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WHY NANKING HAS FAILED.
RESULT OF TERRORIST METHODS.
DISGUST OF THE DECENT CHINESE.
GROWING POPULARITY OF SUN CHUAN FANG.
[BY GEORGE E. SOKOLSET.)
Few people see further into the mists of Chinëse politics than Min. George B. Sokolsky, and in this article reprinted from the... "North-China Daily News" of August 8th he analyses the reasoThe leading up to the inevitable fall of Chiang Kai Shek. He plainly foresees the end and reveals the fully which has thrown down the man, who, till a few weeks ago was the most powerful personality' in Chinese affairs...
No governmental group in China Party of China. The only issue started under better auspicos than upon which these men could unite that which composed the Nanking was their opposition to the Com- Government. It is true that there munists. The Shanghai Chinese was the Nanking Outrage, but to bankers and merchants were will Chinese, it was clear that Hankowing to support and finance the new had organized it and carried it Government on the understanding. through to destroy the power and that the Communists would be sup- prestige of Chiang Kai Shek and pressed. therefore, sympathy was rather on his side. The Chinese of Shanghai
Executions By Tha Hundred. The first step that" Chiang Kai
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and Kiangsu province were weari-Shek was forced to take, then, was ed of Communist agitation and into organize for the suppression of timidation and looked upon Chiang Communism. This task was Kai Shek as the one man who could save them from bath. His was the popular slogan of the moment, Down the Communism" He was able to gather about him the men in the Kuomintang who had the prestige and the following in the party and who, even if impractical, were Chines. In that he had a tremendous advantage over Han- kow.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16th, 1927.
•CHIANG'S ARMY IN DISORDER.
EYE-WITNESS FROM HSU- CHOW FRONT.
REAL MODERN WARFARE!
An eyewitness of the battle for Hudowlu, a foreign journalist of highstanding in the Scandinavian Press, has returned to Peking with the report that Chiang's armies on the Tientsin-Pukow line have been completely routed and smashed, that their recovery is ment unlikely.! that real modern warfare was wit nessed in an intense struggle be tween the rival armies, and that reports of Feng's men moving to- wards or into. Hsuchowfu are to be discounted on the evidence of the Shantung armies strength, says 'the North-China Standard.
·SHANGHAI BANKER
KIDNAPPED?
CHINESE BUSINESS REGISTRATION.
BY ORDER OF NATIONALISTS: NO FOREIGN CONSULATES,:
LAWYERS OR ORDINANCES.
$1,000,000 RANSOM DEMANDED.
The Shanghai Mainichi, A Japanese newspaper, published a startling story of the kidnapping in the French Concession of a wealthy Chinese, said to be the compradore of a strong local bank, and of the subsequent demand of $1,000,000 for his release.
The kidnapped man's name, it is stated, is Wu Kau Ding, well- known local Chinese merchant asso- ciuted with the gold bar exchange. Wu, according to the, Mainichi, was not the victim of a gang abduction but was quietly taken into custody and is being held as hostage by General Sz Tich, Commander of the 26th Nationalist Army, garri- soned in Shanghai.
CHIANG KAI SHEK'S PLEA.
The Ano in News Agency re- ports:
The Shanghai Chinese Ratepayers' Association · received a letter from General Chiang Kai. Shek OF August 5th, which is an answer to the petition requesting the Govern- ment to forbid Chinese from having their properties and business regis- tered under the name of foreign firms or individuals sent to General Chiang on July 22nd by the Asso» ciation.
The letter, promises the Associa tion that the contents of the peti- tion will be duly attended' ta; and that it has already been referred. to the Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs.
