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DAY BY DAY IN CANTON.
MERCHANTS PLEASED BY BRITISH ACTION.
EVERYTHING QUIET IN THE CITY.
PICKETS STILL OPERATING BUT IN PLAIN CLOTHES.
TAK HONGKONG - DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9.¤ 1926
The reports received from Canton yesterday described the City as perfectly quiet. The merchants. are very satisfied with the tread of affairs. Their only criticism is similar to that of the British people, for most of them want to know why action was not taken earlien
The pickets are said to be still active, only they have discarded their uniforms and do not display any fre-arms. Intimidation continues and it is probably this intimidation which accounts for the small amount of cargo and the comparatively low passengers brought from Canton "by the Fatshen...
On Tuesday the Lungshan, the first boat sailing after the pickets had been driven from the wharves, had a record manifest. She brought down more cargo and more passengers than she has done since the strike began. There were, four hundred coolies going to the Straits (they have been going rit Swatow) and the passenger list altogether numbered over 500. It is known that there are several thousand coolies still waiting to "make the trip but the Fatsian did not bring more than a hundred.
On Tuesday morning leaflets in great quantities were being distributed through Canton from two motor-cars.. The street urchins and the coolics wore busy collecting the literature but the more responsible people acemed to take little notice of it..
Lpou enquiry at the Hongkong Colonial Secretariat whether the British Consul at Canton had replied to Mr. Eugene Chen, we were" informed that no copy of any reply had been received here. It may be inferred from this that no reply has been made up to the present. Most people, we imagine, will consider that reply to Canton'à "protest " is, in the circumstances, unnecessary. The protest was 'not a polite one. A reply would probably only call forth another tirude and the time for bandying words seems now to have passed.
ALL QUIET.
A STROLL THROUGH THE STREETS.
- must take place in British policy in order to prevent the British Navy from sever ing the jugular vein of British trade and commerce ja Nationalist China. It is distinguished Englishman who has warn- ed men in high places that a nation must learn or perish. Have the seminal events since May 30th at Shanghai and June 23rd of the Shameen taught the governing miad of England' nothing?
TROUBLE AT SINCERE'S, [BY A CORRESPONDENT. ].
CANTON, September 7th. I have taken a walk through the City to have a look round. Everything # quiet and the people generally appear? quite unconcerned. In one shop at which Besides catering an energetic and I called devoted to the sale of foreign indignant protest against the action of piece-goods there were six armed soldiers the British naval forces and reserving the and one other Chinese official in ordinary right of my Government to claim indemni Chinese dress. They were looking cver ties, I have the bonour to demand. (a) the accourt books and talking cainestly, the immediate withdrawal of the armed I saw some more soldiers in another shop British detachment on the jetties; (b) in the same neighbourhood and so I asked the instant cessation of all interference a neighbouring shop-keeper what all the with small craft traffic on the River by trouble was about. He looked askance the British caval forces, and (c) the re- at the soldiers in the street and then tirement of the British gunboats now swore at them in a low voice, saying that moored along the jetties to their usual
anchorage of the Shameen." they were collecting some kind of tax
CHINESE OPINION.
VIEWS REGARDING NAVAL ACTION.
GENERAL FEELING OF SATISFACTION.
STRIKE COMMITTEE'S OUSTING THE PICKETS
METHODS.
FICKETS PROCEDURE AT SWATOW.
A PERSONAL STATEMENT AND A
PROTEST."
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THE CASE OF MR. SIM KYE LIM.
It has already been related in the Daily Press how Mr. Sin Kye Lim, a Chinese British subject, who for thirty years has been employed by Messrs. |Bradley & Co, Ltd., Swatow, was seized by the Strike Pickets and held in custody until be promised to pay his captors $800.
Since his re:case Mr. Sim Kya Lim has made a sworn statement givng the facts of the case. It makes unpleasant read ing and there appears to be some justi- Ecation in the victim's complaint against. the British Government for allowing the Pickets to treat him in the way they did. Mr. Sim Kye Lim was born in Singapore and his father and grandfather were British subjects.
The statement, the original of which is how in the possession of the British Consul et Swatow is as follows:-
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To wards the end of June, 1926, I was requested by my employers, Messrs. Bradley & Co., Ltd., of Swatow, to go
AT SWATOW.
A GOOD MANY CRIES FOR MERCY.
NO ONE HURT.
THE ACTION TAKEN BY THE "MIGNOLIA "*
[FROM OUR SWATOW CORRESPONDENT.]
