1927-04-30 — Page 7

SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1927.

SEDITION.

THE NEW CHINA.

Why There Can Be No Peace.

CHIANG AS THE OBSTACLE.

[By Li Chung-yin."]- Irrespective of whether the Reds will be suppressed or the break in the Kuomintang will be patched up, there can be no peace

in China yet.

NEW POWERS FOR THE POLICE.

HANKOW'S DANGER.

(Continued from Page 1.).

THE CHINA MAIL.

the Kuomintang that they should The following regulation was made by the Governor. in Council Co-operate with the Communists, under secting 2 of the Emergency and support the interests of the Regulation Ordinance, 1922, Ordin-labourers and the farmers.. ance No. 5 of 1922, on Thursday:

Communist Treachery. The regulation relating to the

This did not mean that the Prevention of Disorder which was Kuomintang should come entirely

of April published in the "Gazette" 3, 1927, as notification No. 202, is under the control of the Soviel rescinded and the following regu-Government in Moscow or its

Hankow

Comrade lation Is substituted therefor:

agent,

Shadows Before.

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL.”

Entertainments.

April 30-queen's Theatre; "The Unholy Three"

April 80-World Theatre: "The Freshman."

April 30-Star Theatre: "Big Brother."

April 30-Tea Dance at Cafe Restaurant Parisien, from 4.30 6.80. p.m.

April 30 Grand performance In the kaleidoscopie military It shall be lawful for any police Borodin.

by Prof. Harry Pisler, Lee Theatre, and political changes which take officer to seize anything whatso- However, the Communists stole Percival St., Happy Valley, 9.15 p.m. May 2-M.I. & A.C. Coy's dinner luce from day to day, all eyes over which may appear to belong to their way into the party and got are centred on General Chiang or to be connected with, or to be in-a grip on certain members of the and concert, Volunteer Headquar Kai-shek, commander-in-chief of ended to be used for the purposes of party which they refused to tors, 7.45 p.m.

May 2-Dance at R. E. Theatre, the Nationalist Moderates and any, proseribed organisation, and

it shall be lawful for a magistrate, loosen. They, the Communists,

Wellington Barracks under the China's "soldier of the hour." upon such notice (if any) as he promised faithfully to abide by Auspices of the Royal Enginoors Where doubts previously exist shall think fit, to order any such the rules of the Kuomintang but, and Royal Corps of Signals Junior ed as to Chiang Kai-shek's poli- thing to be forfeited. Any thing after having been admitted, they Dance Club, 8.30 p.m. tical creed, the merchants and so forfeited shall be disposed of. in declined to submit to these and,

May 2-Dinner and Concert at thinking classes, as well as a ser such manner as the Captain Super-instead, tried to dictate to the Volunteer Headquarters 7.45 p.m. tion of the workers, are acclaim-intendent of Polles may direct.

party, action which certainly May 4-Cafe Restaurant Parision could not be recognised. ing him as the champion of anti- Communism. Suppose, for the purpose of this article, that he He crushes the Hankow clique. cannot do so without co-operation and, judging him by his past, he will attempt to throw his helpers aside when the immediate object has been achieved.

FOUR SHOT.

REMARKABLE STORY FROM

MALAYA..

Kuala Lumpur. April 19. As the "Reds" have found that

A strange shooting tragedy is re- they backed the wrong horse, so will others become, in turn dis-ported from Kuala Lampang on the

border of Selangor and Perak.

Always Ambitious.

The present Nationalist hero was first heard of in Kwangtang several years ago when the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen personally brought him to General Chan Kwing-ming. who was then sojourning on the Fukien border while the Kwangsi militarists held sway in Canton. As a 2nd grade staff officer altached to n division, Chiang Kai-shek made it known that he was restless and would he till his ambition was realised.

and wounded an assistant.

holds Dress Carnival Dinner Dan- sant at which function prizes for ladies will be presented.

