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MILITARY & POLICE CRITICISED.
WORKERS' LEADERS ANNOYED.
TROUBLE EXPECTED...
"CANTON MERCHANTS' SECRET MEETINOS.
DELEGATES FROM
MOSCOW.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 1927.
THE MEETINGS IN CANTON.
EXTRACTS. FROM THE SPEECHES.
Reference has already been made in the Daily Press to the Inter- antional Workers. Delegation " nOW [rou out CHINESE CORRESPONDENr.] visiting Canton.
Madarte Sun Yat Sen, whose birthday was "remembered recently by many of her comrades in the Kuomintang and friends elsewhere, is asking the press to convey ber appreciation to all concerned..
POSITION AT SWATOW.
A SLIGHT CHANGE IN TONE.
OFFICIALS MORE FRIENDLY.
[YROM GO OWN CORRMYONDENT.}
EVACUATION OF WUCHOW
WOMEN AND CHILDREN SENT
TO COAST."
CANTON'S FAILURE AT. PROTECTION.
TROOP MOVEMENTS.
MINOR CHANGES IN HONG KONG ARRANGEMENTS.
The trouble in Shanghai, and the probability that further troops will be sons to the North, may lead to some slight changes being made in the billating arrangements as pub. lished in the Daily Press yesterday. Commandant and Staff, as stated, is expected on Thursday. The Bass
The Minnesota with the Base
The Southern Garerament has conspicuously not been able to maintain order in the territory ander its jurisdiction. It has per. SWATOW, February 18th. The New Year and Lantern Fes-mitted wholesale lootings of mission tivals shipped by, quietly and with. Properties and acts of violence to Commandant takes the place of be perpetrated against the lives of foreigners in general.
out incident. Merchants have not
Fearing, therefore that the
the former Brigadier-General and, In his title implies, he has charge of all details at the military base.
The delegates include Tom Manyet settled down seriously to busi who is well known, at any rate by ness. Some are slowly coming to name, to most British residents, the surface after their holiday: horrors perpetrated at other places Colonel H. de C. Martelli, D.S.O., others are casting eyes, full off might eventually be repeated here, ia the officer appointed to this posi- Jacques Doriot, who is described as
doubt, st the crossword puzzle response to urgent letters some tion and upon his arrival in Hong a Communist Deputy in the Franch which the politicians are trying to of the women and children in the Kong he will naturally take control port decided to go to places of of all plans for billeting the troops. Chamber and is said to be known solve at Hankow.
for his ruthless fight against The threatened, raids on goods of safety, and during the past few days French imperialism in Morocco British origin which were to take have been leaving for the coast, executive flace in the New Year under the S.-C. Daily News corres- and Earl Browder,
auspices of the Anti-British Boycottpondent writing from member of the Trade Union Educa Extension Committee acem to have tional League in America." been
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The Cunion Gazette devotes several columns to the activities of this delegation.
abandoned--or postponed. This may be due to a little quiet work on the part of those officials here who take their orders from
Wuchow,
wangi, on January 31st. Others
stationed in the interior are now
on their way, and soon with the exception of Wuchow and Napring, port cities, there will be few Euro-
ENTERTAINING THE TROOPS.
THE PART OF THE Y.M.C.A.
AN APPEAL TO RESIDENTS.
In connection with the expected
Canton or it may be that the peans or Americans left in the pro arrival of two Brigades of Troops,
A.B.B.E.C. has been well squared by the merchants concerned. What
business in British goods and re pears to stand in the way of normal sumption of a normal share in the carrying trade of, the port is a wide spread and not unreasonable ner.
The first visits were paid to the Kwangtung Provincial Government and the Kuomintang Party Com-ever the explanation all that a mittee on February 19th. The Dele- gation were received very cordially by Mr. Chen Shu Jen, Commis ioner of Civil Affairs The Dele gation transmitted to Mr. Chen Shu Jen a telegram of greetings addressed by the Delegates to Marshal Chiang Kai Shek.
vousness, of the future.
vince.
