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THE SHANGHAI STRIKE SITUATION.

SETTLEMENT'S ORGANIZATION EXTENDS TO MEET

THE EMERGENCIES.

H.M.S. DIOMEDE " ARRIVES HERALDING OTHER VESSELS,

While rioting and violent behaviour by the students and other disaffected members of the Chinese community in Shanghai hays very considerably abated, the situation produced by a strike involving a quickly increasing number of workers in various industries is viewed with grava concern by the authorities, who however are dealing with the crisis with all firmness and are confident of ultimate victory. The V-e". Daily News of last Thursday gives the following details of the strike movement up to that date:

A WOMAN INJURED.

Yesterday was innocent of any more mass' attacks by riotous students and their

"It is regrettable to report that the dupes, but it was far from being a quiet Chinese hoodlums do not discriminate in. day and it must be admitted that the their attacks op women. A North Se situation looks as serious as ever, if notehuen Road tram while passing the l'est Bore so. Having effectually broken up the Office was assailed by a gang of loafers opposition in the Central District, the fence Forces gradually pushed out their Shout eight o'clock and missiles wes thrown which struck a Mrs. McClellan in line of communication and late last night the neck. She was removed to hospital, it seemed that they had a grip on almost where it was found that her injuries were the entire Settlement Up to Tuesday night their limit in the West had been the hot serious, Russian and Japanese ladies have also suffered at the rioters' bandar the same Hace Course, but last night they had

A Japanese gentleman in pickets up Bubbling Well Road, with am

vehicle was badly injures in the head. armoured car reinforcing the line at the He too, went to hospital, and by last Seymour Road crossing, and the glint of reports is still there under doctor's treat- their protective bayonets was scen en many a road unt near the extreme bor- ders.

VOLUNTEERS FLOCKING IN.

ment.

In the latter part of the afternoon an other stone-throwing episode took place on East Seward Road but a quick re-

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A TOUR OF SHANGHAI - ON

JUNE 1st.

HONGKONG RESIDENT'S IMPRES- SIONS OF THE RIOTS. BOLSHEVIK INFLUENCE OVER CHINESE STUDENTS. Schoolbay make too muchee trouble,"

+

sponse from Hongkew Station by Insp. was the verdict of a Shanghai houseboy Robertson and a squad of picked men It is the Schoolboy", or University soon put a stop to further optrages.

A LOYAL STAFF.

The students of China have their own splendid classics to show them the rules for the conduct of life, and we of the West might avoid essays and discourses on political subjects which, however, suited they may be to industrial coua- tries such as the United States, France or Great Britain: are often beyond the understanding of the majority of the In our Chinese who gather to listen, policy of trying to help the Chinese wr nee

once again, trying to muddle

through." Beyond all else we ought to Far East until he is at least 92 years of encourage the student to remain in the

THE PITY OF IT.

AMAZON.

It is satisfactory to know that there has been a vigorous response to the Municipal Council's call for more volunteers and now

A red motor car a limousine, believed student class who are reaping the whirl anongst the khaki one can see many a civilian suit, for men are joining the to have been used by the attackers who wind, but others have sown the wind, shot Corp. MacMartin and fired at writes a Hongkong resident who was in various units, even though the latter are standing pat against temporary enlistment Trooper Sharpless, killing his horse, was Shanghai when the rioting broke out.

towe to the Louza Station in the early

Anyone who walked about the Shang- As we drove through the crowds this and are insisting that newcomers must sign on for the usual period. There are bours yesterday morning by a group recruits, too, for the Special Felice/whilst i of specials who noted it in Burkill Road hai Mnnicipal Settlement to-day, June morning, both before and after the riot- the 12-Bore Company, starting in a day without licence plates and with curtains 1st, he continues, must have been astonishing, the tragedy at the whole business ed at the number of Chinree young men was apparent. No one can blame the Shang- and fro and hai Municipal authorities for acting as wandering aimlessly to with 50 men, grows hourly in numbers drawn

