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STRIKE DICTUM.

ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS.

CHANG KAI-SHEK'S VIEWS:

livered by General Chang Kai-shek at a recent meeting of the Com- mittee of Political Affairs at the

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• NO VAIRAANT - TUESDAY JUNE 29, 1926. B+£

SHANGHAP WHITE RUSSIANS.

CHANCES FOR SETTLERS

IN AUSTRALIA.

SHANGHAI ISSUES. ENGLAND'S REPLY

UNDERSTANDING WITH CANTON?

REPORTS FROM QUEENSLAND. MUNICIPAL ROAD QUESTION, In view of the proposed negotiation of the problem presented by

Some hope of an ultimate solu

Local members of the Kuomin- tions for the settlement of the the hundreds of needy and almost tang have (says the Telegraph's strike and boycott, more than usual destitute Russions in Shanghai is Shanghai correspondent) decided interest attaches to a speech de-seen in reports from Brisbane and

to reach an understanding with other. parts of Queensland that the "White" Rusilang who Canton, if at all possible, na have gone there are doing well to the attitude of the · ́Southern and making a good impression in Government toward the Shanghaf the earnestness of their ender branch of the Kuomintang, The

Telegraph's Shanghai correspondent. The branch in Shanghai is distinctly on result of this impression is that the conservativa side, and every Australia, and especially the one of the same side who departa Queensland Government, is de clared to approve of the emigration from Canton from time to time on of more of the Shanghai refugees, "leave" immediately resorts to provided only that they are vouch-Shanghai to seek refuge among ed for by British officials of Shanghai.. as unquestionably "White" Russians.

front. In this utterance he dealt with the question of strikes, espec- ially during time of war,

Addressing the meeting, General

Chang said: "In any territory coming under the jurladiction of the Nationalist Revolutionary Army, all its political organisations wholl come under the censorship and direction of the Political Affairs,

yours,

Saya

the

WU PEI FU'S DESIRE.

sympathisers here. This has happened a number of times lately, Dr. V. C. Grosse, former Ras- and local members of the Kuomin- sian Consul-General at Shanghai tang are more than ever anxious Bureau attached to the headquar- and now occupant of a post under to see negotiations for a recon- ters of the Commander-in-Chief. the Shanghal Municipal Council,ciliation of the conservative and Inciting class warfare, and agitat-sees in the possibility of Austra- Ing farmers and workmen to strike, lan emigration some promise for radical parties in Canton under. in time of war, are means of break- the future of his fellow-country- way. ing the strength of our opponents, and therefore, such means can be utilised against our enemies, But In the case of those who are under the Party rule and the Nationalist Government, and who go on strike,. such action will be regarded as rebellious. Again in time of war, no Labour or Farmers' Union shall, under any circumstance, be per mitted freedom of action in the "matter of going on strike. This is, an important point which you all must bear in mind when perform- ing, propaganda work,"

CHINSHAN INCIDENT.

The question of the burial of Chinese who die in Maeno was thought to have been settled, as the Strike Union at Canton gave a' fay- ourable reply to the protest of the Committee of the Ken Hu Hospital that the pickets stationed at Chin- ahan be instructed not to inter "fere with any burials taking place outside the Barrier of Macao. But it appears that on the 23rd ing. stant, a funeral procession wend- ing its way to the burying ground was stopped and turned back by the pickets, despite the fact that

The

Wants to Lend His Army.

BRILLIANT.

SENSATIONAL PLAY IN SECOND TEST,

ONLY TWO WICKETS DOWN FOR 297

MINERS HOURS.

GOVERNMENT BILL DISCUSSED.

UNITED OPPOSITION.

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NEW BREAKWATER STRIKERS STORY.

FOR MANILAN

PROGRESS ON THE SOUTH MOLE

TRAMWAY, FITTER DISILLUSIONED.

