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No. 22,1 7
MORE RIOTING AT WUHU.
LAW COURTS WRECKED BY MOB.
WHO WILL PAY COST OF FORCE AT SHANGHAI?
QUESTIONS IN COMMONS.
Further rioting is reported from Wuhu, where the law courts A Chinese police oflicer have been broken into and wrecked. has been maltreated and dragged through the town. The City is now in the hands of a Kuomintang Committee.
Several questions were asked in the House of Commons yeaterday, Commander Kenworthy urging that "the very wealthy Shanghai community who paid no British taxes" should meet some part of the cost of the British defence force.
Mr. H. W. Looker asked in Parliament whether the new agreements concerning the British Concessions in China would affect the rights of lease-holders, Sir Austen Chamberlain reply- ing that the Government was examining the whole question.
The General in charge of the Shantung troops which attempt. ed to enter the International Settlement at Shanghai last Saturday, has called on Major General Duncan and explained that the incident was due to a misunderstanding.
Wathu, Mar. 14.
With the departure for Taiping- fu of both General Wang Pu and General Chien Ching, who have: taken most of their troops with
of some sort of Kuomintang Com- mitter.
LEASE-HOLDERS' RIGHTS.
Do Concession Agreements Affect Them?
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London, Mar. 14.
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In the House of Commons, Mr
CHANG KAI-SHEK.
REPLY TO COMMUNIST PARTY.
HSU CHIEN DENOUNCED,
1927.
日二十月二
THE "ASSAYF" TO BE NAVAL ESTIMATES.
CONVERTED.
KOWLOON. DOCK GETS THE CONTRACT.
NEW AMBULA SHIP.
In view of the reports of a breach between General Chang Kai-shek, In accordance with tho announce-
the Southern Commander, and of
the campaign of vilification which the Communist Party has launched against him, great interest attaches to the following speech made by him at a meeting held in Nanchang, capital of Kiungsi on February 21 on the ocension of the 14th anniver- sary of the unification of North
and South:
General Chang Kai-shek said:
brother "Fellow citizens and members of the Kuomintang, the vice-chairman of the Political Com- mitter, Mr. Kuo, has just delivered a report in which he has outlined of the Nationalist the progress
and gives us the pleasing arma news that the Nationalist Armies have been meeting with success on all fronts. He says that militarism and imperialism in China will
sooner
to
go.
later have or Brethren, our ultimate revolution- ary victory is near" at hand. Bir Kuo has said that, if we can but unite our forces as one strong unit, we will, without a doubt, realize our aims in the immediatè future.
IMPORTANT SPEECH BY FIRST LORD.
· A LOWER EXPENDITURE.
London, Mar. 14.
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THE DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE.
U.S. PERSUADING FRANCE TO PARTICIPATE,
CAN'T INJURE LEAGUE,
Paris, Mar. 14. A further effort to pursuade
RED STUDENTS.
ATTACK CHRISTIAN
HOSPITAL.
SCENES AT HANGCHOW.
A casual glance at Hangchow In these days gives one the impression that the whole city has been given
over to some advertising, agency, Coolidge's Disarmament Conference aaya a North China Daily News
ment made some time ago, the Estimates in the House of Com France to participate in President conversion of the troopship Asmons, Mr. W. C. Bridgeman (First waye into an ambulțuce and hospi-Lord of the Admiralty) said that: tal vessel has now been taken in in regard to the programmiele being made by the United States correspondent, writing under date Government, which has hand- of the 4th instant. The particular hand by the Hongkong and Wham-accepted by the House in July, ed to the Ministry of Foreign commodity brought before the pub- poa Dock Company,
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1925, it was merely being con- tinued. That programme was to promised the Chancellor of the last a number of years and he had Exchequer at the time to do is utmost to effect economies which would reduce, if not entirely obliterate, the extra cost of re- placement.
