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CANTON'S LABOUR TROUBLES.
FACTION DISPUTES LEAD TO A NUMBER 'OF
CASUALTIES.
CARCO WORKERS STILL BOYCOTTING BRITISH
VESSELS.
THE CLAIM TO RECOGNITION.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1926.
The Canton police are using every endeavour to prevent further conficts between rival unions. There have been a number of street fights recently. One at Honam, between rival weavers, resulted in forty casualties. The
encounters at the Hog Market between cargo transportation epolies caused ten deaths, The Police are being criticised for not checking these disputes, but the Police, on their part, contend "that the Labour movement has been left uncontrolled for so long that
reither the Police nor the military are able to keep it within bounds.
The Transportation Guild are still boycotting vessels flying the British flag and there is no change in the position on the waterfront in Canton. The Sai On brought down between 800 and 500 passengers and about twelve tons of cargo yesterday, but the cargo was wholly produce. The Fathan had very few passengers and nothing beyond the usual supplies of vegetables and fah.
It seems curious, that the Canton Government should choose this particular time to advance its claim to recognition from the Foreign Powers. Obviously its first step should be to demonstrate that it is -a - Government with actual power to maintain order.
The Canton Strike Committee have issued a report denying that the fire at their headquarters was caused by an incendiary. It also denies that any prisoners were burned to death in the fire.
THE KUOMINTANG
ADMINISTRATION.
A FAMILY PARTY.
M
Family rule appears to be the
A. All merchants should refrain circulating British banknotes.
FRENCH SAILOR'S
ODYSSEY.
BRAZILIAN VESSEL FOUNDERS IN TYPHOON.
THE EXPERIENCES OF THE
SOLE SURVIVOR. ↑
KINDNESS OF THE CHINESE.
"Ah Monsieur, it was a terrifying experience. My comrades, the Captais, my fellow officer, and the members of the crew are drowned. At least I have not heard of them since the Santa Maria foundered in the typhoon,"
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TYPHOON AT MANILA.
·HEAVY DAMAGE AND LOSS OF DAMAGE AND T
LIFE
TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS UP CALUMPANG RIVER.
According to the latest information the typhoon of Friday, November 8th, caused the loss of at least 150 lives in the Manila district besides doing widespread damage to houses and crops..
A Manila paper, now to hand, states that in Batangas alone over 100 persoas perished. Calapan, Mindoro and Havang. were swept by a tidal wave and here at least 30 people were drowned and some seventy are missing.
Сорта сгора suffered particularly severely and the damage is estimated at between Pesos 20,000,000 and Pesos 23,000,000, and in quantity about six per cent. of the world production for the year has been lost, Sugar cane and rice escaped fairly lightly.
So spoke M. Ravul Mullen, a French mercantile officer to a Daily Press ro presentative yesterday in recounting the story of his experiences after the foundering of the Brazilian vessel Santa Maria in a typhoon of Luzon on October 10th M. Mullen believed himself to be the sole survivor, since no other members of the crew have been accounted for.
Damage to houses was extraordinarily After an hour in the raging sea, he was severe and at Santa Cruz, Lagans, nearly picked up by some Chiness in a small seven hundred houses had their roots boat, and later got aboard a junk, in lifted off and 300 families are homeless. which he was conveyed to the Island of The provincial government building, pro- Hainan. Thence he made his way to vincial hospital, elementary school and Canton, and arrived in Hongkong on its grandstand, provincial gaol, constabu- Thursday. Yesterday afternoon he sail- lary barracks, officers' quarters, two fromed for Manila, in the President Pierce, churches and a cockpit are all reported
to join a ship, which will take him to to be wrecked. his home at Monte Video in Brazil.
The Santa Maria, a small three-masted vessel, owned by the Agence de Naviga. tion Alvarey de Bresil, left Monte Video some months ago for Manila. It was M. Mullen's first trip to the East for many years. The Captain was M. Luis Alvarey. There were two officers, crew, and three Chinese boys.
All merchants should list on the pre- vided form all unsold British goods, try to dispose of same before, December 30th, stem, or send them to the common depot
for public sale.
of Kuomintang administration advised by the Soviet Commission to South China.
3.
All merchants found secretly pos
Avalanche and Tidal Wave.
In Calamba, Laguna, large rocks were blown down, so one report stated, upon the town from off the neighbouring woun-
taina.
The tidal wave swept op, the Calum- pang river rose, breaking dykes, and
It has suggested making four or five fami- sessior British goods after December 30th including Mullen, over "members a sweeping before it all houses which the
lies the ruling factors in Canton, accord. ing to complaints heard from comrades within the Party.
The late Dr. Sun Yat Sen's family now practically controls the economic side of
shall be fined or in serious cases deprived of right to trade.
G All merchants should redeem all British bank notes within three months or be punished as traitors.
