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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1927.

CHINA'S WAR.

BRITAIN AND CHINA.

IMPORTANT NEW STATEMENT.

THE TIDE OF EVENTS.

Hankow Reds Losing Heavily.

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FURTHER DETAILS OF WANTON MURDERS.

YANGTSE FIRING.

The Southern forees (ie, thone AMOY POLICE DISPERSE UNRULY CROWD. under the control of the Hankow

NANKING SANCTIONS NOW INEXPEDIENT. Communistic wing of the Kuomin

HANKOW NOT TO BE RETAKEN.

tang) are cut off between Chu-ma- tien and Liu-lin.

Further details have reached Hong Kong of the recent murder of a missionary and his son in Yunnan and the capture of two ladies and a child by soldier bandits.

The Northern Invaders from Fengtien (Le.. those under Marshal Chang Tao-lin of Peking)

Firing on the Yangtse is again reported to-day, a British gun- are at Chumation but have not yet reach boat being shot at with rifles. The fire was answered with machine FULL LIBERTY OF ACTION FOR THE FUTURE.od the Honan-Hupeh provincial

border which, roughly, separates guns. There were no casualties. the Hankow Nationalists from the Fengtien Army.

London. May 9.

An important pronouncement on the Government's policy in China was made by Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, in the House of Commons at question time fo-day in the course of which he stated that it has been decided not to cancel the Hankow agreement or to re-occupy the Hankow Concession at present, although there is ample justification for these steps, and that it has further decided that application of sanctions for the Nanking outrages and failure to observe the conditions of the Han- kow agreement is inexpedient. The other Governments have come to similar conclusions.-Reuter.

PERSONAL OPINIONS.

been

Mr. Eugene Chen And His Notes.

London, May 9.

The Government's one desire was that such a government would arise which would renounce the policy of anti-foreign agitation and misrepresentation which had ruined its predecessor, and should- er its responsibilities fairly and

sion.

A demonstration took place outside the Municipal Council's office There are appearances that the] in the Settlement at Amoy yesterday but was dispersed by the police "Rede" are acting independently of without serious effort. Hankow and in sympathy with the Northerners,

Propaganda Train Captured.

At Liu-lin (mentioned above), the Northerners cut the railway that runs from Peking down to Hankow. A special propaganda train of the Southerners was cap- tured here. Some of the officials on the train were shot by the North-

arners.

YUNNAN OUTRAGE.

Further Details of Wanton Crime.

a

[From Our Own Correspondent.]

Yunnanfu (Yunnan), April 26. Further details are now to hand The Russians in Hankow have about the dastardly attack on made further attempts to send party of the China Inland Mission money and ammunition in the Han by semi-irrégular Yunnanese sol- River into the territor of General diers at Shih-teung. The party Feng Yu-hsiang (theChristian comprised the Rev. Harris Slichter, general"). Such efforts have been Mrs. Slichter, two children, and Miss Craig. They left Shih-Tsung. on their way to Yunnanfu, with an escort of 110 soldiers provided by the local authorities. When only a short distance out, they were at tacked by a gang of 260 soldiers who have not been paid, but who wore uniforms. The escort fed.

Firat reports stated that Mr.

stopped.

[Note: The Han Riveras a tribu- tary of the Yangtse, ringing from the north-west to central China.}

Bridge Blown Un

+

A bridge on the railway has been blown up but the Southerners have repaired it. The headquarters in

been withdrawn to Hiasan, close

Kulangsu is the foreign settle- ment at Amoy, a Treaty port in the south of Fukien province. In the city, the Moderates have con- trol. They are mostly. "locals": who went over to General Chiang i Kai-shek when his subordinates "conquered" Fukien.

HANKOW'S CHEQUE.

Already Paid Into Hong Kong Bank.

London, May 9.. In the House of Commons, in answer to questions, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Secretary, stated that the compensation agreed to by the Hankow Gov ernment for the looting at Kiu-

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In the House of Commons, re-squarely, liquidating the past and plying to Comdr. Kenworthy (La-building up a better future on hour) regarding the Government's reasonable basis of treaty revi- the field of the Hanków army has Sllekter, carrying one of his chil- Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank intention concerning the Nanking

It was too early to predict the outrages, Sir Austen Chamber- nin stated that Mr. Eugene strength or policy of the new Na- Chen's replies to the Powers tionalist Government being form- identic Notes shirked the serioused at Nanking, but he had no forthwith saying hesitation in and immediate issues of the out- rages and introduced irrelevant that the Powers' moderation in matter of the usual Nationalist dealing with the Nanking incident was largely inspired by a desire propaganda kind,

not to embarrass this or any other new Government in the task of

to the border of Howe of in-dren, was knocked down by a solat Hankow on March 15 to the dier who struck him with a rifle, credit of the Consul-General's ac- Suence-British Natal wireless,

The "Reds" refered oabove The soldier, it was said. then bay count.-Reuter,

introducing order in the territory.

under their control.

