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No, 21,060.
五拜艘號一十二月伍英港香
FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1926.
LEON'S FAUX PAS BOYCOTT QUESTIONS
KARAKHAN'S LATEST “IMPERTINENCE.".
THE "TACTLESS AMBASSADOR”
"IN COMMONS,
HUNAN THREAT.
CANTON'S POLITICAL
"CONVENTION,
日十初月四
MARSHAL FENG
EXTORTIONATE CLAIMS OPPOSED.
CANTON MOBILISING
PUBLIC GRATIFIED AT PROGRESS.
WARMLY WELCOMED IN MOSCOW..
MR. AMERY'S STATEMENT..
In the House of Commons or The amazing and amusing pro-April 19th, Mr. Amery, Secretary nunciamentoes of Comrade Leon of State for the Colonies, in reply
Yu-hsiang:
GREATEST IMPERTINENCE.
TROOPS.
SEARCH FOR FUNDS. Troops continue to be mobilised in Canton In connection with the
·
FUNDS NEEDED.
THE
LATEST BUSINESS.
Canton citizens are said to ba well satisfied at the progress made
tang Party, especially because of the strong stand taken by General Chang Kai-shek and Mr. Sun Fo against Communism.
2
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TROOPS LEAVE FOR CANTON.
The Tass agency announces that
News from Swatow is to the Marshal Feng Yu-haiang arrived effect that the position of the drawal of the China Inland Mis- strike pickets and the Labour in Moscow on the 9th inst., accom-Unions has reached the same stage sion from the National Christian as at Cantón a few weeks ago. Council, we are informed that the Trouble commenced first with in- following statement was adopted dividual disputes and fighting,
panied by members of his staff.
Marshal Fang was accorded a hearty welcome on his arrival, large numbers of the Russian and Chinese population turning out to welcome him.
then it involved the Labour Unions by the Executive Committee of the in disagreements which has led latter body on the 18th inktant: from Individual fights to opan con-
"The National Christian Counců). flicts between rival combinations of Unions, s
has recently received a communf- Malters have now reached the cation from Mr. Hoste, Director point at which General Ho Yin-of the 1. M., in which he ex yun has issued proclamations pro- hibiting
Karakhan, the Soviet Ambassador to Mr. Viant Willesden, W.; threat of an invasion from Hunan, by the convention of the Kuomin- to China, during the past eighteen Lab.), said:-Informal conversa- and military preparations are tions between representatives of being made to meet any possible months of Northern strife, have the Hongkong and Canton Govern- attack. frequently brought that gentleman ments have recently taken place, In view of the military opera- into the limelight, but the letter and it is hoped that negotiations tlons by Wu Pei-fu's forces in which "The Tactless Ambassador," will shortly be resumed.
Hunan, the police in Canton are
The third session of the Central I have as he is now popularly described, no precise information as to the ing out the secret meeting places
showing great activity in ferret Party Committee took place on the
STUDENT WELCOME. wrote to Marshal Wu Pol-fu on the number of Chinese workmen who of spies who are said to have 18th instant, with General Tan
The Marshal was met at the eve of the Kouminchun collapse, left the Colony on strike; but the arrived in Canton in large num-Yen-kai in the chair.
bers. The raids on such places question on the agenda was the station by representatives of the speaks volumes for the lengths to strike at Hongkong has for some
further disturbances, presses the desire of the Misalón months been, for all intents and are conducted in such a way, and which he was prepared to go in purposes, a thing of the past, and at such time, that the public election of a Chairman of the Cen- Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. This order has been carried out to withdraw from the N. OG. rigidly by the Garrison troops, and This communication has now been pursuance of his policy of intrigue. the Governor stated in February knows little about the develop.tral Executive Committee. A re the General Staff of the Red Army, severe. penalties have been meted
Halling Marshal Wu as a Bolshe-that almost the whole body of ments.
