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BRITISH EFFORTS TO PRESERVE
PEACE.
REINFORCEMENTS MAY REMAIN AT HONG KONG..
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EVERY CONSIDERATION- FOR CHINESE
SUSCEPTIBILITIES.
WORLD WIDE. TRIBUTES TO FAIRNESS AND MODERATION.
LATEST MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS.
No important developments in the China crisis were reported yesterday. All the news show once more the sincere and patient efforts by "Great Britain on behalf of pesce in lace of Mr. Eugene Chen's provocative action. The suggestion is even mooted of diverting the expeditionary force, beth naval and military, from Shanghai to Hong Kong in deference to Chinese ausceptibilities. Of significance in England is the reception by the Prime Minister of an important group of Labour leaders, whose chief, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, has already endorsed the Government's action.
At Hanków all is quiet. Mr. O'Malley awaits further instrus tions from Landen and hope is expressed that Mr.. Eugene Chec may be able to secure a majority for reason and peace in his own party.
The latest pronouncements by British Cabinet Ministers show a fixed determination to protect British lives and interests in Shanghai, and at, the same time to keep open our recent offers "with regard to reform of Treaty rights The idea that Great Britain
has any wish to attack or coerce China is emphatically denied. (THROUGH ZETTER'S AGENCY.]
THE NEW SITUATION.
MR. O'MALLEY'S REPORT RECEIVED.
to-day.
LONDON, Feb. 3rd.
Dow
THE MINISTERIALS. STATEMENTS: »
PEACE THE OBJECTIVE.
THE HONG KONG I DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5th, 1927.
Speeches on Chinese situation
were made last night by several
It is learned authoritatively in London that, reports have. been received from Mr. O'Malley regarding the latest stage of his members of the Government and conversations with Mr. Eugene Chen, and that fresh instructions other statesmen. will probably be sent to Hankow The First Lord of the Admiralty, It is declared that the conversar. Bridgeman, commented on Mr. tions will obviously take an entirely | Chen's continuance of "negotiations new turn as the result of the sud den change in. Mr. Eugene Chen's attitude. The real question at the moment is the immediate threat to Shanghai, the most important con- sideration being how to fill the gap.. in the arrangements for the defence at life in case of necessity.
No reply has yet been seat to the Note from the Peking Government.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
knowing that Great, Britain was preparing to defend Shanghai and then suddenly, suspending them be- cause of what was called the aggres sive nature of our military prepara-
tions.
Some malign influence wai ob- viously at work to check those negotiations.
THE PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF TRADE.
The President of the Board of
RUGBY, February 3rd. The Chinese situation continues to engage the closest attention of the Government. The Cabinet meet- ing has been postponed until to morrow when the position created by Mr. Eugene Chen's refusal to siga the draft agreement regarding the status of the Concessions at Hankow and Kiukiang will be fully made clear to the world and she reviewed. The Cabinet will have before it the comments of the Bri- had stated plainly she was prepared tish representatives in China
Trade, Sir Philip Cunlife Lister, said that Britain's policy had been
FOREIGN OPINION
PRAISE FROM EAST- AND WEST.
BRITAIN'S POLICY SHOWED THE WAY.
One of the most gratifying fea- tures of the pratent China crisis is the world wide support of Great Brital action and the apprecia tion of her good faith.'
To the gallant officers and men of the British Navy and Marines who held the Hankow barricades with out Bring a shot into the bowling mob much of our country's present prestige is due.
The following messages are also notable for the sympathy and good- wilt expressed or implied towards the Chinese people ha a whole in their present difficulties:
" Oriental Recognition,
Ruony, Feb. 4th.. Growing approval is expressed in other Eastern countries of the atti tude adopted by Britain, towards. the Chinese crisis. Britain's pat
ient disregard of irritating minor incidents in pursuit of her broader aims is praised and it is being in creasingly recognised that the steps taken for the protection of the lives and persons of British nationals in Shanghai are justified.
