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CANTON-HONGKONG NEGOTIATIONS.
FOREIGN MINISTER'S
SPEECH.
Router sends the following com- munique, jointly issued by the Chinese and British delegations who are negotiating a settlement of the anti-British boycott and strike questions
SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1926.
THROUGH GOLDEN
HILL.
A TRIP THROUGH THE TUNNEL
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE,
FELT IN NORTH:
AMERICA.
On Thursday afternoon; by the kindness of Mr. P. R. Warren, of
Victoria, B. C., July 18 Messrs. Armstrong,
Sovore earthquako ehooks were and Co., ninety-one boys of the afternoon. They lasted an hour.
Whitworth felt here, beginning at 233 in the Diocesan Boys' School and three members, of the staff wont through the tunnel at Golden Hill, just completed in connection with the Shing Mun water scheme.
The negotiations for the settle ment of the anti-British boycott and Canton-Hongkong question opened at noon- to-day, July 16, A launch was taken to Tsun at the Canton Föreign Offles: All Wah, from which place the boys the members of the Chinese and walked about one mile along the Britian delegations were present. road and a second mile up the hill Mr. Eugene Chen, Acting Minister to the power house which is situat for Foreign Affairs, who ja healed between the two tunnels which of the Chinese delegation, opened are being made to bring the water the proceedings with the folowing from Shing Mun valley, speech:
The party, was met by Mr. F.
4
"In formally opening these nego-Warren and Mr. Crossley: About tiallons to-day we wish to extend thirty of the senior boys were
to secure
The centre of the disturbance is reckoned to be cleven hundred miles away, probably in the neighbourhood of Alaska. Reuter.
RUM RING SCANDAL.
COASTGUARDS JOIN THE GANG.
I
New York, July 16. Evidence at the trial of sixteen
to the British representatives".a shown the power house and the ma- men indicted in connection with friendly welcome from our Govern-chinery and then went about 1,000 the activities of a forty million ment. We wish also to express feet into the tunnel leading to the dollar rum ring, revealed that the the desire of those in whose name Shing Mun valley; this tunnel is officers and crew of the coastguard we are authorised to speak that not quite through yet. After cutter No. 208 converted the ship the question which we are charge! their return all the boys walked into a rum-runner in order to earn to resolve may be approached in right through the tunnel under extra pocket-money during Christ- asense and in a spirit of realism Golden Hill which is about 4,850mas week 1925. and of determination
feet long. They were conducted Ar ox-member of the crew, who its settlement on terms which, through this by Messrs. A. Water-turned Statoa evidence, declared while assuring to British nationala house, E. Washington and C. Ethat they not pula undertook to in the Liangkuang a friendly and
Warren.
guard several schooners belonging, profitable market for their goods. When the boys got out into the to the ram ring, while ram and services, shall enable the light again the Headmaster rening was proceeding, but actually Chinese people as represented by minded them of the many great transported a quantity of liquor our Government to go on, unhin works for the welfare of the com- themselves. They delivered soven dered, with the work of unifyingmunity in Hongkong Wu Yan-tak hundred cases of liquor on Christ- and modernising China and, on acted as interpreter. A Greaves mas Eve and again on New Year's this new basis, to strive to bull called for three cheers and a tiger Eve in New York, and were paid a great structure of relations with for Mr. P. R. Warren and all the off by their own captain. Subse "the outer world.,
men who had worked in connec-quently, witness entered the em- tion with the tunnels. The boys ploy of the rum ring as a "long- were very pleased to learn that shoreman."--Reuter's they were the first to go through Service.
the tunnel.
It is manifest that striking and real changes are taking place in This country, socially, economically and politically. These changes, generally, are a necessary consé what may be called the die-hard quence of the structural readjust-posture; and the past and all
zuo-
American
A WISE PHYSICIAN
ment or new equilibrium which is in vital experience shew that it has said that to enjoy life to the process of establishment,
con- makes
or resistance to change, fullest one should "trust in Pro- "sciously, between the Chinese peo- for fr on and strife and ultim-vidence and avoid constipation." ple organised as a social aggregate ately for war. And war, it is ad- As the simplest and best ald to and the now conditions of environ-mitted, is never a real solution in the achievement of this simple mant resulting from their definite modern conditions,
philosophy Pinkettes are perfec- inclusion in the larger system of
Opposed to this attitude, which tion.
Mildly yet efficiently the modern world.
is rooted in a past of dead and dying. conditions, is the conception of a changing China with new emerging
classes of" political
..
Pinkettes
The Nationalist Movement. : Whether those changes are good or bad for the Chinese people is mainly a question for them to de-workers who are conscious of the cide if they are truly to be regard inherent strength and incalcul Pinkettes keep the system clean ed and treated as an independent able possibilities of Chinese re-banish bilious attacks and sick and wholesome, regulate the liver, nation and not as a people fit and sources and Chinese man-power headaches clear the skin, purify suited for the exercise of Inter-under effective argnisation. Such national tutelage. At any rate la conception demands, as a practi-chemists, or, post free, 60 cents the the breath, relleve, Piles. Of is a fundamental thesis of the cal corollary on the part of friendly vial, from the Dr. Williams' Chinese Nationalist Movement Powers, a new view of the Chinese Medicine Co., 60 Kiangae Road,
which is the greatest of the background and a new policy to Shanghai. forces underlying and sustaining establish Sino-alien relations, not,
Trade and Prestige,
on.
the new equilibrium that the time on the old historic basis of treat-PINKETTES KEEP YOU WELL. has come when the Chinese people ing China as a war-defeated na- must be free to work out theirtion of the period of 1842 but own salvation. And though most the principle of equality which to- of the country is unhappily to-day underlies the relations of the day under the domination of lea- smaliest, and the greatest members ders, mediaeval and therefore reof the world-system of independ actionary in their outlook and me- ent states and. qovereignties. thods, the dynamic section of the Nation as represented by the in- telligentala, the students, the workers, the new agrarian and in- dustrial and commercial groups the classes definitely thrown up as political forces by the post-war factors in operation in our midst -are with the Nationaliat Govern- ment at Canton in its assertion of this right to national independence.
We believe that this statement of what is called the Chinese Question is not in fundamental opposition to the real interests of any pgnuinely trading Power in China. And, therefore, if the British are here genuinely to trade-solely to sell their goods and to buy our goods as they do when they go to other independent states Nationalist 'China, and thẻ Whatever may be the immediate Nationalist Government as its in- course of events in China, it is strument of power and achieve certain that the torch it by the mént, need not necessarily be a Chinese Nationalist movement danger to British nationals in shall never be extinguished, and this country.
England and China.
it must therefore be recognised If this view of the matter be as an enduring reality in the sound, then more considerations. internal and international politics of prestige and what is known as of this country,, In these circum- "face" ought not to be allowed stances what should be the at- to bar the road to a practical titude of a country like England settlement of what la, in truth, one vis-a-vis this New China. There of the practical questions ofttimes are people who insist that what posed by the ironie spirit in his- England has, England must hold tory to search out man's patience, in China at all costs. This is his goodwill and his good sense.”
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