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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1924. CANTON'S "BLACK WEDNESDAY." DR. -SUN'S PRESS BUREAU EXPLAINS. “RESPONSIBILITY ON CONSPIRATORS."..

THE CHINA MAIL.

Alet. On the afternoon of the 14th at 6.30 pm the building of the Police Headquarters was fired upon by snipers from a tes-house, called Wu Yu Lau, and a pawn- shop, called Ynu Shun, situated in the vicinity, necessitating the transfer of the police staff from the upper to the ground floor, The "China' Mall" has received the following communiqué

The. The Western suburb of the city from the Press Bureau Canton, marked for pubileation.

known as Salkuan, through which cress-heads in some instances have been abbreviated, but in no

The official statement, no modern roads had yet been instance has the sense been altered.

bullt, had already for several days which is dated Canton, October 19, reads:- In view of the campaign of mis- tion the Volunteers fired into the been controlled by the rebels who representation and slander which unarmed crowd. When the crowd each night caused the closing of is being conducted in the press dispersed they chased individual all barricades on its streets and regarding the affair of the Merlabourers and students, and even the persons of passers-by. chant Volunteers and the fighting women and girls. Some of the this night they were massed on which took place in Canton on the latter were bound and tied for the streets leading out of Saikuan. The 15th inst., the Government has some time before they were re- It was now open rebellion.

Government reluctantly instructed deemed it necessary to issue the leased. These Merchant Volun- following statement for public teers, supposed to be organised the gendarmes and troopa to pro- for self-defence, without any ceed at daylight on the 16th inst. authority or justification, killed

to Saikuan to break down all

information.

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Defiance. Not Defence..

for higher game.

were

Not All Merchants.

Terrorising Merchants.

lanes and instituted a search of On

bad

CANTON CLOUD BURSTS.

BATTLE ROYAL FOR THE SPOILS."

TROUBLE SPREADS TO KONGMOON.

Faction Fight To A Finish Possible.

Only too true, the lull in the Canton situation has been followed by further fighting-the preliminary rounds to a battle royal for the spoils. This time it seems as if the different factions are determined to fight to a finish even though they are only squabbling for what a Hongkong vernacular paper describes as "The remains of the 'Ashea of Vengeance.''

According to our special correspondent in Canton there were four preliminary rounds and organised conflict is expected at any hour. The contestants in the four rounds were as follows:---- Yunnanese v. Police; Hunanese v. Kwangsi-ites; Yunnanese v. Gendarmerie; Hunanese v. Cantonese, with the first-named in each case as the moral if not the actual victor.

Troops Shoot Policemen. (Our Special Correspondent.)

Canloo, October 20.

Squabble Over Spoils.

concernя Another episode

open their doors again quick- ly and this they dare not do. Refugees are still leaving in thousands but very 'le property, if any, is getting into Shameen which is already chock-a-block- with valuables and merchandise. A company of Indian soldiers have arrived from Hongkong to assist in guarding the settlement. is also crowded with refugees.

Trouble Spreads,

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That the trouble is spreading to other parts of the province is evi- dent from a report from Kong- monn under yesterday's date. (From Our Own Corrispondent.)

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It cannot be over-emphasized eight of their fellow-citizens barriers and gates that impeded that the conflict which the Volun. whose only crime was that they free traffic in the suburb, and to)

marching patriotically. teers chose, to enter into with the through the streets to celebrate take forcible measures if they Government was not one for the the anniversary of the foundation were opposed. The advance cor-

menced at 4.30 on the morning.of In the present chaos it is impos- possession of the Arms shipped of the Republic. One of the killed. the 15th. The rebels took advan- able to keep track of the multiple from Belgium by the steamer

a working-man, was afterwards

tage of their barricades and build- series of detached events, but there "Hav," but for the overthrow of

found disembowelled.

ings, particularly the pawnshops is no doubt that there has been the Government, not one for self-

which were especially high and further bloodshed. defence but for aggression. The

It is difficult to believe that well-constructed, to pour it heavy On the Southern Bund, ie, near Government had always viewed with sympathy and encourage law-abiding shopkeepers or their fire on the troops. To rout them the Nanti Club, two policenter ment the formation of the MVC shop assistants could be guilly oft was no easy task. Neverthe- were shot by Yunnanese troops. an evidenced by the fact that Dr. such an act of barbarism and less in less than three hours all From the hazy accounts of eye- Sun himself presented Colours to cruelty. The Government had the principal entrances, except witnesses I guther that a body of it last, June at an oficial review, information that some of the men one, into Saikuan had been gained, police from W Te-chen's head- When the steamer "Hay arrived were not members of the Mercan and organised resistance was over, quarters were searching for arms From a little after 7 a.m. until in the Southern Suburb (which is Many of at Canton with its shipment of tile community at all.

