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TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1925,

DAY BY DAY.

THE CHINA SITUATION:

AMERICAN EXPRESSIÓN. OF OPINION.

that that is largely the fault of the striking beumont Some of them, too, are being provented from re-

LOOK UP AND NOT DOWN; LOOK, turning by the more extreme" element of their own kidney. Here FORWARD AND NOT BACK; LOOK again the fault lies with the strikers OUT AND NOT IN; AND LEND A themselves.

HAND-Edward E. Hale. Thus matters aro largely in their own hands. As to the absurd stories of the Hongkong police waiting on the wharves to arrest returning workers, these are no doubt boing purposely circulated

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CANTON'S WAR.

AN AMERICAN COMMENT.

Tho New York Evening Post,

Writing on the China Situation commenting on the capture of and beading its loading article Canton by the Cantonese, says:

The capture of Canton in the China's Naw Throat to the West, 1stonu of those shadowy and deths Philadelphia Public Ledger in mysterious Chinese civil wars

led to an outbreak of popular fury? recent isauc says:

against the defeated defonders. Chinose led by Russian, Bol which makes us wonder whether shovlat officers, have taken Can we are living in the twentieth

Acting Corporal H, G. B. Burns,

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century or the twolfth;

The massacre of 700 of the de fonted soldiers and those who through their dialect were sus- was perpetrated, it appears not by pooted of sympathizing with these

the victorious army, but by the populace of the city. Furious and ferocious mobs hunted down the'

in order to keep the men back. The of the Infantry Company, Hong- ton. This confirms the charges kong Volunteer Defence Corps, that Soviet agents, directed from only persons who are liable to

has been promoted to the rank of Moscow; are active in China, arrest under existing conditions are

The Red school at Moscow for those who will not work. The Sorgeant. Colony does not want men of that

young Chinse, where the Mongol Reuter's Canton correspondent is inoculated with Installing

type; it has no rohm for them announced the discovery of an

raw Bol The others may return when they alleged Chinese plot to capture aboviem, hes not beon in vain.unfortunatos and murdered them PYRENE

care to, but the terms upon which both Shamoon and Kowloon with Those "fraternal greetings sent with the ferocity which is typical

the assistance of Russian avia-by Soviet officials to Chinese of the unbridled crowd. TO-DAY they will be reengaged must tors, says a Manila exchange. strikers were not mero empty' Life is regarded "cheaply in

obviously be left to their employers. Inspection

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words. The seed the Rods have China and buffering rather so industriously sown over Asin callously. What those Cantonese A memorial service for the late for years is aprouting in Canton did to their fellow countrymen. Ching's Fault,

Mrs. Bullock is to be held in St. and Shanghai..

they would do undor similor; There is a derided freshness John's Cathedral on Thursday,

The field was prepared for ite circumstances to the "foreign 123rd July, at 5.30 pm. The cele-sowing. China is the lowest form dovila" if they dared. Russian and clarity of thought in a recent hration of Holy Communion at of political life now existing on the Bolshevists and their Chinese comment made by the Detroit 7.45 a.m. will be with special in planet. Chaos has como sinos the converts are fishing for just such downfall of the Fanchus. China an outbreak in the present MUSTARD & CO. [Free Press on the present Chinese tention.

has been a republic in name only, troubled waters. Foreigners in situation. According to a plea

North China has fought South China face a danger not pleasant made by the British trade union We are asked to state, in con-China. Rival" tushuns," military to contemplate, and foreign

nection with the report that the governors, have ruled leaders to the Premier, Mr. Stay road between Shatin and Taipo pleased, Bandits with and without of any squeamishness about tha as they marines must be landed in spite igy Baldwin, soon after the trouble is impassable owing to the carry uniforms, have overrun the coun-siered sovereignty of China. broke out in Shanghai, Britain ing away of the four-span bridge

at Taipo, that the road is now! was asked to withdraw all forces accessible as far as the lovel from China so that the Chinese crossing at Taipo. "who are fighting for freedom may be allowed to work out that free.

16-17, Connaught Road Central. 'Phono Central 1186)

The Celegraph.

TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1925.

THE STRIKERS.

hurried.

try. The Paking Government is

LITTLE MEANING. Meanwhile something has hoon a shadowy fiction.

