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CANTON REPLY.

NO ATTACK INTENDED BY

CHINESE.

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on page three.

In it the Chinese delegation inalat on publicity being given to

statements made at the conférence.

MONDAY, JULY 26, 1926.

fact that the Chinese crowd was students and others on the Shakee JAPANESE MILLS WIN.

unarmed as to sticks and polos and that the British forecs includ ed British Marines armed with | quick-Aring machine-gunu.

We have stuted and we repont that the anti-British Boycott has

to be ended, its cause must be denit with.

bund.

Fastening Responsibility. Nor can we refrain from in- stantly repelling the attempt to for tho faston responsibility

inflammable material to be placed ready to the hands of the agitators seeking for an opportunity to cause a conflagration."

MONTH'S STRIKE AT COTTON

MILL ENDS.

"Shanghal, July 24.

WAR DEBTS.

BORAH'S LATEST

RETORT.

Following is the full text of the been the immediate and direct Chinese dead and wounded on the

Washington, July 25. etatement made by the Canton outcome of the shooting off the Chinese authorities who, It is al-: Soveral hundred workers at a Senator Borah has made a state- Foreign Minister in reply to the Shameen on June 23. This is the leged, "disregarding the folly Japanese cotton mill, who have ment to Europena critics of British reply which is given fully causa causane. If the boycott is and danger of their action, allowed been on strike for about a month, America in connection with war

have agreed to return to work to-debts, day. The list of conditions pré- He says they should remember. sented to them by the Japanese that people living in glass houses management, which have been ge-should not throw stones; and re- cepted, shows that the mills have fers to the "territorial acquisi won a distinct victory over the tons of Great Britain at the peace unruly workers.

table." He adds that out of four The lockout during the past few million square miles to be divided, weche has caused considerable Britain becured three million disturbance in labour circles. France, oight hundred thousand, The acceptance by the workers of and America, true to her ideals, the management's demands was nothing-Reuter's American Sor undoubtedly the result of the vice. workers being starved out.- Reutor.

which embodied final views and not tentative views on the boycott. The delegation repeat that the anti-British boycott is a direct outcome of the Shakee shooting on June 23, 1926, and state that if the boycott is to be ended its cause must be dealt with.

It is re-asserted that the Chinese never intended to attack Shameen and that the first shots were not fired from Shakea.

The communique reads as fol- lows:

ba-

But while a consideration of this cause involves the question of responsibility as a vital issue, it is impossible to accept seriously as evidence on the point of the allegation that "it was definitely stated in Chinese circles in Can ton and Hongkong on June the 23rd.. that an attack was to be minde on Shameen on the following

prominent day, and

Chinese actually took refuge in Hongkong and made other dispositions to meet, such an eventuality."

This presumably, is a repetition of part of the then British Con.

"As trustees of power on half of the Chinese people in he sul-General's disputable story of Liang-kuang, the Nationalist Govthe eventa proceding the actual ernment sets the utmost value on shooting on June 23. publicity both as public, information and of mass education and discipline. The

a means

of

There is a familiar ring in these words. It is always heard when men's folly. and unwisdom plunge them inte, deeds of blood and a scapegoat must be tracked. But the real reply to thia charge is that the Chinese Authorities did not interfere with the demonstra, tion business, as a fact, they were aboslutely satisfied that no attack would or could be made on Sha meen. A host of responsible witnesses can attest to this fact.

A Grave Insult "

We note that the British Dele-

gation challenge our definition of the anti-British Boycott as a pa triotic abstention from all con-

COBHAM'S FLIGHT.

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"Akyab, July 24.

"

ANGLO-HUNGARIAN RELATIONS."

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Rugby July 21. That baseless reports in "Chin-mercial relations with the British.

Sir Austin Chamberlain, Foreign ese circles" and "prominent Chin- and assert that "It is imposed on beneficiaries must know if we, as esc" (wealthy and therefore un- an unwilling people by a small but Mr. Cobham, the aviatog lina Secretary, and Baron Rubido Zichy, Hungarian Minister in London, yos- MACHINE MADE WIRE-CUT merely to dominate and exploit kong for roture should be the maintain the boycott by force

not duly nervous) running to Hong powerful organisation of persons arrived hero.-Reuter.

terday sigued. the text of the Anglo-Hungarian. Treaty of Com- them. It is for this large reasoned as evidence of a plan of "attack of arms." A completo reply to

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gation raunot share the objection of the British Delegation to the immediate publication of state ments' embodying final, and not purely tentative, views on a ques tion of such comm ning public interest as the anti-British Boy- cott. There is also a specifle yea-

son.

The British Press.

mentary on human credibility.

the two countries

But this Shameen gullibility-

of question which, though we are tion of food from other centres qua between also testifies to the existence of a ready and prepared to dipéuss hud deprived the blockade of its until the new treaty has been duly ratified by high contracting parties. state and condition of the official.

thur. do not come within the effectiveness.