solution signed by eight members, the Commandant of the Moscow out to offenders, with the result considered by the Executive Com vik, Karakhan invited him to ceasr Hongkong labourers was again at
including General Chang Kai-shek, Garrison, by the Chinese Charge that the situation is less tense mittee maceting May 11-13 in friendship with Marshal Chang work. I am not aware that any
With the mobilisation of troops, General Tan Yen-kai, Mr. Tam d'Affaires and the staff of the condition of the city has become
It is stated that the financial Shanghai. Tso-in and to join forces with definite figure has been claimed the demand for more funds be Ping-shan and Dr.G. G. Wu, was Chinese Erabassy in
"The Executive Committee--hon in respect of strike pay and com- becomes insistent. The Govern.
Moscow. acute since the Government "de-expressed its sincere regret to Mr. pensation for non-reinstatement.
ment has reverted to the policy of
submitted. After a short discus-Among others on the station plat-manded a loan of $600,000 from Hoste both because the fellowship advance payments of revenue and lution should be referred to a com- tives of the Sun Yat-sen Univer in order to avoid exactions. asking merchants to make further sion, it was decided that the reac form was a group of representa- the people and large business and co-operation of the C. I. M
houses are restricting operations has been much valued by members also to contribute one month's mittee composed of Messra. Jun Ta
of the Council and also because I rent to the exchequer,
It is also reported that great regards this action as prompted quests, the General Chamber of
40th, 41st and 42nd Regiments cm the Council. The Executive Com In reply to the Government re.
activities in the movements of the by a fundamental misconception troops are to be noticed. The 1st, as to the nature and functions of Commerce has pointed out that the merchants have been paying
barked on the steamers Ta Yow, mittee therefore takes the oppor revenues in advance for the past
Ta Yick and Hoimun for Canton (tunity of restating its conception ten years, and some of them have
17th instant, the 2nd, 3rd 7th 8th, paid into the Government Trea
on the 14th instant, whilst on the of these, sury advances up to the 19th year
and 9th Regiment embarked on the of the Republic of China. Apart
Char. Ho, Mun Sang, Kut On and "The National Christian Council from this, the continuance of the
Yuet Wah, all bound for Canton. was formed in order to undertake boycott and strike, has caused heavy losses to trade, and such conditions have reduced the power of the merchants "to pay in advance. What the Government will do in these circumstances is difficult to see, for the stocks in shops in Canton have been re- duced to a minimum, and all liquid money has been deposited in places of safety.
THE MILITARY OUTLOOK. .:
In reply Marshal Wu, writing asked whether it was not a fact Mr. Looker (Pasax, S.E., U.) direct and not through the usual that the Strike Committee had Consular channels, said:"
made an enormous financial har- "Your unsolicited advice is the vest, from the illegal exactions greatest impertinence you have which they extorted from the car ever perpetuated on the Chinese goes of all nationalities except { nation for whom you pretend to the British, and whether the right have great respect and admiration, hon. gentleman would support You have caused so much disturb the Hongkong Government in its ance in China that I have long refusal to recognise claims that ainco wondered whether your real were extortionate and of a wholly profession is diplomacy or agita-junjustifiable nature. tion. If you will permit me
Mr. Amery-I certainly would give you a piece of advice, it is not encourage the Hongkong this, clear out of our country so Government to recognise extor long as you are able. With whom tionate and unjustifiable claime I should work, or what I should do, is my own business and .not yours. I shall communicate with Marshal Chang Tso-lin that you, Karakhan, are trying to cause dis- cord between us:
to
**TYFT OF GOLD. “ The general nature of Kara- khan's letter can be gathered from the following extracts:
LOCAL ACCIDENTS.
EUROPEAN'S CAR INJU...
CHINESE.
