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have received the following text of the statement of the Chinese case presented by the Canton Dole- gation at the second sitting on July 18 of the conference for the settlement of the Chinese-British disputes in the (Kwangtung and Kwangsi vinces) --

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In accordance with what aro doubtless the wishes of the British delegation, "we propose to begin consideration of the anti-British trouble in the Liang-knang by first concentrating attention on the aspect of it which has found ex- pression in the anti-British boy- cott.

What is this boycott? Ignoring

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Hongkong, Saturday, July 24, 1926.

TYPHOON WARNINGS.

It is easy to appreciate that the approach of a typhoon involves considerable extra work for the staff of our local Observatory. The need for assuring a minimum of interference with the discharge of their duties in making meteorological observations Is none the less apparent! With the principle of eliminating unneces sary telephonic calls to the Ob- servatory at times when there is danger of a typhoon approaching have nothing but approval, But is the whole community to

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SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1926.

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the then British-Consul-General-ca- June 22, but, actually received by Mr. Wu Chao-chu,, former. Minister for Foreign Affairs, about the hour of the actual shooting, on Junė 29. It was sont through the post. not delivered by mensonger.

"Fantastic Story."

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The Student Class. This view of the Chinese student cinis explains the range and depth of the repercussion of May 30 on the nation. Along the great fine of the Yangtae-at Hankow, Kiu- klang, Nanking--and in the North, notably in Peking, significant manf Cestations of national feeling and a After referring to a fantastic new consciousness occurred. Even story of certain students who had to-day, more than a year after the cast lots for the privilege event, the conception of Sergeant "posing na martyra" (which Evanson's action en May 80 ns himself had to suggest might be massacre persists in the Chines: the figment of a fertile imagina- And the sense tion"), the British Consul-General' Nationalist mind. of wrong engendured is all the went on to declare that "If, on the solid have any greater now that the bloodless other hand, it handling of a far more dangerous foundation in fact and should crowd at Shanghai on the first an-action of the kind be contemplated that and take place, I have the honour alversary of May 30 proves Liang-kuang

Evanson's action was wholly un- aclmnly to warn the Government necessary as an application of the of Kuangtung through you as their doctrine of the preventive massiere, Foreign Secretary that any attempt ie, the prevention of a bigger mas- to penotrate on the Foreign Conces-, sacre by the mob, which Lieut- sion at Shameen will be reaisted Colone! Hilton-Johnson and other by force of arms, and that for the British witnesses at the Shanghai consequences the Government will Judicial Enquiry swore would have be held individually and collec- taken place had Evanson not order-tively responsible," And he added ed fring into an unarmed crowd that "due precautions are, however, of students and others,

being taken to guard against nets of mob violence, such NA have Driving Necessity

occurred at Chinkiang, Kluklang Owing to fighting in Canton and Haukow, and should unfor- fentures. It consists essentially in which enabled the Government to tunately they occur hers, the blood Chinese workers refusing to lond destroy aundry rebel elements and of those who call upon crowd pay- or unload British ships and in the to unify the province, the reperchology to commit deeds of violence Chinese people in our territory re

cussion of May 30 was not fully will be on their own head." It is fusing to buy or deal in "British felt here before the middle of June plain that this is the language of in times of typhoon danger goods, or to sell goods to the when the real significance and

one who, having envisaged the pos- "would be Monday morning-British. It is admitted that the gravity of the occurrence began to sibility, if not the certainty, of

by which time, of course,.

boycott is an organised patriot be understood. In Peking and else shedding, the blood of Chinese on movement which has been sustain. it might rct

where there was already a realisa June 23, 1925, would hardly be able much very

ed by the Chinese people in South tion that an event had taken place to restrain armed and inflamed men matter! The Observatory authori- China for more than a year.

which was of the order of acts that under his orders from doing some ties have already shown their

create epochs in history. As Can-bloodletting on the occasion. In appreciation of the necessity for If the anti-British boycott is to ton is the greatest Nationalist other words we read the letter as a frank avowal of the British publishing information in the be settled and not simply suppress centre in the country. it is not

ed by force and so transform into strange that May 30 should be en- Consul-General's fatention to da local Press by taking the trouble

an enduring element in Chinese visaged from an uncompromisingly what Everson had already done at to 'phone particulars themselves British relations throughout China, | Nationalist standpoint and seen to Shanghal or (we say this in purely when the cessation of harbour it is necessary to find out, at least, be a decisive expression of the historical sense). General Dyer at its direct and immediate cause. In struggle between the body of Amritsar, Le, action based on the traffic rendered unlikely the pos-homely phrase. A malady is cured economic and political needs and doctrine of the preventive massacrĘ sibility of the noon statement get-oy treating its cause.

