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CHAOS AT HANKOW.

HANKOW TROUBLE.

MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1927.

FAR CATHAY,

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Guild when the strike broke out. witness said that the Guild had no funda.

Mr. McCallum Do. you mean to tall the Court that, with a membership of 3,000, this Guild was bankrupt at the time of the strike..

Enormous Difficulties. Of course, the difficulties are anormous: The civil war is at its height. Minor Governments arlee and vanish; generals with their Armies change sides. But the Can-

Old mon grow very auspicious of ton Government has maintained it their friends--It is one of the penal self now for some years; We have ties of old age--they lend ready not negotiated with it; we Haye!

all the other ears to take bearers and mischief- negotiated-like Powers-with Peking, which no makers, they fly into pettish pas- longer counts. Now Canton la notasions at fancied harts, they find In answer to further questions, far from controlling the whole of Southern Chine and may even press the world they have lived is growing witness said that there has been on into the North. Its views, so far more and more unreal and ita between $1,000 and $2,000 in the Bank to the account of the Guild as they are known, are not friendly moderating more and more unbefore the strike and this was towards the foreigner and his pri-warrantablo, writes Frank Howard taken out by himself and other vilegos; it threatens drastic mea-

Witness: We had a little money for upkeep of the Guild premises:

Bures. It would seen that we in the Manchester Guardian.officials and re-invested in Hong should have some sort of a policy And China is an old man who has Kong

Witness denied that he sent this money to Canton.

Pickets in Carton?

towards this new force in China. It been many denturies mumbling and has behind it a strong national feel-querulous, supplicant and resentful, Ing, of which we are bound to take senilely reprobating the aid he can- "account. Nor is there; any reason not: neglect. Long ago he had

Mr. McChiluin: I put it to you to suppose that our Government at trains, but never turned them to go that the Treasurer of this Guild least is not prepared to adopt a count. Thousands of years ago he

conciliatory attitude towards this invented gunpowder, but invented was among the first to leave Hong national feeling. But the time will no cannons to shoot it from. Ha Kong for Canton when the strike come-and perhaps soon-when a invented the mariner's compass, but broke out and that he took the mere conciliatory diaposition will could not discover America even funds of the Guild and took an not be enough or may be exhibited then.

too late. The question, therefore,

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active part in Canton until quite

recently as a picket acting in con- nection with the boycott,

Witness denied that the trea-

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Hia Honour ruled this question.

Mr. McCallum put it to witness

This, plaintiff denied. Mr. McCallum further stated

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to do anything at all, either alone On the island of Amoy, on the or in conjunction with the other coast midway from Hong Kong to surer had left for Canton at the Powers, to open up relations with Shanghai, some good missionary beginning of the strike or that Ja power which is already" the most friends took me to see a first at- he had taken the money. He had formidable organised force intempt at a Chinese railway. No remained in Hong Kong until foreign devils had had a hand in quite recently and had cow gone this; it was pure Chinese from the to his home up-country.... Purely Politics. The idea of any sort of military first sleeper to the last. They began Mr. McCallum was about to demonstration as a solution of our with a fine terminus hotel on the put allegations respecting an- difficulties may be popular in the mainland,, to which we crossed by other official of the Guild who treaty ports, but it has no relation boat, and this, having absorbed most was a plaintiff in this case when To realities. We no longer live in of the capital, stood there empty Mr. Loseby objected, terming

His Honour (Mr. anti-British posters in the Bri-the days when an expedition to Pekand melancholy like a neglected de-the questions as irrelevent. tish Concession and to. vetoing enforced a settlement that held butante In a ballroom. NevertheWood) said that he would have good throughout China. If we took less there was: a train, and very ปี

Canton we should have achieved proud of it they were. It consisted to trust Mr. McCallum,.

