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SHANGHAL

"THE GREAT CHINESE CITY."

WHAT THE “DAILY HERALD " ADVOCATES.

HANKÓW UNDER RED TYRANNY:

CHINESE EVACUATING.

RUIN AND WORTHLESS CURRENCY.

It is always well to know what

The following is a summary of "the other side" thinks and ad-information contained in a letter rocates on some matter on which from a correspondent at Hankow, one's mind is made up. ".

saya the Shanghal Mercury.

'On the 18th all the native banks,

The Socialist party in Great

TIENTSIN, April 16th. Your Hwaiking correspondent

report

the complete Britain, which forms the official threatened with rain by Communist : evacuation of the field of the Opposition in Parliament is now

financial regulations, closed their United Church of Canada in under a cloud, but it is well and have been for some time, and doors. All foreign banks are closed

know that its leading prese organ" North Honan. Never have we seen

urges the rendition to the Chinese, the Chinese of our part of Hanan

evidently as a more friendly to us, and conditions British city of Shanghai,

free gift; of the

for pressing on in our work could

Ignorance and prejudice can hardly have been more encourag-

exasperate, but when it reaches the heights of the following Daily Herald leader it has its amusing side.

ing. Still, we had received orders and felt that we had no alternative

but to obey..

The hardy, fur-capped me of the North had..come, and after á short tussle at the Yellow River bridge, had passed on into South

Honan. Before they arrived nasty rumours of unseemly behaviour preceded them, but it was soon found that they were much better disciplined and behaved than they had been given credit for. In fact, the focal Chinese had many kind remarks to make about them, Their predecessors had collected taxes on the land for four years in advance, while the late arrivale only pro peyed to tax once a year. Military exactions were negligible.

Our Socialist atutes':

have every appearance of continu- ing in that state until more settled

times.

Only Nationalist paper currency is available, exchange being fixed at the arbitrary rate of 81.60 to the tael, but it is absolutely worth- less, and has no bottom whatever,

Pickets line the Bund searching | contemporary all and sundry for silver currency which is seized in return for the valueless Red paper.

SHANGHAI.

One would have thought that the paper being printed is the Radical The only English-language news- one fact standing out so sharply People's Tribune, edited by aú from the Chinese situation that it American; rabidly anti-British and cannot be overlooked or miscon-pro-Bolshevist in everything it pul- ceived is this-that it is absolutely liahes. The Central China Post imperative for the diplomata to and the Hankow Herald are ap- get to work without a minute'a pearing. further delay.

as mimeographed "bro

chures.

Yet Sir Austen Chamberlain, to By all appearance the ships of whom the events. of the past week the China Merchants' fleet are should have been a new warning that getting no cargo whatever, it being. he is moving too slowly, now tells too risky to ship by them the House of Commons that with .Chinese passengers. evacuating The new army brought their own regard to the crucial problem of Hankow crowd these ships to the horse-carts and did not need to Shanghai he proposes to do nothing limit, finding accommodation where- commandeer those belonging to the at all. The excuse-that it is not over possible, even in the holds; people. Some badly behaved units" possible to negotiate fruitfully in removing all Attings on the decks of the Fengtienites created a good the present anarchical condition and rigging shelters on the sun deal of trouble for themselves and is the oldest and weakest of the

in the Honnnese on first crossing, stock replies or Toryism. When the border into North Honan, but there is order reform is unneeds the main array sooms to have been sary: when there is disorder it is under good control.

impossible... Local Red Spear men attempted in a few instances to make trouble

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This is sung for such quis bling. It is a time of tense danger. The Chinese massett unnatu rally-regard the foreign control of Shanghai as the greatest of all affronts to their nationality. They feel it as a continuous and almost

for the Northerners, but they soon found that they were not dealing with the old time rabble soldiery of former days, and a few whole- sume lessons were sufficient to teach them that their charms were intolerable provocation, They are

avail in dealing with modernly trained troops. We be- lieve the Fengtien troops will give a good account of themselves when the crucial test comes on joining battle with the main forces of the

Cantonese,

of Do

determined that it shall be ended And not only is there general ad. mission that they have right on their side, but there is general ad- mission that sooner or later, by one meaus or other, their view must prevail and the great Chinese city

be restored to the Chinese people.