Affairs a note replying to France's objections.
lic, however, is hate, apite and acrimonious couplets against for-
The job was put up for tender,
eigners in general and certain countries in particular. The Note, which concludes by it is understood, and the tenders
During the past few days, this. closed on Monday To facilitale
inviting France to be represented leathsome phraseology. has been the work of tendering, representa
in some way" at the proposed Con- forcussed against the Christian tives of the various companies
ference, intimates that each parti Church and schools. At present, were allowed to visit the R.RA
cipating Fower could come
with Maine, as a pattern of what would
That understanding the programme which seems fit to the only schools open, and which be desired in the Assaye.
had been most faithfully carried it. The Note also points out that are making a brave effort to serve Little time was lost by the au-
out and the success which had the Conference, so far from injur- the people, belong to the Church.
Disgraceful Incident. thorities in coming to a decision attended his efforts had been far ing, can only help the League of greater than he had ever dared to Nations which is at present con- and at 8 a.m. to-day tugs were
The correspondent reports a dis- alongside the Assaye to berth her hope. In 1925, internal savings aidering disarmament problems graceful incident at the C. M. B.
produced more than was necessary Reuter. at the Kowloon dockyard..
Hospital some days previously, It is anticipated that, by work-to offset the £471,000 required for
[The recent French reply to when a mob of frenzied, irrespon In 1926, the ing double shifts; the conversion new building. will occupy approximately three estimates were £2,400,000 less than President Coolidge's disarmament sible students besieged the hospital weeks. The securing of the con- in 1926. They not only paid for proposals recognised their "lofty and forcibly took possession. Doors immediately were barred, and tract is a very welcome piece of new building but saved £2,500,000. aim and generous idealism," but
The In addition, as a result of the considered that they risked com- everyone within who bere the least work for Kowloon Dock. sura tendered by the Dock Cem- coal stoppage, £3,250,000 which promising the work already begun resemblance to
was voted had not been spent at Geneva, and that it was only mediately was put under arrest pany has not been divulged.
the there, under the aegis of the
yo
back
to
an official im
and would Exchequer.
For this year, the League, that they should be studied, and pinioned. Most of the mem difficulties in putting forward a It pointed out that the League had bern of this raving gang were Dr. Yang Ych managed to eluda The elimination of the Northern SINGAPORE - INCIDENT. smaller figure had been unusually advanced several stages in the armed with sticks.
great because certain things direction of the goal fixed by the militarists is only a question of
Franco, therefore, de the acarchers, but Dr. Fu Ih-teh was rather roughly handled. After quite unavoidable-had added to Covenant. time now as they are dying a na
the expenditure. The estimates precated a special conference of being bound, a large notice wan tural death. Our, victory, there-
for construction were £0,983,000 five Powers when all the navies of pinned on him, and he was compell-, fore, is at hand.
against 19,083,000. That was an the world were entitled to be as-
u laughing-stock. The notice ran: increase of £900,000 in the cost of sociated with an agreement on the ed to sit in the front entrance, as They had inserted question of the limitation of light."Here is a man who is opposed
vessels.]
QUESTION IN HOUSE OF COMMONS.
on Mar. 14.
Loddon,
construction.
Big Savings.
Subsersive Propaganda.
(Wuchang; "Now, in Wuhan
In the House of Commons, reply- the sum of £125,000 for sending out Hankow and Hanyang), a section
to Mr. Pethick-Lawrence the ships to China. He did not say of the Kuomintang members have ing them, the city is now in the hands H. W. Looker asked whether the initiated a new movement and have (Labour), Mr. L Amery read that that would cover all the ex- position of His Majesty's Govern- been disseminating a new sort of the Governor's to the dispense that might be incurred, but Most of the civil authorities have ment, as the lease-helders from propaganda. They claim to uplift turbance at Singapore in the ocenite: hoped, they would not have to and to centralize the authority of sion of the celebration of the death stay in China very long. He had fied from the town, and those who the Chinese Government of the the Kuomintang. As the authority of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, sisting that to find something like $2,000,000 land comprised in the British Con-of the Kuomintang is the highest the mob attempted to rush the in excess of last year and the remained have been molested.
