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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CHINA CRISIS.

EVIDENCE OF KUOMINTANG ACTIVITY.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1927.

THE SURTAXES.

JAPAN PROTEST.

Tokyo, Jani 13."

BOXING DAY ROBBERY.

FOUR MEN TERRORISE KOWLOON CITY FOLK.

It is learned that the Foreign London, Jan. 18.

An armed robbery which occur- Office has deviled to instruct Me.red in a village at Kowloon City Yoshizawa to lodge a protest with on Boxing Day was described to the Chinese authorities against the Mr. T. W. Ainsworth at the Kow proclamation of their intention to loon Magistracy, yesterday after- impose surtaxes.

noen when a Chinese was charged by Sub-Inspector Fallon with pur- ticipation in conjunction with others not in eustody.

The Times in an editorial on China says that while Shanghai is not nearly so vulnerable as Han- kow, there are already indications that the revolutionary propaganda It is unlikely Japan will resort which precedes a Kuomintang of to forec, unless China attempts to fensivos being attempted there, collect the taxes at Tsingtao and and ennçludes. "The strictest pre-Dairen forcibly... cautions are necessary, and there It is considered the Chinese dé- is the greatest need for watchful-elaration is intended more for the

on the part not only of the facilitation of a British Government but of all other governments whose interests -in-Chha are in the end identicn!

with our own."-Heuter.

ness,

Fuller Report,

Rugby, Jan. 13, The Times, commenting on the Chinese situation, expresses the view that, "on "the Information available, Rear-Admiral Cameron, the Senior Naval Officer on the Yangtse, was fully "justified in his decision not to permit his small forces to accept the semi-Bolshevist and semi-Nationalist challenge to open fire on the disorderly mob that invaded the Hankow Concos- sion.

Mr. Chen and his advisers have.

domestly loan issue than as an netual collection of the proposed tuxes-Router.

Outlining the case, Sub Inspov, to: Fallen said that the house of a married woman residing at No. 15, Nga Tsin Long, Kowloon, was entered by four men at 7 pm. on-December 26, whon the woman. was alone with her daughter and and Verity, and the gunboat. Wood-three other small children, the husband being away at Տ. lark..

There was also an amah on the

The destroyer Wivern and gun- boat Scarab are at Kiuking, and at Wuhu 19 the destroyer Wild- swan..."

premises at the time.

The mother and her offspring were having their evening meal Fürther down, at Nanking, there when the men entered by the front are three cruisers--the Carlisle, door which was not locked. They Emerald and Vindictive. The wore armed with daggers and cruiser Despatch has left Shang-choppers, and claimed that they hai for Nanking, with Vice were in search of contraband. Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt on board.

Two destroyers, Witherington and Veteran, are at Chirkiang.

The cruiser Enterprise is at Shanghai, where the gunboat Gaat is refitting...

It was alleged by the mother and daughter that the defendant was the second man to enter the house. IIe seized the girl and the others assisted to usher "the mather and other members of the household into the kitchen.

The house was then ranneked

how discovered the real economic Significance of the foreign conces sion in Chinese territory. Not

Of other ships on the China fareigners merely, but the Chinese, stution, the cruiser Caradbe has and money and jewellery to the profit by the existence of the con-

now reached Hongkong and the value of $586 was stolen, After cessions, and the removal of Bri- cruiser Durban is expected to ar-remaining on the premises for half ish control from the British Con-riye on Saturday, where she will an hour the men made their escape.} ession had as an immediate re-meet the Ringship Hawitins, under The inmates were not bound or sult the paralysis of the widely refit, and the aircraft carrier Her- gagged, continued the prosecutor. rumilied Chinese commercial con- ebras..

On the following day the com-

At Hankow it was possible to single out the British Concession and ostentatiously to refrain, from attacks on concessions of other Powers. At Shanghai that is quite impossible. There the British are intimately associated with several other powers in the International Settlement, and an attack upon as would involve an attack upon. Americans and Japanese, not to whose speak of the French, separate Concession could hardly be excluded from the general offensive. There is the greatest need for watchfulness on the part not only of our British Govern- ment but of all other government whose interests in China are in the end identient with each other and our own."

Cabinet Consideration. -

Although yesterday's meeting of the Cabinet, at which the Chinese situation was under review, was the first beld for some weeks, the Ministers and been closely follow- ing the developments in the Far East. A further Cabinol meeting is anticipated in two or three days,, and the report. from Mr. O'Malley, the Counsellor from the Peking

mes.

..

hock and Bluebell were also last pair of spectacles which had ap

The sloops Petersfield, Holly-plainant found a chopper and a, sported at Hongkong, and the parenty been left on the premises Foxglove at Swatow. The flotilla by the robbers. leader. Keppel is cruising from

On December 30, the complain- Amoy and there are five gunbests allotted to the West River,ant received information that the

defendant, who was frequently i British Wirdess.

seen in the village, was in Wan-| chal. Accompanied by a Chinese searcher, the woman went to Wan- chai, where she saw the defendant | in Queen's Road and had•him ar-l rested.

Tientsin Concessions.

Puking, Jan. 13. Reports regarding the desire of the Peking. Government to take over the concessions at Tientsin are proved to be nearer the truth than was at first imagined, or it was intelligent anticipation of events, for representatives of the Peking Government, called on certain Legations yesterday and "suggested", that the foreigh con- cessions in Tlenisin should be handed over to the Chinese.

This attitude is not considered surprising, as the case of Hankow is considered a precedent, which apparently certain Chinese Intend to follow elsewhere--Reuter.

Foochow Events.

Foochow, Jan. 13. Students ransacked a Japanese

considerable quantity of goods.

Legation, now examining the posi-shop and confiscated and burnt a tion at Hankow, will be considered immediately it. is received- British Wireless.

Disposition of 'Naval Vessels.

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Rugby, Jan. 13. The Eighth Flotilla, consisting of a lender and two divisions of four destroyers, is now in Home ports in readiness to proceed to Chinese waters.

The river gunboats Aphis and Ladybird. ordered from

reserve

Customs transit passes for for- eign goods have been refused re- cognition.

Stirs emnandeered in the Pagoda Anchorage are waiting to .be utilised in the tran- aport of · Southern troopg for the north.

at Malla to China, will leave in the next two or three weeks, escorted the

Otherwise all remains quiet. Reuter,

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Canadian Feeling.

Victoria, B.C., Jan. 13. As a counter measure to

driving out of the Wolverine. If conditions permit,kow, the local cost of the Canadian residents from IIan- theso destroyers will relieve the Legion and British Empire Service Wolsey and Woolston, but in case League has passed a resolution, of need the latter could be retain for consideration by the Dominion The latest information respect-month..urging the confiscation of

Convention at Winnipeg ing the disposition of British War-property owned by Chinese in ships in the Yangtze is as follows. Canada, and the expulsion of all The gunboat Mants is at Chun Chinese from the Dominion, after king, the highest navigable poin due notice.-Reuter's American or the river. The gunboats Teal Service.

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