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MLA EXGET THURSDAY, JULY 7. 1927,
SERIOUS FIGHTING
AT YUNNANFU, ·
RIVAL GENERALS 'STRUGGLE FOR POWER.
NO REPRESSION.
ILLEGAL STRIKES
DEBATED.
A CHINESE ENDORSEMENT.
Describing the B as legisla- tion designed to protect the com- munity as a whole, Sir Shou-son Chow, the Senior Chinese Un- oficial Member of the Council,
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LABOUR CENSURE MOTION DEFEATED.
GOVERNMENT
PROPOSALS.
NO
RIVAL
nacular press of how a Chinese PREMIER OUTLINES and two companions, in trying to swim from the South China;
EARLY MORNING BATTLE,
In spite of some local trouble, it seems as if Yunnan is golug against the "Reds" and, in con- sequence, everything is more sel tled and work in general much joined the debate when Sir Joseph Atheletic Club's bathing matshed, easier, writes a
correspondent Kemp, the Hon. Attorney General able to reach their destination and to Kowlcon Dockyard, were un- from Yunnanfu.
moved the second reading of the were floating in the sea for more Bill to be known as, the legal than two hours before being rescued by a passing fishing boat, The most noteworthy feature of the China situation at the Since General Tang G-ao died Strikes and Lockouts Ordinance, near the Taikoo Dockyard.
CHIANG VERY CONFIDENT.
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Last Tuesday morning (14th. June), we had some local, fighting.
there have been two generals, 1927, at this afternoon's meeting
moment is the precautions being taken by Japan in Shantung to pro-General Hu Ru-i and General Lung of the Legislative Council. tect its nationals there in the event of fighting between the North and South for the possession of Tsingtao and Tainan. It was first reported that 2,000 additional Japanese troops had been ordered from Dairen to Tsingtao, but a later message from Tokyo says that the War Office has decided to postpone the despatch of troops.
Meanwhile, there are preparations for big fighting south of Tsingtao, and a Chinese message states that the Nationalists have reached de far, as Kaomi. In a speech at Shanghai, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek predicts a speedy advance for the South, especially in view of the support of General Yen. Hsi-phan.
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could not be done.
The anti-Japanese boycott has become effective throughout China, and is chiefly felt at Amoy, where the considerable trade with Formosa has been brought to a standstill.
I
nervous
was strong
at
TO COMMONS.
After an interesting debate, the House of Commons defeated Labour motion of censure in connexion with the Government's plans for the reform of the House of Lords."
It was pointed out by the Premier that there was no question of the Lords becoming e rival of the Commons, and the proposals were submitted for the criticism of Parliament and the country, whose" opinion would be acted upon.
Mr. Churchill emphasised that the Government would futroduce constitutional changes in accordance with the will of the people.
The Labour motion referred to the proposals as being a scheme for "gerrymandering the constitution," and ontrenching the Lords more firmly than, ever on a hereditary basis.
to
make
Those
It appears that at 6.30 yester-) Yun, of more or less equal rank
day afternoon, four members of
the other was appointed Chairman
the Club accompanied by a lady Sir Shou-Bon Chow said: and power. First one and then
started from the matshed to swim of the Committee of Deputies.
