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ANOTHER FIGHT WITH News has recently been received of

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the

BATTLE WITH POLICE

MASTER'S CLAIM

Cargo

water

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of

Ahead had

had

of the "Mavería," picked up the S.0.5.,

continued

in- when #Movarin" that

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS

side Woosung, when remnants of the the position indicated, the weather! notorious pirate gang which was being strong easterly gale, with high formerly led by Par Kai-chu was en- sea. At 3.30 p.m. the tag was aight- The agreement recently signed by gazed by members of the Woosung ed in a sinking condition, and after Water Police. These men, it will be manoeuvring the "Moveria" into the Sir Miles Lampson at Nanking on be recalled,

were formerly Shantung best position, a lifeboat was launch soldiers, and they escaped after, a ed, in charge of the chief oficer, sir. viding for a British Naval Mission to China to assist in her naval develop age, which continued for two days, side the tug, and took off the whole fight at Nantungchow some weeks W. Paterson, which proceeded along- ment, haa attracted curiously little at during which several of their leaders of the crew. The lifeboat was bad- It is somewhat difficult to account for captured, Pan was executed and his the tug's side in the heavy sea which tention in Parliament and the Press were killed and Fan Kai-chu was ly damaged by being bumped against 6th December. this lack of interest in a scheme which body was publicly exhibited, but his was running. They get back to the

involves, amongst other things, the

men, nevertheless, have been work- "Moverla," in

and both rescue and purchase of a number of warships 20th November.

England, for even if we regard it as ing havoc among the people living rescuers got on board and the boat merely window-dressing and a face and among the shipping fraternity.

ace-around the entrance to the Yangtaze was abandoned. The crew of the tug 16th November.

were landed safely at Balboa. saving gesture on the part of the

The report of the rescue appeared Chinese, the British side of the ques.

On Wednesday morning, informa-

received by the Woosung in "The Panama American" of August tion would seem to call for discussion ion was

Water Police that the gang examination,

was, from which wa take the follow- and explanation. If, on it should turn out to be the latest operating just outside Woosung so ang July 31, it was ralated, when

TiOn idea of the Foreign Office for con- gunboat, strongly manned, was sent

out to fight them. In a fight Insting the tug was en route from New York, ellating the good will of the Naл-

to be hoped for well over two hours, a pirate was which it left on July 8, via Panama king politicians, it is that the House of Commons will in- killed, a number were wounded, one Canal, without warning, the propeller

of theo thoir funks was seized, sist upon further detalls

several shaft snapped while about 30 miles were captured and a man who had north of Acuapulco, Mexico. North of scheme before any nubile

money is

been kidnapped was released.

The Ac the Gulf of Tebuantapec. spent upon it.

Soveral pertinent questions arise cording to statements made by the being calm, they radioad for tea

water out of the scheme, as so far divulg-s police to reporters of the Chin- come to their assistance, and have to. gang was well-armed, By nine o'clock the next morning, how- How, in the first place, has the being in possession of machine guns, ever, a breeze sprung up from the British Government been persuaded rifles, etc. There were to believe that the Kuomintang seri- 500 in the gang

more than eastward until it blew into A gale. and they had 20 Soon the propeller had slipped out ously contemplate spending money on junka at their disposal.

and jammed the rudder hard up. the purchase of warships and the

From then they lay in the sea through organisation of a modern fleet, when

all that day. At 6 pm rain squalls | they profess their inability to dia-

made the situation still more un- charge many outstanding obligations,

pleasant and they started taking including even such small matters ag their quota to the League of

"It was explained that so hard had Nations, the salaries of University

the galo become by then that the Professors, and the purchase of rall | Bonus For Out-turn of strength of blowing against the way materials on Government ac-

heavy equipment on deck of the count?

are Secondly, what grounds for believing that the Nan-

wrecking tug, pulled the deck adrift, allowing the water to seep in. They king Government will attach any

After negotiations which have ox

pumped continuously, but from mid- serious importance to this naval tended over a considerable period the night to 6 am., August 2, water con

Hinued agreement, when they have complete-

to gain on them, ly ignored their definite obligatione lamperial Merchant Service Guild has

that finally they sent out an under such recent pacts as the Taricen successful recently in obtaining a 9.0.8. for help. The "Hoveria" settlement of a master's claim for a the Chan-O'Malley bonus in respect of the out-turn of got the Autonomy Treaty,

call and finally hove convention, or the Shanghai Provincargo in the ship which he commanded in sight about 3.30. She lowered a As part and parcel of the Kusmin of his command in the company in that the lifeboat was dashed against As it happened, the master was relieved lifeboat, and they left the ship about

4.30. The ara was running so

Ligh tang's general policy this naval ges- circumstances which had nothing to do ture is comprehensive.

