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"the Victoria Nursing Home, Shanghai,, to Mr. and Mrs, George Danson, Jr., a son, FERGUSON-DAVIE--At the Ma- ternity Hospital; Singapore, on 23rd June, to the wife of Ferguson-Davie, Sungei Raya

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MARRIAGE.

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DEXTER-KELLEY-On June 25, 1926, at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghal by the. Very Rev.

of Omaha, Neb., «U.S.A.

Hongkong, Monday, July 5, 1926.

JULY 4,

300 KILLED.

CANTON ARMY LOSES IN SKIRMISH

NORTHERN EXPEDITION.

[From Our On "Correspondant.] Canton, July 1 Because of the slowness of coolie enlistment, and the great popular outery against impress ing coolies into service for the northern expedition, the Govern, ment has raised the combined pay, food allowance and straw sandal allowance from $15 to $20 a month per man. It is under- stood that the advance will also be enjoyed by those who have already been enlisted or shanghai-

MONDAY, JULY 5, 1926.

PICKET “ARRESTED."

-SEQUEL TO ATTEMPTED

INTERFERENCE.

"FATSHAN INCIDENT...

(From. Our Own Correspondent.). Canton, July 1, Early this morning an attempt by river strike pickets to inter- fere with the "Fatshan," the Hongkong steamer, resulted in one of the pickets landing in the. Shameen jail

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CANTON PROTEST.

NON-RECOGEITION OF

OFFICIAL STATUS..

AMERICAN CONSUL'S LETTER.

The Canton "Foreign Office han authorised the publication of the following statement, which le sent us by the Bureau of Information Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Canton:

In view of the excellent relations. now existing between the Govern A Bampan loaded with chickens ment at Canton and the American. approached the "Fatshan" to Consular authorities, the Acting market the fowl, when a picket Minister for Foreign Affairs, be- boat intervened, and one of the llaves that no misunderstanding pickets jumped on to the sam-will be created by the publication pan. "A launch from the of the following letter, dated June ed at the lower figure, paFatshan" then chased away the 30, from Mr. Douglas Jenkins,

The Military Council has an-

picket boat, and the picket on the American Consul-General, to Mr. nounced that all traffe over the sampan was brought to Shameen Chen Tu-jen (Eugene Chen), Act- Canton-Shiu-Iwan railway line under arrest. It is planned tong Minister for Foreign Affairs, will be confined to troop trains release him at the Canton end of with the reply of the latter dated for the next fifteen days, or until the British bridge. If he cannot July 2: July 16. Four troop-trains will establish his identity and affilia- be run north daily, each train tions with the pickets on guard carrying approximately 1,000 there, he will probably meet with

rough handling.

iment

fect Union, established justice, ensured domestic tranquillity, pro- A military disaster of medfum moted the general welfare, and importance was reported to-day. to the Nationalist government secured the blessings of liberty to when word arrived that 1,000 men themselves and their posterity."

of the Third Army, under General A nation that has those ideals Chu Pui-tak, were surrounded emblazoned on her banners can and disarmed, after large loss of not but command the esteem and life. The disaster occurred in a affection of Great Britain and of mountainous pass near the mouth of the Chien Chow River, when the Greater Britain overseas. In the detachment was marching to any scheme for the uplifting of the Hunan-Kwangsi border to re- mankind in general she will not inforce General Tang, Shang-chi They suddenly found themselves look to the British Empire in vain surrounded on three sides by the for co-operation. In all that soldiers of General Yung Tai tends" to advance the cause of tang, an aide of Cheng Kwing Civilisation Britons and Ameri-ming. The Cantonese lost 300 killed, half again as many wound- cans will ever be found walkinged, and all their guns and and working side by side along ammunitions and supplies, No the corridors of Time--Allies in captives were taken, the survivors being allowed to straggle back to peace as well as in war!

the railroad.

OBITUARY,

THE REV. G. P. BOSTICK

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American Consul's Letter.

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canton. Honourable Chen Yu-jen, Acting

Sir,-Adverting to this Consulate - Oriental Hotel Strike. -

General's despatch of June 18 in The employees of the Sincere acknowledgmont of your note of Company's hotel, the Oriental, June 4, 1929, concerning the aboli- have gone on strike in spite of the tion of the office of Commissioner mandate of the Labour Commia of Foreign Affairs and the inten aloner that they must await furtion of the Ministry of Foreign ther arbitration of their wage dis- | Affairs to deal with all interna- pute. The hotel, the second-ional cases in the future, I have largest in Canton, is now closely the honour to explain that while picketed, both guests and em this Consulate General is pleased ployees being subject to interfer-te correspond directly with the ence and annoyance. The Goy- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is ernment is doing nothing to of course understood, that recognt enforce Its arbitration-mandate, tion is not impiled have the

Merchants Abducted.

