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Hong Kong, Friday, April 29, 1927.
SIR CECIL CLEMENTI'S
SPEECH.
|
vious fact that; quoting Sir Cecil Clementi again, it is Great Bri- tain, not the Rusalan Soviet, which would rejoice at the estab lishment of a strong, stable, en- lightened, patriotic and efficient Government of re-unilled China.
FRIDAY," APRIL 29, 1927.
CABINET MEETING. 3rd and 6th Nationalist Armies Hankow is not the only place
(Continued from Page 1.)
Poste on River Bank, No other guptire has place to-day.
taken
were marching or General Chlang likely to face famine. Reports Kai-shok's side to Nanchang, from many towns in Honan and capital of Klangst province and Hunan speak of mobs of starving at present dominated by Extrem- labourers looting and destroying. Ists.
All Chinese in these provinces as
On the other hand, Reuter well as in Hankow who have any- said that the Moderate and thing to logo are endeavouring to A ship arriving from Wuhu re- Extremist troops at Kiuklang, get out to Shanghai, ports that many Nationalist sol-wore intermingling, with a likeli- In the meanwhile there are in- 'diers are billeted in huts along hood of a joint attack on the creasing evidences that the Han- ¡the banks, British Naval Wire North.
kow and Nanking factions will less.
not allow their quarrels to plunge
Mystery still surrounds the fighting on both banks of the Tangtse River, between Chinkiang· and Nanking. The rumours con- cerning an armistice are conflict- ing, this being due to the irregu- lar course of the campaign.),
Soldier-Adventurer.
A POOR BARGAIN..
Criticism of the Hankow Agreement.
The sender of the telegram is them into conflict, both realising General Chin Han-tin, a Yunnan- that this would only be playing
soldier-adventurer who rose into the hands of Chang Tso-lin.. from the ranks and at one time-Reuter. ruled his native province as | Generalissimo. For a time, he Hankow's Position.
wns in Kwangtung and he also Hankow, April 28. has many friends in Hong Kong. Other than the concentration of This general was in the interior troops in preparation for the of Kweichow province, in the
London, April 28. Fengtien advance, there is noth-south-west of China, some months
Speaking at the annual general ing to report-British Naval ago, with a following of 8,000
meeting of the China Association, Wireless.
rifies. Steamer Allacked." · When the Cantonese Expedition Mr. L. N. Leefe declared it was Kiukiang, April 28. was in Kiangsi, the 3rd Army difficult to see whom the Hankow Agreement benefited. The Bri- Fire was opened with field guns under General Chu Pei-teh was on the s.s. "Pingwo" in Osborne seriously depleted In the assault tish had suffered an immediate Reach on April 25.
on Nanchang. General Chu Pei. loss in depreciated assets, while Large bodies of troops were teh had, before Joining the Chinese traders and business men noticed moving up the river in Nationalist cause, been a sub-1 were at a standstill. Its only junks below Kiukiang.British ordinate of Chin Han-tin. Gen-benefit was that it made its re- Naval Wireless.
eral Chu Pei-teh sent his erst petition impossible elsewhere. while leader an invitation, to join Events had proved that the Chin- ese had no power to keep their his army.
share of the agreement, however desirous they might be to do so. Accordingly, Chin Han-tin start. Co-operation with the Chinese was ed on a long trek from Kwei- the aim to which all minds direct- chow. On entering the outskirts ed in revision of the Tientsin con- on Hunan province, the 8,000 cession and the future adminis- Yunnanese were attacked by the tration of the international set- As very few soldiers are now to General Tang Seng-chi (8th changes must be safeguarded at local Nationalist garrison under tlement at Shanghai, but the be seen and little activity on
The troops moving up the Yang- tse are Moderates, leyal to General Chiang Kai-shek, whose base for operations against the Hankow Party has been established at Klu- klang. "Up river" means in the
direction of Hankow.]
British Sallors Land.
Wuhu, April 28.
Attacked by "Friends."
Such a Government, besides re-shore, a recreation party landed army) of Hankow, who mistook every step. storing peace and security in from H.M.S. "Caradoc" yester- the "invaders" for an enemy. The Government ought to de- China, would bring about safe day for the first time, the clast 3,000 men but the remainder tions until it had received com- At any rate, the Yunnanese eline to enter into fresh negotia- and normal trading conditions. operation of the Police having reached Kiangsi and were em-plete satisfaction for the Nan-
been obtained to prevent any pos- Moreover it would solve the en-sible interference. British Naval bodied in General Chu Pei-teh's king outrages, and until, it had command as a division, each offi-received reliable assurances that tire problem of the Pacific. In Wireless.
Wei-hai-wei Currency.
cer stepping down on rank owing it was dealing with responsible the face of these facts it is sheer!
