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THE NEXT STEP AFTER THE BLOCKADE.”
CURIOUS STATEMENT SIGNED BY THE KUOMINTANG."
WE SHALL NOT SLACKEN OUR PRESENT POLICY FOR
A SINGLE DAY".
Latest. advices from Canton conarm the statement made by a Shameen - correspondent in the Daily Press yesterday that pickets, are still closely watching all Chinese who enter or leave Shameen. It is asserted that there are as many pickets on duty now as ever before, but they are all in mufti
A number of responsible merchants in Canton are still profoundly sceptical about the boycott being terminated on October 10th. In their opinion there is nothing to suggest that any radical change is contem- Flated and they go as far as to state that even if the river trac is resumed it will not be resumed until some considérable time after that data.
Some support is given to this opinion by a long statement published in the Canton Guette of October and under the heading Severance of Economic Relutions." This appears to be an official document and it is signed, among other organisations, by the C'entral Kuomintang. The statement is a long one and we wilt only quote the last paragraph which is as follows:-
We Ertaly believe that our Chinese poeple will keep in mind the savagery of the foreign Powers, and our own unavenged humiliation, and unite to extend the severance of economic re- lations with the British Imperialists, as the next step after the blockade policy by the Canton, Hongkong strikers. Before the cancellation „o the British gunboat policy, we shall not slacken. our present policy of severing economic relations with the British for a single day, nor shall we cease such a movement before a satisfactory settlement is made concerning the tragic events of May 30th and June 3rd, as well the Canton-Hongkong sttik
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On the one hand, we have Mr. Eugene Chen, the Foreign Minister in Canton, assuring the world that he will bring about the termination of the boycott by October 10th. On the other hand we have the party which he represents putting its signature to the statement reproduced above. These apparent contradictions create a position which it is in- possible for anyone to understand.
One rather amusing report received from a reliable source in Canton is that y
even now an attempt is being made to draft the pre- clamation which is to end the boycott, but that great difficulty is being experienced regarding the wording of the proclamation. It would never have occurred to us that Mr. Eugene Chen would experience difficulty in Ending words to meet any conceivable situation; translating words into action appears to be his particular stumbling block.
THE WHAMPOA ÀREA.
The Canton Government have officially requested that, no foreign ships shall pass what is described as the Whampoa Martial Law area between the hours of 7 p...and 6 a.m. This puts an end for the time being to all suggestion of resuming the night boats to Canton.
It is officially reported that a Chinese pensioner of the Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company went to Shameen to draw his pension at the end of September. When he was returning be was, pounced upon by the pickets, ill-treated and placed under arrest. Nothing has been heard from him since. Very probably he is still in custody. Almost certainly his very patriotic fellow countrymen have relieved him of his pension money.
These are little incidents in up-to-date government methods to which Mr. Eugene Chen might devote some little attection. GENERAL CHIANG KAI SHEK.
It is generally believed in Chinese circles that General Chiang Kai Shek himself sent instructions to Canton that the boycott should be settled. How his success or failure in the field will affect the trade situation is difficult to determine, but judging from the tenor, of all the reports now being received from the "fighting line" the victorious pro gress of the Southern Army has been checked. Details are lacking but it appears to be established that in one encircling movement by Marshal Sun Chuan Fang's troops in Kiangs, no fewer than 5,000 Southerners were captured. Competent observers in Hankow are coming to the cen clusion that Canton has shot. its bolt from the military point of view and that the rout of the Canton forces is imminent.
REINFORCEMENTS WANTED FOR THE VARIOUS "FRONTS."
UPRISING OF ANTI-REDS."
(FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.) Requests for re-inforcements for the troops for the war "' fronts "' in Hunan, Hupeh, and Kiangai are still coming in, but they are unable to be complied with at "present.
NEWS AGENCY RAIDED IN SHANGHAI.
ALLEGED CANTON AGENT ARRESTED.
MONEY FROM THE SOUTH.
THE HONGKONG
The Kuomin (National) News Agency, At the same time uprisings of anti- 19. Teh Kong Li, Fusan Road, Chapei, Reds" are being reported everywhere. which is said to have been disseminating
There is still lack of confirmation of the capture of Walchow by anti-Reds," paganda for the Kuomintang and the and it is not believed that the anti- Cantonese Army, was raided on Sunday Reds," while active, have gone so far. by the Woosung-Shanghai Constabulary The Kuomintang Army General Head-and five employees of the agency were quarters has been sending a large quan- tity of arms and ammunitions up the arrested," says the Shanghai Evening West River lately, and it is believed that News.. they are for pro-Kuomintang troops in Yunnan.