Mr. McCallum: The 3rd plain- nothing the seat of the Canton Gov. of Ave cattle trucks provided: with ernment is already at Wuchang, far forms for sents. They had so far tiff, you know, left Hong Kong. From the latest accounts of the up the Yangtze. But this is not a improved on our system that sach early in the strike and only came behaviour of the British Marines military question at all; it is a truck" had a guard. Each guard back because, after acting as a cause he had misappropriated and Volunteers in Hankow on political question. In so far as our had a tin trumpet. At every stop as picket, he was obliged to leave be- January 3 it is clear that they trouble de not arise from the civil the train slowed down each guard picket fands.

blew his trumpet with all his might. fully deserve all the encomiums war and will end with its end, they that have already been showered arise from a national feeling of re- He resumed blowing when the train upon them. Their restraint was sentment against the foreigner and started till he made sure it was well quite naturally mistaken by the the privileged position which for a under way, when, conscious of duty that numbers 2, 3, 4 and 5 plain- Chinese hooligans for fear--hence century he has enforced throughout done, he sat down on a form and tiffs all went to Canton when the the brave crowds showered China. The serious thing for us is surveyed the passengers. The track strike broke out taking the funds stones at them, hit them with that the Canton Government, when gave us the motion of the witching of the Guild and that they had acted with the knowledge and bamboo poles, and spat at them, it has power, may assert its inten-waves at Earl's Court.

After 15 miles of this through consent of witness (1st plaintiff). Well may an American naval tion to sweep away all restrictions half-flooded rice fields we came out officer, who witnessed pome of both reasonable and unreasonable, these attacks, "doubt whether on China'a liberties. Chief among on the bank of a large river, and many men in the forces of any these are the extraterritorial rights there we stopped. That was the that the Guild had ceased ed other country would be found to (which the recent International end of the line "for the opposite function since the strike, that at bank was a high cliff which the least 90 per cent. of its members can only bel possess such super-discipline Commission thinks

young gradually surrendered by the for heroes of Chinese engineering prov had gone to Canton and that which enabled these Marines to refrain from 'gatting eigner) and the limitations on ed unable to tunnel. However, all there were many members owing the Chinaman, aboard were very money on contracts previous to just a little bit of their own, China's tariff-making powers.

proud of their train and kept glanc-the strike. back." Our Marines may pos-! Agreement Among Powers.

The Government of Chang Tacing side-long at us Englishmen to The case was adjourned unti: sess "all the qualities of the "bulldog breed" that have stood in the Mukden general, might do see how we took it and mark the the 18th inst.

It would surely be looks of jealousy on our faces. One the Empire in good stead for cen- the same. turies; but in an emergency they worth while for the British Govern- portentously solemin gentleman in have also been taught the value ment to concert a policy on such blue slops and pigtail, to show his of the axiom that "they also serve questions as these with the ether familiarity with these contraptions, mightiest cathedral, which seemed who only stand and wait." Few Powers; to consider sympathetically stepped off while we were entering to gather up the echoes of finer tributes to our Marines than what modifications in the so-called station at some ten miles an hour Itself from all the gorges and to those expressed by the American "unequal treaties" can be made in and folded out flat on the platform dole it out again like the breaths of dead men.revapourized for the No very striking developments naval officer have been forthcom-response to Chinese feeling; and to like a trap-door.

They tried another railway on a living.. have been reported from Hankowing from a member of a friendly come to some conclusion be to the over the week-end. The Coun-tation. They will assuredly be ap time and circumstances under which still more ambitious scale, and this We came on some ancient build- cillor of the British Legation in preciated equally by the Marines the Canton or any other de facto time, again obsessed with the revolt ings with painted wooden posts concerned, by all our fighting Government in China should be against foreign interference, they and saddle-shaped roofs, and in Peking is expected to arrive in Forces, and by Britons all over formally recognised. It is highly began by building a university to them the same solemn-visiged desirable that this country should train the engineers. That was as monks were busy in long corridors Hankow to-day, and British banks the world.

act in concert with the other far us.they got. The local Viceroy of tall shelves filled with wooden and firma are awaiting the out-

Powers to the utmost extent possi-took over the buildings for a palace, bocks, all carved with vast labur The Church in India.

They were come of a conference between

The appeal sent out by Hiable. It is equally desirable that we and this railway did not get so far and read by none. him and Mr. Eugene, Chen before Excellency the Viceroy of India should not Agure in the mind of as a terminne hotel. All this sounda worm-eaten and mouldering, you in connection with a fund for China as an unsympathetic and un- pathetic, and so it is but it is could not draw them forth for far re-opening.

the building of an Anglican friendly country which will conceda China.. Meanwhile a Nationalist "Coun- church at Delhi has, according to nothing, except under sheer neces-*

Out of his nationalist setting the these spectacled old fellows making cil for the Administration of the Rugby, met with an almost insity, to demands that are both in-] British Concession" has started stantaneous response, prominent telligible and, in part, well ground Chinaman is a man to be admired more of them, just adding to the He is clever and brainy, full of a world's lumber, filling the long to function. It is noteworthy members of the Royal Family, in ed.