"SAs this Bill affects the to Kowloon Dock. They were Chinese more than other sections followed by a sampan, and short- About 3 a.m. on Tuesday morn-of the community by reason of ly after they had started one of ing General Hu made an attempt their preponderate numbers, I the men, who was probably the his house and at the same time he remarks on behalf of myself and seen to be swimming 200 yards to capture General Lang Yun in crave permission to make a few best swimmer in the party, was. attneked General Luog's forces my Chinese colleague. We consi- ahead of his friends, while another house is on the East side of the and we therefore support it whole-able to accomplish the journey, outside the city. General Lung's der the Bill timely and necessary, man, knowing that he would not be Lake in the North part of the city law, it should go a long way to The men in the sampan, fearing heartedly. If and when it becomes gave up and boarded the sampan., They went at it hard with rifles wards preventing recurring poli- that some mishap might befall In reply to a suggestion made in the House of Commons, that till 7.30 am. About 400 or more and machine guns and bayonets
tical strikes-strikes the British share of the Boxer Indemnity Fund, amounting at pre-were killed and finally General specially aim at the economie life and left the trio behind, believing
which the lone swimmer, headed for him On the vote, there was solid Conservative support for the sent to about £2,000,000, should be applied in the payment of com- Lung Yun gave himself up on con- which we experienced in 1922 and to look after the lady. The lady, of the Colony, such as those that the two men would be able
Government, and the Labour motion was rejected by 362 to 167... pensation to British nationals who had suffered at Hankow, Nan-dition that his life should be spared, General Hu Ru-i nean-
1925, and from the effect's of however, became
London, July-6. The Prime Minister, in replying, king and elsewhere in Chinn, Mr. G. Locker-Lamparin stated that this while having got money from the which we are still suffering...
And shouted for the help of the men.
The House of Commons debated said, there could in these days be. banks to bay over a number of
Unfortunately, the two men were respect of the Government's pro- becoming a real, effective rival Labour motion of censure in no question of a Second Chamber tunately, General Hu is very un-
Not Class Legislation. General Lung's troops. Unfor
not overstrong awimmers and popular both with the troops and class legislation, because it affects
posals for the reform of the of the House of Commons. There were unable to give much The proposed measure is not
As-House of Lords, regretting that could be no power in a Second sistance to the lady.
The the Government had submitted a Chamber the people, while most people like employers as well as employees;
current
or unmake General Lung. The former is am- nor is it in any way racial dis- do was to float, hoping for assis- House of Commons of control over points had been long established the scheme for gerrymandering the Ministers, and there could be, no time and all the trio could constitution and depriving the equal right in Anance. Shanghai, July 6. A telegram from Huchow statesbitious and crafty, while the latcriminatiot, for it concerns all, tance. Finally, they were rescued finance, The Japanese troop movemerts that the armies of Chang Tsung. ter (a tribesman) is just a mili- irrespective of race to Shantung have momentarily chang and Sun Chuan-fang had, a tary officer pure and simple. The fact that many of its sections a passing fishing boat when House of Lords on a hereditary stitutionally the executive depend-
or creed, superseded interest in the North clash near Kuotien recently, over Gradually everything is getting are taken from the bill now before South imbroglio, the only interest the control of certain rolling back to normal in appearance, but Parliament proves conclusively ing recent features of which are stock of the Klaochow-Tsinau I don't think the trouble is finish that the Government has no in the turning over of the lil-armed. railway.Nam Chung Pan,
ed.
tention of treating the Chinese and undisciplined body of 3,000 Northern troops in the vicinity of
About the same time the brig differently from the British. If Klaschao to the Nationalists, and
ands again appeared on the Hai-this Bill in any way savoured of phong-Yunnanfu the reported turning over of Chen
railway Outlines His Plans.
or racial distinction, we and class broke the line Tiao-yuan, the Tuchun of an-
up, but nothing would have been the first to hwei's cratwhile pro-Nationalist
Shanghai, July 7.
very serious happened.
oppose it. It will, in fact, afford More than 20,000 people were
protection to the employees no army, at present atalioned at Hlas-
less than to the employers, for it; chowfu, on the Tientsingukow present at Tuesday evening's big railway, to the Northerners.. meeting in the Sin-wu-tai to wel-
makes Jock-outs illegal under cer- tain defced cireumstances. In
MR. AND MRS. COOLIDGE The Japanese action, the official Come Marshal Chiang Kai-shek,
who attended personally.