French Commendation. "In the Foreign Commission of French Chamber yesterday the official spokesman for the Govern ment said that Great Britain had been the first country to understand that to wait for the unification of China before trying to negotiate was impossible. He added that it was impossible for Britain to leave her commercial interests in China defenceless
this
Paris newspapers support view and Deuvre which is the organ of the Left strongly approves England is perfectly right in taking the British action and declares that
the protection of British subjecta at Shanghai
Italian Comment.
measures for
The Italian Government is ex "pected to take the same line in the Memorandum which the newspapers state will shortly be published. Meanwhile the Italian Press accepts the necessity of Britain despatch ing forces to Chins charged with the limited duty of protecting life and urges that the Italian naval forces in Chinese waters should be augmented.
America Watching. American naval and marine forces are standing, by at Guam and the Philippines in readiness for any emergency,
FRENCH MODERATION,
PARIS, Feb. 3rd. Before the Foreign Affairs Com- that in the Far East the French mittee of the Senate, M. Briand said
Government was dominated by the care not to impair the integrity of
well a statement wherein Mr. Chen to negotiate frankly and generously China. It was ready, when the
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APPEALS TO CHINESE PATRIOTISM.
MALIGN RUSSIAN
INFLUENCE,
PATIENCE NEEDED,
REUTER'S AGENCY.
„LaNDay, Feb: 3rd.
1
GOVERNMENT'S BIG PROGRAMME.
TRADE UNIONS, THE KING'S TITLE, CINEMA FILMS,
AN IMPORTANT SESSION.
(BRITISH WIRKLARS SERVICE)
It is noteworthy that two Cabinet
Rouar, February 3rd. To-morrow's Cabinet meeting will, Ministers last evening, in dealing with China, dwelt on Russian in besides considering the situation in fluence on the Anglo-Chinese nego-China finally decide what measures tiations.
of legislation will be included in the King's Speech at the opening of Parliament next Tuesday———16-34- understood that the Bill dealing with the position of Trade Unions is certain to be introduced in the coming session though its actual details have still to be decided."
Mr. Amery, in a speech at Wil- lenhall," declared that the British ternis would never be rejected by any Chinese Government that was thinking only of Chinese rights or even of Chinese sentiments. If they were rejected, it could only be through the inftience of other forces behind the Chinese Government-
forces concerned not with Chinese welfare but with world revelation and destruction of the British Em- pire. The British Government was. not going to be deterred from pur- suing a patient and conciliatory policy and doing our imperative duty to our fellow-citizena in China.
'Among other measures which are virtually certain to be presented to Parliament are a Bill to amend the King's title in accordance with the decisions taken at the Imperial Conference and & bill dealing with British cinema dima
Proportion of British Films To Be Shown,
THE EVER-INCREASING MUDDLE
IN HANKOW.
GROWING DEMORALIZATION IN COMMERCIAL CIRCLES.
THE SPECTRE OF THE NEW YEAR SETTLEMENT,
CHIANG KAI SHEK'S UNCERTAIN FUTURE.
The North-China Daily News gives in its issue of February 1st the following vivid picture of the confusion, political and economic, now prevailing at Hankow. The malign 'and destructive influence of the ex-convict Borodin, Soviet Adviser to the Nationalist party,!!. is held largely to blame.
So far from Mr. Chen's vaunted protection of foreigners being. effective, it is said that no forcimer" can walk in safety from the Customs House to the British Consulate even in daylight.
In view of Chiang Kai Shek's reported illness the statement with regard to his quarrels and his future are of particular interest. It is little to his discredit that the military leader Ends his colleagues uncongenial.
