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THE TRADE POSITION IN ÇANTON.

DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BRITISH VESSELS.

INTIMIDATION BY CERTAIN LABOUR ELEMENTS.

MARKED IMPROVEMENT IN SWATOW.

For some days past there has been obvious discrimination against British vessels in Canton and matters came to a head yesterday wher there was practically open intimidation of passengers on the bond and cargo coolies definitely refused to handle cargo intended for British boats. The result was that the Tung Du came down with a full passenger list and about 350 tons of cargo whilst the Fatshan carried little more than 100 passengers and no cargo outside of the usual produce.

There is no boycott in the accepted sense of the term. That seems to hieve been definitely, established. The shippers and merchants are quite willing to send goods by British baits. The trouble has arisen over 4 private "hate" of some kind. The fact remains that a number of men, believed to be members of the Seamen's Union, have stationed them- selves on the Bund and have advised" intending passengers not to travel on the boats of the Honkong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Company. It is stated that they have even gone so far as to have placards priated pointing out the pains and penalties people will suffer if they travel to Hongkong en any but Chinese steamers.

There is nothing "official" abo it these netions. They ate entirely unautEorised and are due to some, at the moment, unknown grievance which this particular setion of the labour party is harbouring against. the British companies. It may, therefore, reasonably be aupposed that the trouble will not be of long duration. The general trade "atinosphere" in Canton is steadily improving and terpt for this local hold up" of traffic the prospects are distinctly encouraging.

IN SWATOW.

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Good news also comes trom Swatyw. Our correspondent, writing on Tuesday, says ---

Yesterday there was a decided change for the better. Boat- men, fightermen, stevedores and others announced their intention to handle any, and all British sulps and cargo. Merchants also appear to have shed some of taer fright and small quantities move into the market. What produced this sudden change nobody knows and as the desired end has been attained it is, perhaps, "scarcely worth while, to enquire.

THE "TUNG ON."

The Tang On has been bringing "so many passengers to Hongkong recently, that apparently the Police Authorities became suspicious that she carried a number in excess of that allowed, by her 'licencia. At any rate the stenmgr was stopped yesterday afternoon and investigations were nade. As far as is known everything was found to be in order. The Tung is licensed to carry 10 passengers and yesterday, according to report, there were 933 on board.

BUREAU OF INQUISI

TION.

ITS DECLARED OBJECT.

THE RUMOURS REGARDING CHIANG KAI SHEK. --

COMPLAINT FROM SAIGON RICE MERCHANTS..

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.]

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"The Kuomintang Ministry of Finance has just created a Bureau of Inquisition

to work under the immediate" supervision of the Minister, Mr. T. V. Soong.

This Bureau has been organised with the ostensible purpose of preventing smuggling but its real object, it is thought, is to keep watch upon 24 anti- Red" movements and to stop arms and anti-Red documente from being taken

into Canton.

The Bureau will establish stations at Canton and in the vicinity. It has a corps of secret service men and searchers who will be on duty at Canton, Honam, Taichab, Sumchun, Bocca Tigris, and other ports. Persons searched or ques- tioned and found to be "suspect" may be held for further examination, Goods "Unaccompanied by the proper permits or invoices, or suspected of being contra- band, will also be detained.

Kuomintang leaders deay that the Bureau is the Strike Committee and the

THE HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 291, 1926

The Kuomintang militarists at Bocca

CANTON NEWS.

KWANGTUNG ARSENAL CLOSED.

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.)

For some reascas still unexplained, the authorities of the Kwangtung Arsenal at Shekcheng, near Canton, suddenly on October 26th paid off their workers, giving no cause whatever for so doing. The authorities were able to do this without opposition from the workers by taking advantage of a holi day the day before when all workers left the plant and the authorities simply closed down the gates entering the Arsenal. Some the former employees, who knew that they would be dismissed permanently, are said to be trying to force the Kuomintang for an explana. tion.

-For some time, it is said, the workers have become unruly; and as they are not easily replaced, on account of their technical knowledge, the authorities have had to be exceedingly patient. Their in- tention to reorganize the personnel might have something to do with the sudden action of the "Arsenal authorities. So far there is no political or military ac tion involved; and, if there is any, it is not generally known.

From further reports regarding the dis- charge of nearly 2,000 full-time men and many more part-time from Kwangtung Arsenal at Shekeheng, the third largest in China," it seems that a certain section

CORRESPONDENCE.

SIR HENRY POLLOCK'S SPEECH.

[TO THE EDITOR' or thr

DAILY PRES3"]

KONGKONG

Heary Pollock, FC, on Young China 51,-The recent utterances of Sir evoke explanation and comment His remarks may be conveniently gathered respect to the elders, trained men not under four headings, vis, the lack of employed for government service, the Bolshevik scare, and the revival of the old civilisation.

