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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 1927.

LI FOOK LAM RETAKES CANTON FROM REDS.

INSURGENT FORCES IN RETREAT

NORTHWARD.

SCENES OF LOOT. AND RAPINE.

PROCLAMATIONS OF THE SHADOW SOVIET."

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REDS AMBUSHED AT WEST GATE.

After three days of hard lighting the Kwangtung troopa recsp. tured Canton yesterday afternoon. The Red troops-havs withdrawa to the Worth of the City.

city.

According to the latest reports all is now quiet in the stricken

Following the capture of the Oity Ohang Fat Ful and other leading generals issued a proclamation asking for popular support in suppressing the Reds. They apologised for their "short sighted- ness in letting the Reds get control of the City.

Undoubtedly the hero of the struggle has been General Li Fuk Lam, who launched an attack from his own district of Honam. He had received considerable reinforcements from the Districts and with him wore Generals Chang Fat Ful and other leading militarists.

HAVOC IN CANTON.

Three areas of the City alone report the destruction of more than a thousand shops and houses,

Terrible scrues appear to have been enacted during the struggle.. and horrible atrocities were evidently committed by the Reds, and still more by banda of marauders out to loot all they could get hold of. Many women were outraged.

Refugees poured into Hong Kong earlier in the day and had terrible stories to tell of the estastrophe...

Our Chinese correspondent discounts the Kun Mia report of a big landing of Russian officers and quantities of ammunition. The so-called "Soviet " Government consisted merely of a handful of self-appointed agitators, who were only to a minor degree direct-. ing the insurgents. The origins of the outbreak remain obscure, but probably this will see the final crushing of the forces of dis- order that have for years tyrannised Canton,

HOW THE CITY WAS RETAKEN.

traOM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.

"Reds

The

The Kwangtung troops, acting from temporary headquarters at Honam regained complete control of the greater section of Canton City yesterday afternoon.

retreated towards the villages in the north of the City.

Upon the recaptare of Canton City from the Reds" yesterday, A general proclamation was issued by the regular Hwangtung troop commandera (Generais Chang Fat Fui, Wong Kei Cheung, Li Fuh Lam, Shi Ao, and Chu Fai Yat).

They first apologized for their short-sightedness in failing to pre- vent the uprising of the Reds" but they had now successfully sup pressed the Red menace.

·! INCIDENTS OF THE TERROR.

In farther atatements, they have! asked the people to report all "Red" suspects. MECHANICS' UNION ASSIST "WHITES:"

In the suppression of the "Reds" in Canton yesterday, the Mechanies Union of Honam, who are strong "anti-Reds," volunteered more than a thousand men, and the success of the regular troops was largely due to their assistance.

Yesterday morning the regulars landed at four different places along the Bund, and one of the parties wa scomposed of this party of "white" workers."

General Chu Fai, Yat, the Com- mistioner of Police, was wounded, but bew, seriously is uncertain.

Three areas in the City alone reported the destruction of more than a thousand shops and homes.

Upon the Snal success of the Kwangtung regulate, the exodus was discontinued yesterday after noon, and only about a hundred or so passengers departed for Hong Kong by the as. Lungthan which felt that port shortly after one o'clock.

NEW'S BY WIRELESS.

During the reign of terror all the newspapers were taken over by the Reds" and it may be some time before they resume publication owing to the departure of the "Red" printers on arrival of the "Whites."

REFUGEES FROM CANTON.

FITIABLE SIGHT AT THE WATERFRONT.

SOME PERSONAL EXPERI- ENCES.

Shortly after 2. p.m. yesterday alternoon, a huge crowd of mterest- ed. Lainese gathered aroutu the britina Canton and Alacao Stean- boat Company's Whari at Con. naught Road Central to await the arrival of refugees from Canton by the afternoon boat. Special trame police were on duty to keep back the crowd of about 1,000 persons who lined each side of the road four or five deep.

THE COURSE OF THE STRUGGLE.

HOW KWANGTUNG FORCES GAINED THE

UPPER HAND.

RED PLANS THAT HAVE GONE AWAY.

MORE FIGHTING EXPECTED.

KWANGTUNG TROOPS GAIN-

"ING UPPER HAND.

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(FRO. OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.

Fighting is expected to continue for some time.

