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CHINA'S INCREASING
THE POLITICAL AND MILITARY SITUATION.
CHANG TSUNG CHANG AT THE END OF HIS 1ETHER.
THE TUCHUN OF SHANST OUT TO CHECKMATE FENG YU HSIANG.
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Writing in the North China Daily News on Saturday, Mr. Rodney Gilbert gives the following analysis of the present situation in China with his usual incisiveness and vigour. The situation has been slightly modified by the further defeats, reported yester- day, of Sun Chuen Fang's and Chang Tsung Chang's forces,"
Ile anticipates the defeat of Chang, who is described as unfit to command anything larger than a company, and for the rest the situation remains as he describes it. The situation in the North is one, of the most complex that has arisen for years and readers who are try ing to follow developments and find that they cannot understand what is going on need feel no sense of inferiority because they can make neither heal nor tail of it; for nut only are the authorities" same boat, but the biggest Bgures in the straggle are in precisely a sitailar dilemma, Almost all that anyone can do is to get accurate information upon the status of each of the chicle, which is by no means easy, and then try to figure out the Iost likely upshot as one would a chess game. Something of this sort we shall try to de, for we believe that we have sound general in formation on the relative positions of the numerous factions, but we do not invite the public to put too much faith in our prognostications. The unforeseen is the commonest element in Chinese polities and the wood is full of dark horser.
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RED CROSS WORKERS FOR HANKOW.
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PARTY OF TWENTY-THREE TO LEAVE SHANGHAI.
SHANGHAI, June 11th.^ Under the auspices of the Chinese Red Cross Society and under the direction of Dr. Yen Fu Chun, prin eipal of the Hsiang Ya Medien!
·College, & party-of 23 persons inves by the Nanging Maru this evening for Hankow with a stock of surgical and medical supplies which are being paid for entirely with Chinese funds. The party includes two for eigu surgeons, Dr. J. A. Suell of the Soochow Hospital of the South- er Methodist Mission, and. Dr. pital of the American Church Mis- Harry B. Taylor of the Anking Hos sion; six Chinese doctors, 133 Chi- nese nurses and pharmacists, and
It is positively asserted by the Yen Shih Shan agents who have been here that his pro-Kuomintang ges- ture was not hostile to Chang Tso Lin hut, was feant to checkmate
come from many institutions, both Feng Yu Hsiang whom he fears, and foreign nurses. These workers Chinese and foreig Four are Murseg from Հյու destrusts us do all factions. fore making his venture into the Chinese maje arena he arranged for the with Peking Union Medical College drawal of the Fengtien troops to Hospital.
of Shihchinchuang, points north where his railway connecta with toe Peking-lankaw line, and the Feng tion line now extends from Puo tingfu on the railway, to Tamingla, on the Wei Hliver in Southern Chilli, so that the fighting between foreign and two Chinese nurses, Feugtien and the Hankowites on and two non-professional workers.— the Yellow River is over. The Red North China Daily News. Spears, who are hostile to every. one, helped to make their position untenable.
Dr. Yen, the head of the expedi- tion will be detained in Shanghai for two days, but will proceed to Hankow on June 13th accompanied by Dr. Wallace Crawford of the
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EXTREMISTS ATTEMPT TO
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DETAILS OF THE CHUCHOW DESECRATION."
HANGCHOW, June 19th.
I have just returned from a brick Heaven below," writes
raised the wage sento 30 per cent. Numerous shops and works have had to close down and the banks are staggering under the vague anti uncertain turu of current events.
Anti-British Posters.
Incidentally this farm-
Inen feel that they have gone far ers' defence league is growing by Irans and bounds in every northern enough from home and want to
The only new propaganda poster. province and has become much make sure of what they have in-
I noticed was one in which the more the horror of the Northernstead of venturing into the riceless militarists than the Kuomintang north. He would therefore like to
people were exhorted to "Keep save his face and get a temporary soldiery.
rest by coining to terms with Feng-
alive the spirit of the movement, to Sun Chuan Fang's Army,
Feng Yu Hslang On the Fence.