At Sheung Pak station on the Canton-Samshui Railway-to-day four leather merchants who were buying tickets to Canton were seized by armed bandits and dragged away to be held for rat- som. This station is only 20 miles from Canton. The station guarda did nothing to Interfere, nor did the 200 soldiers on the train which was at the station, offer any protection.

To Evacuate Hunan? The National Government makes official announcement that word has been received from Changsha and other: northern points that Wu Pei-fu's allies have decided to evacuate the HONOUR AMONGST whole province of Hunan," and confine their military efforts to holding Hupeh..

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honour, etc, etc.,

(SCD.), DOUGLAS JENKINS,

American Consul General” Acting Minister For Foreign Affairy Reply.

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acknowledge the receipt of your let ter dated June 30, in what you explain what has already been quite clear and obvious to me that recognition is not implied in your despatch of June 16 acknowledging my note of June 4, which notified. you of the abolition of the office of Commissioner for Forägn Affairs. and the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deal with on International cases in the future.

"Sir, I have the honour to

Though "In ordinary cireum-" stances your letter might call for no specific reply, I believe the best interests of the: American people,

presented by my Government, would be served if I make the categorical statement that while my Govern-

with

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of

The Kueiteb, Honan, Correa pondent, on June 22, records the death by typhus of the Rev. G. P..

Yeh Kai-chin, who has been re- Bostick, of Pochow, in Anhui Hepeatedly defeated by General contracted this disease on a Tang Shang-chi, recently wired to journey he had just made to Tien- Ho Yao-tso and Tang Hsien for CANTON OFFICIALS "SQUEEZE" and of the Chinese people as re- tsin and although he was brought help from the Hunan Protecting up to Kueiten for medical atten Army, but this help was refused, tion as soon as the illness mani-and then a telegraphic appeal to

From Our Own Correspondent.J fested itself, all efforts failed on Wu Pel-fu himself brought orders

Canton, July 1. his behalf and he passed away to evacuate Changsha and move

A great scandal has been ment (which has stabilised an Inde yesterday morning after about a gradually over into Hupeh.

created here by charges and here nearly a decade ago, and 'has pendent political regime founded

week's illness.

counter-charges which have re unified a group of territories Iniger The situation in Hunan is fur-sulted in the dismissal of three of in area than France and Italy com- This closes a life of 37 years ther complicated by the fact that the most prominent members of bined, of missionary service in China, Cheng Hung-hi was recently the Naval Administration Bureau 60,000,000 people) demands that it

R population C. J. F. Symons, M.A., Walter years of hard work, often under badly defeated by the Cantonese on charges of graft. The men let be treated with respect, It neither James Dexter of London; Eng- conditions of great danger and troops, losing many men by death out, by personal mandate of Gen- desires for expects from America land, to Frances Ellen Kelley, worthy member of the old school He appealed for aid but got none, Man-chee, head of the bureau, and of recognition which even con hardship, for Mr. Bostick was a and surrender, and 1,400 rifles.eral. Chang Kai-shek, are Poon and other Foreign Powers the sort of missionary and never apared and has now offered his submis- his two chief assistants, Ho Chit siderations of political realism and himself in his efforts to advance sion to Canton. Chen Hung-si and Wu King-ying. the Kingdom of God in this land will soon be in command of a body

international dignity have not pre- of his love and adoption. He was or re-fitted troops fighting for the chief of the bureau has been filled phantom governments successively Poon Man-chee's position as vented them from granting to the nealy 70 years of age and was cor-Nationalist. cause. templating retiring to the States

by the appointment of Lam set up in Peking by the Mandarin At Hengchowfu next year, but his oft expressed 1,800 war prisoners taken by Canton and river forts. He now ex-bandit chiefs: The Foreign more than Chiang-hoong, commander of the aqueezers, military plunderers and thought that he would like to end Tang Shang-chi are being kept in holds both positions. his days in China has been grant the Sin Min Middle School com-

Powers, apparently, have not yet In Hongkong, as elsewhere,ed and Chinese soil receives him pound.

As the tangled story goes," Mr. realised that Peking has long American Independence Day will at last. The tears of genuine

The Canton Government rester-chant, suggested to Poon Man-nation, and that it is to-day

Yap Ho-aze, a prosperous mer- ceased to represent the Chiness be celebrated today instead of sorrow shed by his Chinese friends day formally accepted the submis chee the naining of Ho Chit and organ of exploitation and plunder and their manifestations of love sion and alliance of Generals Wu King-ying, and said that the in the hands of the Mandarinate yesterday. It is only proper that and regard for him show that his Yuan Tso-ming and Wang Tien- three of them could work with and the Northern Militarists. As the greatest event in the history labour of many years and hard pei of Szechuan and Kweichow, him, Mr.. Yap, for large squeeze. of our American cousins should work have not been in vain. Those and their armies, totalling about to whom he has been truly a 20,000 men, will be re-armed and not pass entirely unnoticed in this father in God will not soon for-paid by Canton. They now pass Colony. The total foreign con- get him as they try to carry on in under General Chang Kai-shek's munity is so insignificant com- the work whose foundations were superior command, and will be pared with the great populace of by him so well and truly laid

used to march on Changsha and on toward Hupeh. Orientals that every opportunity should be welcomed for bringing them together in a social and friendly manner. Aa joint mem- bers of the great English-speaking race, as co-workers in the great