General Chiang Kai-shek, con- cluded Mr. Huang Hui-ping, was

May 6-Annual dinner (Engineer thoroughly justified in suppress Co.) and presentation of shooting ing the Communists and he was sure that, if the late Dr. Sun Yat-Prizes, H.K.V.D.C. Headquarters, 8 Ben were alive to-day and could m

Sports.

laction.

tised by the Bolsheviks, intro-

The policeman was later arrested, 'duced.

meeting of China Fire Ins. Co Lt, Union Building, 11.15 a.m.

Lammerts' Auctions, May 3— Valuable household furniture, at Messra. Lammert Bros.'-Sale Room, 2.80 p.m.

May 2-At Godown No. 21, Kow- loon Wharf, 30 cases yellow metal sheetings, 11 n.m.

· Land Sale.

May 2-Sale of Crown Inndat Mong Kok Tsui, by public auction at the Offices of the Public Works Department, 3 p.m.

er acus.

April 30-Messrs. Komor Komor will display for ten, days water colours and oil paintings by famous artists from Japan and Europa, from 9. a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. May 1-Social gathering in St. John's Cathedral Hall, 6 p.m. service at Union Church, Kennedy May 1-Vocal and instrumental

Road, 5.30 p.m.

May 1-Full water supply to the Colony's rider main districts from this date until further notice.

May 1-Opening of bathing beaches at North Point and Ken- nedy Town.

May 8-Quarry Bay School holds spring festival, 11 a.m. Launch for Visitors leaves Murray Pier 10-20 | ዜ-1-

May 3 Screening of the Leipzig International. Industries Fair, and various modern methods in the manufacture .of machinery, at Queen's Theatre, 10.45 a.m.

PASSENGER LIST.

ARRIVALS.

see the crimes of the Bolsheviks, April 30 Postponed Easter Meet- he would approve of the general's ing of the Fanting Hunt, 3.15 p.m.

April 30-Closing cruise of the Never Gain Ground in China.-R.H.K. Yacht Club, 3 p.m.

April 30-Opening of the Hong Replying on behalf of the Chin- satisfied with Chiang Kai-shek. It is alleged that on Good Friday ese journalists, Mr. Yen Shun-yu Kong league tennis season, 4 p.m.

May 1-S.C.A.A. annual sports evening a Malay constable armed said that, although Bolshevism, or with a rifle went into the town and Communism, had succeeded in meeting, H.K.F.C. ground, Happy

Valley,

May 5-6-Royal Artillery Ath- Passengers arrived at Hong shot # Chinese liquor shop keeper, Russia, it would never gain

ground in China because condi-etic Meeting, United Services Re-Kong on April 29 by the N.YK. Then he went out of the shoptions differed so vastly. China

from Bombay. creation ground, Kowloon, 2 p.m. "Sado Maru" shota Chlause kapala and proceed-

were:-Mr. J. Heach, Mr. S. F. ing to a rubber estate shot a Tamil was a civilised country and she ench day.

never could nor would bear to

May 7-Third extra race meeting Smith, Mr. N. J. and Mrs. P. coalie.

Three of the wounded have auc-sce such barbarism as was prac- of the H.K. Jockey Club, Race Maskruwala, Mr. O. Kiyoshi, Mrs.

Course, Happy Valley. cumbe

May 24-Meeting of Fanling. Yac, Mr. K. Osamu, Mrs. K. Kiyo, Miss Hiro, Mr. T. Kentaro, The Wu-Han Communists, the Hunt Steeplechases.

Meetings.

Mr. K. Heizo, Mr. F. Kotaro, Mr. speaker remarked, were follow- ing a suicidal policy and hoped to

May 7-Third annual meeting S. Kokki, Mr. S. Kwanji, Mr. T. Some of us have hardly rell-enforce principles which the of China Underwriters, Ltd., St. Seiichi, Mr. N. Koichiro, Mr. E.

George's Bldg., 11.30 n..

Shoji, Mr. T. Teikichi, Mr. N. gion enough to keep us warm.-Chinese people would not only

May 9-Ocers' Meas Meeting Yozo, Mr. F. Matsuji, Mr. N. Rev. Jas. Saxton.

not accept but which they would H.K.V.D.C. Headquarters, 630 p.m. Tolzo, Mr. V. Kosaburo, Mr. H. neither forget nor forgive.