MUCH CHEERING.
pe, Kou Ming-yue, Sun Fo, C. C. sity In Moscow. A guard of Tan Yen-kai and Chang Kai-shek, form, and, as Marshal Feng step Wu, Shui Lik-tsze, and Generals honour was drawn up on the plat
whose report is to be submitted for further discussion at the next ped out of the train, the orchestra session.
struck up the Soviet Anthem. The next question was, to decide Another guard of honour was what action should be taken against drawn up in the station square. vernacular newspapers which "had made reports of the proceedings of the Convention which were const The equare was filled with a dered detrimental to the interests of the Kuomintang and the Govern- large crowd of Russian workers ment. It was decided that such and clerks from the Moscow cases should be referred to the
factories and Government ́ ́and" Government for attention by the
other officers, as well as numerous Police Department..
Mr. Sun Fo then proposed the Chinese students in the various election of the members of the universities; prominently among Committee, on affairs relating to them were the students of the Communists who are members of Chinese merchants and other the Kuomintang. After a rather
TAKES NO BIDE,
It is reported that these troops pertain duties as far as possible will be despatched to the Hunan-in behalf of all the Christian Kiangsi-Kwangtung frontiers forces in China. Its constitution
THEFT OF COFFINS.
WOOD USED FOR POULTRY
YARD.
As a departure from the usual
expressly excludes ecclesiastical and doctrinal matters. It cannot
therefore take sides in theological controversy. The Executive would simply reaffirm the fact that it
does not do so and will not be dragged into such sectional activi ty, Still less can it call its
Among the accidenta that were A report which has reache 3 long discussion on the subject, a Chinese residents in Moscow. The type of larceny cases brought be.merabers or regard as unsatisfac reported yesterday was one in Canton from Hunan, states.. that decision was reached that the appearance of the Marshal and his fore the Magistrate, the prosecutory statements or actions. Eneb Your efforts for the liberation of which Mr. C. H. Soper, of 12, the forces of General Yip Hoi-kum Presiding Committee should sub- staff on the station steps was the tion of a Chinese on a charge of ember's acts are subject to re
with
the city,
fai and others belonging to the Di-
AGREE TO DIFFER, The fellowship of the Council
pital and the occurrence, being is rooted in a frank recognition somewhat uncanny, gave rise to on the part of all of each other's uneasy feelings on the part of the sincerity in his profession of faith caretaker.
in God as revealed in Jesus Christ Later the mystery was EX-
our Lord end in his determination plained; and a very natural reato follow Him unswervingly. son was found for the disappear within this fellowship we must ance of the coffins. A country agree to differ and resolve to love. bumpkin, (that was the discrip The Council would include within tion he gave of himself to the it the China Inland Mission and police) felt himself pressed for all other groups which sincerely want of something with which seek to, serve: Christ in China, to fence in his poultry yard at The Council refuses to be forced Taihang, and he therefore stole into any other position and hag some coffius. With the broken intimated to the M. the fact up planks, he built what was that the door is wide open for from his own point of view, a ser their return should they so desire. organi-viceable fonce for his poultry.
China have been set in type of gold, Magazine Gap Road, was concern are double the number of those of mit a list of nominations for elec- signal for an outburst of enthusias Police Court this morning was of belong and it is utterly impossible ylew by the ecclesiastical organi“ stealing wood at the Central zation to which he or she may so to speak, in my country, where ed. He has reported that as he General Tong Sang-che... The prtion at the following ecasion. you have been, are at the present was driving car No. 1507 in the
wress of the former troops, has time, and will for ever be hon- Shaukiwan district at about 7.30 been so rapid that Young Chow tive Committee took their seats round the Marshal's ear as he got
Two more merabera of the Execu, tic cheering. The crowd surged interest.
for the Council to assume the The fact was disclosed that for oured as a great Chinese patriot. p.m. a Chinese attempted to cross is reported to have fallen int Messrs. Wong Lok-ping, of the resi into it, so that the train of auto- ously disappeared from the re-
some time past coffins had mysteri- position of censor... I forvently assure you that the the road in front of the car and their hands. The present mildent committee in Shantung, and Government of Soviet Russia has was knocked down, being injured tary situation is that Yip's fore Mr. Ting Chiu-wu, of Fukien mobiles could leave the station 'pository at the Tung "Wah Hos-..", always followed your activities in the head. Mr. Soper took the are in a semi-circle near Hent Other prominent members of the square only at very slow speed. and your herculean efforts with man to the Police Station; but he Chow. unbounded admiration.