Anyone who keeps in constant touch with events in China-as district fram those who stay in Hongkong all the time and gather information either by imm agination or through propaganda sources will agree that the statement. by Sir Henry Follock on the lack of reverence to age by the younger generation is far from the fact. Respect of elders has been. such an established custom in China-that this idea cannot be any more eradicated than the Japanese loyalty and submis

ton to the Mikado. Countless numbers of parents will bear testimoney con tradicting the view of Sir Henry.

He deplored that trained men are not employed by the Chinese government, This goes to show his ignorance of the true station. In Canton, high govern ment officials. are mostly able TICA especially trained and fitted for their respective positions.

The spectre of Boshevism in Kwang- tung is no more than a farce. Such doctrines as free love" "free every thing" may have been academically dia- cussed in Canton, which is unjustifiably of the workers threatened to strike but reputed to be the red centre of China, that the authorities took action in ad-but few are impressed by their practica- bility or utility. The Nationalist Gov- erament, so often charged with being red, never champions Bolshevik ideas, and its reccnt policies embody inter alía compulsory education and legal equality for women as well as for men,

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It is said that General Li, who closed the Arsenal, later issued a formal order saying that present cost of materials did not warrant the utilization of the plant. Moreover, the Army is oow able to be supplied with arms and ammunitions from other sources,

An Amazon" Army Mooted. Mrs. Lino Chung Hoi, widow of the late Kuomintang Labour Division Chief, is planning to organize an Amazon Army ia Canton and it is said that M. Borodin, Soviet High Commissioner to to South China, has approved of this moje. Mrs. Liao, it is reported, will first organize a. school of cadets in order to train leaders for this Amazon Divi- sion. Mrs. Liao Chung Hoi is at present a high Kuomintang oficial, Chief of the Wonien's Division, an office intended at first for Madame Sun Yat Sen, widow of the late Kuomintang. Chief.

Former Strike Committee Members Arrested,

Numerous complaints to the Kuomin- tang Headquarters in Canton have led to the arrest of several former Strike Committee members, who are being ne cused of misappropriation of strike main tenance funds. Details of the charges

Sir Henry went on to suggest to attain new civilization Young China must build up on the old civilisafica " and must reatore the old order of thing." He further advised that Young China must not be ready to break away from the past." Our critic should have been better advised before broad- casting his sweeping views The old civilisation was most suitable a thousand years ago when China was a country by herself and had no international dealings with the outside world. But when she broke off her traditional isolation, upon force of the foreign Powers, her ancient civilisation proved obsolete and inade- quate to meet the new situation. Many of the moral concepts of Confucius and Mencius, such as the encouragement of large families are responsible for the present choatic conditions to-day. China is over populated with teeming millions because of the teaching of these so-called sages, and the people are obliged to be avaricious because they have so many to support.

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BOYCOTTING OF BRITISH VESSEL.

"TAISHAN" FAILS TO DISCHARGE CARGO.

"great

THE LESSONS OF THE COAL STRIKE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE "HONGKONG DAILY PEESS"} :

The Kuomintang is not going to leave Some 100 to 400 ex-service men belong the work of relief for strikers to the Strike Committee only. It has appoint ing to the recently dissolved Inspectanged a special commission to take care of tion, which Sir Henry admires, is Corps of the Kuomintang Financial"

The commission is com admittedly unsuitable with tariff re-. Ministry in Canton are, according to the this matter. Aung Sheung Pau, Bling complaints with posed of Dr. Lin Tze Fang, Superinten-strictions, concessions, extraterritoriality, dent of Cantor Customs; Mr.-Ko Sheng etc., under present conditions, China the Board of Indictments against Mr. Yuen, a secretary of the Foreign Office; should adopt what is best in the new T. V. Soong, Kuomintang Financial Mr. Fung Cook Po, chief secretary of the using it as a stepping stone to Minister, and Mr. Tong Ho: Un, Chief Knomintang Labour Division; Colonel and orious destiny.Yours, etc., Inspector of the Corps, alleging that

W. F. K. some $200,000 to $300,000 due to them Chiu Chao, of the General Headquarters;

and Mr. Soo Shiu Ching, Chairman of Hongkong, October 28th, 1926. from commissions en Enes impored or

never been the Strike Committee. gooda confiscated have paid.