The Reds" are equally opposed to the Kwangtaing and the Xwangai forces. They are offering $50,000 a hend for the capture of eight pria. The Fatihan came in shortlycipal political culprits: General after 3 pm with about 2,000 re- Chiang Kai Shek, Mr. Wang, Ching

]

COMMUNISTS STILL IN

POWER.

NAVAL WIRELES.]

CANTON, December 19th. Foreigners are evacuating the outlying districts. The Communists Shooting and are still in power. fires in the City,

No anti-foreign feeling is as yet visible.

Iron ova CHINESE CORRESPONDENT

Things appeared so ugly during the last two days that the American

tugees, every inch of space being Wei, General L$ Tsai Esing Gener and other Consulates ordered their

taken.

Some of the refugees had to stand all the way down from Canton.

Chang Fat Fui, atd four others.

The members of the peasants corps who are rushing to join the As the refugees disembarked the Reds" are merely out for loot. waterfront was bustling with excite. They joined the Kuomintang in the ment. Aged women were dragging early stages of the Nationalist their grand-children, and "little tots movement, but finding nothing in it of 3 or 4 years old were barefooted to their advantage they are trying sad with hardly sufficient clothing the "Reds" whose offer of the for this cold weather. The well-to-pillage of Canton is now, the attrac do class with their feather kit bags tion. Most of the said peasants are, showed signs of obvious relief, as of course, bandits. The real pea they handed their luggage to hotel sants are still in their fields. runners. They were only too thank- ful to have reached a place of

safety.

Ti

There was very little fighting along the Band, Canton, yesterday; but the Kwangtung forces returning The whole scene was full of from the North and East River dis- pathos particularly when country triets regained control of the inner people, who apparently were leav-north section of the native city. ug their native soil for the first From Ti Yat Chung Street. time, dumped their scanty belong Lak and Ti Chit Streets, the re- ings in the foot path and sat there gular. Police bave returned to their not knowing where to go. Money customary patrol. they had none, and being total strangers, their plight could well be imagined. The care another crowd, mothers with babies strap pad to their backs and older child- ren holding their mothers' jackets. crying for something to stifle their hunger. Our representative heard! one mother gently telling a crying baby that she had just enough money to buy a cake. was shot dead and everything we had was burnt,' she said to the onlookers.

Father

The gunboats Kong Koo and Kong Tai have controlled the Harbour during the last three days Reds" from cross- preventing the

ing from the north to the south

THE SITUATION IN THE

CITY.

CASUALTIES FEWER THAN SUPPOSED 1

[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.

Notwithstanding the indiscriminat

For a long time after the retura of the regular troops many inhabit

In direct contrast to this money- ants were unaware of it. A private inotor car, with women and children less crowd were young ladies in in it, were trying to escape by dis-ovely Chinese dresses and sparking shooting in the streets the playing a red flag. They were shoting diamonds, gently tripping off at by the incoming regulars, and the Fangway followed by coolies or fifteen trunks, carrying ten every persen in it, six in all, in Outside the wharf, motor cars were stantly killed by a volley from the hailed and to one or other of the regulars.

big botels they went.

RED'S AMBUSHED AT WEST GATE.

LI FUK LAM'S GREAT

OFFENSIVE.

casualty list is not as heavy as some bave reported. Many persons. including a large number of women and children, were able to make their way to the Hong Kong-Canton steamers unmolested From the i fact that many young women arriv ed safely in Hong Kong with heavy handbags of valuables it is evident that looting was confined to certain sections of the City.

Fiendish Red Atrocities, A Daily Press representative was able to get several account from refugees of what had taken place in Canton. One-rich Chinese mer

It is said that the Red Army," chant living at Sup Pat Po said The above account gathered by that on Sunday night, his house including the strike pickets and was burnt down, He and his labour union gunmen, did not do our Chinese Correspondent was con- firmed by officers of ships returning family escaped to a friend's Louse o much. lobting as casual coolies from Canton General Li Fuk Lam, with only what they had on. But who have been taking advantage of the "King of Honam," who has on their way, they were robbed and the present chaos. been throughout the leading figure every small trinket of value was in the resistance to the Reds roughly taken away from his wife launched his attack at about, 10 a.m. and daughter. He had been in his yesterday morning. He caught the friend's house for about two hours Reds by surprise and a large au when the same thing happened to ber were ambushed and antihilated his friend's house. It was burnt

West Gate.

down and they were all driven out without being allowed to take more than the clothes they wore.