May 17-Forty-sixth annual Shin. Mr. K. Rikuo, Mr. O. Shiro, Though the Wu-Han Government meeting of the Canton Insurance | Ms. I, Rika, Mr. K. Genkitsu, Mr. professed to permit freedom of Co... Messrs. Jardine Matheson's Shiyo, Mr. D. N. Masters, Mr. H. therefore been indispensable to speech and publication, it muzzled offices, noon.

Takeo, Mrs. H. Yac, Miss H. Ski, the Cantonese.

the Press and censored every- May 20-Fifty-fourth meeting of Being an old-fashioned |

T Harnkich, Mr. M. Kan, Mr. Chinese Conservative wishing to thing and therefore its fall was Union Insurance Society of Canton, Master H. Eio, Miss H. Kane, Mr. uphold the reputation of the War certain. The speaker, in conch:- Union Bldg., 11 a.m.

May 20 Sixty-first annual meet-I. Tadashi, Mrs. I. Totsu, Mías I. Lords, and seeing wealth and sion, appealed to all present tb power atmost within his grasp, sever relations with Wu-Han and ing of British Traders' Ins. Co., Chidori, Mr. Y. Yotaro, Mr. C. Ltd., Union Building, 11.14 a.m. Shigetarre, Mrs. O. Mitsu, Miss Chiang Kai-shek has no desire and its Communist Government.

May 20-Fifty-eighth yearly 0. Teru. ades no necessity to divide the After a while, the Kuomintang prospective spoils on a communal Support from Merchants. was re-established in Canton.

basis, as laid down in Moscow re- The writers of the telegrams' Back came Chiang Kai-shek, this gulations for the salvation of circulated last week on behalf of

nations. time as a 1st grade staff officer of

[the Chinese merchants of the French Concession (Messrs. the 1st Army, then commanded by

At Nanking to-day; the party Wong King-yung, Chang Siau- General Hsu Shung-chi (who,

forced by question looms largely in the ling and Do Yoch-sung) are form- incidentally, W28 Chiang Kai-shek to flee in 1925). lost the Russian subsidy. He can special aim of which is to fight picture. Chiang Kai-shek hasing a new organisation, the Points in His Character.

Communism. In July, 1922, the late Dr. Sun afford to do so as he has the Customs surtaxes of the biggest

While the remnants of the Kuomintang Army were strug- gling for a footing. Chiang Kai- shek quarrelled with General Leung Hung-kai (whom he impri- Be- soned in Canton in 1925). cause Chan Kwing-ming would not punish Leung Hung-kai, Chiang Kai-shek forsook Sun Yat-sen and returned to Shang-

hai.

Party First.

Yat-sen was driven out of Can-port and the opium monopoly of strong support from all over the This organisation is receiving fon by Chan Kwing-ming and Shanghai (native city) worth country as evidenced by piles of Chiang Kai-shek lost his appoint-about $2,000,000 a month. letters and telegrams which the ment. A few months afterwards,

To set up a working govern-writer was shown during the

Sun Yat-sen returned and Chiang ment, he is gathering around him week-end. Kai-shek was still turbulent, be- some members of the Kuomintang Its success is assured if the ing one of forty staff officers at-whose names are well-known to promoters will abide by their tached to executive headquarters. foreigners. To them, the setting fixed policy.

All these minor incidents in the man's career tend to illus-up of Chiang Kai-shek as a

trate his characteristics,

The Shanghai Students' Union

dictator is not the issue of have issued a telegram favouring primary importance.. The purg-the fight against Bolshevism and At the height of his power in ing of the Kuomintang of Com-approving of the removal of the Canton period, as pointed out munist elements will receive more Nationalist Government from by one observer, always referred of their attention, hoping that Hankow to Nanking.

such will lead to the re-placing of

EARLIER MESSAGES.

to as "the halcyon days of which Nationalists are so proud" the Party on Its former status. Chiang Kai-shek favoured neither

Moderates Hends as Sacrifice. the Extremists, Communists,

Having disagreed with Chiang Moderates or Conservatives. He Kai-shek not more than two years The Soviet Consulates of played one section off against ago, can such politicians as Dr.