SWATOW, September 6th These licensed bandits, as His Ex- cellency the Governor of Hongkong aptly described them the other day, received a rude shock last Saturday morning. Just as they were about to begin the day's thieving and marsuding an armed party from H.M.S. Magnolia came alongside their motor launch. One or two picketä managed to scramble on to a pontoon and run away, others tried to follow but a. few taps with a truncheon and they The naval soon changed their minds. party took the picarts and their launch in tow and went off to the Magnolia. All the time these same pickets who are so brave and powerful when torturing help- less Chinese were shrieking and implor- ing the sailors to show them mercy,
Arriving at the Magnolia they were search, disarmed and deprived of their beautiful blue uniforms. They were then.
to the firm's office to open negotiations put ashore to go and bleat to their com with the Director of the Swatow Bundrades in crime about the cruel and Reclamation Bureau with a view to the barbarous British sailors. As a matter Arms acquiring certain new foreshore of fact no one was hurt. land in front of the office.
·Being a British-born subject and there- fore at liberty to go about my business without hindrance or restraint I was fully prepared to do what was required of me, but in order to avoid any unpleasant incident with the Strike Committee, their pickets "and detectives it advisable by the British Consul and my
Was deemed
The ones greatly feared Strike Picket taunch is now riding peacefully to que of the Magnolia's booms. We thought it might be a lesson to them but apparently it has not been and they are asking for more. Assuredly they will get it if they cannot behave themselves.
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1stand for a few days.
The U.S.S. Hart has gone to Double.
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Political,
employers that I should obtain some kind of pass from the Chinese Authorities. The velocity of official belting has sen- Such a pass, though issued by the Strike sibly decreased during the last few days. Committee and not the local authorities, it appears that General Ho Eng Khim, was given to me by the British Consulho, after all, was not among the bolters' This pass was valid for one month only succeeded in buying over a part of the In addition I, together with Mr. Yew invading army and incorporating them Ah Row and Mr. Gou Hi Nam, two Chi-amongst his "Reds." Field tactics have nesc also concerned in the land negotia beca completely revised since our little tions, obtained another permit from the
war of 1914-18. What a fool I was not Executive Delegate, Hsu Fu, allowing us to come and go. freely and without to have advised our choleric little C.O. molestation between our several offices and the British Consulate until the land to buy over, at the price of a few sau- negotiations were concluded. Armed with sages, a particularly nasty Bavarian these two permita 1 continued to visit the regiment that" harassed us for weeks on office frequently and, was unmolested.
the Somme. He would probably have recommended me for a decoration.
signed the document knowing that it would have no value to them as it was cbtained by threats of violence.
1 was then taken back to my filthy cell
Going down the Bund in a ricksha 1
At 10 a.m. on Monday, August 16th, as I was entering the office of Messrs. was stopped near Sincere's by the Police
Bradley & Co., Ltd., I was attacked by and the ticksha coólic was ordered to
about a dozen armed pickets in plain. turn back.. I got out of the ricksha and
elathes, who, in spite of my protesta and my permit, which latter produced. walked along without being molested" I
dragged me off with ropea to the bead- heard that Sincere's had had trouble with
[FROM OCB CHINESE CORESPONDENT.]
quarters of the general Strike Committee their employees and that last night there
Arriving there I was immediately inter- I have been endeavouring to obtain rogated by two members of the Strike small room, 18ft. by left, contain was a big fight between two factions in which five were killed and several wound-from various quarters during the past Committee who asked me what right fing about 20 prisoners and two open W.C.
remained until September Sad. ed. As a consequence Sincere's store has few days some idea of Chinese opinion had to visit Messrs. Bradley & Co., Ltd., tube and with no ventilation-where I
during the strike and boycott. I replied. regarding the British naval action at that I was a British subject and there Canton. It a fair to day, I think, that fore had a perfect right to visit my em- The heat has been oppressive for some the Chinese generally welcome the and Ployers. Moreover, I explained to them padlocked about the neck, taken outside days and it seems to have affected the which has been given in the suppression sion of the Executive Delegate's permit. the circumstances leading to my posses- pickets at the Shameen gates. At any of lawlessness and corruption. They They told me that they cared nothing at rate they appear to be always half-asleep, would have preferred that the action all for any permit except their own, which received from Canton the same morning
had expired.
been closed for a time.
MR. EUGENE CHEN'S PROTEST. THE WRITTEN DISPATCH.
CANTON ITEMS.
day I was again chained up and tightly At one o'clock is the afternoon of that
and up to another room where I was put called). They said that a cable had been on trial before the same five judges (so-
advising them either to settle the case Shameen has imposed some sort of quar- taken should have been taken by their."
on the spot or send me down to Canton They then asked me my name, age ant antine against the Chinese from the City own Government but failing this they are nationality. I replied: Sim Eye Lin- to be put in prison there. They offered me the following terma-either (1) im- and Honam on account of cholera but as satished that the British have stepped in.
about 48 years-n British-born subject mediate release on payment of a fine of whose father and grandfather were also far as I can judge there is not much sick-
Even those Chinese, who speak of "un- British subjects."Asked where I was $2,000 or (2) transfer to Canton for trial where they said I should probably be shot ness in the City at present and it is hoped equal treaties" and are not entirely born I said: Singapore." To this they or thrown into prison for a number of
answered that I was pure Chinese and n the restrictions will soon be removed. antagonistic to the boycott, have never Chinese citizen. I said I was not and years. Not knowing what was going on outside, nor what the British Consul had There is nothing to complain about in approved of the methods of the strike demanded immediate release, firstly, be-been able to do for me I was placed in Shameen from the health point of view.
pickets. The losses of the foreign merly, because I held the Executive Deie-
cause I was a British subject and second- 'a quandary.
