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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS,

CANTON CONFERENCE. PRESTIGE AND FACE."

GENERAL CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S

HOPE,

THAT IT WILL BE CONCLUDED WITHIN A WEEK.

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The Colonial Secretariat, acting under instructions from H.E. The Governor, announced yesterday that Mr. Ku Mang Yu had been appointed as one the Canton Delegates in place of Mr. Chan Kung Pok; that the conference opened at noon on Thursday when only formal business was transacted and would be resumed on Friday, It is understood that Mr. Ku Mang Yu, who was formerly Dean of the Peking liniversity is a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang.

A week or more ago, when our Chinese correspondent reported the resignation c7 Mr. Chan Kung Roz from the Depart

ment of Agriculture and Labour, doubr

NO BAR TO BOYCOTT SETTLEMENT.

MB. EUGENE CHEN'S WELCOME" TO DELEGATES.

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HIS OPENING SPEECH.

TARIFF CONFERENCE...

CANTON'S VIEWS.

PROTEST AGAINST ITS RESUMPTION.

MR. EUGENE CHEN'S LETTER TO AMERICAN CONSUL

SATURDAY, JULY 17TH, 1926

DES-VOEUX ROAD TRAGEDY.

FATAL WOUNDING OF A SUSPECT.

· DETECTIVE JUSTIFIED IN FIRING.

VERDICT AT ENQUIRY.

The enquiry into the death of a Mr. Eugene Chen, Acting Minister for Chinese, suspected of being a person of The following communiqué, joiatir Foreign Afairs, has authorised the pub bad character, who was shot by a Chinese plain clothes when be ran issued by the Chinese and British Dele-lication of the following note, which was constable in

General for transmission to the American at the Canff Magitrady yesterday, gations who are dealing with the question addressed to the American Consul-away in Des Your Road, was concluded. of the settlement of the boycott in Miniat Peking. Identical notes have before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, sitting as

dressed to representatives of the Coroner, with a jury. Canton, came to hand, through Reuter's been

other terested Powers: Agency, last evening.

"The negotiations for the settlement of the anti-British boycott and Cantop Hongkong questions opened at noon on Thursday, at the Canton Foreign Ofice. All the members of the Chinese and the British Delegations were present. Eugene Chen, Acting Minister for For- eign Affairs, who is head of the Chinese delegation, opened the proceedings with the following speech:-

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DETECTIVE'S STORY.

In the witness-bor the Chinese detec-

At the conclusion of the evidence, r Lindsell extensively reviewed the point CANTON, 14th July, 1926.

of law, dealing with the special circum- SIR-I have the honour to request you stances, in which the use of firearms may to communicate to the American Minister be resorted to by the police, in effect- at Peking the protest of my Governmenting the arrest of a runaway suspect against the resumption of the Special Mr. Tarif Conference which was lately tive in question said that on the night Chinese delegation. We are definitely plain clothes. He turned down a side suspended owing to the dispersal of the in question he was in Queen's Road in street near the Central Market and, look and reliably informed that, agenta of ing around, he saw three men coming Wa Fei Fu and Chang Teo Lin ate now down the steps behind him. Their more and they also seemed to stare at him. negotiating with the American and the ments appeared to him to be suspicious other foreign delegates for the immediats He approached them and said he wanted re-opening of the Conference.

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In formally opening these negotiations to-day, said Mr. Chen, we wish to extend to the British representatives a friendly welcome from our Government. We wish also to express the desire of those in posed the Conference because it involves whose name we are authorised to speak the consideration of issues which only a Central Government, representative

was expressed whether he would be able that the question which we are charged and competent to speak and act in the leg. The detective then drew his revolver

to resolve may be approached in a sense to take part in the Conference. Mr. Chan and in". spirit of realism and of deter- Kung Pok is now acting as a staff officer mination to secure its settlement on terms which, while assuring to British nationals to General Chiang Kai Shek and is fully in the Liang Kwang a friendly and occupied with military duties. Mr. Ku prostable market for their goods and services, shall enable, the Chinese people Mang Yu is also a member of the special as represented by our Government to go on, unhindered, with the work of unify Censorship Commission which has re- ing and modernising China and, on this cantly been appointed by the Kuomintang new basis, to strive to build a great structure of relations with the outer CHANGES IN CHINA

