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AMERICA AND THILIPPINES, BRITISH GOVERNMENT THE SHAMEEN STRIKE AND THE SITUATION AT CANTON,

"THE MOVEMENT FOR

INDEPENDENCE.

FROM THE MANILA CORRESPONDENT OF

** TILE TIMES."]

LEASES IN CHINA.

FURTHER QUESTIONS IN

PARLIAMENT. »

CANTON TRADE.

In su article on the Shameen Strike, the Y.-C. Daily News says:--

THE PEOPLE'S PROTEST.

"All the shops bavo "closed and a general styke began this morning.

**Canton is qület. Trouble had not.

started between the Volunteer Cups and the soldiers.

Martial law has been proclaimed.''

yet

FROM OUR CONESE CORRESPONDENT. [

A RED HERRING.

The Canton Geovernment is exercising a strict censorship over the Press of the " "It can be no secret that foreign firms' In the House of Commons on July 25th have for years regardent Canton as a City; int the Nia Kyo Wah Pa (Hong- As had been anticipated, the United | Mr. Foot Mitchell asked the First Com dying port-after the fashion of Chin-kong) yesterday afternoon circulated as an express the following message from States Congress has adjourned without missioner of Works (1) the number of kiang. From the premier port of China, it has ecine down to With place, discussing, the merits of either, the Fair. applications made in Ticatsin for renewal contributing only, 40 per cent of the Shameen field Bill er the Johnson Bill, both off of the leases held under the grant of 1860 Maritime Customs Revenue for 1938.

There has been a slight increase of trade) which have as their object the granting the number of leaseholders who have a during the past year which must Be ale of complete local autonomy to the people septed, the Government terms in Han-tributed to the successful operation of of the Philippine Islands and of inde kow; and the percentage of total lease the revised import tariff, some Fik. Tis, pendent sovereignty at the end of a fixed hold value: in each case of acceptances 10,000 of the excess of H, Thx 377,000} over 100 falling under the heading of | period-20 or 25 years.

and non-renewals, respectively; (2) import duties. The increase in shipping Mr. Weeks, Secretary of War, presum taking the cities of Tientsin, innkow, is also not very important as "the gains ably with the reluctant consent of Presi-Chinking, Canton, Amoy and Kiukiang, are due to the fact that native cargo is dent Coolidge urged the House to take he will, in each case, state the total umuces to avoid the dangers from the mili-, sent by strander instead of native convey- immediate action on either the Fairfield or the Johnson Bill, with a view to the ber of leaseholders, the number who have tary and exaétions of the officials. passage of the one or the other. It is greed to the terms of the British Govers Canton is depedent. in present circus

is obvious then that the trade of not impossible. however, that Congressment for renewal, and the number who stances, upon the general mogement of wl take up one of the Bills doring its next Session. and a plan by which the have declined to do so

goods under foreign protection and the United States, will relinquish its domestée Mr. Jowett: I will nower these ques-

last rinnant of

banks afford. I control

its and eventually,

modern regime instituted by Dr. Sun Yat fence and to the support of his me-time. had been anticipated that under the surrender and again come under the in hecome law.

Sen, young men, educated abound, would develop truling firms which might in thief. This report is much discounted, tine, take the place of some of the old however,

ATTITUDE, OF THE POLICE. foreign hongs on the Shamern. This bas proved another "chimera. men have not proved is capable mora The Cantón populace is satisfied over chants as the old compradore, nor has the assurance of the Police that it will their financial and business stability.

Ta pacify the Canton populace, pro-Sun

Chen Chiung-ming, the chick, political and newspapers are reporting that General

military rival of Dr. Sun Yat-sen in the„'

sovereignty of the Filipino people wions together. I may say that, owing ign Arms and foy which the for; struggle for "power in Kwangting, will

More

nominal

to the short period which has elapsed since the Government came to a final decision on the question of the renewal of the conccssion leases in China, the forms of application have not yet been issue. The percentage quoted in a pre- rious reply summarises the views on the hasis of the scheine expressed by the British otholders in the various conces

holders.