In the Pitch Black Nights All went well until October 8th when to the North-west of Luzon, the "Santa Marin was caught in a typhoon. Nothing could be done against the force of the wind and the Santa Maria was driven
the administration. Mr. Sun Fo, son of late Dr. Sun, has just been made Minister QUESTION OF RECOGNITION, helplessly hither and thither.
of Communications, in addition to his post
of Commissioner of Reconstruction which has supervision of the local railways, Mr. Vincent Chen," a brother-in-law of Mr. Sun, is head of the Canton Telephone Exchange, and D. Tai En Sai, a son-in law of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, is director. general of the Kwangtung Conservancy Board. Dr. Sun's-brother-in-law, Madame Sun's brother, "Mr. T. V. Soong, is Minis. ter of Finance and Commissioner of Finance both of the Kuomintang national and local administration and Mr. L. C Li, a godson of Dr. San Ya: Sen, is acting as Commissioner of Industry at Canton. "
Mr. George Hau Chien is the new Minister of Justice of the Kuomintang, and his elder brother is Commissioner of Justico of Kwangtung.
At the suggestion of M. Borodin, Mr. Lin Tsing Hoi will be asked to resign from his office of Secretary to the Kwang-
tung Provincial Commission which is the chief executive office in the Kwangtung local administration.
CANTON GOVERNMENT'S
ATTITUDE.
**Mon Dieu," said Mullen, the terrible uncertaints of it, our helpless ness, our sheer despair.
The typhoon raged fercely, twisted and turned, and with it went the Santa Maria for two days and two nights, and then the end came..
The following letter, which has been forwarded for publication by the Canton Information Bureau, shows that the Canton Government now deûnitely ren fuses to recognise the Diplomatic Body accredited to the Peking Government.
Canton states, in effect that it is will ing to discuss the question of the sur- taxes, and other questions, direct with the Powers when the Powers recognise the Government in the South as the "national power and authority in
China.
The letter outlining this attitude is addressed to the Consul-General of Portugal who is the senior member of the Consular Body at Shameen. It reads:
"The night of the 10th began ominous- " said Mullen," and the typhoon had increase in its ferocity. Enter, what night. Black" pitch-black it was, and the wind howled, and how it howled, like a host, of giants in pain. The sea was like a boiling cauldron. We could hardly hear the sound of our voices."
Atam two of the masts anapped and crashed on deck. Two more hours of helplessness, and the Santa Maria struck a drifted junk. A big goah was made in her side; water poured in, and, almost splitting in two, the Santa Maria sank. The typhoon smothered the cries of the drowning as they went down with the ship.
A Leap into the Sea.. rushed to bis cabin and donned a life- Mullen bad, just as the crash came, helt, leaped into the sea as the vessel
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water was able to reach! When the food was at its height, the wind apparently shifted, driving the waters back out to sea, houses and human beings with them. The force of the flood is shown in an account reported of one strong material house on the bank of the Calumpang river near the sea being swept out by the flood and a whole family, including parcats and three children have been reported missing. A rice mill, adjoining the house was also carried out to sca.
Banang, in which 100 are known to have lost their lives, some were killed by iron roofing blown by the wind, others crushed by failing houses, but the majority were drowned when the river washed away the hauses on its banks Early in the even- ing, when the Calumbang river became
torrent, the eye-witness saw a whole nipa shack, with its occupants praying inside it, being washed out to sen
Relief has been hastily organised and local constabulary, officials and Red Cross workers are doing all that lies in their Power. All able-bodied inhabitants have been set to work clearing up debris. Bodies are being recovered and in were buried and 37 in Batangas 85 Bauang.
AN ERRATIC TYPHOON,
METERIOLOGICAL EXPERTS
PUZZLED.
For many decades now the phenomena accompanying typhoons have been care- fully observed and laws governing these disturbances deduced.
On Friday, however, the typhoon which swept Southern Luzon, as reported above, took a course which is battling experts in this subject. Father Sadera of the Philippine Weather Bureau, in an acknow. ledged authority on typhoons, is frankly. puzzled by its behavior. He finds re cord of only one previous typhoon which was in any way similar to it.
"Sir,-In order to avoid misunder-
Then began another phase of terror standing and to assist to a right percep- and of helplessness. The life-belt, kept tion of the new realities of the national him afloat, and but for its aid he would situation resulting from the extension of have gone under in a few minutes. He Nationalist authority over the greater
was virtually thrown about, at one KUOMINTANG. HEADQUARTERS."part of China, I have the honour to moment topping a wave, and at other
return the enclosed letter,
dated times being hurled down into the troughs November 5th, and transmitted through of the huge rollers. His face lashed with CANTON OR "WUCHANG.. the post, which purports to be a protest sheets of water, his mouth and nostrils communicated by the Senior Consul smarting with the brine, his head dizzy, „[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT. ] at Canton by direction of the Senior his eyes blinded, and his body inert, Minister of the Interested Powers repre- he was hurled from wave to wave for over an hour. Only an hour, but he The question of removing the Kuomin-sented at Peking' who declare that they tang Headquarters to Wachang, Hupeh, cannot recognise the legality of the in thought it riddle.
fon Dier," he said, staring into is still under heated discussion among ternal taxes authorised by the Canton vacancy, I just wanted to die then, the party leaders in Canton.
authorities' on the consumption and pro- The Right, cranti-Red" Section, of duction of goods within the Liang Kwang, at the beginning. Santa Maria, it was the Party are desirous of seeing the on the ground that the same are in horrible,-even-when-I-was-bugetted--ig its speed. In the 61 years in which the headquarters removed, while the Left, or direct violation of treaties' "Red Section, are trying to retain the headquarters at Canton so that they may continue to exercise control. The Kuo- mintang bave new developed a tax system in Kwangtung by which nearly $10,000,000 monthly may be exacted, and should every department be removed to Wachang, the enforcement of special taxation and con- trol of opium and gambling traffic may fall into the hands of local militarista who would work, it is thought, unfavour ably towards the concentration of
revenue.