Aage Krarup Nielsen, BA, N.D., special travelling corres pondent, for. Scandinavian news- Papers and representative of the Politiken, Copenhagen, now in the capital, returned from the Lincheng battle in one of the
According to reports, the paper trains bearing 300 wounded states, the detention of the Chinese The letter reads as follows:- soldiers. He describes, the Shan-was brought about by orders from Your letter containing the re- tung situation 13 completely the Nationalist Government at Nan-solution passed in your meeting un favouring the forces of Chang Tsung Chang. -
So thorough was the rout of the Southern armies by Shantung and Russian corps, that all the railway military equipment, stores and am- was captured, together with a large munition of Chiang's expedition force of soldiers after heavy casual. ties had been indicted. They re treated in absolute disorder, the
correspondent reports.
king.
is permitted to communicate with The kidnapped mann, it is stated,
his family regularly and is extend-
make his kidnapping a happy one ed every hospitality and facility to The Mainichi further asserts that the family of the man are endea- souring to keep the matter a secret
and have denied that Wu has been kidnapped. His whereabouts, it is said, are known to his family, the only thing that stands between him and his liberty being the payment of the trifling sum of one million dollars.
trusted to two minor men in the party who utilising the Chinese de tectives in one of the foreign police organizations and a large number of persons connected with the Blue"
Shantung Troops Fight." Society, one of the two principal
The conflict was severe and the secret societies operating here, they Shantung troops showed surprising made such. a clean-up of Com- steadiness. Considerable scepticism munists as 30 northern general has been expressed by foreign observers as to the fighting capa- would have dared to do even in city of the Shantung armies, but the essence of courtesy and that It is asserted that his captors are his own territory, No figures are Mr. Nielsen "said he saw the men He had the farther advantage available: of the numbers beheaded go into action determinedly, while Wu, despite his detention, is hav their comrades fell around them. ing & most enjoyable time. The cver other leaders that Chinese and shot but that they run into the Those with arm and leg wound. / Uninichi also claims that Wu has
were picked up by ambulance de tachments and taken to the base and other serious didsabilities were at Tsinan, but others with atomach left to their own devices, with death inevitable.
The
not been the first wealthy Chinese to be detained by crderi of the Nanking Government
A number of others, is the claim. have been subjected to similar treatment and were released only after payment of varying sums, de pending on the individual's wealth and standing....
At the Japanese Consulate the Vice-Consul stated he was not aware of the kidnapping..
July 22nd, which reads:
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That the Chinese are accus- tomed to register their property and business in the names foreign consulates, lawyers Arms, and sometimes under the Hong Kong Ordinance; thus mak- ing the taxes paid by the Chinese appear as if they were paid by the foreigners, is a fact which tends to encourage the exploits. of the Imperialists and impair the prestige of China as a great nation.
We, therefore, request the Central Kuomintang Headquar- ters, the Nationalist Government and the General Headquarters, to issue a proclamation, declaring such registrations as inválid, and requiring all registrations to be made with the Chinese autho rities; and forbidding the further practice of this ridiculous pro- cedure, the violation of which being able to severe punishment. is duly on hand; and the contents thereof duly acknowledged.
The metter therein referred to pertains to finance and foreiga affairs, so I have referred it to the Ministry of Finance and the Minis- try of Foreign Affairs respectively.
This is by way of acknowledging the receipt of your letter.I am,
"CHIANG RAI SEEK."
CHINA FASHION WAR..
generally in this region felt that hundreds is no exaggeration. he must not be allowed to fail, that
The anti-Communist campaign the Nationalist cause was being should have ended there and the acuttled by the Russian and Compeuple would have been happy. munista and that if it also failed But every form of persecution was
In view of the strength of the in Shanghai, it would be a genera resorted to on the pretext of hunt combined wings of Chang Tsung tion before there would be anthering Communista. Men were kid- Chang's armies Mr. Nielsen does opportunity to reach the people. napped and forced to make heavy na think there is any chance for Genuine nationalists, not the rab- contributions to military funds; Feng to take suchowiu, as re- ported. He believes the garrison ble that join all popular move-others were seized and held because can withstand say attack.
I do not say it is not true, hut ments, were willing to forget their they had corresponded with friends Lincheng was taken last. Wednes
I Have not heard at it," the Vice- etc., and Hauchow fell on Sunday. day personal dislike for Chiang Kai in Hankow. No reason or justice The prize which lured the Russian Consul maid after. telephoning and Shek and to join him in the estab was evident in the Communist division was $300,000 offered by carrying on a conversation in the lishment of a Government in Nan-hunt; no courts of law were utiliz- Chang if they would take Haucho Japanese language.