The same journal, in another happening deep within China commont, says: "A now Chi- The West has talked of "The nose civil war has momont- Unchanging East" That phrase arily diverted interest from the. Mr. M. Manuj baving returned no longer fits. Asia is changing anti-foreign movament centreing dom unmolested," and the journal to the Colony, will give his first Not rapidly, for the East is un-in Shanghai. But fighting that mentioned above then goes on to public lecture at the Hongkong

has started around Canton is in- Lodge of The Theosophical make the very, succinet comment Society, 16, Queen's Road Contral day is not that of yesterday, Its portance as compared with the Nevertheless, the China of to reality of quite secondary im It is very clear from the reports that the Chinese are not fighting on Wednesday July 22nd, at 5.45 Buddhism, Confucianism, paci Communist-agitated strikes and The members, friends and fism and provincialism are being disorders which threaten to die- which we yesterday published that for anything of the sort.

"They p.m.

sympathisers are cordially invited leavened by the yeasts of milit-locats the relations between the the thousands of Hongkong strikers are fighting blindly for the con- to attend.art.

arism and nationalism.

Chiness and the foreign element still in Canton are being regaled tinuation of their own domestic

Possibly the greatest force, for in several of the great trading with all manner of lying stories chaos," says the commentator, and

Two mishaps to War Depart- both good and evil, in China to-centres.

The Chinese seem to bava lost of the actual condition of affairs he proceeds to urge that China ment launches occurred during day is this growing nationalism.

They are being must not be left to herself but the week-end. The Tommy At/It has taken generations to do it the ability to settle any issue by in this Colony,

king went aground at Green Is. but the Western nations have means of war. A Chinese civil told that our water supply has run that the foreign Powers interested land and sustained damage to anally bullied the Chinese into war" has little more meaning a fireworks display It cut, whereas in actual fact practi in China's future must save her her bows, part of the stem piece the beginnings of a national con- than

White men have makes little difference in the long cally every reservoir is overflowing; from falling under the exclusive having been torn away, and the Umphali also want aground, but China that our electric light and power domination of Moscow.

has been refloated. supplies are cut off, whilst the truth is in a sorry enough plight just

the strikers may be induced to stay

fed from here to Carton will learn

the truth and will begin to realise

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foreigners instead of upon the political and military parasites

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sciousness. hacked away at the Dragon, sei-run which side wins and the zing a concession here and a foot-actual fighting is carried on amping ing thero. France, Russia, Japan, the lines of an American salty Great Britain and Germany have campaign, The art of not getting is that they are operating exactly now without being abandoned to

A Society writer in the Daily wrested their Hongkongs, Woi-hurt has been highly developed by the same as in normal times; and, the tender mercies of Moscow and Chronicle says The Hon. Mr. Hal-Wein, Shantungs and Man- both soldiers and commanders.

Such is J. A. Kemp, Attorney-General of churias from a helpless Peking.

So long as the Chinese stick to finally, that disorders are resulting to her own helplessness.

While the West has threatened war the harm they can do i in several deaths daily, which is in the comment of an American Hongkong, who has raturned to and taken, it has been sending minimal, An anti-foreign movo London on a six months furlough, direct conflict with the facts, for editor, and it is a comment which is enjoying a reunion with his the Chinese students back from mont is much more serious. the Colony has seldom been freer will commend itself, we know, to family. Mrs. Kemp is not very its universities indoctrinated Chinees strike can be carried to a newpoint of affectiveness possible in strong, and cannot stand the with Westernism and s of serious crime than at the present

the majority of us here. It may Hongkong climate, so she has nationalism. They are ready to no other part of the world, be that this present anti-foreign been living over here with her welcome any force that will help The Russian Communists moment. There is, of course, an object in the spread of those dis-upheaval is symptomatic of some two little boys. Hongkong's them break the foreign grip on realize this fact and are adapting Attorney-General is a tall quiet China. Bolshevism is ready to their taction accordingly. As sa tortions of the truth-namely, that dim comprehension of the fact voiced Irishman with grey hair, use them for its own ends, and instance, they have promised to

that China is inept and helpless smiling eyes, and

one of they are roady to use Bolshevism idemnify the family of every away from Hongkong in order that and that it is, time matters were humour. I hear that he is taking to take China out of pawn to the Chinono killed in strike-rioting at a house at Sutton, about 12 miles West. Bolshevism is by no means Shangbai. The first loyalty of a the strongest ingradient in the Chinese is to his family. If by the greatest possible inconvenience changed, but where the students out of town, where he will spend

and workers have all gone wrong his holiday.

present Chinese fermont, but it getting himself killed bon may be caused to the Colony, Bye

can be, and Moscow intends it bring two or three hundred dollars. shall be. and bye, however, the men who have is in venting their spleen upon

into the family exchequer he feels There was never a wider field in duty bound to go out and get for it. No one knows how many killed. That more of them have millions of yellow men not done so is probably due to who batten upon the people in-the political life of the Portuguese there are in China. There doutt about the honesty of the that in this respect, as in others, they have been gulled by the "pro-

stead of applying themselves, republic. Much has been said of may be 400,000,000 or 600 Russian agitators. The Chinaso in this the greatest himself is too fundamentally an pagandists. Despite the Interrupt. honestly, to the country's admin the gradual, loss of power in world 000,000

single bloc of humanity on the honest oreature not to recognĺza stration. ed communications, news filters |

