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HONG KONG, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1927.

SHANGHAI TROUBLE.

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Further Stone-Throwing Incidents.

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POLICE DISPERSE CROWDS.

Agitators Intimidate Cotton Mill Employees.

Latest cables from Shanghat, where a general strike has begun as part of the Cantonese "movement from within." report little chunge in the situati

There have been me sporadic disturbances, but the police have been able to disperse 1: Crowds without difficulty: The damage is negligible.

Naval wireless messages received by the Hong Kong, naval authorities report a few stone-throwing incidents against foreigners

at Ichang, otherwise Yangtse ports are quiet.

STONE THROWING.

Polien Shelly Disperse Crowds.

· EARLIER MESSAGES.

How the General Strike Began.

Show, Feb, 20. Shanghai, Feb. 21. Some spordit disturbances oc-

There was some developme curred to-day. example the strike situation to-day, but Chinese factory children and owing to it being Sunday it is im loafers this evening throw stones possible to determine the exact

are idle

It is estimated that be

into the enclosure where twenty extent. British signallers and some Fun-tween 80,000 to 100,000 workers jabis were billetted

They broke down a bamboo Intimidation has been playing Mfence. Police detachments disa great part. The crews of the persed the crowds who took re International Settlement buses fuge in alleyway and stoned the were finally forced out this after- police. However there were, no noon, so public transportation is casualties.

confined to ricsha's and public hire motorcars.

At a Japanese cotton mill in the Internasional Settlement intimida- tors prevented employees from working and stoned the premises;

The police dispersed them with oat difficulty. The damage is negligible and there were no casualties-Reuter.

NAVAL WIRELESS NEWS.

Stone Throwing Incidents at

messages

Jchang.

"The following naval wireless were received over- night by the local naval author. ities:

A few stone-throwing incidents against foreigners have occurred: at Ichang, otherwise the situa- tion there is unchanged.

Agreements have been signed

at Hankow between Mr. O'Malley and Mr. Eugene Chan.

The situation there remains the Bame...

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House servants are not yet affected...

2.

The

The cotton mill strikes include the employees of a number of Chinese-owned concerns. Chinese crews of a number of British and Chinese "coasting vessels also struck.

Labour Union's Statement. The General Labour Union hasf. issued a statement declaring its aims which include the continua- tion of anti-Imperialistic propa ganda, the elimination of milli- formation of a tarists, the

EIGHTH DESTROYER FLOTILLA.

Malta, Feb. 20. The Eighth Destroyer Flotilla has left for China.-Reuter.

A few wounded have arrived at | Peoples Government, freedom of Kiukiang from down-river, also a speech and the Press, an eight Soviet aeroplane from Hankow. hour day, increase of wages, re- cognition of the unions, better H.M.S. "Durban" which, to-treatment for labourers and simi gether with H.M.S. "Caradoc" left lur wages "for male and female Hong Kong for the North on Fri-workers. 'day, was re-called here when she However, Chinese newspapers was in the neighbourhood of Mira state that the real object of the Bay. The "Durban" left again strike is to welcome the Na- Fun Saturday..

tionalist armies to Shanghai."

There are rumours that the 1st Cruiser Squadron, at present in Hong Kong. are shortly leaving for the North.

WHY THEY STRUCK.

Orders From General Labour Union.

Rugby, Feb. 20.

Hitherto there have been no disturbances beyond the "minor, ones usually associated with strikes of any sort, but there

PLENTY OF FOOD.

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NO EXCUSE FOR HOARDING.

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No anxiety need be felt: in the Colony with regard to food supplies through two Brigades and other units of the Shanghai Defence divi- sion being diverted here,

On Inquiry from Headquarters of the South China Command this morning, the "China Mail learned that most of the supplies will be shipped here from elsewhere. Ід fact, it may be that quantities. which can last several months are on, the troopships, coming out with the men.

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CONCESSIONS AGREEMENT.

Further Details From Hankow.

NATIONALIST STATEMENT.

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Against the Use of Force To Effect Changes.

Further details have been received from Hankow rogarding the | agreement signed between Mr. Eugene Chem; the Nationalist For- eign Minister, and Mr. Owen St. Clair O'Malley, the British Legation representative, to settle the future status of the Concessions at Hankow and Kiukiang.

