1927-06-13 — Page 7

MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1927.

HANKOW'S DANGER.

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Nanking Successes.

of Scotland Mission, did not forget it was Russia who Church deprived her of the long-wished-opened a brief, but very interest- for Liaotung Peninsula and Porting talk with a "Straits Times" Arthur, The biller hatred finally

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SOVIET MANIA.

THE HARBOUR.

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ern Manchuria pousession, Russia about 30,000 men entered there fact that she had been approached, and 30.929 discharged at the

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found ita explosion in the Russo-representative on 3tine 1. Japaners War in 1904, with the Dr. Borthwick has been fifteen result that

He pointed out that the so called Japan' was given back years in China and has lately

Three hundred and ninety-three A series of councils of war her rights a the Laotung Penin been carry on hospital duties in confessions of persons arrested by cases were heard in the Marine sala and Port Arthur and the Ichang, a Yangtze port in the pro- the State political department must Magistrate's Court during 1926 have been held in Peking, accord-southern parts of the Russlan vince of Hupeh about 400 miles be treated with the gravest mis- (ae compared with 308 in 1925). ing to vernacular papers and a Island of Sakhalin.

trust, since the political police The principal offences were: momentous decision is expected The negotiation of 1907 drew west of Hankow

habitually endeavour to wring ad- Mooring within 100 yards from momentarily,

the two uncompromising rivals to His mission hospital accommo-sjons by means of threats and low water mark in prohibited Meanwhile, further successes temporary agreement. Russia dates 150 patients, 100 beds for prises and the use of abominable hours, dredging in Harbour with- are credited to the Nanking was recognised by Japan as the men and 50 beds for women, and methods of compulaten to induce out a permit, failing to observe

master in Northern Manchuria, Armies by Chinese correspon while Japan contented herself with is famed among the Chinese for people to act na agenta. dents, including the of the rule of the road, failing to a number of strategic points ern Manchuria. They stood toge of his evacuation, which was of the British Mission who, on the carry the regulation lights, Dump- north of Hsuchow, which thav-ther for the time being against the about the middle of April, Dr. premises of the Foreign Coming rubbish in the Harbour with- ing been recently wrested from American proposal of international Borthwick stated, the hospital missariat, was threatened with life out a permit, boarding ships with-

gramophone, imprisonment unless she acted as out permission, carrying excess General Chang Tsung-chang) is sing the Manchurian Railway and had not been interfered with, un informer on Sir Robert Hodgson, passengers. being now used by Nanking as anything done to their disadvant

When the Southern army of and with denth if she revealed the 32,982 seamen were shipped Not contented with her North- their base for a final onslaught age. on Peking.

Mercantile Marine Office, and on attempted another scheme to reach was no looting and little unrest-Reuter. Chiang at Hangchow.

Soviet and Poland,

board ships during the year, com- the Yellow sen at Tientsin by the until agitators, who followed the General Chiang Kai-shek is route of Lake Baikal through Urga soldiers, had made an appearance.

Moscow, June 12. reported to have arrived

at to Kulgan, a timing at bringing Pek- The agitators, called a ten days' note on the assassination of Vol. 36,020 discharged during 1925.

The Soviet reply to the Polish Pared with 39,846 shipped and Hingehow, about 100 miles ing to her knees. On the other

Polish 70 distressed seamen were re- south-west of Shanghai. It is hand, she took advantage of the strike and all Britons' servants kov, demands that the

were withdrawn excepting those Government take measures to ceived 'and admitted to Sailors'i the capital of Chekiang province, Chinese Revolution of 1911 to pene-serving at the Mission hospital. thoroughly investigate the crime Home and Boarding Houses; of of which the Nanking com.trute into Mongolia mander-in-chief is a native. Very Russin gained a

By the negotiation of 1914, Chinese Now in Charge. und severely panish the guilty these 16 were sent Home, one to foothold in Mon- Dr. Borthwick stated that when parties; secondly, Poland must Aden, two to Bombay, 12 to Cal- few people knew that he was ex-gollan Railway construction: Dur-it was made clear to the authori- mit Soviet representatives to par- cutta, 11 to Colombo, three to pected but ceremonies in his ing the World War 1914-1915, when ties that if the strike was allow. ticipation in the judiciary acts in Singapore, three to Sydney, one to honour are being planned by his Russia was unfortunately or rathered to spread to the hospital it the case; hilly, Poland must fan. Canton, one to Manila, one to New fellow-provincials. The "Wah fortunately plunged into a deally

mediately disperse terroristic and York, two remained in Hospital, Tez Yat Po says that Chiang whirlpool, Japan forced Russian ap would mean the patients would bandit organisations of persons in and 16 obtained employment. Kai-shek attended a meeting proval of ceding her a section of the be unattended, the authorities or- Poland plotting against the Soviet $787.03 was expended by the which resolved to support the off Siberia ad far west