The dunger

"1

hai. the various trading companies or of the people's movement except offering nized by Chinese dari 1918-1520 went protection to the non-combatants and jores anash daring the ensuing stump, although none of them carried ranraona obliga venting footings, within the law. While dous like those of the foreign firms which there is mu hope that it will be able to had operated during the war years. Of do much against the expected looting of these Chinese firmas surviving very, tes

Not long ago General Wood, Governor General, sent a wireless message to the Secretary of War, in which he proclaimed that to abandon the Philippines at this timeby granting them" independence" -would be a brutal betrayal of trust

recently in a letter to

*Speaker Assembly. Presi Roxas, of the Philously Spported Gen- sions to the Office of Works representa proved encouraging. Even here in Shandorothing else in the present uprising dent Coolidge era! Wood's prononrement, The subactive who visited China some two years quent about-turn of the Washingten age to explain the scheme. They did not Administration consequently took Anteri. and were not intended, to represent the ean residents the Philippines complete percentage of formal acceptances. It may ly by surprise.

Le pointed out that the renewal of the The underlying motives of the change existing leases. on the "revised terms is af front are not known, here: they can entirely optional 'on the part of the lot only be guessed at. Local newspapers have not hesitated to suggest that the belated sapport given by the Administra tion to Philippine independence propa- ganda and the passage of the Japanese Exclusion Bill are something more than fortuitous coincidence. There may be a grain of truth in this suggestion. It is more likels, however, that the President and his advisers have beerme convince that Filipino public opinion. lacking in spontaneity is practically un ronomie ste portical restlessness and will remain chronic unless a gateway is opened to Filipino ambitions; that the American people aro weary of and have erased to take an interest

in, the islands and their destiny: and that an unfortified Philippines con stitutes a strategie maace to the Ameri- can position in the Pacific.

*

annons that

Mr. Mitchell: In view of the fact that the figures which the right hon. gentle man gave recently are so much at vari ance with those with which I have up plied, him, I would ask whether he is prepared to receive a deputation on the subject or to appoint a safall Committee to make further inquiries?

have proved themselves equal to the io. Dr. Sun's increenaries, the hesitation of tricacies, the financial stability required ?the police to go against the merchants in in international trade. What great name favour of Dr. Son's party appears to lux can one Bentioned off and in referring to a Chinese import and export house? The one which emes easily to mind, is American registered and is managed in New York.

assured.

A VOLUNTEER GATHERING AT

FATSHAN.

Mr. Chan Kung Shau. Heutenant-con=” Should then the foreign ärma decide Mr. Jowett: The reply which I have to close their borgs and leave the Shamander-in-chief of the Kwangting Pro- given is entirely consistent with the pre-men, whitt would happen? The trade of viacial Merchants Corps, is now directing

Canton would disappear, as the trade

vious reply. There is no inconsistency whatever, and no prospect of a reversal of the decision.

of

Niugno and Chinkiang luas lessened with the people's movement in Fatshan, a city the advent of the greater Shanghai. The some 15 miles west of Canton. The 1s entire province of Kwangtung would bewohnteer units in Canton and vicinity -consejah, economie hinterland of Kawfo and perhaps Lapa" or trade is outside the police jurisdiction of the city It must have proper of Canton are under his command. The advocates of abandonment are con regularity and integrity.

The unending political vinced that the time is opportune" to order and peace

The merebants of the leading cities of get out from under the Philippine troubles in Canton and the movements burden as gracefully as possible.

on the Shaineen drive trade away as Kwangtung, in representatives assembled. The Farligid Hul as amended in the surely as bad moury drives out good in the city of Fatshan on August, 1st, resumably Mr. Qagon, who is head

have passed a resolution which; it of the Filipine Mission now in Washing. Committer for Insular Affairs and rewoney. ton, has agreed to the provisions of the .tutional Convention to be held in ported to Congress, provides for a Con-

brief, states: Fairfield and the Johnson Bill in prie

Mula shortly

after the passage of the ciple, otherwise it is not to be supposedet; the establishment of a Comuno that the Coolidge Administration

election of a Filipino Govern

fan Anteri.

FILIPINO OPINION.

have requested Congressional action on Seal; the appotent

them, Filipino opinion on this side po

Taguardia, the can pears to be divided.

of

CANTON BANK NOTES.

(FROM OUR CHINESE CORESPONDENT.]

I

The uprising of bandita and pirates

in Kwangtung has made the life of the

people intolerable and rendered it neces-

By an order" of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, just Comprissioner. vested with

the call out. Federal troops Cantou will have to withdraw their ne- general welfare.

el veto over legislation, and issued, all Government departments insary for a union for common defense und

most widely circulated Filiping daily, with

lavour

01945.

