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CANTON NEWS.
Boycott Parley.
July 15.
In the brief space of time, it is only to be expected that no com- munique has come down from Canton when this edition went to press-regarding the opening of the conference to settle the boycott of Hongkong.
and
OVERLAND CHINA MAIL
July 17.
Until what are best described as Canton's "terma" are revealed, a prediction as to the prospects of the peace conference can be no more than guesswork, but several impor- tant features have become evident.
The so-called Labour represente- tives, and the Strike Executive are asking, if not pressing, for the terms to be broadcasted tin Canton) prfor to submission to the conference.
Another stray in the wind, which may mean much or nothing is the change in the delegation.
Writing on Tuesday evening (before the Hon. Mr. J. H. Kemp and the Hon, Mr. E. R. Hallifax
At the last minute tas reported arrived there yesterday after in the "China Mail"), Mr.
Koo noon), the "China Mail" corres- Mang-yu substituted Mr. Chan pondent indicated that to-day's proceedings may be restricted to the formal exchange of courtesies credentials after which an adjournment was expected.
It was anticipated that before discussing any terms,
the de- legates of both sides will en deavour to arrive at a basis of understanding as to what will come up and when, for discussion. Mr. Kog is believed to have ben In some sources, continues the fully instructed by General Chang. correspondent, some importance as to what "demands" the Canton
Kung-pok. By virtue of Mr. Koos position in the Canton Government, his close association with Gener: Chang Kai-shek fcommander-in- chief), and a report that Mr. Koo is said to be General Chang's speer I choice, native malchauts place con- siderable significance of his joining the official deleration of Canton.
Inspired by Chang?
is attached to the preliminaries, Government will frame, the clearing of which should pave the way towards formulating condition of a settlement.
Even in Canton, people can do than guess what the Kwangtung delegation will bring up. Rumours vary from the commonplace and practicable, to the absurd.
The re- port goes that Mr. Koo drafted the "terms," with General Chang's approval, and then submitted same to Mr. Eugene then, who finally revised them.
no more
Current opinion is that General Chang Kai-shek will ask Mr. Eugene Chen to effect a settle ment, but that there may be a delay owing to the necessity of "demobilising" the strikers and pickets.
Canton, June 14. Mr. Chan Kung-pok, by reason of his being engaged on General Chang Kai-shek's staff at the Northern Front, will not be one of the Canton official delegates in the boycott negotiations. His place will be taken by Mr. Koo Mang-yue, who will act with Mr. Eugene Chen and Mr. T. V. Soong.--"Wah Taz
Yat Po."
are that
Reports from Canton formal proceedings began yesterday at noon when credentials were ex- changed.
It is expected that full talk will be gone into to-day, so that detailed schemes may be presented
to-morrow.
First of all, the Strike Executive is stuted to have asked Mr. Eugene Chen to announce what terms the Government will tabulate.
Then when the report was cur- rent that Mr. Koo was framing the terms, they made another request for information to be given before the terms were finally approved and handed over to the Hongkong off- rial delegation for consideration.
"The Next Step."
A telegram to the "Wah Taz Yat Po" states that the agenda has been decided upon, and that both mili tary and the police are guarding the conference chamber in the Foreign Office).
It is known that the conference sat again at 10.30 a.m. yesterday. But it is not known definitely if the terms will be presented this week,
or next.
Mr. Eugene Chen's opening ad. dress is given elsewhere in issue.
this
Opinion now is that the nature of the terms will be disclosed in day or two and the respective dele- gates will ascertain if such can be made to form a basis of discussion, This preliminary over, the next step will be the actual negotiation of the "terms,"
CANTON PROTEST.
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to
and decency still rule high foreign policies) can meet and treat with as a modern government. July 17.
None On the important matter of the
is
blind 80 Tariff Conference, Mr. Eugene fail to see that the present phan- Chen (Acting Minister for Foreign Lom government in Peking is Affairs, Canton), has authorised creation of a brace of medieval the publication of the following militarists and a bunch of Mandarin note, which was addressed to the states-boya and states-coolies whose American Consul-General (Mr. obvious purpose is to grab the pro- Douglas Jenkins) for transmission reeds of whatever tariff doles and
Minister American
at loans that America and the other Peking. Identical notes have been Powers may be willing to grant in addressed to representatives of the order to maintain & status quo that conflicts with every vital interest of Nationalist China.
to the
uther interested Power:--
Canton, July 14.
Sir, I have the honour to re- quest you to communicate to the American Minister at Peking the proteal of my Government against the resumption of the Special Tariff Conference which was lately sus- peaded owing to the dispersal of the Chinese delegation. We are de-
HOME INTEREST.
BOYCOTT NEGOTIATIONS IN CANTON.
COMMONS INFORMED.
Rugby, July 14.
Sir Austen Chamberlain slated in the House of Com- mons that the opening of the negotiations for ending the trade boycott of Hongkong had been fixed for July 15.- British Wireless Service,
[Whilst this information has appeared long ago in the local Press, the cable is given as evidence of the interest being taken at Home in the negotiations opening to-day in Canton.]
finitely and reliably informed that ents of Wu Pel-fu and Chang Tro-lin are now negotiating with the American and the other foreign delegates for the immediate re opening of the Conference.