However, I decided to make them an chants are as nothing compared to the gate's permit. They said they would re-offer of 9500-against their demand for losses which the Chinese, who are not lease me after referring the matter to 89,000. This they flatly refused to con-
the Chinese Authorities. members of the Kuomintang, have suffer surprise, I was taken and dung into a rifle and to twist the chain round my Then to my sider and began to threaten me with a The protest lodged by Mr. Eugene Chened. The support which many Chinese are dirty cell and a heavy, rusty chain was nec... I becamed frightened and begged with the British Consul-General in-Can- now giving to the "anti-Red" movement padkicked tightly round may neck. When the two Swatow men on the tribunal to ton was telegraphed to Hongkong and is, in effect, an indirect attack on the such an outrage I was told that bad reduced the amount to 8800, for which
I protested and asked the meaning of intercede for me. They did so and finally was mutilated in transmission. It was Strike Committes of Canton.
committed a more criminal offence than signed a promissory note. The note was any of the other 40 prisoners who were guaranteed by a local friend of mine and round me. For three days and three' was released. (NB. next day the nights I lay in that foul place chained money was paid and the promissory note ATTEMPT TO DAMAGE RAILWAY.
to the wall. I had no sleep and the only receipted by the Strike Committee's seal. [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]food given to me consisted of the cold It is now in the possession of H.B.M.
dirty scraps from my gaolers' table. By Consul, Swatow.) Kuomintang secret service men report the fourth day when I was worn out and The brutal treatment I have received at "It may be-it is a grievous humilin: that " bandits",between the stations of sick with fever my 'friends and relationsthe hands of that criminal organisation, |
had by persuasion and bribery succeeded the Swatow Strike Committee, has im- tion that Nationalist China is unable to Yingtak and Liakong on the Kwangtung in inducing the Strike Committee to repaired my nerves and general health and repel by force of arms such British naval/Section of the, Canton-Hankow Railway lieve me of the chain. A special order I am now recovering in the care of my acts of war. But there is a powerful sec. have been trying to damage the line in was issued forbidding any person to speak family and friends and out of the reach tion of Chinese Nationalist opinion that order to prevent Kuomintang troop move to me, the object being I suppose to keep of my tormentors a
me in ignorance of any efforts on my behalf that were going on outside. My place on record, for the information and In concluding this statement I wish to believes in the application on a nation-ments. wide scale of the cconomic wespega of
A collision between 'train No. 4' north, relations also were expressly forbidden guidance of all other British subjects of On the third day of my imprisonment the way in which the Strikers were per- Chinese race, my emphatic protest against I was put on trial before a Special Committed by the British Government to mittee of five Strike leaders:-Ng Taing treat me. The British Consal here did Kau, late clerk in the A.P.C., Kim Chek, everything he possibly could for me; but late filter in the B. & Co., Ltd., and three had any other British-born subject of Cantonese ruffians whose names I do not European descent been so seized and know. The trial differed little from the brutally ill-treated, would the British interrogation made at the time of my Government have left him, as they left seizure. I insisted on my British nation me, to the mercy of a band of inhuman They queried brutes? Yet, I am British born and have ality and they denied it. the validity of the Executive Delegate's the same papers and passport as the cera-permit and produced a document purport- British Consul himself.
ing to say that I agreed with them, In case of need I am prepared to awear refused and argued with them until the on oath to the truth of the above state- three. Cantonese became wild and threat meat. ened to shoot me out of hand. Finally, (Continued on-next. Oolumn.)-
difficult to understand some of the sea. tences. The copy of the dispatch has now been received by post and the last| part of it, from which previously many words were missing, in given below. It
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the strike and boycott in retaliation forward and train No. 7 southward. occurred the humiliations and insulting blows at Siaping station, Canton-Hankow Rail. which England's Gunboat Policy is heap day, Kwangtung Section on the morning ing on Nationalist China,
of September 4th, resulting in more than "If the extension and national adop-50 persons being injured. It will take tion of this view is immaterial to British several days before Canton-Shiukwan policy in China, then the rough-neck direct service is resumed in Kwangtung. method of the sailor,, can continue to re- Canton confirms the reports that place the mind and technique, of the "Reds" and "anti-Reds" have statesman in Britain's dealings with this menced a battle around 'Chao-an. country. But if it is true that. England's The Northern warships outside foreign trade is her very life-blood, it is Swatow are said to be awaiting develop clear that a real and fundamental change 'ments on land before taking any action.
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to see me.
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The original of this statement is in the possession of H.B.3L Consul, Swatów.
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