Trouble in Heungshan District. It is reported that the situation in Shekki, Heungshan District, is receiving apecial attention from the Kuomintang. The need to 'overwhelm the bandits and former troops of General Ngai Bang Ping, who have been disturbing the dis trict and other parts of Southern Kwangtung, is generaly admitted in
Canton.
The Head Office of the Central Bank, which is also a Government depository, usually receives 冉 remittance from Heungshan once in three days, but it has been nearly ten days since the last re- mittance was received.
The Central Bank."
The raid is said to have been conducted in accordance with instructions fromi Marshal Sun Chuan Fang to suppress the Kuomintang and curb pro-Canton agita- tion.
Held By Police. That the Kucmin (National). News Agency was subsidized by the Canton Government, is conclusively shown by let ters and other documents seized and exathined by the police; states & later issue of the same paper..
DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3г, 1926
THE POSITION IN
A.
KWANGTUNG.
KUOMINTANG WORRIED BY :: MANY MINOR REVOLTS.
-DEMANDS OF NUMEROUS MILI
TARY COMMANDERS,
[DY CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
The Kuomintang in Canton is becoming anxious regarding political and military developments in Kwangtung itself, quite apart from the difficulties in Hunan, Hupeh and Kiangai.
WHAT DISCIPLINE
CAN DO.
EFFECTIVENESS OF THE RUSSIAN TRAINING,
THE CANTONESE FORCES.
INFERIOR IN NUMBERS BUT SUCCESSFUL,
HANKOW, September 24th. Mr. Chen Kung Po, the new Commi sioner of Foreign Affairs, to-day made the first round of consular calls since the Cantonese occupation, writes Mr. Rodney Northern and Southern militarists have Gilbert. He is a young man, of the re- been bought with promises of arms and turned student type, and appeared in funds and those joining the Kuomintang |
have been guaranteed the maintenance of full military regalis instead of the usual their position in their respective terri-diplomatic.costume. tòrias.
General Tang Seng Chi, of Whether cae likes it or not one must Hunan, General Liu Teo Luay of Hupeh, admit that the Rasso-Cantonese expedi General La Fung Hsiang of Fukien, General Fang Pen Jen of Kiangsi and a tionary-force is so efficient that it makes dozen others with sinaller infuence have all the Northern organizations look like been brought in" under such promises, disorganized' rabble. Discipline is per and it is now becoming a serious problem feet, control of all officers under a unified how to meet the demands of these mili-command in excellent, and checks upon
tarists.
However, it is now generally admitted in Canton that purely cailitary operations will never bring the Kuomintang head quarters to Feking, or even to Wuchang and that everything depends upon the ability of the party to buy more and more military leaders over to its side.
Then these are the activities of the Right or anti-Red "Section of the Kuomintang to be considered. They hold their meetings in Shanghai but have re presentatives in Canton and other import. ant cities of South China and they are endeavouring all the while to undermine the influence of the Left or "Red"
Section Much "anti-Red" literature has found circulation in the more prosper ous towns and villages of the Kwangtung Provincos.
them ingenicus, and when they go into a ight they mean business and carry out their operations with clockwork precision. They have demonstrated to what a pitiful degree the Northern armies have been, demoralized during the past ten years This of course proves what a Chinese force under foreign instruction and con- trol can do. No Northern general, in his conceit, would dream of taking the ad- vice of the most highly qualified foreign military adviser. There is no
one ol them who does not think that, given sufficient men and equipment, he could have simply devoured Germany in 1914 and ended the war in a few months. It is very probable indeed that neither Chiang Kai Shek nor Tang Seng Chi give "the Russians any credit" for the eficiency of their force and it is not to be supposed that they gave the Rassign advisers the right to whip their units into fighting abape-the Russians bought that, right and are still buying it. When the money stops the Russians will not be in positions of control and the Cantonese army, being Cantonese, will then certainly degenerate into one of the least¶eñcient forces in China. -
The "anti-Red" organizations the "anti-Bolshevik" Association of China, the Chikuntang, the People's Democratic Club-bave already started trouble in a number of districts in Eastern and South era Kwangtung and although the move. ment is not yet strong enough to oust the Kuomintang immediately from Canton, it is sufficiently strong to create anxiety and the constant reports of the capture of this or that town in Kwangtung, by
Cantonese The Backbone. "anti-Reds has become an exceedingly One notable feature of this organiza- powerful factor in discouraging the sale tion is that no Hunanese nor Hupeb 'unit of war bonds by the Kuomintang has been taken over under the absolute agencies.
