"NOT UNLICENSED BUT FULLY LICENSED SOLDIERY."
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY,
SHANGHAI'S FUTURE.
EGOTIATIONS AT PRESENT
UNTIMELY.
страдой
NANKING OUTRAGES NARA Japanese school, hotel and
RATED IN THE COMMONS.
privata hospitals were completely looted and turned into military
soldiers beadquarters. The
FULL STORY OF INCIDENTS., length threatened to set are to the
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN'S
STATEMENT.
[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]
POINTED CRITICISM IN AN
REGTER'S AGENCY.] ENGLISH NEWSPAPER.
LONDON, Match 30th. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
The China problem was again LONDON, March 31st rominent in questions asked in the
LONDON, March 31st. "If the barbarities, at Nanking use of Commons to-day,
Commander Kenworthy Labour)
Sir Austen Chamberlain stated were deliberately planned there is
sked whether negotiations had yet no security there or against wher
een opened with the Chinese Nain the House of Commons that he a position to supple ever the Nationalist troeps are iionalist Government as regards the ment his statement made the other control," Kay's the Manchesterature of the International Settle tiny regarding the incidents at
a leader declaringent at Shanghai.
Nanking with facts derived, in Guardia in
part directly from the British that there is every sign of the
American and Japanese represen appalling outrages and deliberate Sir Austen Chamberlain replied Afinister in Peking and by the
tatives. savagery being the carefully on the negative, and when Com ganised work not of unlicensed buinander Kenworthy then asked whe intended to open of fully licensed soldiery.
egotiations ag soon as possible,
her it.
Was
The paper expresses the optie Austen
replied that
"the
moment is not propicious for nego tiations".
was now in
Consulate At this point, the Chief of the Political Bureau of the Sixth Division of the Second Nationalist Army intervened, fol- lowed by the Commander of the Sixth Division and guards were posted for the protection of the Consulate. The next afternoon, the Consular party made their way to Japanese destroyers in the river. Sir Austen Chamberlain added that he bad the sworn statements by Mrs. Giles, wife of the British Consul-General, and Mr. Brown, a British citizen."
The Next Stop Under
... Consideration.. Comdr. Kenworthy. (Labour) asked what was the next step it was Looting TA carried out by proposed to take, and Sir Austen soldiers in uniform. This fact was Chamberlain replied that the steps sworn to by the British Consu!- which it might be proper for the General, the United States Consul British Government and the other add numerous responsible British Governments to take, whose citizens and American residents. Looters have been treated in this way and were in small parties, controlled whose flags had been outraged,
were under consideration. by the blowing of whistles and they were called off by a bugle, after firing from the warships began. A CHINESE TELEGRAM TO The British Consul-General was
GENEVA, sounded and sentries were posted.
that since it is manifest that bombardment alone saved the livet of the unfortunate foreign re-
Col. Wedgwood Labour) asked sidents, Chiang Kai Shek's protest, this meant that there had been is absurd and suggests that an in "no change in policy in connection quy is likely to be simply thewith the pacific settlement of these means of exculpating Cheng Chien questions, and Sir Austen Cham-About thirty soldiers spent the pre-
The leader concludes by statinerinin, naid loud Ministerial that the country will be glad wher cheers, replied that the Sir Austen Chamberlain can stab of His Majesty's Government re- that every British citizen has no mains unchanged. The "execution only been advised to "serk security of that policy must depend on cir- but has been afforded the means o
escape.
LABOUR PARTY LEADER'S
EXPLANATION.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
cumstances."
purpose
Sir Austen Chamberlain told Mr. H. W. Looker that the question of taking special precautions if nesės. sary at Tientsin was under consi.
vious night in the Vice-Cohaul's house, which was unoccupied at the time and raised the revolutionary lag on the entry of the looters Foreign women, including Mrs. tiles, wife of the British Consul General, were thoroughly searched and rudely stripped of their valu. abes. Many had their clothes torn off.
Sworn Depositions.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
APRIL 1st, 1927.
SINGAPORE'S RIOT
SUBSIDES. ING
A PROCLAMATION ISSUED.
