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STATEMENT

CANTON'S CASE.

THE CAUSE OF THE BOYCOTT.

EVENTS OF JUNE 3 REVIEWED.

SIR J. JAMIESON'S LETTER AND HONGKONG'S: POLICY.

The following is the text of the statement of the Chinese case pre- sented by the Chiness Delegation at the second sitting of the Canton Conference on Friday, July 16th. This official report, which is issued – through Reuter's Agency, follows upon the lines forecasted in the Daily Prese. It was requested that the British delegates should reply to this general statement before matters of detail-were-discussed. The reply was made on Monday and although no official communiqué has yet been issued regarding it that reply presumably was accepted as satisfactory. Otherwise it would seem that the Conference could not have continued and as a matter of fact, it is still proceeding, according to general re- port, satisfactorily.

C.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY ATE, 1976

LABOUR.

CHIANG "KAI SHEK REPEATS HIS ORDERS.

STRICT INSTRUCTIONS TO THE

POLICE."

DEPARTURE FOR SHIUKWAN.

Kwangtung through you as their Foreign THE CONFERENCE AND Secretary that any attempt to penetrata on the Foreign Concession at Shameen will be resisted by force of arms, and that for the consequence the

the Government will be held individually and collectively responsaule." And he added that dus. precautions are, however, being taken to guard against acts of kaob violence, such as have occurred at Chinkiang, Kinkang. and Hankow, and should unfortunately they occur here, the blood of those who call upon crowd psychology to commit deeds of violence will be on their own head" It is plain that this is the lan- guage of one who, having envisaged the possibiuty, if not the certainty, of shed- ding the blood of Chinese on June 23rd 1995, would hardly be able to restrain armed and inflamed men under his orders from doing some bloodletting on the

letter as a frank avowal of the British Consul-General's intention to do what

In accordance with what are doubt-Lieut-Colonel Hilton-Johnson and other occasion. In other words we read the

witnesses at the Shanghai less the wishes of the British delegation, British

would have We propose to begin consideration of Judicial Enquiry SWOTS the anti-British trouble in the Liang taken place had Everson not ordered Kuang by first concentrating atten- firing into an unarmed crowd of stu- -tion-on-the-aspect-of-it-which-has-found dents and others.

expression in the anti-British boycott. What is this boycott? Igoring mere details or purely accidental features,

Owing to fighting in Canton which destroy enabled the Government to sundry rebel-elements and to unify the

[FROM OUR CHINTRE CORRESPONDENT. ↑

Belore Genera? Chiang Kai Shek.com- plated his arrangements for a tour of the Shiukwan and other North River districts in Kangtung yesterday, he renewed an order instructing the Canton Chief, of Police to prevent any interference by labour unions with the Canton-Hongkong conference now in progress for the settle meat of the boycott.

Reports from sources outside of the Everson had already done at Shanghai Kuomintang state that some misunder or (we say this in a purely historical standings have arisen between the com- see) General Dver at Amritsar, manders now in Shiukwan preparing for action based on tas doctrine of the pre-departure for Hunan, and that the pre- ventive massacre which specialista of sence of General Chiang Kai Shek there

consists essentially in Chinese workers province, the " repercussion of a strong and drastic netion are wont to is necessary to remove dissatisfaction

in our territory refusing to buy or deal in British goods; or to sell goods to the British. It is admitted that the boycott is an organised patriotic movement which has been sustained by the Chinese people in South China for more than a year.

THE CAUSE OF THE BOYCOTT. If the anti-British boycott is to be settled, and not simply suppressed by force and, so transform into an enduring element in Chinese British relations throughout Chins, it is necessary to find out, at least, its direct and immediate cause. In homely phrase, a malady is cured by treating its cause.

The anti-British boycott in its typical.

of June 23rd, 1925.

JUNE 23RD, 1925.

i

30th was not fully felt here before the middle of. June, when the real signi ficance and gravity of the occurrence began to be understood. In Peking and elsewhere there was already a realization that an event had taken place which was of the order of acts that create epochs in history. As Canton is the greatest Nationalist centre in the country, it is

advise as a magical operation with

Oriental" crowds.

THE BLOCKADE OF CANTON. While there can be no doubt that June 23rd is the direct and immediate cause of the anti-British boycott (and of the intensification and extension of the Hong- kong strike), it is certain that the prac- tical blockade which the Government of

over questions of precedence and power,

General Chiang Kai Shek, accompanied by a large staff, was to have left yester day for Shiukwan, but it is not believed that he will proceed to the Human front immediately. He has made no arrange- ments for an acting chairman of the Military Council of the Kuomintang of which he is the head. If he proposed to be away from Canton for any consider- able length of time, he would undoubtedly have appointed a substitute for this im- portant post

A trip to Shiukwan and return to Canton may be made within 14 hours, if necessary. Ordinarily there is only one train to and from Shiukwan daily.

