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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1926.

HAINAN STRAIT.

USEFUL AIDS TO NAVIGATION.

TWO NEW LIGHTS.

OCCASIONAL NOTES,

NATIVE AND FOREIGN

·MENTALITY

HANKOW RIOT.

BRITISH REFLY TO` CHINESE NOTE:

Peking, June 15.

The British Note in reply to the Chinese Note as regards the riot at Hankow was handed in to the Under Secretary of the Wai obiaopu (Ministry for Foreign Affairs) last evening,

· As Bhon Jusi-lin could not be found, it was stated that he was in hiding from the students.

The No'o saysTM-

We are living in days of sonsational fast and even more Hainan "Strait, that veritable sonsational rumour. The air is "sailors' graveyard", where so charged with uncertainty and the many vessels have been wrecked, gossips among us predict an anti- is now at last to be fitted with a British strike hora by Chinose in couple of new lights which will sympathy with what is taking be a groat aid to navigation, place up north, It is indeed hard ospecially through the South to understand the mentality of Channel. There are three differ-poople who will talk of striking ont channels through the eastern in Hongkong in support of the part of Hainon

Strait the people of Shanghai, when the northern, the middle and the south demands of the Shanghai people "From your Note it is clear channel-but the latter is the one

are so sweeping as to mean either that your Excellency is not in mostly frequented by the larger nothing at all era virtual revision possession of the true facts, which type of vessels because of ite of the whole terms upon which are as follows:-At seven o'clock greater depth, although it is the foreigners reside in Treaty Ports in the evening of June 11, a mob

into Tholaitox procons would take broke

the British Darrowest of them all.

months of international cdn-Concorsion. at Hankow armed which forence (to say the very Isast) and with #nas, with any "supporting" action on tho they attacked the police and part of Hongkong's workers members of the Municipal Conn. would be tantamount to a mere ell. Sailors from His Majesty's sentimental gosture and nothing gunboat Beo were landed, upon more, unless some industrial which the mob were dispersed demands were formulated just to without firing. As the situation became critical, the Volunteers provide the excuso..

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The buoy at the Hainan; Hoad which is one of the tricklest places in the Strait,) is shortly to be removed and replaced by a bunch of strong heavy piles which will be driven hard and doop into the bottom. On the top of these piles it is intended to erect a new little lighthouse.

The Riverdale buoy is, in the To one who tries to take an were called, out. The mob then i not very distant futuro, to bo impartial view of the whole attacked the Voluntaors and the replaced by a large modern gas situation as it exists between naval posts with poles and buoy with a continually burning Chinese and foreigners, who stones, inflicting some slight The Voluntoers light on it. The old buoy was, wonders why the trade unions, the casualties. very often prone to shift or drift students and the young political showed great restraint and re- away from its proper position classes in China are inveigh-frained from firing, even when and it is hoped that the new buoying against the imperialism"the mob charged almost up will be better moored (with of other natione roprosentod out to within the bagonets. At nine the Consul-Ganaral stronger anchors, etc.) than the East, it is extremely difficult to o'clock old one.

appreciate the native viewpoint. appealed to the Foreign Affairs) The small rangos of stones I confess to that with some regret Commissioner for protection. Af- built on the northern side of because one feels sure that there tor some delay, the latter arranged 'Hainan Island by the junk people must be some coberent thought for the despatch of troops, but in to mark the various shoals in the behind the Chinese attitude; that the meantime the mob attacked southern part of the Strait, are it is not merely blind mob pre- and looted a Japanese shop, and now going to be fitted with large judice. Yet I soak in vain for a next beat the inmates, one bascona or posts which will reasoned cause (apart altogether whom died from his injuries. Tho make them much moro con- from the justice or injustice of the mob, which was highly excited, spicuous during misty weather. most recent incidents) as to why shouting Kill the foreigneret