What we are witness-affairs of this formerly

great globe. It has been years since dishonesty when he sees it, ha

The littlo "civil war" at Can- through, and amongst other thingsing really is a display of childish country, and one is permitted to China has known real peace. For which our strikers will learn will petulence at the inability of the ponder whether the recurrent "re-twenty years it has been harassed ton will not settle anything and

by the clashing aims of Russia is not likely to do much harm... themselves.volutions" are not a sign of the and Japan., Lad by catapaws of A concerted anti-foreign move- be the fact that their absence has Chinese to govern

two Powere, opposing ment might disrupt the life of the Doubtless many of them would decadence that has set in during these sense crippled essential) services, as the promoters of the like to see China well governed the past century, and a direct re-armier of yellow men are now nation and involve far-reaching maneuvering for advantage. complications. It is in such a In fact, when by Chinese (and so would we), sult of the somewhat chaotic Bolshevism is following the old movement that the real danger strike had hoped.

but for the nonce they are annoy elements in the national adminis- Czarist policies in the Far East, lios, and the Russiane are making 'they return, 55 many of them are already anxious to do, they willed at the reverse state of affairs, tration. With plot and counter-and the backwash from this strug- the most of it.

glo, mixed with Chinese national- discover that this time they are not and, to quote the American writer plot continuously agitating theism, threatens the interests of all to be welcomed with outstretched again, are struggling blindly for country, a proper functioning of Western Powers, and particular- the government is naturally imly those of Great Erinain and

Amorica. The greater part of them continuance of domestic chaos.

possible. We rather think that The trouble, at first local, is will realise that their services will

the Portuguese temperament is spreading. It began with student only be needed on their employers'

It has become practically an not suited to a republican form of agitations and general strikes BOLSHEVIST DOCTOR MISSING. terms, and men who have held good

against the Japanese and other accepted fact that Portugal is authority: certainly the series of foreignore. With the entry of Shanghai, July 20-Fortunatoff billets will find that they have to subject to revolts at irregular revolts that have followed the Soviet agents and Bolshevist did not appear in the Mixed Court start again from the bottom if they periods several times in a year. setting up of the present form of began. What happens now does he has left the town. The Court officers, the first actual fighting this morning. The police believe want re-employment with their old We take a special interest-out administration. suggest a strong not depend so much upon the see ordered his bail to be forfeited and firms. On that point we are glad here in the affairs of this small royalist element, or else a party board and Poking as upon the far issued a warrant for his arrest. to recognise a solidarity of attitude European, republic, not only be of political place-seekers such as vagao provinces in the Chinese Gregorenko was remanded pend-

hinterlands. If the unrest spreads on the part of employers. These cause of the close association of an arises in any weakly-governed back through China and the ing the arrest of Fortunatoff on reduced bail of $2,500, which he has. workers who down tools without the old Portuguese colony with Hong-state, where the ruling authority Western Powers are unable to slightest reasonable cause must be kong but also because of the fact has not the full confidence of the end the situation in Shanghai not found.--Reuter.

and Canton, the slow trend taught that it does not pay to strike. that Portugal is the oldest of Bri-people, In viewing these signs toward nationalism might become Only firm action will cure them of tain's allies, and in the outposts of unrest in Portgun one is re-a swift march toward Bolshevism. "strike fever."

The Reds have a foothold in of Empire greater store is set by luctantly compelled to compare the

Paking and in Shanghai and Meanwhile, we have reached a international friendships then country with other parts of the Cantor. With a Red Siberia and position in which many of our where their value might never be world where similar events are Red Chins, the Japanese workers want to return to the tested.

It is with very regretful of fairly constant occurrence: Position would be desperate and most Asia would the Colony. They are tired of their feelings, therefore, that we read However mild might be the unrest, saray of of Communism. This Kuro, July 20, The destroyers unhappy life in Canton and would of the latest uprising, as short- and however easily suppressed. It promises to be a critical nummer Teuta and Hagi collided during give almost anything to come back lived as any of the other recent points to a state of affairs which for China and for the world. It manoeuvers in the Bungo Canal on- holde grava possibilities to all the Saturday night. The former was If they complain that the means of ones, and another symptom of the does not promise well for the Far East and particularly for all slightly damaged and returned for transport are lacking, the retort is constant unrest which underllos

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