1927-10-22 — Page 7

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1927.

HONG KONG DIARY

(Continued from Page 1.)

have to go backwards before we can go forward. Of the bumpti- ous characters, I would add, there is legion. They surround us on every side and, as the saying is, "get away with it." So much so, indeed, that their advantage is

THE NEXT TO GO?

WHY. TANG SENG-CHI IS DENOUNCED.

ares.

FAILURE OF SUCCESS.

barbar Met

THE CHINA MAIL,

“RANK BAD STRATEGY.”

How both Fengtien and Shansi

WILL IT NEVER END?

(Continued from Page 1.)

Here is where Shansl made a bad mistake. The plan was to sent war has been reported by Peking, leaving the capital empty the term "labour" as understood made tactical errors in their predraw the Fengtlen forces out of) in Canton and other large cities with a degree of industrialisation, Reuter and other observers.

Then flying columns were to have Colonel Lau Chee-kwong, late outflanked the Fengtien line of by foreigners covers a very small So General Tang Seng-chi has

Peking.

. In most trades the handicraft gone the way of Chiang Kai-shek, of the Cantonese Army, said in communications and struck at percentage of the population.

Success has been the biggest the "China Mail" that "rank bad

The dotted line parallel to the system remains with extensive re- cause of Chinese warlords fall-strategy" had been adopted. railway is an imaginary line tention of social and economic The rough sketch map shows along which the Shansi rovers got conditions which have existed for When Chiang Kai-shek dis-the war area and the railways round Fengtien's rear and attack- thousands of years, plus introduc- agreed with his government at along which the rival armies ed the danger zone (as shown by tion of the evils of modern union Hankow, he established his own moved.

the smaller arrows pointed at Pak-systems without any of the re- administration at Nanking and

Taiyuan (in the lower left ing) within a 50 miles radius of lieving features. retained the power.

What has the labour union corner) is the capital of Shansi Peking. TEMPORARY

After going on to further suc- province, held by General Yen

But instead of drawing the achieved for the worker? ADVANTAGE* CC880s, he fell between the two Hsi-shan, who declared war Fengtien defenders away from

More Independence. stools of politics and the army be- against a more powerful adver- Peking to pave the way for the

Except in the factories, hel cause he did not understand the!

rovers, Shansi pushed the Feng- one nor trusted the other.

The Nationalists and the tien main strength back to near works much the same as before. With his eclipse, the next big- "Christian general" profess to be Paotingfu (see map) from where His income in ratio to expenditure gest warlord flying the National-on Yen Hai-shan's side: but be it was easy to rush troops back is about the same as before, as the ist flag was General Tang Seng yond money spent in cables for northwards to defend the danger cost of living has gone up with the chi, the commander-in-chief of propaganda, they have done little zone.

rise in artisan wages. But he has or nothing.

The snapshot reproduced below secured more independence as the Peking, to the north-west of shows Shansi rovers moving up a result of a series of struggles with employers, engineered by agita- tors..

"BUMPTIOUS

CHARACTERS

LAT A

by no means temporary.

the Hankow Government.

Laid Down His Terms. He bitterly opposed Chiang Kai-shek for monopolising con. trol. With Chiang Kai-shek's re- moval, it was thought that the way to reconciliation between Tang Seng-chi. and Nanking was clear.

Political quarrels then cropped seem to They up but intermediaries

thrive on their bumptiousness and have smoothed over the differ- grow more bumptious. Perhaps, ences. one day, they will burst.

$0.

I hope

Rumours have been current in' Shanghai that Tang Seng-chi laid To the "pictures" with the wife down his terms for co-operation for my weekly look-see, and did with Nanking, these amounting to enjoy "The Cat and the Canary," his appointment as the new com- without a doubt one of the finest mander-in-chief of all the Nation- mystery-films that have been pro-alist Armies, with the same power duced. I can readily understand as Chiang Kai-shek. the play proving such an immense

success.

By the way the wife!

At Great Sacrifice.

It is perfectly clear that after

clutched my arm from time to opposing Chiang Kai-shek for do- time, and uttered soft "ooh's." I ing certain things, Tang Seng-chi! take it that she enjoyed it too.

M

wants to do identically the same in his place!

Trafalgar Day, and a Having got rid of a leader Friday. momentous one. too, whose name meant more than It opened with the that of Tang Seng-chi, the other news of another piracy and, fit- Nanking generals are certainly tingly enough, of a stirring Bri- not going to allow him a free hand) tish naval action in the vicinity if they can help it.

himself.

Politicians' Attitude.

Bary.

SHANSI

PROVINCE

TAIYUAN

KALGAN

SUANHWAFL

CHIHLI

PROVINCE

PEKING

CHOCHOV

TIENTUL

PAOTINGFU

| SHIH=CHIA-CHWANS HANKOW

The Fighting Front.