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Future of Hankow.

may mean foneted

both the child and father

or

ANTI-RED DRIVE.

Kwangtung.

in one stroke. The latest account kow army in the cd

not shows that Mr. Slichter was to the remnants of Mardhi-fu's holding one of his two children but Northerners who inve heur over was walking along the road, accom New Northern Expedition From run by the Fenktien invaders; or panied by his Chinese boy. Mrs. the "Red Spears" (or White Wolf Slichter was being conveyed in a Cubs), who are semi-bandits, pro- chair, with one of her children.

with Mias General Chien Ta-chun of Can- fessedly in alliance with the Kuo- The other child was mintang; or the "Red" army of Mary I Craig, who was also in a ton, commander of the North

chair.

River Punitive Expedition, is to the Christian general. At any

One of the bandits fired a shot at march northwards into Kiangsi rate, their sympathy with the Northern Army from Peking is Mrs. Slichter's chair. Instinctive province to attack the Commun- indicative of that unit. being the she put up her hand to protect ists there, reports the "Canton

her child. The bullet grazed her Gazette." hand but killed the child. Mr.

victors at the moment.

General Chien Ta-ebun's for-

The Powers were discussing further action in view of the un- satisfactory nature of Mr. Chen's reply when the events in the Yangtse region entirely changed the position. Within four days of Sir Austen Chamberlain said the date of the reply a united the Government had very careful- Government of South China no ly considered the question of re-

Merchant Ships Convoy.

Slichter was à little in the rear. A longer existed. Mr. Chen and his occupying the former British Con-

Chinking, May 9. Notes represented little more than cossion at Hankow. The logic

bandit attacked him from behind, mer post was equivalent to head: his personal opinion.

and justice of that at first strong ships arrived here from further with

Yesterday a convoy of merchant piercing him through to the heart of the city and provincial sureté.

a bayonet. Mr. Slichter's Since the anti-Red coup on Good; The tools of the policy whichly appealed to us.

down the River without being at native servant caught his master Friday, his power has been exten- culminated in the Nanking out- The signing of the Hankow tacked by Chinese forces on the as he fell, mortally wounded, sively increased by Chiang Kai- rages were not paid Nationalist agreement was deliberately de- banks of the Yangtae.

Miss Craig escaped, for the time shek's party. soldiery and city mobs but an or-signed by us as a sign of the Yesterday, the volume of rifle being, with the other child, but she ganisation the driving force of friendly attitude of Britain to fire by the opposing forces on each which was borrowed directly or wards the Chinese Nationalist bank of the river was comparative- indirectly from the Third Inter- Government and Nationalist ly small-British Naval Wireless. national.

aspirations.

Position at Wuhu.

Wuhu; May. 9.

Swift Retribution, This policy by March was dirceted against General Chiang Kai-shek. The organised side of the Nanking outrages appeared to have been an attempt to embroil General Chiang Kai-shek with the foreign Powers.

Sir Austen Chamberlain quoted in this, respect the incidents at Nanking, the Chinking and

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Railway Open Again. and Mrs. Slichter were both cap- Thanks to his expedition, traffic tured by the bandits and carried off is again possible along the whole to Shih-teung.

of the southern (completed) por- The local militia took steps to retion of the so-called Carton- cover the captives, and a brother Hankow railway which runs as far

Was imme-

We would be amply justified in re-occupying the Concession. The Northern soldiers now hold a line of the bandit chief Nationalist Government had running from Liu-an-chow to Lake diately seized. He was held as a 48 Shiukwan on the North River. hostage for Mrs. Sichter, Mies The Communists there have neither observed the spirit of the Hochow.

been defeated and scattered. Fol- Units from the 7th, 15th and 44th Craig and the child. agreement nor had attempted to

Nationalist Armies (loyal to Gen-

The veteran Mr. Allen, of the lowing up their success, the reciprocate our friendly attitude.

eral Chiang Kai-shek), are opposing China Inland Mission, undertook to Moderates are to cross Kwang- the Northerners on this line.

go to Shih-Taung to negotiate for tung's provincial border to attack Very few, if any, Nationalist the release of the captives on the Chiang Kai-shek's opponents, who troops have been left in Wuhu basis of an exchange for the ban are strongly entrenched in both British Naval Wireless.

dit's brother, After protracted. Hunan and Kiangsi provinces. Wuhu is on the south bank of negotiations, Mr. Allen was suc the Yangtse, above Nanking. coseful in his mission, and the two The Shantung Army made a drive ladies and the child are now in In this direction, pushing back a safety at Yunnan-fu. part of Chiang Kai-shek's line, with the result mentioned above.