It fits, with with the carge out-turn, but some dif the side of the “Moveria,” and smash- avidant calculation, into the picture ficulty arose as regards payment of the learned that a Luckenbach steamer, ed soon after they boarded. It was of progressive

and enlightened re- promised bonus in the course of the which put into Balboa a couple forra, to create which all Nanking's subsequent settlement of his accounts Intensive propaganda has been direct with his employers. The matter was, days ed. Like other equally delusive ges- therefore, submitted to the society, the also

but tures such as the proposal (at Gen master having by that time obtained a Wednesday, 11th December.

eva) for the abolition of conscrip- berth. elsewhere, and his society took formed by the tion, the

diabandment of the WAT-

the matter in hand on hia behalf, she was nearer and was going to the lords armies, the abolition of inland There appears to have been no serious rescue. The tug was located at 17 de taxation, the framing of law-codes doubt about the master's entitlement grees 10 West longitude aboat 80 on Western models, and the engage to the bonus which he claimed, in view miles North of Acuapulco." ment of high salaried foreign advie-of the proof of his having complict in Guld are interested in the matter, and The Imperial Merchant Service orit relies for its effect upon the very way with the conditions which short memory and gullibility of the the bonus was payable, which he was have taken steps to bring the cir audience.

in a position to place before the Guild, cumstances, in which this very timely Everyone in China knows perfect- little delay.

and after some correspondence and a rescue of these men was accomplished, a cheque for the fall to the notice of the proper authorities. ly well that the ultimate objective amount was received at headquarters. which Nanking seeks to attain by The captain, who is now out abroad in thus creating the impression of stable and progressive government is thing had been satisfactorily settled, his ship, was informed that every to secure the abolition of extra-terri- and after considerable delay a letter toriality, and thus to obtain access

The Bon Line has been received from him during the

8.5. "Benmacdhui" to the long-coveted wealth of the course of the week enclosing signed re from Leith, Antwerp, London and Foreign Settlements. The sending of ceipt, and expressing his appreciation Straits loft Singapore for this port a British Naval Mission to Chinn of the assistance given to him in the on November 11, and' is due to ar- obviously calenlated to give the Nan-

rive here on November 18. king Government considerable "face," very welcome at this juncture. But it is safe to predict that the bright young men of the Kuomintang Exo- cutive will take the "face" and Tet ism which have frustrated our simi. 'the navy go.

And Aven if anyone lar attempts to help China in the in authority seriously contemplated past, are more formidable than ever speading money thesa experi- to-day. We need not go back to the ments, it is perfectly certain that no tragi-comedy of the Sherard-Osborn Chinese Government, national or pro flotilla (ordered, equipped, and man- vincial-could ever delegate to any ned, but never commissioned) at the British officer such effective authority time of the Taiping rebellion; nor as would enable him to instinto need wa resuscitate the undignified the personnel of a new feat the re- careers of, the Armstrong mosquito qu'alte discipline, efficiency, and aloof fleet of 1877. ness from polities. And without

Suffice it to recall to mind the theso the Chinese navy must con- painful experience of Admiral Lang. tinue to be a source of danger, and who served the Chinese Government no credit, to the State an expensive loyally from 1882 to 1890, and final weapon at the disposal of the highly succeeded, against heavy odds, in est bidder.

bringing the Polyang squadron to

of technical efficiency. His caso proved conclusively that no British officer, Dven if invested with full powers, could ever hope to over. coma the inveterate tendency of the mandarinate to sabordinate the naval service to its pórional, clan and family Interusts. Mr. Alex. Miche, In "The Englishmen in China,” des cribes the Felyang squadron as the nearest approach to a national' navy that China 'has ever pusscused.. Its defeat at the battle of the Yald (September, 1894) be ascribes sol- ly to the determining effect of official corruption on the administration,

Admiral Lang and other British officers were intrigued out of the service in 1890 through a conspiracy of the Foschow Captains, to whom the efficiency of the fleet was a mat. ter of no concern. Thereafter its deterioration:wna zapld and com plete. The Chinese Admiral "Ting. an uneducated "but brave cogimander, eventually committed salelde. The morale of the Chinese foet. con fronted with ordeal by battle," "was forcibly strated by the fact that at the battle of the Yals it was led into action by a German. military officer. It was, in fact, a defective body without a aoul. Since the Be volation of 1911, the transient loyalty of its disintegrating units has been notoriously a matter of dollars, and Its whole history, a sordid record of treasons, stratagous,

tur, and spoils. Of there things: the British Admiralty and the Foreign Ofice are not ignor« ant. Unless, therefore, they have "baén perspailed to bellave? in

and den,« miraculous change in the racial characteristics which have produend these resplin, only fixed delualóna,on the subject of Chinese good will: can secount for the Beftish, Naval Him slon, or fork acouraging the Chimano

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