The Militia Bureau of the Kuomintang- General Headquarters in Canton, now controlling the organization of village volunteers in Kwangtung, will, it is fear- ed, come under the influence of the extremists in the Kuomintang. Moder

Sta-proper your leader in to-day'a ate members of the Kuomintang as well

issue re the awakening of the British as anti-Reds" are tying to prevent this. The moderate elements in the Kuomin-

FEW PASSENGERS.

public to the fact that strikes, like wars, being destructive, can bring only ruin tang, believe that hurm enough has al

The .. Taishan arrived from Canton and loss and never profit, it is surely ready been done owing to Communists

getting hold" of the farmers who have last night at 11 p.m., coa and a half a sad commentary on man's boasted now organized pensants or farmers' corps hours after her scheduled time. Prior to powers as a rational being that he is under the auspices of the Farmers' her arrival it was antisipated that her still unable to arrive at conclusions by League, officially a part of the "Kuomin- lateness was owing to her being heavily a process of pure reasoning-that after tang but actually under the Communists loaded with cargo. This hope was, how all these acons in the history of the Division Conflicts between village volun. ever, shattered when at last she came in. race he is capable of learning by ez- She was certainly heavily loaded, but perience only, thus showing, according teers and peasants' corps, like the con- flicts between rival labout unions in the cargo she carried was that which to the proverb, that the classification Canton City, have been frequent in the she had taken up to Canton earlier in the net, a sad misnomerie need inland districts for some time.

the day. Except for discharging some Another. Inet, to which the public fertilising material for Messrs. Brunner, awakening, and which might profitably Mond & Co., none of the other cargo was be made the subject of daily editorials throughout the world, is that slacking, taken off.

This was owing to the fact, thanks to being a specics of striking, is equally the work of the "usofficial" pickets, injurious to the prosperity and welfare that no coolics would handle the cargo of nations and peoples as a whole.

The giving of a chilling's worth of Outside the gates near the wharf a crowd of men was in continual attendance, work for a pound of wages, so con and their presence sufficed to frightenspicuous at home during the early post- away any coolies who would have liked to war years, was as much responsible for have discharged the cargo. Even the the subsequent unemployment salt fish was not taken off. The cargo other single factorent and which had to be brought back included Miracles don't happen now-a-days, and steel bars, wire and miscellaneous Late- all uneconomic output even on the part rials. The only cargo which was brought of non-direct producera. has to be paid to Hongkong were some 3,000 parcels of for by the public in rates, taxes and matting, and some fresh vegetables. increased cost of living-all tending to- The vessel brought down only 147 wards a "de without policy on the Chinese passengers, and these had diffi-pact of consumers and employers. The Kuomintang comrades in Bangkok, culty in getting de board. They did so evil of alacking is in a sort of geome Siam, have complained to their headquar- by means of sampans, and had to keeptrical ratio to its extent. If, say, "house- "It is interesting to put on record bowters at Canton that the Siamese authori-smart look-out. Some of the more painting-is-doubled in cost, four or six

ties are forbidding members of the courageous made a run for it, and some times as many people will do without," Kuomintang to display their red flag succeeded in reaching their objective. and carry on as they are for another The Kuomintang will refer the complaint A European passenger on the boat year, or two or three or ten years, and to the Canton Foreign Office.

stated that one Chinese was making his so unemployment goes up by leaps and The constabulary in villages around way to the vessel when he was seized by bounds. Esteban dofied a Kuomintang mandate nomices, Mr. Li Chang, Tat, although the other day by taking a minor Kuomin- one with his fist, but was then hemmed a number of men. He forthwith floored very unpopular still remains in office as tang leader, Ng Kwan Yi, into custody in, and as he was being dragged away Chief of Police. Mr. Li, however, al-without first obtaining permission from he was seen to be badly mauled. This the party beadquarters. Village authori was only one instance of how intended though he remains in office, has been ties are said to have decided on a com- passengers, who were unfortunate enough divested of a good deal of power through men policy to arrest all alleged culprits the appointment of a deputy Chief of whether members of the Kuomintang or Police and a Chief Clerk who are not his not and to investigate the charges after- wards. Kuomintang leaders are claiming | exemption from arrest.

Kuomintang Shipping Bureau combined under a new naine, but nevertheless the organisation has been the subject of much unfavourable comment.

Again, there is a suspicion that the militarists in Canton are not wholly loyalTM to the few civilians, now in power. the suggestion has been made that, the Bureau will provide protection for these civilians in case of need The Preventiva Service Corps, fully armed, it is pointed out, can be altilised for purposes of defence when necessary.

Chiang Kai Shek.

the Chinese regard the rumours of the death of General Chiang Kai Shek. They say General Chiang may be wounded but that he cannot be dead because his

own men

The Hsueh Yi Sha, or Industrial Union of Shanghai, said to be a group of "Chinese Third Internationals," have been invited by the Kuomintang Confer ence in Canton to hold the next meeting in the Southern Capital. . Borodin is advising the appropriation of $1,000 for.

reception in their honour.

Rice Shipments.

The refusal of lightermen in Canton Harbour to unload steamers while they are at variance with their employers over wages has drawn a protest from rice mer chants in Saigon, who have wired to Canton asking for an early settlement of the difference so that there shall be no further interfere with rice shipments from

that port.

to be caught, were treated.

Such an event, wholly in contraven tion of the promises of the Carton Government, seems forcibly to prove that the boycott still exists.

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