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RULERSHIP OF CHURCH GONE FOR EVER.
DISCUSSION AT HOME.
THE FUTURE PROSPECTS OF MISSION WORK.
CHANGES IN CHINA SHANGHAI'S LABOUR MASTER ROBBER OF
OUR PART IN THE NEW
*ORDER.
THE HEAVY FATHER OR THE BIG BROTHER.
THINK IN TERMS OF THE FAR EAST..
31st.
PROBLEM.
ATTEMPT TO START GENERAL STRIKE,
AGITATORS BUSY.
SITUATION BECOMING MORE ACUTE.
SZECHUAN.
UNREMUNERATIVE OIL THEFTS.
PROPERTY TAXES.
FOREIGNERS REFUSE TO PAY.
CHUNGKING, Nov. 1st. Tho Military Governor in Sac- chunn, Liu Shang, continues his search for funds to support his- large military establishment, and
Sidelights on the present con- The strike situation in Shanghai The present position and the future prospects of Christian misition of affairs in China were and its environs is becoming more sionaries in China were discussed thrown by Dr. H. S. W. Wright acute daily, writes the AC. Daily on October 27th at a China Inland at a dinner at the Authors' Club News in its issue of Monday from all accounts is finding it rather Mission meeting in the Central at 2, Whitehall Court, on October About 25,000 workers are idle, due difficult. His theft of the oil from either to strikes or to lockouts sub- the two oil companies has not prov- Dr. Wright, who has recently resequent to strikes." The radicaled as successful as he had hoped, The speakers were Dr. J. Stuart Holden, Miss Mildred Cable, and turned to England from Sha elements are, and have been, ad-
siderably lessened its sale. the Rev. W. H. Aldis, all China tung, said it was probably true to vocating a policy of armed resists the price he put on the oil con. mission workers of long experience [ 375" that more change had taken once to loyal willhands, and pre-people have refused to buy the oil, The opinion of all was that the place in China during the last five pose shooting down capitalists, and his gigantic theft is working!
Hall, Manchester.
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The Nationalist sentiment was pro- being fostered by skilful
over the country. paganda all China learned from the Western
to the cultured and the illiterate.a mild protest from the Consul It questioned, among other things, would have been all that was the foundations of religious belief and the motives of any foreigner within the Empire; it called in
question the morality of Christian' teaching and influence, and thereby steadily undermined the respect of the people for the missionaries amongst them...
A Testing Time,
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"When I first went to China the Shantung Railway was as well run as any in England, and its rolling stock was in some respects better than that of a good many railways in England. A little while ago the railway was isolated, and sections of it came under the control of
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MURDER "RECALLED.
DAIRY FARM COOLIE REMANDED.
the
Mr. H. L Dennys appeared, on behalf of the defendant.
This case arises out of the attack, previously reported, made by three Chinese on another Chinese. It
as they say, and seize the reins of like a boomerang on his own head.
Foremen and present position is grave beyond years than in any other country in
"His last plan is to force Chinese, precedent, but not unhopeful, and the world. "In five years I think local government,
as well as foreigners, who have pro. that the future attitude of the perhaps China bas progressed more those in charge are murdered with Christian Church to the Church in than Europe has progressed in 500 out a chance for their lives and perty within the city, to buy bonds, China, must be radically different years. Five years ago there were workmen have quitted their places but in reality to force them to par from the attitude adopted hitherto, two antiquated tin Lizzies do of employment by hundreds, fearing into his military chest & per cent. on his valuation of any property In a word, the missionaries must-ing duty in the capital city of the assassination.
Nine On Friday two men, according to they have. Most of the property Shantung. of stand by and watch the Chinese, Province work out the Christian teaching months aga on the occasion of & the Japanese papers, who were in has been doubled in price over the dianer given by the Governor, we their quarters on Robison Read, actual cost. All foreigners, includ- Dr. Hoiden said that never had counted 193 motor-cara in' the yard. | were attacked by a number of arming Germans, have refused to pay the Christian Church in China con- Within the last three or four years fed men in the employ of the 'fornicy this assessment up to date, and it i fronted such a situation as that of over 100 miles of perfectly decent Shanghai General Labour Union remains to be seen what will hap. S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd. to-day. One was justified in using motor roads had been built, scatter and were shot immediately. On the pen. There has been considerable the word "crisia.” The greater ed all over China Twenty-seven other hand, pamphlets of the Red, passive resistance manifested by the
The Essential Foreigners. munists have adopted a programme number of the missionaries under years ago the murder of an obscure body state openly, that the Com- Chinese.