CHINESE CONSÜL-GENERAL
GIVES ASSISTANCE... (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENET.)
SINGAPORE, March 31st. The rioting has subsided, and the a proclamation, Government," in state that it is their intantion gradu- ally to remove the restrictions, on A return to normal conditions. A warning is issued to the public that & recurrence of the disorders will be sternly repressed.
The Chinese Consul-General has been giving all possible assistance in the restoring of normal condi- tions.
-"COMMITTEE'S" REPORT. THE INDIAN "SANDHURST
IMPORTANT RECOMMENDA-
TIONS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
deration, and added that he had by Northern troops nor by local dustriai interests to urge the Naing that Indisos be made eligible
at
seen a telegram embodying the views of the Committee of the LONDON. March 31st, Shanghai Bar Association Mr. Raunsay MacDonald, speakin Shanghai. nt Glasgow, refuted the statemen that the position. of the Labou Party was to leave British lives China without protection, and de clared that Lahourites never sail
that the forces in China at the tim
should he evacuated.
THE "STORMING" OF TH
FRENCH CONCESSION.
[NAVAL WIRELESS.] Marine Guard Landed at Focchow.
FoocHow, March 20th. The British Consul is in close touch with the Chinese authorities and does not anticipate trouble.
AN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION. to be quiet.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
These facts could be established by sworn depositions. It was learnt that foreigners were not molested inhabitants, but that the latter were friendly throughout and as The looting sisted the foreigners. and destruction were more than at first realised. Attacks on foreign- ers were carefully organised, and the British Consulate-General was a special objective. The Consular party, had lost everything. They were robbed of their valuables at the point of guns. furniture was used for firewood. burned after being looted and the Mr. Huber, the Harbour Master, was killed.
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Houses were
A Marine guard has been landed
American Experiences. to prevent Nationalist demezstra.
In regard to the treatment suffer tions from encroaching on foreign quarters, but the situation appearsed by Americans' at Nanking, the information was that, after the murder of an American missionary and the attempted murder of many others by Nationalist soldiers, Chi- nese police warned the American Consul that his party would be destroyed unless be could cap. Accordingly, the party of one and two children escaped under oficer, elever sailors, nine civilians constant fire across country to Secony House, on the Standard Oil Company's Hill, above the city
surances
The Commissioner for Foreign Affairs and the Commander of the Chinese Navy have given their us that they will suppress SHANGHAI, March 31st. The reported storming of th any attempt at anti-foreign dis- French Concession defences, by tbances, and they appear well mot yesterday night, was denied disposed. the course of a statement issued t
Meanwhile, plans for the evacua Route: from the French Consulate tion of foreigners are being pre General this morning. It is explain pared in case of necessity.
ed that a small crowd of loafer
gathered and began stoning the
·TIENTSIN CONCESSION..
barricades but the sentry fired
walls where some Americans and Although British already were. robbed and repeatedly threatened by Nationalist soldiers, the Cor sul, with the Vice-Consul and the Standard Oil Company Manager, hotra.
shot in the air and the crowd di LOCAL PAPER'S COMMENTS. managed to keep the Chinese out appeured.
The statement also denies t "report that the Consul-Geferal i- terfered "personally in the affa, which is described merely as a smal police incident.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, March 31st.
MOTOR MAGNATE
IN HOSPITAL.
MR. HENRY FORD'S MISFORTUNE.
"DELIBERATE ATTEMPT" ON HIS LIFE.
[THBOOOK REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Dernet March 31st. Mr. Henry Ford is in hospita) as the result of injuries, described as being not serious, received in a motor accident.
He was motoring alone when a kidded car behind knocked him over a 15-foot embankingnt, down which his car rolled over several times.
Mr. Ford is suffering from slight concussion and his ribs and back are severely bruined.
He has undergone an operation, but is expected to leave the hos pital in a fortnight.
Router Learns from sources in close contact with Mr. Ford that they are of opinion that it was not aa accident but a deliberate at- tempt made upon Mr. Ford's life.
INDIA'S ARMY. EFFECT OF SENDING TROOPS TO CHINA,
STATEMENT BY LORD BIRKENHEAD.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,]
BOAT RACE.
