues, 2,180 members; Shantung, 12 leagues, 284 members; Chihli, 27 leagues, 1,342 members; Kiangai, 30 leagues, 1,153 members; Johol, five leagues, 9,200 mem- bers; Harbin, one, league, 600 members; and Sheusi, 20 leagues, 1,000 members.
The Feasant's Leagues in Kwangkung
cannot dislodge them from their moun- tain position.
TROOP MOVEMENTS.
EVERYONE JOINING IN THE
SCRAMBLE.
[FROM DEE CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
Canton hears that General Tang Chi Yao, Tuchun of Yunnan, is dispatching
troops against the Kwangsi Kuomintang and that the people of Nanning are becoming alarmed. “
General Tang Chi Yao, it may be re- called, was at one time a member of the
are scattered in 4,527 villages throughout Kuomintang. He was offered the post of lieutenant-generalissimo" which would
"
23 Hsions or districts. In Kwangling, Wa-hua, and some other districts the Peasants' Leagues are very powerful and practically control local affairs,
have given him authority second only to
manager of Boyd & Co., who strongly is haled forward and is down badly by emphasised the need for a thorough. discussion of each of the four tendera submitted. A heated argument followed and finally it was decided to throw the meeting open for general discussion.
Mr Smith-then-dissected- each of the four proposals very thoroughly,, Refer- ring to the tender of the Kulangsu Elec tric Light Company, he said that details were Inching and the machinery was larger than that called for in the speci fications. Also the time required for tho installation of the plant was very in- definite. Notwithstanding these draw- backs, Mr. Smith said if he favoured any of the four proposals, it would be this ohe The Company was backed by some of the wealthiest Chinese in Amoy and offered an opportunity to foreigners of becoming stockholders.
The Amoy Electric Company, said Mr. Smith, was giving an efficient service to that of the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen. Hit their consumers in the city, but he re- The Kuomintang, in order to utilize assumption of this position, however, was minded the rate-payers that the Com. the organized power of its membership to the best advantage, has a number of opposed by Mr. Hu Han Min and other pany was purely a Chinese one and that in case of any dispute litigation could aubsidiary organizations, including the
members of the Elder Statesmen's party!
only be instituted-in-a-Chinese-Court, Workers' Delegate Conference; the Pea and finally General Tang turned against
He thought that the tender of the anats League; the Merchants' League: the Kuomintang altogether, announcing Jardine Engineering Corporation was the Kuomintang Students' Union; and
somewhat lacking in details. As far as the League of Workers, Farmers, Stud-
the Kulangsu Public Utility Company's According to Kuomintang ents, and Merchants.
reporte tender was concerned he "considered it General Thang Chi Ping; now a subordi-surprising that it should have been con-
ate of General Sun Chuan Fang, is ex-sidered at all. pected to turn against his superior officer
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that it was allied to Bolshevism.
Summing up, Mr. Smith said that not one of the four proposals would give
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OVERSEAS. The Kuomintang reports that many members of the former Chinese Labour Corps in Europe, who have bad consider able experience in trench digging and fort building, are now offering their ser vices to the Canton Army." These men, Trang. is now in Achwei as "bandit sup-committee be formed to go into the
and to join the Kuomintang in its war satisfaction to ratepayers and other con- against Northern" militarizm General
it is said, are anxious to participate in pression commissioner."
'the head. She was drawing 18 feet and stranded in 3 fathoms. However, given & spell of fair weather there seems no reason why she should not be temporarily patched and towed into deep water.
FATHER CONRARDY'S BODY EXHUMED.
TO REST IN SHEKLUNG
Bury me as & loper between two
lepers,"
Such was the last wish of Father L. L. Conrardy, the founder and head of the Leper Settlement at Sheklung, who died in Hongkong on August 24th, 1914, and was buried at the Roman Catholic Cathe- dral. His last wish has now been ful- filled, and his final resting place will be amongst those for whom he performed a wonderful wark of mercy, and for whom he died. His body, which had lain at the Cathedral for nearly 12 years, was exhumed on Saturday morning, and the remains are being removed to Shekiung
for re-interment.
The solemn ceremony was performed in the presence of Bishop Valtorta, the Rev. Father Deswazieres" (the present head of the Sheklung leper settlement) and the Fathers of the various missions.
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