Shanghai Quiet,

Shanghai, May 9,. No change has occurred in the

It seemed two months ago that the Southern Party and the Na-evacuation of all British subjects tionalist armies would sweep

from up-country districts and China from South to North. Nan- many Yangise towns, and the king had perhaps wrecked this closing of the consulates. altogether.

In view of the momentous de- velopment due to discrediting the Communists as foreign advisers

"We have means at hand of re- occupying the Concession and re- garding the agreement as can- celled by the Nationalists' own

in the eyes of China the question act, but after full consideration

His Majesty's Government has

of punishment for the Nanking decided not to take this step now, situation here.

outrages had assumed an entirely and hope it may not be forced

new aspect.

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The real offenders, namely the upon them."" Communist agitators, were pun- ished by the Nationalists with a severity and effectiveness of

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YANGTSE INCIDENT.

British Gunboat Returns Fire.

NANKING OUTRAGES.

"Manchester Guardian's" Strong Comment.

The

which no foreign Power was cap- ment was not signed for the been imposed against arrivals from day, when fire with rifles was of the British Consul General, is,}

exigencies of the moment, but in

however fully justified."

The statement by Sir Austen Chamberlain and the sworn de positions of two of the victims of the Nanking outrages give an ap Nanking, May 9.

deliberate With her machine guns, H.M.S. palling picture of "Woodcock" (a gunboat or the savagery, says the "Manchester British Patrol on the Yangtse) Guardian" just to hand. returned an attack on her yester-story told by Mrs. Giles, the wife opened on her from the bank of in particular, a record of ghastly brutality. The hours of agony | The Nationalist Government at view of our whole future polley Haiphong on account of cholera.

the Yangtse. Hankow had lost its dominating in China. The world in general

Yesterday, there was no firing which she and the other ladies of position and was at present little and all Chinese were in a position

across River by the opposing her party endured are almost be yond imagining. These horrors, more than the shadow of a name. to appreciate ite significance and kaw agreement is inexpedient, (Shantung and Nationalist): fic moreover, were not, the work of Mr. Chen's Notes received an an- generosity and to recognise it as

tions. British Naval Wireless.

"Individual "soldiers who had got swer in the practical disappear-tangible proof of the sincerity of He believed that similar rea-

Amoy Students.

out of hand, nor of the ill-famed ance of the power he affected to our desire towards the Northern soning had led the other interest-

Amoy, May 9.

Shantung troops, but of responsi- represent..

and Southern Governments to

A demonstration outside the bly led Nationalist forces. They He had been left cut off by the revise treaties in the broadest ed Governments to a like conclu-

Municipal Council's office in the did not begin immediately, but tide of events in ruined and ter- and most literal spirit when

The Government therefore Settlement here was dispersed by upon a signal, and they were end- ror-stricken Hankow the For- Chinese conditions permit. does not propose to address a fur- the police,

ed also simultaneously by com- eign Minister of a Government The British Government is not ther Note to Mr. Chen We have No untoward incident followed mand. The Consulate General which only exists in name. willing even under the provocaso informed the other Powers, and the situation has now quieten- was surrounded before the looting

Those in high places responsible tion received to abandon hope that adding that we reserve full liberty ed down again.

began, and sentries were posted. for the Nanking outrages had this friendly polley will presently of action regarding the future, The trouble arose through the The whole attack bears every sign been punished with a promptitude evoke an equally friendly re-particularly in respect of any fur- Chinese People's Association in of having been carefully organ- and completeness unusual in sponse from a Chinese Govern the outrages which may be perstructing the local students to ised and the work not of unlicens {human affaira,

ment freed from foreign domina-petrated on the British flag, Brl hold a procession on Kulangsu ed but of fully licensed soldiery. Powers Moderation.. tion of

fish nationals and British pro- (the Settlement) to-days The Cantonese, commander, Ger- Liberty of Action. was Sir Austen Chamberlain said that whatever Government Sir Austen Chamberlain enid: Replying to a question arising sented with demands that the emerges from the present con- Taking all the facts of the future out of his statement, Sir Austen order prohibiting processions on fusion north or south of the Yang- and past into consideration, we Chamberlain said he was loth to the Settlement should be rescind tee will be held responsible for the have decided at present that ap- ask the heavily burdened British ed. As the procession was for outrages to British subjects and plication of sanctions for the taxpayer to compensato British bidden, the dentonetration follow compensation and reparation will Nanking outrages or failure to ob victims until a more stable Chined with the result stated above be demanded.

serve the conditions of the Han ere Government existed. Reuter, British Naval Wirelesi.

sion,

assumed full responsibility for these events, has ordered an in- quiry, and lodged a protest against the firing of the British and American warships.

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