short, it is legislation designed
ENJOY THE SHOW. explanation of which is to protert
to protect the community as a their nationala,
Marshal Chiang delivered a synchonases
whole. I say that not only is it
Bellefourche, July 6, somewhat, with the sudden inter speech reviewing the latest deve- lopments in the Party. Plans to
not aiming at the labouring
President and Mrs. Coolidge, at
Mr. Stanley Baldwin denied Their duty might well be, as the classes, but one of its basic this South Dakota township, en- the Nationalist solve the present difficulties con- fronting the party were discussed,
principles is, to afford pró-joyed a Wild West show in a na-that the House of Lords would be Government had suggested, to con tection to the law-abiding work-tural setting, and applauded con- liable to become an effective rival sider not only the proposed purpose men who only want to be left tinually the cowboys and cowgirls, of the House of Commers, and but the underlying purpose of legis- alone to earn an honest living. picturesquely dressed, who lasso said it would be unable to make lation, and to report which of its
ed and threw a wild steer, and r
clauses, if any, were strictly finan- unmake Ministries, Initiate tamed unridden ponies, Double-Edged Weapons.
finance, or increase any charges. with by the House of Commons, und cial and therefore only to be dealt
The programme. included
The Government opposed the which clauses if any should be put Upper House, which might imme- the Lords.
ruption of Shantung railway em murication by
The
latter is especially being manifest
ed at Canton, Amoy, and Shang
hai.
Baycolt Effects.
CHIANG AT SHANGHAL
overthrown very shortly.
FINANCIAL CRISIS
IN JAPAN..
DOCKYARD'S HEAVY LIABILITIES.
and entrenching the by custom and tradition, and con- near the Taikoo Dockyard..
basis more firmly, against the ed first and last on the support of were taken back to the matshed, past,
It was not until 7.80 that they people's will, than for centuries the House of Commons alone. He thought, however, that all who had where they told their story of two hour's floating in the sea.
THE WILD & WOOLLY WEST.
a
1.
The motion declared that it examined the question of power, would be an outrage on the con- under the Parliament Act, of the stitution to force the proposals Speaker of the House of Commons through Parliament without a to certify a Bill as a finance Bill mandate from the people.
over which the House of Lords had no power of amendment, were Mr. Ramsay MacDonald con- agreed with the Bryce Committee tended that the proposals serious that difficulties which this proce ly curtailed the Commons' privi dure entailed could be resolved by leges, and would give the Lords a dozen experienced men of good- ascendancy over the Commons. will. He added that whoever be in office, the Tories would be in power.
Executive's Duty.
While popular opinion has Strikes are double-edged weapons dance by Indians, who rushed to principle of a wholly-elected in a category to be dealt with by
masses. It is this clues of mis-
RUSSIAN MURDER
ECHO.
.
The Popular Will
I uny case, there
troops, and the intensification of Marshal Chinng remarked that a the anti-Japanese boycott.
against Hankow to overthrow the the Japanese Government is faced
Shanghai, July 6. punitive expenlition will be sent Red Army and the Red Administra-with a recrudescence of internal In addition to the China crisis,
tion there.
financial trouble, As regards the Northern expedi tion, Marshal Chiang declared that quashed the Finance Minister's which injure the strikers just as the front of the Presidential box The boycott at Amoy, which is the Nationalist forces are advane-scheme for lending the Kawasakich as the people they strike yelling savagely, waving their diately become a rival to the could be no question of finance the port for Formosa trad, being rapidly and that General Yen Dockyard Company 50,000,000 yen ainst They cause untold losses, arms, and quaking to the beat. of Commons, and likewise opposed a being vitiated in the Upper Cham- cams complete on July 4. Japan Shi-shan has definitely joined the from the Post Office savings barkind widespread distress and misery tom-toms.
strong Second Chamber such as ber, nor of any charge being in ese steamers are unable to dis- Nationalist fold. He therefore be-deposits, it is felt that the Govern Lo all classes. Thousands charge at this important Japan- Heves that Chang Tan-lin will be ment's decision to let the dockyard working nien have in recent perately bucking broncho named merely submitted for the criticism Upper Chamber was that a rival to
The climax came when recklessthe United States Senate. The creased. and thousands of honest cowboys rodo out astride a des-Government's ese market.
proposals were The Chinese Chamber of Com-
He said the danger of an elected Despites heavy rain, Marshal annroved by the Press, is likely strike, to give up their means of
company fend for itself, though years been forced to Ko merce at Shanghai is fostering an Chiang reviewed the 26th, Army to bring Baron Tanaka into strungjivelihood, at the dictates of a few
on Cul Coolidge."-Reuter's American of Parliament and the country, the House of Commons might there.