During the tisin

hour yesterday loitering at the strres corners. Despite the they did. There was no other way. They and is likely to, for a splendid example, has been set. To pass along Nanking four armed robbers, entered the office of unfortunate loss of life on Saturday, all had, the Are engines out, but fire-res

the Pioneer Silk Knitting Co. on Rangoon Road on Tuesday night and to see 30 or

and there was an electric feeling in the from far away Szechuan, and fourteen. more of the leading taipans on patrol, Rond and made off with $10,410, without the pavements were crowded with them became the only argument. Now a youth air which seem to forebode further trou others, lie in the mostiary because they with sporting guns tucked under thelt shooting anyone.

ble. The rain was certainly the luckiest were pushed forward by some seemingly arms, was the greatest inducement to the

For the younger men to turn out and "do their

It is of great interest to note that al- thing that could have happened. Had it relentless fate. It is the triumph, once bit"

Beyond these recruits. Col. TE True. though most of the mills in the Yangtsze. come earlier it might have prevented more,. of the Gospel of Hate. man and Mr. P. Peebles are being in. poo Road district closed in the past two further trouble for it seems to be im- real forces which urged those youths to andated with offers of assistance in any days, the staff of the China Import & possible to work up a mob to feyer heat the brink of the precipice were the terrors

in a real downpour. There is no doubt named hate and eury and malice. Export Lumber Co., have remained per line and, an assurance, unofficial but naue the less reliable, has been given to the ectly loyal. A conference was held be that things would have been much worse tween the managers and staff and the men that afternoon, but for the fact that the

THIS YEAR'S WEMBLEY. effect that if every Chinese goes on strike the Settlement will carry on, as hefore, retired twice to confer. At last they de clothes and the spirits of the demonstrat

cided to return on a promise of proteeing students were damped, save that people will have to do their own tou. They are to remain in the mills and

ADDED ATTRACTIONS OF THE housework. The essential services all are sleep, while the company provides fond It was the writer's good fortune to a HONGKONG SECTION, guaranteed.

for them.

make a tour of the Settlement this morn EXTENSION OF STRIKE.

Although nearly 1,000 men refused toxing in a limousine motor-ear with a Hongkong aims again to be a centres The troubles yesterday were numerous, continue work at the Power Station and young Chinese student. He said that of attraction at Wembley this year, for but in no case did they provide the other branches of the Electricity Depart there would be further disturbances and under the supervision of Commissioner His opinion was that E. R. Hallifax, C.M.G, C.B.E., and Cramatic incidents of the four preceding ment, there is no cause for salarm, for he was right. days. Early in the day it was reported the engineers and trained workmen are there would be isointed nets of violence his right-hand man, Mr. G. Danean, the that ships were held up at the wharves, remaining loyal, and should they go, and that individual Europeans would be Island of Fragrant Streams is putting good showing. It was unfortunats because all the coolies had been intimidequate supply of foreign engineers are attacked and he quite frankly suggested up a dated into going on strike, except those ready to step in.

Students and sympathizers held a large that it would be better to give up our that on the opening day the shops were He is the son of an old-time man empty and closed. some delay having at the China Merchants wharves, where, however, the men were not allowed to mass meeting in the Chinese City in the dario and he knows a great deal about occurred in the delivery of the goods Then the section. It was also regrettabla handle anything but Chinese cargo. Then afternoon and to the auber the student movement in Chian all the Chinese banks but their doors and marched through the streets and into the police and the troops in the streets, how-thas Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung's

extended silk factory was not in opera the compradore staffs of ses ral big firms suburbs, dispersing at five o'clock.Seven

