THE SITUATION IN CANTON.
NO MATERIAL "CHANGE
GENERAL ENGAGEMENT PROBABLE AT SHEKTAN.
Travellers from Canton yesterday re- ported that there had been no material change in the position of the fighting forces it the city during the previous twenty-four hours,
THE HONGKONG " DAILY PRESS, JHURSDAY, "JENE this, 1925
PARADES WITH FLAGS AND BANNERS IN SWATOW.
TEL. SHANGHAI
SYMPATHY WITH
GENERAL STŘIKE ADVOCATED.
!
RIOTERS
Wherever they went the demonstra-] A correspondent of the Daily Press in Swatow, writing under date of June 8th, tors urged all and sundry to go cu says: As was expected the whole of strike. They even asked the big com- "gone pradore stores to stop entering for for- the Swatoy students have now
" in sympathy with their Shanghai compatriots.
nut
The Canten Governugent, however, refer to the Chong Shan as being still under their orders, and its purchaso” has. not been reported in any of the, ver- 'nacular papers. As was stated in the Daity Press yesterday the Chung Skin. which is the old Wing "Fung renamed,
During the past few days there has is an important factor in the situation been a great dent of excitement in the at Canton. It is the only gun-boat of
schools and colleges and nothing but the any consequence possessed by the Chinese,
vigners, particularly the British and Japanese. The agitation is chiefly directed against Britain and Japan. So far. however, no strike has been declared.
It is generally considered that users thing now depends upon the uring under General Hsu Chang Chi which is re porimi to be returning from Swatow, As we have already intel out. if If it is in the hands of the Yunnanese Shanghai situation has been discussed.
attack from now they should experienes no difficultyThen the students decided to take considered that there is no need for one, but General Hsu launches 20
"The first 'minor demonstration was the East the wire wilt be caught erosing the river and getting to close certed action as a protest.
between two. Bres and will probably ful quarters with their opponents in Hoaad yesterday. That of this morning cedure in case of emergency.
if they desire to do so.
their position antenable. Their case-IMMUNITY OF FOREIGNERS,"
ssumed
There has been no meeting of the
tion in this Port. Perhaps it is con- Consular Body to discuss the situa
I think residents generally would ap preciate a statement informing them. what would be their best course of pre- In this more important proportions connection it might be mentioned that as hundreds of students-boys and girls all the Consuls resido en the Swatow tration of troops at Shektan is evidence! In the Daily Pries of Turaday" men-paraded the streets with Angs" and side of the harbour with the exception: of the British Consal who lives in that they recognise the danger. Shektantion was made of the fact that several banners, shouting wi with Im Kakchio and has his Consulate there. is r important strategie point in launches flying foreign flags were firet perialism and Boycott the British and This is inconvenient to British subjects General Han's har of march. And it is on. The launches were flying the AmeJapanese. Pamphlets and strips of generally and to British Shipping Arms in particular. There is no regular ferry here, if anywhere, that the decisiverican flag, but this detail was withheld papers were distributed asking for "symand only those possessing privat motor engagement will take place.
by special request becausé, on a previous
paths"
with the Shanghai students.boats have easy access to the Consulate. Crossing the harbour in sunpans is none, ocension, when there was trouble in (lir students made impassioned speeches
sain during the N.E. 200 Canton and the American Mag çama ini er at any rate they appeared to beThere are only a handful of British sub-1 Now, however, there seems to be sout the line of fire, the occurrence was report impassioned.but few people listened to jects in Kakchio. The majority live ini
ed in the Americas' papers and the people! arng will appear on the scene at all.oncerned here were inmidated with tele them. The parade was accompanied by it is suggested that this is where the
Afty armed police.