Chinese Eastern Railway and took dered the Chinese hospital atten- and deport same.

us Lake dants and the Europeans' per- i The reply declines the Polish Harbour Master on behalf of the protest to Japan anent the dies-Baikal This loss, however, Russia sonal servants to remain at their offer to compensate the widow no Board of Trade in the relief of patch of troops to North China,

was able to recover shortly after work.

the Soviet deems it its own duty these distressed scamen. In 1921, though her effort to enter

to protect her, and refutes the The total number of vessels sur- The Chinese doctor at the contention that the assassination veyed for passenger certificates in into Mongolia was thwarted, shel found herself in control of Urgu. Ichang mission had been left in was the act of an insane individual. 1926 was 120 vessels of 371,760 Meanwhile the hands off" policy charge of the mission hospital: On the contrary, it was a muni-gross tons, 43 being surveyed at of the Washington Conference to with three months supplies in festation of a systematic and re- Kowloon. Docks, 65 at Taikoo wards Russia made possible her cash and goods, and Dr. Borth-gular struggle against the Soviet Dockyard, four at Cosmopolitan drive in North China and Mongolia wick thought it would be possible by dark forces of world reaction Docks, and 17 on Chinese slip- more freely. From this time on,

The ways, the remainder being survey- talk with the wind blows more favourably for for him to carry on after that and the enemics of peace.

darked in the Harbour on bottom cer- Heuter's correspondent, Mr. Eugene her sinister designs upon China. On period us the Mission had been reply stresses that these Chen remarked that the Hankow March 31. 1924, a treaty was enter self-supporting for some years forces were loosened by the rupture tificates.

|in. Anglo-Soviet diplomatic rela- Government is now "purely boured into fetween Rusela and the past.

tions for which the British Govern

Despite the boycott, British Peking Government, by which It was only when he arrived ment had prepared according to a ocean-guing shipping, in regard to Whatever amount of truth there Russia consented to forego all her at Hankow did he realise how regular plan.--Reuter.

tonnage, showed no material fall- is, this statement is an increasingly privileges in China inherited from far the "Reds" had permeated|

Volkov's Funeral.

ing off during 1926 (compared evident. fact.

the Czarist. Regime, whereas the into the Nationalists' government,

Moscow, June 11. with the previous year) as the During the past few days, the latter was to recognise the former

Volkov's remains. were The It was Dr. Borthwick's consider- a rightful government.

cere following table shows:- local authorities have been legislat-85 ing against Communism, realising treaty, however. found the Chi ed opinion that once the National- moniously received on the arrival nese Enstern Railway still in the ists had shaken off the Com Members of the Government laid it

of the special train from Warsaw. Year the necessity of restoring con- | Des fidence if the "financial blockade" hands of Russia, because, by its munistic shackles and the Borodin is to be lifted; for this is only pos.visions the manager and one of influence, affairs would settle sible by the removing of the heavy two assistant managers were down quickly.

MR. CHEN AGAIN.

Hankaw Now Finished With

Communism.

www

Hankow, June 12.

In the course of a

Teois,'

restrictions on normal trade.

Meanwhile #ving conditious ni

foreigners are gradually returning to normal. Many have returned (from the ships where they had been living) back to their dences. Wives, in some cases, are returning to Hankow.-Reuter.

SHANGHAI QUIET.

Anti-British Boycott at Ningpo.

resi-:

Russians.

The new Nationalism crented a particularly favourable access to

opportunity for her access.

months, possibly two years. He

fired-Reuter.

a

Total Tonnage Total Tonnage All Classes Ocean Going

British

7,189,471

33,827,325 5,168,058

3,627,576

6,842,024

8,351,084

9,247,198

оп п gun carriage, which was drawn round the square, accom- 1906. 32,747,268 panied by military

7,216,169 escort. 1907.. 36,028,310 Heartily Sick of Civil War.

94,615,241 Speeches were delivered and the 1908 ..

7,505,870 34,830,845 7,735,927 As things were 'to-day, how-coffin was then lowered into the 1909 Bolshevik penetration. The formuever, he did not expect to be able, grave in the Kremlin, salutes being 1010 .36,534,361 8,111,946 11911 36,179,162 7,589,995 of the "Congress of Peasants to resume his work for many in Canton was another favourable

"Reds" in Americn.