Manchuria, the other, to strengthen his own C. C. Wu and Mr. Hu Han-min- hand. All along he was success to mention no others-collabor

Shanghai, April 29. ful until the effect of his con-ate with him now? One answer

A telegram from Mukden, dat- 'quests made the scope too big for sounds plausible, In 1925, ed April 27, states that Govern- Chiang Kai-shek was almost ment circles assert that Chang How Communists Stole In. entirely dependent on Borodin's Teo-lin la considering the closing This opportunity was seized by favours. He is not the Russians and their hirelings. therefore has no need to sacrifice churia in anticipation of which and of Soviet Consulates in. Man- How it was done is best told by the heads of Moderates to appease action the Consuls have despatch- Mr. George. E. Sokolsky in the the paymaster. "North Chima Daily News,"

rd certain effects to Moscow.

him to control directly.

follows:-

поту

19 If Chiang Kai-shek continues There are persistent reports of as the soldier of iron will, he is unusual Russian military activity The Communista ... rbound to disagree with his poli- on the frontier, a body of Mongo- ganised to steal the party from tician contreres again. How can lian cavalry being reported to its leaders. They entered as in- dividual members-practically there be peace, if that is to be have penetrated Inner Mongolia. stole into the party. They then the case?

Foreign observers have been des-

worked harder than most of the One point which has become patched to verify the report... Kuomintang leaders knew how to fairly obvious, since the National- work until they became secre- ist c'cavage came to a head, is taries and officers and until they that former Kuomintang methods controlled the party machinery. are being revised.

While the Kuomintang leaders

Frontier Defence.

Peking, April 29. General Tsang Shih-ku has gone

were making speeches and work- The Anti-Foreign Issue, to Harbin to arrange for frontier ing out programmes, the Com-l The anti-foreign issue was defence with the military commie- munists within the party were raised so that the Nationalists aloner there.

bully engaged in organisation could win public esteem by, ne- work.

More Executions........ sumedly, making it a question of After the death of Dr. Sun national honour. Anybody oppos-

Shanghai, April 29, Yat-sen they boldly assumed au-ed to them, even if he had never April 28, delayed by the censor, A message from Peking, dated thority and threw every outstand- ing Kuomintang leader with the seen a foreigner in his life, was says that the well-known Com- exception of Mr. Wang Ching labelled a "hunting dog of the munist Li Ta-chao and seventeen wai, out of office and often out of imperialista." This very popular others, who were arrested in the the party, which they controlled. slogan certainly caught on. Soviet Embasay raid, were Accused of Insincerity: The war served the same pur- executed this afternoon. The Those who have been closely pose in that opposing generale police appear to have decided that connected with Chiang Kai-shek could be accused of militarism the evidence discovered complete- Becuse him of insincerity in that and tuchunism. How many ofly proved their guilt and the he denounced the Communist these generals have since been Court, having somewhat inform Party not because he is opposed given high appointments in the ally investigated the cases, orders to Soviet ideas, but merely be- Nationalist Army is beyond counted summary execution. The pri cause Hankow was jealous of his The anti-foreign outcry is look soners were strangled at police authority and took up an obed on askance to day because the headquarters. Reuter, structionist policy. As Mr. E Chinese have found out the cost Trial of Russians. Ashmead-Bartlett, C.B.E., special to themselves of boycotts, strikes,{

Shanghai, April 29

Cafe still under, cloge. pending trial Russian omciala hav

correspondent of the "Daily Tele etc. Chilang Kalshek won the The others arrested at the graph" (London) aptly says: merchanta sympathy by striking Borodin has been all- hard at armed strike pickets and powerful because he alone con agitators, and Hankow, to keep guar trols the funds which annble the ho in the competition has also Nationallate to advance; more shown.En abrupt turn in the attac over Russian officers under Gene Coral Galen (Galents) have directed tude towards foreigners (as re-the red thead comic operations. He has ported by wireless this week)

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