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The
Hongkong Telegraph
FOUNDED 1881
•拜禮
No 21,859
CANTON UNREST,
TROOPS
SURROUND STRIKE HEADQUARTERS.
ASSASSINATION PLOT."
Sorious developments are reported as decurring in Canton, news, reaching us from a reliable source that, following the firing of shots near Dutch Folly, troops, and polico surrounded the Strike Headquarters at Tong Yuen; whilst troops have also boon sont to Shek Wai Tong and Tungshon, foreigners in the latter district being warned to 'koop indoors.
These devolopments are said to be connected with the- discovery of a plot to assassinate General Chang Kai-shek; . and further trouble has arisen owing to the enmity betweon the right and left wings of the Kuomintang Party, which is said to have disaffected many of the troops of the Canton Army.
$I+ZAZAN✯ MONDAY, MARCH
FORGED HONGKONG NOTES.
CHINESE GETS THREE YEARS.
TAIPO INCIDENT.
The defendant pleaded guilty. Mr T. M. Hazlerigg secuted for the Crown.
WANCHAI ROW.
EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURS IN COURT
BOUND OVER:
1.
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IC STORY OF ARMED
BLOCKADE."
LABOUR TYRANNY.
A graphic account of the incidents which led to the closing down of the Canton Hospital, which has been operated for ninety years by the American Presbyterian Mission and had cared for two million patients, after it had had been subjected to an armed blockade for three days by. strike pickets, has been issued by the hospital authorities.
This statement covers the whole subject, from the com- mencement of the trouble to the final closing down,of the institution, and the action of the labour extremiste is roundly condemned by the hospital authorities as outrageous in the extreme.
of food, re-
Two charges of uttering a forged 310 Hongkong and Shanghai bunk
Japanese papers to hand state note at Talpo New Market, and the matter to be talked over, and, that the tourist ship Resolute, with being in possession of five if possible, settled out of the Court, which was recently in Hongkong, the case again came up before Mr. came into Kobe on the 6th instant others, were preferred against a Chinese, at the Criminal Sessions. E. Lindsell, at the Central
Magistracy this morning in which with damage to her stern on the this morning. before Mr. Justice Mrs. V. L. Spink, the wife of starboard side as the result of a Wood,
Captain Spink, a master mariner, collision with another steamer. bot and living at No. 211, Wanchai
It appears that the Resolute left pro-Road, summoned her nett-door]
neighbour, Misa May Murray, for Yokohama on the previous day at the uttering of abusive language, 6.80 a.m, and was outside the In outlining the case, Mr.
No agreement had been reached breakwater when a collision occur- Hazlerigg said that on February and accordingly the surmons had 8th the defendant went to the
steamer market and bargained with a salto go into the Court, and with it red with the Dutch
the cross-summons brought by Miss Tjimanoek. The bow of the fish dealer for a catty and a half of Murray.
Dealing with the actual outbreak (other attempt was made to secure Our informant.. writing from after the arrival of Madame Sun, fish. The price was fixed at forty- Mr. G. R. Haywood appeared for Timanoek struck the big liner on of trouble, the statement says that some fresh food. Two members Canton under dute of Saturday, Mesars. San Fo and Tang Chak-yu, five cents, and the defendant tea- Mrs. Spink, while Miss Murray the starboard side about 60 fee: whilst negotiations ware pending, of the staff went out, bought states that early that morning, when the right section displayed have been issued by the Hongkong. Donoghue.
dered a $10 note, purporting to was represented by Mr. A. Jfrom the stern. The mishap occur a crowd of members of the Miscel some fresh vegetables and meat shots were heard from the direc- the red revolutionary flag and and Shanghai Bank. The dealer
red at 6.18. Fassengers in the laneous Labourers Union, armed for the patients, and tried to In outlining the case for his] tion of the Band near Dutch Folly, shouted "Down with the anti-re- asked for smaller change, but the client, Mr. Haywood referred to staterooms near the point of in-with staves and carrying banners, bring these supplies into the and it was subsequently learned volutionists P On this occasion defendant said he had not got any two Incidents which were stated to pact, two elderly ladies, in fact one tried to force their way into the hospital. This was forcibly pre- Mr. Hazlerigg went on to explain have an important bearing, on the of them the oldest lady among the hospital, where upon the head of vented by the pickets, The that troops and police had sur-the polic intervened and séparat-
how the defendant went to other incident complained of. The first rounded the Strike Headquartersjed the opponents. The second stalls and tried to get rid of the of these was what Mr. Hayoo passengers, were rudely awakened, the hospital hurried to the entrance Chairman of Staff then went out, at Tong Yuen. All day long a cor- conflict took place on the follow-banknote. Eventually a detective incident," in which Miss Marras badly frightened. Most of the rushing in and frightening the quested attention and emphatically,
termed as the "fortune-telling but none were at all injured orand tried to stop the crowd from secured the basket don of troops was maintained ating morning at the Shau Shan who was near, was told, and he
had a consultation with a Chine Resolute's passengers were quito patients, telling them that the but in this point, the soldiers being arm-Public Park, where the memorial arrested the defendant while he fortune-teller, and the second, was
a conciliatory manner, had the note in his hand trying to the "knitting needle incident," in unaware of the accident until ed and the forces Including a ma- Tservice was held, and where the
get another dealer to accept it. which a heated dispute ove cer several hours after it had happened.
