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AN INCREDIBLE MASSACRE AT PEKING,
CABINET OFFICE GUARDS EXTERMINATED BY MACHINE GUNS.
ONLY $.. OUT OF 100 SURVIVE.
REVENGE FOR RECENT FIRING ON STUDENTS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, April 21st.. A Peking cable to the North China Daily News reports that prior to the Kubminehun's evacuation, extremists persuaded the commanders to exterminate. the Cabinet Office guards who fired on students on March 18th.
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Guards were taken out beyond the Yellow Temple and there slain by machine-guns, only five out of 400 evenping.
There was no question of defence im
A Peking News Agency (the "Chung
ANOTHER PROVOCATIVE
DIATRIBE.
SALE OF PRESIDENT " BOATS.
FURTHER DETAILS" OF DOLLAR® The latest Bolshevik' organ, in the
INTEREST OFFER. Capital; the Peking Tribute, „with which. Mr. Eugene Cher is identified, contain
Further details are available from the ed an article on April 9th under the Manila Bulletin regarding the informa caption “A Cowardly Evasion in which tion published during the past week- it was said:-
cad that a bid of G.53,000,000 by the By a monetary payment to tha Dolar interests bad probably Loen ne victims of the massacre outside the precepted by the U.S. Shipping Board for mises of the Cabinet on March 19th the five President" baats" at, present operated by the Admiral Oriental Line between Seattle and the Far East,
| Tann Chi Jui and his Cabinet are trying to wash their hands of a crime that has séng a wave of horror right throughout the whole of the country. This gesture
It appears that this figure was wrong, is as base as the crime itself. The man- but the error was due to the fact that fall dace which orders that the compensation details were not contained in the message to the unfortunate victims shall be paid received in the Hongkong office, is couched in terms of such nauseating "The Manila Bulletin of April 15th hypocrisy as to revolt even those who gives more information regarding this have become hardened to the proverbial great deal in tonnage. No further in- lack of sincerity of militarists. The formation has, up to the present, been
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Mei) on the 4th instant issued the fol- plied in this kind of shooting. Accord mandate was issued because "the gove received by the Hongkong office, but, they
lowing translation of the report submitted by the Peking Procuratorate to the Government after its investigation of the
occurrence of March 18th:---
"At 3.30 on the afternoon of the March 15th, a telephone report was received from the No. 4 Inner Left Police Station
that before the gate of the Cabinet, many petitioners were wounded and killed by the shooting of the bodyguards and it was then requested that procurators 'be sent to the scene for investigation.
THE SURVEY,
Ji
The spot was first surveyed by the procurators and ne particular sign nor weapons could be found on
the open
ing to the report of a tram car conduc tor, Chan Jui Sheng, who was passing the firing was aimed as the street. So
some of the students received their wounds while running in the street,
|
ment feared that innocent people wers
killed and wounded in the affair." And believe that the Manila report with re- the government pretends that it learned gard to the figure of the bid is neares, being correct than the figure mentioned
of this only after a police enquiry bad been made!
The shootings on March 18th were an during the week-end. act of promediated, cold-blooded murder and this document, instead of diminish Below are given extracts from the re-
and his Cabinet for the crime, sxes it port appearing in the Manila Bulletin, still more definitely upon them. It is not and Hongkong" can be read instead a repudiation, it is a confession to the of "Manila" as the facts can apply crime.
to both ports of cell.
“The Manila Bulletin 1858.--
SHIPPING BOARD ACCEPTS.
No doubt Tuan and his colleagues are convinced by experience of the soothing qualities of money, but they are patriotic motives of those who are pre- totally mistaken when they measure the pared to lift their voices in defence of
The offer of $4,500,000 made by R.