The arrival of the str. Kingro pressure from the Consular au German missionary caused China of bloodshed and, we executed a
(Jardine, Matheson & Co.) escorted Workers are intimated secretly by H.M.S. Teal, has greatly thorities, were now away from their to lose a whole province, or at any labour traitor."
and are forced to leave their posi-heartened the dierchant population. posts and the work of the Chris-rate allowed the Germans to build ian Church inland was being car the Shantung Rudbway. Last year tions. The police bave tried to cope who take it as a sign that the for a German friend of mine, who had with a situation that baffles them, cigners are returning, and that and the extremists are able at business soon will become normal. ried on by the Chinese couverta.
spent twenty years in the town run-
night to post placards and distri The evacuation of foreigners from Skilful Propaganda.".
ning the electric-light works, was bute handbills, a copy of which-it Szechuan has shown the natives, as arrested and put in prison for a speaks for itself boldly-follows be-nothing else could do, that the pre- fortnight because two Chinese went low. We are publishing the docu-sence of foreigners is essential to ment for general information, in the well-being and prosperity of the before the Governor and sworË ATI
dicating the sort of literature being province. Everybody is glad to see nations during the Great War that affidavit that an electric ball of fire used to inflame the workers." But the foreigners returning and there had descended from a telegraph we are not to be taken as endors-is.no apparent opposition from any
| quarter. the most effective weapon of offence
fact therein contained, though the
Pirates Everywhere. was propaganda. They had deve-post fifty yards away from the ing any of the statements of alleged
The river between Ichang and loped propaganda to a finer art building in which was the coffin of admission in the last sentence of a relative, and had set fire to the the proclamation is not without
Chungking is, gaining quite a re "FROM THE than the world had hitherto known thatch of the roof. If that sort of sinister interest:-
SHANGRA GENERAL putation for pirates; perhaps the
Charged in connection with the TO THE EASTERN disbanded soldiers have been tak It was skilfully graded to appeal thing had happened ten years ago LABOUR UNION
Chinese pear ing lessons from their brethren at murder of ณ DISTRICT LABOURERS
The labourers in the Eastern Die Bias Bay. No boats have been free Shekki junk wharf in Connaught trict suffer more than any others from molestation, with the excep from oppression. They work more tion of those who either have Road Central, a Dairy Farm coolie than 10 hours a day, and the only Japanese marines on board or those appeared before Major C. Willson recompense accorded to them is escorted by gunboats. The Yangtze at the Central Magistracy yester-
The capitalists Rapids boats seem to be the great-
They do est sufferers. The Iping, on her day morning. He was again re- cruel treatment. can never be satiefied.
last trip, had three returning mis monded for a week, on the applica not mind in the least even if we lose our lives provided conditions ionaries. Messrs. Hartwell, Bell, son of Detective Sergt. Carey. are made easier for them. In the and Rackham. The boat stopped eyes of the epitalist, the labourer at Shang-Cheko to pay the ac is lower than a dog. At first they customed military squeeze of 8400 instructed the foremen to oppress She was boarded by four or five These conditions in China had different generals, who did exactly us, but they later employed police apparently innocent civilians, who, men for this purpose. Now they when the bont reached a spot pre- created a very testing time for the what they liked. If a generally re-arms for the use of "labour arranged, evidently made their ap was alleged that the unknown man missionaries and the Chinese Chris Wanted a train he sent an armed thieves." who beat and even kill pearance on the Captain's bridge was assaulted, rendered uncons- When we object, we are sent with drawn revolvers, and ordered cious and then pushed into the
The best the Captain to drop his anchor, harbour. tians. He believed they were all guard down to the station and
to prison, or executed. coming through the test well, bus stopped the train, no matter where evidence of this can be found in which he did forthwith. Anumber the fact to be faced was that the it happened to be going. If the the arrest and massacre of more of their associates then boarded the major part of missionary activity, engine driver objected they cut off than le workers by the Wing On boat, and demanded several thou
Cotton Mill management. If we do sand dollars. on by foreigners in his head, and one of the soldiers not protest against such actions, China, was stopped. As to the would mount the engine and, drive more crucities will be inflicted upon they demanded the Captain should us in the future. A general strike go on shore with them. Ho coavine- future, he thought that the fact to it till the steam was exhausted.
antisfaction with these conditions. boat, so they took the compradore be faced was that all foreign over. On one occasion a general arrived, is necessary to emphasize our dis-ed them that he could not leave the QUOTATIONS AND DIVIDENDS. sight and rulership of Christian took possession of sumptuous The General Labour Unien will ashore, cridently to hold him to work in China had gone for ever.train, knocked a hole in the roof, support you in giving effect to this ransom. The boat went on up to advised of the following quotations
decision. The labourers in the Patung and anchored for three days, "Hitherto, it has been the for- put in a stove, and continued to
western district are now prohibited when the compradore returned to and dividends on rubber and min-
Quotations. eigh missionary with native help live there until further orders." from speaking to one another by the boat, and through a local middle ing abares:-
the capitalists. When they disobey man, to whom they paid $1,000 the Education.
agreed to ers. In the future it will be the
this rule, they are tent to prison. ateamer Chinese Church with foreign help-
On May 5th we saw in China Many of the western district labour amounted to $15,000, the Captain In the days to come, indeed, mast remarkable phenomenon.ers have been thrown out of em- being responsible for its payment in the days which now are, the A comparatively trivial shooting. Ployment owing to the decrease in on reaching Chungking.