commund of its own officere To every Generals Li Tsai Hsin and Tan Yenew unit a large stiffening force of Can- Kai, now the only senior generals remain. tonese is added while every officer in that ing in Canton, are even themselves siza-unit has a Cantonese colleague who out- pect and it is thought they may turn rapks him in emergencies or when be against the present leaders of the Party fails to take orders from the central com- whenever opportunity offers, and this mand. This is true even of Tang Seng suspicion has no little effect in wenken. Chi and Liu Teo Lung. ing the moral within the Kuomintang. The Cantonese expeditionary force, The district of Heungshan is being at with the addition of Tang Seng Chi's tacked in a"number of places by bandita,men, did not originally exceed 60,000 and some have attributed these attacks men. Loases have been heavy, good-sized to "anti-Red " inspiration.·
garrisons have been left in charge of all Many influences are thus combining to the big cities. Wuchang has been invest. create a jecling of nervousness among the ed, an expeditionary force has gone up Kuomintang leaders in Kwangtung-the the Kin-Han Railway, another down tha lack of victorious reports from the Yangtsze, another from Changsha to Ping- front" inability of the General Head-hsiang and probably eastward from the quarters in Cantor to meet the call from vicinity of Yochow to intercept San the "front" for re-inforcements, falling Chuan Fang's attempt to reach the off in the subscriptions to war beads, Hakiang Railway and cut communica attempt of "anti-Red sympathizers in tions. The biggest of these forces can- Canton itself to organize a run on the not possibly exceed 20,000 men, yet every Kuomintang Central Bank, frequent de- where they either hold their own or sertion of launches from the local Navy, register overwhelming victories against threatened mutiny of armed pickets odds. Chin Yun Au abandoned Washeng. nominally under the Strike Committee kuan, the strongest position on the Ein- but virtually a part of the Kuorintang Ilan Railway, which he held with a force .strength, and uprisings, although on a of 30,000 men, before the advance of six small scale of anti-Reds" in the dia. battalions of little barefooted Cantonese, tricts, which take the form chiefly of people's volunteers attacking the Kuo- mintang controlled Peasants' Corps or Farmers Leagues.
"Sun Chuan Fang's AdraZCÉ, It is estimated that between 60,000 and 100,000 men of Sun Chuap Fung's army came up river above Kiukiang to meet Red propaganda and a telegram ready reports concerning the Kuomintang in stream-presumably about 10,000 in num
The agency was paid to disseminate,
Of course, some of the unfavourable the Cantonese that were advancing down for dispatch was found which requested the Canton Government to immediately Canton have been exaggerated by "anti-ber-yet we do not bear that they have romit the subsidy for the current month.
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Red"" organizations, but looking at made any great progress. On the Ping- This telegram was signed by Chao Chithings from all sides, there is reason to hang route another force is within 40 The Central Bank in Canton, having Rao, manager of the agency. Letters believe that everything is not running to or 60 miles of Nanchangfu. In the south been rushed during the last few days, relating to the monthly subsidy showed the Kuomintang's entire satisfaction. owing to the rumour that native banks that the Canton Government has been in Walchow were refusing to accept ita sending the agency 1800 every month notes, remained open on Sunday, despite the fact that the day was a legal holiday agency, Chao was making arrangements On the same day the police raided the and also the Confucian Birthday, so da to
to move his office into the Settlement for restore confidence and meet payments. safety. He went to his Chapei office and It is reported that the Kuomintang was trapped there in the raid which fol- haa but very recently drawn some 8300.000 lowed immediately upon his eatry, in silver and also a large quantity of Hongkong notes from the Central Bank | → in order to remit funds to the war "front."
Because of business depression in Can- ton, the Confucian Birthday celebration was very quiet.
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Chad is being held in custody for trial. bonds signed by the Szechuan Associa His four assistants have been released on tiop. An office coolie likewise has been freed.
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