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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY,
APRIL 7.- 1927.
CHINA DEBATE IN COMMONS.
(Continued from Page 1.)
A similar state of affairs' bed a government that they could ex-risen in a greater or less degree.
in every place which was pect Britain to pursue the policy
stm indicted in December and the under the control of the Nation- February Memoranda.
alists.
une
Mission Premises Ralded.
CHANG'S COUP AGAINST SOVIET.
(Continued from Page`1,) CHIANG OPPOSES HANKO ».
Objection to Propaganda,,
Shanghai, April 7. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has definitely and openly shown his opposition to the Central Kuomin tang in Hankow. Yesterday, he issued an order to the vernacular papers in Shanghai prohibiting them from publishing telegrams or communications issued by the Hankow Party and prohibiting the importation
of the
extremist
Sir Austen read long reports, "io give critical members some idea of what life in China was like at
Ho mentioned an instance in present".
premises The position was very difficult which the.
of the owing to the absence of any united Wesleyan Mission were broken Chinese government, so every con into and the contents destroyed by versation with one authority caused a rabble of students and others. suspicion and jealously with the Members of the Misalon were other, and any concession made to hounded out of the place, and a was distasteful to the other, eering mob pursued them by the who preferred that a concession be light of lanterns, and threatened not made rather than it be made to them with violence, down to the
rívor by which they left. opponents.
Sir Austen Chamberlain gave in great detail farther instances shal Chiang's command are pro The various armies under Mar- The Foreign Secretary conclud: tals and other buildings, and sald kow General Military Political Do- hooting, and outrage, upon hospt hibited from allowing the Han- ed by saying the Government it would be a mistake to suppose would pursue when possible their these attacks, were confined to partment to carry out propaganda policy of conciliation and adjust-British subjects and interests. work among the soldiery, such ment of the old position to new There was a time when the cam-work being considered by the Mar- aspirations and conditions, but were not prepared to be hustled paign of hostility was concentrat-shul as counter-revolutionary in out of China and withdraw theired upon ourselves, and attacks on character-Nam Chung Pao.
CANTONESE IN MEXICO. nationals from Shanghai as well other foreigners were the excep-
Not to be Hustled Out.
G
as from the upcountry places. They were not prepared to be treated as though they had no right to that which was their. treaty right, and as though the lives of the British were of no account to the British Government. (Loud Ministerial Cheers).
where
tion. That situation had now changed, and the forces which thi agitators had aroused directed against foreigners indis- criminately. During the past few months the agitation and attacks had been directed more and more against forsigners in general.
Ministers in Agreement.
Mr. Lloyd George said the task Sir Austen Chamberlain had undertaken was one of the most After outlining the British difficult that had ever fallen on policy, which remained unchanged the shoulders of any Foreign from that set out in the Memoran- Secretary. He was confident Sir dum, and emphasising that the Austen incant what he said when Government required 3 atably he said he would pursue the policy authority in China to treat with, laid down in the Memorandum, the Foreign Secretary said an consequently neither he nor his
sgreement has been reached friends would utter a single word among the Ministers in Peking, a to embarrass him-Reuter.
to the recommendation to be made to their Governments. on the quca- THE NANKING OUTRAGES.
tion of the Nanking reparation demands, but he was not absolute ly certain as to the complete men- Bure of agreement or the number of Powers who might agree at
He added that he trusted the Authorities would responsibilities
and would understand that, their reputation as a government ani the interests of China (were at stake?). It was hoped they would the obligations of
papera from Hankow.
On Propaganda Tour.
Mexico City, April 6. Three Cantonese delegates have arrived here, and state that they going on a tour of Latin- America to create goodwill $0- wards the Nationalist movement in China.-Reuter's American Ser- vice.
are
NOTED OFFICIAL.
GOOD WORK IN INDIA.
There has arrived here by the as. Talma from Calcutta, on his way to England on leave, a notable official in the person of Mr. C. C. Garbett, B.A., LL.B., C.M.G., C.LE., LC.S., Deputy Commissioner of the Attack District, Punjab.
Mr. Garbett is accompanied by Mrs. Garbett and child. He is a very popular Deputy Commis- sioner in the Punjab, and his just, wise and tactful adminstration of the Attack district has resulted in numerous advantages to the gen-
the
eral public of his district. He is very popular and has won goodwill of the people of all com munities throughout the, district.
Nationalist Responsibility.
London. April 6. Sir Austen Chamberlain made a statement in the House of Com-present. mons this evening on the situa- tion in China, in the course of Nationalist which he referred to the out- recognise their rages at Nanking. He said he had given a fairly complete ac- count of recent events at Nan- king, partly derived from the recognise British Consul General and part government, and behave as oth Mr. Garbett is leaving by the ly from American, and Japanese governments did in similars. President Jackson on the 13th reports. He had now a further circumstances, 80 that His instant. report from the British Vice-Majesty's Government could pur- Consul signed and approved by the suc that policy which was in- British Consul..
dicated in his Momorandum of In this report it was pointed December and amplified in the out that the Northern troops left Memorandum of February, which the city peacefully on Wednesday was the groundwork on winch we night March 23, and that early on could hope to build our future Thursday morning troops belong relations with
China-British ing to the Fourth Division of the Wirelesa.. Southern Army, mainly Hunaneke, entered, and the British Consulate was surrounded and the Consul: General deliberately attacked: The Consul General' was attacked in the Consulate grounds by sen- tinels posted by the looters.