Wei-hai-wei, April 28.
to the reduction of the unit from parties who would honour their folly or evil-mindedness to The only currency accepted on
an army into a division.
agreement. assert that Britain wishes the shore here are the notes of the tin has been the mainstay of the in China would be foredoomed to Since then, General Chin Han-1 An apparently negative policy chaos in China to continue. Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank 3rd Army. He is a firm support failure. He felt that the Govern
Sir Cecil Clementi's statement and the Chartered Bank.-Britisher of General Chiang Kai-shek{ment appreciated it could
that the Government is determin- ed to have no Bolshevism in Hong Kong will receive general sup- port, for there is no doubt His Excellency spoke the truth when he added that the Chinese as well as the European community is of one mind on this matter. Bolshe- viam is being recognised every where to-day as a blight. Ching is awakening to this fact, and the economic weapon or as Cecil Clementi called it, the Bolshevik
Sir Cecil Clementi's speech at the annual meeting of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Com- merce yesterday was at once an boomerangis beginning to recoil inspiration and a challenge-an
on those who have been misled Inspiration to the mercantile com-
into thinking it invincible. When munity of Hong Kong and a challenge to those who are mak-it hus knocked out a few more of ing mischief between the British the bolshevized Chinese, we may and the Chinese, The "China confidently look forward with His Mail' takes pleasure in associat- Excellency to the day when
ing itself with His Excellency's tribute to the Colony's merchants. That they should have "carried on" in spite of strikes, boycotts, armed pickets, bandits, pirates
.
Naval Wireless.
AT WUCHOW.
Foreigners Returning to the Port.
[From An Occasional Correspondent.]
Wuchow, April-27.
In spite of consular warnings,
not
and a staunch opponent of stand immobile on the. basis of Communism.
arrangements made when China Political Opposition.
was a very different country from Had it not been for political to-day. Elements of success lay opposition, General Chin Han-in a policy of conciliation and tin's division would have been strength.-Reuter. fighting side by side with Chiang
Yangise Incidents. Kai-shek. At least two of the
Rugby, April 28. three divisions in the 3rd Army
The British gunboat. "Cock-
a number of foreigners have re- are "in alliance" with Chin Han- chafer" has again been fired on turned to this port which, on the tin, the majority of the other from Haiakisan when leaving. Burface at least, seenis quiet, division being loyal to the officer Nanking. She returned the fire
Five of the Alliance Mission commanding (General Chu Pei- with machine guns. arrived the other day to hold a teh).
The United States warship conference with their native col- When Hankow "dismissed" "Penguin" was engaged by rifles leagues.
Chiang Kai-shek, General Chin and field guns below Kiangyin, A minister of the Church Mis- Han-tin broadcast a statement in and four of her men were wound- sionary Society also came to make support of the Moderates while ed--British Wireless Service. inquiries whether it would be Chu Pel-teh was believed to be prudent to ascend the Fu River in sympathy with the commun- to Kweilin city, the capital of ists. Holding, as he does, the Kwangsi province.
stronger hand în the 3rd
and civil war-an array of evils congenial friends and coadju levies of the not to be found in any other part/tors of the Chinese people in this Navigation which has been es- Kuomintang.
era of its renaissance."
60,000 SCOTS.
WANT TO LIVE IN UNITED STATES.
HUGE WAITING LIST.
A priest of the Maryknoll Army, General Chin Han-tin is Mission was bound for Pingnam. now leading his section of the Other arrivals include two command on Chiang Kai-shek's Portuguese interested in electric side and, accordingly, fraternis- "Great Britain and the British and other business and the super- ing with Chiang Kai-shek's gar- Colony of Hong Kong will be re intendent of the Stout Memorial rison of loyalists at Kiukiang.
Hospital. cognised throughout the Eighteen
Conflicting Interests. Protest Against Taxes.
London, April 13, Provinces as the most potent, the; A one-day strike was organised intermingling" referred to by migrants
This probably explains the Thousands of would-be Scots most by the local cargo-boats and Reuter but need not necessarily emigrant visas to go to America. most beneficent and the
have applied for junks as a protest against the indicate
a rapprochement be- new Bureau of tween the opposing Parties in the Edinburgh and Dundee have a The Consulates in Glasgow,
tablished by the Nationalist au- The fact that various military of whom more than 50,000 live in waiting list of 60,000' applicants, of the world--is a splendid
thorities.
units in the north of Kwangtung South-Western Scotland. achievement. After the storms.
This came into being when the province and the south of Hunan they have already weathered, the A Notable Contribution.
