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MORE HOME OPINION,
London, Feb. 5, Speaking at Middlesborough, Mr. Lloyd George supported the suggestion that the British troops should be landed at Hongkong at prosent so as to be within easy: reach of Shanghal in the case of trouble.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY
that the military authorities have PREPARING PROTEST arrested the leading organisera in the demonstration which had bean planned for yesterday.
SHIPS.
The evidence of the official BARRING FOREIGN CREWS ON detormination to proserve a peace- ful atmosphero is seen in the wholesale removal of posters with which the bulldings in the British Concession were plastered.- Router.
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No New Decisions.
Now York, Feb. 5. It is understood that Britain is proparing a formal protest against the term of the now Immigration Bill which would oxchide from American porte all foreign ships London, Feb. 5. Mr. Bridgeman,' in a speech at
employing some of other countries The situation in China, where who are Owestry, said the British Govern the New Year is being celebrated, United States as immigrants,
ineligible to enter tho ment was bound to be impartial remains substantially unchanged and not support any particular Mr. O'Malley remains at Hankow, ready passed the Sonato, Lascare
-Under-the-Bill, which h faction in the civil war in China. which is reported quiet. But the Socialist leaders ad British Government is cecupled America on any vessel except-enes The will be prohibited from coming to immediately plumped for a leader with the situation created by Mr. flying the flag of India. Similarly in China who was known to be Eugene, Chen's refusal to sign the no ship employing Chinese samen anti-British. If there was andraft agreement regarding the could come into port unless it was Imperialism at all, it was by the status of Hankow and Kiuklang Chinese-Renter's American Labour Party, which had gone in Concessions, but no new decisions vice. for it by banking on that leader
meetings.
as their choice in the civil war are reported as a result of
yesterday's Cabinet which was no concern of theirs.
The cry of British Imperialism-British Wireless.
Ser-
American vessels and two thou-" sand five hundred Marines are now reported by the Press to be strate- gically available for protection of American lives and interests in China-British Wireless.
in China was a silly and meaning- American Steamers Fired On. less slogan, or if it had any mean- ing it was a lie.
A Naval Wireless message des. The leaders of the Socialist patched from the upper reaches of Party knew perfectly well that the Yangtsze and dated February Britain had no Imperialistic alma 5 states that two American steam. in China, yet, for party purposes, era were fired on at Patung on Fri they continued to declare it at the day. The steamers were proceed risk of helping Moscow which was ing down the river with mission-cd wilderness of north-west Hupch, bent on breaking un-China and thenries on board. There were no British Empire-Reuter..
"Stereotyped Ineptitude."
casualties.
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More Propaganda. The Observer, in ari editorial on China, remarksi "Mr. Eugene
Jehang, Feb. 5. Chen has doubtless been misled by tinues. The British Amerian Ta Anti-British propaganda", con the stereotyped Ineptitude of Bolshevist counsels. He has bacco Company's premises are still committed the error of addressing occupied by troops.-Noral Wire the British Labour Party direct. He ought to understand, he might as well try to move the minority in the United States against the American president and, his Government.
At any given moment, accord- ing to our constitution, there is only one power in Great Britain and that is His Majesty's ad- ministration, supported by the majority, in Parlament.
Mr. Eugene Chen does not un- derstand that when he is led to
less.
Chenglu Tooted?
Changeha, Feb. 6. About 200 troops proceeded down the river to-day. There are rumours that Chengtu has been looted by unpaid soldiers, and that Yuan Tau Ming and other generals have been
pasasinated-Naval Wireless.
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A Hankow Report.
Hankow, Feb. 5.
attempt the Bolshevist trick of Posters have been circulated to interfering with our domestic day reporting the occupation of concerns and trying to divide the Shaughn hy the Cantonese nation in order to weaken the Naval Wireless. King's Government, he strengthens Mr. Baldwin's, jeopardises the Labour Party's and weakens his' own position. Mr. Chen will do well to deal with His Majesty's minis-been ters and thom alone...
Nanchang Lonted?
Kiukiang, Feb. 5. extensively lonted by unpaid It is reported that Nanchang has
soldiers.--Naval Wireless,
A patriotic Chinese leader like Mr. Chen should shake himself
No Appreciable Change. free of Bolshevist imbecilities.. He would be lured to his own
London, Feb. 5. doom by allowing himself to be- Renter understands that the come the dupe and tool of Bcl-general impression in competent shevist monkeying on the London quarters is that there is ject of British
revolution."unlikely to any appreciable Reuter.
change in the British attitude in
"No Special Anxiety."