noon there was only isolated fight not across the river, hat is really arms, Chan Lim-uk, the then them were disbanded soldiers, dising in particular streets or build the centre of the Bund) when they Commandant of the Corps, in his charged policemen, city ruffians efforts to get the arms passed by and bad characters from the ings which were the strongholds were challenged by a Yunu

of the rebels. Fire burst out in putrol. On the police declaring the Government, pursued such a villages who had been hired at the seven or eight places either as a that they were under orders from course of deception and misrepre- rates of twelve dollars a month result of the fighting or of incen- Wu Te-chen the soldiers are alleged sentation that the suspicions of and sixty tents per day. Some of diarism by

characters. to have replied that they were the Authorities were aroused. A these hirelings were even bandits According to police reports about trespassing in their territory. widespread campaign to advertise and men sent from Chen Chiung-490 (four hundred and ninety) squabble ensited, volleys were fired Chan Lim-pak and his pinch-back ming's Torces.

houses were burnt. Unfortunately and the two policemen shot. Fascisti in the foreign press in

some looting took place both by Their bodies by on the road for Hongkong and the Treaty Ports,

Not content with the damige bad characters and by soldiers. some time. and even in America, and the fact that Chan, in disobedience to the already done, the Merchant VolunThose who were caught with loot orders of the Government, sought teer Corps proceeded to terrorise were, however, promptly shot on to become the Commandant not the general body of merchants of the spot. This drastic measure all body of Kwangsi regulars merely of the Merchant Volunteer the whole city forcing them to had an immediate salutary effect, who ventured into the eastern out Corps of Canton city, but also of close their shops, notwithstanding It was comparatively fortunate skirts of the city near the East the Volunteers of the entire pro- the fact that the only pretext that the scene of the fighting took Gate. There they started to co-

He has notified that under Dr. the opinion that Chan was playing course, that is, the Government's Eastern limits of the suburb con- pounced upon by a patrol of Sun's orders, he will disarm the vince of Kwangtung, confirmed which they ever had for such a place in a few streets on the lect civiliuns' arms when they were

detention of their arms shipment, taining not residences but shops Hunanese soldiers who pointed out Merchants Volunteers in the dis had been removed by the return whose owners long ago had re- that as the Kwangsi-ites had, taken tricts unless they reopen their Government. Returns Arms. of the arms as stipulated. The moved their valuables. Very few, no part in the initial attack last doors immediately. Fortunately, Af the time of the first General Volunteers paraded through the if any, non-combatants were hurt; Wednesday, they were not due for trouble has been averted for the Strike towards the end of August, streets, armed to the teeth. in the casualties among the troops any shire in the resulting harvest. time being as the merchants com- "Finding's Keeping.” plied and started business again the Government, in spite of the groups, large and small, and com- numbered about 100, those among irregularities attendant on the pelled those business-houses and the rebels, owing to their posts of·

About a hundred Mausers and at noon yesterday. But it is felt shipment of arms which wouki shops which wanted to do business vantage, were probably less. The rifles were taken by the Hunanese that with this initial moral vic have justified its entire confisea-and these were in the majority single class which suffered the from the Kwangsi-ites and the latter tory, the regulars may proceed to tion, agreed to return the entire--to close their shops literally at most were the barbers of Sai- called for reinforcements from Tai disband the Volunteers and cause

The kuan who, owing to some grudge Sha Tau (the arrodrome island). bloodshed. shipment of about 8,000 rifles and the point of the bayonet.

ammunition resuit of course was most serious or other, were maltreated and Fighting would have followed had

Fighting At Fatshan? small

and army

not some Cantonese regulars (exclusive of 1.000 small arms for the commercial and industrial killed by the rebels to the number,

intervened A settlement was Rumours have reached this port ordered and paid for by one of the life of the city and the surround-it is reported, of 70 or 80.