Our employers. until the vessel reached here. This experience with Christian Church in China is not affair outside the police station in wages. We already have had muca original bandits remaining on board going to be pseudo-British, or Shanghai raised China from one What we should do now is to unite aetion on their part is pretty good pseudo-German, or pseudo-Ameri- end to the other. It was not Bol- and fight for a rank equal to that evidence that the officials all along held by our employers. The Gen- the route were in league with the can. It is going to be Chinese, not shevism; it was a perfectly spot-eral Labour Union will assist us in robbers, as no arrests were made. Seizure of political The Kingo, which followed the n Chinese copy of any of the con- taneous wave of indignation be the fight.
British denominations. tending
dozen rather silly power and establishment of a ping a few days later, had a very cause half
128 Let object.
overthrow the was, that she had H.M.S. Trains Christian thought is going to ex-students were shot in the streets of Soviet Government should be our quiet trip. No doubt the reason press itself in Chinese forms. Mis Shanghai. That could not have Unification Committee of Shanghai escort all the way.-N.-C. Daily
Let us culla Newe. sionaries will be welcomed Kappened fifteen years ago. Five Labour Unions.
general strike. Let us seize the evangelists, consultants, linison
years ago magbody could start a
political power. officers between the Chinese Church school, teach what education they and the Churches in other lands, Eked, and carry on any kind of as pioneer evangelists in the vast propaganda. It did not matter untouched areas which still exist what the standards were for any But Christian leadership exercised thing that was taught. To-day by our Chinese brethren in no there is an inter-provincial body massacre workers. As established fast, and that leader of education elected by the repre- ship should not be displaced, and sentatives of every province, and will not be displaced, if and when for the future it will be impossible the foreign missionaries are able to for any school in Chind to carry return to their posts.
on any kind of education" unless change is demanded in the whole it is registered by the Government spirit of approach of all residents and properly inspected. amongst our Chinese friends.", "All these things are signs of $200,000 to be used against the hai. Cotton Mill No. 1 the day
Mr. Aldis spoke of the existence change. It is very interesting to workers. In short, it would seem before yesterday.
speculate what part the British that they are: planning to shorten of a deliberate effort, in China to Empire is going to play in this break down and defeat the Chris-new order in China. What are we tian, religion-an effort which he going to do? Are we going to be believed was doomed to failure as have as we have done in the past, rather like the heavy father, or are certain as that which befell the we going to act the part of a Boxer attempt; and Miss Cable said brother! It is nó use standing as that the Nationalist spirit in China a big brother; what we have got to do is to behave as a brother, waa sensitive that every a and we have got to think in the proach was viewed with suspicion. terms of the Far East."
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HEALTH OF EASTERN PORTS.
NOVEMBER 19TH.
Plague.
2 cases at Alexandria.. 1 death at Bassein.
Additional Accusations,
On Cotton Mill workers. 'It is re Unsatisfied with the murderous ported that our comrades in the BULLETIN FOR WEEK ENDING activities of the Kuomintang, the Ewo Cotton Mill, Oriental Cotton capitalists of the Wing On Co. in Mill, etc., will also join the strike. co-operation with others, have There are also signs that the strike organized a special Fascisti to will be extended to all Japanese conse- cotton mills." Consequently the quere,he Wing On Co. were tram- to get fapanese soldiers to guard on October 2nd, the work- Japanese capitalists have arranged pled upon by the S.M.P., who their raills with a view to checking arrested several tens of workers our movement. They also employ and seriously wounded a number of labour traitors to promote the same ones. Moreover the capitalists of object secretly. This is indeed un the Wing On Co, have declared that bearable. As a sign of our indigna- they are willing to purchase arms tion, we executed a labour traitor and ammunition to the value of named Anhui Lau Sz of the Shang-
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The workers blood is flowing our existence, and check our move incessantly. It is being shed by ment. Therefore, we should endea the words of the Imperialists, your to fight desperately with the militariste, influential gentry and The workers in the Eastern dis volutionary workers murdered by capitalists in order to destroy them capitalists. The blood of the re- trict have been on strike several the Kuomintang Party may be days and alit 2,800 workers of the compared to a great flood. This tido will be Shanghai Cotton Mill No. 1 have will soon overflow and break the joined this strike as a token of influence of the capitalista and the their armpathy towards the Wing gentry. The "Red
irrésistible. (Continued on next Jolumn.)
4 deaths at Rangoon,
1 case at Singapore (1 death).
2 cases at Macassar (2 deaths),
"Cholers.
24 deaths at Calcutta. 4 deaths ut Madras.
15 deaths at Tuticorin,
2 cases at Bingapore.
3 cases at Batavia (3 deaths). 3 cases at Bangkok (1 death). Small.pox.
A.
I case at Aden,
"3 cases at Basrah (1 death).
3 cases at Calcutta (2 deaths), 1 case at Rangoon
2 cases at Madras.
6 cases at Tuticorin ( deaths).
16 cases at Bandjermasin.
5 cases at Samarinda (1 death).
1 case at Bangkok,
1 case at Saigon,