CAMBRIDGE THE FAVOURITES.
CLOSE RACE ANTICIPATED.
[TERCON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Cambridge are favourites for the bont race, but with, the improve- ment made by the Oxonians recent- '
despite the loss of their stroke, Llewellyn, through in-hedlina even
luctant to say more than that the veteran Thamesice experts are re- 'crews' are unusually well-matched, are faster than the average, and that the result will much depend
the choice of stations, wind and
streara.
There is every prospect of splendid race and a close finish.
Oxford's eight are of an average weight of 19 at. lbs. and Cam- bridge 10 lbs.
FAMOUS ENGLISH TENOR
MR. EDWARD LLOYD PASSES
AWAY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
Losbox, March 31st. The death is announced of Mr. Edward Lloyd, the congr
LONDON, March 31st. The so-called Indian Sandhurst Committee, composed of prominent Indians, and presided over by Sir Andrew Skeen. which was appoint GENEVA, March 30th..
ed in 1923 to inquire into the means and The Chinese delegate, Mr. Chac of improving the number Hsin Cbu. has published a telegram quality of Indian candidates for Army Commissiona, is reported to
[Mr. Lloyd, who was born in 1645, and had been for some years from the Chambers of Commerce at
be recommending a great extension ia the scope of the employment, of
past, living in retirement at Wor Shanghai, and Chapei, bankers. stock exchange, cotton millowners
thing. Sussex, was one of the mest Indians of the higher ranks in the and various Guilds, regretting the Nanking entrage and urging Army.
prominent. English singers of the". A substantial progressive
past generation. He was educated patience and continued confidence scheme of Indianisation, subject to
at Grey's School, Southwark, sang in the Chinese.
the maintenance of the present
in the choir at Westminster Abbey Mr. Cha has replied to the tele-
LONDON, March 30th. In the course of a lengthy survey (1552-00) and, at Gloucester in 1871, Kram, asking commercial and in-standard of efficiency; also advocat. for chaumissions in the Artillery, Engineer, Signal, Tark, Air, and of the situation in India in the made the first of many appearances House of Lords, Lord Birkenbend, at the well-known English musical of Nanking.
Arms Sections of the Army of prevent a recurrence.
Secretary of state for India, re- festivals,] tionalists to protect foreigners and
India, and that the number of
the vacancies allotted to Indians at ferring to the despatch of troops [EARLIER TELEGRAMS.)
Sandhurst should be progressively from India to China said that
Government of India recognised increased until a Military College,
that by lending troops from the [NAVAL WIRELESS.]
on the lines of that at Sandhurst,
Indian garrison at present we were is established in India. Similarly, Nanking Still Unsafe for
they should be admitted to Wool facing a certain risk. He believed Foreigners.
wich Academy and Criavell Airit was a reasonable risk, but only On the other hand, Lord Force College, provided they qualify so long as the occasion. was tem Birkenhead pointed out that should certain contingencies unhappily NETHERLAND'S FOREIGN
arise, the army in India would not in the same tests as British boys.
suffice for the defence of India and reinforcements would have to be obtained from the Imperial Army
NANKING, March 30th. No interviews have yet taken concerning last week's place with the Chinese authorities, owing to the non-appearance of the Nationalist representatives.
outrages,
༢.༣
It is still unanfe for foreigners to show themselves in Nanicing. The British Consulate is still visited by looters and the place is completely wrecked.
Rifle and machine-gun firing on ships has not abated, and the gun on Lion Hil is kept trained on ships under way,.
Better News From Whku.
Wugu, March 30th At a friendly meeting with the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs yesterday, the Autwu incident again formed the subject of discussion,
hat no decision was reached.
Six Spanish priests, one of whom was wounded, were evacuated last night. The situation is easier.
OTHER YANGTSZE PORTS.
HANXOW, March 30th." That part of the British com- is being evacuated.
unity which is regarded as surplus
KICKIANG, March 30th. Forty-five missionaries, ten British and thirty-five other nationalities, have arrived here from Anking, and will proceed to Shanghai, on the
American steamer Hulbert.