Commissioner of Maritime Cus-province are taking up positions that the United States quota of It had been expected in July merchants of Hong Kong, British
In announcing a donation of one forbiding foreign engineers to in- points to the breach still existing would be raised from 34,000 to toms at Canton issued a circular with sharply conflicting interests emigrants from Great Britain and Chinese, can look forward to million pounds toward the cost of spect aulls and machinery of between rival generals in the 73,000, but Congress has decided the future with fresh hope, for us the Singapore Base the New steam and motor launches.
Southern Armics. Sir Cecil Clementi added, they Zealand Government has taken a duties the supervision of all 6th Armies. One division, or which the increase would be The Bureau has added to its It is the same with the 2nd and tion of the new policy, under to postpone for a year the opera- will certainly win through to step that will meet with un-native craft, besides the mechani- even a brigade, may prefer to possible. eventual success,
qualified approval in all parts of cally propelled ones. The Mari- fight for the Moderates while an- Sir Cecil Clementi's reference the Empire.
It dissipates the time Customs has been asked for other under the same general is of the British quota this year, ill At the outside, Scotland's share idea that has prevailed heretofore dala in its possession and the just as determined to throw over not exceed 15,000. to British policy in China was a that Australasia had no more strike is the boat-people's reply Chiang Kai-shek. straight challenge to our enemies. than an academic interest in the to the Government. There is no twisting his words. Singapore Base for the selfish ren-
Alleged Collision.. British policy in China has always son that the Buse was not being military authorities are to put in It is reported here that the
EARLIER MESSAGES. aimed solely at security, freedom Moreover, just as they have still heavy claim against the owners
The Spectre of Famine in and equal opportunity for British "Little Englanders', at Home in of a Hong Kong-Wuchow pasen-
China. trade. "Great Britain, as all the spite of all the lessons of the ger ateamer for the alleged sink-
Shanghai, April 28, world knows, has no territorial war, so have they both in Aus- by collision of the chartered motor-vessel "Kwang Hing" of
The situation. In that part of tralia and New Zealand: people 70 tons, off the Marble Hills China under nationalist control, ambitions whatsoever in China. who look askance at any monetary It is, therefore, most amazing that aid toward schemes of Imperial (above Yuetshing) some three outside of Shanghai, is growing whisky to-day, and people, in
weeks ago. the self-styled Nationalists of moment such as the Singapore maintain that a woman and three appears to take seriously the clous fluid from flowing down the The authorities more tense and complex. Hankow their anxiety to prevent the pre- Buse. It may be recalled that a children were drowned. China should vociferously and in- couple of years ago they even H.M.S. "Moth" is still in port. Peking-Hankow railway. To- roadside and lapped it up.
Fongtien threat to come down the drains, lay on all fours at the cessantly denounce, Great Britain criticised the temporary visit of
day's wireless message states that as their enemy, while clasping the Australian cruiser "Sydney"
Others soaked their caps with the Nationalists were thrown the spirit and sucked them, while to their hearts as bosom-allies the land's offer of a million pounda to Chinese waters. New Zea-
back along the Honan front in many men and women quickly' Russian Bolshevists, who appear foward, the Singapore Base
more than a minor encounter.... laid hands on bottles and cans to be pursuing in Chinese Turkes should be an example to the Com
A wireless from Klukiang and filled them from the states that the retreating Han-alcoholic stream. tan, in Outer Mongolia and in the Governments of other Col-in the Nationalist Army has, colour to unconfirmed reports a collision between a tram-car. monwealth Government and to One of the senior field officera kowites are flooding in, lending These scenes wore the sequel to | Manchuria "-- the-- old, Czarist onles that have hitherto stood through a private cable to Hong that Chiang Kai-shek is moving and a lorry, on which there were schemes of Slavonic aggrandise: aloof from practical identification Kong, explained the mystery sur against Hankow, five barrels of whisky. ment in the Far East. As His with the scheme New Zealand rounding the troop movements In the meantime Hankow's in- realises that the, Base is not a along the Yangtse in and near ternal situation is becoming Purpurely local affair, but an Empire Kiukiang.
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blind can see that Russia is not matter worthy of the loyal sup By wireless, it was yesterday disastrously affecting the little re- When I am approached by pro the friend of China, fport of all units overseas. Com reported that units of the 2nd, maining business; Chinese busi moters of musical festivals I
All but the purblind-
ing an it does only a few weeks
ness men are closing up and usually ask them whether they that Britain is the friend of land's gamerosity should form the before Empire Day, New Zea-
thousands of workers are thrown want a good festival or a commer China Ever since the late Dr. text for many & homily on Em-existed. The Mother Country and pect of starving as supplies com- to lose $1,000, they will have a on the streets with every pros cial success. If they are prepared Sun Yat-sen alleged that Britain pire unity, confounding those her large family abroad standing Into the city are greatly good ones if £2,000, a very good
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