"Reds" in Canton claim that they have control of the majority of organised students and workers. nearly 80 per cent. of all organised farmers and 70 to 80 per cent. of all troops.
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MOVEMENT TO EXTEND THE BOYCOTT,
RESOLUTIONS PASSED.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
One has heard Little during the past few days of the activities of the, Com- mittee formed to extend the boycott, and merchants do not regard this movement very seriously...
"
The Prince Clique," political fac- tion in Canton, however, staged a meet- ing recently,, under the name of "The Merchants of Kwangtung" at which the following resolutions were passed:
1. All fellow citizens should volun- tarily sever economic relationship with Great Britain.
2. All merchants should cease trading with British merchants and in British goods.
"My Government does not recognise.
semi-consciousness.'
Saved by Junkmen,
There is no law of cyclones, to explain how it changed its direction and increased Weather Burean has been studying baguios there has been nothing like it the existence of the Senior Minister of In his half-senseless atate, Mullen dimly in Luzon. In the Visayan islands, ona the interested Powers represented at realized that the wind had lulled some similar, the Quantico typhoon, is on re- Peking' (who lacks juridical sanction) what and rain was falling in torrents.cozd. The change may have been caused nor are the status and the relations of the He felt himself being dragged into aby high barometric pressures in North same powers vis-a-vis my Government | small boat, and at dawn, he found that Luzon. regulated on a basis which can properly his rescuers were four Chinese. The boat Father Baderra suggests pending "fur. entitle them to raise the question of a was the dinghy of a junk. The Chinese ther information the theory of a split in
direct violation of treaties.”
had also been caught in the typhoon. the typhoon. This probably was caused
by, its striking Mount Banahao. height of the mountain proved an obstacle to the typhoon which divided into two branches or whirla Similar divisions have been known.
"I have the honour to add that my There was no food or water in the Government is ready to discuss this and boat, but after a day, they were picked other questions as and when all or any up by a junk and after several days of the Powers represented at Peking they were landed at Fa-lou-line on the realise that national power and authority Island of Hainan. bas long since cessed to be exercised in Peking, and that the revolutionary and have now transferred this national power constructive forces of Nationalist China and authority to my Government.
CHEN Yu Im,
Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs,” The text of the Portuguese Consul. General's letter is as follows:
Hospitable Chinese.
The
This theory of the division would ex- plain the extent of the damaged area,
He was given some Chinese clothes, was and the typhoon, with renewed force, Müllen: was treated hospitably and both north and south of Mount Banahao. lodged at a Military Officers quarters. Then apparently the two halves joined, well-fed and supplied with tobacco. The swept Batangas and went out into the only difficulty was in regard to language. 'China Sea. Mullen could speak French, Spanish and Italian well, and also had a smattering
of English. But his benefactors could only speak their own language
Your Excellency, In connection. After a few days he voyaged to Canton with Your Excellency's despatch of by junk and dressed in Chinese clothes.
WEATHER REPORT.
October 6th, 1926, I have the honour The French Conmal treated him well, pre- and emarks, issued at 454 from the L night's weather report, forecast, to inform you that as Senior Consul cured European attire for him and sent Royal Observatory, stated
at Canton I have been directed by the him to Hongkong. He also sent a cable Senior Minister of the interested to Mullen's wife at Monte Video. Powers represented at Peking to com municate to Your Excellency the follow
ing protest:
Mors Kindness.
He was particularly well-treated by In view of the lerving by the Can- M. Durand and Madame Flint of the ton authorities of certain taxes on Café Parisien. They gave him more foreign trade, the Diplomatic repre- clothes and meals gratis. " sentatives at Peking of the Powers ĉon- He lodged at the Seamen's Instituta, cerned declare that they cannot recog, nise the legality of this measure, which is in direct violation of treaties.
"DE FELIX B. M. DA HORTA Consul General for Portugal and Senior Consül," -Canton Information Bureau.
and there they supplied more outfit in. cluding a trunk. The Brazilian Cons (Chey, J. M. Alves) paid his passage to Manila, when he will sail on one of his Company's boats to Moate Video.
Müllen was extremely grateful for the kindness shown to him:
Another anti-cyclone is forming over North China. A depression over the Visayas is apparently moving westward. It may develop into a typhoon in the China Sea.
Local forecast, East winds, moderate,
Typhoon Warning,
fine.
The following telegram was received yesterday from Manila at the local American Consulats:
Manila, Nov. 12th, 11 am-The typhoon. is crossing the Western Visayas in the form of a shallow depression. It may increase intensity in the China Sen.
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