MINISTRY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
ar
THE HAGUE, March 30th. Jonkheer Beelacrts Van Blokland, who was recently appointed Nether- land's Minister at Brussels, is ex- Van Kamebeck at the Foreign pected to succeed Jonkheer H. A.
Ministry.
U.S. GOVERNMENT'S
POLICY.
porary.
U.S. MINE DISASTER. HUNDREDS OF MINERS ENTOMBED.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVİCE.]
New Yoax, March 30th... A
from Harrisburg, message Pennsylvania, says that the Min- ing Department Las been informed have been entombed as the result of an explosion in the Pennsyl vania Coal and Coke Company's Ehrenfeld Mine..
AIMING AT THE SAFETY OF that between 500 and 600 miners
>
NATIONALS.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
WASHINGTON, March 30th. Official despatches indicate that
PROTECTING GERMAN
INDUSTRY.
AS ANTI-DUMPING BILL '(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
March 30th. *BERLIN,
+4
The Government has tabled, in Anti-Dumping the Reichstag, an Bill," which is a reprical of similar laws against Germad goods in Britain, the Dominicas, and the United States.
The rate is not specified but the Government is empowered to in crcase the tariffs as may be found". necessary to protect German in- * dustry."
;
HINDU-MOSLEM DISPUTE FORTY-SEVEN PEOPLE
INJURED.
{THHOTGH REUTER'S"
**AGENCI]
KARACHI, March 30th. Forty-seven people have been sent to hospital with injuries as the Eight miners are reported to result of a serious Hindu-Moslem have been killed by an explosion in fracas nt Larkana, Upper Sind, the Faaline County Coal Corpora
Practically All Rescued.
a dispute, over the possession of woman and her three children.
CRASH-PROOF PETROL TANK.
the situation in China show notion's mine at Ledford. signs of becoming less threatening.
LATER. The official attitude is to devote all efforts to ensuring the safty of
foreigners in
As the result of the desperate the Americans and
It is recognised efforts of the rescuers and volun- danger areas. that it would be useless at present teers, who had rushed to the scenes to attempt diplomatic conversa from many parts of the country, tions with the Chinese, as the Can- practically all the 400 entombed-NEW AIRCRAFT INVENTION. well. Ten bodies have been recover- BEING OFFERED TO FOREIGN tonese may be unable to consolidate men have been brought up safe and their gains that practically the ed.
The explostion was so violent that it wrecked a two-storey brick building 200 feet from the mine.
It is
are re
of the house for two
Bally they broke in, Seeing the number of people in the bouse, they retired and commenced fring upon them, in ever-increasing Dum* and The United States bern. A message from Tientsin says British vessels then dropped shells that the leading British newspaper, immediately around the house and
CHAOSKA, March 30th. Regarding the forcible removal The Peking and Tientsin Times, in | the party were enabled to escape
All Britishers have been evacu whole of the 1,000 Americą re Nationalist soldiers deliberately two iron gutea from the borders of envisaging the inelancholy prospect over the wall.
ported to be safe in parts of the the Concession on the evening of of the retrocession of the British fired at the United States Consulated, except the Consul and the ligious workers in the danger areas country while some of them are March 29th the French explanath Concession at Tientsin, speculates knowing him to be the Consul and Mother Superior of the Convent. have reached Shanghai or
When this happened ho had just this morning. is that the gates no longer fored on the disastrous results of the with the intention of killing him. They left for Shanghai až 10 a.m.
The British gunboat, HM.S. preceeding back to America because park of the main defences and ad fatal policy of patience and een given them his card and naked to
oficers. The United Gaat, remains at Ichang for the they are convinced that it will be many months before foreign mis sionary work can be resumed. been superseded by barbed tre ciliation." It says that the leading see their
PEKING, March 30th. The American destroyer Hulbert entanglements immediately betad extremists believe that Britishers States Consulate was deliberately time being.
