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TAK HONGKONG: DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4TH, 1926,
CITIZENS' CONVENTION. THE TIENTSIN ARRESTS.
TO BE HELD IN CANTON NEXT MONTH.
STRIKERS' LODGING HOUSE
RAIDED...
POLICE MAKE SEVERAL ARRESTS.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]
The "Left" and "Right" sections of the Kuomintang in Canton are trying to outdo each other in "packing" the can vention of Ewangtung citizens which it is proposed to hold in Canton early next month. The convention is supposed to represent Ell classes of citizens in the Province belonging to the Kuomintang Party,
NATIONALIST GOVERNMENT PROTEST "TO LONDON.
CHARGE OF ASSISTING NORTHERN PARTY..
TEXT OF THE TELEGRAM. Reference was made yesterday to the reported arrest of fourteen members of the Kuomintang in Tientsin. These man, it is stated, were handed over by the
Police to the Fengtien military authori
ties.
CHAIRMAN OF STRIKE COMMITTEE.
INTERVIEW WITH MR. SOO SHIU CHING.
THE RECENT FIRE AND THE BOYCOTT OF STEAMBOAT CO...
TO-MORROW'S BIG FETE.
FOR ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY.
AN AMBITIOUS PROGRAMME
ARRANGED..
Another efort on behalf of the charit The Canton Gazette of yesterday pub-able work of the Society of St. Vincent lished an interview with Mr. Soo Shiu de Paul, and, associated with the Rose Ching, the Chairman of the Canton Day, successfully organised again this Strike Committee.
year; is to take place to-morrow (Sunday) in the compound of the Catholic Church, Glenealy.
Mr. Soo, of course, re-iterated the denial that he had been arrested on a
charge of incendiariam in connection with the fire at the Strike Headquarters three
No official statement has been issued regarding the incident and the only in-weeks ago. formation comes from the Chinese Press.
"This is not the first of these malicious Yesterday the Nationalist Government rumours," he stated. "All sorts of sent a long cable to the Foreign Office in allegations have been made against the London on the subject. The text of this in the course of the Jaat many months, cable has been forwarded to us by the including a recent one of my having pur Canton Information Bureau and is as chased a concubine for $800." follows:
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This is the 43rd annual Al Fresco Fête and it will last from 2.30 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Everything has been organised "to" the Batisipation of we bytsar Tommittee and the usual large attenuance is connuently expected. There will be ngurerous stalls with articles to suit all pockets, from the 10 cents to the stall The ladies of Lae French community will have a stai of their ownunder, the charge of Madam de la Prade.
There will be again the popular Farm Yard." stocked with home-raised turkeys, reese, sucking pigs, game pic, clé..
The greatest attraction, of course, will.
take place at 10.30 p.m Messrs. H. be the draw for the Fiat Car which will Ammann, H. M. Hendriksen, Li Yat Choi,
There has never been any secrecy about In response to nation-wide popular the accounts of the Strike Committee indignationi and after thorough Mr. Soo said. The accounts were pub- The Exodus to Wuchang.. The school of cadets in Banton which examination of the matter the Nationalist lished regularly and a printed financial Government deems it necessary to enter bulletin issued daily to the various is concerned with training minor ema most energetic protest against the unions, giving data on receipts and ex-U. P. Marcel, George de la Prade, C. A. da Roza, Com, Steiano Carrara, Li Yat ployees for the Kuomintang will follow arrest of fourteen members of the Kue-penditure.
Uhol and Simon Tse Yan will set scrutineers.
Strike Committee.
In the evening the grounds will be illuminated, and by kind permission of Lt Col 1. 1. Comys, C.ALQ., D.S.O., and Officers, the band of the King a Uwn Scottish Borderers will perform the fol lowing programma of misic; --
Afternoon 3 p.m.-6 p.m. 1. March The Thin Red Line “
Alford. 2. Overture" Mirella "
Gounod. 3. Three Dances to Henry VIII.