ernment, is it then necessary that Seven Chinese were killed and 14 to balance. The Law Courts are reported to cussions in China and the posi-authority of the Nationalist Gov-police who were compelled to fire. trouble had been to find the savings have been broken into and wrecked, tion of sub-lessces of such land it should be lifted to a higher plane wounded. One European Inspector while the Second Police Officer was from the British Government and by any person or persons? There of police, four native police and one native tram conductor were maltreated and dragged through the rights of both parties under is no necessity to centralize the the streets of the town. The the leases would be in anywise Kuomintang for is it not already wounded. The town was now quiet. Mr. l'etrick-Lawrence nsked Senior Police Ulicer has vanished. affected by the agreement entered centralized? I am safe in saying -Noval Wireless.
into at Hankow, Kiukiang, or any that these people are employing the would it not have been possible to arrangements contemplated with words to uplift and centralize the
of lethal weapons, and Mr. Amery regard to other British Conces authority of the Kuomintang to disperse the mob without the use blind the people, to make theni
said he presumed those considera- Sir Austen Chamberlain replied their tools, and to eliminate those tions were in the mind of the police. asked Mr. Oswald Mosley that His Majesty's Government whose ideas are not in common
was whole with their own. was-pow examining the
whether no other warning given before firing and Mr. Amery had no information-Reuter..... said he presume so but that he
SOVIET RECOGNITION RUMOUR.
In Washington Diplomatic Circles,
Washington, Mar. 14.
It is rumoured in diplomatic circles here that the Soviet has de- cided on de facto recugnition of the Cantonese regime at lankow. No confirmation of, the
report is available from the State Depart- ment. Renler.
SHANGHAI TROOP INCIDENT.
Due to a Misunderstanding.
Shanghai, Mar. 14..
sions in China.
question, with the object cf en- "As chairman of the Central Exe- suring that the interests of sub-cutive Committee and the Political lessees would not be prejudiced by Committee of the Kuomintang. I any arrangements that might be will see to it that my duty in pre- venting the authority of the entered into.--Reuter,
Kuomintang and the Nationalist Government from being broken or influenced by any selfish person or persona is carried out. This is al- so a responsibility, in which every
KIUKIANG COMPENSATION. Distribution, By Government.
London, Mar. 14.
In the House of Commons, re- member of the Kuomintang has a plying to Mr. H. W. Louker Sir share. Let me ask those who ad- Austen Chamberlain said that the vocate the principle of uplifting
COLONY'S HEALTH.
NINE DEATHS FROM SMALL-FOX.
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General Pi Shou-chen has called Government would distribute and centralizing the authority of on General Dunean, and in the among the British subjects who the Kuomintang whether they can course of a friendly conversation sustained damage owing to louting tell me who has reduced the au- fresh cases of small-pox reported,
it came out clearly that the attempt at Kiukiang, the money paid by
of the former's troops to enter the the Nationalist authorities as com- Settlement last Saturday was due pensation.-Renter
to a misunderstanding.
General Pi stated that his desire and ability was to maintain law
and order in the Shanghai arca.- Reuter,
COST OF SILANGHAI FORCE.
Who Is to Pay the Bill?
London, March 14,
BRITISH POLICY.
Talk of Differences a Myth.
thority of the Kuomintang? Can they tell me where its authority has been broken that they want to cen- tralize it?
of
There was a saving of £150,000 on rates of pay, and about £200,000 or foot and clothing, while the closing of the Rosyth and Pem- They had amount anticipated. broke Dockyards had saved the had a very handsome contribution from the Malay States for the con- struction of the Singapore Base, amounting to £2,000,000 in five in
during the year. There would be stalments, and the Admiralty share
reduction of about £400,000 in of the contribution was £676,000
contract work. As a result, he was able to present estimates of £58,000,000 or about £100,000 less than last year. That was a great achievement. Calculating on the
basis of pre-war prices it would
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found that this £58,000,000 would be about £34,000,000 while the actual estimates in 1914, be for the war, were £51,500,000.
who
ALSACE-LORRAINE.
REBUFF THE GERMAN NATIONALISTS.
Strassburg, Mar. 14.
To to the People's Movement." make some show of authority, these rowdies stuck a large notice on the wall:-"These premises are closed up and taken over by order of the committee appointed by the Hangchow Students Association, organised for this purpose."
Sealed by the Spoilers.