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to search them. He seized one of them, the other two walking on. The man he This man raised his left leg and reached thing. Witness ran his hand down the his hand down as if to take out come man and felt a lump in the man's trouser

of the Chinese Nation, and told the man to keep his hands up, there was some light. From the man's negotiate in conference with the official and took him to Queen's Road; where representatives of the American and left sock witness extracted a dagger.

A STERN CHASE. other interested Governments. Tuan Chi Jai's administration, admittedly, Was As he did so, the man bolted, leaving not such a government, nor do the pre- bis coat behind. Witness chased him sent servitors of Wu and Chang con- down Jubilee Street, blew his whistle stitute the type of governing body which and called upon him to stop. The run- America and the Powers (assuming that away failed to do so, and witness fred considerations of political realism and one shot low when the fugitive was about international morality and decency still seven yards ahead of him. When the rule high, foreign policies) aan meet and mean was a little further ahead, witness treat with as a modern government. fired a second shot, again aiming for his Our Chinese Correspondent writes that

It is manifest that striking and real

None is so blind as to fail to see that legs. The rlaaway,turned in Des Vœux so far the Carton Foreign Ofice have not changes are taking place in this country, the present phantom government in Road and ran towards the Central Mar- issued any statement regarding the coa socially, economically and politically. Peking is a creation of a brace of ket. He was getting further away from the man, who ference, but he says the feeling in Canton These changes, generally, are a necessary mediaeval militarists and a bunch of witness, who then fred a thirdshot,

consequence of the structural readjust Mandarin states boys and states-coolies which still failed to stop ia optimistic.

ment or new equilibrium which is in whose obvious purpose is to grab the kept on running.

FUGITIVE DROPS. According to a Kuomintang Press re- process of establishment, consciously as proceeds of whatever tariff doles and

unconsciously, between the loans that America and the other Powers. The detective said he then fired o port General Chiang Kai Shek has ex-well pressed the hope that the Conference Chinese people organised as: accial may be willing to grant in order to main- fourth shot, and the fugitive collapsed will be able to conclude its sittings / 48gregate and the new-conditions of tain a status que that conflicts with between Jubilee. Street. And Queen Vic- within a week so that he may be enabled inclusion in the large system of the every vital interest of Nationalist Chinatoria Street. When the last shot was

"it Canton,

to complete his plans for a visit to the Kwangtung-Husan borders.

confiscated.

enemy

BANDITS ACTIVE. Bandits operating around Fungtsen on the West River, according to reports reaching Canton, have looted more than 70 villages and destroyed hundreds of homes within the past fortnight. A great any people have been killed or kid- napped The Kuomintang are. asking the 4th Army Corps to detail troops for this 'district.

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Is that all you can say -Probably he was going to stab someone or do some thing of that kind

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Did it not occur to you that he might Mr. T. H. King (Director of Criminal be an armed robbert-Yes, F-did think so. Inteligence) pointed out that the detec tire was not actually on duty at the time of the incident. He was due for duty at midnight, and was simply walking around. Mr. Lindsell: That does not make any difference. A policeman is, always on LAW REVIEWED.

duty.

Any payment of tarif moneys to red, the man was about 17-16 yards Wu Pei Fu and Chang Tso Lin mustahead of the detective. necessarily mean that America and the Lindsell. Do you think you could. NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE.

other interested Powers-through the have caught him if you had not fired?— Whether these changes are good or bad machinery of the unified, British-con- The detective: No.

