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NEGOTIATIONS AGAIN FAIL.
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#O WITяX## TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1927. A SINGLE COPE 10:GENTS
ANOTHER ELEVENTH-HOUR
BREAKDOWN.
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NATIONALISTS HAVÉ NOTHING · TO SAY."
SHANGHAI PLAN,
U. S. DECEIVED BY WIRE-PULLERS?
WIDESPREAD OPPOSITION.
The so-called American plan for
the neutralization of Shanghai is not an American plan at all, says George E. Sokolsky, writing in the North China Daily News. It was conceived in Shanghai and wonder- fully fertilized with inaccurate in-
ABORTIVE FINAL PARLEY. formation
Once again there has been un eleventh-hour breakdown in the negotiations at Hankow between Mr. O'Malley and Mr. Eugene Chen. The message conveying this news does not indicate the cause of the disagreement, merely stating that the agreement was not signed yesterday, after what is believed to be the final conference.
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There are no new developments to report from Yangisze. ports, excepting that the boycott of H.M.S. Teal at Wanhsien has been partially lifted.
Regarding the movement of British forces, a thousand marines en route to China have arrived at Colombo, where the Coldstream Guards are expected to-day. An estimate of the cost of despatching troops to the Far East up to the end of March has been put at £770,000.
Hankow, Feb. 14. Fral Yan Sen has arrested some It is believed that the negotia-boatmen after investigating Ц tions between"Mr. O'Malley and charge of supplying the British Mr. Eugene Chen have again Funboat with neeissaries.-Naval broken down at the eleventh hour. Wireless. -Reuter.
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"Nothing to Say
Labery The #treement was not signed | after what is believed to be the final conference.
Agitators at Chengking.
Chungsing, Feb. 14. A group of Southern agitators pah arrived here.---Neval Wireless.
Hankow Quiet.
Hankow,
The
The Nationalist Foreign Office states "We have nothing, to say Naval Wiseless. but that does not mean that there is trouble."--Reuter
PREVIOUS BREAKDOWNS
The British Proposals.
It will be remembered that the previous briakdown occurred on the eve of Chinese New Year, even after final corrections had been made to the draft Agreement. The negotiations were concluded
No Change,
Ichang, Feb. 14. The situation here is unchanged. -Naval Wireless..
TROOPS FROM INDIA.
The Number Not Stated.
Landon, Feb. 14.
SUN BEGINS GENERAL LABOUR REVOLT.
-ATTACK.
SEVERÉ FIGHTING IN CHEKIANG.
NAVY COMING SOUTH?
CANTON LABOUR
DECISION.
OBJECT TO ARBITRATION.
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AUCTIONING LIKIN STATIONS.
NATIONALIST PLAN TO RAISE FUNDS.
TENDERS NOW ASKED.
REFUGEE TALES.
"SQUEEZING" RICH CHINESE.
HOSPITAL SHUT DOWN.
The list of refugees from the up- : The authority of the Canton A Chinese telegra from Shang Government over the labouring finance the expensive administra-provinces of Hunan and Kiangai, As one way of raising money to river ports who are evacuating the hai, received in Hongkong this morning, atates that Marshal Sunday the "Red" Labour Headquar- Cantonese Nationalists at Hankow mainly British and Americans, classes is being tested, for yester-tion in the Yangtze "Valley, the was swelled last week by 50,
have decided to sell the likin when the I. C. S. Tuckwo arrived stations in Hupeh province to the in Shanghul. Although the refu highest bidder, according to re-gees, mostly missionaries, say that ports from Hankow.
Chuan-fang began his general attack against the Nationalists in Cheklang on Sunday, and that severe fighting has since been in
progress.
The message further states that 600 wounded Southerners were sent back to Hangchow on Monday morning, and that General Mang Chao-yuet has again left Hang chow for the front.
until the American Government was led to sponsor a suggestion which is equally offen- sive to all groups of governing Chinese and which, were it to have a remote chance of success, would so complicate Shanghal's politics na to make a permanent solution a practical impossibility. The plan calls for a neutral area in Shang- hai, that is in the Chinese territory area is to be governed presumably coming down South to direct naval by Shanghal Chinese, naturally operations, against the Nation self-appointed or elected by Shang-alists. hai organizations, which amounts largely to the same thing.
outside of the settlement. This
A "Nationalist" Promise:
The success of the plan depends upon the willingness of the mili- tarists on all sides bmit Shang- hal from their calculations. De-
TRADE UNION LAW.
LABOUR AMENDMENT-
REJECTED.
tera suddenly declared its refusal to appoint delegates to the Labour Commercial Arbitration Commis sien which was called into being by the Government to settle the dispute between the merchants and their employees over the ques- tion of dismissing fokis on the second day of the lunar year.