So far as one can "gather, the trouble tion, though the material for tha

week Led of Chinese refusing to arcept foreign and 70 labour delegates also marched.it politient. It is closely connected with lwen already in London for a

walked out and many cases were report schools were represented and 400 girls gave me a sense of security. hank-notes, thus doing more harm to They carried 35 different kinds of pennants the militarist party and it is not im However, the representation of the themselves than to anyone else, for the and banners, most of which were directed invariable answer was that they could go against the British and Japanese peoples probable that it is designed by the mill Crown Colony is on an adequate scale, tarists to keep the ring clear. None of and when everything is in full working The main tener of their banners sup- them want interference. Their one desire order it should, on the new plan of without anything until they came to their

ported the general strike and boycott of

Others is to fight things out on their own. selling which has been devised, do very There are no fewer, than British and Japanese goods.

modern this

Therefore they are encouraging the well indeed. im- were: Overthrow

'senses.

work.

ride

THE STUDENTS' OUTLOOK.

About mid-lay our contemporaries, the and "Mercury," the Shanghai Times the China Press" were put out of a perialism, the foreign settlements must young men to brood over real or suppos 110 Chinese employed, about forty lea tion when their printing staff walked out he restored, abolish extraterritoriality, ed injuries and carefully inculeating the in number than last year, but in point

cent. better. patriotism..

All were in picturesque and about, the same time, the Telephone oppose the wharfage dues and the licen- doctrine of Jingoism and misnaming it of efficiency believed to the forty per

Another force which has been pushing Chines: attire at the opening day... Company also was thrown over by its cing of the press and stock exchanges. Chinese employees. However, the comAPPEAL TO PEACEABLE CHINESE. the Chian student in the same direction Among those who visited, then" were has been Bolshevik influence in the schools seen Mr. W. Chatham, C.M.G., a former pany Reted promptly and in a manner

all The N-daily News thus exhorts the and colleges The best friends of the Director of Public Works, Mr. Leefe and which reflects the greatest credit on

Chinese have underrated the effect of Mr. Stanley Dodwell (members of the concerned for a smart piece of organiza- peaceable Chinese of Shanghai: tion All Chinese sabscribers inmediate- While there were fewer acts of open that influence. It has been very consider Landon Committee), Mr D. K. Blair, ly were cut off and foreigners took fall disorder yesterday, the strike movement, able.

The militarists do not seem to former Beerstars of the Chamber of Com control of all operations, all this being was more effective.

have discouraged it, but if it should, in 40 expeditiously that scarcely any Chinese are already feeling the discom- cuected

ser of the colony; Mr. and Mrs. Kix- inconvenience was caused. At nightfall fort of that strike. The shops closed by any way, succeed, the War Lords will merce; Mr. Nemazee, a leading shipow

suffer in the,, end and. will suffer very the "China Press staff returned to agitators are losing hundreds of thou- badly. It may be, however, that these of Kowloon Docks, and other oht China hands whom one did not come in sand of dollars daily. Telephones have War Lords are wiser than some of us The Shanghai Mercury produced on heen reduced. By-and-bye, perhaps, elec- think and are satisfied that the Bolshevik contact with. They were specially in- the same evening an Emergency Editric light will go, and transport: food doctrine will never really take hold of terested in the models. Among these were that of Hongkong by mighty an tion of six foolsump sheets by means of may become scarce and dear the poor in the family. Only the young men will seen from Kowloon (last year's in a typewriters and duplicating machines particular will suffer.

be affected they may say. The wise old fresh setting) and a new one of Hong- Who are the men to blame for this women who, in the end, sway the kong by day, which is the harbour, and. Owing to constantly, recurring distur bances in Hengkew the trams ceased run- They are not Shanghai men, but come Chinese family, council, will have nothing Kowloon as seen from Hongkong half- ning in that arca daring the forenoon, but from distant provinces-Hunan, Anhui, to do with the Bolshevik ideals. In the resumed again in the afternoon. After Szechuan. They care nothing for what be meantime the agitators are pushing for way up the Peak It might be men- dinner the service everywhere was stop comes of Shanghai Chinese. And aboutward the hapless students, taking good tion is worked directly by the Hongkook

tioned that this year the Hongkong see

ped.

them is s a floating woh of disbanded sol care that they themselves remain out of Government and that prices have been MEN OF WAR'S ARRIVAL djers and armed robbers, ready for any range,

arranged to provide a reasonable proft H.M.S. Diomede arrived, in the even

EUROPEAN INFLUENCES. devilment.