Mr. Lindsell: And, you say you fired PICKETS CAPTURE VESSEL.

for the Chinese people is mainly a ques- trolled Chinese Maritime Customs will The Strike pickets on July 13th caption for them to decide if they are truly be (a) paying national revenues collected all four shots at his legs 1-Yes. tured-a-small vessel in Canton harbour, to be regarded and treated as an inde throughout the whole of Chias to two Did you fire to stop him, or to kill alleging that she was carrying contra pendent-nation and not, as a people lit transient usurpers of detached pieces of him to stop hi

and suited for the exercise of inter Chinese territory, and (b) subsidising When you found the dagger on him band and had come from “

national tutelage. At any rate it is a these two militarists to continue the pro-what did you suspect -I suspected that territory. It was subsequently discovered fundamental thesis of the Chinese secution of civil war against the Kuo- he was a man of bad character. that the bont had on board 12 cases of Nationalist Movement-which is the minchun and Canton who are the two greatest of the forces underlying and modern arms of Nationalist China, and Kwangi banknotes and chemicals suited sustaining the new equilibrium-that the thus assist militarism to dominate and to the manufacture of ammunition. Theme has come when the Chinese people flourish in China. And specifically it strike committee announce that unless must be free to work out their own aniva will mean that America and the other tion. And though most of the country is Powers will be collecting the increased proof is forthcoming from the local unhappily to-day under the demination Customs revenues of Canton and band authorities these goods were intended for of leaders, mediaeval and therefore re over the same to the mediaeval Wu and the Kwangsi Kuomintang, they will be actionary in their outlook and methods, the ex-bandit Chang in order to enable the dinamic section of the Nation as them the better to fight and attempt to represented by the intelligentsia, the destroy the greatest centre of Chinese students, the workers, the new agrarian Nationalist thought and activity, which and industrial and commercial groups-is Canton.

In his review of the evidence and in the classes definitely thrown up as poli-I have to add that any loan or loans to tical forces by the post-war factors in bo contracted by the agents of Wu and operation in our midst-aro with the Chang on the security of the promised his directions to the jury the Coroner Nationalist Government at Canton in its surtaxes shall not be recognised by the said that he saw no reason to doubt the assertion of this-right_to_national_inde Nationalist Government, And I have evidence of the constable. It was cor the honour deliberately to warn America roborated, the Coroner went on to say, and the other interested governments in all material particulars by other evi pendence.

One very strong corroborative that Chinese repudiation of any such dence, loan or loans may conceivably create a point was evidence regarding the charac- Whatever may be the immediate course situation rendering it imperative for the ter of the deceased. It was that no-000- of events in China, it is certain that principle of repudiation to be extended had come forward to identify him. With the torch lit by the Chinese Nationalist to other loans contracted in the interests regard to law, the jury must realise that firearms, even by its guardians, the PICKÉTS AND POLICE.

Movement shall never be extinguished, of reaction and militarists and man- the law was very jealous of the use of

police. On July 19th the Canton Police again and it must therefore be recognised na darin exploitation and plunder.

an enduring reality in the internal and issued their order forbidding labour international politics of this country. In unions to arm their pickets so that the these circumstances what should be the danger of faction fighta might be mini attitude of a country like England

vis-a-vis this New. China. mised. On the same evening there was people who insist that what England has, trouble in the tooth brush labour guild England must hold in China at all costs. This is what may be called the die-hard and avveral men-are-reported killed,,

postures-and-the past and all vital er- ÁRMY DISPATCH BOAT LOOTED, perience show that it makes for resistance to change, for friction and strife and The Chong Fook, the launch plying ultimately for war. And war, it is ad between Whampos and Canton and used mitted, is never a real solution in moderm as a dispatch boat of the General Head-conditions. quarters of the Kuomintang, was pirated A NEW VIEW OF THE CHINESE a few days ago whilst at anchor near the Bund. The authorities were greatly in. censed over the fact that the pirates bad the "nerve to loot the property of the highest command in the Kuomintang

Ariny.

STRIKES.