The Government,” as the B case of emergency; and the grant of counts from the private modern and self-constituted by Dr. Hun Yat-sen and

Bills. General. Ucuntal Aguinalde, whose political saga: anal naleprices to the Filiping native banks and open relations with the bis party, has failed to afford the people

and influence

I believe to be some people and the relinquishment of United recently organized Central Bank. The what legendary has publicly opposed the States sovereignty after 20 years. Le, in citizens of Canton have been asked to pay the desired protection and, upon the cou Bills which he admits he has not studied

all taxes and public dues to the Governing of the people together to devise mea- the ground that the suverecgaty

It may be remarked in passing that ment through the Central Bank and in sures for self-protection, has seen ût to after 20 years clause is unsatisfactory. He professes to believe that four years already Filipino political groups are bass the paper money which the Bank is issu would afford ample time for the couple-candidates for the position of Governor who is the sus of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, has gamation of the volunteer units of the

with preparations for nonmating their ing The Mayor of Canton, Mr. Sur F, prevent their union through political, military General. The three most premiarnt of ordered the special manager and receiver province and has confiscated the arms and are likely to be Fr. Manuel of the Canton branch of the Chinese Mer- anunnitions they have legally imported these

ME moat-

tion of allustments... and eco newspapers not long as Quezon, now President of the Philippine chants Bank of Hongkong, which recently for common defense. Under the present

can) in, 1898.

and General

artheloni publican Government at Maloles (Bali Bank and the paper money in small de- ties. At the same time, it is asked that The foreignity, of which the

with

commercially

the aw Phitopine.

THE SEIZED ARMS.

Neth published a report to the effect that General Wood was about to resign his Senate; Senator Sergio Osziena, who was failed, to transfer the assets of the branch tyranny and miszule of the Government, post as dovernor-General. Questioned the first Speaker of the House of Ass bank now in liquidation to the Central it will be impossible to safely carry on years the leader of the Bank opened by his father and managed trade in the province and the merchants on the point, Gencral Wood, denounced fly and flinton, the report as utterly false, and declared Partido

are advised to suspend their business in that he had no intention of deserting his Emilio Aguinaldo, chief of the Veter Mr. Soong Tze Sen, his uncle.

In addition to the proposed $10,000,000, arder to effectively arouse the Govern just at the present jurture. General ans of the Revolution, who was the first Wood has been ever a fighter, and it is and only President of the abortive Relocal currency, bond issue of the Centralment to a proper sense of its responsibili not in his temperament to look for.

nominations of $1, 85, 910, $100, and 8300, the volunteers of the province of Kwang- when the storm

Mr. Quezon is the idol of the younger General Hsu Chung-chi of the Cantonese tang shall be permitted to amalgamate further interference' by the British are

preponderant, and more impulsive element of Luzon Army, disregarding the order of Dr. Sun without regard the prospects for early indepen. Mr. Osmena's stronghold is Cebu, the for a unification of Snance, has indepen Government, that all arms and ammuni dience

mised

It is realized that centre of the Visayan group of islands.dently put out a military short-term botetion illegally seized by Dr. Sun Yat-sen as soon as the

State

General Aguinaldo's following is to be issue of $720,000 Practically all these shall be unconditionally and immediately from the islands

found among the older generatica within have no accurity whatever, except pro-returned to their proper owners, and that Government, threatened with insolvency. the provinmal Bourgenic, and is an nu-mises of Dr. Sun, General Heu, and the the liberty of the officers of the Volunteer will be com

to discover compelled

provement in Canton shall not be re- known quantity. It is possible that the officers of the bank and the amy, which new sources of revenue.

The

Filiping, people will Democrat Party may put forward a can- are now worth nothing. Moreover, the strained by the Government. not tolerate increased taxation." was the didate of their own. If they do their promises to reflect the recent $300,000 comment of a British merchant, and strongest man will be Ruperto Montinola, treasury notes of the Kwanghang Pro- is a foregone conclusion that we foreign Governor of Linile Province, However vincial Bureau of Finance and "the Latest information regarding the aris ers will be

the goats and he (in the event of the Fairfield Bill becou $240,000 of the Department of Finance and ammunition seized by Dr. Sun and strangled by

law), it is probable that Mrr Usmena of the General Headquarters of Dr. Sun stored at the Military Academy at Wham- If the efforts of the Philistae Indeper and Mr. Quezon will arrive at an under-Yat-sen are still unfulfilled. The Kwang poa, states that Geveral Fan Shek-shäng dence

Mission to Washington and their atanding, whereby one will be Governer tung Treasury Notes not without some of the 2nd Corps of the Yunnanese Army American supporters to secure place General and the other President of the credit, however, as the latest report be made an attempt to get possession of on the legislative programe at Washing-Senate..

fore the uprising of the people gave them them on the evening of August 24th, but fon fcr