The dispute between the mer- chants and the workers over the right of employers to dismiss em- ployees could not be settled by "arbitration and it will now, there. fore, be referred to the Political Commission of the Kuomintang, Canton Branch. In the meantime, the unions have asked all the dis charged workers to remain at their former places of employment, assur ing those maintaining their ground of all support. About 5,000 workers are directly effected in this dispute, The Police and the Military in Canton are being adversely criticised by the Workers' Delegate Confer ence for having assisted in raising the blockade of the shops which the unions were maintaining with the help of pickets and trouble be, tween the Police and the Werkers
In the afternoon of the same day sioner for Foreign Affairs, who has may be expected at any time, un less the Police allow the profes. the Delegation visited the Trade just returned from Canton, for sional labour leaders once more to Union headquarters and the follow-example, says that my Govern take the law into their own hands. ing labour organizations: the All-ment" (the plagiarist) will put
Some fighting between workers occurred in Canton on February China Labour Federation, the Han stop to the continued indiscriminate during which time many of the pas- the loan ar gift of the following |
arrest by the Unions of employeessengers were shot, while others in 19th and 20th, but it was insigni- Kong Strike Committee, the Canton of British firms and residents." How alarm jumped overboard and were drowned.. Over ten of the pirates ficant in comparison with that Workers Assembly and the Hong his Government is going to do it is were killed and two captured Only which took last August and in Kong General Federation. A joint not yet apparent. So far the only one pirate, it is said, managed to January this year.
and wounded on board were towed meeting of the representatives of reply made by the local Kuomintang escape. The launches with the dead to Head Office orders about pro- down to the city where those who During last few days the Can these organizations with the Delegatecting the foreigner has been "kil had been shot received medical ton merchants have held a number tion took place at the headquarters the brute" and, as an afterthought, attentior, at the Stout Memorial of secret meetings, but no definite and all the members of the Interna steal his property."
Hospital. information has been given out for tional Workers Delegation address- publication. It is understood that, |ed the meeting. The Chinese Labour apart from the question of their representatives, it is said, "received" right to hire or fire" their fokis on the second day of the Chinese New Year, the possibility of an other general strike by "Red" workers for political purposes was discussed. Some merchants express the opinion that they might as well close and let the sky turn upside down, if the workers desired it.
we mentioned yesterday the part Piracy on the West. Elver,
which the European Y.M.C.A., Daring recent years business on the inland waterway of this pro- Kowloon, is playing with regard vince has increased considerably to the entertaining of these men. and the number of motor launches Premises have been secured near plying on the river has consequent-
multiplied. On Friday afternoon the Ferry on the Hong Kong. two of these launches which have a side, and also a godown in Peking daily run from Wuchow to Yunghu Road, loaned by the Wharf and market and return, were on their way when they were held up by Godown Company. These will be There has been a slight change of pirates, some of whom had boarded turned into reading and writing tone amongst the various officials the launch as passengers. The un
rooms, tea rooms, etc. armed passengers could offer no re- with whom the foreigner has to
sistance, and it looked as if the The acquisition of them premises deal They are a trifle more amen robbers would make their haulis, however, only a beginning, and able and friendly. The Commiswithout any difficulty. But when the co-operation of residents ia their job, a Chinese 3-med launes naked for by the T.M.C.A., so that they were but half through with came down the river and, noticing the premises may be adequately that the launches were being pirat fitted out and "provisioned." ed, they opened fire on the robbers, There was wild confusion for a while The Y.M.C.A. will be grateful for
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We may shortly expect to hear of the students again. The" schools open in a few days and it is possible that they may take up the anti- Christian ery of their Amoy and Foochow brethren. There is little work and less discipline now-a-days. and consequently they have fall scope for their puerile attempts at "playing politicians." I bear that the schools formerly under the coa- trol of the American Baptist Mis
ion will not be reopened.
the delegation most warmly and responded with great enthusiasm when the objects and aims of the Delegation were explaied to them In the evening of February 19th the Delegation was present at a reception banquet organized by the Provincial Government and the Provincial Committee of the Kuc-1 The ricksha coolies, having leara-mintang. More than 500 repre- ed the value of organization, are sentatives from various depart again threatening the motor-bus ments of the Government, the drivers and intimidating would be National Revolutionary Army, the A fares. There are now more than Trade Unions, Peasant organiza 3,000 rickshns in Canton. Before tions, Women's and Students' dr- the competition of the motor-bus ganizations were present. The De service, A coolie earned from alegation were greeted by representa. dollar to 81.40 a day.
tives of all organizations.