The agreement follows the lines already published, but a new note is struck by a Nationalist communique which affirms that the policy of the Nationalist Government is tot to use force or to coun Bread is made here by the Royal tenance, the use of force to effect changes "in the status. of. Con- Army Service Corps from flour sup-cessions. plied to the War Office. Jam, but- ter, tinned mikk etc., wil be pro- cared from Australia. Tea, sugar, salt and spices will be shipped out from Home. Local (native) meats are not used and the new men wil also be fed on frozen meats for which direct contracts will be made with Australia, There are cold storage facilities the Colony for several hundreds of tons, so there will be no difficulty on this

Laccount..

that

The agreement, it is interesting to note, must have been signed before Mr. O'Malley could have received nows of the general strike in Shanghai, a fact which disposes of any suggestion that the British signature was influenced by events in the International Settle- ment.

HANKOW'S FUTURE. Establishing Special Municipal District.

as British subjects in the said area,

Mr. Chen replied in the follow- ing terms:

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"I have the honour to acknow. chase of vegetables and the ques-

The following is the agreement ledge the receipt of your letter of tion has not yet been decided whe- relative to the British Concession to-day's date in which you assure ther they will be procured locally.

at Hankow:The proper British me that the British Authorities In view of the above official state. Authorities will summon the ah-concerned will do all that leg. in ment, there is no excuse whatever al general meeting of rate their power to implement and en- for residents hoarding up tinned foods for fear that prices, will go Land Regulations on March 15. the agreement signed to-day rela UP

¡The British Municipality will tive to the British Concession From provision merchants the thereupon be dissolved and the ad- area at Hankow and that as far "China Mail" also gathers that ministration of the Concession as the British Authorities desfers, etc., have taken time by area will be formally handed over concerned Chinese citizens will the forelock, They anticipated to the new Chinese Municipality. enjoy and be entitled to the same that there would be a big demand Pending the handing over to the rights as British subjects in the and put in orders that would nor new

Chinese Municipality on said area. March 15 the policing of the Con- ccasion and the management of the public works and sanitation will be conducted by the Chinese authorities now in charge there of.

payers in accordance with the sure the successful operation of MACKINTOSH

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An Impressive Spectacle in Hong Kong

The Nationalist Government will upon the dissolution of the British Council forthwith set up More than two thousand-

a special Chinese Municipality Bluejackets and marines from

modelled on that of the special the 1st Cruiser Squadron par- Administrative District for the aded through the Western dis-administration of the concession tricts of the City this morning. area under regulations which will presenting a stirring spectacle be communicated to HB.M. Min- with fixed bayonets, steel hel- ister by, the Minister for Foreign mets and full marching order. Affairs of the Nationalist Govern- Units were interspersed with ment. These regulations will re- bands, this being necessitated main in force until such time" as by the extreme length of the arrangements have been nego- contingent.

tiated for the amalgamation of the five Hankow Concessions and former Concessions into one unified Municipal District.

(The five Hankey Concessions referred to are the British, French, Japanese, former German and former Russian Concessions.]

Marching along Queen's Road, the Bluejackets, turned into D'Aguilar Street and Welling- ton Street and thence into Chinatown.

were

The field guns which to have formed part of the pro- cession when it was originally planned were not included in the demonstration.

an under-current of excitement mally have lasted the Colony for prevalent, No definite anti-för-three years if not more. eign tendencies have yet been shown. Reuter.

Agitators Decapitated. While agitators in the Interna tional Settlement and the French Concession have been given prae-

city

Aa to the accommodation to "be |[found, the "China Mail" was in- formed by headquarters that the only decision made is that the two Brigades will go into camp at Fanling and Kwanti, in the New Territories,

rangements are only tentative.

the

KIUKIANG CONCESSION.

Compensation For British Losses,

are

"I have the honour to assure | you in return that the Chinese Authorities for their part will likewise do their utmost to im plement and ensure the successful operation of the agreement in question and that so far as they are concerned there will be no dis crimination against British inter- ests in the administration of the new district."

NATIONALIST STATEMENT.

Policy Not To Make Use of Force.

The following communique was issued by Mr. Chen-

"Reports reaching the Nation alist Government from many quarters appear to make a re- statement of Nationalist "policy regarding Conceasions and Inter- national Settlements necessary and timely in order to avoid mis- apprehension and prevent need. less apprehension and fear,

"In the manifesto of January 22, the Nationalist Government|| declared their intention and their immediate readiness to have all questions outstanding between Nationalist China and the Foreign The agreement relative to the Powers settled by negotiation and British Concession at Kiukiang isagreement. This implicitly ap as follows:-

plied and it was intended to apply to changes in the status of all Con- cessions and all International Set- tlements in China.

A settlement en similar lines to that concluded in the case of the Hankow Concession will imme- diately be made in the case of the Concession et Klukiang.

If any direct losses due to the

Nationalist Regulations.