The Commission,
The method proposed to dispose of the stations, which would give the highest bidder sole right to period, is by public tender from
the tax collections for a certain
the situation is more or less the same as when the first batches left, aome interesting stories gathered from them.
Agitators Busy.
wate
One of the most interesting of the stories came from Dr. J. R. B. Branch, the acting superintendent of the Yale-in-China Hospital in Changsha, who was the last person connected with that institution to leave Changsha after closing the hospital and handing it over to the hospital board. Dr Branch says that the financial status of the hospital came to such a state. that it was no longer possible to run it.
merchants. OT other persong wealthy enough to make an offer, and courageous enough to take Another telegram states that
As previously reported, the Go-over the likin stations,"
The last time the project was Admiral Tu Shih-kwei, the Minis-vernment Commissioners, in reply. ter for the Navy in Peking, intends ing to the petition of the mermooted the sale of them was to chants, declared that all the out-be by public auction, but this standing labour disputes woullfalled utterly-there being no bid have to be settled by an Arbitraders. Tenders are to be invited in tion Commission consisting of sunled envelopes; and these were Government and Kuomintang to be opened on February 7. members, representatives from the The tenders are required to do Chambers of Commerce and the signate the station wanted, and the different labour, bodies,
amount the purchaser is willing to pay. On this occasion there is an According to Government pro-added attraction inasmuch as after
When the Cantonese first took clamations, all parties. concerned the purchase the new officer will, over control of the district the were bound to respect any ruling it is stated, have power to alter agitators got husy at once and in of the Commission.
the dues from a copper currency to a short time had their native staff
organized into a union. Condi - London, Feb. 14.
a silver one.
bad and the st and most of Chekiang, to give The House of Commons by 313-
The project is now being dis- tions became so up his principal port and his main votes to 135 has rejected the On Monday, the Department of cussed among the merchant body demands of the stuff so absurd that source of revenue to an antagoni-Labour amendment opposing the Labour issued an order inviting theat Hankow and there seems small it was impossible to retain the stic group of local politicians and projected trade amion legislation Chambers of Commerce and the likelihood of a sale going throug..staff and the number of patients merchants, who could use the mil- and has adopted the Address; re-tions each to send a representative "Red" and "White" labour organisa-
whom they were able to take curò of accordingly dropped off to lions a month of Shanghai revenue plying to the Sech from the to start a political party of their brone.
to attend the first sitting of the
practically nothing.
own, which could be used to agitate
Commission, which was fixed for The Labour hembers are not this morning at the Labour De certain of the Government's inten-partment's Office. Upon receipt of tions, but Mr. J. R. Clynes said the order, the merchants held a that the proposed legislation was conference and selected four dele-Canton an unmistakable portent of further Industrial conflict and internal - Chambers of Commerce. They gates, representing the four
was settlement. It
4 partisan measure
also formed a Society to hasten the designed to cripple organised Labour.
settlement of the dispute.
| finitely, it requires Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, who still holds Kiang-
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Merchants Meet.
Labour Decision.
STEAMBOAT CO.
THE ANNUAL REPORT.
The
Istd.,
Hospital Closed.
Just before Dr. Branch came to
sion of the nurses' home, from
and Macao Steamboat Co. where they refused to move and report of the Hongkong, Shanghai the nurses took posson
for the year ending 31st
they were in possession when he December, 1926, states:
left. The Cantonese at the last The nett loss for the year, in-moment saw the error of allowing. cluding credit balance of $18, the hospital to close, but, being 469,57 from Inst Profit and Loss
unwilling themselves to finance it, ") Account and $10,000 transferred it was necessary to close down. from Depreciation Fund, amounts com.
to $246,985.38 which your Direc- When, if ever, the hospital will re- tors recommend to be carried for- open is only a matter of specula- ward to a new account.
Conditions in the college are
Sir Douglas Hogg (Attorney
The "Red" labour leaders, how General) replying for the Govern ment did not define the Govern ever, consider that any ment's intentions but said that promise, between the labour class when authorities like Sir Henry and the merchants will be Stesser and Sir John Simon were favourable to themselves. the legality of the general strike it
bab. 14. city remains, quiet. for his distraction in his own ter- ritory. The proposal is based uzon an exceedingly uncertain promise of General Chiang Kai-shelt's that when his armies roll from Hang- chow to Nanking, they will omit Shanghai. Why? It is easy enough for General Chiang to make such a promise to his fellow Che- kiang provincials when his forces have not even reached Yenchow, but should his troops ever come to Sungkiang or Huchow, why would In the House of Commons, re-hey keep away from Shanghai, on the Saturday and the agree-plying to a question, Lord Stanier, where the surtax revenue alone is the following day, when Mr. Eu Earl of Winterton, said that it was a month and where the Chinese gene Chen suddenly intimated that not in the public interest to state opium merchants drive the most
was at least the duty of the Gov on Monday night and decided to the agreement could not be sign the aumier of Indian troops re-tourishing trade in China?