Nationalist officers. No effective
SHANGHAI, March 31st. The episode, therefore, is regaded exist only to be outraged and their looted, although it was known by as being unimportant.
property to be locted with im steps were taken to afford protec took off 17 British and American Union Members to Pay Half Rent. Mr. T. Seong, the Nationalist Minister of Finance and a brother Hankow French Concession giet. punity. It asks whether Wuhu, tion. Murder, robbery and other refugees at Anking. The refugees
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] can and other foreigners in all
of Madame Sun Yat Sen, who is 1 Nanking and Chinkiang hare failed outrages were committed on Ameriwere stoned before embarking. PARIS, March 3
British Consul's Request at
member of the Right Wing of the Hankow. to convince Sir Austen Chamber parts of the city from eight o'clock. The Quai d'Orang publisks i
has arrived from Kuomintang, Hankow. LONDON, March 30th. telegram from the French Miister lain of the belief that the Hankow in the morning and no official at- tempts to destrain them were made
The latest of Shanghai's numer at Peking to the effect that there. Agreement is illusory, and suggests until after the naval barrage at
A telegram from Hankow states
ous new Unions is The Associa have been no disorders the that be apply his own dictum, half past four in the afternoon.
Hakow, namely, "to be assured that the The American Consul-General tried that the British Consul-General
The members, who are tion.' preserve all day through official and other there had a meeting with the lead-tion for Fifty Per Cent. Rent Reduc- French Concession at
channels to see some responsible ing British merchants on from which the women and chidren Chinese authority can
order wherever ita authority is ex- officer but no one would see him; 27th, and urged them to send away tenants in the Chinese City, to-day have not been evacuated.
tended before the surrender of any From statements made to him and at once all employees who were passed a resolution only to pay half by not absolutely necessary for such the usual rents to the landlords. to MILEY other. Americans soldiera, and from the fact that diminished business as there was, and if the latter would not accept
so that a sudden evacuation that, they would pay nothing. BORODIN AND HSU (HEN. further interesta"
Boldiers proceeded in bands, the movements of which were directed should become necessary the nun- and prompted by the sounding of bere would be reduced to a mini- bugle calls, he was convinced that these outrages were, planned and could not possibly have been the result of the accidental getting out of hand of the troops.
CHINESE PRESE
SERVICI] CANTON, March 31st. According to a Canton corespon- dent, Borodin and Hau Clen, the notorious "Reds," left Catan for Sinofu, the capital of Sheni.
GEN. CHIANG "PREPARING TO CONQUER NORTH." DENIES UNDERSTANDING - WITH MARSHAL CHANG
TSO LIN.
23
mum.
March
لله
A brief message from Nauking says that two British steamers were leaving Nanking on Wednesday morning when they were fired on by Chinese troops.
WIRELESS NEWS. REAR-ADMIRAL GRACE.
'
POWERS:
A further test has now been made with the crash-proof petrol tank, designed to a specification of Major H. H. Evans. A ten-gallon test tank was taken up in an aeroplane at Stag-lane aerodrome and drop- ped 300ft. on to the aerodrome with- out bursting.
The tank
· [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
very badly batter- Rugay, March 31st. Rear-Admiral Heary Grice, soned about on one sida and bulged. of the late Dr. W. G. Grace, the at one end as a result of the famous cricketer has been appoint internal pressure, remained still lar tank is designed to be crasir ed Rear-Admiral of 8nbmarines (1) perfectly. leak-proof. This particu in succession to Rear Admiral Ter
proof only, and not bullet-proof as non' Haggard.
well, and Major Evans explained. Bevision of Frayer, Book.
that it consists of two metal skins In preparation for Parliamentary with a quarter-inch layer in be debates on the revision of the Prayer tween of a patent non-inflammable Book, the Archbishop of York last and petrol-proof composition. The House of Commons. He stated it ten-gallon receptacle at 2.8lb. per- night addressed 200 members of the weight of this type works cut in s was hoped that the Church Assembly gallon, an increase in weight over. would reach a decision in July and an ordinary metal taak; but, if the question would come beforo larger sizes of tanks, such as 100
11b
A Parliament in November, Under gallons, are required, the weight. precedure governing such matters per gallon comes down to it was necessary for both Houses of so-gallon tank of the type largely Parliament to petition the King to used in training machines works give the Royal assent. It was not out at 1.81b. per gallon, but to make competent for Parliament to amend a crash-proof and bullet-proof tank- the Common Prayer Book. It must a different design is needed, and this gives & weight of 211b. per either accept or reject it,
gallon [NAVAL WIRELESS.]