HEARD WHISTLES. According to Yin Wen Bai, a policeing the responsibility of Puan Chi Jui man, he heard whistling before and after the fring and Wang Wen Shao, an- other policeman also confessed that he had heard the sound of whistles. If this! kind of confession is true, the firing was regulated by whistle and differs from sudden attack or accidents It was found that there was no necessity for the body their unfortunate country with their own Stanley Dollar, representing the Dollar mercenary mentality. The horror of this crime has-geared the conscience of the interests, for the Eve Admiral Oriental people too deeply to be soothed with the balm of money.
liners being operated between Manila From every part of the country come vehement protests against this massure and Seattle by the Waited States of peaceful, unarmed and patriotic Shipping. Board, has been definitely ac citizens by their own government and incessant calls are made for the punishcepted by the Shipping Board, accord. think it can bey off this outery of popu- ing to a cablegram received on April 14th ment of the guilty. Does the government lar indignation by a few paltry dollars Ly H.. Cavender, general agent for and insincere phrases of sympathy
guards to fire.
time.
ground. The dead bodies twenty-four | "In short, although students and other men and two women, were placed in the demonstrators, due to youth, might at de something reykiess and careless, north part of the yard inside the gate and also in the stable by the police this time the demonstration was proper There was no improper, injurious act...
The officers and the soldiers of the bodyguards fred carelessly.
men.
"After the customary examination, official letters were addressed to Your Ministry and Headquarters of Gen- darmes requesting the arrest of thé mur-|
derers, and from then on, those dying
from wounds were also examined. To
TO BE TRIED. “
Under the circumstance they are be lieved to have violated article 310 of the criminal code. According to
the 1st article of the Martial Criminal Regula-
the present altogether forty-three deadtions, a court martial should be entrusted and forty-five wounded were examined, with the trial. while another seventy-three are dclared to have been wounded but were not Sven official-examination..
STUDENTS NOT ARMED.
According to the confession on March 10th of police officer Wang Wen Chao, who was at the scene, before the fring, the students did nothing more than to shout, and according to the report of Lan Pao Fu of the third detachment of armed police, the students were only seen holding banners and handbills without any kind of weapon or tools, for setting
fire. They had followed the students the whole way but nothing had been dis covered..
"A cameraman, Lu Shih Yi, also denied that the students were equipped with weapons or tools for setting fire. Although he had been wandering among the students and taking photos, nothing was found.
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CALLS AND CLECULARS HARMLESS.
The calls and shouts of the students. were quoted by the police officers and the camera man as all alike. Four of the band bills were also presented by the Police Station in which no radical word- ings could be found. Of course, there was one hearing the name of the Chief Executive Committee of the Chinese Com tounist Party. "But no punishment can be made if there was no criminal action, according to the common law,
Since at the gathering before Tien An Men, representatives were sent by both the Cabinet and the Headquarters of Emergency Affairs apologizing for their misunderstanding in the previous day actions and, further since no order bad been issued by the officers along the way to disperse the demonstrators, it ap- pears, that the local authorities consider
d the demonstration as a proper one,
So far as the crowd is concerned, there was no crime committed, and their actions had not yet reached an improper stage.
with the exception of the Premier Chia Teh Yao and the others, accused
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By their mandate Tuan Chi Jui the Dollar line. and his Cabinet stand self-condemned of shooting down their fellow countrymen in the interests of the imperialists. They must stand before the tribunal of the people and receive their verdict."
WEATHER REPORT,
hips belonging to the Dollar interests, are, the Presidents McKinley, Jefferson, Grant, Mattison and Jackson. These ships have been operated by the Dellar line for some time.
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Last night's weather report, forecast: as giving the order of killing who are to and remarks by the Royal Observatory This makes three Dollar services com- be tried by this procuratorate, three stated:- copies of the whole case, and the photos eastern sea and a depression over Indo- the San Francisco Manila vessels and the An anti-cyclone is central over the ing to Manila, the round-the-world fleet, at the dead are hereby presented to your Ching. Ministry and you are requested to have
Local forecast: East winds, moderate, Seattle-Oriental liners.
derers and have them tried according to an investigation carried out of the mur- overcast, rain.
low."
A KUOMINTANG PROVOCATION.
A Feking paper publishes the follow- ing declaration regarding the Powers' Ultimatum and the subsequent shooting case of March 18th by the Suiyuan branch of the Kuomintang:
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"The 44-hour ultimatum which the Temperature Powers seat to our Government in the Humidity middle of March was the severest blow Wind Direction: "to the Chinese people since the conclusion Force of the 1901 Protocol. It must be remem: Weather... bered that the instrument is not only Rain that it also partakes of the nature of Lowest open-air Temperature on 21st derogatory to China's sovereignty, but Highest open-air Temperature on 20th positive aggression against the Kuomin chun which represents a united force standing for the rights of the people.