AN ELUSIVE GENERAL.
doubt whether Biteral Hsu Chung Chisi
grans
Three days ago it was reported to be in
from anxious friends at home; the neighbourhood of. Shektan but it has not materialised yet, and there net was with the idea of avoiding any
unnecessary alarm in this way that th Daily Press refrained from publishing. the facts two days ago.
that General Chan" Kwing Ming (otherwise General Chen Chiung Ming) will complicate the situation. It will be remembered that "General Chan Kwing Ming, the former tiovernor of Canton, was driven out of Swatar by General Hst several months ago, but he favourable las and been waiting.
Now, however, there is no harm in re
cording an amusing" detail.
monsoon.
Swator which is the business centre and
British Consulate ought to be."
FROM HONGKONG. SYMPATHY LABOUR UNIONS AGAIN READY TO LAY DOWN
THEIR LIVES."
Four hundred thousand workers united in our Federation and directly
vabe
under Imperialist oppression
Chinese people in Shanghai by British, Japaness and American Imperialists, jointly occupying our territory by means of unequal treaties.
t the resolved to lay down our lives struggle. Hope you will forward our appeal to the world workers that they one and all may protest."-Signed: HONGKUNG FEDERATION OP UNIONS.
opportunity to return, If General thought that everything was safe, How marches with his whole fores to engage ever, they came under fire from both themently protest against the massacre of The Yunnause at Shekten, obviously that Cantones and Yunnanser When they were in the thick of it student suggest- This opportunity will he provided.
ed that if only one of the "foreigners" would not, subs General Hsu and, there jowould get up and show himself the firing fare, many Chinese are sceptical whether would immediately ease. This student be will be able to give the Cantonese obviously hail a very exaggerated idea of the respect in which foreigners are brild Government all the help expected from by the opposing armates, far one of the huu.. The question should be answered förrigaers acted upon the suggestion, one way or the other in the course of the Hy showed himself and within half a mints a bullet whizzed past about three, inches from the point of his next few days...........
Needless to remark, after such an ex- perinner, no further attempt was rande to secure immunity in this partientar,
THE CHUNG SHAN,”
Little relice should be placed in the report that the gunhoat (hung Shan is being operated by the Yunnanese, When
!
The
The following telegram has been sent, of propagunda among the Chine is
mischief. by the Federation of Chios Labour working considerable Unions in Hoogkong to the British translation reads:-
τέλει agreement, la violation of The launches, one of which is owned Federation of Trade Unions, the British
factory Shanghai Japanese cotton by the Canton Christian College, were Labour Party and the Japanese Labour
killed the wurkers; and the students, for the sake of helping them, under- iven permission to start upon their Federations. Journey by the America Consul. They i
took a lecture campaign. But a number were carrying certain
number of
of them were shot, tens wounded and students of the College and it wa
over a hundred arrested by the British we suffer police. Though innocent, from laughter. It makes the hair stand on end of those who have any heart. Such anhuman acts actually Appear under the sun. Regardless of the friendliness of people, the im perialists look upon us as colonial peoples, as animals, and cruelure they! If this could be suffered. what else could not be suffered! The millions of the masses must unanimously persist, so that the British and Japanese in perialists will acknowledge their crime and apologise, severely punish the criminals, compensate the families of the killed and wounded. Fürthermore, all the unequal treaties, and all that infringes the sovereignty, must be abolished. Otherwise, all the hundreds and more workers of Hongkong will swear to be the backup; never will they allow the imperialists within our territory freely crush us.
Writing with profound sorrow and dropping tears.
way.
MORE REFUGEES.
nos
LARGUR
FOR CHINESE CONSUMPTION. A second telegram from the same or ganisation in Hongkong has been sent
the All-China Labour Federnice, the Chinese Nationalist Revolutionary Party the Newspapers and the Labour and Peasant Unions.