Failing to receive an increase in wages from their employers, the Chinese dock yard workers at Wanchal, Heungshan, have walked out." It is feared that the masons, carpenters, matshed builders, wood cutters and others will join in

de up trade; sympathetic strike and

CANTON-KOWLOON RAILWAY.

WHAT SHOULD BE ENGLAND'S ATTITUDE

BACKGROUND

There are

I have etc., etcy étt

(Sgd.) CHEN YU JEN, Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs. Honourable Douglas Jenkins, American Consul-General,

Shameen.

they do when they go to other indepen- dent states-Nationalist China and the Nationalist Government as its instrument of power and achievement need not neces

sarily be a danger to British nationals in this country.

"AN AUGURY.

If this view of the matter be sound, then mere considerations of prestige and Opposed to this attitude which is root what is known as face.ught not to ed in a past of dead and dying condi- be allowed to bar the road to a practice tions, is the conception of a changing settlement of what is in truth one of China with new emerging classes of the practical questions oft times posed by political workers who are conscious of the ironic spirit in history to search out the inherent strength and incalculable patience, his goodwill and his possibilities of Chinese resources and good sense." Chinese man-power under efective or- ganisation. Such a conception demands, as a practical corollary on the part of friendly Powers, a new view of the to establish Sino-alien relations not on Chinese background and a new policy the old historic basis of treating China as a war-defeated nation of the period of 1842, but on the principle of equality whisk to-day underlies the relations of the smallest and graviomboy of the world-system of independent states and sovereignties.

PRESTIGE AND "FACE." Mr. George Bow, a graduate of the

We believe that this statement of what University of Vermont in America, ands called the Chinese Question is not lá for many years on the staff of Dr. Sun fundamental opposition, to the real in Yat Sen, has been recommended by Mr. terests of any genuinely trading Power Sun Fo for the post of managing director in China. And, therefore, if the British of the Chinese section of the Canton are here genuinely to trade solely to sell their goods and to buy our goods as (Contanded on next Golumn); Kowloon Railway.

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But under, certain circumstances, which ↑ they were considering in this case, the constable would be justified in firing st a man whom he suspected of committing & felony. If the jury believed the con-- stable's story of the dagger which was” found in the dead man's sock, then it was not an unreasonable assumption that the man was a felon and had committed same felony. Although the police had not been able to prove that a felony had been committed, the finding of the dagger by the constable gave rise to auch a sus

picion.

Continuing, the Coroner said: "If the constable had reasonable suspicions that the man had committed a felony, and,

I have already stated, having this agger, it certainly is good cause for this suspicion.

Then if the constable was unable to

ther, in so firing he killed the man, then arrest him by any other means, he was justified in firing to stop him. II, fur the killing was in law justifiable. TWO POINTS... Bo I have to ads you, gentlemen of the jury, to consider two points:

"It is interesting to note that while Mr.The first is, had the constable in the Eugene Chen was welcoming the British pursuit reasonable cause to suspect the delegates at Canton, B.E. the Governor deceased had committed a felony, and effected the arrest by any other means entertaining two Chinese Admirals the second point is, if so, could be have Rear Admirat C.-L. Chen, in command short of firing at Mountain Lodge.

the Hai Yung the flag-ship of the If you believe the detective's story, arat squadron of the Chase volgende daeth esivalivada the degger nextzin

now in the Hongkong Harbour, and means a reasonable cause for suspicion Rear Admiral . C. Han, Director of the that fate has bean, committed.** Chinese Coast Guard Administration, Having noted the two points dealt with were both present at His Excellency's by the Coroner, the jury retired and after a brief absence returned with their ver- garden party on Thursday afternoon.

THE VERDIOT. Z

The Foreman of the Jury: Our answer Our

There these Chinese officers had the op, dict. portunity of meeting the officers of the Japanese training ships and other high Japanese oficialay now passing through to the first question is Yes." Hongkong on their way to Europe answer to the second question is " No.7

The Coroner. On this answer. 1 record A very pleasant afternoon was passed 1.by all present.

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