tien and Sun Chuan Fang, leaving
oppose Great Britain." On the Let us start with Sun Chuun
Feng Yu Hsiang, who has come them alone in the north if they
main business street, at the door of Fang. He has intact an army of 10,000 men and about 50 pieces of in from the west to Chengchow has subscribe to the Three Principles,
a large store, I saw a huge picture artillery, with abundnat ammuni 30.000 effective troops of his own while using Feng Yu Hainng to
poster of "John Bull" wearing a tion, equipment and provender. Ist Kuominchun, and a vast rabble help him to wipe out the Hankow visit to His retreat up the Grand Canal of worthless Houan, Shensi and régime, in return for which Feng the Hangchow correspaudent of the waistcoat made up of the Union
Teng Yu was forced by Chang Tsung Chang Kansu coldiery upon whom he would get. Hankow.
the Tain Pu counts not at all. As everyone siang was, of course bound for North China Daily News. A de Jack. This cartoon depicted “John confused flight up
ailway to the Shantung, border: knows he is on the fence, as usual, Paking and has undoubtedly been cided change seems to have taken Bull" savagely treading down the His entire force was evacuated in and proposes to do anything in the offered Peking by Borodin's tools place since my visit there a few crowd of weak and famished people.. good order the guns being carried immediate future. He is in corre in Chengelow, but prefers now to
weeks ago. The advent of a for- The letterpress proclaimed the sup on boats-has crossed the Lung-Hai spondence with Chiang Kai Shek, wait developments..
If Sun Chuen Fang succeeds eigner I found, on this occasion, posed brutal treatment which Great railway and is now, for the most who has appointed him commander-
South-Eastern Shantung, in-chief for the north, while giving Chang Tsung Chang as Governor of part in the most westerly units being at precisely the same title to Yen Shin Shantung he will please the Feng did not so readily call forth, in the Britain had meted out to the de-. Vihisien, which is connected by rail Shan. If it inaks as though Han tienites by ridding them of Chang same degree, the usund sneering fenceless Chinese nation during the kaw is going to be weaker than Taung Chang and putting a more invectives and the oblique scowls space of many years. Preparations with Linchong. This movement wits essential, as one can-ece--from. Nanking: he will abandon all Rus- welcome force between them and which have been so fashionable of were being made for monster de- late. The foreigner, however, is monstrations to work up new the map, because had Chiang Kaia connections, declaro the Han- Chiang Kai Shek, while he will give
none the less hated. The fact of wave of hatred against Japan. Shek's forces occupied the Lung kow régime an outlaw organization the latter an excuse for stopping and turn on Tang Sheng Chi. If his advance and entering into an Hai line from Henchow to Haichow,
The May 30th celebration passed he would have been cut off from all Naoking totters he will join forces amicable agreement, by hanging the matter is, Hangehow, under the but the sea, with no ports between with Tang Sheng Chi and fight out the Kuomintang flag,, ns the month of the Yangtze and whatever Alliance Chlang would Hsi Shan has done, and declaring e régime, is becoming horribly off with the usual street processions Haichow where he could have found then be forced to make with the himself a Sun Yat Sen worshipper frightened. There is a feeling that and a final gathering at the lik
and a supporter of the Thred the very structure of society is Bide. It was interesting to hear adequate shipping for &
ong Sheng Chi is now in no Principles. This, it is well know, being shaken to its foundations that a great many of the unemploy drawal.
he is ready to do. Also Chiang position to fight anyone and cer- tainly would not attempt to move Kai Shek declares himself ready. A period of pessimisin is in the ed refused to join the throng, for, enter upon the same process of being ushered in. Men they said: "What is the use of farther north without strong allies. enough to
relations, on the same terans, with The main body of Chang, Taung Feng Yu Hsiang cannot make an Yang Yu Ting, Chang Hsuch Liang are instinctively comparing notes shouting ourselves hoarse-Long Chang's army is concentrated on advance upon Peking from Kanau, the Shantung border in the vicinity Photou, Suiguan and Kalgan, and other younger Fengtien leaders with the past, which, they say live the Revolutionary cause' when of Lincheng and is hopelessly dehecause he needs all his available who show "Nationalist" tenden- did boast of a semblance of so starvation is staring us in the face."
The Desecration at Chuchow. moralized. The Kuomintang is strength in his present position cles, but, to please his political correspondence with at least 40 of which, with Yen Shih Shan openly adherents in Nanking, he has to darity. The people generally are insist upon the withdrawal and manifestly nervous about the quak.