ideas known as Chinese Nation-which specialiste of strong and The anti-British boycott in its aliam, whose chief motive is the drastic action are wont to advise ting agross. It must be obvious

typical form began immediately achievement of real Chinese inde as

magical operation that the Press is the most suitable after the events of June 23, 1925, pendence, and the opposing system "Oriental" crowds. medium for informing the public of the Shameen. And none with of ideas and forces which, deriving ng to the necessity or otherwise

their sanction from the long serica of treaties dating from the transac- for taking certain precautions and

tien of Nanking in 1842, is known the Government is greatly to be

as Foreign Imperialism. blamed for its incomprehensible omission of the newspapers from the list of those who may ring up the Observatory.

earliest opportunity of reading in the local Press what the week- end weather was likely to be

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SALT GABELLË.

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WHY SIR ERNEST WILTON

RESIGNED..

In a letter to the "Times," Sit Ernest, Wilton who until quite re- tently was Associate Foreign In- spector of the "Chinese Salt Gabelle, discloses the circum- stances which led to his resigna- tion of the post. He says:-

suffer for the conduct of a few An attempt to usurp the fune-i

"June 23,"

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a sense of causation can possibly doubt that the boycott was the direct and immediate outcome of the killing and maiming of Chinese students and others on that fate-: British boycott is to be terminated ful day. M, therefore, the anti-

by negotiated settlement, རྨཱ Ea must first deal with the transac-

tions of June 23, 1925.

Photo by Lee Fong...

This interpretation of May 30 here in the form of patriotic de- would naturally find expression monstrations and other popular manifestations. And, it was the driving necessity to express the

Vice Admiral Yamamoto, of the Imperial Japanese Navy training squadron, shaking hands with Captain Steele, M.C. (A.D.C. to H.E. the Governor) at Queen's Pier on the occasion of last week's visit to Hongkong......

Point in Dispute. Broadly speaking. the material

us first to a

Nationalist mind and feeling on a profoundly poignant act of tragedy that Canton organised the memor-

of students and school-children and

was entirely unarmed save as to the Whampoa cadet section who were in ordinary parade attire. ̈„

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with

Hongkong Embargo. While there can be no doubt that

June 23 is the direct and immediate cause of the anti-British boycott (and of the intensification and ex- tension of the Hongkong strike), it blockade which the Government of is certain that the practical Hongkong instituted against Can- ton and the rest of the province was a powerful predisposing and, later, continuing factor in the main- tenance and enforcement of the anti-British boycott. The Hong- kong Governor in Council, it will be recalled, prohibited the exporta- tion of "rice, flour, tinned or pre- served food-stuffs, gold and silver edin in amounts exceeding five dollars and gold and silver' bullion and banknotes of every descrip- tion in amounts exceeding five. dollars." This prohibition became known in Canton within a few hours of the tragedy of June 23. and-whatever may have been its actual purpose and aim-it then interpreted and continued so to be interpreted as a financial and eecnomic blockade of Canton and the rest of the province which had hitherto depended on Hongkong for. supplies of rice and other food: Stuffs.

More Concrete Reason.

WAS

In a sense, it may be said that this Hongkong severance of econo- mic relations with Canton suggest- ed the precise form in which patrio- tic retaliation for June 28 should expresa itself. And if the anti- British boycott did not soon follow the course of other apparently similar manifestations of popular feeling in the past, one of the main reasons was that the movement came immediately to be envisaged as a means of effective defence against what Chinese Nationalists were led to understand as a British

attempt, based on Hongkong, to

starve and crash Canton as the centre of Nationallat doctrine and " activity,

who in the past may have been tions of the Salt Gabelle was made by the Military Governor of unable to exercise a little patience Shantung, Chang Tsung-chang, and proved themselves a nuisance early in October. 1925, on similar by ringing up for the latest posi-lines to the illegal action now be- ing carried out at Tientsin by the tion which hitherto the morning present Governor of Chibli, who and afternoon "newspapers" have is, if I am not mistaken, a been able to give them? Appar-nominee of General Chang Tsung- chang. Protests from the Chin- ently the Government has decidedese Government and the Legations that it must, for such is the effect interested were ignored, and I of the order relating to telephonic recognised that, if success attend- ed the Military Governor's illegal communication with the Observa-act, the infection would spread to tory, restricting such to a list of his neighbours at Nanking and numbers in which are not those of Tientsin and result in very grave the local newspapers. The public danger not only to the interests of the foreign bondholders but also is therefore dependent for news to the credit abroad of the Chin-fucts of the case are not in realable demonstration of Jane 23. It as to the movement of typhoons ese Government. I was most re-dispute save one, namely whether is indisputable that the procession, on the written reports issued luctantly compelled, therefore, to the British or the Chinese fired which was the central feature of take the extreme step of inform the first shot.. But even this the demonstration, consisted largely twice daily or on the signals which ing the Chinese Government that point became of secondary import they may or may not understand I would certainly resign my post and may or may not be in a posi- of Associate Foreign Inspector of nce, when the entire incident is

the Salt Gabelle, as

examined from the standpoint of a protest tion to view. The latest news

But there is a more concrete ren- against this flagrant breach of juridical responsibility. Such an