German. Jones 4. Selection-" The Geisha***
Morceau-"Salut D'Amour ".:.Elgat 6. Selection-Carmen
Immediately after the fire, an investiga. mintang in the British Concession at tion committee of four members, two of the Kuomintang headquarters to Wu-Tictain on November ord, and their the strikers' committee, one of the picket chang sometime this month. The cadets delivery into the hands of the Fengtien committes and one striker was formed. The following day at a full meeting of of the Central School of Iitical and military authorities. The fourteen Chi- the strikers, there was general question- nese citizens were peacefully living within ing about the fire and a report of the Military Science at Whampoa will remain
the limits of the British Concession which committee.
Fortunately, says Mr. Soo, the com where they are.
Part of the ariation is Chinese territory. There was no pre-mittee's headquarters jutted out over the force and all, river gunboats and small rious accusation of any sort against canal and five iron safes were found in them, so it is to be presumed they had the bottom of the canal after the are. When these were raised, they were im- cruisers bow in Canton will remain. The not been disturbers of order, or the mediately sealed and net opened until the Hong Kong Coast Defence Squadron and Biver British authorities would long since have representatives of
Union taken the ordinary action against any Strikers' Union were present.
Strikers*
*Shameen and the
When fotilla will be placed under the command
trouble-makers or proacters of disorder. they were opened they were found to of Captain Pau Wen Tre, a veteran naval The sudden decision of the British contain #13,500 in Government bonds, officer who is a graduate of the early authorities in the British Concession at $9,000 in coin, $10,000 is drafts, $3,000 in Hong Kong currency, between $600 and Tientsin to have these fourteen men ar $700 in Central Bank notes, 85,000 in Chinese Naval Academy in North China.
rested and delivered into the hands of Bangkok drafts and few hundred dol- the Fengtien authorities was inspired by lars in Dutch coins. Only one wooden box, which contained money for current representatives of the Fengtien Party expenses, perhaps $400 to $500, was British Diplomatic Consular authorities The amazing promptness with which the destroyed complied with the request of these Feng tien authorities to move against Chinese citizens who happen to be members of the Kuomintang seems to indicate clearly enough that the British Authorities in China are deliberately giving assistance to the political and military adversaries of the Nationalist Government. an att tude which is not only in contravention
As evidence of the honesty of the of the principles of International Law, but also against the rights of our people. Financial Commission, Mr. Soo cited the This action we deem to have been un- fact that after the fire, the Commission- qualified violation of the rights of Chi- turned over $5,000 Hong Kong currency, ... nese citizens residing within the limits which had recently been received from of the Foreign Concession. It is a crime the Dutch East Indies and bad just been against humanity and a wilful and deli-handed to the Commission by the General berate pronouncement by the British Chamber of Commerce, and 820,000 in Authorities in China against the national Central Bank notes which had been re- ceived just prior to the fire and which. aspiration of the Chinese people.
no one but the Commission knew had not British Government Held Responsible.
been in the buildings at the time they were burned.
By special order of the Kuomintang authorities, the Canton police raided the lodging house of the Canton Strike Com mittee at Kah Naam Tong, West Bund, on November 30th, and took a number of men into custody on charges of gambling and committing other offences.
Clerks in the modern Chinese banks in Canton, who have just organised a union, are preparing a series of demands for higher pay and better conditions.
On the ground that the cost of living in Wuchow has risen by more than a third since the beginning of the present year, the fukis on the salted fish, marine food and grocery trades are asking for an increase of wages. The increases de
manded range from five to sixty per cent. and, in addition, the stipulation is made that no non-union men shall be employed without the consent of the union.
Good Girls.
The girls of the Canton Telephone Exchange have assured the Municipal Authorities that they will not go on strike
present They wish to avoid disturb ing the community at a time when every attention should be given to the armed truggle against the militarists in North
at
China
The Rica Trade.
