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BRASS BAND AND PAMPHLETS IN
CANTON
TWO MORE COMMUNIQUES BUT NO PROCLAMATION.
PICKETS LESS IN EVIDENCE.
POSITION ON SHAKEE AND ON THE FRONTIER.
Yesterday brought two communiqude from the Canton Foreign Offico, but the Proclamation which was expected to put an end de- Baitely to the boycott did not materialise.
The Brst communiqué. issted through the Canton. Information Burtan, denied a report that the Nationalist Government had applied for British help against its rivals in the North. It was dated September 29th and read-
The attention of the Nationalist Government has been drawn to a statement in the Zondon Times, quoted in a British wire- less message, dated September 25th, that attempts have been made by numerous Chiness faction leaders, including the Canton Government, to obtain the help of Britain against their rivals" The Nationalist Government at Canton bas never applied, directly or indirectly, for British help against ita rivals, or for any other purpose whatsoever.
The Second communiqué, was as follows:
The Foreign Office states that Mr. Eugene Chen was not present (as reported in the Hongkong Daily Press of September 27th) at the American Consulate, when Mr. MacMurray in said to have declared that America had no intention of changing ber policy in China at the moment and that there was no idea of giving up extraterritoriality in the present circumstances"
An explanation is perhaps due from us regarding this statement. We were given a general outline of the meeting at the American Con- sulate by a merchant of many years standing in Canton, who knows Mr. Eugene Chen personally. He said Mr. Eugene Chep was present and we understood that he actually saw him there, but obviously in this we were mistaken. Perhaps Mr. Eugene Chen has a double. We regret the error but we do not see that there is any occasion to apologise because the statement did Mr. Chen no harm. We wish he had been present. There is no doubt be would have had A pleamat time and listening to the speeches would have been for his soul's good.
From a trade point of view there has been no particular change. in Canton during the past 24 hours. The Naval Authorities state:-
There is nothing further to report. The position during the last two or three days is unchanged, but pickets appear to be less
in evidence
Referring to the Kongmoon district they report:
All quiet at Konginoon. A few pickets are still to be seen but are not interfering or giving any trouble.
PICKET ACTIVITIES."
Two further reports have teachd us from reliable sources regard- ing pickets activities in other parts. One suys —
The
On the evening of Tuesday, the 28th inst., a picket was observed in the late afternoon searching people at Nam Kam Te ferry, on the frontier. This (Thursday) morning, however, it is stated that there are no pickets at all on. the frontier. Chinese officer in charge of the pickets at Sham Chun is report ed to have informed a Customs officer in Sham Chin that all the pickets have been withdrawa, and will leave for Canton by the express. This morning people were crossing the Lo Wu bridge freely without interference from anyone.
The other reads:-
The strike pickets, formerly stationed at the Shakee, but The procedure. later withdrawn, returned on September 25th. now is, apparently, that any Chinese is allowed to enter Shameen without interference, but on leaving the island he must show his " pass, under pain of arrest.
This second message can only be regarded as evidence that there has been a considerable tightening up of the procedure during the past few days On Thursday or Friday of last week a Chinese merchant walked into a British merchant's office on Shameén. As he had not been scen there for months he was greeted with. "Hello, what are you doing here. He explained the situation in this wayThe picket said could come through. I said 'Yes, but what about coming back and the picket remarked that it would be all right for he had received orders not to molest anyone."
New apparently the position in this respect is about the same as it has been for months past for, of course, there have been, and still But once there, they stop. are, a good number of Chinese on Shameen. There is no free passing to and fro,
A WORKERS' PROCESSION.
A Shameen correspondent writes on Wednesday: -
I took a stroll into the City yesterday and everything seemzi- ed quiet Then I ran into a Workers procession, headed by a brass band with a number of people following distributing hand-bills I asked for one but the distributor avoided me. However, I managed to secure a couple and, as I expected, they were pamphlets issued by some guild urging the people to maintain the boycott and "to sever all connection with Hongkong. This sort of thing is perhaps to be expected for some time and should not be very seriously regarded. There are influences at work; there is co doubt, endeavouring to persuade the merchants not to trade, and this possibly accounts for the fact that everything at the moment appears to be hanging in the balance.
I under-
The version which your Chinese correspondent gave a day or two ago of the Government's reply to the French Consul's protest regarding the seizure of the Banque de l'Indo China's property by the strike pickets at Tung Yuan, is quite accurate stand that the French Consul has protested to Mr. Eugene Chen agaicst the articles attacking the French which have appeared in some of the Chinese papers and Mr. Eugene Chen, so I am informed, promised to look into the matter and to put a stop to them."
DISSATISFIED WITH
M. BORODIN.
A COMPLAINT TO CHIANG KAI SHEK.
PICKETS GO AND MOTOR-BOATS WITH THEM
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1^r,
TYPHOON'S TOLL.
YEUNG KONG FLEET TRAGEDY.
FEARED LOSS OF TWO THOUSAND
FISHER FOLN
DAMAGE DONE IN MACAO.
OFFICIAL DETAILS.
LETTER" FROM THE CAPTAIN OF THE PORT,
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS."]