The Chinese International there should be a growing anti-attacked the British post guarded Customs cruiser Hwah Sing was foreign feeling in China. Do the by barbed wire. A fire-engine observed down there a few days Chinese want us all to clear out?held back the mob for twenty making the preliminary arrange- Is our presence here obnoxious minutes, but in spite of this the ments for the new erections. and harmful to them? Is there a mob forced their way through the It is learned from well inform singlo Chineso in any part of barbed wire and, armed with long ad sources that thanks are due to China who can say that he is bo- poles, bogan to climb it showering the persistence of the Douglas ing deprived of something he bricks upon the defendors, several Steamship Co. for the now impro-would have had if the foreigners of whom were badly hurt. Then vements that are to be made, as had never comet Hongkong was only firing took place, killing they have

boon continually a barren island and is to-day a three or four and waanding the urging upon the Chinese authori- vast and wealthy emporium in same number. The mob retreated, ties and others the necessity of which the Chinese have not only and the wounded were taken to better facilities in tho Strait in sunk their own money to the tune the British Hospital. All the order to ensure its navigation of almost countless millions but foreign naval forces co-operated with a reasonable degree of safety, in which they are glad to live in in the defence of the British, In the old days, vossels had physical security. Do they object French and former Russian Con- nothing better to guide them to British rule, knowing very well cessions. Your Excellency will through this intricate passage the hopeless mess that would be see from the above account that than the various bearings of hills, made of things if Hongkong were the impression. that the laws of pagodas and other landmarks, handed back to China at the pre- humanity were disregarded by plus the before-mentioned amall sent juncture? Do the students my compatriots at Hankow is stone ranges, which were most of and dreamers realiso the serious completely erroneous. The for- the time almost invisible.

ness of all their claims? One has eigners were defending their lives The first buoy was placed in the to ask that in a genuine spirit against a murderous mob. Strait some thirty years ago at of enquiry because the claims cannot admit that the responsibi- the entrance to the Middle are so obviously ill-considered. lity rests upon the British auth- Channel, This one was very Young hot-hoads with but half-orities; who werö unable t› obtain dangerous to go near, on account formed ideas, together with the prompt and adequate protection of the heavy sea and strong most forward Socialist elements from the Chinese authorit.es

were obliged jcurrent at this part of the among the workers, are making and

to act Strait (it very often runs as most of the present noise, and the for themselves. I cannot high an five knots and even danger is that their clamourings refrain from reminding your more during the typhoon season). will attract some of the otherwise Excellency that I have repeated- If later had to be abandoned responsible folk. China is pass-ly warned the Chinese Govern- after a

Chinese cruiser löst a ing through a pbase that is, I ment of the grave responsibility boat with 12 men while they suppose, more or less inevitablo they are inourring by allowing were going to replace it, and it having regard to her somnem- the prosent anti-British agitation was saveral years before the bulant past and hor attempted to proceed unchecked. The buoys at present in the South modern awakening. The educat, deplorable events at Hankow are Channel were finally fixed ined fow are over-reaching them-evidence of the justice of my position.

salves out of sheer desperation at wanings. I have instructed the the inert drag of the masses and Consular officers throughout the yoke of militarism. "Nation- China to do everything to prevent alism" is running wild without a recurrence of such incidents, the slightesbcaution or care for but. I must earnestly beg your the consequences. But the phase Excellency to take energetic will pass with the coming of moro measures to discourage any and discharge their cargoes to experience, if only the phase is agitation which leads to such waiting junks and smaller properly handled. steamers.

Hainan Strait, by the way, is known amongst sailors as a Fendezvous for vessels smuggling arms and drugs into China. They have often been known to anchor In the western part of the Strait

PLAIN JOHN.

disastrous results. I had the honour to show you at our) interview Inst evening pam- phlots and newspapers 'giving | the most mendacious AC- counts of the happenings at Hankow, making it appear that Tony compatriote bad fired upon a harmless student demonstration.

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A vory stiff note,

I myself observed this morning in the stroots of Poking a postor conveying the same absolutely, false impression. I regard the dissemination of these calumnies| as dangerous in the extreme," for the people's disposition is un- certain, and one explosion may well bo followed by others with deplorable results. I, therefore, trust that your Excollency will take early opportunity for issuing a statement which will place the Chinese public in possession of the real facts, and thus dispel an atmosphere of pre- judio and misunderstanding created by those falso rumours.

Tho Noto is signed by Mr. C. M. Palairet, O.M.G. British Charge d'Affaires, Daily Bulletin.

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