In the checking up that followed the fire, there were only six days, November 1st to 6th, to be accounted for, as Octo- ber accounts had been audited, published and issued to the unions. The difference" between receipts recovered from the water and the money in the sales, amounted to only about $1,000, which can be accounted for by destroyed records from the various departments.
The Nationalist Government is not yet in receipt of definite information re
The Boycott of the Steamboat Do.' garding the fate of the fourteen men handed over to the Fengtien military When, Mr. Soo's attention was called leaders by the British Authorities in to the report in the Press that the Sea China. There is ample reason to fear, men's Union was boycotting the Hong however, that they have been murdered Kong, Canton & Macro Steamboat Co.'s under simple pretext. of execution.' boats, he expressed the opinion that this This is to be feared in the light of the report was another attempt on the part widespread knowledge of the summary of Hong Kong to intimate to the world apparatus justice which has always that trouble with Canton continued, so characterized the Fengtien authorities. da to line up public opinion to back Hong If this sad result has followed the de-Kong in any action that might be taken Hivery of these men into their hands by in the future.
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7. Cornet Solo Bergeuse de
Jocelyn
Bizet.
Godard
S. (a) Intermezzo from "* Cavalleria
Rusticana
(b) Entracte-"Ireland for Ever
9. Selection The Merry Widow”.
Mascagni,
Myddleton.
Lebar.
Burke.
10. Fox Trot So's Your Old Lady"
"Blue Bonnets O'er The Border."
God Save The King... Evening: 8.30 p.m.-11.30 p.m.. 1. March The Trossachs Fits-Earle. 2 Suite Neopolitan Scenes"
3. Selection" Favourite Airs
Massenet.
Sullivan.
4. Description-"In a Monastery
Garden"
3. (a) Humoresque,
Kately.
Dvorak (b) Idyll" An Evening Breeze ".
Langey.
Alford
E. Selection "The Lightning Switch"
7. Oriental Scene-"' A Dervish Chorús
in the Boudan"...... Selenick, & Fox Trot-Jack in the Box"
Nicholls.
Tyradier.
Godfrey.
9. Spanish Serenade "La Paloma
10." Selection—" Mercenary. Mary'
"Blue Bonnets O'er The Border." God Save The King Conductor Mr. W. H. Fita-Earle, A.R.C., Bandmaster.
FURTHER DONATIONS. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul begs to acknowledge further donations to the funds of the Al Fresco Fate on December
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Mr. Ching Mun Sau (Canton) Mr. Yeung Tu Tong (Canton).
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the British Authorities in China, then He then, very naturally, stated that Nationalist China and this Government the fault rested with the Steamboat will be forced to hold the British Govern- Company and not with the Seamen's ment responsible and will be compelled Union, and charged the Steamboat Com to demand adequate indemnity for their pany with refusing to keep an agreement lives.
made regarding the replacing of stewards If it should be that the British Lega-and pilots. tion at Peking acted upon its sole respon This charge, of course, need not be J. R. Osmund, useful articles; The East- sibility in handing over these men to the taken seriously. The facts of the case et Bazaar, 3 pairs of flower vases and Fangtien authorities then the Nationalist are known in Hong Kong and it can be 100 pieces of useful articles from the Government hopes the officials respon stated definitely that the Company has Chinese Sisters of the Frecious Blood: sible will be punished and that instruc certainly not repudiated any agreement, tions will be issued to their successors or broken any promise made to the that there must be an end to such illegal, Seamen's Union. as well as inhuman action,
"Meanwhile, the Nationalist Govern ment expects to be apprised that the British Government has urgently tele graphed to its Legation at Peking and
The proprietors of rice firms in Canton have expressed their willingness to aubits Consulate at Tientsin to make a
mit to the terms demanded by the Labour Unions, but they refuse to compensate the workmen for the less incurred during the strike. The employers contend that they themselves have been the losers and argue that "even workmen in imperialis tic countries would not ask for such un- reasonable concessions”
THE CHINA MERCHANTS' S.N.