Irument to define the law and when uae every effort to prevent the suc ed while troops were concentrat-cently sent to China.
certain Labourite speeches indicat
cess of the arbitration scheme. ing at Shanghai, February 1st.
pched at the request of His is it reasonable to believe that the trade union movement was prepar-4 petition to the Government asking made to Floating Staf Pension one which stated that a teacher in
He added that they were des- chang for the opium revenue there, rd that a responsible section of the The first step taken was to send The negotiations were resumed Majesty's Goyerament after con- "Nationalist" Government would ing for and advocating another on February 7th, and there hav: sulation with the Government of miss a chance at Shanghai? The general strike it was a heavy forming the commission and also Fund, and Shore Staff Provident the school might be dismissed by been meetings during the past India and with the latter's con- faturity of the scheme and Ameri- responsibility on the Government week between Mr. Chen and Str. currence-Renter. O'Malley. It was announced by
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'They
tion.
ment was to have been signed on who, spoke in the absence of the more than a million Haikuan tuels diametrically opposed, regarding held an urgent executive meetingtion of book value of steamers.college has now been closed down
That was on
Sir Ansley Chamberlain. in the
Marines Reach Colombo.
course of his speech in the House
of Commons on Thursday last, that
Colombo, Feb. 14. The troopship Minnesota, with
The Coldstream Guards are pected to-morrow.-Reitter.
COST OF TRANSPORT.
Estimate Up to March.
London Feb. 24.
Yang Sen were driven out
deal
are only to allow the preparations to con- ea's sponsorship of it further indications of the complete tinue without preparing to downfall of realism in the foreign
with or prevent it.-Reuter. Powers' polices vis-a-vis of China.
lasult to the North.
J
COURT PROBLEM.
DEAF AND ILLITERÁTE
DEFENDANT,
for a cancellation of the order.
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This sums includes:-Deprecia- just as bad, Dr. Branch says. The
$106,796.95; Depreciation of book for on to a month because the value of wharves, $14,175.00; total,
students have presented demands $110,971.95.
which could not possibly be acced- No appropriations have beened to. Among these demands was
Fund.
In accordance with the Articles a two-thirds vote of the student body while another was to the of Association, Sir Robert Ho Tung effect that a student could not be and Mr. H. Staples Smith retire dismissed by the faculty until it from the Board of Directors by had been passed on by the student rotation but being eligible, offer body. At present Dr. W. J. Hall themselves for re-election.
re-
decided not to send any delegates to attend this morning's meeting
Another Parade. It was further resolved to hold another parace to-day or to-mors row to demonstrate their op-
The decounts have been audited and Dr. D. H. Leavens are position to the arbitration scheme. by Messrs. Linstend & Davis and maining in Changsha to take care The plan is to again murch to Messrs. Lowe, Bingham & Mat of the property until the mission the Government Headquarters to thews who offer themselves for
can determine what shall be done. petition for the cancellation of the election as auditors for 1927,
with it. Government order creating the commission, which it is feared,
the new agreement which had 1,000 Marines on board has greie. bech drawn up at Hankow ended, and is leaving for Chin
To the North, the scheme is a de- which was ready for signing pro-
ex-finite insult. Marshal Chang Tso- vided for the Concession to be re-
lin in his interview with Mr. Ket- turned to the British Municipal Council, who would formally hund
chumi of the Daily Express, insisted upon the offence offered him by it over to a Sino-British Municipal| body, modelled on that already
Great Britain when the British
The Central Police Court was will not be able to begin its ses. Government continaed to make confronted with a existing in the former German
problem tha sions to-day as originally planned. every concession to the unfriendly morning, in the person of a defen-.. Concession,
new Council Mr. McNeill, Financial Secre- South and ignored the friendlydant in an opium ease, who was not. would be elected by the ratepay-tury, to the Treasury, said that the North. The effects of this polley only "stone deaf," as the Inspector ers and all funds raised would be total cost up to March 31st. of the are evident in the attitude of the stated, but was also completely spent in the Municipality. All despatch of troops to the Far East Waichiaopo and the Fengtien party illiterate and unable to read even cheques would be countersigned by was provisionally estimated at toward foreign
The
U. S. PRESIDENCY.
HULL RAILWAY DISASTER.