hospital was private property and pointed out the consequences of chine-gun detachment. The rea-anti-Communists had occupied It was a fairly colourable repre-tain knitting implements arose any of the nearby cabins were
no-one had a right to enter without their act, and tried to re-enter the
son for this action is not known.
nearly the whole park, thus debar-sentation, and calculated to debetween the parties.
unoccupied, some of the sccupants good reason. The official repre-hospital with the food. He was
the food. He As regards the furtase Celliug?
sentative of the then shout forcibly prevented from doing this At Tungshan also numerous ring the Communists from taking ceive the type of people one might
meet in the New Territories. The incident, Mr. Haywood wat n tu being on overland excursioned out that they had come to land was told that no food could troops were stationed all day, and part in the memorial service defendant was searched at Taipo say that his Worship would appre across Japan. all traffic in this district was gus-which they were forced to hold Police Station, by Inspector D. ciate how very badly built these
a sırthe, and anyone, not leaving be taken into the hospital. Captain Malmon, in command of). pended in consequence. Even at a temple near by. In the Barnett, and five other forged notes houses were, with the consequence the Resolute, gave out the follow-the bospital would be killed.
DISAPPOINTMENT foreigners were warned to keep wildst of the service, it was dis-the Inspector he did not know that could be overheard in the next one. he did not want to attach the blame worka.en left the premises with munication was received from the were found. The defendant told that what was said in one house ing statement later, and added that Only a handful of the hospital's During the afternoon a com- covered that Communistic circu- the note was forged, and begged to A few days before Chinese New for the accident on the officers of Similar reports are to hand from lars were being distributed. A be let off, promising that he would Year, after a quarrel, Miss Mur the Timanoek:---
their baggage and joined their con-
Department of Labour of the ray called a fortune-teller to her
These Shek Wai Tong. On Friday, about free fight resulted in the Commu- not do it again....
"Coming out clear of the break-freres outside.
wanted
Government, which was anxious- 2,000 troops marched past Sha-nists running away, and two Mr. W. Beveridge, of the Hong- house and the following conversa-water, the Resolute was headed them to leave their baggage within ly examined. It was discovered
kong and Shanghai Bank, said the tion followed:
away to the left outside of all the meer bound for this district, and emissaries in possession of Com-notes were forged, and that the Miss Murray-Why it is a cer- steamers anchored in the bay. the hospital. They were then sent to the universal sorrow that at the time of writing on Satur-munistic circulars were handed were a fairly good-representation tain person quarrelled-with me? About this time the Dutch steamer back into the hospital, entering by there must have been a most un.. On the after-of the Bank's notes. If they were i The Fortune Teller:-Male or Tjimanoek, one of a group of four force, and they scoured the pre-fortunate misunderstanding and day they were all gathered at the over to the police.
steamers anchored close together, mises, forcing the rest of the fifty that the Government would not railway station, as if awaiting noon of the same day, on the Pur.counted by the corners, in a wad female?
have up anchor and started to come odd workpeople, many of whom take the action that it was under out across the Resolute's course. had hidden rather than leave, to go stood had been mutually agreed Two blasts of our whistle were out; some of them in the meantime upon, There was therefore
two from answered by
the forcibly keeping the hospital gate nothing to do but to have all Tjimanoek, indicating that she was open against the remonstrance of patients removed from the hos
pital to prevent them from suffer- also directing her course to port the head of the hospital.
ing further, and thia with much; The Resolute was swung away to the left, to cross ahead of the
difficulty and regret, was done. As soon as all the workpeople Fortunately this was permitted. Tjimanoek, but apparently the Dutch steamer had too much way had been forced out, the Labour The Chinese members of the Staff on to stop in time, and she run into Union picketed all entrances to the and student nurses then left the hospital, giving the pickets instruc premises with their personal tions to allow exit to Chinese but effects. Notwithstanding the pre-
entrance this to include
indcors.
the
This con
of ather notes, they were likely to Mias Murray:-A female. some Important development... ple Hills, the ceremony of
deceive. The paper used was dif- The Fortune Teller:-What age? The central exchange. of the laying the corner stone of ferent, and when he examined Miss Murray -36.