TO FINISH IN YEAR

WHAT HAPPENED IN CANTON, Work on the new south break:

An Interesting and fluminating Sir Arthur Steel-Maltland, Min-water has been started by the Al story of his experiences 25 4 Ister of Labour, moved in the lantic, Gulf and Pacific Company: striker, is related by a atter of the House of Commons the second says the Manila Bulletin The Hongkong Tramways, Limited, HOBBS HITS CENTURY. reading of the Bill for an Eight company has the contract for con- from Canton, and has been re- who recently returned "penitenti:

London Jane 28.Hours Day in the Mines.

struction of approximately half of instated in his old position." With their care at 838 for 8 He said the Bill was quite short the new mole which will complete. The utterly corrupt nature of the Australians resumed at Lord's

all strike organisations, and the today, in glorious weather and on and simple. For a period of five the enclosure of the pier area. unfortunate position of the striker. a good wicket, before 25,000 spec years it would enable an extra Since the contract was awarded who found himself in Canton to 886. succumbed at 19, on sixty days of the years to be and driving the range plles, which larca that only ten per cent of the tators, and carried their total

hour, which was already possible in April the company has been or without financial resources are Oldfield

cupled in placing its equipment detailed by the man, and he dec worked on all other working days mark the line of the new wall original strikers from Hongkong as well. It was not a permanent The piles are driven at intervals of still apply for their daily meal measure. Having regard to the has delivered and placed about who are

220 méters. To date the company tickets, the remainder being idiera prepared to pose as condition of the coal industry, was 5,000 metric tons of rock. It is ex-strikers so long as free meals last. there any other possible way to pected that from now on the work. The fitter explains that em- issarios come from Canton to might be necessary? He said em- finish the work by the latter part Tramway Company to strike on avoid the reductions of wages that will progress more rapidly.

The company has agreed to animate" the employees of the phatically that the suggestions for of June, 1927. Its contract calls patriotic motives, and, believing nationalisation or unification for the delivery of 200,000 metric all they were told, a party of men went to Canton and would not meet the situation. tons at the rate of 20,000 tons a

Bardsles being then undefeated, with 190, and the Australian tatal being 379 for 9. Bardsley carried his bat eventually for 198.

A Great Start. Going in to bat, England opene with Hobbs and Sutcliffe, who terval, with the score at 77 for 0, were undefeated at the lunch in Hobbs having reached the half century.

Rapid Scoring.

The crowd swelled to 32,000 after. There were some people who month, except during the months occupled a vacant shop in the

hundred holsted after ninety.

It is difficult to determine here funch, and they watched the first thought, or affected to think, that minates play, Sutcliffe reached what the Government were doing his fifty after being at the wickets was the first move in the direction for an hour and fifty-five minutes of a general attack upon hours

One hundred and fifty three

Just what is the situation in the southern capital, but to all ap- pearances control vascillates from one side to the other almost week- Peking, June 28.

ly, and there is an ardent desire It is announced this even-

here for a stabilized Government ing that Marshal Wu Pel-fu

in order the chaos in the South will proceed to. Sanchintien,

may be brought to an end. not Changhsintien, by motor car, accompanied by his Staff and representatives of the other allied leaders.

It appears that Marshal Wu desires personally to com- mand his troops in the forthcoming anti-Kuominchún operations, but that Marshal Chang Tso-lin does not con- sider that there is any neces- sity for this, and suggests, that Marshal Wu returns to Pek- ing to-morrow, after giving in- structions for the general at- tack.

Which course' Marshal Wu. Pei-fu will follow is not yet certain.-Reuter.

men.

다

POLICING OF ROADS.

for no wicket was signalled and wages. "I say again, on be- after Hobs and Sutcliffe had half of the Government, as I sald been batting for 135 minutes; recently in public, that there is but the rate of scoring

decreased thereafter, with Ryder nothing of, the kind attempted or and Arthur Richardson keep contemplated. The coal industry ing caulibes on approaching was in an exceptional position the century, and when he was 99 and exceptional measures were he was unsuccessfully appealed necessary for the time being. against for "lez-before

Sutcliffe Out

At this stage Sutcliffe was clear, bowled by Richardson, the first wicket falling at 182.

round chancelees exhibition. At

BEJECTION MOVED.