By 2 p.m. the back of the resist ance was broken. A good deal of desultory firing was still going on, but the rebels were in full retreat.

MACHINE GUNS ON ROOF

GARDENS.

CENTRAL BANK FARES BADLY.

A special attack has been made on the Central Bank of China, the ob- ject of the Reds exidently being to obliterate this organ of Kuomintang finante. Up to yesterday they had A Chinese compradore to a big failed to break down the larger foreign firm at Canton was ap safes although they have succeeded proached by seven men wearing red in burning down the building on bands at about 9 a.m. on blonday. the East Bund. The report that the ite was asked to sign a cheque for safes were still intact enabled the $10,000 which he refused. The noter of the Bank to maintain, a mea then set fire to his house and value of from 50 to 62 per cent. while the premises were burning! The telegraph, telephone, and Refugees arriving here yesterday Bercely, they took the compradore's railway services have all been very afternoon from Canton by the s.a youngest child, a boy of eight, and badly damaged that it will take Fafshan brought, the news that the threw him into the fire before the some time before they will again be, in working order, even if they whole of the West Bund was turned eyes of the father and mother.

Many shocking stories of outrages escape further destruction. into a fort early yesterday morning"

on young women. were told by by the Reds. Machine guns were placed on the roof gardens of the several refugees, some of whom CANTON "GOVERNMENT ·

PROGRAMME. Wing On Company, Sincere's, the were eye-witnesses. It was stated Chinese Y.M.C.A and other big that nothing could have been worse.

Along the water- than the atrocities of the "Reds," establishments.

CANTON WEST BUND FORTIFIED.

front barbed wire entrenchments were erected and every available hiding place contained a machine gun.

A wireless from the as. Tung On This precaution was taken be ou her way to Hong Kong from cause the 3th Army of General Li Canton yesterday afternoon stated Fock Lani's was said to be prepar that the Kwangtung regulars had ing over in Hoaam a drive against recaptured the Police Headquarters the Reds last night. The Commis at about two o'clock in the after-soner of Police, Chu Fdi Yat, who noun. Two regiments formerly was at first reported to have been under General Wong Kic Cheung, killed, was said to have escaped to Honam and was personally to mutinied and joined the Bedr last Sunday. Yesterday, these two direct the attack against the Reds. regiments were driven from Canton, arranged for last night. having stubbornly resisted all at tempts by the regulars to retake the "Police Headquarters until yesterday

afternoon...

UNIONS BEING GUARDED.

Now all-union quarters in Canton wholesale looting. are being guarded by troops, and since yesterday afternoon, the Police have been searching for the remnants of "the "Reda.!! "Reds" have killed a number of policemen, and it is feared that the associates of the deceased men will revenge their friends by personal action against the professional agitators.

RED RUSSIANS FOR CANTON.

:

300 OFFICERS AND 30,000 RIFLES.

ja

An interesting sidelight on the preparations for Sunday's coup is thrown by a Kuo Min report in the North-China Daily News of last Friday. It states

A report from confidential sources is on hand that 50,000 rifles and 300 Russian officers are on their way to from Vladivostok. The Canton

be

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EXTREMIST MADNESS.

(Wah Te Yat Pao.)

nationali to leave Cantot City, and in addition to Americans, several German ladies and children left Canton yesterday by the ss. Fat- shan for Hong Kong,

WUCHOW NORMAL.

Conditions in Wuchow, on the If West River, "are" now normal. - there is to be any trouble between. Kwangtung and Kwangsi troops, it is hoped that it will take place below that part. Kwangtang paper

no good" there money is now

FRENCH PRESS COMMENT.

[THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCY.]

PARIS, December 13th. . Commenting on the Communist.. seizure of Cantor the Petit Parisien says that the Red minority, re pulsed elsewhere, sought revenge in Canton, where a few Russian agitators and insignificant Chinese generals have stirred up the labour anions and Bolshevik cells in Can- ton, but the fire, pillage and murder in Canton cannot change the destiny of the South, for the Communists have no arms or equipment to give them aby hope of victory against the troops of the Kuomintang sup- ported by the wealthy middle classes.

Le Journal says the explosion in Canton may well leave the greas port of South China a hear of

ruins.

THE""RED EXTRA.”

A SHADOW GOVERNMENT.

(TEOM QUE CHINESE CORABSPONDENT.]