My Government opposes and has opposed the Conference because it
ard
Any payment of tariff moneys to Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin must necessarily mean that America and the
other interested Powers- through the machinery of the uni fied, British-controlled Chinese Maritime Customs--will be (a) pay- ing national
collected revenues throughout the whole of China to two transient usurpers of detached pieces of Chinese territory, and (b) subsidiaing these two militarists to continue the prosecution of civil war against the Kuominchun and Canton who are the two modern arms of Nationalist China, and thus assist militarism to dominate and flourish in China. And specifically it will mean that America and the other Powers will be collecting the increased f'ustoms revenues of Can- ton and hyod over the same to the mediaeval Wu and the ex-bandit Chang in order to enable them the better to fight and attempt to des- troy the greatest centre of Chinese Nationalist thought and activity. which is Canton,
to warn
I have to add that any loan or loans to be contracted by the agents of Wu and Chang on the security of the promised surtaxes shall not be recognised by the Nationalist Government. And I have the honour deliberately America and the other interested governments that Chinese repudia- tion of any such loan or loans may conceivably create a situation ren- dering it imperative for the prin- ciple of repudiation to be extended to other loans contracted in the interests of reaction and militarists And mandarin exploitation and plunder.
July 19.
To Senator Borah at Washing- ton, Mr. Eugene Chen (acting Foreign Minister at Canton) has addressed a message on the ques of the Tariff Conference. tion of the projected resumption
involves the consideration of issues which only a Central Government. representative and competent to speak and set in the name of the Chinese Nation, can negotiate in Reticence is being kept by off.
conference with the official repre cial sources. There is a feeling of
sentatives of the American
Mr. Chen informis Senator confidence and it is said that Gen-
other interested Governmenta.
Borah that he has protested to eral Chang is of the view that he
Tuan Chi-jui's administration, ad- the U.S. Minister to China. can leave for the Front in a week.
mittedly, was not such a govern through Mr. Douglas Jenkins Owing to the difficulty in com-
ment, nor do the present servitors (Consul at Canton), as published munications with Canton, news will Captain A. V. Harrison, who has of Wu and Chang constitute the in the "China Mail" on Saturday. necessarily be slow in getting been engaged in the Chinese coastal type of governing body which The subject matter is similar as through to Hongkong. The best trade arrived in Sydney by the Tai-America and the Powers (assuming that in the despatch to Mr. sign so far is the absence of any ping on June 10 on his way to Tas that considerations of political Jenkins. But to Senator Borah. pessimistic rumours.
mania for a holiday.
realism and international morality Mr. Chen says:- bring this to
No. 2998. July 22, 1926.]
new
OVERLAND CHINA MAIL
inherent strength and incalculable your attention because you are with the work of unifying and known among us as an American modernising China and, on this possibilities of Chinese leader who is entirely opposed to
basis,
Chinese to strive to build and the subordination of real Ameri- a great structure of relations with can interest to the competitive the outer world. interests of other Powers in China.
THE BOYCOTT.
CHANGE IN CANTON'S DELEGATES.
GOVERNMENT'S OFFICIAL
COMMUNIQUE.
July 16.
His Excellency has author- ised a communique to the effect that Mr. Ku Many-yu has been appointed as one of the Canton Delegates in place of Mr. Chan Kung-pok; also that conference opened at noon yesterday when only formal business was transact- ed. The conference will re- sume to-day.
It is understood that Mr. Ku Mang-yu who was former-
ly Dean of the Peking Univer- sity, is a Member of the Cen- tral Executive Committee of the Kwok Man Tong.
THE BOYCOTT.
resources man-power under
Such effective organisation. conception demands, as a practical It is manifest that striking and corollary on the part of friendly real changes are taking place in Powers, a new view of the Chinese this country, socially, economically background and a new policy to and politically,
establish Sino-alien relations not These changes, generally, are a
on the old historic basis of treating necessary con- sequence of the structural readjust- China as a war-defeated nation of ment or new equilibrium which is in
the period of 1842 but on the prin- of process
ciple of equality which to-day un- establishment, con- sciously as well as unconsciously, derlies the relations of the smallest between the Chinese people or
and the greatest members of the ganised as a social aggisgate and world-system of independent states the new conditions of environment and sovereignties. resulting from their definite inelu- ston in the larger aystem of the modern world,
in-
Whether these changes are good or bad for the Chinese people is mainly a question for them to de- ride if they are truly to be re- garded and treated 25 An dependent nation and not as people At and suited for the exer cise of international tutelage. any rate it is a fundamental thesis the Chinese Nationalist Move ment- which is the greatest of the forces underlying and sustaining
of
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Canton, July 16, 1926.
The following communique has been jointly issued by the British and Chinese Delegations nego- tiating A settlement of the Chinese-British disputes in Liang Kuang:-
"The Conference resumed its sittings to-day at 10.30 a.m. when the Chinese Delegation statei their views on the origin of the British boycott. They refrained from formulating any conditions of settlement pending a reply to their statement. The Conference has adjourned till Monday, July 19."