REPLIES TO QUESTIONS.
Captain Spears at Nanking.
London, April 6. In the House of Commons, reply- The Consul hid for a time with ing to questions by Labour mem- his child, and two ladies, but they bers, Sir L. Worthington Evans were soon discovered and robbed suid that Captain Spears was the
officer of all their valuables by bands intelligence.
of
roon.
the
OIL EXPLOSION,
THIRTEEN FATALITIES,
Parco, Wyoming, April 6. killed by an explosion in
Thirteen, persons have been
oil producers refining plant.— Reuter's American Service.
STRANDED SHIP.
ALL PASSENGERS NOW LANDED.
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an
8.8.
Divers are being sent down to- day to ascertain the real nature of the damage to the Dutch Tjileboet, which went ashore on of looters: and eventually they Twentieth Indian Infantry Brig Ting Ling Island, south of Hong. were rescued by 5.30 in the after- ade, under the command of 'Gen- kong, late on Tuesday night, and,
eral Duncan at Shanghai.
since both forward holds are flood- The United States Consulate Pressed to say how Capt. Spearsed, it is regarded as doubtful whe- was also in the hands of looters, came to be at Nerking, Sir Ither she can be towed off with and the Consul made his way with Worthington Evans merely replied safety until temporary repairs great difficulty with a party to that he was there in pursuance of have been offerted. the Standard Oil Company Hill, his duties. (Ministerial cheers). where a large number of foreign- ers was assembled. Eventually they were rescued.
The Japanese Consuloto was also looted, and the Consul hin- self was shot at as he lay in bed: and property was looted or wan- tonly destroyed. British Two
subjects were
killed.
Island is said to be extremely The coast line round Ting Ling
In Touch with America. rocky; indeed, Mr. O. Luhrsen,
European passenger who, with his Colonel Wedgwood suggested wife, was brought to Hongkong by that a Cabinet Minister should be H.M.S. Stormcloud, told & Press sent to America with a view to representative that the vessel was obtaining complete Anglo-Ameri-grating on the rocks with every enn nity of aim and mothod with swell. The vessel appears to he regard to China.
badly aground, though not thought to be in immediate danger.
Mr. Stanley Baldwin replied that the Governmert WAS in
The muster, officers, and crew constant touch with the United-
are remaining on board, but the States, Government through the whole of the passengers have been usual diplomatic channels, and transferred to other vessels. About exchanged views with them on five hundred deck passengers were various aspects of the Chinese brought into Hongkong yesterday situation as they arose.
by H.M.S. Stormcloud, and the re- mainder, some nine hundred deck passengers, were brought in this morning by the s.s. Tjikarang, an- other J, C. J. L. liner.
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The Henry Keswick is still stand- Ing by, but the British warships have returned to Hongkong.
Organised Attack. There was no doubt the attack was organised. There was no question of the troops getting out of hand. They appeared to as- semble at various points when a Replying to Labour members bugle sounded. The officers when as to why British nationals were appealed to made no attempt to not warned to leave Nanking interfere, and the whole affair before March 20, Sir Austen seemed to have been planned in Chamberlain said he was afraid) advance.
it was because too much faith was Looting wha still going on placed in assurances we received. without any attempt at protection. The American Ambassador en-
Mr. Luhrsen, in conversation by the authorities.
tered the diplomatic Gallery to with Press representatives, sald If there could ever have been hear the debate on China.
that the grounding was astonishing any doubt rogarding the .com-
in that it was accompanied by vory plicity of the Nationalist troops.
little noise, or vibration. The high in the area in which the outrages
Replying to other questions Pens running rendered the work of were committed, that doubt ought during the debate on China, Sir transferring passengers extremely to be dissipated by the subsequent Austen said, "All my indications difficult, but it was accomplished events. Although there could not are that at any rate Japan, the without mishap. now be any question of the pro- United States and ourselves will Mr. Luhrsen and his wife had sence of any Northern troops in probably be in agreement, not come to Hongkong on a pleasure Nanking, and there was no doubt merely to ask for reparations but trip from Java, and were returning that the city was wholly in the also with regard to the repara-when the accident occurred. control of the Nationalists, the tions which should be asked for The Kowloon Dock tug Henry Consul General reported on March the Nanking outrages.
Keswick is standing by.
The Nanking Outrages.
24 that looting continued un- He was of opinion it would be. chocked. The Consulate resi a day or two, before these do- dences and offices were being manda could be... presented.-— attacked dally by bands of armed | Reuter.
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soldiers who were removing fiv turas. No attempt was being ma:le to restrain looters. An
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ANGLO-SPANISH TREATY.
SUPPLEMENTARY REVISION. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, reply- officer in charge of Nationalisting to Commander Kenworthy,
London, April, .6. troops had sent a warning thaanid the value of exports of British revising the Anglo-Spanish Com The supplementary convention nny British coming ashoro.would produce and manufacture to China mercial Treaty, which has been be promptly shot. Anti-British
was £3,240,000 In the last threa
posters had been put up in the months of 1926, and £2,570,000 in under negotiation in London, was city, and British troops had been the last three months of 1920.
afgned yesterday, -British Wir0- less. fired at from the water-front.
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