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CANTON'S CASE.

STATEMENT PRESENTED AT others.

CONFERENCE.

SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1926.

Canton as the centre of Nationalist doctrine and activity.

But there is a more cuncrets

would have taken place had Evan-of shedding the blood of Chinese amounts exceeding five dollars and son not ordered firing into an un- on June 23, 1925, would hardly be gold and silver bullion and bank armed crowd of students and able to restrain armed and influm notes of every description in ed men under his orders from do Repercussion. ›

ing some bloodlotting on the oc amounts exceeding five dollars." reason why the anti-British boy casfon. In other words we road This prohibition became known in gott has been so long sustained. The following is the text of the which enabled the Government, to British Consul-General's intention tragedy of June 23, and-whatever have the question of Juno, 23 Owing to fighting in Canton the letter as a frank avowal of the Canton within a few hours of the

It is on record, that my Govern statement of the Chinese case pre destroy sundry rebel elements to do what Everson had already

ment made repeated attempts to sented by the Chinese, Delegation and to unify the province, the re done at Shanghai or (we say this may have bean its actual purpose settled. And in reply to one of at the second sitting on Friday, percussion of May 30 was not fully in purely historical sense) General and continued so to be interpreted Consul-General stated that his 16th July, of the Conference for

and alm-it was then interpreted these attempts, the then British when the real significance and on the doctrine of the preventive ade of Canton and the rest of the the demands formulated for a tish disputes in the Liang-kuang:

the settlement of the Chinese-Bri.felt here before the middle of June, Dyer at Amritsar, 1. e. action based as a financial and, economic block; Government could not entertain) ·

"In accordance with what are gravity of the occurrence begar massacre which specialists of province, which had hitherto de settlement of the question. Those doubtless the wishes of the British to be understood. In Peking and strong and drastic action are wont pended on Hongkong for supplies demands were conceived and delegation, we propose to berin elsewhere there was, already a to advise as a magical. operation of rice and other foodstuffs. "

consideration of the anti-British trouble in the Linng-kuang by first concentrating attention on the aspect of it which has found ex- pression in the anti-British boy- cott,

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realization that an event had taken of acts that create epochs in place which was of the order history. As Canton is the greatest Nationalist centre in the country,

with "Oriental crowds.

"Retaliation.”

formulated in the unusual circum stances immediately following the shooting of June 28, and they in

June 28 is the direct and im

While there can be no doubt that mediate cause of the anti-British this Hongkong severance of econo-mont, actuated by a sincere desire boycott (and of the intonsification mie relations with Canton suggest to arrive at a satisfactory settle- In a sense, it may be said that cluded terms which my Govern- it is not strange that May 30 and extension of the. Hongkong ed the precise form in which ment, la prepared to review In What is this boycott? Ignoring should be envisaged from an un-strike), it is certain that the prac patriosle retaliation for Juna 23 order that nothing incompatible. mere details or purely accidental compromisingly Nationalist stand-tical blockade which the Govern should express itself. And if the with the real dignity and interest features, it consists essentially in Point and seen to be a decisivo. CX-ment of Hongkong Chinese, workers refusing to load pression of the struggle between against Canton and the rest of the follow the course of other appar Power in China shall continue to instituted anti-British boycott did not soon of Great Britain as a trading or unload British ships and in the needs and ideas known as Chinese disposing and, later, continuing popular feeling in the past, one of

the body of economic and political provinco was a powerful pre-ently similar manifestations of obstruct the path of settlement. Chinese people, in our territory re- fusing to buy or deal in British Nationalism, whose chief motive factor in the maintenance and en- the main reasons was that the goods, or to sell goods to the Ris the achievement of reul Chinese forcement of the anti-British boy-movement came immediately to be terms of settlement, we wish to

Before communicating theap new. tish. It is admitted that the boy. independence, and the opposing, cott! The Hongkong Governor in envisaged as a means of effective havo the views of the British dele

Council; it will be recalled, pro-defence against what Chinese Ne

system of ideas and forces which

cott is us organised patriotic movement which has been sus-driving, their sanction" from the hibited the exportation of "rice, tionalists were led to understand gation on this presentation and de- tained by the Chinese people in long series of treaties dating from flour, tinned or preserved food as a British attempt, based on finition of the anti-British buy- South China for more than a year. 1842, is known as Foreign Im-sa, gold and silver coin in Hongkong, to starve and crush cott issue.

the transaction of Nanking izz

June 23, 1925.

perialism,

If the ant British boycott is to

This interpretation of May 30 be settled and not simply sup pressed by force and so transform here in the form of patriotic de would naturally find expression Into an enduring element in Chinese British relations through.

monstrations and other popular out China, it is necessary to fint manifestations, And it was the out, at least, its direct and im- driving necessity to express the mediate cause. In hemely phrase, Nationalist.mind and feeling on a amalady is cured by treat-profoundly poignant act of tragedy ing its caust

that Canton organized the memor The 'anti-British boycott in table demonstration of June 23. typical form hegan immediately It is indisputable that the proces- after the events of June 23, 1925, slon, which was the central fea- of the Shanicen. And none with, a

ture of the demonstration, con- sense of causation can possibly sisted inrgely of students and doubt that the boygott was the school-children and was entirely direct and inmediate, outcome of unarmed save as to the Whampoa the killing and maiming of Chinese cadet section who were in or- students and others on that fate- dinary parade attire, ful day. 1; therefore, the anti- British boycott is to be terminated by a negotiation Settlement W must first deal with the transac- tions of June 23, 1925.