Privileges have been obtained, not because they should have been granted in fairness, but be- cause the masters have taken the line of least resistance, and the Canton Government has never seen fit to impose a strong check on the "labour.politicians."

Chiang Kai-shek, or his Rus- sian advisers, realised the benefit! to him of unquestioned loyalty from the labour unions. Accord- ingly, labour unions were allowed to and even encouraged to usurp the functions of government.

Must Keep on Paying. Suppose a shopkeeper started business with $10,000 capital. Strikes and higher wages have caused him a loss of $2,000 so far. Rather than fight a useless uphill battle, he announces to his staff that he will close the shop.

"Oh no," the fokia say. "Our union officials tell us that you must carry on as all your capital has not been lost." With a little pulling of the wires, pickets from the union concerned will arrest the employer if he is adamant. In the subsequent negotiations

Political Issues.

of Bina Bay, one of our sub- They threw Chiang Kai-shek marines catching a horde of the over at great sacrifice just to bandits aboard a merchant vessel bring about the re-union of Nan- and, after warning, plugging a king and Hankow. And now the Taiyuan, is the accepted capital of branch line and (in the back for his release, the officials get couple of shots through her, thus most powerful man at Hankow, China, being in Chihli province ground) extending into open their squeeze and finally the men Luckily having seen Chiang Kai-shek go, which is part of the domains held order to rush a town near Peking-get full pay until every cent of capturing the pirates. there was little loss of life. That insists on keeping everything. to by the Fengtien Party of which So much for Shansi's error. the capital is gone. verily is the stuff to give 'em."

Marshal Chang Tso-lin is the Fengtien subsequently pushed back the main Shansi army thead. In the evening to the Navy League concert, and was mightily When Chiang Kai-shek split The arrows show the directions southwards to Shinchiachwang But there are political issues as impressed with the programme, with Hankow, a number of politi-in which Shansi struck at Feng- and then westwards to the pro-well as economic. containing as it did the cream of cians sided with him and went to tien, with Peking as the grand vincial boundary. Holding the When the writer visited Canton local vocal talent. The wife did Nanking. In this respect, the objective.

whip hand as they did then, the some months ago, he was enter- enjoy the hornpipe, and although situation to-day is different.

Around Kalgan and Suanwhafu Fengtien leaders allowed a com-tained royally by a man who had Mr. Wang Ching-wei, who is (on the railway running west-paratively small force of Shansi been deported from Hong Kong as it is now past midnight as I write these jottings, is busily practis- the leader of the Hankow politi-wards from Peking to Suiyuan) is covers to outflank their line, de-an undesirable. He was a mem- ing same in her stockings; so as cians, has just announced agree the northern sector. Shansi's ploy and actually capture railway ber of the West River Seamen's not to awaken the neighbours, ment with the Nanking politi-army here advanced eastwards towns close to Peking, of which Union which has also been pros-

cribed. The film of the Battle of Jutland cians. is indeed a great one, though why Does this, then, mean that all past Suanhwafu but has been Chochow is one.

Chochow was shelled by Feng- driven back to west of Kalgan.

He admitted holding several some people applauded when the the civil heads of the Nationalist

Complications arise in discuss-tien's heavy guns and reported to high positions in Canton's labour pictures of German naval men Party will be ranged on the side ing the southern sector.

be on fire. were shown on the screen I do not of Nanking against General Tang.

The Peking-Hankow Railway After clearing out the raiders world and also in one or two Gov know. When the film was put on Seng-chi at Hankow?

rune southwards past Chochow, from the vicinity of Peking, ernment or Kuomintang institu- In a northern city two or three

Paotingfu, and Shihchischwang. Fengtien will be able to go ahead tions. Oh yes, he had power of For two months Tang Seng From the last named town, an- and advance westwards from arrest and when the writer re- years ago, these particular pieces

ferred to the anti-Hong Kong were heartily

hooted by the chi's subordinates have been mov-other railway runs westwards to Kalgan and Shihchiachwang. pations. A different viewpoint, I ing slowly but steadily down the Taiyuan.

Tientsin is shown on the map strike and boycott, he smiled and suppose, perhaps mellowed by Yangtsze River to Wuhu, which On this sector, the Shansi main together with the railway running asked how men like him were to money if an extra- is only 55 miles above Nanking.

army moved from Niangtzekwan southwards to Pakow and Nan- make easy A land mark in the east-bound Wu-Han array was to Shihchiachwang, after war had was along this railway that the created.

The declared purpose of this (shown in map) eastwards to king, on the Yangtze River. It ordinary state of affairs was not Saturday. history of Hong assist Nanking against the North broken out at Kalgan. From Nanking Nationalists hoped to Anti-Government Moves.