"This necessarily means that the policy of the Nationalist Gov- ernment is not to use force or to|| countenance the use of force to any or all Concessions and Inter- national Settlements

13.

A strike movement, which was not unexpected, began in Shang-

Places like the Peninsula Hotel; hai yesterday. The strikers tically a free hand, this by no Kowloon Hotel (as an officers' action or culpable negligence of manifesto states that their action means is the case in the Chinese mess), the Rope Factory on

where Sun Chuan-fang's mainland, the old Hide Factory at the agents of the Nationalist Gov-effect changes in the status of is in celebration of the Canton Commissioner of Defence, Gen- Mantauwal (near Kowloon is ernment were suffered by British Nationaliste victory, coupled with a desire

School and subjects during the recent dis to depose Suneral Li Pao-chang, has issued a the Diocesan Boys'

"The Nationalist Government proclamation that any persons King's College. (as. military hos- turbances at Kiukiang such losses Chuan-fang.

The Chinese City and the found inciting the people to pitule, military barracks vacated will be compensated by the Na have to lay it down that changes in the atrius of Concessions and French Concession are affected strike, or interfering with the by the 2nd/Suffolk Regiment, are tionalist Government.

Internati 1 Settlements wher- as well as the International Set-workers, will be summarily ex-all under contemplation: but the ar-

Mr. Eugene Chen sent the fol- ever situa in China are of such) tlement. All the cotton opera- ecuted. It is known that three per- It may be that the two Brigades tives have joined the strike, to-sons have already been decapitat will not even stay here but maglowing letter to Mr. O'Malley vital anc national importance "I have the honour to com- that no local Nationalist Govern- gether with a large portion of the ed in the Chinese city on the necessity, have to go elsewhere. Omunicate to you the regulations ment can negotiate with the For-] the weather may be unfavourable. general service employees, includ- charge of being agitatora. ing the Chinese postal workers,

Those executed are reported to Everything depends on the trend of which the Nationalist, Govern- eign Powers concerned in respect number at least twenty. The political developments. But if the ment will promulgate for the ad- thereof. but little disorder has occurred.

The workers say they have three mentioned were beheaded in troops stay here indefinitely, the ministration of the British Con-- struck on the instructions of the the street, their heads being hung arst move to bring them into the cession area at Hankow"

The regulations have not yet General Labour Union. General on posts as a warning-Reuter, urban districts will begin about

been received in Hong Kong.] services are being maintained in the International Settlement by Volunteers."

EQUAL RIGHTS. Press telegraphs report the arrival in the Shanghai outskirts disorganised soldiery. It is considered pro- bable that Sun Chuan-fang may attempt another stand between Hangchow and Shanghai, but reports of movements of defeated forces are obscure and contradic tory.British Wireless Service.

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France's Attitude.

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Mr. Chen and Mr. O'Malley Exchange Assurances.

March 15,

Paris, Feb 20.

Preparing For Troops. The situation at Shanghai is). The firet of the troops from being followed with intense in- Home to form the Shanghai De- terest here. The Government is fence Force are due in Hong Kong fully aware of the potential grav at the end of this week. It fe ity of the situation, though it has understood that the Infantry not received direct news from Brigades will go into camp im Mr. O'Malley sent the following Shanghai to-day. No fresh deci-mediately on arrival, to Kwanti letter to Mr. Chen: sions have been taken in regard to and Fanling Golf Course, and that I have the honour to assure reinforcing the French forces. It most of them will then come in to you that the British Authorities is stated that as far as the French the billets that have been arrang concerned will do all that lies in arrangements at Shanghai are ed for them locally.

their power to implement and en- concerned, instructions sent to The latest buildings to be measure the successful operation of the French Consul-General a tioned in this connection are the the agreement signed to-day rela- month ago have not been amend Kowloon and King Edward tive to the British Concession ed. He has a free hand to act on Hotels. The Peninsula Hotei will ares at Hankow and that as far the spot as circumstances require accommodate the 2nd Bat as the British Authorities are con- and is to take all necessary steps

cerned Chinese citizens will enjoy

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(Continued on Page 9.) and be entitled to the same rights

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AGREEMENT SİGNED.

Official News From Hankow.

Shanghai, Feb. 20.

A telegram from Hankow states| that it is officially sourced that Mr. Eugene Chen and Mr.] O'Malley signed the Agreement at seven o'clock yesterday even- ing-Router

Viscount Grey's Views.

London, Feb. 19. Referring to the difficulties in Chine, Viscount Grey, addressing meeting at Bradford, said that

it was so much before us that we

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