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Poilu of Loyang for overthrowing the Government, then. of forming a !!Fasolat!!! Government-to-replace that of Dr. Bun, and finally of hay. ing been influenced by the British | to attempt an overthrow of Dr. Sun. Failing to offer any evidence for its charges, the Government,
takon messages of oon- gratulatory character and
now- paper reports and comments favour able to the volunteer movement as basis for its warranted attempt to defame a patriotic loader of the
Censorship.
"In addition to unwarranted and
Dr. "Sun Yat-son is soverely criticised in a declaration which has been issued by the Morobant Volunteer Corps dated September Oth, which, in part, follows:-
"Upon the illegal soizuro by the Canton Government of a consign ment of arms and ammunition be lunging to the Canton Merchants people. Volunteer Corps, some 138 towns aud cities of Kwangtung went on a general strike ADD protest, unproved charges against the The purpose of the general strike leaders of the Volunteers, the was to demand the unconditional Government, of Dr. Sun, has lately, release of the arms
and ammuni- especially since the unlawful arm tlon, the freedom of the volunteer seizure, instituted unreasonable corps throughout the Province to censorship of the mail, telegraph, amalgamato for genoral self-defence, and the press, going as far as deny- and the restoration of the liberty ing the Volunteers the ts of these of the commandants, whom Dr. Sun agencies and executing & Volunteers Yat-sen threatened to arrest for officer for distributing circulars de fending the case of his organization
treason.
Sun's Terms Criticised.. "On modiation of General Fan
The Government has gone as far
SOME DAY.
Some day wa moant to travel
far.
Before the glow of noontide
fatted;
But yonder shines the evoning
star,
And yot we have not sallod. We loltored idly on the quay,
Watching the tides that abb
and flow;
We saw the boats set forth to
DOA;
1
And yet we did not go. Magic of many tales WEB
brought
By travellers and and the
travelling wind- Now worlds of dred, now
worlds of thought;
And yot-we stayed behind. And still the droam and still
the call;
The boats recode with part-.
ing bail:
Shadows of coming night-time
fall
And yet we do not smil.. Arthur L. Salmon in Observer.
as having procured in readiness for empower unemployed coolles to oo Shekhang and General Liao Hang action some 800 cases wi kerosene cupy peaceful shops, cut off food chno of the Yunnanene Army, before oil for the destruction of Canton transport to the districts, dissolve the release of the arms and ammuni- the local merchants who have gone ple, confiscate arme legally Imported, City proper as a retaliation against sell-defense organizations of the peo- tions, it was proposed that tha Volunteers should contribute a war Gunboat "Yung Fung" to open fre circulars, cannot be trusted in its against it and ordered the Chinese and murder persons for distributing fund of $400,000 to Dr. Sun's war at the Western Suburb, when access declartions and
deserves no cheat, that the amalgamation of the)
Tho
Government would fidance from the 3,000,000 people of corps should be subjected to the have Лоде these things were Kwangtung approval of the office of the Civil!!
it not for the refusal of Generals
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YOUR INSPECTION IS RESPECTFULLY
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“The people of Kwangtung, hav- ing been many times misled by Dr. Sun Yat-sen's untrustworthy state- ments and announcements, now know
batter.
Governor, and that the withdrawl of the warrant for the arrest of the Fan and Line to obey Dr. Sun's wanton order and for the in commandouts should be accompant torvention of foreign friends on ed by a statement of these officers
humanitarian grounds. would support and i
Fooling the People.
"The Canton Merchants Volunteer obey the Government These "The Government these days Corps, notwithstanding the repeated terma for the release of the prompted by a desire to raise funds promises and neurazco
of the arnas and nmmunitionS were for the so-called Northern Exped Government, which have never been contrary to the original demande, tion and to partly appease the pooredeemed, will insist upon the retara of the people of Kwangtung. The pie, has announced the retum ef of the arms and ammunitions with Volunteers, a legal body for the self-government to the Cantonese out condition, the withdrawal of the preservation of public. pence and, people. It is hardly believabilo warrants for the arrest of the com- erder, were organized more thau ton that the Government will be able to mandants and the vico-commandants years ago, and their service to the fool the people all the time. A of the Corps, and the fulfilment by
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The purchase of arms for the good its legally issued permite, accuse ite promises The Volunteers also call of the servico is a necessity general citizens without evidence and on upon Generals Fan and Liao to ly admitted. The commandants of grounds changeablo at will, fail to explain the failure of Dr. Sun to the Corps, as officers in charge of comply with terms its representa observe the recently agreed terms the organization, when negotiating tives have entered into, order the and conditions for the release of the for such a purchase, are only doing, bombardment of a defenceless, city, arms in dispute." their duty. The willinguses of the Government to issue the pormit to import has clearly shown the legality of their act The recent unlawful) seizure of the arts and, a demand: for $500,000 were nets akin to bandits holling persons for ransom The Volunteer Corps, & movement of the people supplementary to the Government, does not have to cir) culato its allegiance again to the Government, as so doing may lend itself to the misunderstanding of agreeing to nily with conununiam and Bolakoviata.
"As an expression of sincerity to the mediators and to honour the words and signatures of their ro. presentatives, the Volunteers did. not reject as they desired to the forms agreed upon the release of the arms and ammunitions, thus] hoping that the matter would bo Bottled amicably without any un. necessary trouble and that the arms and ammunitions would be released and returned to the owners in total and undamaged.
Sun's Double-dealing. "But no sooner than this declar- ing off of the atriko and the reopen- ing of the shops as advised by the mediatora, the Government began to retract their promises Tho Government has insisted on the commandonte that, in their state- ment supporting the Government, they should confess that they have boon influenced by a cortain coun- try (Great Britain) to go against it As to the amalgamation of the Volunteer movement, the Govern mont has shown no sign of non-in- terference. At the last moment, the Government has inclined to dis-i regard the desired offer of $500,000 | or the words of the commandants' public statement but insisted on a contribution of $3,000,000 and a loan of all the rifles the Volunteers have imported but Dr. Sun has scired, offering to replace the loan with products of the local arsenal.
"The Government, otherwisa dignified institution, has noted like a child at play, disregarding altogether the terms it had agreed with the Volunteers through the mediators. It may he recalled that since the arms noisure, the Government has male many changeable and approv. ed charges against the pelhofpal commandant of the Canton Mar chants Volunteer Corps, Mr. Chan Lim-pak Fint he was accused of kanggilog for profit, then having, plotted with General Wa
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