Mr. Stephen Wal Labourite) moved the rejection of the Bill on the grounds that it alded and

an extension of the working hours abetted the employers' demand for

of the coal miner, that it provid- ed no remedy for but would ng- grayate the present difficulties of

CHOLERA IN SIAM.

Indignation at Railway; Measure.

Bangkok, June 21, The utmost indignation pre- vails here at the decision of the F.M.S. Railways to de- mand à déposite of $50 for every first and second class passenger crossing : the frontier from Siam

The third class passenger - traffic was prohibited some. time ago, on account of. cholers. It is presumed that the present measure is also connected with the cholera epidemic here, but no details are to hand

It is understood that the Commissioner-General of the Siamese Railways has tele graphed asking for further details. It is expected that he. will lodge the strongest objec tion to the measure, and the precipitant and ill-considered way in which it was introduc ed-Singapore Free Press.

arton:

Yat Tak Road as a Hving quarter. NOT ALLOWED OUT. They had been led to suppose that all, subject to the strike rules, would be treated as equals, but it was quickly discovered that anyone with money could purchase himself a position in the official ranks of the strikers,

For many months they were not allowed to go out without special permission, unless they cared of had to means to become a picket To become a strike picket, he saya cash must be spent before offers were given, just the same as the purchasing posts of Chinese Goy. orament Ofcera."

FLEET ELIBERT

Some picket ababbus were d use ful source of revenue, and were sp propriated in accordance with the amount of the bribe paid., Kong- moon, Heungshan and Shumchun were the most profitable places for pickets, and the pickets often sold between themselves.

At Shumehun, it was a general the picked right, sold it to another, practice that the original holder of

on the condition that the buyer did all the picket duties and shared the proceeds.

The authorities of the new Chinese Municipality of Greater Shanghai have conferred this week, says our correspondent, with the Consular Body on a num- ber of different matters and a gratifying accord has existed be- tween the representatives of the Chinese Government and those of At the tea interval, the score the International Settlement. One was 184 for 1, Hobbs being not of the important questions consi- out 100, and Woolley not out 1. dered was the matter of Chinese The board showed 200 after police and soldiery on the Muni-play had been in progress, for 225 the coal industry; that it was cal cipal roads outside the Settlement. minutes. Colling put on Maculated to embitter and prolong On the northern border of the cartney for Richardson at 209, and the existing dispute, and that it foreign district there are many very shortly afterwards the new was directly contrary to the re European residents, both inside comer get Hobbs out to a brilliant commendations of the Royal Com and outside the Settlement boun- catch low down by Richardson at mission. He said it was a measure dary. This is also the case in deep point. The score was then which, if carried, would have thei There are at present some six other parts of the greater city. 219 for 2. the original reply of the Strike thousand Russians in the Intern. But the metalled roads outside the Hobbs Ovated.

inevitable result of reducing Union was shown to thom.

tional Settlement, and of these boundaries are the property of the

wages of pieue-workers and of of June, July, August and Septem-ctor, who tells the tale, pickets, after reading this, tore it more than a thousand are either al-Shanghal Municipal

making the working day of the ber, when 10,000 tona a month was not In a position to buy hilm- Hobba had given a brilliant All British miner half an hour to one must be delivered. The value of sclf a lucrative post, and every day 'Council, to pieces, saying that "we have not most entirely destitute Or una-while the pavements or footpaths received any instructions of this ble to maintain themselves for are the property of the owners the wickets for four hours and hour longer than that of miners in the contract is Pesos 568,000, the he applied for his meal tickets kind, and you must go back." This more than part of the time. The whose houses are upon Chinese seven minutes. he hit ten fours. any important European conf.field. cost of 200,000 tons at Posos 2,84 which secured for Him two meals action on the part of the pickets matter of extending charity to territory.