It is necessary to take silver to Hunan dollars and gold and silver bullion and for the Northern Expedition and for this bank notes of every description in purpose aid from the native banks is re- amounts exceeding five dollars." This quired. prohibition became known in Canton within a few hours of the tragedy of June 23rd, and whatever may have been its actual purpose and afar it was then interpreted and continued so to be inte: preted as a financial and economic block ade of Canton and the rest of the province which had hitherto depended on Hong kong for supplies of rice and other food

As a consequence the Canton money market, inactive for some time, is now returning to its normal aspect. Besides sending silver to Hunan, the Canton.

providing $8,000,000 or more in specie for the silk centres near the city where payment for cocoons is usually made in cash.

also

Apart from the loan of $500,000 from the General Chamber of Commerce the other day, General Chiang Kei Shek bas now asked General Li Fuh Lin, officer commanding the 8th Army with head- quarters at Honam, to raise $200,000.

not strange that May 30th should be Hongkong instituted against Canton and envisaged from an uncompromisingly the rest of the province was a powerful Nationalist standpoint and soon to be pre-disposing and, later, continuing factor a decisive expression of the struggle be in the maintenance and enforcement of tween the body of economic and political the anti-British boycott. The Hongkong needs and ideas known as Chinese Governor in Council, it will be recalled, Nationalism, whose chief motive is the prohibited the exportation of "rice, form began immediately after the events achievement of real Chinese independ- flour, tinned or preserved foodstuffs, gold ence, and the opposing system" of ideas and silver coin in amounts exceeding five of June 23rd, 1925, of the Shameen and forces which, deriving their sanction And none with a sense of causation can from the long series of trestics dating possibly doubt that the boycott was the direct and immediate outcome of the from the transaction of Nanking in 1542,

is known as Foreign Imperialismo. killing and maiming of Chinese students

This interpretation of May 30th would and others on that fateful day. If naturally-and-expression here in the therefore, the anti-British boycott is to form of patriotic demonstrations and be termiated by a Frgotiated Bettlement, other popular manifestations. And it we must first deal with the transactions was the driving necessity to express the Nationalist mind and feeling on a pro- foundly poignant act of tragedy that Broadly speaking, the material facts Canton organized the memorable demon- of the case are not in real dispute save stration of June 23rd. It is indisput-stuffs. one, pamely- whether the British or the able that the procession, which was the Chinese fired the first shut. But even central feature of the demonstration, this point becale of secondary import-consisted largely of students and school- ance when the entire incident is examin. children and was entirely unarmed, save ed from the standpoint of judical res as to the Whampoa cadet section who ponsibility. Such an examination leads were in ordinary parade attire. us first to a brief review of what may' be called the casual background out of which sprang the tragedy of June 23rd.

It is an historical fact that the first shot is not a capital issue in view in the past, one of the main reasons was

of the actual circumstances of the case that the movement came immediately to mediate cause of the trouble, has issued Chinese people as a whole were power- fully stirred by Sergeant" Everson's and the grim results of the shooting. be envisaged as a means of effectiva order to his men "to shoot to kill" the Neyer in its history had Shameen been so completely and perfectly protected. Chinese students and others who demon- strated at Shanghai on May 30th, 1923. Separated by its wide canal and sand- In China, as elsewhere, school boys and bagged, barbwired, equipped and gar girls of to-day are the rulers and work-risoned by forces armed to the teeth and ers of to-morrow, and a nation is neces supported and covered by the great guns why the anti-British boycott has been so sarily interested in its student class. of the foreign warships in the harbour, long sustained. It is on record that my There is also a special reason why the Shameen was impregnable and absolutely Government made repeated attempts to safe-even-on the incredible assumption

have the question of June 3rd-settled. Chinese people are interested in their

that there were any real Chinese inton And in reply to one of these attempts, students. A nation that is not dying on to capture it. There was no such the then British Consul-General stated must have articulate groups and for reasons inherent in the present period intention and there could have been none, that his Government could not entertain and the results of the shooting proved it the demands formulated for a settlement of transition, through which China is

The British suffered hardly any casual passing, this mark and quality of „vitality in a nation is possessed by the ties, but 50 dead and core than 100 wounded Chinege demonstrated afresk Chinese students class. If China is to

SHAMEEN TMPREGNABLE. The question as to which side fired the

In a sense, it may be said that this Hongkong severance of economic rela- tions with Canton suggested the precise form in which patriotic retaliation for June 23rd should express itself. And i the anti-British boycott did pot soon follow the course of other apparently similar manifestations of popular, feeling

defence against what Chinese Nationalists were led to understand as a British at tempt, based on Hongkong, to starve and

doctrine and activity. crush Canton as the centre of Nationalist

But there is a more concrete reason

LABOUR UNIONS CONFLICT.