The telegraru is in Chinese and we give below the official translation" sent to the Daily Press. The English wording may cause a good deal of amusement, but
The Tung On and Lungshan brought hostilities broke out on Saturday afternoon over 2,000 refugees from Canton to Bong th Chung Shan steamed in one direckeng last night
Among other passengers on the Lung tion and the majority of the Government boats in another. This may have given were a large number of girls from that is no reason for refusing to take it the True Light Middle School, Mrs. seriously. The Chinese version is no doubt rise to the purvour that the vessel hnd Creighton, wife of D. Creightou, the intended in create a great impression and it must be remembered that this type hoven purchased by the Yunnnstese. † principal accompanied them.
THE POLICY OF THE KUOMINTANG.
CANTON GOVERNMENT'S REVIEW OF THE PRESENT
POSITION.
There is. however, one aspect to this banditry that is highly signifiennt. The
THE HONGKONG FEDERATION OF LABOER UNIONS.
WHOSE FLOUR?
MAGISTRACY.
bandits are parading under the banner TRADE MARK CASE AT CENTRAL of the Kuomintang. It may sound humorous, but it is so. Both Yang Shih- The Canion Cesette of Monday, which Dutch Folly. There was a small body of Min and Liu Chen Huan are responsible reached as yesterday morning, consisted less than a hundred men holding the members of the party. It has been said place which was only a few yards from "of one page only.
This page was headed Battling for the Band and strategically indefensible. that even the worst of militarists must the Liberation of Kwangtung Province The little garrison defended the place have some mural excuse for their depre from the Military Banditti-Anti-Gov. for eleven hours, and when it was im-dations. And what could be"
Forces Doomed Iron Ring possible to hold it any longer they man than to plunder the people under the Closing Tigaer Around Canton.-aged to swim over to the Honam side pretext of defending the Kuomintang.
The rebels' lon with twenty casualties. wis about equal.
ret! בריי
Actively Supporting the tiovern
pelacy ment.
"The commencement of hostilities is escribed as follows:-
ut
ten
THE GOVERNMENT FORCES.
better
At the Central Mugistracy yesterday, before Mr. S. B. R. McEldery, an "ap- plication under the Merchandise Marks Ordinance, was made by Mr. H. L. Denys, presenting Messrs. H. Skott and Com- pany, fleur merchants, for a confiscation The party is going through a very order in respect of 800 bags "of flour which severe crisis. After years of failure in bore an infringement of the Battleship" its attempts to free the country from trade mark, the property of his clients. Our East River army, consisting of Militarism and Imperialism, the party
Samples of the, alleged infringing marks Fighting between the cutlined Tun. nanese and Kwangsi troops and the the Whampoa force, and the troops began to think hard on the causes of
nder command of General Hsa Chung these failure. It has found them within and the original were exhibited in Court. Government furers broke out
inity past four ou Saturday after. Chi have by forced marches from Chae- its own ranks. Militarists and conscious the former bearing identical marks with
unconscious agents of Imperialiu noun. Perparations for the conflict had chow and Swatow arrived within a few or
have crept into the party, deteriorating, the exception that the Company's name To was omitted. The flour, it was "stated, ben in progress almost a month and hours march from Sheklung. bostilities burst out in fuli
"Our West River forces have captured it and paralyzing its activities. fury i when the Government feet took over Samshui and Fatahan from the rebel realize its historic mission the party had eight gunboata under the Yunnanese Yunnanene, and have arrived at Shel-sooner or later to purgh itself of these had been seized in the China Merchants, . At a quarter to four on wahtong which is directly épposite. Bha-vicious elements. The process of purging Stearn Navigation Company's godown, began soon after the death of the Great having been consigned from Shanghai to Saturday afternoon the Commander of meen.
"Our North River troops have also Leader, when the corrupt in the party the Government feet gave the Yunnanese boats twenty minutes to proceed to the arrived at Sin Kai and the Kwangsi began to raise their beads, subverting it various Chinese dealers, who claimed to Madao fort, there to join the Govern rebel forces defending this place have to their own aima. The party to them be interested only as sellers on a commais.”