It is also stated that Kuomintang are reported to be on Crowds of pedestrians along the refused to go to hospital,
Hupeh forces have occupied REMEMBER YOUR WARS. A message "has been received Yochow and are now garrisoning the way to Canton. Mr. Wu Tsze route to the hotel stopped to give "Recently, however, we were from the Government Civil Hos-
The forces" under Genera! Har plomatic Mission of the Kuomi-ociferous salutations of greeting much concerned to hear of your pital to the effect that a "Chinese co-operation with Chang Tso-lin. fitter at Taikoo dock, named Chan Tow-yan, which remained neutr 1 tang at Peking made good their and welcome.
at the beginning of the conflict escape when the ban was placed At first we could not believe, the Yuen. has been admitted
on the Kuomintang by Chang Tao- report that you had come to an burns on his hands and legs. between Yip and Tong, have now in and Wu Pel-zu and have arrived agreement, with such a man. As With injuries to the body, caus- besides which the troops station.
joined hands with, the former at Shanghai. They left there on he has been your enemy for Bed by falling from a house in Ken-ed in the western part of Hunna the 17th instant for Canton. long while, it would be superflu-nedy Road to Fung Wong Terrace, are gradually rallying around the ous for me to recall the past wars a distance of over twenty fest, a flag of General Yip. It is expect- you fought with him. IIe is un- Chinese has been sent to the Go-fed that a big battle will be fought doubtedly the greatest usurper vernment Civil Hospital. He at Heng Chow, and unless Tong's China has ever had and you know was apparently watching a boy forces aro reinforced, it dy as well as we all do that, he con-trying to get a ball off the roof of generally believed that Tong wi siders himself the lord of the a house when he overbalanced and be defeated and driven to thị Three Eastern Provinces.
frontier of Kwangtung and "Hitherto he has been the tool. A Chinese woman has been Kwangsi. of Japan. Now he is also schem- sent to the Government Civil Hos- ing with Great Britain and the pital with head injuries caused by United States.
Wherever the jumping from a tramcar while in Briton finds a foothold, the Union motion in Wong Nei Cheong Road.
Whenever the
Jack is hoisted.
Yankee invests his money in a new territory, Washington backs him up with the stars and stripes of iniquity.
fell,
COAL STRIKE.
+
DISASTROUS" EXPLOSION,
GERMAN POWDER WORKS
BLOW UP.
A further report says that Wu Pet-fu has already despatched
Berlin, May 20. four brigades to Hunan to assist Yip Hoi-kum, and eventually the
Forty people were killed and Commander-in-Chief of these scorce Injured by an explosion at armies, whoever he may be, wlithe Bavarian Powder Works, Hass- replace Yip Hoi-kum and continue loch-the most disastrous In Ger to carry on the war agains" many since the war. Kwangtung.
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One rumour says it is probable that Ngai Bong-ping will be given the chief command-by Wu Pol-fu.
Later, in conversation with a Tass representative, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang said that he had come to Moscow to consolidate the ties of friendship between Luna and as well as to study the experience of the Soviet Govern- ment in building up the adminsi- trative apparatus and the zation of the Red Army.
Russia
CHEESE STOLEN.
FOURTH MAN ADMITS CHARGES,
In connection with the larceny of fourteen boxes of cheese, the
SACHED DUTY,
The shape of the wood, however, betrayed its origin to the care- The Council is not primarily taker, and the peasant consequent concerned with differences of ly figured in a charge of larceny. Jopinion, however, deep or sincere, Having heard the facts from the which divide Christians who confer witness, the Court imposed a fine from other lands to China. It of $10, with the alternative of ten does, however, hold that it is days' hard labour.
charged with a sacred duty trying to prevent,these differences from splitting the ranks of the KING'S BIRTHDAY.