Will not you Chinese remember this ing Billets previously had been arrang when you are tempted to condemn the

It may be that in the past the Euro and no more..

One of the novelties of this year's ed in the New World for her landing police for firing on Saturday?

peans, collectively, have thought too little parties. H.M.S. Carlisle is due at 5.30

For the police are responsible for the of the student class in China. They have thowing is the portrait of a Chinese am today. Large additional Japanese

encouraged these young men to go abroad mandarin, painted by a Chinese artist and American reinforcements are due safety of all of you. What would have and have invited them to read inflem- and presented by Chang Qun, one of happened if the mob bad overcome the matory literature without thinking of the Hong merchants of Canton one shortly.

It is understood that the U.S.S. 227,police and broken out, looting and burn the results. Even a course in Carlyle hundred years ago to the father (then

ing? At such moments no one knows

might give a young Chinese student a boy of eight, travelling in China, which had been anchored in the upper what a mob will sto, except that it wrong perspective and causs him to ad- with his father) of Miss Beatrice Heron- to steam alongside the Socony tanks, on know by long years of friendly as mire some of the things that we know he Maxwell. The exhibitor's father, Mr. Black Point, where the American fliers 4 do the worst, God,

sociation with you, that you do not sym-ought not to admire, and without a doubt E. B.. Enetwick, afterwards became a

the lectures on social and political topics well-known landed just a year ago this week...

Orientalist (speaking Col. W. F. L. Gordon has decided to pathize with the rioters and strike ngita by Mr. Bertrand Russel and other languages) and his first mission when issue press badges to reporters of news The printers, builders and mechanics called "advanced thinkers have often lie became a diplomat was one to China. papers, in two to each institution which will permit hearers to have special of all kinds who left their work yester been delivered to audiences totally in- This interesting picture is in oil and is privileges and to go behind the lines. It day did so only because they were com- capable of understanding and digesting for sale. is believed by, and is the wish of, the peiled Alone they might have stood them. Defence Council, that facts and only facts Army, but they were afraid what would

harbour, was ordered yesterday morning

tora

should get to the public in the daily happen to their wives and children while press, Col. Gordon does not criticize the they were at work. And that fear every Reneral tone of what has been written, one can respect.

But if the Council shows you, as it will it is more or less a preventive for future erents. An intelligence officer will meet show, that it can put down rebellion and with the press each night to confirm or protect you in your work, will not you in discredit debatable points. The Chinese return mow that you appreciate the years readers of the North China Daily News, of just and peaceful administration you though they may not have an im have qujoyed, by going about your busi partial view of the accurate statements ass as using and thus proving, what we printed each day, may rest assured that know to be the fact, that you have no if they but believe what they read, they fellowship with the unfruitful works of will have a true and honest report of the anarchy and rain !a day's happenings.

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Booner or later the rioters and strike agitators will be beaten.

Until they are, life will not be pleasant for anyone, Chinese or foreigner.

COLONIES AND NAVAL DEFENCE.

To the House of Commons on May 5th Mr. Ormsby-Gore in a written reply to a question by Major Hore-Belisha, stated how much money had been contributed in respect of the current year by each of But that will not deter the foreign au- the Dominions and Crown Colonies to- thontics and their fellow-countrymen wards, naval defence. With regard to from standing firm and doing their utmost the Colonies and Protectorates, the con to crush revolt and restore order and tributions to Imperial defence made by the Governments” of Hongkong Straite' good government.

Settlements, Ceylon, and Mauritius are paid, not to the Admiralty, but to thr War Ofice

How long this threat to your pence, your welfare and your safety is to last do penila largely on you