Kong's increased but it was clear that the army Shikchiachwang they followed advance against Peking, to relieve Chiang Kai-shek knew, before

Peking-Hankow garrison has now disappeared by was gradually encroaching on the

railway, the pressure on their ally, Gen he set out for the North, that la- virtue of the closing down of "The Nanking territory with a view to wheeling north on Paotingfu, eral Yen Hai-shan of Shansi.

bour constituted a very strong Better 'Ole," that Kowloon ren- taking it over.

weapon. To prevent it falling into the hands of opponents, he very much wanted to curb the unione' powers but did not think the time opportune.

time.

The Real Purport.

dezvous of British soldiery and Clashes have occurred before. sailor men. Its memory, how Now Nanking has come out into ever, will live long among the the open. Threat of war against troops and naval ratings who have Tang Seng-chi is backed up by an left us during the past week or initial success. two and among those who are left behind. But the scrapping of this

Good for the North,

It remains to be seen 7hether'

pleasant centre by no means ex-the present Nanking generals can hausts Y.M.C.A. activities on be

AMONG THE MAYITES

accomplish what Chiang Kai-shek was bent on doing but never at- tempted, that is, the subjugation of Hankow by force of arms.

Or will Tang Seng-chi reply to Nanking's challenge and move down river, eastwards, in earnest? With the split developing into open hostilities, all prospects of another expedition against the North have vanished.

It is interesting to note that two generals, Chu Pei-teh and Cheng Chien, who previously aided with Tang Seng-chi against Chiang Kai-shek's. monopoly, are now in collusion with Nanking.

Troops Moving Along the Peking-Hankow Railway.

Unlike Chiang Kai-shek...

.

End In Compromise? Leaving Chiang Kai-shek to

General Lí Chai-sum, the pre- sent commander-in-chief, also wants the unions to exercise only their legal functions but he has permitted demonstrations against his government to take place.

Ministers have been driven from office by labour antagonism and Canton is still reluctant to take a chance. ··

Unions Still, Powerful With the merchants nonchalant and the Government desiring harmonious trade but without having to force a crisis, the: unions are still powerful.

Having backed labour up and found it a hindrance, the Canton authorities are now dividing the unions against themselves. Hence One After Another.

all these street riots and other The only deduction is that they

forms of trouble lately. But auch are now against Tang Seng-chi

tactics can only bring temporary for the same reasons that they

relief and not a permanent cure. quarrelled with Chiang Kai-shek. When the latter split, he was de

Better Outlook. nounced by Hankow. The former Nobody can tell whether Nan-

Until the average worker in half of the Serviceman. Apart is now denounced by Nanking king will succeed in throwing carry on with the expedition, he Canton realises that if he is to Unlike held on to what he had gained profit by membership in his union, from the necessarily limited faci- One impression is that the Na-Tang Seng-chi out. lities for reading and writing and tionalist leaders are ready to co- Chiang Kai-shek who always more than what he had asked for he must have a voice in the the provision of refreshment operate at any time against any dreamt of conquest, he has, de-and, incidentally, provided the afforded by the European estab- general who happens to have the voted his power towards con- military backing for the Wu-Han management, Buch unions will

and other issues, w lishment in Salisbury Road, there most power at the moment. If he solidating his position in the government both when it was always be mixed up with politica! is, of course, the Cheer O in refuses to disgorge, he is de- three provinces around Hankow, Communistle and after the de

And until the Canton Govern stitute in Chater Road, and the nounced. There is no saying namely, Hunan, Hupek and the claration against the Com

ment la strong enough to restrict entertainments committee, need where this system of evolution south of Hozan His men also minista.

the unions to lawful activities, less to say, is still energetically down with the strongest will hold parts of Kiangel and Anhui

Very little is known of Tang If all the Nanking generals put disturbances will recur with functioning. "Cheer '0, how end.

their hearts into the struggle, direct or indirect effect on trade Seng-chi's record, and ever, friend Ingram tells me, is not always big enough for what Continued, at foot of next column. Only in March 1926 did he re- their combined strength will ex with Hong Kong.

treat into Kwangtung with ceed that of Tang Seng chi, but

that the Canton autho ies are night, for instance, a dance was

10,000 men under him, asa anybody, may win or more likely signs have been seen recently shifted across to the Helena May CHAMBERLAIN'S PAIN BALM. feudalistic "pretender" to the still, the campaign will end in doing what they can, but instead

is required of it. The other

Institute a capitalides, and 1 trust the fair Mayites thoroughly enjoyed themselves, I bet the Tommies did

rship of Hunan province, compromise. S

of excluding the

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