There were 3,000 Russians in the king. They felt that unless thated to give the so-called Communiststic
action, including 1,500 cavalry and were done, Communism and the a hearing. Men, possessing mil- the armoured train corps Russians would completely steal lions were held as Communists and men were divided into two bodies the machinery of the nationalistic the North China Daily News was the railway tracks with the armour- which advanced on either side of movement and would utilize it to refused the posts for disseminating ed trains in co-operation. the disadvantage of China.
an alleged Communistic piece of Shanghai bankers agreed to finance
news. The Dalbank was sealed in the new Government to the extent search of Communist funds and the of a 900,000,000 loan on excellent German steamers were taken in forms to the Government guaran search for Bussian Communistą, teed by the two and one-half per No one is safe, even at this mo cent, customs surtax. Many of the ment, from the anti-Communist in- younger men of the Canton andquistition which has been establish- Hankow regimes came to Shanghaied and which drags men out of to serve in this Government, sacri- the Settlements forces them by Being, incidentally good jobs for retality to admit their affiliations their principles and not getting any here in many instances.
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Nanking?
The
Heavy shelling from the south- and Mr. Nielsen was alongside ern side greeted the first advance Russians wounded by bursts quite close to the train.
WHAT IS A LUXURY?
ACCORDING TO THE CATE- CHISM OF CHIANG.
in Chinese territory. No statement TYPEWRITERS WATCHES, AND
of this anti-Communistic terror would be just or fair without re-
of Kiangsu
ÁNYTHING FOREIGN:
CHINESE 1896 LOAN.
BRITISH AND GERMAN ANOMALY.
Attention is again being direct- ed to the wide difference between the prices of the British and Ger- man issues of the Chinese, Five Per Cent. Gold Loan of 1806. In some quarters it is suggested that holders of the German issue, the April coupon of which is in de fault, have been unfairly treated and may have to wait for an inde finite period before payment of in- terest is resumed.
In the course of an interview on the subject, Sir Newton Stabb, London manager of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Cor-
SHORT SKIRTS AND SILK STOCKINGS.
HOW IT STRIKES SIR PERCIVAL PHILIPS.
PEKING
Women's fashians have become an important issue in this upside- down revolution. Civil war has bred short skirts and bobbed hair. The new Mussolini of North China, Chang Tao Lin (the Peking dictator) regards them as symbols of Bolshevism and has relegated them-on paper-to the scrap-beap of obsolete feminine modes.
He sent for his new Prime sentative of the Financial Times Minister, who rejoices in the happy that the diference of nine points name of Pan-fs, and ordered him between the English and German to see that skirts were made longer. issues of the loan was unaccoun- Somewhat doubtfully, Mr. Pan-fu table.
called in the superintendent of Until this year the two issues police-since the Army could not were interchangeable "good de- be depended upon in such a deli- livery." and, enjoyed single cate matter--and performed the quotation.
ceremony. so frequently used in shifting responsibility known a "passing the buck."
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A Great Opportunity, Starting in this way, the Nan- ference to the fact that at times A luxury is whatever the for-poration, recently told a repre king Government should have sue and in some measure the foreign siguer used in China that the Chi- ceeded. So far as foreign rela police, wilfully or unknowingly,
nese people do not use extensively. This might be an excerpt from tions were concerned, they could assisted the Communist hitters in Chiang Kai Shek's catechish. easily have overcome the difficulties some of their
Some of the things he classines for most objectionable
the additional luxury tax show the of the Nanking Outrage, had not offenses against justice and de- peculiar werkings of the ex-dicta other questions ariser. So far as cency.
tor's brain, and bear out the thought that when he was sketching out his finances were concerned, a just eys-
Feeling Of Abject Fear.