Chinese Church. It believes that powder in one of the workshops Work was in full swing when
this Church may under the guld- exploded apparently through property of Messrs. Connell Bros,
REHEARSAL PARADE THIS Innce of the Holy Spirit find Its
MORNING.
way to a unity more inclusive and spontaneous combustion, Other Co., a Chinese was charged before
sen, at the Central The task of transporting fifteen thing that has been achieved in
more spiritually active than any explosions immediately followed,
The magistracy this morning, with hundred soldiers across the bar Western Christianity. The Cou with catastrophical effect. entire factory was swept away receiving stolen goods, knowing bour with their attendent equip cil exists to serve this Church as them to have been stolen and with ment and a battery of field guns, it moves towards a fuller expres- leaving an enormous crater. Masonry, parts of heavy machinattempting to bride a police officer as well as mules and carriages, was afon of Its own religious experi
Buccessfully carried out by some once in ita corporate life, ery and human bodies were by offering him $8.
The defendant pleaded guilty to ferry boats belonging to the Hong- hurled hundreds of yards. Tho
, charges. I
kong and Yaumatl Forry Company, For this reason above all shock of the explosion was felt miles away. The ruins of the Sergt. Carey and the defendant early this morning. The point of others, the Council regrets moit- factory finally caught fire and fire: gave them every assistance, as embarkation was Holt's Wharf and deeply the action taken by a mis- men and rescuers were unable for he pointed out the three men who that of disembarkation the Army Mission, in withdrawing from this some time to approach the In also took him to a place where he ing sopoys and guanors, being then
were convicted yesterday, and Service Plor; the force, compris co-operative movement,? jured, who were screaming in
sold some of the cheese. The marched into Happy Valley for a agony-Reuter
defendant, however, had used rehearsal of the King's Birthday Our Ploturo Page to-1 LESSENED DEATH ROLL
falée chop, for a shop that did not parade, which this year takes place will include some photogr Inter. exfat, which was an attempt to at the Valley, A
the Spanish airmen at Macao, It le now officially stated thatceive the police.
The East Surreys and other do well a pictures of the Internationa Why not co-operate with Marstruggle must be a step forward Accordingly, the Magistracy nine were killed and 50 injured Major Willson, said he would tachments also marched down to Rugby match on the occasion shal Feng Yu-belang? He is also for the International control of (Mr. J. H. B. Nihill) adjourned by the explosion at Hassloch, reserve his decision until to Happy Valley and took part in the the opening of the men ground at
(Continued on Page 18), the coal trade-Reuter
the hearing for one week.
rehearsal
MAINTENANCE CASE.
SOLICITOR SUMMONED BY
WIFE.
BE CAREFUL OF CHANG.
HELP FROM GERMANY. You should be careful of Chang Tso-lin. He may have promised
London, May 20. you many things but there is no The steps German ininers are guarantee that he would not turn taking to help the British minera against you at the first oppor- are indicated in a telegram from tunity,
the Secretary of the German "I advise you as a friend and Miners Federation received by as the representative of a friend- Mr. Frank Hodges, stating that a 5. Jy nation. We will stand by conference of Miners in Germany you if we could persuade ourselves haa panged a resolution promising that you would not unwitting-the miners of Great Britain the interest was called at the Kowloon ly become the tool of unscrupulous greatest possible help by carrying Magistracy this morning, when political factions under the con- out the international resolutions trol of Imperialistic Powers.
already passed German miners Mrs. W. B. Hind, wife of a local Is it moral support you want? must refuse to work overtime, to solicitor, summoned her husband You have had it already Is it prevent the export of coal to material assistance you need?. It Britain and contribute as much for maintenance.
money as possible to help the
A case of considerable local
When the case was called, how-
is yours for the asking!
FENG YU HISIANG RECOMMENDED, British minors. The British ever, the defendant was absent.
*
Reuter.
morrow morning,
King