"Fatriotic Chinese who do not want to sell themselves into perpetual slavery, can not fail to be filled with a sense of righteous indignation as the unprovoked insult. As the national traitor, Tuan Chi Jui, and his henchmen, the Anfultes, were
anxious to buy. imperialistic favour in order to prolong their political life, they paid no regard to the people's demands on March 18th, but on the con- trary ruthlessly murdered unarmed stud- workers and plain citizens. The re was more than filty dead and hun- rege wounded.
a
ORGANIZED MURDER."
It was a case of organized murder, unexampled in the history of mankind. After this tragic incident occurred, Do further proof of the treachery of Tuan Chi Jui and his imperialistic backers is
necessary.
We derive several lessons from what took place in the fateful afternoon of March 18th. In the first place, it has to he recognized that the Anfu traitors and POLICE REPORTS.
militarists being instruments of the in- According to the report of Ho Liang perialistic Powers are the people's dead- Yu of the Detective Corps made on the ly enemy, with whom there can be no talk day after the firing, the students hurried of compromise. Unless they are totally out of the cast or the west gates.
annihilated, the people must continue to Again a policeman on duty Yin Wenight for the welfare of the country. Hai on the 18th, was standing at the Secondly, it is only a Nationalist cast gates when he heard the firing and Government, organized by the people and when the students rushed out he fall representing their interests on the one down due to the unexpected crush of hand, and assuring to them the rights of life and liberty on the other, that is people
truly desirable Government. As to governments organized by the imperialist simply organs of exploitation and are. Poworn through the militarists, they are therefore, opposed to every interest of the people
According to other reports, the first volley seemed to come from pistols."
"Two or three died outside the out gate and five or six inside it according to the report of Policeman Nieh Sen The rest fell around the east, entrance.
SHOT, IN THE BACK...
"We call upon the Chinese masses to rise and present a united front to over- "According to all the reports, the fir-throw the national traitor, Tuan Chi Jui fog took place just as the crowds tried With his fall, we shall proceed to con- to make their way out. The wounds of struct a Nationalist Government and the dead as well as those alive showed work for the abolition of unequal that the bullets came from the back, treaties.
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THREE BIDS IN ALL
The bid of 84,500,000 made by the Dollar interest, was the third made be- fore being accepted by the Shipping Board. This was an increase of 81,500,000 over the second bid. and at the time it was made a few weeks ago, it was un-
derstood that it would be accepted.
The second lid made by the Dollar pea- ple was 63,000,000, but the Shipping Board turned it down, not only on së- count of what they thought was a very 22 low bid, but due to the Dollar interests" refusal to comply with the Shipping "Board's stipulation, that the company put up a bond of $1,000,000 as a guar antee that they would maintain the ships in question on their present route, for five years. Although the cablegram re- ceived by Mr. Cavender did not state the terms of the sale, it is believed that the Dollar interests accepted the five year stipulation.
HINT AS TO FUTURE,
The sale of the five Admira)-Oriental liners to the Dollar interests now gives the latter monopoly on the American trans-Pacific passenger liner trade. A bitter fight to prevent the Dollar interesta from buying these liners, was waged by Senator Jones of Washington, who be hieved that the Dollar Line would buy" the liners, comply with the five year stipulation and then remove them from the Manila-Seattle run, owing to the heavy competition waged by British and Japanese interests.
Only one other bid was made for the five liners, 84,000,000 being offered by W. B. Keene, former vice-president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, who repre sented the corporation in Seattle.
WHERE OTHERS FAILED,
A group of Seattle business
men op- posed the sale of the fire shipa tó "the- Dollar interesta. Recently this group re. quested permission to operate the five Admiral-Oriental liners, according to the United Press. Several members of the Shipping Board supported this project, as the best way to avoid creating a monopoly of the trans-Pacific shipping in the hands of one company. This offer was considered on April 14th, but evid- ently the majority of the Shipping Board voted in favour of accepting the Dollar
The President Harding and the Pre zident Roosevelt are the only remaining liners of 35 type, now being operated by the United States Shipping Board These are on the trans-Atlantic run.1
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