Service. organised anti-Japanese boycolt yesterday morning and delivered a
and the Government would be by be established. This they could disfavour with important political individuals who batten on the ig- here, and although Marsha lengthy speech to the men.
guided thereby. interests, as the Fifteenth Bank,
not contemplate. Chiang Kai-shek apparently does Marshal Chiane and Mr. Chang popularly known as the "Peer norance and gullibility of the
After referring to the thousand- not favour it, there is much anti- General Hsurig Keh-wuh, who has include most members of the tion and trouble that this Bill is Ching-kang yesterday called on Bank" (because Its depositors hief-maker-fomenters of sedi
years history of the hereditary Japanese boycott propaganda in
Mr. Winston Churchill, replying principle, he said no scheme of re- the Yangtsze valley.--Router.
been lying ill since his release from Upper House) ja heavy involved.
to the debate, foreshadowed that form had been advanced that left the Whampao Prison-Nam Chung
designed to deal with. Hongkong The dockyard company owes
the Government's proposals would out the hereditary element. JAPAN HESITATES.
Pain,
120,000,000 ye
We do not of
is no place for them. which
provide means to procure a con- was to remain, he could see no fair- 27,000,000 is due to the Fifteenth We cannot afford to have the ecrno- vant Bolshevista or Communism.
stitutional change by the manier way than they should select Reinforcements Detained.
Bank.--Reuter,
mic and financial structure of the
Moscow, July 6.
festation of the will of the people, their own representatives to a. Colony periodically shaken от
It is officially announced that He said these means could not be smaller Upper House of the legisla undermined. What we want two of the murderers of Turoff, sufficiently provided merely by lure, as did the Scottish and Irish are peace and good order, and the the acting trade representative of constitutional practice, the Lords representative Peers. The Govern right to follow our callings without the Soviet in Berlin, who was kill-deferring to a direct expression ment had offered its proposals for criticism both in Parliament and in let or hindrance,
ed near Moscow on June 10, have (of popular will been arrested after a fight, in
The object of the Government the country, and in the light of the present debate they would try to was to enable the House of Lords reach a common measure of agree which one of the
If it chose to put itself in a better ment for their Lords reform legis was wounded.
The prisoners, who are alleged position, and discharge the func- Iation-British Wireless.
tlons remaining to it under the to be professional robbers, are
Parliament Act. said to have confessed to have
of robbery-Reuter.
Tokyo, July 7."
Owing to the more reassuring.
news from Shantung, the War Office
THE BOXER FUND.
Suggested Disbursement.
London, July 6. Replying to Major General Knox,
has decided to postpone the despatch Mr. G. Locker Lampson said that
of troops from Dairen.
owing to further payments the
The Nichi Nichi and Hochi, com- China Indemnity fund must now menting on the decision to reinforce total nearly £2,000,000. The ad- the troops in Shantung,
express visory strong disapproval, fearing that it mitted recommendations, he could having sub- will encourge the spread of the hardly be expected to revise them
committee
AN AIRMEN'S CLUB.
FOUNDATION GIFT BY
LEVINE.
Paris, July 6.