One of the proof of maturity is British Consulate in daylight-that that a man will not take on a jab is, not safe from molestation. that he cannot handle. The adoles- | Traders who go to their offices still cent will agree to do anything from return to the A.P.C. or other build- writing an epic to ruling, a king-ings of the Bund to help dom, careless of his standing if he short the foreigner is still parish, fails. Chinese cliques like those in no matter how secure his life may which Mr. Eugene Chen is the be noisy, if not the dominant factor, Chiang Kai Shak and the Agitators. invariably share with the ever-rendy
Keeping up appearances is" a youth a tremendous anxiety to get strain on the Civil Reds and one big jobs in band irrespective of hears through Chinese sources that their capacity for handling them The Chief object of the latter will and indifferent to the results of if they could coax the Russians into be to ensure the exhibition of an failure. In all their publicity for controlling the mobs their first in- adequate proportion of British years past the Kuomintang has been clination would be to band the ad- films, a cinema theatres which will telling the world what wonders it ministration back to the Municipal accordingly be required to show could perform if it could only Council. Chiang Kai Shek; on his certain minimum of British films throw off foreign checks and re recent visit to Hankow, contrived to be fixed by the bili. Such a straints and run China's affairs to quarrel with everyone, including the labour agitators and the Rus measure will necessarily be some with a free hand. "what slabprate: It will be neces
sians who control them, so he went To-day every responsible witness back to his own Russians at sary for instance to give the Board who has returned from Hankow, and is now proposing seriously to. Kuling of Trade the power of demanding Chinese or foreign, testifies that break away and set up military from picture theatres a periodical Hankow is in a parlous state and government at Nanchang, under return of the films exhibited and of shows every sign of descending into Russian auspices also of course. issuing some form of certificate for complete anarchy. The paid mob The Russians do not care how many wafilms which are held to answer to may chant the praises of the San organs of destruction are set up the official description of “British. His principles, but commercial just they control them all.
Joseph Chamberlain Memoriál....... people are demoralized; so much.sa
that the Kuomintang leaders are And it is to this strange excres afraid to let them close for the New cence upon China's surface that we Year for fear they will not open extend "patient conciliation." again.
Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, in a speech at Ellesmere, declared: "It is clear that the influence which is causing all the dienlty between Britain and China is not so much Chinese as Russian. We great as possible patience in resist ng that influence. He did not in the least despair of our arriving at some reasonable arrangement for the revision of the Treaties, but
must exercise as
nobody should wish us to risk the lives of our fellow-subjects by hurry ing on the negotiations without scoring that their safety thoroughly assured.
[NAVAL WIRELESS.]
MORE MISSIONARIES LEAVING.
ICHANO, February 2nd: in commandeered French, Italian Troop morement down the river and Japanese steamers continues. Ichang to-day from. Szechuan and Eighty-six missionaries reached fifty-six others are expected to- morrow. Beventy-five missionaries are leaving Chungking to-morrow.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
QUALITY OF EGYPTIAN
COTTON.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST EXCES
Immediately after the opening of Parliament an interesting cere mony will take place in the inner lobby of the House of Commons.
Lord Balfour will unveil statue of the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain Chamberlain. the famous father of Sir Austen
MORE FORMALITIES.
Borodin's Puppsta.
Sikhs By No Means Support Cantonese.
The Russians have bought con- Persistent rumours to the effect trol of both the labour movement that 44 Sikh policemen employed and the army and hold the civil by the Municipal Police Force of Reds between these two great, blades the British Concession in Hankow PASSPORTS INTO FRANCE. of the shears, ready close on were cooped up in the smallest pos them whenever they fail to acceptible space in the Municipal Build- Red dictation. In this little grouping there most of which was in use, of nervous worthies who, thought by the Cantonese authorities, were Rugar, February 3rd.
they would like to be grand come borne out on Sunday by the arrival The British Government, are in communication with the French munist commissars and direct a new of these constables in Shanghai on
style Boxer movement are Eugene board the C. N. str. Changsha, Government regarding the latter's Chen, Hsu Ch'ien, Bua Fo and T. The reason for the delay in their intention to re-establish, provision, Soong, the slaves of their own departure was given by one of the ally, visa for passports of for Frankenstein. When they show Hankow Concession officials, at pre- eigners entering France. The ob-
signs of weariness in the service of sent in Shanghai, to the outstand ject of the French Government is to Moscow, Mr. Borodin's agitators ing loans which most of the Sikhe prevent an inflow
of foreign liven them up by diverting the were known to have made to local workers in view of the present us attention of the mob, for a moment, Chinese. In staying on, no indica employment in France.
from the task of baiting the for- tion was given that they were of Anglo-French conversations en eigner to that of storming a mini- mind to go over to the Can- the subject are not yet concluded.
