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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925.

DANISH CONSUL'S

REPORT

FIRST SHOTS FIRED BY CHINESE.

better been expressed on a polit SHAMEEN AFFAIR abourers gesticulated moru cal platform, or in a place where

threatening towards Shamesn and the hearer has a right to contend

yelled fiercer than their predeces with the speaker- something at

sors, and the next I saw was that which the Donnes and Spurgeons

a fully armed military forcé with. arms at the slope and led by of the present theological era-if

mounted officers followed in their any there. be-must writhe, We

rear. When these had reached have an early admission from the

up to the corner of the lane lead. Doctor. "Anti-foreign sentiment

"Not A Shadow Of Doubt," "ing into the city from Messrs Li and Fung's I suddenly saw the is not difficult to arouse,

Further evidence that the firing Chinese crowd of spectators usually focuses itself upon Hong in the Shameen Incident began stampede in wild panic, as if being from the Chinese side is contained warned of danger, and simultano- kong as the most prominent in the report of the Royal Danish ously the soldiers got their arms. evidence of the presence and Consul at Canton on the matter. from the slope, cocked rifies and power of the foreigner in that The Consul writes

the first shots rang out Bullets region." Following on that we ard

By the present I have the were flying all over where I was. told: "The southern Chinese are pince here on the afternoon of in through the hotel window honour to report on what took standing, and I leaped for safety easily persuaded that.... Britain, Tuesday, the 23rd inst. when the whore I had to take cover behind having taken Hongkong, then Chinese held a procesalan de- pillars against the rain of bullets Kowloon, then the New Territory, monstrating against the foreign aimed at the hotel. The fire was and made every effort to extenders for the abolition of the exist-immediately returned by the Bri- ing treaties and extraterritorial tish and French naval machine- her railway beyond Canton--that rights..

gun unita posted along Shameen France and Britain have every To start with it is as well to followed by the Shameen Police intention of extending their power mention the events leading up to force in the Police Station and over South China and even of the unfortunate affair on Tuesday, Hotel, and was aimed entirely at

the 23rd.

the attacking military forces acquiring more of Chinese terri-

the On the 8th June a battle started across

creek, which tory." Agnin:-"Canton is deter-between the Canton Government were

'safd to be the mined that Hongkong shall not troops and the Yunnanese, who Whampoa cadets under their dominate the situation in South had occupied Canton city in an Russian leaders. The Procession endeavour to overthrow the exist- proper had; when firing started, China, Hongkong seems equally ing red Government headed by reached the English bridge, and determined that it will, and it Civil Governor Hu Han-min. The was therefore out of the danger. goes a long way toward balking Yunnanese were defeated and zone. The actual firing took place many of Canton's ambitions" driven out on the 12th June, and between the French and the Eng- (italics ours). The preacher-ored that peace and order would now the Shameen. defenders for about the Canton Government proclaim-lish bridge and was kept up by speaker-goes on to allege that be restored for the benefit of the 10 minutes, while the troops on talk of a discreditable nature goes people. However, towards the ending from the house tops for about

Shakee kept up intermittent snip on in Hongkong against whatever of the following week it was clear an hour and a half after Shameer party is in power in Canton,

fomenting a strike against the gunboat stationed off the French Hongkong's failure to win the foreigners under the pretext of concession confidence and goodwill of South sympathizing with those killed, in about 8 shots from their heavy participated with China, is ascribed in part to our the Shanghai affair of 30th May artillery, but these I was later alleged "inability to see things and on Saturday, the 20th the told were blank rounds.

usual British river steamer from casualties on the Shameen side The from the point of view of China Hongkong failed to put in annumbered one French civilian as a republic." Hongkong has had appearance, the crew having gone killed outright and two British “too much control of navigation, out on strike in Hongkong. At civilians wounded. As to the of censorship of mails and cables, that all Chinese servants employ figures are very conflicting, but the same time rumours got about casualties on the other side the control of news and almost ofed by foreigners on Shameen must have been heavy. Canton's connections with the rest would cease work the following Photograph Propaganda. of China and of the world.". Such | day, and on Sunday morning, the Later in the afternoon when things, it is said, counteract the their employ.

21st at 9 a.m. all servants left firing had ceased I observed from On Monday all the Shameen, Police Station how good effect of the justice Chinese crews employed on foreign owned the Chinese collected a large num receive in Hongkong courts, "of motor-boats and launches walked ber of dead bodies stripped of the fair and even generous treat-out, so that by this time the their clothes in a small side street Island was entirely deserted of just opposite and brought a photo- ment of organizations like the Chinese and the foreigners practi- grapher along to photograph the Confucian Society......' These cally cut of from communication scene. It is, of course, super- things, are forgotten, we are told, with the outside world."

On fluous to enlarge on the purpose "when there is too much con- Monday it was further known for this action.