The Royal Tour.
The invention has been brought tor Tuckwo" Affair Revived.
The Duke and Duchess of York the notice of the Air Ministry, but ICHANG, March 30th. The Tuckwo incident has been left Sydney to-day to visit (it is understood that objection,
days will be spent. taken to the increased weight ovaz revived, but the Commissioner for where two
present metal tanks, Foreign Affairs has left for down Civic receptions have been arranged and above the
and Major. Evans is now in at important towns en route.
The
Secretary
for Dominion
negotiation with foreign Govern- [On March 7th, a British naval 810 is the price of, aspasination dent of the Fossierhe Zeitung, said for four and a half hours. They in Shanghai, according to evidence party was involved in an armed en Affairs has received a telegram ments There is no doubt that he was preparing plans for the were, in uniform, wore military in a case just dealt with by the Fro counter with stevedores, when sev- from the Governor of New South crash-proof and bullet-proof tankc but that caps and were armed with rifles. visional Court in which a Chinese eral on both sides were injured. The Wales stating that his Ministers would be an intense asset in war,
Ong began looting at once.
his machine being put out of ing in
interfered. On the following days. gratitude to the King for the op- venta rough loss of petrolif the church" and discussed he needed time. He the question of evacuating the had an understanding with Mar-
shal Chang Tao Lin. He was with-encies of the staff and others at.osewoman of a British cotton on the fuckwo and the stevedores the State to tender their great fear of being burnt alive, and pa
Prisoner, who was sentenced to absurd demands were presented byportunity of demonstrating the un-action place.
out means to conquer the foreign tacked the residence of the Consul,
life imprisonment, confessed that the Labour Unions, including the swerving loyalty of the people to bullets hit the tank. On the other Settlements, which could be left to who was ill in bed and fired shots
he shot the woman at the, instance withdrawal of H.M.S, Gnal. Fur His Majesty and their personal hand, there in the increased weight, tion carried, and a baletice has to the politicians.
at him, at members of his staff,
of a prominent member of the ther correspondence followed, the regard and affection towards the which means less petrol or amauni As regards propaganda, Marshal at naval officers, and marines, and
General Labour Union who gave Labour Unions modified their de- Duke and Duchess of York. Chiang Kai Shele said he desire to at Japanese civilians, who were at Gust all foreign news agencies and the Consulate and threatened them him $10, beforehand, promising him mands, and a further letter was The above message is incomplete farther 810 on the return of the sent by the British authorities. owing to poor reception due to had establish National Chinese with bayonets. The mob took away
ting of other stations? drop into the background 1 to
(Continued on next-column)> agencies. He admitted dificulties everything belonging to members pistol with which he was furnished. The matter had been allowed to atmospheris conditions and jam
of the Consulate and to civilians. with the Communists.
WHAT A CANTON PAPER SAYS.
(CHINESE PLISS SERVLE
A Canton vernacular jewspaper states that yesterday foreigners re-
(THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY.]
Or
The Japanese Experiences. With regard to the Japanese, the following was the position. March 24th, about 150 soldiers, General Chiang Kai Shek, inter-belonging to the Nationalist Army viewed by the Shanghai correspon-occupied the Japanese Consulate
·BERLIN, March 20th.
All is quiet at Hankow at pre- sent and Chinese feeling is easier. but it is expected that a critical time will be May 1st when the Fourth All-China Labour Conven- tion mente there.
(THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.] Murders At $10 Each..
SHANGHAI, March 31st.
river.
1
siding in the Shameen hdd a meet conquest of North China that bearty attacked the offices and resid. was convicted for the murder of a British party were loading stores desire on behalf of the people of as it removes from the pilot the
SHANGHAI CUSTOMS. News to hand is to the effect that Mr. T. V. Soong, the Kuomintang's Finance Minister, has appointed a large number of Chinese, at pre- sent in Hankow, to posts in the Shanghai Customis service.
fi
be struck between these conflicting requirements or a decision made as
4 tactical point of view. to which is most important from