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MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928

British Minister's Mission.

TALKS WITH MR. E. CHEN.

American and Japanese Delegates..

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CHINA "FACTS.”

A PROTEST BY BISHOP. 'BANISTER,

unturned in an endeavour to in- HANKOW MEETING.. fluence the Chinese to regard the British as enemies, To counter third the activities of these parties has naturally been the

PATIENCE OF THE BRITISH. rst objective of Mr. Miles. Lamp! son's mission in China. That he

former Bishop Banister, a is succeeding wil for ever re

Archdeacon of Hong Kong and dound to his credit. In the past

Bishop of Kwangs and Hunan who is now living at Crouchfield, not sufficient heed was taken of

Seaford, Sussex, protests against the campaign of calumny and

Hunkow. Dec. 10. the implications and insinuations misrepresentation against the

Mr. M. W. Lampson, British behind Lord Parmoor's remarks. British in China: mischievous anister to Ching, and Mr. Eugene in the House of Lords recently propaganda was never offset by Chen, Cantonese Acting Minister of which suggest that the blame for Foreign Affairs, continued their the present animosity against favourable counter-propaganda.

conversations to-day when, for the British in China rests upon As a result British prestige fully two hours they talked the the want of a policy of concilia wared British silence was mis-alms and attitude of the Cantonese tion and a lack of patience on construed It required some- Nationalist Government in an effort the part of the British authori thing more than feiterated dete and a basis to discussion,ties and the representatives of write the special representative British commercial interests and clarations of patience and con-of the "Shanghai Sanday Times," the British community in geneva) · eiliation" to make up ground lost Nothing delnite was reached. but in that country, through no fault of the British. hopes that the meeting may have a letter to The Times he satisfactory results are based upon says:-Those who know China Now, thanks to Mr. Miles Lamps the fact that further conversations know perfectly well that the pre son's conversations in Hankow:may possibly be held later. Mr sent situation is not due to the the first definite step has been Chen is to meet representatives of want of a policy of patience and taken, in the desired direction of other Powers during the week-end reviving friendly relations.

Welor to the American Legation can now await developments with Peking. and Mr. Saburi of the Ja degree of confidence. lacking a Japanese Foreign Ofer

few months ago.

They are Mr. F. E. Meyer, Counsel

FLOWERS BANNED. Southern leaders. or any other China. I may be allowed. as one

CHINESE LUCKY BLOOMS IN AMERICA.

MICROBES IN THE NARCISSUS

conciliation on the part either of the British Government or of the representatives of British com- merce in China, but to the skilful direction of propaganda by a cer- twin country, which has made use It is now learnt that while Mof the unhappy and distressful. Lampson was at Kuklang he conconditions, which now prevail to ferred with the British Consulattack the good name and econo- there, but did not interview Generalmie "interests of the British in Chang Kai-shek,

What he did was who has spent nearly half a ten- to arrange through his secretary toury in China, to say that the interview Mr. Chen at Hankow. attitude of mind presented by which he dit when he arrived here. Lord Parmoor entirely misappre.. The Cantonese, needless to say. are hends the truth as to the real.. awaiting with the greatest interest opinion of the Chinese people the results of the meetings.

towards the British.. The pro- Last night. Mr. Lampson was en-paganda of the country referred A China New Year flower popa-tertained to dinner by the British to hus stirred up groups of er in Hong Kong has been pro Chamber of Commerce.

İstudents and agitaters only who hibited entry into the United Members of the Nationalist have been responsible for the States of America because, it is Government are fast gathering a recent manifestations of hostility reported, the plant has been con- Hankow in order to realise the towards the British. damnedi

2 conductor of plans for establishing the Govérn-

Lord Balfour's" Views,, microbes.

ment sent at the old capital of This is the narcissus, called Wuching. Every day sees arrive

Lord Balfour in his reply to . "water lily by the Cantonese. fresh contingents of officials and Lord Parmoor said "those who Such are shipped away in bulk, their Russian advisers, while among know the Chinese' tell me that. root and stem, and are Very the new-comers to-day was they have a great deal of common DENHAM-On Nev. 15, at Weston-

hardy. When the roots are im- Sun Yat-sen, wife of the great lea-sense and a great power of ap soper-Mare, Ethel, elder duuga- tor of the late Mr. and Ms. C.mersed for a week or so in tem der, who occupies an indefinite butpreciating facts, and this is perate climates, the blooms come important position in the Kuomi have had most to do with the quite true. The Chinese, who very quickly. The number of

lang inner council Others who GILBERT On Derembar 14, 1926, flowers and their advent coincid have arrived in addition to Mr. commercial activities of the Bri at Shanghai at 6 pm.. Mrs. A. ing as nearly as possible with Chen and Mrs. Sun, are Mr. Sen tish, the "compradore" and busi Gilbert. argd B

China New Year Day are cen-Fo, Minister of Communications,ness class of the Chinese, could RANDLE On Nov. 14. suddenly, sidered as significant of good for Mr Har Chen, Minister of Justice, tell a very different story about the" patience And conciliation "Horace Andrews Randle, MD, Cute

Mr. T. V. Soong, Minister of

Bish merchants, shown by of Pendleton. Lancashire, aged

Finance as well as M. Borodin, the their fairness and honesty and Russian adviser.