Two or three very short extracts from the speeches made at this dinner, will suffice.
Chinese women in. the Koomin- tang will observe March 8th as "Women's Rights Day," and pre- parations are being made to hold
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YAUMATI ROBBERY
SEQUEL.
PAWNBROKERS WARNED AT
NOT A CANTONESE "AGENCY.
equipment for the use of the Ser- vice men in the Naval and Military Y.M.C.A.'s being opened in Hong- kong and Kowloon:
Table for reading and writ ing, chairs, playing cards, dominoes, draughts, gramophones and records, music, table clothes (white and coloured); tea clothes, bright pictures, magazines and papers, books for library, plants, towels.
Equipment will be gladly received at Queen's Building (Chater Road THE CHINESE INFORMATION and Ice House Street corner) and at the YM.C.A., Kowloon, every BUREAU IN WESTMINSTER.
morning from IC to 12.30, comment. A Press representative visiteding to-day. Lapley House, 65, Belgrave-road, Westminster, where for the past 18
there will be months the Chinese Information In addition, Bureau has been housed, in order | Y.M.C.A. centres in other parts of to ascertain whether the Bureau has Kowloon, and further details of any official connection with the Cantonese Government,
Recital for Funds.
these will be available in a few
The frat arrival at the Bureau days.
was
a Chinaman, who definitely The proceeds of a recital to be
given at the Helena May Institate.
stated that the Bureau was not an
on March 3rd at 5.30 p.m. will be devoted to the Y.M.C.A. fund, for. the entertainment of the troops, This recital will be given by Miss Nora Moon, the distinguished soprano, who will be assisted by Miss Vera Godson (violin) and Mr. Aubrey Bowes-Smith at the piano.
CHINESE SENT TO PRISON. agency for Mr. Chen," but worked
absolutely independently.
"Your Government.is not a fool," he said, "and if we were doing any thing against your Government we should not be allowed to be here. This Bureau is absolutely non-poli tical, and is supported by a people interested in China.
"Suppose a man wants to start in business in Chino and wishes to know something about the climate and conditions out there, we are THE NAVY ON THE MARCH. only too willing to give him all the help we can."*
CRIMINAL SESSIONS. Before the acting Puisne Judge, Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, at the Criminal Sessions yesterday, a Chinese was charged with committing a robbery with violence, with two others, as a house in Temple Street, Yaumati, on December 3rd. Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith prosecuted for the Crowa, and the prisoner pleaded
Tom Maan called upon the Chin a large political meeting in Cantonese people to go on with the fight
Colonel Wong Wai Lung, who was
guilty. to a victorious finish and to drive
at one time a personal servant of British imperialism our of China the Dr. Sun Yat Sen and until re- forever.
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cently has acted as Chief Aide-de- Earl Browder, the American Camp to the Kuomintang, is now
delegate, speaking in the name gazetted Adjutant General, accord of the revolutionary workers of ing to advice received from Han-America and of the Trade Union kow....
Educational League, warned the Practically all the delegates of Chinese people against America Hong Kong Chinese labour unions who have been attending the con- imperialism. Behind, the mask of ference in Canton have returned friendship displayed by the United home. While in Canton, they com- States at the present moment, he pleted their arrangements for a said, there is the most dangerous All-Hong Kong, Chinese General Labour Union, in connection with and cunning enemy of the Chinese the "Canton unions.
people and of the Chinces Revolu
Jacques Doriot, speaking in the
Mary Hong Kong Chinese labour 'tion. delegates have been somewhat em- barrassed by Kuomintang press reports, that they were in Canton name of the revolutionary pro to perfect their plans for so anti-letariat of France, is said to, have imperialist campaign.
revealed the true nature of France's Muni- policy in China.