Shameen Impregnable. which the morning papers can the Reorganisation Loan agree- examination leada

son why the anti-British boycott The question as to which side has been so long sustained, It is give their" readers at the break ment; at the same time, com- brief review of what may be called Ared the first shot is not se capital on record that my Government fast table is the state of affairs muricated my resolution to the the causal background out of which (aue in view of the actual tireum-

made repeated attemple to have the British Charge d'Affairs. The sprang the tragedy of June 23. over twelve hours before, issued day previous to the date fixed by It is an historical fact that the results of the shooting. Never in in reply to one-of-these-attempts....

stances, of the ease and the grim question of June 23 settled. And from the Observatory at six me for resignation, which was a Chinese people as a whole were its history had Shameen been so the then British Consul-General o'clock the evening before. In few days before the opening of powerfully stirred by Sergeant completely and perfectly protected stated that his Government could the Tariff Conference at Peking, Evanson's order to his men "to shons Separated by its wide canal and the interval the movement

not entertain the demands formu. the Military Governor of Shan- to kill the Chinese students and sand-bugged, barbwired, equipped tated for a settlement of the ques- may

have been such that

tung gave way, I believe on ac- others who demonstrated at Shang and garrisoned by forces armed to tion. These demands were con- unknown to himself it would count of pressure brought to bear hal on May 30, 1925. In China, the teath and supported and cover-ceived and formulated in the un- be dangerous for the reader upon him from the direction of as elsewhere, school boys and girls ed by the great guns of the foreign usual circumstances immediately

Mukden. to venture from the security of his

"of to-day are the rulera" and warships in the harbour. Shameen following the shooting of June 23, *Speaking from my

workers of to-morrow, and ̃a na- was impregnable and absolutely and they included terms which "my" house and of prime importance perience and knowledge, I have tion is necessarily interested in its safe even on the incredible assump- Government, actuated by a sincere that typhoon shutters should be full confidence that the present student class. There is Also tion that there was any real Chin- desire to arrive at a satisfactory closed. Afternoon papers, again, acting Associate Foreign In-special reason why the Chinese ese intention to capture it... There settlement, is prepared to review in

spector is doing all-in his power people are

was no such intention and there order that nothing incompatible now unable to take their to safeguard the interests of the students. A nation that is not dying could have been none, and the re-

with the real dignity and interest readers any further than the foreign bondholders."

must have an articulate group, and sults of the shooting proved It. of Great Britain as a trading Power state of affairs at noon and the

for reasons inherent in the present The British suffered hardly any in China shall continue to obstruct position is even worse on Satur,

period of transition through which casualties, but fifty dead and more the path of settlement. China is passing, this mark and than a hundred wounded · Chinese Before communicating these, new day-the very time when authen-

quality of vitality in a nation is demonstrated afresh the meaning of terms of settlement, we wish to tic meteorological information is

possessed by the Chinese student a struggle between a fortress and have the views of the British dele- Class. If China is to live her a crowd. All the relevant facts of gation on this presentation and de- most needed in order that week- end programmes may be regulated

students must continue to voice the the case support the view that, even finition of the anti-British boycott new economic and political needs if the Shameen firing were done in fasue. in accordance with it. The noon

of the Transition until a new the first instance in so-called self- statement arrives too late for in-

oquilibrium lu established between defenco (which is categorically clusion in Saturday's edition of the afternoon. papera, which go to press earlier, and anything may have happened by the time it appears in the following morn

are

own ex-

'PLANE PERILS.

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their Interested in

THREE CHILDREN KILLED "

IN JAPAN.

Tokyo, July 23. This afternoon a military aero- plane, when taking off at Kashara, fa Gifu Prefecture, accidentally killed three children and seriously a century of commercial, diplomatic the mood and temper to act violently Grandfather-Ducks, child.” hurt two who were looking on and social intercourse with for- and excessively appears from the Dorothy-"Well, aren't they Reuter.

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widely advertised letter written by geese to be ducks.”

the Chinese people and the chenged ["denied), It was excessive and there- Dorothy (visiting on farm)--- ducks, or environment in which they and fore legally unjustified. That "What are they themselves after three-quarters of Shameen was, on June 23, 1926 fn geese?"