We believe that this statement of what is called the Chinese Question is not in fundamental opposition to
Canton, July 19.
trading Power in China. the real interests of any genuinely
This morning, the full Canton And, and Hongkong delegations resum- genuinely to trade-solely to sell Office. therefore, if the British are here ed the conference at the Foreign their goods and to buy our goods The Hongkong delegates repli-
as they do when they go to other ed to Canton's official view as to China and the Nationalist Govern- cott. independent states-Nationalist the cause of the anti-British boy-
its instrument of power and achievement need not Marily be a danger to British na- tionals in this country.
ment us
neces.
The nature of such reply (or, in other words, Hongkong's state- not ment of the position) was divulged.
Note: An official communique issued on Saturday stated that Canton refrained from formulat ing any conditions of settlement pending a reply to their state- ment on the origin.
BOY THIEVES.
July 21.
In the possession of three boys were found more than twenty-five Mr. Eugene Chen has instructed the Bureau of Information, Foreign pawn tickets relating to stolen Ministry, to publish details of the clothes. On investigation, the negotiations, so that rumours may police found that the boys had not spread.
If this view of the matter be Adjournment was made till the new equilibrium-that the time sound, then more considerations of Wednesday (to-morrow),
when has come when the Chinese people prestige and
what is known as the conference will be re- must be free to work out their own face" ought not to he allowed to sumed.-Wah Tax Yat Po." salvation. And though most of the bar the road to a practical settle country is unhappily to-day under ment of what is in truth one of the domination of leaders, medieval the practical questions oft-times and therefore reactionary in their pused by the ironic spirit in his outlook and methods, the dynamic tory to search out man's patience, section of the Nation as represent his goodwill and his good sense.”
by the intelligentsia, the July 17.
students, the workers, the new The Hongkong representative of agrarian and industrial and
Canton, July 18. Reuters sends the following commercial groups-the classen de- The Strike Executive Committee munique jointly issued by the Chin finitely thrown up an political
has petitioned for the despatch of ese and British Delegations who forces by the post-war factors in their delegates to attend, as specta- are negotiating the Anti-British operation in our midst—are with tors. the Boycott Conference, but Boycott and Strike questions:
the Nationalist Government at it is not known how Mr. Eugene The Begotiations for the settle- Centon in its assertion of this right Chen has replied. ment of the anti-British boycott to national Independence. and Canton-Hongkong questions Whatever may be the immediate opened at noon to-day duly 71 at course of events in China, It is cer- the Canton Foreign Office. All the tain that the torch lit by the Chi- members of the Chinese and the nese Nationalist Movement shall British Delegations were present. never be extinguished, and it must Mr. Eugene Chen, Acting Minister therefore be recognised as an en- for Foreign Affairs who is head of during reality in the Internal and the Chinese delegation opened the international politics of this coun- proceedings with
the following try. In these circumstances what Committee specially convened a Only three owners of the stolen speech:
should be the attitude of a
coun- meeting to decide what policy they articles had so far been traced. In formally opening these nego try like England vis-à-vis this New should adopt, such policy to be The result was the four were tiations to-day we wish to extend China. There are people who in communicated to both delegations. charged with theft this morning
sist to the British representatives a
that what England has. Finally, it was decided that two before Mr. R. E, Lindsell at the friendly welcome from our Govern England
in China "important points" would be con- Central Magistracy. The boys ment. We wish also to express the at all costs. This is what may centrated upon, viz., (1) the res pleaded guilty, but the elder man desire of those in whose name we be called the die-hard posture; toration of the position existing denied the allegation that he had are authorised to speak that the and the past and all vital experi- before the strike began, and (2) used the boys for committing question which we are charged to ence show that it makes for resist the question of wages during the thefts, saying that he found the resolve may be approached in a ance to change, for friction and period of the strike.
articles lying in the floor of his sense and in a spirit of realism and strife and ultimately for war. And The attitude of the Canton house and pawned them. of determination To secure its war, it is admitted, is never a real Government towards the resolu- settlement on terms which, while solution in modern conditions. tions of the strikers may be known assuring to British nationals in the Opposed to this attitude which on Monday.-Wah Tze Yat Po. Liangkuang a friendly and pro- is rooted in a past of dead
Official Communique.
One of the three boys had a pre- fitable market for their goods and dying conditions, is the conception The following communique has vious conviction for theft and he
with services, shall enable the Chinese of a changing China
new been received through the agency was ordered twelve strokes with a people AJ represented by our emerging classes of political of the Hongkong representative cane. The others received eight Government to go on, unhindered, workers who are conscious of the of Reuter's:-
strokes each.
must
hold
and
When it was realised that the been induced to commit the thefts Canton and Hongkong delegates by an elder man, who acted 23 would meet in conference to discuss receiver and pawned the articles. the situation, the Strike Executive
This story was not believed by the Magistrate, who sentenced him to four months' hard labour.
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