The great thing is to get this

- Revival Of Business,

Under the new regime we were glad to note a decided revival of dene peacefully and by agreement business. A commercial traveller In faith that the Powers would be advised the writer that trade in willing to negotiate a settlement, the northern section of the Pro- vinee showed signs of revival, and conditions were briter than they had been for two years. Certainly the railways are being run better than they have been for many a day, and although the service on the Kin-Hun Railway is irregular, still it is regularly irregular. One can depend on a passenger train -Desborough, speaking for the Gov. up and down each day, and now erament in the House of Lords. that the Express is back on the There came a chorus of anger from

line, it looks like a return to old times. While far from what we wore accustomed to ten years ago, still we must remember that we

the Chinese have agreed that there shall be no forcible attempt at seizure. But that pledge was given because-and only because it was understood that an arrangement similar to that made at Hankow could be negotiated at Shanghai.

So recently as last week that impression was confirmed by Lord

decka, taking off life-boat covers

and establishing themselves and their belongings in the boats.

ISAKO'S

EUROPEAN CIRCUS

REOPENING SHORTLY

KOWLOON

HUNGHOM

(Opposite Hunghom Railway Bridge.)

Broader, Bigger & Better.

NEW BALLET, NEW TRAINED

HORSE ACTS, NEW ARTISTS.

Watch these columns for

OPENING NIGHT

The fire and capsizing of the San Which will be announced shortly.

Peh, with huge loss of life, was probably a direct result of such haphazard methods: The Kingshin

on

arrival was awful to 500, carrying a dangerous list and re- quiring very little more to make

her turn turtle.

The Chinese merchants are ship- ping all their cargo where possible by the CN.C. boats, over sixty lighters being now alongside the 8.8. hangps, which leaves with a cargo of 36,000 picule.

The British Consulate is housed

aboard the as. Siangtan, and the Customs are operating from the .s.

Luenho,

Matters remain as they were on January 5th, or worse if anything, and there can be no improvement while the Bolshevists are here.

The workers are afraid that the Standard Oil Co. and the B.A.T will close down. It is a sight to see the discharging and loading of ships, hundreds of coolies fighting like devils to carry a package. The poor beggars want to work, but the fat, lazy armed pickets will not permit them to work too much. A weekly strike in the brder of things

FILIPINO RECRUITS FOR CANTONESE ARMY.

the Junkers of Shanghai. And to WILL LOSE U.S. NATIONALITY their anger Sir Austen has yield-

ed.

He has banged and barred the

Filipinos or Americans who accept sommisions in the Cantonese Army are able to the loss of their dutööritica interviewed on Satur- day of last week by the ' Manila

are in the midst of a big war. door upon negotiation for the rexenship, according to legal When we reached Poking and toration of Shanghai The effect boarded the Ching-Feng train, woof that announcement in China canines. This was brought out in were amazed to note the spick-and-scarcely fail to be deplorable. It connection with recent reports that span condition of their rolling plays at once into the hands of the stock Instead of sitting on the extremists, who want to try to take bundles in a third class dirty, win- the Settlement by force. They can dowless, packed like sardine-in-a-now argue that there is no other barrel car, we had the choice of way. travelling first, second or third class..

For any ill-results which may fellow Bir Austen will bear no small pressure of responsibility:

kumant

were being recruited in Maniis far Filipinos with hulitary experience Chiang, Kai Shek's forces. It ap poach that the rule is similar to that in the case of American who ex- Hsted in the recent Morrocan calm- paign or in the Mexican bandit troubles-of-1018 At that time it was held that Americans who took up' Arme against a nation friendly to the United States would lose their national rights.

Since the Northern ForoasTM 'In. China are still dojally recognized the United States, enlistment of American objects in the opposing forces would be contrary to the friendly relations between the two Governmente.

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