Was that the method by which General Yen, Chief of It was his tenth Test century the Premier proposed to maintain The breakwater will have a was, he says, no wife and or very half-satying_rice. "It has created great indignation them has grown more and more Police of the Chinese part of against the Australiana and he among the Chinese population in difficult, and at present practical-Shanghai, therefore stationed his was warmly ovated by the crowd the standard of life?

width on top of 3.04 meters or 10 child were brought along,"" other Macao. In consequence, a strong the only contributor to the men upon the pavements in cer which was now about 33,000,

LIBERAL OPPOSITION.

feet. The bureau of public works wise more anxiousness would have protest has been sent again to the charity fund of the Russian Benc-tain places through his under- Woolley and Hendren scored

estimates that the 200,000 tons of been caused.**** Strike Union..

volent Society is the Shanghai standing that the pavements were with the utmost freedom all.round Sir John Simon. (Liberal), said material will be sufficient to carry Strikers without money under-- Racing Club, which gives about not part of the highway and the wicket and England had added that the Government in seeking the wall about 1,150 meters out went many hardships, and those ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.

$15,000 yearly. This does not go therefore not subject to the Muni- 78 without further loss when to insert a wedge to move this from the ruins of Fort San Antonio purchased authority wou far among so many needy people, cipal Council... Interest also attaches to the

stumps were drawn, the Middlesex mountain of a difficulty were Abad.

listen to nothing they anid. news that at Yeung Kong, a gen- and it is stated that there are

This arrangement was not ac man having scored 42 of that adopting a proposal which had. The contract for the closing of

“RUN OUT OF SHAPE” bean urged upon the Coal Commis- the gap between the above section The strike association Issued eral strike has been culled by the many cases of four or five Rug- people because of the high-handed sans living in a single room in holders who prefer the presence.

ceptable to the foreign house number Reuter

alon by the coalowners and had and the south end of the present blue Jackets to a strikers, but if the poorer Chinese sections. ;!

Australia, at Innings. been rejected by that Commission break-water will be awarded they did not wish to bo, insulted in and illegal actions of the pickets

of the Shanghai Municipal Coun- L. Collins, b Root.. Many of these people were once cil police. When this position W. Rardsley, not out

He thought the wisest course when the work now under way the Canton streets, they wore other" which have led to an open conflict well-to-do Ruselans; and, given a was submitted to General Yen ho C, G. Macartney, Satellite, b

would be to legislate boldly on the is completed, provided funds are coats over the top. Such con between the people and the pickets, chance, they should make good ast-Immediately withdrew his men, W. M. Woodfall, Strudwick, b The strike is still unsettled, and tlers. Australia is ready to re-and the policing of the Municipal

Larwood

lines of the Coal Commission's re- available. At that time the dred-tempt of strikers by the King the people are demanding the corn-colve them, and there are all sorts Council was extended to certain T. J. Andrews, e and b Kilner

port without picking or choosing.ging of the new harbour entrance chow people I do not blame, he plate removal of all pickets.

Other Labour members strongly at the south and must be com- adds, "as the matters done by the of opportunities in unsettled and sections outside the Settlement Mor, & Carr, b. Tate

opposed the Bill, Mr. Whiteley aay-pleted before the present entrance strikers are authentically run out consequence, Wong Kum-yuen, a