Troops Kill Officers,
Another interesting story was brought down by Mr. G. T. Blyden- burgh of the Méthodist Mission, Hospital in Nanchang, Klangs), who arrived with Mrs. Blyden- burgh and children on the Tuckwo Mr. Blydenburgh said that dur proposals and one character, foreign affairs. They are becom-
In the railway disaster nearing the China New Year holidays However, Inspector Clark suid
Hull, the death roll is officially the garrison of Cantonese soldiers OUTSPOKEN VIEWS.
ing increasingly antagonistic, be- cause the northern militariats, who that the man fully understood the
stated to be eight. A consider there became dissatisfied because Nationalist Insincerity."
are not striving for imponderables, offence, as he attempted to run
Dr. Butler, the President of Co-able number of passengers were they were being paid (when they: wore paid) in depreciated paper. The following outspoken edi-practical gentlemen and if they
as Mr. Chen would say, are very away when searched by a constable.
A brief effort having conveyed lumbia University, created a stir injured.
The collision was between on money Instead of silver, as they to the defendant the purport of the in New York State Republican
one of the British Consuls and 2770,000.-British Wireless,
there would be a joint Sino-British
audit of accounts, and ratepayers
would have the right to acttle the
budget and also a veto 'right.
We should be prepared, added Sir the British authorities concerned Innkow negotiations appeared in more out of the Powers by antago
A DEATH ROLL OF EIGHT.
London, Feb, 14.
DR. BUTLER WILL NOT STAND,
New York, Feb. 14.
-Austen, to assure Mr, Chen that tíorial on the resumption of the are convinced that they can proceedings, the Court was relieved circles when he declared that he express and a Ideal train. Seven were supposed to be. Headed by a would do their utmost to implo-the N. C. Daily News (Shanghai) | nism than by friendship, they will to obtain an affirmatory nod of the had no intention of being a can- carriages.of tho. latter wera tele-group of agitators they revolted
ment and ensure a successful of the 9t instant: agreement under which, as far as
COLOMBO STRIKE.
pursue a policy of antagonism. The head from the defendant, and the didate for Republican nomination Grave anxiety must be caused American Government in sponsor Magistrate proceeded to consider in the Presidential election of 1928.
-Reuter's American Service. the British were concerned, Chin- throughout the British community ing this Ningpo scheme for the the question of penalty. ose citizens would enjoy the same of China "by the intelligence neutralization of Shanghai, fur- Mr. Lindsell imposed a fine of rights as the British in the same that Mr. Eugene Chen has again the antagonizes the northern S500, or four months, but found area. These were the stages of been in conversation with Mr. militarist, for be asks, "Why do that this step only gave rise to an- the agreement, but we agreed to O'Malley. This feeling is not les you want to take my territory other problem that of making the these various parts, if we arrived sened by the parallel news from while 1 um straining every sincw defondant understand the decision at an agreement on the whole." Hongkong of disused school and to hold it?
Eventually his Worship remand- It is this new agreement which other buildings being taken over Mr. Chen has now refused to sign. and made ready for the accomoda-
Marshal SunChuan-fang hased the defendant in polico, custody tion of troops. Is it possible, after particular reasons for being, an- for twenty-four hours. all that has happened, that the noyed, for he has maintained order. British Government means to give here, has fought to keep the Nu- in to Mr. Chen's bombastic talk tionalist Army away from Shang- and to hold off the force designed hai against heart-breaking dificul- The boycott of H.M.S. Teal has for Shanghai? Are we to accept tica and has not yet falled. Of
NAVAL REPORTS.
The "Teal" Boycott.
Wanhalen, Feb. 14.
been partially lifted, though Gone-
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brilliant course, there are many
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TO-DAY
Dollar on demand Lightin-up
2/1/16
6.19 p.m.
UNDISCHARGED CARGO.
Colombo, Feb. 14. One thousand harbour. coolies are striking for a rise of wages,
This train carried large and killed several of their officers acoped. numbers of schoolchildren, many after which they began looting the of whom were among the injured.shops. One section of the shop
British Wirelena.
district was entirely burnt down as well as some of the barracks. Foreign food in the city is selling) nt a premium, when it is possible. to get it at all. At the time of the Blydenburgh's evacuation the family had only a day's supply of food
GOOD FOR THIEVES?
The Rich Victimized.
SCOTT'S EMULSION STOLEN.
Thieves removed two cases of Scott's Emulsion" from a truck whilst it was left, unattended, out- side Messrs. Shewan, Tomes and An official of an American bust-.. and an attempt is being made to Company's offices yesterday. ness house in Kiukiang rolated how
bring out the coal coolies.
The s. Jervis Bay did not dis- charge her Colombo cargo as the crew refused to unload-Router.
The theft has been reported to he had been threatened by one or the police by Mr Dick, Manager two dlsgruntled employees who. of the Imports and Exports De sent along blackmail letters, warn-
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