At a meeting of the Internation-
Legitimate Aspirations. This Bill is in no way a repres- ive measure. It will not interfere with the law-abiding working men; it does not even make economic
TWO BANDITS ARRESTED.
arrested men
·
If it
anti-Japancan boycott in China in favour of General Knox's sugal Airmen's League, at which strikes illegal, und. further, it does murdered Turoff for the purpose In the division which followed, The House of Lords has opened
Reuter,
THE WAR FRONTS.
gestion that this sum should be us-Chamberlin and Levine were re- not prohibit sympathetic strikes, a ed to compensate British nationals coived, the President who had beer robbed at Hankow, League announced that Levine pute between employers and em of the guch. In the event of a wage dis- Nanking and elsewhere in China. Nationalist Claims,
General Knox suggested that the had handed over 100,000 francs ployed, the mediation of the Govern- Shanghai, July 7.
words used suggested the compen- to establish an aviators' club at Le ment can be invoked by the two The Nationalists ander General antion of British nationals, and Mr. Bourget aerodrome, for the use of parties to bring about a satisfac- Wang Tlen-pei are attacking the Locker Lampson replied that ac-all airmen passing through Paris. tory settlement: The efforts of Shantung troops in Tapel. The ed, he thought not.
cording to the latest advices obtain--Reuter. opposing forces are heavily bom. barding each other across the troduction of legislation in view of Colonel Crookshank urged the in-
The Nationalist armies under situation, but the Speaker here in- the entire change in the China Generals Yeh Kal-chen and Ho tervened-Reuter
THE RHINELAND EVACUATION.
VERSAILLES TERMS ADHERED TO.
Labour Criticism.
London, July 6.
A message of June 20 stated:
the Government received a solid a three-day debate on the "reform- Conservative vote, with the addi- ing" of the House of Lords. tion of one or two Liberals, and Lord Fitz-Alan, moving a resolu- [the Labour motion of censure was tion welcoming a reasonable, mea- defeated by 362 to 167.--Reuter. sure limiting and defining the
membership of the House, said » that at present any Government my Chinese colleague and myself
with a majority lasting two years ann also be counted upon to that
The House of Commons was could, under the Parliment Act, end, if desired. We are not un- mindful of the legitimate nepira-
crowded when Mr. Ramsay Mac- legally and without consulting the Donald, on behalf of the Labour people, abolish the Monarchy or tions of the working men to better
Party, moved a vote of censure on the Lords. It was possible that their conditions of ving. But
In reply to a question In the the Government in order to raise the Socialists would establish a the realisation of such aspirations House of Commona, Sir Austen a debate on the proposals for re- single-chamber Government, can only be possible if the Colony Chamberlain said the question of form of the House of Lords. enjoys peace and prosperity, if its fixing the date for termination of
The Lord. Chancellor, on behalf Industrial life puretes a normal the occupation of the Rhineland proposals recently dutlined by the the Speaker's uncontrolled power Mr. MacDonald criticised the of the Government, agreed that No Yangtsze News.
course, and if Capital and Labour by the Ailled troops was not dis- Lord Chancellor in the House of to prevent a money Bill being re Paris, July 6.
loyally co-operate for a common cussed at Geneva, The 17th. Nationalist army'
Shanghai, July 6. M. Poincare received Commander purpose. I believe, in all sincerity,
Lords, on the ground that they Jooted or amended by the Lords under General Tso Wan-hsun has There is nothing to record from Byrd and his companions in that this Bill, more than anything Rhineland is to be evacuated, he stitution and deprived the Comment thought the question as to The circumstances in which the threatened the balance of the con- was indefensible. The Govern- renched Kaomi, op the march to the Yangtaze ports and Shanghai the trans-Atlantic fliglit, and ap- elas I can conceive of at the pre-added, were ward Tsingtao.
(Continued on Page v12.) pointed Byrd an Officer of the sent time, will materially help to Treaty laid down in the mons of control over finance, and whether a money Bill should come
Legion of Honour.-Reuter.
bring us these blessings,
Versailles-Britisk entrenched the louse of Lords within the meaning of the Act
I more firmly on a herditary basis.. (Continued on Page 18)
river.
Yui-cho are jointly attacking Sin-
tal. They claim the capture of
Sintai on the 4th, when
Sun
Chuan-fang's troops retreated in
disorder to Laihu..
SITUATION QUIET.
HONOUR FOR BYRD.
FRENCH DECORATION.
CONFERRED,
of
Wireless.
London, July 6.