A conflict between the two dominant sections of the "workers" in Canton is still feared notwithstanding the precau tions taken by the Police to prevent it. Mr. Chan Sum, whose arrest was the im

a statement urging that the dispute be left to the Kuomintang authorities and

take the law into their own hands. The deploring any attempt on the part of his

Central Labour Union, it is said, have comrades in the Central Labour Union to

already-made provision for the payment of $500 to $2,000 to each worker wounded in struggles on behalf of the Union.

THE CONNAUGHT ROAD MURDER.

The case in which, a former office

of the question. These demands were FURTHER EVIDENCE YESTERDAY. conceived and formulated in the unusual circumstances immediately following the terms which my Government, sctuated by

live her students must continue to voice the meaning of a struggle between shooting of June 23rd, and they included the new economic political needs of the fortress and a crowd. All the relevant Transition until a new equilibrium is facts of the case support the view that, established between the Chiness people even if the Shameen firing were done in (which is categorically denied). It was

ey find themselves after three-quartera of a century of commercial, diplomatic and social intercourse with foreigners.

THE STUDENT CLASS.

boy" of the China Commercial Com- pany, admits Filling a fellow employee,

a sincere desire to arrive at a satisfaca mailing clerk, in a rear cubicle of the tory settlement, is prepared to review in first floor of the B.AT. Building, Con-

was continued at the Central Magistracy Commercial Company have their offices, yesterday afternoon, before Major C. Willson, when the man appeared in far- ther answer to the charge of murder pre ferred against him.

and the changed environment in which the first instance in so-called self-defence order that nothing incompatible with the naught Road Central; where the China

as a trading Power in China shall con- excessive and therefore legally unreal dignity and interest of Great Britain justified. That Shameen was, on Junetinue to obstruct the path of settlement 23rd, 1925, in the mood and temper to Before communicating these new terms act violently and excessively appears from of settlement, we wish to have the views This view of the Chinese student class the widely advertised letter written by of the British delegation on this presents explains the range and depth of the re- the then British Consul General on Junction and definition of the anti-British percussion of May 30th on the nation, and but actually received by Mr. Wu boycott issue. Along the great line of the Yangtae at Chao Chu, former Minister for Foreign Hankow, Kinking, Nanking--and in Affairs, about the hour of the actual the North, notably in Peking, significant shooting on Juna sard.

was seat

manifestations of national feeling and through the post, not delivered by

messenger.

a new consciousness occurred. Even to-day, more than a year after the event,

THE BRITISH CONSUL'S LETTER. the conception of Sergeant Everson's

After referring to a fantastic story of action on May 30th as a massacre per- aists in the Chinese Nationalist mind. certain students who had cast pts for And the sense of wrong engendered is the privilege of posing as martyrs all the greater now that the bloodless (which he himself had to suggest might handling of a far more dangerous crowd be the figment of a fertile imagination "), at Shanghai on the first anniversary of the British Consul-General went on to May both proves that Everson's action deflare that if, on the other hand, it wholly unnecessary as an applica have any solid foundation in fact and tion of the doctrine of the preventive should action of the kind be contem usssacre, .c., the prevention of the plated and take place, I have the Honour bigger massacre by the mob, which solemnly to warn the Government of

PROPERTY- SALE.

The opening of the case was reported in yesterday's Daily Press, and the evidence given yesterday afternoon-bore out the outline of the case given by Mr. 1. M Hazlerigg (Assistant Crown So licitor) the previous afternoon.

It was stated that blood was found ea clothing discovered on top of a cupboard,

At the China Auction Rooms, yesterday afternoon, an excellent price was realized for leasehold property, known as No. 6, New Prays, Kennedy Town, and the clothing being that usually work by situate upon the remaining portion of the prisoner as night attire. A wash Section B of Marine Lot No. 215, which smah also gave evidence to the effect that was sold by Mr. E. V. M. It de Scuse, she brought back some clothes from the by-order of the mortgagea

Wash, which was missed when a search There was an advance of no less than. $23,000 on the upset price which was was made, and part of which was subse- 850,000. Bedding progressed by stages of quently found at a pawnshop, and more 9500, and when the Sgurr of 873,000 was on the person and in the possession of reached, Mr. Fok Pak Yiu became the prisoner when he was arrested in Macao, purchaser.

The property has an area of 7,809% square feet or thereabouts, and the annual Crown rent is $87.47.

After heating other witnesses, Major Willson adjourned the case for further heuring on Tuesday afternoon.

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