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No. 21.435 TITTELA AT HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23rd, 1927. 4 叁拜禮 日卷廿月叁年七廿百九仟登英 PRICZ6H PER MONTH
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1.49 150 5,09 8.04 7.35 1.33 3.00 5.18 8.08 7.59 10.08 11.18 12:48 2,03 3.11 624 619 8.09. 9.07 10.07 11.9 12.8 2.07 3.15 5.28 8.23 8.33 8.46 9.15 10.1811.28 13.36 2.13 3.31 534 829 8.19 12.30
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6.05 0.33
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PROS AND CONS OF JAPANESE INTERVENTION.
POLITICAL PARTIES WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT.
DR. WASHIO CONSIDERS UNDESIRABLE AND
IMPRACTICABLE.
The possibility of Japanese intervention in China is a matter of common speculation though fow responsible person's believe such an eventuality to be likely.
Writing in the Japan Advertiser Dr. S. Washio, a keen opponent of any kind of intervention discusses the problem fully and frankly pointing out the dangers and difficulties of such a course. He also deals with the sections of Japanese opinion that favour an aggressive policy.
We give the following points from his article:-
The Seiyukai is beginning to står | Government represented by its about the Chinese situation. It Foreign Minister. And that is: recently decided to send two mein- for better GT worse the present bers to China and held the first Southern movement represents the party meeting to discuss what it main and most expressive part of considers to be a "grave problem" the Chinese spirit in the Chinese Though this party has so far been history since the Taiping rebellion rather reticent in the expression of and so general for many years ita opinion and is not yet committed throughout Southern China and in any way against the Govern- new almost in the whole of China ment's policy special significance that it can't be put down. The re- has to be attached to its move, even volutionary army may easily be of a tentative kind, since it is a crushed but it will spring up again powerful actor for agitation and probably in less than five years. has proved to be reckless in the And in the interval Japan will have choice of a weapon with which to to bear the brunt of the guerilla oppose the Government.
warfare of boycotts and labour agitations, which may be worse than
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Army Men Active.
Though it has not been reported in the Press and has not come to public knowledge army men have been engaged in anti-Red Campaign against the South ever since the Hankow incident. This Communist revolution of China, say these, army propagandists, not only tears down trade interesis and treaty right but sweeps Koreans and Formosans into.
Traders "Anxious.
the present revolutionary method. Aa to the possible great trading interests and treaty rights? Will not all this "grave uncertainty be better solved if the Southern Gov- erament become the only responsible government of China?
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16th Annual Meeting of Bank Canton, Ltd., No. 8, Des. Voeux Road, 230 p.m.
B.K.C.C.
Tennis Tournament (details in sports column daily).
Tea dançes: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy, King Edward Hotel and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m.
Hockey Club. Submarines, U.S.R.C. ground, 5.15 p.m.
Association of Past and Preecat Commercial Students (E.E. Uni- versity) annual meeting, at Univer- sity Union, 3.15 p.m.
Rugby: Annual match between H.K. Rugby Club and H.K. and S. Back, Happy Valley, 5.30 p.m.
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Star Theatre: "The Early Bird" and Loving Lies"
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H.K.0.0. Tennis
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Tea Dances: HK. Hotel, Hotel Savoy, and Cafe Parisien, 4.30
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British Legion (H.K.`and., China Branch) annual meeting, Messrs. Jardine, Matheson's, 5.15 p.m.
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Dinner dance, Cafe Parisien, 8
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Hong Kong A.D.C. present "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney," Theatre Royal, 818 p.m. ?
Theatre: " Her Big
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World Theatre: Cargo."
"The Devil's
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In Intervention Fracticable?