Responsibility. On Conspirators. arrived at on the understanding from Fatshan that fighting has Yunnanese generals), while the ing country. It was now plainly

The Government deplores the that" finding's keeping and each broken out there but this has not M.V.C. agreed to contribute a sum evident to the citizens of Canton of $500,000 for the Northern (what had been known to the necessity for the measures which corps was to retain what it had been confirmed. It is stated that the local pro-Sin military com- Expedition. The discussion of Government authorities already) had to be taken on the 15th inst collected.

Then again, a detachment of mander has demanded a fine of the details for the carrying out of that the purpose of the group of The rebel conspirators and their the understanding was delayed conspirators among the Volun- representatives had been warned Wa Te chen's gendarmerie, also $250,000 from the merchants at and prolonged by representatives teers was nothing less than the repeatedly that the Government known as the Red Army, ventur. Fatshan for being in sympathy Western Suburb with their Canton colleagues. One of the Merchant Volunteer Corps overthrow of the Government by would be compelled to use force if ed into the until last week, when a full under- bringing about the paralysis of they proceeded with their sedi- (Sai Kwan.) Here they were reported condition is that all commercial tious activities and that the conse- met hy the Yunnanese (who civilians' arins are to be surrendered standing was reached between the political

In possession) and

mless payment of $160 as licence other representatives of the metropolis. Obviously the Govern- quences, would involve suffering are

of fee" for each rifle or Mauser is M.V.C. and General Li Fook-lam.ment could not sit by and watch a not only on the guilty but also sold

Western Suburb was A made, together with "fine" of It was to the effect that the gang of armed men instituting a on the innocent. They had, how the Government, instead of accepting reign of terror among law-abiding ever, presumed too much on the Yunnanese preserve. A convincing $100 for each man that has dared the financial contribution, should Citizens and at the same time leniency and tolerance which the display of armed preparation was

Government had

consistently enough to convince the gendar to don a Volunteer's miiform. receive rifles from the Volunteers, encompassing its own downfall,

Local Profiteers. exhibited throughout the affair. merie but it is rumoured that the which were badly needed by the

In League With Chen.

The responsibility for the suffer- latter will not rest till they have

Each of the down-stemmers from Northern Expedition, at the rate.

Reports had been received for ing and damage must fall on those Kot Sai Kwan into their control. of $160 per riffe, a price about 3

General Li Fook-lam's Can-Canton are bringing full loads of times their cost according to the some time of plots made at Hong who, regardless of the warnings tonese regulars were also involved refugees and all the Chinese board- invoice. The Volunteers were to kong between Chan Lim-pak, the of the Government and reckless, in some street firing. A number ing-houses are absolutely full. get possession of the 5.000 arms former Commandant of the Mer-of the consequences to the citizens, had crossed the river from Honam Soe have taken to profiteering, as as soon as a written agreement chant Volunteer Corps, and the had pursued their political plots and assembled a quantity of seized much as $7.50 a night being asked had been signed between them and agents of Chen Chiung-ming in the safe refuge of Hongkong arms. Prior to embarkation for for two beds for which: $1.80 was Genera! Li but the ammunition for Sums of money had been advanced and Shameen. In the latter place their headquarters at Honam some previously demanded. the arms was to be returned a by the former to the latter. particularly, owing to the employ Hunanese came up and a scrap It has been current that the little later, a precaution which the Several weeks previously the ment of Chan Lim-pak and his started as to who should keep the Chinese merchants, who went up Government felt it necessary to M.V.C. had already imposed a levy brother, Chan Lim-chung, as com- arms. Both sides opened fire but froin Hongkong to investigate as to take owing to the seditious inten- not only on shops which were pradores of the Hongkong and the casualties were very small, what relief might be undertaken tions of the M.V.C. In execution members of the M.V.C. but on Shanghai Bank, the conspirators probably only one or two killed and, incidentally, to intervene, In the end the were met with a very cursory reply of this agreement, on the evening other shops as well-the ostensible had a safe and convenient base for and wounded.

EXPERT DRIVERS.. MODERATE CHARGES, of the 9th inst. the Government object being towards making a plotting. Orders have now been Cantonese retired leaving a part of from Wn. Han-min, acting for the handed over to General Li, who contribution to the war-chest of issued for the arrest of these men, their spolls behind.

