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(1) The re-opening of negotiations with the Chinese Foreign Office with a view to the careful consideration of their various demands
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China cannot and does not want to break her many ties with the Westem world and to lapse into the dignified and stagnant isolation in which she lived for centuries. She has already cut herself off irretrievably from her past. The China of the Manchus is as dead as the Austria of the Habsburgs. The Great Wall has been broken down, and in the critical weeks ahead we shall have to keep this fact perpetually before us,
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PEKING AND CANTON. NORTHERN CABINET OPENLY ANTI-COMMUNIST.
Wiring to his paper on September end, the Peking correspondent of the
Daily News stated:-
The Cabinet met yesterday and dis cussed the Canton situation thorough- 1ly:
A general agreement was reached that possible to oust the present power in the the Government should do everything southern city
(4) A statenrent by the British Govern meat as to their willingness to enlarge the scope of the proposed Conferences on Judgment was delivered by Judge Purdy tariff reform and extra-territoriality be in the United States Court, Shanghai, on yond the limits reached at Washington. It may not be possible for such Conferences September 3rd, in the suit of T. C. Long to grant immediate fiscal autonomy and (doing business as Long & Co.) v. the abolition of extra-territorial rights; but Asia Banking Corporation. Plaintiff if the tariff could be so raised as to cover both the interest on unsecured loans and attempted to recover the sum of $16,950 the necessary compensation to the pro- (Hongkong currency) which he claimed Our experience in other parts of the is in exchange for the abolition of the Bank paid out on a forged cheque and fikin, and if, at the same time, as a first East should have convinced us that once step towards the withdrawal of extra- deducted from his deposit account with nationalist ideas take hold, they have to territoriality agreement could be reached the Bank.
Not only is it realised that the time bo...respected. They do
pot, of course, the trying of all civil cases involving for
for the setting up of mixed tribunals for
There was but one question for the has arrived when the Soviet influence make dealings with an Eastern people eign residents in China, marked progress determination of the court, said his should be stamped out, but also it is easy; particularly when, as has happened would be made in restoring the confidence Honour, and that was the question of fact considered that co-operation with the in China, emotions have reached, a high of the Chinese nation in our attitude of
anti-Communists at this stage may tan- pitch. But they must be allowed for if Harold Balme, Shantung Christian Uni-Long" upon the cheque was genuine or
sincere friendship and co-operation as to whether the signature of
ily prove to be the first step toward uui- we are to co-operate with those who have versity, Trinan
fication of North and South How come under their spell. China is now;
forged. Upon the conclusion of the trial, such co-operation can be fully establish A MESSAGE TO CHINA going through the teething stages of
an application was made by the deed is the problem for there are many The best hops in China is that the fendants to re-open the case for the pur obstacles in the way of complete recon- nationalism. Much of her anti-foreign re. situation is becoming a nuisance to the seatment is merely the symptom of this, out of hand. The spirit of labour agita with a view to the impeachment of the Two
Chinese themselves. The students are pose of taking depositions in Hongkong ciliation. and will quickly die down if ber real griefs tion begins to damage, as it was bound plaintiff and his expert witness, Lee Yau grounds for optimism: first, the
factors, however, provide are treated with courage and imaginato do, the interests of native_millowners tion. If the Powers do not pur difficulties there is a rising demand that the Russian the closing bour of the trial, that about
and merchants. In the Canton, region Ming, each of whom had testifed, during tures from Hu Han-min and others for in the way of a general conference and Bolsheviks shall be driven out. At
collaboration in foreign affairs; attend it, when it meets, ready to re- Peking, on the other hand, Moscow has the middle of January, 1995, they had had the Kuomintang moderates to agree to a secondly, the noticeable willingness" "of cognize China as x very young but a mo- Feng, with big quantities of ammunition forged cheque. The case thereupon was groups to overthrow the
fately supplied its temporary ally, General in their possession in Osaton the alleged combined effort by the non-Communist dern State, we may hope to wield an in-Last week Lord Gosford, who knows fluence heyond the dreams of the Sovieta. China, raised a useful debate in the House re-opened, and depositions of certain wit-munist regime in the southern city.
present Com Our special pivileges, which are a relic of that the Government means to do the behalf of defendants. Depositions on be Club which represents the opinion of
of Lords Lord Balfour's reply suggestednesses taken in Hongkong on May 8th, on The manifesto by the Kuomintang the nineteenth century and perpetually right thing in a far too leisurely manner. humiliate the Chinese who have learnt the first lessons of self-determination, will have drastically to he revised. If we seek to maintain them on the grounds that there is no effective government in China we shall only add to our difficulties. -Manchester Guardian..
11th
HANDWRITING EXPERTS.
very important section of the party, called on the people as a whole to expel the Bolshevik rulers of Canton. It significance was not lost upon the Gov- ernment, which is now eager to explait
close relations with the Southerners every channel which will bring about
Our trade is deeply injured. Our good half of plaintiff, relating to the same name is vilely prejudiced. Delay means matter, were taken in Canton on May the British Government is in favour of heavy loss. It is excellent to learn that what we urged last week the inclusion of a Chinese judge on the international without waiting for the verdict in that the experts who were called made in re- inquiry into the Shanghai shootinga But The comparisons and dedactions which affair or for the subsequent conferences gard to the letters in the signature “ T. THE CHINESE VIEWPOINT.
and the extra territorial privileges of foreigners, the Cong" upon the alleged forged cheque Information which has just come into ought to issue an explanatory and con-genuine signature, continued his Honour,
British Government on its own account with the letters in Long's admittedly Pated to be a serious affair; the ques my possession from influential and friend-ciliatory message to the Chinese people. coincided with and confirmed the com-
tion from Peking's point of view is, ly Chinese sources reveals the following
J. Garrin, Editor of The Oblerver.
Can it be directed by the Peking Gov- important facta---
ernment1 "HAUGHTY OXFORD,"
mission.