The alarming news was received yester- day that a big deet of fishing junks, which set out from Yeung Kong, with something like 2,000 people on board has been practically wiped out The feat SIN,-The news published by you in numbered 130 junks. The story of the to-day's issue, regarding the damage disaster was related by some of the 35 done by the typhoon of the 29th inst., survivors of the crews of ten fishing junks being rather exaggerated, I beg to give picked up by the an Hydrangea while herein the fall details on her way from "Kwong Chow Wan to Hongkong, as recorded yesterday.
Our river gunboat Macau was not in danger, "as she had her boiler under "Hardly A Junk Left."
steam and was ready to proceed to Ber Yeung Kong is in Chinese waters, not shelter, if necessary. The only damage very far from the territorial waters of was that the wireless topmast was this Colony, and is chiefly noteworthy for broken.
its deep-sea fishing fleets. The whole No damage was done to junks in the number of these craft set sail from their inner Harbour, nor was there any loss anchorage the day previous to the of life, only one barge belonging to the typhoon, and on the following morning Netherlanda Harbour Works Co. being they were taken by surprise by the unk
Five barges, one motor-best and one typboon. Towards the latter part of the
One dredger belonging also to the Nether. morning the tragedy commenced.
by one the craft sank until there was lands Harbour Works Co-, were driven hardly a junk left. The survivors who ashore at Macao-Sesc, and three stone were picked up by the Hydrangea speak junks in the service of the same Com of having seen a whole fleet of 130 vessels pony were sunk in the Praia Grande wiped out, and with them their crews of Bay and also two fishing juuks. some 2,000, men, women and children. The fishing feet missing" title ol
In the pticular unit of ter vessels, your columa, is not correct. Some junks from the wreckage of which the survivors entered the Inner Harbour for shelter were picked up after thirty-six hours of and were well secured. It is, however, drifting, there were over three hundred thought that the remainder which could men, women and children when it set sail not make for the Inner Earbour, have trom Yeung Kong. Of these, only thirty-taken shelter in some of the many bays Ave still survive to tell the story of the in the vicinity. worst disaster that has visited southera fishing feets for many years
There is news in regard to two junks sinking behind Malauchau. One member
The survivors say they wish to return of the shipwrecked crews was rescued by to Yeung Kong. They will be helped our gunboat Patria, which was anchored thither by the local authorities, going by in front of Seong-Ma-Kck She was unable to save any more lives owing to way of Macao.
fear on the part of the shipwrecked mer! who swam from the line of fire of rockets with salvage rope,
Charitable Passengers, When the thirty-five survivors were safe on board the Hydrangea, for the benefit of the rescued people, a collection was made amongst the deck passengers acd 8203 was collected. On arrival in Hong kong, the survivors were all taken to the Tung Wah Hospital
"
Other Junk Disasters, Another fishing junk"was caught in the storm near Ping Hoi whilst returning to Hongkong from Eap: Taze Chan, in the Hoifung district
Heavy seas washed many of the crew including the master and his children overboard. The vessel was able to ride out the storm although badly damaged, and returned to Hongkong on Wednes day with three survivors, out of total of 20
A Hongkong fishing junk was one of the many other local craft wrecked in the storm. It capsized off Kap Taze Cha on Monday morning and of the crew of over ten, only one escaped, by clinging. to a plank and drifting to Lintin Island. Here the survivor was picked up by another local fishing junk, and returned to the Colony,
A Long Swim. Three Macao Habermen, whose boat capsized, have been brought to Hong! kong by the Water Police. This boat war on its way from San Mei to the fishing grounds, and the three men were the only survivors out of 18. They swam to Lung Shun Wan and, walked some distance before they were found by the police..
THE WEATHER.
YESTERDAY'S REPORTS.
The numbers of deaths, I cannot as yet confirm up to the present, only seven dead bodies having been found.
Thanking you for the publication of this letter.Yours faithfully.
CEZAR GOMES DO AMORAL,
Captain of the Port... Macao, September 29th, 1996. [Ed. Note: Exaggerated reports re garding the damage done at Macao were circulated in Hongkong on Tuesday, but cara was taken to point out that these reports lacked confrmation. The news came that the fishing feet was miss- but we pointed out that enquiries made on the Taishan, which had just returned from Maeno, failed to elicit any details. Thursday was more re-assuring and we are glad to give the Captain of the Port's confirmation of this.]
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CHINESE STEAMER PUTS IN FOR REPAIRS.
There arrived in port yesterday the
Hai Ten, a Chinese steamer of 979 registered net tons, for which the agents are Messrs. Moller & Company. The
ai Fen is a stranger to the port of Hongkong, but she has put in here for the replacement of her funnel, which she lost during the typhoon. The vessel, which came from 8watow, and carried 500 toas of cargo for other ports, must have ex- périenced extremely bad weather, for her funnel, according to the report "of the master to the Harbour Office, was blown overboard
"A fairly heary blow, with almost an ceasing rain, was experienced on Wednes day night and continued yesterday. The
A Lifebelt. present storm is due to the joint presence of Monday's typhoon and the monsoon in The master of the Hai Fen also report- this part of the weather map. The ed that a white life-belt" was passed typhoon which passed near the Colony thirty miles South of Gap" Rock. was near Tourans, in Indo China, yester day morning, going in a westerly direc tion and still severe."