Canton
How
fiscation against the Canton Water
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or more
The prisoner, with others, called at the house in question, and gained admittance on the pretext chat they were selling firewood On entering they produced knives, intimated the three women occupants, and prised open a cash-box and took 830 in money and jewellery. They then made off, leaving their knives be hind them.
SENTENCE ON BAG- SNATCHER
PRISON AND THE BIRCH.
PURSUERS. THANKED BY JUDGE.
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few
Prisoner, who was identified by the complainant," as he had pro At the Criminal Sessions yester viously sold her firewood, assisted day, Chinese who snatched the police to recover the stolen pro handbag from Mrs Mayher, of No. perty from pawnshops, but all that, Caine Road, while she was walk was recovered were two rings. ing under a verandah at East View The pawnbrokera in question Building, was sentenced to two were questioned by his Lordship year's imprisonment and 18 strokes The anatcher per yesterday, and were asked to ex-of the birca. plain how it was that they had petrated the theft after throwing accepted articles although a de- pepper in his victim's eyes acription had been issued by the police.
The case came before the acting Paisne Judge, Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, and the prisoner pleaded guilty Mr. T. 8. Whyte Smith, Assistant Crown Solicitor, was for the pro-
YESTERDAY'S IMPRESSIYE
TURN OUT.,
1,500 MEN ON PARADE.
People in Hong Kong agreed that they had seldom seen a finer body of men than those, drawn from all the Naval ships in the harbour, who marched through the City yesterday morning.
The Naval ratings and Marines accompanied by two bands, number- ed 1,500 and were in full landing equipment. They had with them machine guns and Lewis guns and the marched with axed bayonets. Their route was along Queen's Road to the Western district and concluded at the Cenotaph, where salute was taken by Admiral Boyle, the Commander of the lat Cruiser Squadron Lady Clementi
naval officers many and amongst the large gathering.
The men later returned to their shlys from Murray Pier."
To-night's Parade,
were
There will be another impressive
They replied that the articles were described by the police with out the name of the maker and da The "Prince" clique
having a value of $900; whereas the 'secution. dominating the
The bag contained a small purse rings were not worth that. cipality will lose face," unless As will be seen the British, After sentencing the prisoner to in which was $13.50, a pair of able to enforce its policy of COR- American and French delegates all three years' hard labour, his Lord spectacles and other articles. We parade this evening, when the Hong Works Company who are still re-appear to have delighted in /ahip. addressing the pawnbrokers, the pepper was thrown in Mr Kong Volunteer Delence Corps will
although there did not seem Mahyer's eyes she fell down, but a fusing to hand their plant ever to maligning their own countries. to be evidence of extraordinary hoy named Erie Fleming, living in be inspected by HE, the General publio control. The Company has
carelessness on their part, they Jordan Road, Kowloon, gave chase. Officer Commanding the South China Command Major-General come into existence under a city The Delegates were entertained at ought to understand that the Mr. E. C. Kerrison, & Banitary In C. C. Luard, C.B., C.M.G.) on the charter long ago, and the Board of the expense of the National Chinese people who brought the rings to specter, who was in a barber's shop Murray Parade ground at 6 o'clock. Directors are unwilling to hand the Labour Federation at the Oriental them had no right to do so. They at the time, heard a scream, ran
must always be prepared to accept outside, and chased the runaway Judging by their smart appearance. Municipality insist seizing the Hotel, and among those who enter a certain amount of loss, as it was overtaking him in Bowring Street, on their final practice parade last evening at Volunteer Eeadquarters, plant, the employees of the Co-tained them was Mr. Chen Shiba risk incidental to their profes just after he dropped the bag
sion. The rings would be returned pany will, it is said, forcibly refist Jen, Commissioner of Civil Affairs to the owner on payment by her of and Mr. Kerrison for their prompt His Lordship commended Fleming and they threaten that they will
$3 in respect of each. stop the water supply.
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in Canton.
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