COS VESSELS.:
STILL DETAINED IN CANTON.
thorough investigation as to the where };! abouts of the arrested men and to de- ILL-TREATMENT OF MEMBERS OF mand their release. In this event also LATION ARE CREW, A the Nationalist Government will ask com- pensation for the arrested men.
Convent.
POLICE BATTLE_WITH........
DESPERADOES.
AFFRAY AT GIN DRINKERS' BAY.
FOUR ROBBERS KILLED AND FOUR ARRESTED.
Out of uine armed robbers who planned #raid on the Wo Langdistillery in the village of Kwai Chung, near Gin Drink- ers Bay on Thursday night, four were shot dead by the Police, four were at- rested and one only escaped
It is unfortunate that the Chairman of the Strike Committee, in the inter A Solemn Warning. "The Nationalist Government takes view published above, did not refer to this opportunity to warn the British the detention of the China Merchants
Steam Navigation Company's Fessels in Buch in brief is the story of a sensa- Government against its appareat, policy Canton or to the treatment being meeted tional skirmish between party of Police of antagonism towards the Nationalist Movement, Nationalist Government and out to several members of the crews. and the robbers, which was contained in The vessels ara picketed, and the crews yesterday's reports: One Chinese detec- Nationalist, China. It is in complete contravention of its often expressed des are under guard, but it is reported that live was wounded. Since the decision of the Kuomintangsire to further the ends of peace. It is three men have been taken prisoners and The Police had learned of the planned have been beaten unmercifully to provide attack, and a party under Sub-Inspector in Canton to take over the property of difficult for the Nationalist Government an example for the others. At intervals Andrews went out The party lay in the Canton Water Supply Company the
the members of the crews are paraded wait in the building, and at about 10 p.m. value of the shares in the concern hare
in order that they may see for themselves a junk came into the bay, and six men the pitiable state to which these un got aahore. Two were armed with se fortunate beings have been reduced by volvers and three with daggers They Fallen from $4.80 to $2.15.
the brutal treatment they have received made for the distillery, and when ther discovered that a trap" had been laid for them, they opened fire on the police." Sub-Inspector Andrews and Sergeant Goodwin-were shot at point blank, but the ballet went wide and they shot their assailants dead Two mare were disposed of, and before the junk could get away, it was boarded and its occu pants arrested. One man managed to escape. YAYA Da
From January next the taken on a number of articles in Swatow, including wins and tobacco, will be increased by fifty per cent
Chinese Premier:
Among those mentioned as likely to succeed Dr. Wellington Koo as acting Premier in Peking is Mr. Liang Shi. Yi Alt. Liang
Liang is, of course, a well-known Cantonese His native district is Bam- shuri, in Kwangtung, but he makes his home in Hongkong.
to understand this phase of British policy in China in forcibly intruding in Chinese affairs. For ita consequences the Nation alist Government will hold the British Government to strict accountability,'
'Three' Miuntas* Silence. In this connection the Thirteenth Joint Conference of the Political Depart of the Nationalist Government adopted the following resolutions concerning the Tientsin' affair an
That strong protest be lodged with, the British Government; that a war ing be issued to the British Consul at Tientsin; that popular demonstrations be held; that steps be taken to help the arrested Kuomintang members that subscriptions be solicited from all classes to help the arrested men; that party meetings be marked by three minutes silence as a tribute to the arrested members.
JARDINE, MATHESON GODOWN.
RAIDED AT CANTON.
A godown at Cafton belonging to Mesara Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., was raided by a small band of robbery on Wednesday night and the watchman
The Chinese constable was - Wounded was 'shot and seriously wounded.
Folice whistles were blown by the em-with a dagger. All the arrested men had ployees and the raiders decamped with wire gag and teacups in their posses out securing any booty the pendante We learn authoritatively that the firm do not attach any serious significance to the affair.
sion.
The four. arrested men were formally charged and remanded at the Kowloon
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