Observatory Reporta.. Yesterday morning's report by the Observatory read :-
Jade Workers, Ivory Workers, and Tooth Brush Makers, who are finding it too troublesome to be identified with any
Earlier expectations that it would fill federation, "Red" or "anti-Red"
For some reasons still inexplained the UP have not been borne out but it is felt that conditions" in Indo-China will have Strike Committee has for the last few moderated by to-day with the local days denied entrance at Tung Tuen to weather also improving,... persons not immediately connected with the Committee. The Kuomintang, it is understood, is not to dissolve this" com- roittee by force as was at first rumoured. Some pickets in charge of motor-boats, TWO VESSELS OF CANTON NAVY however, in anticipation of being disarm
MISSING,
ed or asked to surrender the craft to the W.N.W. Police, are said to have escaped, taking At 6 yesterday morning the typhoon, the boats with them. It is also stated which had become severe, was near Lak that many workers are really indifferent 16deg. N. and Long. 11deg. E., moving to the "Red" or "anti-Red" issue and will join any side which will give them temporary advantage.
IFROM OUT CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
Mr. Koo Ying Fang, retiring Commis sioner of Civil Affairs, has left Canton for Hunan, where he expects to meet General Chiang Kai Shek, and will com- plsia to hire of the discourtesy he has received from M. Borodin, upon whose advice Mr. Kog was dismissed from office. Mr, Koo is alleged to have communicated with
anti-Reds in Shanghai.
A severe typhoon within 60 miles of Lt. 17dez. N., Long. 117deg. E., moving
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THE "GLOBE TROTTERS.".
CLOTHES DAMAGED DURING TYPHOON.
As mentioned previously, Mr. Dick Norton and his Company of Globe Trotters," who were due to open at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, on Monday even- ing last, but were prevented from doing so by reason of the breakdown in the steering gear of the as Kuriyang, on which they were travelling to Hongkong from Bangkok experienced a very un nerving and trying time during the Pressure had 'increased slightly over hold-up of the vessel" off Gap Rock, N.E Japan, Formosa and Luzon. It had Happily, beyond fatigue and frayed. The Kuomintang s.s. Chi-yoo and sa
decreased moderately at Tourane and nerves, the party are now none the worse Alin shang, under the command of the slightly at Haiphong It was nearly for their unique experience. The worst Canton Mary, but on duty at Fakhoi and stationary at other reporting stations. misfortune was the damage to their Swatow, have been reported as lost while Rainfall until 10 am yesterday 1.73 clothes by the influx of sea-water. Hage. returning from these stations to Canton inches. Total to date, 90.83 inches, sens swept over the ship, the bedding was drenched, the ladies' evening dresses for re-assignment. It is suspected that against an average of 75.68 inches. Since the suppression of the Central they may have been taken by anti- On the 30th at 6-7 p.m.-The typhoon were damaged beyond repair, and the Labour Union (anti-Reds) in Canton, Reds," but it is possible that they were is entering the coast of Indo-China to the the late befel the white suits of the the Kuomintang Workers' Delegate Con- damaged by the recent typhoon. The north of Tourane.
men-folk; while their dinner jackets ference (Reds) has not prospered. Min-hang was formerly the No Tai
were also water-logged in a trunk." In fact, it has, declined in strength. At Chow, and the Chi-yan was the Wah the beginning of the conflict between the Shan, vessels confiscated by the Kuomin two sections of workers in Canton, the tang a year ago ander one pretext or "Reds" had more than 170 unions, as another. against the 30 or 35 of the "anti-Reds" It is reported in Canton that Heu Tune but amce the street warfare early in Hol, calling himself the anti-Red" August when there were more than 250 commander of Kaochow, in interfering 9.30 am, Sept. 30th.29th, 8 p.m. casualties, and in spite of the fact that with the Kuomintang authorities. Gen- typhoon in about 113deg. Long. E., and the Kuomintang sided with the "Redeyeral Chen Tsai, Tong of the Department 17deg. Lat. N., moving W. the latter have been weakened by the commanding the five districts in Southern 1.30 p.m., Sept. 30th.-Typhoon in about withdrawal of some 20,000 members re- Kwangtung has been instructed to sup-111deg. Long. E., 16deg, Lat. N., moving presenting nearly 20 unions, including the press him.
Local forecast: East winds, Ireab, moderating, overcast, occasional rain.
MANILA WARNINGS.
The telegrams quoted below were re ceived from the Manila. Observatory at the American Consulate General :----
W.
New costumes are now being made for the Globe Trotters, who will open at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, to-morrow evening. The party, as previously re- corded, landed an Wednesday morning, but needed a rest and a chance to re- cuperate
The Globe Trotters" laff Bangkok on September 20th, and heavy seas were encountered early last Monday morning, A large quantity of ships stores and poultry was washed overboard.
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