A Chinese merchant arriving froni his officers and also controls in against him, may prove to be a
of
retirement of Chang Tso Lin. Suching present and the unknown Chuchow gave some further details Shantung ม growing force
tight corner.
an agreement, thinks Chiang Kai future. "Who is the head of of the desecration of the Martyr's bandits. His men, among whom
Shek, would enable him to devote Northera military agents have been making inquiries as to the reason
all the a large business concern. No one have been left a heap of ruins. The supreme dictator over provinces held by various factions knows," was the reply, they are
Chang Trung Change Men Demoralized.
with-North
Wu. Pel Fu's Retirement.
Yen
It develops, moreover, that Whis attention to making himself affairs 1" I asked of a manager of Cemetery. He said, the graves
for his inability to uake a stand, Pei Fu's retirement as a monk in have said that they were willing to the Sungshan district of South deal fairly by him. During the last Western Honau, was not quite what 18 months they had received 20 cents each, so they were each ready it seemed to be.
to fire two shots in his interest,
Chibli.
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of the Kuomintang, aftor which all beads these days. Rumours soldiers and populace who enacted
he could again turn his attention are rife of a secret movement to this shameful crime
conducted
to the north; while the Northerners, keep Chekiang independent, and themselves like demons. Memorial
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He is reorganizing an army of one and all, have no thought of sinister attempts are being made elabs have been smashed to pieces; but they were not going to risk 50,000 men that now holds positions permanent alliance with the South to swing the Provincial Government collins were broken up and the re- maine strewn and kicked about the their lives by Bring three. Ch'u in the very mountainous country or a lasting adherence to Southern round to the Left Wing.
ground, For fun, the crowd strung Troop Trains On The Line. Yu Pu, Governor of Chihli, has from Hsiangyang on the Han River, doctrines, but hope to goia time,
up some of the bonee to the trees good " and buying tem-
On the outward journey, a group and made sport. Conscious strick- despaired of him altogether, and in Hupeh, to Nanyang in Bonan, by declaring thetwelves has not only withdrawn all support which latter place is within striking Nationalists but, foreseeing a possible occupa distance of Feng Yu Hsiang's rear, perary immunity from Southern of middle school students joined the en, some of the bystanders ex- tion of Shantung by the South, has while the former is always a menace molestation, to form an invalner train at Lunghus Station. They claimed:"Oh, this is pitiable. to Hankow. He would have made able league-Chang Tsung Chang were well equipped with banners, these people were put to a cruci had delegates in Chiang Kai Shek's
a flanking wovement on Tang boing out of the picture--against sugar cane and collecting boxes. death in 1900 and now even, their Hangchow their destination bones are not allowed to remain camp trying to learn on what terms he can subscribe to the Three Sheng Chi before this, by way of the Southern upstarts.
where they were to participate in in peace." No wonder the decent The Nationalist " Ideal.
the money drive for the Southern living Chinese are lifting up their Principles and retain Shantung and Nanyang towards the Peking-fan- kow railway had the Red Spears,
It must not be forgotten either ere in aid of the northern expedi- hands in horror and exclaiming :-- who are tired of him as of everyoue
that the Nationalist ideal kag tion. The ticket collector had quite "We are living in days when thero For a year past it has been openly else, not threatened to harry any
made strong appeal, everywhere hot argument with this bunch of is no thought of God: no heed to confessed that, in command of any movement through their territory. and takes the fancy of all Chinese. thing bigger than a company, Chang
Tang Sheng Chi's losses from The Three Principles for the Peo- enthusiasts who Hourished a written conscience: no respect for law."
notice with a big red seal. "Yes,"
The Y.M.O.A, I see this Chang was useless, that he Tsung disgrace to the Fengtien encounters with Fengtien soldiery ple they regard na harmless eye said the railway official,
and Red Spears have been enor-wash; Sun Yat Sea, they will all
Passing the central Y.M.C:A. gives you authority to collect funds, league and that his army was
The wounded in Hankow weak spot in the line. Yang Yumous.
aises are heavily picketed and have Ting has openly ridiculed him in are only a sample, and there is onfess, was a patriot and now that but does not say you are authorized made one heave a sigh. The pre
The controversey saying so. The really attractive ticket."