Priests Dragged to the Interior.
Hankow, Feb. 6. Somewhere in the icy slush-cover-
barefoot and without clothing ex- cept for their trousers nbd. under- shirts, Fathers F. MacDonald and Patrick O'Connel, St. Columban's missioners, are being dragged to- wards the interior by two thousand- members of the Farmers' Union.
Their church, which is situated in a small village one hundred and fifty miles from Hankow, was completely destroyed on January 29,
The Fathern were stabbed, besten and
thon disrobed. They worn marched off barefooted and have not been heard of since. Appealed to, the Foreign Office of the Nationalist the im- Government promised mediate rolease of the captured missionaries, but up to the present there has been no action.--Reuter.
Savage Attack.
Tienetin, Feb. 5. An outbreak occurred in a carpet factory in the former German Con- in this morning when Mr. dismissed a works foreman. Thomas the Managing Director,
and
The latter showed hostility urged forty men in the next room to attack Mr. Thomas, who escaped" to the yard, where a mob of 350 waa urged by the foreman to kill him.
Mr. Thomas; who is a cripple, was felled by the mob, but he was rescued from a critical position by Sikh watchmen.
The police were sent to quell the outbreak.
Mr. Thomas paid a tributo to the action of the Sikhs.
It is asserted that the extent of Kuomintang dctivities in Tien-
authorities.-Reuter.
the Chinese crisis as a result of tsin jo not realised by the yesterday's Cabinet meeting.
The British Government will London, Feb. 6. stand by its proposals and simul- Speaking last night, the Health taneously continuo to take Minister, Mr. Neville Chamber- adequate steps to protect- British lain, said that no special anxiety lives and property. should be felt regarding the pro- Another Cabinet meeting will be tracted nature of Cabinet meet- held early next week. In the ings. "Nothing in the events of meantime the Government remains the day, or in the news the Govern-in continuous communication with ment has received, need cast any the British representatives on the shadow on the hope that while per- spot. Reuter. forming our obvious duty of pro- tecting British lives and proper-
ty in China, we should succeed in reaching a solution of our dif-
America's Proposal.
Washington, Feb. 5. The Government has proposed Giculties which would satisfy all to the Cantonese" and to Peking reasonable sentiments of the that the Shanghai International Chinese people."-British Wire-Settlement should be excluded. ICBB.
from the theatre of hostilities. Labour Cables Mr. Chen. The proposal was sent to Mr. McMurray for transmission to the A telegram which has been dis-Northern and Southern war lords, patched to Mr., Eugene Chen by but no answers have yet been Mr. Arthur Henderson and Mr. received.-Reuter's "American Ser- George Ilicks, on behalf of various vica. Labour organisations, says: "The British Labour movement stands) firmly for continuation of negotiu-1 tions and urges all partics concerned to make that possible." -British "Wireless.
Conditions-in-Hankow
Hankow, Feb. 5. Following a clear up in the woather, people came out Into the streets, but at the time of wiring (4 p.m.) all appears quiet and tranquil. This is partly attribut-
Japan's Preparations.
Tokyo, Feb. G. The cruiser Tenryu and Your destroyers have been ordered from. Kure to Sasebo with a landing -party of three-hundred to await further instructions. It is under- stood that they will be sent to Shanghai if necessary.
The American Forces.
London, Feb. 5. Although their exact diaposition
Moscow Uneasy.
some
London, Feb. 5. The agitation in a section of the Press of England in favour of abrogation of the Anglo-Russian trade agreement is apparently causing Moscow, judging from a lengthy uncasiness at statement by the Acting Foreign Commissary, M. Litvinoff, trans- mitted to the Moscow papers, in which, after
combating the charges of Soviet influence hin- dering a peaceful Anglo-Chinese agreement, he declares the Soviet Government has never forgotten its obligations under the Anglo- Russian treaty of 1921.
The straining of Anglo-Russian relations would be a blow to the interests, not only of the whole of Britain, but also to those very financial and industrial groups. which are now so loudly demand- ing a rupture in relations, Reuter.
A Soviet Comment. “
Moscow, Feb. 6. The Government organ lavestio, discussing the events in China, says that if the Soviet is in a post- tion to advise the Cantonese it will Kever advise tho Nationalist Government to sever its ties with
the foreign capital, appreciating na it does the value of such tier for a renascent Chinese" state.—
ed in some quarters to the report is not disclosed, thirty-three Reuter.
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