| sterial headquarters. It happens tonese, it is understood, although almost every day, so there is little. this protection was offered them in AIR MINISTER'S HOME- pied to wonder that their pro- the preliminary stages of the Can-"
WARD FLIGHT, nouncements are so hysterical.
tonese régime which chose to regard the Sikhs as one of the oppressed RUGBY, February 3rd. Sir Samuel Hoare, the Secretary organization, in a bad way;
Finances are, as in every Chinese aces and therefore deserving
the friendly gesture. To all ap- and them are the conventional methods loans from the Hankow Chinese in concerned with collecting their reach Jask this evening.
of the feudal military of the their debt than with the
barbarous North. They are tions of the Cantonese officials. This
protesta now raising what they call a loan is believed to have accounted for for 895,000,000, of which they have their peculiar position, practically already collected $5,000,000 by
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SIVE HUMIDITY. CONTROL TESTING OFFICE PROMISED.
ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 4th possession of libertier enjoyed by to-day the presence of excessive The cotton conference discussed not and never had been within the contending forecs effort had been the most modest national organisa humidity in Egyptian cotton. Ex- for Air and Lady Maud Hoare are the methods used for doctoring/ Pearances the Sikhs were far more
on those issues. Despite the diff-time came, to facilitate for China in announcing the suspension of the negotiations stated that it was culties created by the disunion of access to independence and the
contemplation of the Nationalist Government to occupy the Inter-made to conduct negotiations as national Settlement at Shanghai by for as possible without prejudicing force Meanwhile reports of new decisions and developments must be the ultimate unity of the Chinese discounted."
public. Even more had been done.
SPECIAL CABINET
COMMITTEE.
The Cabinet Committee establish- ed to deal with the Chinese situa tion is believed to include the Premier, Sir Austen Chamberlain and Earl Balfour,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, February 4th. It is learned that a special cabinet meeting is being held to- morrow when the question of deflect- ing the troops now on their way to Shanghai will be discussed, and the whole situation arising out of the
new
turn in the Hankow Coa- versations will be reviewed.
HANKOW, February 2nd.
It is rumoured that a demonstri- tion against the Asiátic Pétroleum Company is to be held to-morrow, following a collision between the 5.4. Foolwang, and a native. ferry boat.
ALL QUIET IN HANKOW. HANKOW, Feb. 3rd Hankow is outwardly calm de spite the abrupt termination of the negotiations on which all hopes for an amicable settlement had been pinned for the past three weeks.
Mr. Eugene Chen's declaration is regarded as a confession of failure to win over the extremists to the moderate view.
Expeditionary Force To Stop at
V Hong Kong.
While it is recognised that Britain
Reform Of Treaty Eights.
tions.
PRAYERS FOR PEACE.
PRIMATE'S CALL TO THE CHURCHES.
They promised that a control office should be created in
{THROUGH ELÚTERʼ8 AQENCY.]
MR. GLADSTONE'S CHARACTER.
Financial Muddle.
Alexandris within a year to investi. VINDICATED BY HIS SON. capital levies upon the morchants, cipal Building.
gate complaints and fine offenders adding excess waler. It was gener- ally agreed that the improvement of Egyptianston ap to past standards was imperative without increased cost of production.
The conference, it may be re-
LIBEL ACTION LOST BY CAPT, WRIGHT.
methods that are nothing less than a state of siege, in the Mum- One even hears from reliable Chin-With their arrival in Shanghai ese sources of a capital levy upon the S. M. Police Department are landholders amounting to 91 per considering their predicament and cent. of the value of the land.
authorities in the regions controlled examination for foreign bodies in
M. Briand hoped that the Chinese porters promised a more careful to
by them would take all necessary
bales. They asked for the final steps to protect lives and property, adoption of a maximum percentage. France had lost nothing by prac humidity but questioned the Swiss tising a pacifc and clearsighted figure of 8 per cent policy but on the contrary profited "We had declared our willing-materially and morally.