President." He is said to have ↑ JumA) LAND EN MOSS THE SALAMEDA CONTEST ENCOMENDO SKEN 1445 was accompanied by representa the Government in return for the the Chan brothers, and nine other

As yet business is still suspend pointed out to the visitors that they these funda were rebel leaders.

ed and Government is most anxious, had gone to Canton too late and tives of the M.V.C. the specified arms-and

that the merchants should resume that their good offices should have quantity of arma, although at the diverted also for Chen Chiung-

It is the hope and belief of the In the present confusion and for been used to persuade the mer last moment the representatives of ming's use. The Government had the MV.C. suggested, and the every ground for believing that it Government, now that the rebel- fear of molestation, merchants are chants to give in before the fight-

ing began. Government agreed, that a portion was intended to take advantage lious element among the Volun-keeping away More looting is of the ammunition should be of the absence of a large number teers has been eliminated, that the feared if the merchants do not transferred to them at once and of troops on the Northern Expedi- future relations between Govern- that 1,000 of the arms should be tion for Chen Chiung-ming to ment and the law-abiding mer counter-attack on the East River chants and citizens will lead to temporarily held back instead. the mutual trust co-operation for While the Government had per-front, in spite of the fact that the thuwal fare and press of the Two MEN REMANDED ON THREE HOUSES DAMAGED. formed its part, the M.V.C., in of Walchow to be raised and a people" gross violation of their under- taking, did not sign the written arge portion of the Eastern front agreement with General Li mora truce with Chen Chiung-ming so to be evacuated in order to effect perform the other stipulations but that he, too, if he had a spark of at once took possession of the patriotism left in him, might transferred arms and ammunition devote his energies to fight the on the evening of the 9th and on

common enemy of the Republic,

The following will represent the the 10th. This breach of faith Tsao Kun. The Government had Club at Happy Valley to-morrow, a armed robbery at No. 19, Aberdeen Police Station, and a aroused the indignation of General also every ground for believing at 5.15 pm.Club will play in Cheung Lok Street, second floor detachment, with Mr. H. T. Brooks, j

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Li who, in a public telegram, that with this counter-attack by

Tragedy Of October 10,

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Two almost new houses were gutted at a fire at Aberdeen this Before Mr. B. W. Hamilton at morning and a third was damaged, the Kowloon Magistracy this morning, Kwok Sing, aged 24 Parily by the flames and partly by

water from the hoses. years, a wood sawyer, was charged with (1) feloniously committing

At 6,16 a.m. Central Fire Station received a call through

and stealing therefrom $6 superintendent, in charge, pro- money, one bracelet watch cended post haste to Wu Peg

exposed the perfidy of the M.V.C. Chen Chiung-ming there was to C. Macnamara, W. H. Locke one gold ornament and about Street, which runs-round the back

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20. pieces of clothing, and with of the village which feloniously receiving three pleces The old pontoon the of clothing valued at $20, knowing Central Brigade used to work in the same to have been stolen from the old days and which has since the same address on October 17. been kept out at Aberdeen, render Mung So, aged 20 years, scaffed yeoman service. Police from older was prosecuted for feloni Aberdeen Station, a motor-pamp ously receiving three pieces of from Kennedy Town Station and clothing, knowing the same to another motor pump from Central have been stolen. Beog

also rendered aid... Detective Inspector T Murphy conducted the prosecution

The first defendant was to

On October 10, the National | Canton itself, through the D. S. Green, K. A. R. Duncan, Day of the Republic, while the machinations of Chan Lim-pak H. H. Rose; L. R. Blacking, H. G. Volunteers were landing on the and his fellow-conspirators, a

Gardner, A. Kinross, J. C. Farrs: Bund the arms and ammunition, general strike of merchants and a popular procession, advertised an armed uprising of several several days before in celebration thousand Volunteers. It was thùs, of the National Birthday, was the duty of the Government to act, wending its way through the and act promptly. streets of Canton Numbering a couple of thousand, composed of young students, both bore and The Government, therefore, on girls (accompanied by their the 14th inst. proclaimed the dis teachers), labourera and military solution of the M.V.C. In anti- cadets, carrying flags and banners cipation of armed resistance, the and, of course, una raed, the pro- Government ordered a demonstra-Shanghai Docka... 06 Bayers, the second was adjourned for one hontes cover an area of about 20 cession approached the spot where tion of force. The rebel Volun- New Engineerings 6.65 Bayars. Week on the application of the by fout and were of three the Volunteers were transporting teers went further than expected. In Orl their arms. Without any provoch. They courted and provoked a com

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