General Chang straight-dealing, in their com- has not yet arrived.

mercial intercourse with the Hotel Wing Reserved. Chinese. The British merchant, Mr. Chen and a large staff of and the British community, in

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Homeland Sentiments, For the Chinese emigrants in America nearly all of whom wish to preserve their ties with Home during the festive season....... considerable quantities of „nar- CLEARING THE "AIR.

cissus are shipped "dry" to secretaries and advisers are stay-general in China, deserve a great ing at Terminus Hotel. French deal more sympathy and con- America avery winter.

and Mr.

In the conversations between Last year, the American im-Concession, where a whole wing hassideration than they get at the migration authorities are stated been reserved for the exclusive use present time from people who Mr. Miles Lanipson

The fact that think and feel with Lord to have banned the import of of the delegation. Eugene Chen may be found the dried meats, such as "oiled duck," they are staying in a foreign Con- Parmoor. Their courage and en- commentarydurance amidst great losses, their first fruits of the new British "Cantonese sausage," etc., and cession is a strange Minister's mission. A heart to the new measure has brought on upon the theory and practice of persistence in holding on in their heart talk has proved better than a good deal of discussion among their political doctrines because, in endeavour to maintain the high the event of disorder in the Conces position they have won for Bri- firms interested in the trade, ja hundred communiques. Each usually described in Hong Kong ions, through activities of extre-tish trade in the minds of the mists, the delegation shelters be-best types of the Chinese people, side has been better able to appre- as "California dealers."

hind the foreign machine guna and call for a deeper sense of appre- barricados in a foreign Concession ciation for all their high qualities which the patriots denouncé.. than Lord Parmoor showed.

ciate the viewpoint of the other on which there has hitherto been misunderstaridinga. The air has been considerably cleared; à friendly atmosphere has been

OBITUARY.

MR. G. H. HASKETT.

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Two Russian officials from the Soviet Embassy in Peking' are also i here. They are Messrs. Goursky

ir beig

and Meladmed, who are also stay- Fengtion war-lords. This story for His many friends in Hong Konging at the Terminus to be near their propaganda. dur R. V. Barton, R. daugh-crested;, and the result is regard-will hear with regret the news of Chinese supporters. The presence supplemented by an equally false.

purposes ed-by both sides as "a distinct the death at Home in Kis 42nd. here of these two Soviet oficials story that Britain is sending 37 GLATZEL-On December 12, 1926, gain" in the direction of a better year of Mr. George Henry is arousing much speculation and, warships and 3,000 troops to Han-

at Shanghai to Mr. and Mrs.

Haskett, ALS.A., Superinten-in view of the statement of the how, while defensive measures re understanding. Alfred Glatze); a son.

It is logical to assume that in dent of Accounts and Stores in Nationalist Government at Kuling cently taken to preserve the inte

the Public Works Department." announcing formation MILNE On December 13, 1926.

of angrity of the Concession are being Accompanied by his wife, Mr. alliance with Soviet Russia, it is utilised as arguments. "at Cairo, to Marion, wife of these conversations between Mr. Captain J, Duguid Milne, The Miles Lampson and Mr. Eugene Haskett went Home on leave generally believed that Moscow's Uprising By Kweichow. Royal Scots, a daughter. Chen will be found the source of early this year and was due to intention is to recognise the new

Uncertainty characterizes the return at the end of this month. Government as soon as it is de- RICKS-On December 11. 1926, at the "document of considerable im However he underwent an opera-finitely established at Wichang..

military situniion a far as the Cantonese are concerned. There Peking, to Mr. and Mrs. H. Lportance regarding the general tion for tonsilitis in a nursing Rieks, a son.

Officials Welcomed.

Gre persistent reports of hostile Birmingham, and

There has been great public movements in the rear of the Can- SEVERN-On Nov. 10, at 9. Earl's policy in China communicated to home in

he never completely recovered Court-square, to Sir Claud and the foreign Ministers by the Bri- consciousness, a clot of blood celebration on the arrival of the tonese lines, the provincial armies There of Kweichow and Yunnan being E- high Cantonese officials. bish Charge d'Affaires in Peking forming on the brain.

against the" "MT. Haskett

twice was a big procession to-day, localported on the move was on Saturday. "It is believed,"

married, and The

leaves, Chinese carrying Kuomintang and Cantonese. The combined forces states Reuter, "that the document

to have occupied besides his widow (who red flags while a guard of honour are reported

Shengki and Súpu. on the Yurnking READ FLEMING-At St. John's contained new proposals of a is a daughter of the Rev. Charles paraded for Mrs. Sun Yat-sen.