France testing by unilateral action to vary owed it to herself and to the word and reform the British Conces to persevere in this way. sions and Treaty rights. If we' are to proceed in this trank and
it is believed will reach a decision "generous spirit we have the right
LONDOS, February Érd.
to-day whether or not to incorpor to be met in same spirit and with
Borodin's Kalign Ininence. The jury, after two and a half
ate these Sikhs, who are declared the same good faith. We Bust
The big job of which they are to be extremely loyal, into the body know we are dealing with authori
hours' absence, returned a verdict ties who have the will and the
called, was held by the International in favour of Lord Gladstone, with making the biggest muddle of all, of the police force and as watchsen
costs, and also added a rider that however, is that of the orderly ad in the Settlement. power to carry out their under
LONDON, Feb. 3rd.
Federation of Cotton Spinters' and the high moral, character of the ministration of the British Coster- takings. And it is our bounden
The 3.0.0. Employees. "In view of the present anxieties
Manufacturers'. Associations, The late Mr. W. E. Gladstone had been means implies business as usual nor sion. The return to business by no duty to protect the lives of British and perils in the Far East, the first session took place in Cairo.]
Employees of the Hankow British subjects. No man in his senses Archbishops of, Canterbury and the
completely vindicated.
business under nomal conditions. Concession's Council who came to For six hours the witness- believes that we have ever dreamt President of the National Council
box, the septuagenarian Lord Glad. Whatever the gentlemen between the Shanghai as refugees and have been of attacking China. Our one in- of Evangelical Free Churches, urge CREAM OF EUROPE'S ART. stone feelingly denied Captain want, Mr. Boredin has no idea of ployees, yesterday received word "or awaiting news of their fate as em- Bolshevist shears may plan terest is peace."
Wright's suggestions of his father's
that the Banks in Hankow would SHOW WORTH MILLIONS TO immorality, and said he
atili permitting a return to the normal,
BE SEEN. IN LONDON.
thought Captain Wright a foul but contrives to maintain a state of extend the Council no more credit, fellow," and would not withdraw mild terror and unrest which is that there were therefore no funds Seldom has there been such an the charges. He denied that he was more trying than a state of war. available for January salazzes and actuated by malice against Captain An extremely level-headed observer that there was practically no chance
their opportunity for Edadoners to Boo Wright and said he felt sorry for says that it is not safe to walk of
re-employment.-N.O. from the Customs House to the Daily News, n Wright
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY, WHAT CHINA OWES TO THE CONCESSIONS.
Mr.
The Colonial Secretary, Amery, said that the idea that Great Britain was using her power in China oppressively was a grotes que travesty of the facts.
all clergy and ministers to make special intercession on February 6th for a peaceful, honourable and permanent settlement" of the exist ing Anglo Chinese differences:
LABOUR LEADERS RECEIVED BY PREMIER.
LONDON, Feb. 3rd.
many of the world's most valuable paintings
As next Saturday, when the exhibition, of Flemish and Bel- gian Art will be opened at the Royal Academy.
Instead of having to travel many thousands of miles, the art lover will be able to see gathered in one building the cream of art from galleries and private collections all over Europe and America. They have come by air and sen, by rail
in
Tribute From Cecil Famlly, Other witnesses for the defence, who testified to Mr. Gladstone's high character, included Lord Phillimore, Mr. B. N. Gladstone. and Lady Gwendolen Cecil, the last-mentioned declaring that her father, Lord Salisbury: had the highest respect for Gladstone.
Mr. Justice Avery only put two questions to the jury, namely, whe ther the alleged libel was true, and, if not, whether defendant was actuated by malice.
JAPANESE BANKING.
DEPOSIT INTEREST
Shanghai was formerly a piece of muddy foreshore and there British had built up one of the largest shipping and industrial A meeting of the National Joint centres in the world diffusing its Council, representing the General trade enightenment and ideas of Council of the Trade Union Con- progress throughout China. It gress, the National Executive of had been of immense benefit to the Labour Party, and the Parlia the Chinese and to it their meatary Labour Party, was held in awakening was due.
London this morning to consider and road,
·A· Minimum. Of Sicurity.
Mr. Eugene Chen's telegram.