(1912 .. 36,735,149 7,779,970 New York, June 12. 1913 37,742,982 8,449,533 To be brief, since 1920, Russian had heard it rumoured In Shang- "British control in China was 1914 35,756,961 8,321,692 influence in China has increased hai that the Missionary Societies obtained by the Opium War" is one 1916

89,884,919 7,358,586 by leaps and bounds. Through in-in Amerien did not think it prob-¡ of the clomane on the henenum p

+1916 66,661,457 6,868,743 trigue, force and proffered friend-able that anything could be done by radicals and communists who demonstrated outside the British

11917 ship, she was able to put her hand for at least five years. in the "Celestial Pie" the

Consulate in Whitehall Street.

1918. 29,518,189 He had decided to return to Czariat Regime. To-day, by appli-

The police were called out to 1919.. 35,615,169 cation of lip service, string-attuch-Scotland rather than wait around quell the demonstration which was 1920 40,122,627 ed friendship and bogus inter- in Shanghai where he would only held under the auspices of the 1921 43,420,970 national justice, she finds herself be idle as there were more doc- "Hands off China" Committee. 1922 - .. 46,566,764 9,688,891 controlling Manchuria, Mongolia tors in that city now than they "The Young Workers' League of 1923 and North-west China. She is win- knew what to do with. On the America," fur and garment work- 1924 no repetition of the inning the young hearts of China. waiting list of the Glen Line for ers and workers of the Communiat 1925

Thousands upon thousands of in- cidents which have marred the nocent Chinese play into her hands. positions as ship's surgeons, there Party of America were among the 1926

Rus-was a long queue.

participants. Reuter's American last few races and pleasure The temporary set-buck of

Service. cruises.

sian influence in China at present, Concluding his remarks, Dr. Conspiracy in Holland. According to advices from not stamped out entirely, will be Borthwick observed that the

The Hague, June 11. Ningpo, anti-foreign feeling has only a postponement of another mase of the Chinese people were Following the recent discovery.of developed into a rigidly enforced flare up to he originated in heartily sick of the civil war, but a Communist conspiracy whose boycott of British goods. British mouldering spark.

Russia, viewed from the historical did not know how to begin to Dutch East Indies, the authorities ramifications extend from the Naval Wireless.

past; present manoeuver and future 'end it.

Shanghai, June 12.

Yachts from the Club were out

in the neighbourhood of Lunghua during the week-end but there

Was

WUHU INCIDENT.

Crowd Sets Upon A.P.C. Foreigners.

Wuhu, June 12.

the

menace, is no blessing but a curse

to China, and if the curse is not to be wiped out, democracy in China is doomed to be an utter, failure. At the time when the unified Chinn is under move for full swing, Russia appears especi-

When two foreigners on the ally detrimental to China.

(1) Lentinian Communism, an

un-

EARLIER MESSAGES.

Yang Sen No Better Than "Reds."

Shanghai, June 11.

4

"Blood Bath."

London, June 11.

63,402,239 11,222,141

56,781,077 11,844,752

41,469,584 9,866,820 36,821,364 9,257,417

WELCOME HOME.

GREAT RECEPTION FOR LINDBERGH.

carried out searches at the resi

Washington, June 11. dences of East Indian students in the Hague und Leyden.

Few home coming heroes have They confiscated a number of documents received such a welcome as Lind- in Javanese and also several pistols, bergh, when he stepped ashore All those arrested were released this afternoon from the cruiser after they had been examined.-"Memphis." Wildly enthusiastic Reuter,

crowds surged against the police staff of the Asiatic Petroleum outgrowth of the Czarist despot- Foreign reports from Ichang show

cordons as the cruiser came to Company here refused to pay an iam, is shown at once to be

borth at the Navy Yard and The executions in Russia are con- joyously acclaimed the hero, upon excessive fee demanded for re-workable and inapplicable to China. that conditions in the Upper Yang-demned by the whole of Europe, whom the United States showered moval of their luggage they were The dire need of China is a demote are deplorable, whether the French, German, and Austrian unstinted honours. set on by a crowd which collect-cracy (the kind of democracy can Hankowites or General Yang Sen. "Blood Bath" and the "incredible areas are under the control of the newspapers alike speaking of the ed and somewhat manhandled, be obtained only through the nt Before being driven from Ichang, massacre."

President Coolidge welcomed although not severely. They plication of San Min principle de- by Yang Sen the Nationalists took opinion that the Soviet have there- citizen of our Republic, conqueror expreas the the aviator as an "illustrious eventually escaped from their at-nitely formulated by the late Dr. $200,000 from the Chamber of Com- by sacrificed whatever prestige they of the air and strengthener of the The matter has been Sun) built up in all democratic merce and had drawn up a list of gained since the earlier reign of ties binding our sister nations referred to the Commissioner for spirit and acted on in all democratic people for execution, including terror.

in a silar strain. way. The Leninias communiem, a British subject. They also

across the sea," and bestowed The British newspapers comment upon him the Distinguished Fly.

ing Cross as a symbol of apprecia France Determined.

tion "for what he is and what he Paris, June 11.