An atmosphere of suppressedriver, and an advance eastwards Cathedral on 18th December, liberal and far-reaching charae- Bone, former Wesleyan" minister 1926, by the Rev. H. Copley ter." In due course publicity will in Hong Kong), a little daughter excitement with an undercurrent of would threaten Changsha as well as unrest pervades Hankow. but the long and slender line of com- Moyle, Robert Lythgoe, third be given to those proposals and to his first wife.

"Mr. Haskett joined the P.W.D. there is plenty of activity as plans munications between Canton and Central Read and Mrs. Rend of Stoney their reception by the representa in May, 1913, as Inspector of for the new Government progreas, the advanced posts in Corner, Meopham Kent to Jean tives of the other Powers in Fek Stores. Later he became acting General satisfaction is expressed by China."

Any determined movement would Vallance, younger daughter of ing. Until then comment is im- Superintendent of Accounts and the Cantonese bureaucracy at the "Mr. and Mrs. John Fleming, possible beyond expressing appre-Colonial Treasury.

pro-conceivably paralyze the Cantonese was for a time Accountant at the turn

He was apgress registered up to now, grip on the Yangtze. Between the Coates Penicuik, Midlothian, VAUGHAN REHNBORG. Onciation of the fact that the British pointed to the position of Super- although military preparations of hostile moverent at their rear and December 14, 1926, at Shang proposals constitute still another intendent of Accounts and Stores the anti-Cantonese combination in the pressure of the huge Fengtien in 1924. He was at one time North China, and the simmering forces coming from the north, the "hai, by the Rev. C. M. Drury, advance in the direction of clear-Hon. Secretary of the Civil Ser-labour unrest which is boisg kept new Cantonese capital would be un- Francie F. Vaughan to Sally Aing the air of misconceptions and vice Cricket Club and was also in check, furnish sources of appre-tenable squeezed between Rehnborg.

hansion. Nevertheless, there is a forces. The Cantonese, however, have a keen Volunteer, PARSONS-MILNER.-On Nov. 16, misunderstandings that

gonera) inclination on the part of are moving to meet the menace froti the Chinese to pofht to the arrival the north. All small craft on the of the foreign diplomatic repre- river between Kluklang and Han- Bentatives as recognition by the kow have been commandeered. foreign Powers of the stability and permanence of the new ad- ministration

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EARTHQUAKE.

LISBON AND MADEIRA SHAKEN,

of events and the

Extremists-Still Active.

Fengtien Troopa Move,

:two

at Putney, James Ray Parsons, clouded the relations between the eldest son of the late James British and the Chinese. Fur- „Ramsey Parsons, of Yokohama thermore, both Mr. Miles Lämp

and London, to Ethel Mary Milner, eldest daughter of son's conversations and the new

The Fengtien military combina- W. R. Milner, of iford.

British proposals must help cons

tlon has begun to move. The siderably in re-establishing the

fourth and fifth Fengtien armies DEATHS.

bona fides of Great Britain as a

Lisbon, Dec. 18.. Contrasting with this pacific have advanced down the Peking A great earthquake shock of situation are the activities of the Hankow Rallway, the advanced e- BINNS On Nov. 2, at Amsterdam, sincere friend of China.

three secondo duration was ex-extremists and labour leaders, tachments of the fourth army hav- Roland Walter Binns, formerly, parties have done their utmost to perienced to-day in Lisbon and who are redoubling their efforts ing reached Chengshow. Moving of Hornsey."

besmirch Britain's good name in Madeira. Comiderable damage to start an anti-British boycott inin battle array, the Cantonese are BROOKE On Nov. 11, suddenly. China; they have lost no oppor was done in Lisbon. There was the Yangtze Valley, Additional mo- advancing their seventh army from Harry Keppel Brooke, Tantunity of belittling British policy There is no news as to the effects found in the exploded myth of the 70 miles from Hanking up the fall- much alarm but no casualties.tive for this campaign to being Kiangai northwards to Siaoken, Buhau of Sprawak, youngest | son of the second. Rajah of and of crediting it with nefarious of the earthquake in Maderia 26,000,000 loan alleged to have way, although their advanced posts Sarawak, aged 47.

designs; they have left no stone. Reuter.

been made by the British to the are at least 50 miles farther north.

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