The King has lent four pictures from Windsor Castle and Bucking After discussing the broader ques Subsequently, the Foreign Secreham Palace. These include The is scarcely likely to withdraw from tions of British policy he referred tary, accompanied by Mr. Stanley Three Children of Charles I by the position she has taken up with to the necessity of providing Baldwin, received a small deputa Van Dyck, and a Portrait
His regard to the despatch of troops, & minimum of security for the British tion of the Council consisting of Wife by Ruben The King and „possible solution to the present
George Hicks, Walter Queen of the Belgians have also deadlock is seen in the suggestion at Shanghai British troops would Mesars.
out in peace and he believed Citrine and George Lansbury, whom lent sover!” their inest valuable which is finding favour in my they would return, without bring a Mr. Ramany MacDonald introduced pictures, MA OL
that the expedition not proceed further than Hong theless serve their purpose in en- Council met again for a short die have contrimited 20 pictures, shot in anger, but they would rever. Afterwards, the National Joint Private collectors in Atheries
TOTO, February 3rd. The general Banks of Tokyo and Kong This, it is pointed out waring the safety of that great cussion, and adjourned until to brought to England under the con Yokohama have decided to lower
save face all round with British community. would
trol of Sir-Joseph Duveen. N deposit interest by half-a-sen as out endangering the British position at Shanghai and, at the same time
One of the finest pictures that from February 9th. The Bank of givo Mr. Eugene. Chen and the
will be on view will be the # Three: Japan is expected to take similar moderates a chance to make
Marys at the Sepulchre by action. Hubert Van Eyck, who died in 1426. This, with several others, has been lent by Sir Herbert Cool, and pictures from Chatsworth on the Duke of Devonshire has acut
The whole collection, when cam
quarters,
go
MR. J. H. THOMAS. Mr. J. H Thomas said that to attempt to make party, capital out hid for reasonableness on the part of position so full of serious poten
Anal
of the hitherto irreconcilables in the tialities would be unstatesmizalike Kuomintang.It is also felt that and unpracticable and he still hoped
morrow.
U.S. CRUISERS CONCEN TRATE AT HONOLULU.
PANAMA February 3rd. The U.8. "cruiser Raleigh is
Britain case, would be made that the Hankow agreement on joining the Richmond, Cincinnati clearer and stronger if the text of which negotiations for some ob and Marblehead sailing to Hono the draft Agreement were publish scure reason were broken off would lulu today where they will await plete, will be worth several millions
immediately be signed.
orders, possibly to China.
ed.
of pounds.
LOWERED.
FIGHTING THE RED MENACE.
INTERNATIONAL CALL TO
GOVERNMENTS.
NO SOVIET RECOGNITION,
A scatbing exposure of the methods of the Soviet Government and a number of constractive pro- posals to the other pations of the world for fighting the menace of Bolshevism are contained in A memorandum addressed to Gavern- ments of the World by the Perman- ent Bureau of the International
Entente against t
the Third Interna
tional.
The memorandam, which is cir
the world will remain in the trou- bled condition into which Bolshe vik propaganda has thrown it during recent years."
The Cut Off Eelations,
The International Entente seekr to unite the anti-Bolshevik · forces: throughout the world. It states the objectives to be
1. Bepression of Bolshevik activity within the territory of `each'
State
Opposition n to any fresh re cognition of the Soviet.
Rupture of existing diploma- tic relations, the reason being found in the action which the Boviet Government pursues with in the territory of each State...
4. Inter-Government entente for the fight against, Bolshevism,
5. Replacing the Soviets by * Government with a respect for Low and capable of reconstructing Russia.
calated in England by the Central Council of Economic Leaguek, 2, Millbank-house, Milbank, B.W. 1. quotes a speech of the president, M. Théodore Aubert, delivered at The first Government, the mem- Shanghai Inst year:
orandum asys, to break off rela GARIBALDI GOES TO CUBA. It is becoming daily more tions will render signal service to
evident
that so long as the greater the anti-Bolshevik cause and to LONDON, February 3rd part of the Governments of the civilisation itself, while at the same Signor Garibaldi, who was one world allow Communist agents to time-serving the interests of the was deported from France, has left volution and of the destruction of of the Catalan “conspirators" who be the deliberate instigators of re- country over which it has charge... A copy of the memorandum han England for Cuba.
their various forms of civilisation been sent to Mr. Baldwin.