Actiun

during the past Session of Congress has shown no disposition to

market value of nearly 30 per cent of the vigilance of the guards on duty suc- - Congress bad succeeded: complete and scrutinize the Mero question as distinct their face value-something andreamed of seeded in thwarting the alterapt immediate domestic autonomy would have from the Philippine question, although by those who have no use for Dr. Sun. Since then, Dr. Sun Yat-sen has rein-" been assured to the Filipino people, with

there is

is at least as much difference in absolute national independence inevitable tenis, racial and tribal

forced the guards at Whampoa with an. prejudices, The passage at the end of 20 years,

addition of a river flotilla there. He bas Fairfield Bill would have been the corperament, religious and social obser

given a secret order to some of his nien vices, and beginning of the end of American teens the Christian-

national idiosyncrasies be

to remove the goods to another place for":"

written order is between the

safe-keeping, and his predicted, as of America's authorita Moslem and the Brahmin of India. No

specially mentions that his men, in effect- tive influence in the Western Pacific and jenated the confidence of the Morp contains the following report:

the American Government has The Manila Times of the 17th inst..ing the removal, must not let any of his in the Far East.

mercenary commanders know. SUDESTED DEN Fongs. «

tribesmen as, that of turning them over Clamuuring for freedom for the thou

the Culion Itirmaybe logically deduced that there to the thrall of Filipino offigaldam.sands of "lepers isolated was some liaison between the renewed There is no nearer kinship between the colony,

dead to their loved

oner, t American agitation for Japanese exclu- Filipinos and the Moros than there is big crowd of women paraded the streets sion and the rapid development of Ameri-between the Japanese and the Koreans and broke into the House of Representa- can public opinion in favour of granting The Christian Filipino wastes no more tives while it was in session yesterday sovereignty to the Philippines and of love upon the More than he does on a morning and requested legislation to that relinquishing all conomic responsibilities for the try and king cobra and it may be said the More effect, or at least to improve the lot of bare defiant fangs to the Fil the unfortunates. Many lepers relatives delights It is also conjectured that the British pins. There are, it is Fruce a few Mars were among the marchers. Government's

rent's abandonment. of the plan Jattun who have been induced to declare. The fession had to be suspended. The fortify Singapore has produced it reac-with tongue in check and

in the Far that they love their Filipin

renee, who was presiding and presented their East. Four Power Pact expert military views.

The Roxas finally decided to petition. Philippine dependence.

of it and draft a bill embodying the wishes

the:

Sovereignty in the Philippinen, så vellát Mohamedan Mora - Filipino and the

lands.

to

Αρ

to

THE LEPERS OF CULION, *DEMAND FÖR FREEDOM.

CHINESE CONSORTIUM.

In the House of Common's on July 2rti Mr. D. Gi. Somerville asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he was aware that a meeting of representa tives of the Consortium on China bad been recently held in Tondon; whether forward, what results were reached, and the British what was the attitude of

Mr. Ponsonby: The meeting in question of the Philippines in respect to the Mindanao and Sulu, as elsewhere. lying of the demonstrators.

was a private one of the Advisory Council American

in the Pacific were and deceft are not a vice but a fine art. position

Several representatives pledged their of the Consortium. I understand that the "Moros are inherently lawless. By support to the cause. Tales of woe and only business of importance before it was opinion has been practically unanimous

fon upon American

nine for

Before the Conicrence and that they put the truth in t in fefer the mattor to a committee to study Government with respect to them, as to the strategic strength or weakne them. Among the

Nahoinedan Malays of

divided, Since the pact was concluded Thet and tradition they are."agin the suffering by lepers and their families were the question of the renewal of the Con- that the islands would in event of war Government," and no one who taken recited by some of the women to the sortium Agreement of 1920, and that the lie at the mercy of the enemy: Urged the pains to study the characteristics at ind. the women paraded { renewal in perpotility, subject to the right

a

Advisory Council defided to recommenal

and supported by the persistent and these strange people believes for a ubiquitous activities of the well-organized moment, that they will ever lie town at the city streets, inviting others to join independence propagandlists, a powerful the bidding of Filipino rulers. It is safe them in their campaign. Placards featur- of any group to withdraw at twelve political group in the United States now to say that when, if ever, the Filipinos ed the parade. By the time the group months notice, This recommendation threatens to bring the case to an immenssume entire control of the islands, arrived at the Marble Hall it was more which I have reason to believe will be diate disne, in the sacred name of liberty there will be trouble brewing, among the than triple its original number, it was approved by the groups, bas the approval

(Continued on vezi colums.)

of His Majesty's Government.

Moros.

seid.