A round of the various depart- The leading Alsatian Catholic ments of the hospital was made, and each department was duly this improvised committee. A de organ, Der Eleaesner, publishes an open letter to Count Westarp, the sealed with the official papers of mand was made on the accountant German Nationalist leader.
The letter declares that the Al- to turn over all the papers and Dr. satians are all agreed to reject any Thompson's private offices were Alsace-taken over. The foreign houses German interference in
only were duly sealed. Lorraine affairs, which are the concern of France. It adds that when Count Westarp has the
unbounded indignation-Havas. audacity to talk of Alsace-Lorraine, he simply excites the Alsatians to
BATHER'S ILL-LUCK.
THIEVES STEAL A CAMERA
DIVIDENDS.
Later in the morning, a meeting was called in the hospital chapel, of be on the promises. "Give the names of all the teachers and staff against all the Chinese nurses and students who happened to
whom you have a grudge" was the first sentence which opened this conference. In the meantime, the telephone was put out of commis-.. sion to prevent anyone communica
Several ting with the outside. foreign and Chinese members of came under the hospital staff
A further search special abuse. was ordered, to bring to book, if possible, these miscreants. In the midst of all this turmoil, a' group of students was told of, with note- books, to take an inventory of the various departments. They went
oven the decency and courtesy to about with the air of officials and did their work well. They had not
burst in with a flourish of excite- spare the maternity wards, but
event-
Between 2 and 4 o'clock on Sun- The health return for the past
day afternoon, Mr. Melcher (of Messrs. Melchers and Company) was tempted by the unusual rise in weeks shows there were seven
Imperial Conference.
the temperature to go sea-bathing Dealing with the Imperial Coa- in front of his villa "Long Light," of inst Autumn, Mr. at Jubilee Road. Whilst he was in thief took Mr. all Chinese, of which three were "from this disense during the week. ference imported. There were nine deaths
Seven cases of typhoid (two Bridgeman said the representa- the water, a fatal) were also notified, these tives of the Overseas Dominions Melcher's Goerz camera, which he A' Second Authority.
comprising four Chinese, two were given a very close insight had left on the beach, and got away one Japanese. Ainto our naval problems. Parts of with it. The loss was not discover "Furthermore, certain persons British and
A report has since been made toment and acted like demons, London, Mar. 14. allege that the Nationalist Govern- non-fatal Japanese case of para the Empire had contributed very ed until Mr. Melcher had returned
and he hoped in the years to come
Anti-Christian Posters, Introducing the Navy Estimatesment is being directed towards antyphoid fever was also reported as largely towards naval expenditure to the beach. in the House of Commons, Mr. W. autocratic tendency and they fear well as two non-fatal cases
would contribute and that those description of the camera. Others Chinese).
contributed bad already C. Bridgeman, referring to the Op- that a second Napoleon will make diphtheria (one British and one that other parts of the Empire the police, accompanied by a position attempts to draw a dis- his appearance in China
There was one death from In- would contribute more. It was tinction between the policy of the say that the Central Executive In the House of Commons, reply- Foreign Office and the policy Committee is the highest committee
parts of the Empire what they ing to Com. Kenworthy (Labour) Sir Austen Chamberlain said that the Admiralty with regard to send- and that there is no other equivalent fluenza, and there was one rabid not for us to dictate to the other The return for yesterday, shows ought to do. He was quite cer the Municipality of the Intering troops to China as if they were in power to it. I do not underdog caught,
not united on that matter, said stand what this 'other committee' national Settlement at Shanghai that such was a complete myth. is or what it indicates. I em- three Chinese cayer of small-poxtain they all quite realised their | central au- (one imported) and two Chinese responsibility and he confidently hoped, in the way which was best had not offered to pay any part the Admiralty had responded as phasize again, the
to them and which it was for them of the cost of the Shanghai
to accomplish, that they would rapidly as they could nobody thority of the Kuomintang is the occurrences of typhold. Defence Force nor had he
to the aid of the Mother approached them on the matter. would say they lost much time-highest authority of the party All the Powers interested had to what the Foreign Office asked and it cannot and must not be
te to do in order to protect Bri- broken down or cut down or even MISHAP TO STEAMER. Country in bearing the burdens. made their own preparations,
The Admiralty lifted or even shaken,
Lessened Singapore Cost. naval or military, for the defence tons in China,
"There can be no other com-
There had been a change in the of their subjects, and doubtless was very glad to be able to send
from which landing mittee equivalent in powers to the
total figure for Singapore from BROKEN. all had incurred expense in so out ships
£11,000,000 to £7,600,000 exclusive doing, but, so far as he knew, parties could be disembarked and Central Executive Committee bo-
The steamer Limchow, after be of the cost of the floating doc's. none of them had approached the whose presence would do a great cause it will impair the central deal to allay the terrible anxiety power. In case there is one, it to Municipality.