Point in Dispute.

'Broadly speaking, the material facts of the ease are not in real dispute save one, namely, whether the British or the Chinese fired the first shot.

Not a Capital Issue.

The question as to which side fired the first shot is not a capital issue in view of the actual « cir- cumstances of the case and the grim results of the shooting. Never in its history had Shameen been so completely and perfectly protected. Separated by its wide canal and sand-bagged, barbwired.. But even this point be-\|'cquipped and garrisoned by forces came of secondary importante armed to the teeth and supported when the entire incident is exant- and covered by the great guns of ined from the standpoint of juri the foreign warship in the har- dicial responsibility. Such an ex-bour, Shameen was impregnable amination leads us first to a brief and absolutely safe even on the review of what may be called the incredible assumption that there causal background out of which was any real Chinese. intention to sprang the tragedy of June 29.

capture it. There were no such It is an historical fact that the intention and there could have Chinese people as a whole were been none, and the results of the powerfully stirred by Sergeant shooting proved it. The British, Evanson's order to his men "to suffered hardly any casualties, but shout to kill" the Chinese students fifty dead and more than a hundred and others who demonstrated at wounded Chiness. demonstrated Shanghai on May 30, 1925. In arresh the meaning of a struggle China, as elsewhere, school boys between a fortress and a "crowd. and girls of to-day are the rulers All the relevent facts of the case and workers of to-morrow, and a support the view that, even if the nation is necessarily interested in Shamcen firing were done in the its student class. There is also a first instance in so-called self- special reason why the Chinese defence (which is categorically people are interested in their denied), It was excessive and students. A nation that is not dy therefore legally unjustified. ing must have an articulate group, That Shameen was, on June 23. and for reasons inherent in the 1926 in the mood and temper to present perior of transition act violently and excessively ap through which China is passing, pears from the widely advertised this mark and quality of vitality letter written by the then British in a nation is possessed by the Consul-General on June 22, but Chinese student class. If China actually received by Mr. Wu Chao- to live her students must continue chu, former Minister for Foreign to voice the new economic and Affairs, about the hour of the political needs" of the Transition actual shooting on June 23. It until a new equilibrium is es- was sent through the post not de- tablished. between the Chinese livered by messenger. people and the changed environ. ment in which they find themselves after three-quarters of a century of commercial, diplomatic and so- eial intercourse with foreigners.

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"Fantastic Story." After referring to a fantastic story of certain students who had cast lots for the privilege of Chinese Student Class.

"posing as martyrs" (which he himself had to suggest "might be This view of the Chinese the figment of a fertile imagina-. student class explains the range tion"), the British Consul-General and depth of the repercussion of went on to declare that "If, on the May 30 on the nation. Along the other hand, it have any solid great line of the Yangtse-at Han- foundation in fact and should kow, Kiukiang, Nanking-and in action of the kind be contemplated the North, notably in Poking, and take place, I have the honour significant manifestations of na-solemnly to warn the Government tional feeling and a new con- of Kuangtung through you as their sciousness occurred. Even to-day, Foreign Secretary that any at- more than a year after the event, tempt to penetrate on the Foreign the conception of Sergeant Evan- Concession at Shameen will bo son's action on May 80 as a mas-resisted by force of arms, and that admission will go to the players, sacre persists in the Chinese Na- for the consequences the Govern and not t

Dagy other.

tionalist mind. And the songe of mont will be held individually and clude Mr. G. Bernard Shaw's play. theatrical body, the performance greater now that the bloodless added that "due precautions are, wrong engendered is all the collectively responsible." And he "The Showing Up of Blarro must be classed as amateur, and handling of a far more dangerous however, being taken to guard Fosnot" in the programmo received the amateur fee (two or three crowd at Shanghal on the first against acts of mob violence, such the following letter from Mr. guineas-I forget which) paid to anniversary of May 30 proves that as have occurred at Chinking, Shaw-Under no circumstances the Society of Authors. It

Evanson's action was wholly un- Kluklang and Hankow, and should can any play of mine be performed hard enough for my poorer fellow doctrine of the preventive mas-blood of those who call upon crowd without payment of the standard

necessary as an application of the unfortunately they occur bere, the author's fec. A Labour Advisory authors to meet the competition of sacre,, i. e. the prevention of phychology to commit deads of vio Council ought to understand this my playera without the additional bigger massacro by the mob, which lence will be on their own head." Es point of trade unionism. handicap of having them por other British witnesses at the of one who, having onvisaged the What is more, unless you

Lieut-Colonel Hilton-Johnson and It fa plain that this is the language assure me that the sixpence for formed gratuitously.”

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