The bazaar at the University cause of civilisation, the Ameri-grounds in aid of St. Stephen's cans and the British have perhaps brought to a successful conclu-

College Building Fund more in common than any othersion on Saturday The opening two countries. Here in Hongkong was performed by Mr. Li Yau-

The result was the summary And though unrecognised but discharge of all three naval withal the only ruling group is there has been the greatest esprit tsun, Chairman of the Chinese

From Our Own Correspondent.).

officials, and notification to Mr. China at the moment that really de corps between the British and Chamber of Commerce, who re-

Canton, July.1.

Yap that he could participate in governs, my Government is not the American communitiesa ferred to the reputation for

scholarship which the students of Neither the Chinese-Maritime no more naval contracts,

* | without hops of planting the camaraderie that ie evidenced by the College were maintaining and Customs nor the Canton Govern-

foundation of a great new struc... the growing trade between Hong- to the greater facilities which ment shows any signs of weaken.

ture of relations between China and America, and other friendly and kong and "Usona," as a former would be provided by the new ing in the struggle over the at American Ambassador to Great

school building.

Mr. Vishinsing Atmasing, the profitable markets for their goods tempt to unionise the customs ser- The presentation of prizes to vice/

General Manager of the local firm and services, which will enable the Britain once suggested as a short winners in various competitions Sun Fo, mayor of Canton, per- of Messrs. Poohoomull Bros., left Chinese people to live in freedom/ and appropriate name for the and a vote of thanks to those who sists in his refusal to give police for India by s.s. "Esquilino," ow- and to work out the modernisation United States of North America, had assisted, brought the proceed protection to the non-union Casing to bad health. Mr. Atmasing of their country in terms of the Whatever the Treaty of Ings to a termination. Among toms employees, who continue to Was Hos. President of the Sind best, both in their historic ex- those who were mentioned seat and sleep in the Customs. Hindoo Merchants' Association. perience and Individual culture, dependence between Great Bri- having worked for the success of buildings rather than run the risk Mr. Chandanmad will have charge and in the doctrinal system and tain and America may have meant the bazaar were: the Chairman, of interference by pickets while of the local silk store, to Britons 150 years ago is a mat Middleton-Smith and the staff of In this connection it has de

Mr Chau Cheung-nin, Miss going to and from their homes. ter of less than academic Interest 3. Stephen's Girls School, Miss veloped that Sun Fo, who se to Britons of to-day. And the Siu Wai-sheung and other past strongly champions unionising same may almost truthfully be pupils, Mrs. J. Hunt and friends the Customs service, only last said of the Americans. In their Mr. Tso Taun-on and University week wrote to the Commlesioner of Labour strongly urging against maintenance of freedom and

the granting of a charter to a liberty they have during those 150

A number of Chinese push proposed union of Canton street. years marched step by step with cyclists were fimed at the Kowloon cleaners. The major declared Britons all over the world. They Magistracy this morning for that civil employees of this class have ever had the preamble of the traffic offences. One received a should not be permitted to form lesson on the rule of the road unions. But he still chempions Constitution clear in their vision before he was let off with the the unionisation of Customs

ST. STEPHEN'S,

TERMINATION OF SUCCESSFUL BAZAAR.

graduates:

-they have formed "a more per-lot-35.

WBO

CANTON CUSTOMS.

·NO SIGNS OF PARTIES WEAKENING.

SUN FO'S ATTITUDE.

long as this fundamental fact re-. But the squeeze was not pro-mains ungrasped by the Foreign perly divided. Either Mr. Yap Powers, the state of China must was left out, or Poon Man-chee necessarily worsen and some of got nothing. Finally came the the ominous possibilities of the case of the repairs to the Chinese situation may well become realiz river gunboat "Lui Chian." This tios. Job cost the Government $12,000, With a clear apprehension of but only $7,000 went to the con- what it all means, my Government tractor. Nga

is striving to forward the work Then Mr. Yap and Poon Man of establishing the new equilibrium chee rushed to General Chang between the Chinese system fi.e Kai-shek with charges of $5,000 the Chinese people in their or graft against the other two. They ganisation as a social and politico- were summoned by the Generalis-economic aggregate), and the altor. "simo, and laid before him proofs ed environment brought about of divisions of past squeeze with largely by foreign intercourse, and the two complaining witnesses. pressure...

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