Another broader consideration is: is intervention practically feasible? its destructive current. Nay, it To be infallibly effective to crush affects even the Japanese and the revolttionary army once for all the established order of intervention must be launched on a menaces this country. It is not only the sufficiently big scale and frankly affair of China that threatens cur and with determination. Oné hns nwn existence.
only to visualize clearly such an operation to see its disastrous con- A less sinister but more direct sequences. Such intervention is appeal comes from traders and almost sure to result in a Sino Japanese residents in China. The Japanese war. It is clear that even business' interests of both Tokye and the most reckless of the army pro- Osaka have already met together Pagandiste do not contemplate such to express their "grave concern" an eventuality. The only practic- about the Customs surtaxes. Their able intervention is a sly and snaky immediate concern influences "their kind under the pretext of protect- judgment and whether they see only ing the lives and properties of the Red or not in the Southern move. resident Japanese in China and quent they would like to get rid of operating secretly behind the North- it if they can. The same thing is ern armies. But this kind of inter- true of the Japanese residents invention is not dependable in its China. They would like to see the efficacy. The chances are that if concerted diplomacy of the Power the Northern armies are going to restored to preserve their status wia they will win without Japanese quo, but if that is no longer pos- help and if they are going to lose sible they would welcome single- they will lose mainly by the de handed Japanese intervention. They moralization, in their own camps, see that the old Kuomintang man- which Japanese help-will never be bers are jealous of the younger men able to prevent. who control it at present and also The risk is not worth taking for that many Chinese property owners the simple reason, that no interven share their "feeling of anxiety. Why tion however secretly and slyly Yachting: Re-sail of... “Ladies” should not Japan intervene for the tenth the detection by the Bouth. And the moment it is
Territories Development. interest of these Chinese as well as detected the South is sure to make Show Committee meeting, Lady Ho their own The North is bidding great use of it for agitation. Ita Tung's farm, Sheung Shui,“ 2.30 for compromise provided the South anti-British agitation will be p.m. gets rid of its extremista. Why changed to an anti-Japanese demon- 12th Annual sports meeting of should not Japan bring her prestige stration as quickly and as surely as Hong Kong University Athletic Comprehensive and Complete Report and power to bear for the realiza the turning of 24 hand. Japanese Association, Pokfulam Ground, 2.30 tion of this movement 1
blunder
Dinner dance, Cafe Parisien, 8 Hong Kong A.D.C. present "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney," Theatre Royal, 0.15
"Her Big Queen's Theatre: Night Theatre: "The Devil's Cargo."
Star Theatre: "The Lotus Eater" and "What Happened to Jones."
Saturday.
42nd Annual meeting-A..-S. Wat- son & Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel,
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31st Yearly meetin, The Dairy Farm, Tec and Cold Storage Co.. Ltd., Town Office, 2, Lower Albert. Road, noon.
Football and Cricket: Details in Saturday's issue.
Cup
diplomacy can make no greater p.m. The Broader Policy.
than this. From the 1st Extra Race Meeting, Happy moment it falls into error it will Valley. Against this, however, there is a have to bear the whole respon Tea Dances: H.K Hotel, Hotel broader consideration of the situasibility of the Chinese situation and Sarpy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m. tion entertained by the general will have to take its whole ban,
Dinner Dance, Cafe Parisien, 8 public as well as by the presenti sequences.
p.m.
Hong Kong AD.C. present The Last of Mrs. Cheyney." Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.in.
THREE MILLS BURNT OUT: houses occupied by labourers also went up in flames. There were no casunities
AT BATAAN,
The fire began in the veneer plant rapidly apreading to the mills and to the houses of labourers. Informa tion as to the cause of the fire and details of the destruction are lack ing. It is understood that insar ance amounting to about a million and a quarter pesos was carried on the plant
Fire" which started at eleven o'clock last Wednesday night at the Limay, Bataan, plant of the Cad- wallader-Gibson Lumber Company, caused damage estimated at between one and two million
peson, says the Manila Times. The veneer plant and two of the three mills were burned, according to the official About five hundred labourers sze Constabulary report. Forty-four without jobs as a result of the fire.
Craigengower Cricket Club dança, 9.15 p.in.
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World Theatre: The Devil's Cargo."
Star Theatre: "The Lotus Eater" and." What Happened to Jones.” Europe via Marocilles (Hurs Principal Malls:-Outward:
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