# has ever been a meats for the exploitasion basis. hurriedly withdrawn..
The enemy forces in Canton are tion of the people. But the task of purg- being hemmed in by an iron ring, which ing proved no easy one. je daily growing tighter. Their retreat has gone too wide and too deep. In a crisis these adventurers, stood together. has been entirely cut ofl.
The populace is actively helping the Their expulsion from the party meant Government by all means within their that the turn of the militarists had to power, as they realise that victory for come niso, and so they made common the Government forces mends the final, en aso."
wut squadron,
..
GOVERNMENT TAKES OVER GUNBOATS When, in obedience to the order, the Yunnanese boats hoisted anchor in pre- "paration to leave, the rebel Yunnanese Lroops lining the Baad opened fire with
in reaching their objectives, and all
truck!"
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the eight Yunganese boats have now been BANNER OF THE KUOMINTANG. taken. Our casualties were slight. while
The corruption In making his application for confisca
tion of the cargo, Mr. Denys said that he would not suggest that the China Mer- chants' Steam Navigation Company were in nay way to blame as they only acted as fore asked His Worship to make an order shippere and godown keepers. He there
}
rite machine gun and artillery, upon defeat of the mercenaries who have been "What is the real political singificaner for confiscation, and to allow a certain be gunboats, to which the fleet and the strangling the prosperity of the proof a number of Kuomintang members and proportion of the flour to be banded to ex-mombers, together with the militarists his clients to reimburse them for the costs overnment forces on the Honaro side re vince. plied with machone-guus and artillery. All the railway men have struck, and in Kwangiang and Yunnan, attempting of the proceedings in the same way as In spite of the firing, which was purti- although in possession of the railways to overthrow the Revolutionary Govern was done in the case of a similar order cularly heary from the Sun Building and
mose single, ment? It is simply this: the Kuomin-roade by Mr. R. E. Lindsoll in 1919.
Mr. R. A. Wadeson, who represented tang refuses any more to shield the de Sincere Co, rooftops the bouts succeed the rebels could not
predations of militarists and the contin the China Merchants Steam Navigation uous sale of the interests of the country Company, asked that his clients should be Commenting upon the present position, to Imperialism. A Kuomintang that re exonerated from blame and requested the damage to the enemy side is un-
the Canton Gazette, which may be re fuses to be used by adventurers is of no that a proportion of the flour be allo known.
The cruizor Ohung Shan, which the garded as the mouthpiece of the Kuo, use to thrin. Such a Kuomintang must ented to them to meet godown and be destroyed! And so war is declared storage charges. His clients were quite Yunnancee rebels attempted to bribe, mintang, says --
The issue, bes now to be settled by against the who wouldy uphold than innocent party, left her anchorage at three o'clock the same afternoon, and bombarded the rebel armed forco. There was little hope of honour and revolutionary traditions of
鹳 treeps stationed at Taisbatan Island and any other alternative. A rich proving the party.
"The present conflict, which, while His Worship, who considered that an Ewan Yin Bhan. On Sunday morning has been overrun by a marauding he succeeded in putting some shells into soldiery, holding absoluto, sway over tents these lines are being written, has already atterapt should be made to trace the
of millions of people Pleading with Yang Hai Mia's headquarters.
restoration of the power to the people, made, suggested that an advertisement "The Yunnanese rebels have also bandits has proved fatile. For years the begun to rago, will not caly, cad in the owners of the cargo before an order wAS
this connection. placed a few guns near the East Bund people have suffered. They have now will not only bring peace to this war should be, inserted in the newspapers in bridge to abell the Government Head-arisen in arms against their oppressors ridden province, but will purge the party quarters, but no damage has been done. They are determined to exterminate them of all reactionary elements and make it at last & fit instrument in our national "Bevere Bghting ocenered when the and to put their own House in order,
omancipation." Jonpy took the little island known as
(Continued on next Column).
Mr. Denys agreed
On Mr. Donys agreeing to draft an ad- vortizerenity Hia Worship adjourned the case sinc die.
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