tariff plan it was with an eye to a In April last, he continued, the tem of taxation, justly imposed This anti-Communist terrorism new form of anti-foreignism. coupon of the loan was not paid, and justly collected, would have bas frightened the people of
He says typewriters are a luxury, and from the announcement made There being no other official to been welcomed, for the people Shanghai and
All the thousands of Toiling Tilles by the Hong Kong & Shanghai whom the superintendent of police. wanted them to succeed. So far as nothing else has in recmt times, will be glad to know this, because Bank at the time it appeared that could hand on this mythical sym
hitherto they had no idea they the temporary default was due to bol of evasion, he gloomily evolved concerned, the The vernacular press has been fore dallied with jewellery. The type a dispute between the Chinese Gov-a list of regulations for rebellious Chinese blessed their arms. So fared to submit to a mortifying and gaver of time, an efficient machine of Customs, and not to any short
writer has been acclaimed as ernment and the Inspector Genero: womankind. as party questions were concerned, shameful censorship. Decent men to reduce waste add therefore eage in the Customs funds hypothe edict that the parading of "queer They were warned by this police Borodin was cutting such an un- will not discuss political questions titled to classification as a neces-cated for the service of the loan. clothes" was first introduced by pleasant figure that more and more in public. Merchants are afraid aity. Chiang Kai Shek knows bet
Remittances Malùtained. females of evil reputation. Dresses ter than this, He discerns, Jer Kuomintang personalities joined to suggest that there might be any example, that the Chinese are not The bank stated then, pointed that revealed the arms above the thing good in Peking or Hankow in a hurry to adapt their language out Sir Newton, that there had elbow and the legs above the ankle. were stigmatised as unholy vest- Why then has not Nanking suc or anywhere else in Chiss
to a machine, and that only for been no failure in payment by the Neigters are hurt by the impost. Chinese Government of the month ments" Silk stockings, by reason cceded! Why is public opinion not one knows who is a spy. This feel Watches, too, are luxurious. If ly instalments of interest and prin- of their thinness, were equally bar with Nanking to-day as it was in ing of abject fear, this repudiation you want to know the time, ask cipal of both the 1998 and the 1898 red unless covered by a skirt.
loans, and remittances are still re- the price of of Government, of every Nation Bobby and save Nanking's principal faults, to alist principle, of the rights of the foreign freak fruits is fair enough pears, therefore, to be no justificacuse would be accepted for vicia-
watch, is Chiang's creed. A tax on gularly maintained.
Offenders were told that no ex• my mind, are to be found in (1) Political Bureau and of the Cen- if legally applied, as a protection tion for the wide difference in tion of these rules of dress. First their Communist. Suppression tral Executive Committee by a few to the domestic husbandman. But price of the two issues. Policy; (2) their Financial Policy; men, whose job, it has become, to hardly a luxury tax.
offenders would be fined, and it Oranges (3) their inability to organize purify the party, has done the have come to be regarded as a sentative of the Financial Times ways they would be sent to prison. On inquiring further, the repre- they persisted in their immoral speedily an effective and centrali Nanking Government more harm essential in the healthful régime learned that discussions for the ed governmental agency.
than any other single factor in the of children, and China is unable to settlement of the matter are pro-is ail There are just as many The result, as might be expected, 1. The Nanking Government present situation. For one thing, supply the fruit at all seasons. ceeding between the Acting-Inspechapely Chinese female legs-and was established for the purpose of it has turned many people to Bun Macaroni may be called a luxury tor-General of Customs and the others not so shapely to be seen suppressing Communism within Chuan Fang; secondly, it has dishy Chiang Kai Shek, bat others Chinese Finance Minister, and it in the resorts favoured by semi- the Kuomintang and throughout illusioned many of the ardent, de would look upon it as very humble is hoped that an agreement will be Europesnised members of the up- the territory under their control cent men in the Kuomintang" who food, unlikely to cause gout. reached in the near future. It per social circles When Chiang Kai-Shek came to would not have believed that such. And so on down the line, through should be realized that the tem Shanghai as a refugee from Bord crimes could have been committed the list of tinned stuffs and gro-porary default of the April coupon Police who were informed of the din's enmity, he could only gather in the name of their party. As ceries used by foreigners, Chiang in no way affected the payment of new crusade, ostentatiously, look about him such Kuomintang the truth is unpublishable, except has proceeded with a discriminat the next coupon, due in October, the other way. Uncovered legs "leaders-na-had-been driven out of | in the foreign prem, these talesing eye, always with the idea of Last night the English Issue of and elbows travel with impunity the Government or had voluntarily have been magnified, to the eternal taxation for revenue and not the the 1806 Joan closed at 791 and the in the express trains
between left it because of their objections detriment of the party-North taxation for protection of the true German issue around 10 Finan Peking and Tientsin and Mukden. to Borodin and the Communist China Daily Neur
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