BRITAIN'S LOSSES." quaint originality, honest by his own perspective of the ages with more, 'cluding their Majesties the King that a member of this Council is and Queen, being among the first J.

A prominent Manchester ship principles, and hard-working. If he food for wernis. Such a China. Mr. Suri Fo, who has gone mer-to subscribe. That such an apper pointed out, as indicating the le callous about suffering it is about We came then on the Bacred fish his own as much as other people's. ponds and saw an aged priest, with GRÆCO EGYPTIAN TOBACCO STORE LTD.tally amok during the past few peal should be launched at the importance of the China, market Most touching of all are his infinite a fane that had grown like a carp's,

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present time clearly shows that to Lancashire, that in 1918 we patience and fortitude. He loves feeding the sacred carp, which roll- months in regard to the British, the recent granting of autonomy exported to China 718,000,000 devils. A world without devils ed up from the bottom like barrels, for whom there are no names to the Church in India does not yards of cotton plece goods. This would be for him as dull as amena- so old and plethoric were they, and hard enough. He has developed mean complete separation from alump in the cotton trade was only gerls full of empty cages. All night sucked and guzzled like swipe at into an echo of M. Borodin, the the ties that bind the Anglican partly responsible for the drop to hierarchy throughout the world.

Then we found the bell whose Soviet Adviser to the Nationalist Lord Irwin, the Viceroy 292,000,000 yards in 1924, and in long as I lay by the harbour of their trough.

1925, when the full force of the Macao I would be awakened by

terrific fusillades among the notes had so startled us on the Government. Borodin makes the course, comes from a family dis boycott of British goods was telt, crowded junk lying out on the mountain side. It was an immense vitriolic bullets and Sun Fo fires tinguished by its association with our exports to China had further dark waters. They were only scar bronze thing hung in a caverlike

church affairs, his father, the pre dwindled to 178,000,000 yards, or them Little does. Mr. Sun Fosent Viscount Halifax, having one quarter of the export beforeing devils It appeared to be vault and beside it hang a huga The fish had a cord reckon that in that process he been President of the English the war

necessary from time to time; and wooden fab. the expenditure of the Chinese ship.in its snout, which went over a may be handling something in the Church Union for over a quarter

ting merchants on fireworks for this pulley into a hole in the ground, nature of a boomerang, which of a century, and for some time one of the Ecclesiastical Commis-

service must be serious and, lifting up a trap-door, we heard One day I found myself going up the plash of water and saw a sort may recoil on the Chinese Nationalóners for England, alist cause and on the whole of

To the Editor of the "China Mall") a mountain path among great bould of water-wheel with three or four Sir-It has graciously pleased ers and camphor trees, Below us, large buckets for paddles. As me China itself. His speeches and

The death of Mr. Robert his Majesty the King to signally far down, in far ainuosities lay the of these buckets filled it tilted over his actions of late have been so

Newman will mean a serious loss honour two of the Colony's most river up which we had sailed. Our and turned the wheel and this drag obviously inspired that it will to Music in general and musical prominent residents, the A clumsy houseboat lay under the ging on the rope pulled the nose of cause no surprise-once the Chin London in particular, for it was torney-General and the Hon. Mr. bank dwarfed to a child's toy skiff: the mighty wooden fsh, which ese come to their senses to find he who started the promenade R. E. Kotewall. True, the focal but I was glad to keep my eye on darted forward and struck the rim concerts at Queen's Hall and us-press has paid glowing tribute to it occasionally as my sole link with of the bell with a stunning shock him eventually being eliminated tablished the first permanent these well-merited decorations, my own world. We went up till of sound, enough to deafen one from the counsels of his own orchestra in London and found but is it not fitting that all men we came to a great mongatory Misapplied ingenuity and wasted. party. That is more than the Mr. (now, of course Sir Henry) bers of the community ahould Surely the weirdest dwelling-place effect are two of the worst of Chi

Wood as an orchestral conductor: unite in pilbikely expressing their in the world. Caves passages, and nese devils The late Mr. Newman's manage congratulations to these two tunnels in the rocks yawned at us. ment of Queen's Hall was marked gentlemen??

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