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THIS WEEK'S LOCAL WEDDING.
The above group photograph was taken at the wedding of Mr. V. L. A. Fairley, a Director of the B.A.T. (China), and Miss Mabel Pemberton, of Sydney, N.S.W., which took
place at the Peak Church on Monday. (Photo: Ming Yuen).
NO CRITICISM.
WHY HANKOW PAPERS WERE CLOSED.
1
"ORGY OF LOOTING IN REPLIES TO NANKING
KWEILIN.
NOTES.
SCHOOLS AND RESIDENCES
WRECKED.
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Word to hand through telegrams were able to take Pakow without and letters received at mission resistance, and all Nationalist flags A FRANK CONFESSIOŃ.
headquarters bring the startling in Nanking have now been pulled announcement that at Kweilin on down indicating that the inhabit- In the course of a long com- Tuesday, March 22, much valuable ants are expecting the recapture of munjention to the Canton Gazette mission property belonging to the Nanking in a few days. Northern Allssionary a special correspondent at Hankow Church
Society, forces have already crossed the (British) the Southern Baptist river just below Pukow, while an dilates upon the closing down of the Mission, (American) and the other force is marching down river two foreign newspapers there, say-Christian and Missionary Alliance to Wuhu.
Every indication in that a gen- ing that the walk-out of the printers (American) has been destroyed by
uncontrolled mobs, who wrecked eral Southern retrent is imminent. of the Hankow Herald. and the the buildings, tooted the The Nationalist Commissioner of Central China Post has been a topic residences and wantonly destroyed Foreign Affairs visited H. M. S. of absorbing interest.
that which they did not want or Emerald to-day.--Naval Wireless. could not carry away.
Troops Massed At Kuchang,
Hankow, April 13,
He proceeds: The walk-out ac- curred on Saturday, March 19th. Everything goes to show that it was
Work of Destruction,
The Nationalist group here ars.
as complete a surprise to officials The Church Missionary Society here an it was to the newspaper and Baptist Mission were visited massing troops at Kuchang on the proprietors. The first news brought first, where the crowd demolished south side of the Yangtsze. to official sources concerning it doors, windows, and breakable About 4.000 arrived yesterday and was, in fact, brought by the news parts of the building and furni- further 6,000 are expected to-day.
schools, and paper editors themselves, protest ture. Hospitals,
Meanwhile the general atmos- ing against it and asking for gov. (chapels as well as missionary phere of uneasiness in the city is erument action. The government residences were wrecked. When officials, however, said they could the work of destruction had not diminishing. Naval Wireless. not make the union men work if been completed at these two mis- HANKOW JAPANESE FEARS. they did not wish to work.
Bions, the crowds started for the southern section of the city)
It was at first believed that the where the Alliance mission is
Punitive Expedition Wanted. Printers' Union proposed to make located. The angry mob, over a
Shanghai, April 12. some demands on wages and condi- thousand strong, surged through That a punitive expedition b tions. This, however, did not prove the long narrow streets like a pack sent to China is the request of the east. The Union on Monday of wolves, bent. on loot and Japanese residents in Hankow, issued a statement in which it destruction. declared that the reason for the
Government
The Reason Given.
Confuson Supreme.
who have unanimously passed re- solutions regarding the recent riots, calling upon their Govern- ment to adopt a positive policy in dealing with affairs in China.
The resolution reads: "The Japanese residents at Han-
walkout was the character of When the crowd reached the pre- editorials and news articles beingmises confusief reigned. Each man printed in the two papers. These the motley throng was bent on articles, the statement declared. loot and in crowds they rushed were against the best interests of from building to building while the revolution and the Nationalist destruction followed in their wake. kow are now reduced to a moat The report states that all the build-miserable condition. As the re- ings were badly damaged. The gult of the attacks made by the missionary residence was broken Chinese mobs on the Japanese into, window and doora smashed, purposely to break the united force there by the missionaries was either
"Both of the papers are trying and everything that had been left Concession on April 3, the Japan-1 of the labour unions and the looted or destroyed. revolutionary people as a whole." the statement declares. "From what they have printed in their papers we know that they are being
"We warn both the Government utilized by anti-revolutionists. For
and people at home not to be mis- the sake of the revolution, there-
led by groundless and fabricated fore, we have decided to close
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reports on China, and not to be these two papers. The Printers'
fascinated by the pro-Japanes Union of Wuhan is hereby notified fighting took place. Communica-propaganda of the Nationalist and Instructed to call a strike in the tions in the city were entirely Government. two plants at once."
CANTON ANTI-RED COUP D'ETAT.
which was built up by our thirty ese influence und foundation
long years' hard toil and labour was ruthlessly destroyed by the Chinese mobs in a day.
suspended. The steamship wharves "The Government, seeing through Full responsibility for the atrike and the water-front were care-the real state of the organization lies with the General Labour Union fully guarded to prevent the and system of the Nationalist Go-
of Hupeh, according to the Printers "Reds" make wood their escap-vernment, should abandon its pro- Union statement. "The General At the same time special atten sent China policy and establish, Labour Union of Hupeh is wholly tion was given by the authorities with firm resolution, a positive responsible for this action." the to protect Shameen and Sailwan, policy in order to deal properly, union declaration states. "During and for many hours nobody was with China. We earnestly desire- the period of strike the General allowed to pass by the West that our Government will despatch Union will pay all the expenses of Bund, Shakee, Saji Sam Hong and a punitive expedition to China those who participate in the strike. the Old West Gate.
with the object of smashing the After we received the order from
Bombs Discovered.
| autocratic administration organiz- the General Labour' Union. a meet- By noon Inrize number of ed by a group of persons, influene- ing of the printers of the two wounded soldiers were seen to be ed by mobs." papers was immediately called and carried into the city. It is under-
we unanimously voted to obey the stood that the "Reds" although order.
also raided and
Strike is hereby declared surrounded, were still refusing to Congress, were and the help of all patriotic Chinese give up their arms. The strikers a large quantity of arms including is called upon. Unless our ond is from Hongkong and Shameen were boms, were discovered. The Me- attained we will not resume also surrounded in the Ka Nam chanics' Union and the labour work."...
Buildings on the Tai Ping Maloo, unions under the Kwangtung La- Union, which is the the St. Paul's Building, near the bour French Cathedral, and
"Whites"" headquarters, were not other
Criticism Rescated.
A series of interviews amongst strikers' quarters. The other lo-affected.-Nam Chung Pao. labour and party leaders here indi-ear Unions under the Workers'; entes this point of view: in such stressful times as these, with the Nationalists fighting everywher, seeking with all their might to master a diflicult situation here and on the fighting front; there can be no compromise with open counter revolutionary criticism. The line of the two English-language papers these leaders look upon as plainly counter-revolutionary. The fact that the papers are in a foreign language and are owned by foreig capitul, instead of lossening the offence serves to heighten it. These leaders take the line that these editora are, in a sense, guests here. It is not their country, but "the country of the 'Chinese. Chinese are in control of this territory and they are not ready to sulfer open criticism in Chinono territory, `..
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