on Customs revenue
The actual overthrow of the res bat disaut régime in Canton is not anti-
Lit Dis
parisons and conclusions which his Honour In this connection the emergence of Two representatives of the Chinese
himself reached, and left no doubt in his General Chen Chiung-ming (Sun Yat- (1) The Chinese are no longer interest revolutionary party, "Kuomintang," which mind that the signature on the cheque sea's old opponent), as the chosen ed in the proposed judicial inquiry, the is co-operating with the Russian Bolin dispute was a genuine one. In re strument is being canvassed, setting up of which they regard as a sheviks in China, have arrived in Moscow. pudiating the signature in controversy The Kuomintang Generals, mere means of counteracting the alleged According to the latest both these adverse findings of the Diplomatic Com-delegates are undergraduates of Oxferit plaintiff relied more upon the fact that he thought, would welcome bis leadership
University, where they had been study- never gave the Man Sang Company (in in their present stress, but it is not (2) There is little hope, as they see it, ingin reality helping to direct the whose favour the cheque was drawn) such certain that the politicians wil of the present agitation- abating unless anti-foreign and anti-British movement of the British Government convince them, their compatriots from abroad-und on by gesture and by action, of their friendly their arrival in the Soviet capital they forgery. The fact as to whether plain
a cheque than upon the signature being ally bury the hatchet of former
differences intentions.
first of all reviled and attacked in & Press tiff may have been imposed upon by some the party leaders during his visit to Still, he is, no doubt, conferring with (3) There is a vast differents of mean-lish and "haughty, prim Oxford, the inost
interview both this country and the Eng-one in his own offen, and his signature Shanghai- ing between the Chinese conception of sctionary and aristocratic University in secured to a cheque which he never intead- treaty revision" and that usually und the world." A combined meeting of, theed to issue, was not of the first import derstood in this country or in Europe, Red Peasants Internationals and the ance, for if T. C. Long signed this che With us it appears to coonate the putting | Kuomintang Delegation was beld in Mos
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design The plaintiff is a man of intelli- and carrying through a frand of this char- gence and ability, capable of conceiving
into effect of the recommendations of cow in order that the "rich revolutionary que, even though his signature thereto the Washington Conference With the experience of Soviet Russia may help was traiudulently secured, the bank would-acter and magnitude, and I am fully. per- Chinese it means a ascunsideration of the Chinese intelligentzia to avoid every handicap under which they feel mistakes made in 1917 by the Russian themselves to be suffering under the terms intelligentzia which refused to co-operate upon presentation
not be liable for having paid the cheque suaded from careful review of the of the treaties of last century.
evidence, that this plan and scheme to with the Soviets."
defraud the Asia Bank onginated with him."
EUROPEAN CHARGED. FINED FOR STRIKING CHINESE Mr H J. Dixon, who is employed ab the Kowloon Docks, was charged at the Kowloon Magistracy before Mr, E. W, Hamilton yesterday with having zatult, od a bus driver in Chatham Road on August 30th
SHANGHAI-NANKING RAILWAY WORKERS FORM THEIR OWN UNION.
Hit Honour was unable to agree to any of the deductions wherein Lee Yau Ming, Coming to the re-opening of the case, the only expert upon handwriting called bis Honour states that he is perfectly by the plaintiff, professed to have dis witnesses for, the defendants, that the satisfied, from the evidence of the four covered characteristics distinguishing the cheque was never out of the possession alleged forged signature from the genuine of Hestra Johnson, Stokes & Master, the signature. After reviewing his expert evidence, his Honour says: I feel that his testimony is so manifestly and p ably at variance with the deductions that
are self-evident, from
Hongkong firm of solicitors, and that the Canton in February as claimed by the plaintiff Long never had the cheque at palpituosa, Lee Yau Ming,
mere inspection
Finding as I do, concluded his Honour,that the signature, of the plain- tiff upon the cheque is the genuise signa,
According to the Asiatic News Service, the workers ad employees of the Shang ha-Nanking Railway have organised their patrons. The organisation unites, points own union choosing a committee of twenty men, cashiers, checkers and station mas of the writings, as to be totally unworthy ture of TO. Long, that the plaintiff Mr. H. G. Armstrong prosecuted,
ter. The new union recently presented of serious consideration." Plaintiff said that at noon on August the following demands, to the Railway 30th he was proceeding along Chain administration: fixing a higher minimum Road from the direction of the Star of wages; raising all wages; establishing Forry when he reached the Kowloon an eight hours working day, overtime Football Club, defendant was on the road work to be paid for by the administration, and desired to board the bus He (plain leave and free passage on the railway. and all employees to be entitled to have tiff) motioned to him that the bus was full, but defendant placed himself in the middle of the roadway and stepped the bus which he boarded. He was then struck by the defendant.
(Continued at foot of nest "Column.)
stiff and said he only made a pretence Defendant denied having strack plan,
of doing so.
A fine of $10 was imposed.
was the author of the scheme to defrand ACCUSATION OF FRAUD
the Asia Bank, and that both the plain- tiff and his witness, Lee Yau. Ming, have There are,” continues the judgment testimony, which they have given bel
been thoroughly discredited as to the too many strange, unusual and suspica the Court, the judgment in this case must ous circumstances
surrounding the per- so in favour of the defendant petration of this fraud to be satisfactorily Judgment for the Asia Banking Car were mere happenings in the u explained upon the supposition that they peration, with costs accordingly
Plainti course of events, and without purpose and
represented by Messts. (Continued on next. Column),
Bryan Mesars, Chaldice and Franklin appeared for defendants,
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