President Coolidge, praising

tackers.

Foreign Affairs-British Naval Wireless.

FRENCH TROOPS.

Five Hundred More At Shanghai.

Shanghai, June 12,

is well understood to many, has for posed a tax of $5 monthly on for- its chief objective the proletariat eigners for the privilege of draw- dictatorship, only to create another dark age of class despotism, leaving ng water from the river. masses to be killed by fear, hunger, despair.

They

Bandits have been most activel M. Sarraut's recent anti-Com-has done."

and on May 31 looted a ship an- munist speech was reinforced in the (2) Imperialism, the arch-enemy chored off the Customs House, tak- Chamber of Deputies yesterday by Lindbergh's conduct abroad, de- of China, has been condemned ing $6,000,

M. Barthou, Minister of Justice, who cared that the absence of self- openly by every patriotic Chinese. Despite the request of the Com-gave details of the Communist cam-acclaim and the refusal to become Five hundred French troops should the other, the most im-British to resume trade in Ichan said that the life of the country deed his conduct had endeared him if the one is to be punished, why missioner of Foreign Affairs to the Paign to dlarupt the Army. He commercialised which had mark- arrived here from Indo-China to-perialiatle of all kinds, be exoner-¦ anti-British posters were erected Pended on the outcome of the strug¡to everyone.

"He has returned throughout the city within three le between France and the Third unspoiled. Reuter's American (3) Revolution and retailiation hours of the arrival of the British are two different things. Neither gunboats.

The Chamber, by 370 votes to Service. justifier the other. Revolution, for!"

148 adopted a resolution endorsing the Government's determination to apply law against the Communists unswervingly.

day. Reuter.

CHINA'S ARCH-ENEMY.

Patriotic Chinese Must Fight.

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Lisbon, June 11. tion of prosecuting Communist De-

The Marquis de Pinedo flew puties ever arose the Government 1,400 kilometres from Ponta would not shirk from its reapon-Delgado on his journey towards sibilities.-Reuter.

Lisbon in nine hours-Reuter,

Aviation Disaster.

Foland's Decision,

the good of the many, aims at the Local militarists are seizing for building up of the future, while re-sign ships for the movement of taliation, with its main motive to troops. One steamur flying the Mr. R. S. Chen writes to the and an outlet for personal grudge, French flag was seized in spite of class antagonism and racial pre the presence in the port of a Shanghat papers:~~~.

Communism, every patriotic Chi-judice, tears down the future. Des- French gunhoat-Reuter, nese must fight to a finish. The truction, in its adequate proportion, Red poison is plaguing the senti- brings revolution to a, successful

Peking, June 11. mentalities of the rank and Ale of jail. An excess over that shakes

The half-yearly interest on the China, and there is an Increasing

The October revolution, so char-Hukuang Bonda has now been paid] number of misguided Chinese nurs-acteristic of brutality, pugnacity, into the Bank-Router. ing the illusion that the sole salva and blood thirst, is retaliatory in tion of Chinese lies in a communis-

A message lesued yesterday Minister, M. Zaleski, said that and wealthy United States airman, tic revolution of which Red Russia its extreme. With years of effort, stated that the half-yearly, interest although Poland repudiated respon was drowned in Bac Feche in the stands as a leader. If the illuston Russia is still bleeding from her on Hukuang Bonds due on June 15, sibility for the assassination of Laurentide mountains when the can hardly have its justification in war wounds. If China means re- has not yet been paid but it is Volkov, she was prepared to finan-machine he was testing for a non- any sense of the word, a cursory volution rather than retaliation, understood that the Finance Minis cially assist his family but not to stop flight to Alaska broke its glance at the background of Sino-let us shout from afar:

Down with the Sovlet Regime!'

try has sanctioned the payment, pay an indemnity-Reuter.

Russian relations would reveal thei fact that Red Russia, with her high- sounding slogan, is no leàs Im- perialistic, no less menacing China, than the long-forgotten Czariát Russla a hundred

years ngo.

to

"Adam-Zad," the age-long arch chemy of China, began to extend her claw southward at the time of the China-Japanese War. The revision of the treaty of Shimont acki in 1895 satisfied her deatre

very cause of revolution.

hence it is expected that the oblign-

| This would make the loan payments.

Paris, June 11.

At the close of an Interview with

Montreal, June 11.

M. Poincare, the Polish Foreign Mr. D. Me Kee a well-known

Down-with the Wuhan Govern- tion will he met near the date duc. ITALIAN PREMIER'S ENEMIES,

ment! Away with Imperialismi Away with Borodin! Chinese patriots, unite! : San Min's disciples, unite!:

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