Ing that the Bill would put back is closed. Presont plans call for of shape causing even God disliked member of the Committee of the

undeveloped Queensland. The boundaries These roads are re A Richardson, Kilner

the miners eighteen years. The the dredging of the harbour to and devil hates, only obstacle to the immediate garded as "extra-convessional". Ryder, e Strudwick, D.Tate Strike Pickets, is to bring about a settlement of the impasse. After migration of several hundred is highways, and considerable di Oldfield, e Sutclife, binar wards, he is to make a tour of in-the financial obstacle. The necescassion, and once or twice a little Mailey, lbw b Kilnor spection of the picket stations in Bary amount to send one person friction, has resulted from the Sze Yup, Kwong Hoi, Konginoon, about $126, Shanghai currency: ther it should be by the men of from Shanghai to Brisbane is question of their policing, of whe

places,

In

Boots

b Larwood

Extras

Total

193

19

23

Later Several Labour members assert Jed that the result of the Bill would

23 measure was very retrogressiva depth of 40 feet, but it is con- The filter returned to Hongkong

British Wireless.

aldered that a depth of only 82 by the efforts of his brother, who foot will be attained in most parts sounded the Company, and was fo of the harbour,

The ultimate completion of the rainstated if he was prepared to formed that his brother would be

present entrance on the west will extent of 4 per month make the harbour much safer for The filter amped at the offor shipping, during the typhoon sea and returned to the Colony and to son, besides protecting the plora his job. from the bigh seng which now.

Ta Leung, Kee, Chuen and other deal when there are twenty appli those of the Chinese municipality/70, Kilner 4 for 70, Larwood 2 for mines abroad.fivekanand Chin-shan, Kong-kow Kum Chok but oven that amallsum is a good the foreign Government, or by Tate took 2 for 111, Root 2 for be increased working hours in coal new sea wall and the closing of the accept a reduction of salary to the

cants a day for help from the which has been reorganised and 99 and Woolley 0 for 5. limited funds in the hands of the rearranged since the arrival in

Router MURDER AND SUICIDE.stood that there is propaganda of the Five Provinces

Hobbs, c. Richardson h Benevolent Society. It fa under Shanghal of Marshal Sun, Tapan England, 1st Innings.

DOUBLE TRAGEDY AT TEHERAN,

Teheran, June. 28. The recently-appointed Under Secretary of Financa was shot dead at the Ministry of Finance by the late Finance Agent, Ispahan, who had been summoned to. Teheran on a charge of embezzle- ment.

under way in America to raise n There was a feeling at first, où fund for these needy people, the part of the Chinese, that the whose settlement in Northern foreign Government was trying to Australia would be good for them extend its general authority be and good also for Australia,

LORD BEATTY. APPENDICITIS OPERATION.

Macartney Woolley not out Sutcliffo, b. Richardson Hendron not out

Batras

The debate was adjourned until to-day (Tuesday)-Reuter.

119 yards in diameter about twenty enter through the west entrance, 82 yards from the playing pitch. The The south wall also will keep out

spot was saturated and the water the silt which constantly Is Bling CANADIAN POLITICS. had run down over the wicket up the harbour.

The bowling ends were unaffected, yond the borders of the extra-ter-.

Total (for two wickets). 207 but a strip some two yards wide ritorial concession. But the

had crossed the centre of the pitch. atatue que previously established.

An Amazing Incident.

The M. C. C. committee is hold makes the municipal roads virtual- ly part of the Concession, and the

London, June 28.

ing an enquiry. Chinese officials, seem to have An amazing incident, is reported Following the hose pipe Incident, agreed now that it is as much to in confection with the Test Match a strong guard of police was posted Lord Beatty, the Firet Ben Lord, their advantage as to anyone's to at Lord's. The head groundsman Inside and outside, the ground to has undergone an operation for concur in the policing, of them by at four o'clock in the morning night to prevent the possibility of The murderer then committed appendicitis. He is progressing the Municipal Council

found that a hosepipe had been further Interference with the pitch. gulcido Reuter,

favourably-British, Wireless,/

turned on to a patch about fifteenReuter.

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MODESTY STRIKE:

SA CUNARDERS CREW:

JOINS INE

New York, June 28, sixty members of the cre the Cunard lines, 8.8. Califo went on Modesty

American

RESIGNATION OF THE GOVERNMENT.

Ottawa,

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office, during which pend on and on sever

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