A Welcome Expression.

The basis of the treaty is IG- mind on June 23 which explains mbit of this Conference. But we why the events of the day marched have to emphasize the grave insult Finally, we have to welcome theiprocal freedom of commerce and navigation and mutual and absoluto to their tragic ending.

to the Chinese Nation that is im expression of the British deleg most favoured nation treatment be tion's desire "of seeing" à happy tween the two countries.-British To the then British Consul-plied in the British view,

To believe that the Chinese prosperous and independent Chinareless Service. General, an attack on Shameen was an article of faith and, wa-people are incapable of mass with whom they can conduct their For more than a year the Bri-urally he detected the diabolie dignation and mass action for trade," the more so because past tish press and publicists have exa-intention in most things that eaine4cts of death and violence of the and recent British action have, not cerbated the public opinion of within the range of vision during type enacted on the Shakee Bund been enlculated to inspire con is not only to er grievously but fidence in the possibility of re- the world's adversely to Canton the fateful hours immediately pro which has been consistently misceding the enactment of the to imply that we are a people with conciling what have hitherto been MANY PEOPLE SLEEPING IN

the stu of slaves in us. It is understood to be the aims of Bri- tragedy.

doubtless true that there have ish policy in this country with been incidents in our relations Chinese Nationalist ideals and with the British,, in tho past,

aspirations. which may explain the persistence of this British belief.

represented us a centré of sense- less hostility and agitation against the British,

"We Speak Gravely,”

No Attack Intended. In reassorting that there was I must surely serve the inter- not and could not have been any ests aut only of historicul truth intention to attack Shameen, we but of this conference if fiction is have categorically to state that replaced by fact, and public | the arifg on June 23 was first opinion is rightly informed as to opened from the,, Shaneen aide. But great tidal waves of change the true Chinese reasons for the This point, of course, is of vital have swept across the world; and existing anti-British trouble in importance. And in view of its men's work and action in this re- this territory. We, at any rate; presentation by the British Delecion of Asia are to-day inspired believe in open diplomacy as agation, it now appears necessary by ideas of freedom and human necessity of modern government for the Conference to consider dignity which will not suffer them and in publicity generally as the whether the question of respon- tamely to submit to violence and Joe of the idols or Occidental pibility for the Shameen Shakes injustice.. prestige and Oriental "face" thun shooting should not form the which there are no greater obsta-subject of a properly constituted eles in the transaction of inter-international enquiry. We have, national affairs in the Far East. however, to point out, that it was

It is clearly not within the to avoid the necessity of such an with them will be but a repctition scope of this Conference, to review enquiry that the Chinese dele-of the past with its misunder- the Shanghai shooting on May 30gation argued in their state-standings, its riots, its tumults in the sense of an immediate causement that the point la of "second- and its wars.

Unless this fact is grasped and understood, by, the British and translated into their policy and action, the future of our relations

W

of the anti-British boycott in the ary importance" and "is not a We speak gravely. We ha Liang-Kuang: Reference was capital issue," since "all the re- on the eve, if not already mude to it in the Chinese state-levant facts of the case support in the midst, of events that may ment as but one of the massive the view that, even if the Shameen cut out in the rocks of destiny a features of the "casual back-firing were done in the first in-new road for our people. It is not ground" out of which sprang the stance in so-called defence (which our wish that we should enter on tragedy of the Shameen on June is categorically denied), it was this new road with the British at excessive and therefore legally variance with us. But we are in unjustified.

a situation in which the decision as to the future is largely theirs.

Blockade of Hongkong.

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And it is strictly in this sense

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regards the blockade by the British statement and, refer- determine the "question of whose Hongkong, we have to reiterate ring to the so-called vindication of act gave rise to the tragedy," we that whatever, subjectively, it was Inspector Everson by the Shang-cannot in the meantime sllow to intended to compass, the general. hui Judicial Enquiry, so emphasize go unchallenged the "written prohibition was interpreted as a the refussal of the Chinese peo-statements by the Danish and financial and economic blockade ple as a whole to have anything Swedish. Consuls and American of Canton and the rest of the pro- to do with the investigation. We citizens who were present at the vince and that objectively,' it. agree that "previous experience"same time, and assert definitely of worked out in this sense, since was utilised in dealing with the their own knowledge that the first Hongkong as the whole tranship- anniversary crowd of May 30 at hala wate fired from Sharee.

ment port in South China, was the Shanghai, which conclusively pro- These men formed part of the only gatoway through which ve that a Chinese crowd can be population or of the garrison of supplies of food could then reach dispered without invoking heShareen on June 23 and they are our people. application of the doctrine of the no more disinterested witnesses This interpretation of the em preventive measure. As regards than in Sir James Jamieson. Inbargo is not affected by either its what happened at Hankow the principle their testimony ía just as modification on August 11 or its British statement Is Incomplete tainted as that of the men who removal on October 9. By these without a reference to the double actually shot down Chinesc

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