Anglo-Dateh Plantations.-Final "this very wealthy community, living in China. The apeediness which has no historieni, back with Chinese goldiers aboard, ro-possible by a more careful survey 1.20 per share,
Com. Kenworthy urged that under which many Brilons were the joint conference in Hankow, ing permitted to leave. HongkongThis reduction had been made Tls. 0.45 per share, making Tis, released. In due time, a fow police- who paid no British taxes' should with which the Marines got ready ground and which they advocate sumed her interrupted voyage to of what was necessary. Towards be approached to meet some part for service in. China was a very as a higher authority. If they Pakhoi and Kolkow yesterday, but the whole scheme, the Straits of Tia 0.80 per share, making The began to dwindle. The posters on
great testimony to the great effi- want to uplift the authority of inter at night tent back two wire: Settlements had contributed the 0.75 per share. Com. Wedgwood (Labour)ciency of the magnificent force of the Kuomintang, they should and less calls for assistance. declared that the cost to the Marines-Reuter.
of the cost.
THE WAR OUTLOOK,
na we demand. If they do not do
"
"LIMCHOW'S" PROPELLOR
"
come
SHANGHAI ANNOUNCE-
MENTS.
It was not until the afternoon that anyone with the slightest sem- blance of authority put in an ap pearance. Mr. U Ken-mien, of the. Board of Administration, tually came on the spot, and ex- postulated, in a peaceful way, with the riotous gang of students. He told them that they had made a mistake and that the present time used in cultivating Messrs. Benjanin and Potts ought to be have been notified by cable from friendship and not stirring up and their Shanghai Office of the de- claration of the following divi-imosity. The head of the Students Union, I understand, also put in. denda:
en appearance and, through his ef- Shanghai Sumatra Tobacco.forts, the doctor who was posted at the front gate, as a butt for the Final dividend of Tls. 1.
Ziangbe, Rubber, Co-Final of taunting crowd, was unbound and
men came on the scene and towards. mischievous crowd evening the the hospital walls reminded one of the trend of the day's proceedings: New Engines-Dividend Tle. The hospital is full of foreign slaves." "The Church is the gate. The 0.25 per share.
way of the devil." "The pastor of the Church is the devil."" with the Christian devila."
land, the Malay States £2,000,000, and Hongkong £260,000, actual amount required from the British taxpayer this year Singapore was $48,500.
for
must first dissolve this Conference
It appears from the messages British taxpayer was going far to'
this, there can be no Kuomintang that her propeller snapped after exceed the cost to the other.
and no Nationalist Government. being many miles out at sea, and nationalities concerned, as we Order for General Attack
Is this what they call order in the the ship is now disabled, awaiting were bearing the brunt of tho! expenditure.
According to a Chinese telegram party that this Conference should assistance to be towed back to
Hongkong... this direct the aperations of the Kuo- Sir Austen Chamberlala, in received from Shanghai reply, emphasised that the steps morning, General Ho Ying-kam, mintang and the Nationalist Go- we had taken were for the protec-directing the Nationallet forces vernment? Is this what they left at 10.30 this morning to golidge's new proposals, Mr. Bridge-
(Continued on page 12.)
(Cntinued on Page 9). tion of British nationals.-Router.
A tug, from the Kowloon Docks,
to the Limchow's assistance.
The Conference Proposal Roferring to President Coo-
(Continued on page 18.)
TO-DAY.
Dollar on demand 1/11/7/16 6.38-p.m. Lighting-up
"Down
Hankow All Over Agalu,
It is quite apparent that the majority of the leaders in this dis Continued on Page:7)