The Fortune Teller:What Telephone Company has bean mausoleum of the late Dr. Sun them under a magnifying glass, he
found signs that they were fer name? seized by troops and police, and all Yat-sen took place.
geries. He had had a forged note! Miss Murray: See Pink See (a telephone communication with dict lasted for over an hour, with brought to his notice a few months Chinese corruption of the name of various parts of the city cut off. the result that the Commu- ago.
complainant)... nists were sent pell mell down the The accused's defence was that
Miss Murray: Can 1 be friend It is now rumoured that these hill, both sides having sustained he received the notes in the ory with her again.
The Fortune Teller:-Yes, by dinary course of his business. He developments are the result of in-injuries.
was sentenced to three year's hard and bye. labour on each charge, the sen- tences to run concurrently.
"Luter.
ANTI-RED TROPAGANDA. Long before these events t
formation being secured of a wile- aprend plot aiming at the usзns- sination of General Chung Kai- Nänking, the right section of the
shek, and that the city is in conse-Party had been rallying members MOTOR LORRY MISHAP.
the anti-Communistic cause, quence being thoroughly scoured to with a view to rounding "up the and had been insidiously working to win both the Army and Navy of plotters.
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE
POSSIBLE.
As a sequel to the mishap at Bowrington Canal on Saturday, in which A Chinese woman' was
the
Commenting that it appeared to him that Miss Murray was doing all the fortune-telling instead of fortune-teller. Mr. Hay-
went on to wood
repeat & term which, was alleged to have been used by Miss Murray with every intention of its being over- heard by Mrs.
Spink for whom it was intended to be 'over- heard.
US,"
ARCTIC AERIAL
EXPEDITION.
SERIES OF ACCIDENTS DELAYS "START.
not
NURSES WARNED.
"
patients and to permit no food to sence of officers of the law, the members of the Union tried to in- be brought in. The telephone and timidate some of those who had water service were immediately cut been faithful to their trust, and oft... The hospital nurses were there was some show of violence, warned that if they tried to cook which was most deeply resented by for the sick people in the hospital all the staff members, and their they would be beaten up when they friends. left the hospital. The Chinese members of the hospital staff were A message from Fairbanks, threatened that their lives might The second incident complained Alaska, says that a series of acci- not be safe if they stayed in the deserted. The nurses in training of occurred on the 24th Februray, dents has delayed the departure of hospital to help the patients,; that for whom it was very difficult to when, lying ill in bed from an the Wilkins arctic aerial expedition is, they were warned that if they arrange in such a short time, (par attack of malaria, Mrs. Spink re-to the North Pole which hoped to continued to do their duty to the ticularly as according to the ceived a request from Miss Murray start on March 21. Two aero-sick and dying, they would be mal-pickets orders, no Chinese having for the return of certain knitting planes were previously damaged treated! No doctor or nurse can onée left the hospital was allowed
་
New York, March 21.