was been forcibly taken over by the so- interview. It is absolutely certain good reason to believe that his deade is dead there is no harm in to travel on dy you are authorized now that he must go and it is very and incapacitated number not loss part of the book that is the patched up by a mutual agreement called Government Board. I turn- The nature of the Kuomintang scripture, the basis of to refer the matter to headquarters. ed round by the main entrance early likely that, at an impending con- than 30,000
18 rabid anti- ference in Peking be will be asked country north of the Hupeh-Honan Nationalism,"
Some very heavy troop trains held in the afternoon but looking up at to go. It seems not unlikely that watershed and particularly the foreignism and that is latent in
ly Sun Chuan Fang will then take his nature of the food has been more them all. Some temporary adjust us up on the line, but we eventual- the clock tower the fingers pointed arrived at the city station some to five minutes to eight. I asked demoralizing than
ment is therefore possible after a
a man if the famous clock, which place. If Chang does not give up.
gives the city reliable time, had his command gracefully, it is prob: Chiang Rai Shek's Southerners are reshuffling of the cards that will thing over one hour late.
Tho Cheklang Harvest,
been broken. No, he said, but able that Sun Chuan Tang will being affected in much the same eliminate the Hankow clique, but
The country sidey as far as Kash- when this lawless gang got inside, move from his present position to way by diet and environment, it will probably last just enough
anti-foreignism" preaching, looked amazingly freeb and the clock was so ashamed of them WelcomeTengine overland and establish we have ample reason to know, and to have
Chiang Kai himself on the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu this is having its proper effect upon ed from one end of China to the beautiful with abundant life. The that it went dead. Visitor
other and thoroughly implanted in mellowed wheat has been garnered Shek, I understand, has already joint the political situation. railway to participate in a
the minds of a few score anillion and I hear the harvest in most communicated by wire, ordering the attack of Tsinanfu.
more of the illiterate Chinese parts of Chekiang has been most return of the premises to the right The Interesting Figure From
Yesterday was the ful owners, but orders fall on list Shanal.
masses, when the unstable mixtures, encouraging.
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Everybody Negotiating. Negotiations are going on every possible direction. Each fac The most interesting figure in the tional loader has delegates in the North at the moment is Governor camps of all the others and, what hoisted the Kuomintang Bag and capital
that may be made through negotia. Bearded Grain," a solar term of less care and it can be truly eaid of tion and compromise, will break the utmost importance to Chinese Hangchow, as of old Every man down again and the eternal foud farmers. By this time the young did that which was right in his own
Yen Shih Shan of Shansi, who has ever anyone of them says about a will be renewed with fresh vigour. rice ought to be in the ground. On eyes."
or a capital there, the Another possibility, which is account of lack of rain large acc- New lots of Chiu Fen- Chi's sol-
has moved down to, the Peking secret determination of ench is to whispered about, is that Chiang tions of the province are unable to diere are still demanding mission Hankow railway and occupied a get to Peking eventually. There Kai Shek's ambitions for a dictator prepare the fields and the farmers property. They are in occupation section of it. South of him there are going to be strange alliances ship of the south may be thwarted are becoming apprehensive.
not only in Hangchow but in Tong, is now nothing on the railway be and startling betrayals. In a get by conspiracy within his following, The silk and tea productions are, Yenchow, Lanche, Chuchow and In eome ol these tween his forces and those of Feng eral way, however, it lookes in which event Feng Yu Hsiang phenomenal this season, but, alas,Changshan. Yu Heiang and Tang Sheng Chi, though Chiang Kai Shek feels the and many others would presumably on account of the unsettled state placés representations have been Red again, Feng would make of the country, and shortage of made to the churches that they though neither of the latter has weakness of his position as a crossed the Yellow River or is likely crusader, since some of the most his rush for Peking supported by Labour, the producer reaps no must cease conducting divine wor at the moment to do so, since both influential Kuomintang saints are are busy watching one another and still in Hankow, and he knows the Tng Sheng Chib and very lively special advantage. Hangehow pre-ship. When General Chiu. Was ap- neither feels strong enough to ven. weakness of his military position warfare would be renewed on the sents a very gloomy aspect in al- proached in the matter absolutely
Poking-Hankow Railway.
most every branch of, commnercial,
"no regard was made to the appeal, ..., ture on a campaign into the North since the Kwangsi and Chekiang
tura