In view of the fact that the demnation of the Government of that the Chinese students and

others intended holding Canton Government immediately Canton or too much repression of procession the following day after the incident saw fit to or rough treatment of as 4 demonstration against notify the Consular Body, and in 'coolies.... 17

"Boy Scouts, rather the foreigners, and it leaked out particular the British and French than swear allegiance to King that at a meeting held at the Consular Representatives, that George, give up their organizators were determined to enter, Shameen and that therefore the Kwangtung University the agita- the firing had started from in tion." "The strike has been very Shameen and/or would create an foreign authorities were respon-

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Hongkong. Wednesday, August 12, 1925.

Christian professors on the staff is unquestionably great

even

H.B.M. Consul-General on hearing myself of this opportunity, to of the Canton Christian College: among educated people and right Secretary for Foreign Affairs that Majesty's Government the actual

this immediately warned the

bring before His Danish There has been some sort of an in Hongkong." "A cable from any, attempt made on Shameen facts as seen by myself. There is admission from the head of that Hongkong says that they have would be met. by armed forces,

not a shadow of doubt in my mind institution; and the question of begun to flog the strike leaders

that the affair was pre-arranged jav Forewarned Forearmed.

and the fact that fully armed time has been introduced to enable and that it is having a salutary emergency were already made in an otherwise peaceful demon-

Preparations to meet any

troops in great numbers, took part' a full and official report to be effect." We could add to these during the previous weeks' fight stration precludes any doubt as to made. Reluctantly we may leave quotations. We refrain even from Ing by the Municipal Council of the intentions of the organisers, it there for the moment. The commenting on them, merely the British Concession of Shameen for which the, Chinese Govern words of the manifesto have done pointing to their controversial Special Police duty, and the actual more so as they were previously by calling up Volunteers for ment must be held responsible the their evil work, and the character aspect, to say nothing of the defence of the Island was in the warned against the consequences of the British. has been besmirch- obvious falsity of some of them. hands of British and French naval of such an action.

ed. A retraction-if eventually We are merely charitable and say forces, who had erected and. given-is not likely to overtake that here is yet another-an "Old various points along the creek bagged machine-gun posts at the harm that has been done. China Hand-who has "spoken facing the city. Feeling this we are impelled to unadvisedly with his lips."

refer to the recent utterances of

A

ROYAL DANISH Consulate at CANTON, 25th June, 1925, (Sd.) WALLACE J.-HANSEN, Consul

A SILLY, LIE. (Reuter's Service.)

During the morning of Tuesday, the 23rd it was noticed from Shameen that motor-cars passing.! TIENTSIN TROUBLE. along Shakee Street the street

Poking August 19 on the Canton side of the creek

According to the Rosta, M. separating the island from the city Karukian (Soviet Ambassador), to- were distributing circulars and day circulated to the heads of the leaflets, which later on proved to foreign missions in Peking a letter be inflammatory pamphlets calling from the Canton Administrator upon all and sundry to rise against embodying the findings of the In- the foreigners and drive them out vestigation Commissions regarding of Shameen.

the Shameen fining on June 28,

CHINESE POLICE. OPEN FIRE.

a member of the staff of the Canton Christian Collège recently enjoying safe harbour- age, and hospitality in Hongkong -Dr. H. B. Graybill. This gentle- man when here; declined to discuss the manifesto to which

STRIKERS WOUNDED. SPEAKING UNADVISEDLY.

we have referred. They-he and his colleagues'expected to be

(Reuter's Service.} Two sections of the community, attacked" and they did not mind. at least, should keep a watch upon. Since then Dr. Graybill has pro- The Chinese police and military

Tientsin, August 12. their utterances; those belonging reeded to Manila and has thought yesterday were compelled to to the pulpit, and those to the fit to give his views on the situa- on striking mill workers, wound- press the one in its task of tion--not merely in China gening eight, mostly in the legs moulding the Christian charecerally--but in South China parti-

The procession commenced This letter states that the Com shortly after 2 o'clock and I per-mission, which was composed of tion from the verandah of the and police others, representatives sonally watched the demonstra-eighteen parsons, including judicial freVictoria Hotel" facing Shakee of the labourers, fatimers, mer from the beginning and was there chants, and educators, after on fore an eye-witness of all that umuung numerony witnesses, found, happened. The procession was inter alia, that the firing was first headed by mounted and dismount started from Bhameen, and that ed police, and then came on in machine guns were freely used by sections, consisting of various

the Shameen forces, the ballots units comprising students of ding the dim-um and soft nosed

kind farent schools, labourers,bo The Na scouts, and a sprinkling of girl students, all waving Bags and Hankow, August 11. banners and shouting towards banterence between the Shameen. One of the last units

British horities | was headed by a brass-band agresment regard-small boys, this being said to stem of defence of the the Canton Christian College s

beration with dents.

(Reuters Service)

ter; the other in directing publie Cularly. They were given on opinion. Very often the disciples Sunday evening, the 2nd inst., in HANKOW'S SAFETY fall short of their self-imposed the Union Church, and doubtless interested those who were pre- tasks, and the harm they do is unquestionable There is evidence sent Dr. Graybill spuke with the of that on all sides, and none authority of a number of years realdence in China. The "Manila, more so than in regard to those

Bulletin," which gives seven who are pastors and teachers of a Christian morality. Some of these

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