HOSPITAL: DESERTED,
"The Hospital is now practically-
H. M. S. Cicala was to have left Kwangtung to their side. The at noon on Saturday for duty up-present position is that nearly the river, but her sailing has been de entire Army and Navy of Kwang-| finitely cancelled in consequence of the developments reported. tung are under obligations to severely injured in the leg by Generals who are now deposed, being run into by a motor lorry, KUOMINTANG SPLIT. and who are either in Shanghai or two Chinese appeared at the Cen- From another quarter it is stat- in the Yangtze district. It is said tral Police Court this morning needles lent two years previously and the third yesterday turned desert a patient, and the members to return) were escorted to a hotel, qd that despite the very strict cen- that the Canton Government can sorship being exercised and the only place reliance on the 20th The proper driver of the vehicle It was alleged the Miss Murray rigid messures taken by the police Super-Disciplined Division, which was charged with permitting the foliowed no this request by turtle when taxiing in a field and of the Hospital staff and nurses During the evening the pickets to suppress all" conversations on numbers about twenty thousand lorry to be driven by an unlicens envouring to get into the house buried its nose in mud and snow. courageously stuck to their dat located them and warned them political affairs in public places strong, and the Cadet Corps which ed person and also with having and had to be shut out by a servant, The damage was serious but passi-In the meantime milk was not ad- that in the morning a crowd would the lorry out without proper. Other Incidents were also refer-bly the aeroplane can be repaired. mitted for the typhoid cages and beat them up for not leaving the and on the streets, and also the is more or less infected. Reports brakes. The other man, who only red to by Mr. Haywood, with part! The enterprise is at present at a babies. In other words an armed hospital earlier. They were official assurances that the constate that the whole Army, cou-
possessed a motor-car learner's cultr reference to an incident at standstill though it is hoped that blockade was instituted and main-therefore compelled to leave and tents of recent circulars and sisting of six Army Corps, is so licence and who was driving the dance at the Seamen's Institute the misfortunes which have over-tained against the hospital, or try to find havens of refuge in pamphlets distributed in the city shakened by the anti-Communistic
the hospital could not grant the de-city, because they nobly carried are baseless, the political atmos movement, that the Government lorry at the time of the mishap, when the question of Mrs Spink's taken the party will only ten-chiefly against the patients because various places throughout the Future plans depend on the deci-mands of the Labour Union com-out their duty to their own sick phere in Canton is still impreg- hesitates to place reliance on its was charged with driving withoutle of a chaperone was raised in porarily hold up the expedition.
a licence and also with driving connection with Mias Murray's
and disabled countrymen and nated with rumours of the wildest military forces., This is believed
disclaimer that Mrs. Spink was alon of the Detroit Aviation Sp. pletely.
The statement then goes on to countrywomen. Their school is. order.
to be one of the reasons which has outside the prescribed area.
ever called upon to fulfil that role. ciety, which will consider whether It was intimated that a charge In cross-examination, by Mr. the undertaking is to be carried refer to a conference between re- in consequence also disorganised. It is said that the root cause prevented the Government from
presentatives of the hospital and Some seventy doctors, nurses, of the present situation is in the starting the Northern campaign. of manslaughter might be brought Donoghue, Mrs. Spink admitted out.-Router.
Recognising the force of the against the second defendant if that she had a bad temper.
the Government, from which the pharmacists, technicians, ace strained relationship of the right || and left sections of the Kuomin-anti-Commatic movement, the the woman succumbed to her in
There were other questions in of sausages" (meaning stockinge), former understood that an agree-staff, evangelists, etc,, as well as tang, which has now culminated Cinton Goernment is
said to juries, her present condition being regard to some words which passed and a small sum of money lent by ment had been reached for the rais-some fifty workpeople are now
from time to time between Mrs. the one to the other.
ing of the blockade, this including away from the Canton Hospital, in open conflict, both sides behave telegraphed to Chang Ching-very serious.
Both men were remanded for Spink and Miss Murray, Sneer- As the occasion arose during the the issuing of a proclamation by and the institution which during ing determined to fight the issue kong, one of the oldest member of out. It was at Nanking that the the Kuomintang, to come to Can-one week.
ing allusions were alleged to have proceedings, the bad words and the Government condemning the ninety years has served the com bean
made by Mrs. Apink names complained of by both series of lawless acts, the removal munity in times of peace and of flrat sign of trouble occurred. ton to mediate in the dispute, and,
against
Miss Murray's matri- parties were written on a piece of of all pickets from the vicinity of war, which has cared for over This led to three consecutive open at the same time, a pronouncement
monial prospects, which caused paper and banded to the Magistrate, the hospital, the restoration of two million people, deserted ex- conflicts between the two sections has "been made by the Central
Miss Murray to call In the After a lengthy hearing, in public utilities, and the giving of cept for the American members which had gathered in great num Executive Committed of the Kuo-..
fortune-teller. Miss Murray which matters of a very private help in securing food and hospital af the staff, and the hospital la bers to do honour to the memory
evinced much feeling when giving nature were exposed in Court in supplies. *****
unable to function as such since.
of their into "Chief on the mintang that no Russians will first anniversary of his death hereafter be given office in the
SERIORS CONFLICT,
Army or Navy, but their services The first conflict took place at will be utilised only in an ad-
railway station immediately visory capacity.
TO-DAY
evidence in the witness box, a fact mutual recriminations, the Magis The statement continues the pickets are still to which Mr. Haywood drew his trate said that Justice would be "Without suitable food, and under trances to the heap Worabip's attention as showing the mat by binding over both parties, war conditions, staff and patients admission to disposition of the defendant in a sum of $100 to keep the peace anxiously waited during the fol- here and
Miss Murray, gave evidence for wear and 81othes inclients, concara perks Ben
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