Soviet

According to the Ited_Extra, an sheet published by the Bolshevists in Canton, the following are tho principal officials in the Government of Canton:--

Chief Commissar, Comrade Soo

Shiu Ching: People's Commissar for Internal Affairs, Comrade Wong Ping; People's Commissar for the Sup

pression of Counter-Revolu tionaries," Comrade Yang Eri: People's Commissar of Labour," Comrade Chau Man Yung People's Commissar of Public. Lands, Comrade Pan Bye; People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Comrade Wong Ping (who is also given the port folio of Internal Affaira). People's Commissar for Justice.

Comrade Chen Yuk: People's Commissar for Public

Finance, Comrade Ho Loy: People's Commissar for Military and Noral Affairs, Comrade Chang Ta Lai; Secretary-General, Comrade Wen

Ti Ying: Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army, Comrade Yeb Ting. Chief of Staff, Comrade Hau

Kwong Ying"

This gang is proposing to welcome the return of Comrades Eugene Chen, CC. Wu, Sun Fö, L. C. Lee, H. C. Lee, Te Chen Wu, and other well- Wang Ching Wei and General known Kuomintang extremists. Mr. Chiang Kai Shek are reprimanded with the task of bringing the whole. for mismanagement when entrusted Kuomintang under the Red regime."

There are less than six Russian Communists directing the guerilla Attacks and gang raids in Canton City, according to latest report, There is no truth in the reported arrival of several hundred "Reds" from Russia and large shipment of arms and ammunition.

A circular by the Soviet Govern- ment of Canton" the following points in its political programme

1.All merchant firms are to be taken by the Government. -All property owned by Capital

ists to be confiscated. 3-All buildings owned by private landlords to become Govern- ment property. 4-The houses of wealthy persons, especially in the District of "Canton are to be taken over as dwellings for workmen.. 5All pawnshops to be taken The Kwangtung section of the over by the Government and Kuomintang in Honam, assert that persons presenting tickets to they expect to clear off the "Reds" have their goods returned free within a day or two. The small party of Communists who have been of charge.

holding sessions in the Russian Con- sulate in Tangshan are the supposed FOREIGN MISSIONARIES-

Soviet Government. Once the FLEE CANTON.

situation is in hand there will be no difficulty in forcing coolies and Among the refugees coming down other workers, to discard their red from Canton yesterday afternoon by arm-bands and Bolshevist sym- the Fatehan were about thirty topathies. The origin of the trouble forty American and German mission goes back to when Dr. Sun Yat aries. They were stationed in the Sen invited the Bolshevista to join suburbs of Canton and told a Daily the Kuomintang some seven years Press, representative that interse fighting was going on. The Reils 486 and organized the workers and Volunteers which had-maintained a were in the ascendancy and ruth peasants to suppress the Merchants' lessly burning down villages fair standum of peace and order for

There were compelled to flee their 13 years before 1924.

(Continued on page 6.)

Another refugee said that no one but Reds were to be seen in Can ton. Men were swaggering along 50,000 rifles are to arm the peasants the streets with red armlete, or red and workers, who are to hathands, terrorising women and organized into a fighting corps by respectable citizens. At Sai Kwan the Russian officers. Chinese com- and Wing Hon Maloo there was burst leaders including Teng Yen Fires were Ta, Tan Ping Shan, Kao Yu Han burning in many parts of the city, and Yang Bato An are also return. and persons found in the street, ing to Canton from their respective without red badges were beaten and refuges. In the city of Canton, The in some cases shot on the spot. posters bearing the alogan "Oppose The report that Generals Chang the purgation movement, which is seen Fat Fui and Wong Kie Cheung had imperilling the Party escaped to Honam was confirmed everywhere.

It is understood that the com- by a Chinese compradore who ar

munists have set themselves upon rived here by the Falshan,

The situation was summed up by a plan to start another revolution Had the regulars failed to recap another refugee in the following communist revolution to destroy ture Canton yesterday, the "Rede words: "Canton has absolutely the Kuomintang and the Nation coming from the Northern Districts gone to the dogs. Fighting is going alist Gorernment which are anti would have arrived by last night, an everywhere and no one's life i comunistic: Kwangtung has been and the suffering of the people safe. The, Reds have got. Canton chosen as the base, as it was the

base of the Nationalist Revolution.posts, would have been prolonged." and they are going to keep it." ·

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