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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,"

ON THE YANGTSZE.

WHAT BRITAIN HAS DONE.

Writing in the Daily Mall, G, C. Dixon says:

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1927.

MORE HANKOW PROCESSIONS.

(Continued from page 1.)

AGAINST THE “REDS”.

CANTON'S MILITARY CHIEF ACTIVE...

According to Chinese reports, The Chinese Bolsheviks have turally ho made the most of the been learning the truth of Oscar altuation in China as showing that General Li Chai-sum, Chief of Staff to the Nationalist Army, Commla- Lenin's words were well founded.sioner of Military Affairs of Wilde's cynical maxim that nothing

Bukharin exulted over China and Kwangtung, and Commander of the succeeds ke excess. Having devised clever and unscrupulous saw in her people a means to pro- 4th Nationalist Army Corps, is try- mote Red International alma.ing by every means to increase his anti-British propaganda for the

military strength so is to enable heartening of their own lukewarm "Hands off China" Indeed. These hith to carry through his plan of adherents, they are now finding altruistic Russians will make the checking Bolshevik influence in that their stories of British iron bite into the very soul of Kwangtung. tyranny on the Yantsze are being China if her people do not speedily. accepted by the ignorant through-realize how strong are the shackles the Comintern is forging for them.

out the world.

When Britons themselves awal- low nonsense of this kind, probably to the vast diversion of China's Reds. it is time that we all learned something of the real history of the enterprise through which the Upper Yangtaze has developed from the grave of countless rotting Junks into the world's greatest commercial waterway.

The

romance

Forty Years Ago.

of the Upper Yangtsze begins in 1888, when the late, Archibald Little chartered a junk and made the voyage from Shanghai to Chungking, 1,427 miles..

The journey took 69 dage, no less than three weeks being required to negotiate the dreaded gorges be- tween Ichang and Chungking,

strangled trade and communica- tion.

True, junka did pass them and still do pass them--at a cost. Up this section, where the river thun- ders and foams between rocky walls, each junk is hauled by, teams of sweating, chanting, groaning junkmen. Lungs and hearts may burst, feet may slip and men may fall cldwing into the foam beneath, but the onward surge never halts. For once a junk enters the danger zone there can be no pause. A moment's slackening of the ropes and the craft would swing round with the torrent and be dashed to pieces.

SOVIET POLICY.

General Li recently dealt very strictly with troubles created by the "Red" labour unionists in Can- ton and the "Red" peasants in the adjacent village. The most notable action was the driving out of all the labour pickats from the shops in. Canton which the pickets wore For this, General Li

his overthrow.

M. Litvinoff's Denials.

According to the Tase News blockading. Agency (an official Soviet organisa-is much hated by the Reds, who are tion) M. Litvinoff, who is the now said to be planning secretly for Acting head of the Foreign Affairs Office in Moscow, declared in an interview granted to press repre- sentatives on February 6th that the Soviet regretted the suspension

Goneral Li ís, however, quite aware of the throats to his position

and has therefore adopted several suppressing Red activities in the important measures with the aim of

province. One of these steps is the

| of negotiations between Mr. O'Mal- | organization of an Institute for the lay and Mr. Eugene Chon on the training of directors of peasants' ground that Britain refused to re-moyements, but this institution will call her armed forces.

be quite different in its policy from similar Institutions "operated by the Kuomintang Heder who train men to sprend Bolshevim ataong the peasants. General Li has also es- children of "the overseas Chinese tablished an Academy for the

In the course of the Interview, M..Litvinoff said that the "British were trying to lay their own mis- takes on the shoulders of the Soviet Government by putting forward

Another

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Three

military institution organised by General Li for the suppression of the Reds is Officers Training Corps hundred students have been enlisted for this Corps and after completion of their course of studies these in the new Provincial Guards. students will be appointed officera General Li has also organised an institute for the training of civil

which for thousands of years had perfectly ludicrous legends to the whom he believes can be trusted

effect that the liberative movement with anti-Red work. of China, with her multi-million population, is result of the work of some Soviet "agents." The Soviet Government has never disguised their sympathies towards the Nationalist movement in Chins, but it does by no means follow that the Soviet Government should recom- mend or has actually recommended to the Nationalist Government to follow a policy of acerbating their relations with England, or that the Soviet Government should prevent the signing of a peaceful agreement between England and China. The Soviet Government has never for gotten its obligations, undertaken in accordance with the Treaty of 1921 (Trade Agreement) and it will never forget them in future, being anxious to preserve peace and | mutually-advantageous- and political relations."

|

economic

officers.

All these institutes will give training in Kuomintang principles but not Red propaganda, such as is given in other Kuomintang in-

stitutions.

BURGLAR ALARM.

Even with the most heroic efforts one junk in ten go23 aground each voyage and one in twenty is wholly lost, usually with all aboard. As for the junkmen, the number lost is beyond all know. ing. This rocky path has been drenched, every foot of it, with sweat and blood; and the junk men earn, if they are lucky, six favour of peaceful settlement of the again attracted attention to the

pence a day,

Due to Britishers.

If goods and the great majority of passengers, Chinese as well as foreign, are carried to-day in happier and safer conditions, the change is mainly due to a few

dogged British pioneers.

In 1888, five years after his voy age of exploration, Mr. Little steamed up the Yangtze in the Kuling, specially built for the rapids.

The Kuling proved unsuitable, In 1898 Mr. Little made another attempt in a little 7-ton launch; and in the following year he sent up the Pioneer, a paddle-wheel steamer of 331 tons, built on the Clyde, under Captain Plante. She, too, proved unsatisfactory, and when a German vessel was wreck ed in 1900 the pessimists declared

Mr. Litvinoff added that he wel- comed the attitude of the British General Trade Unions' Council in

A SHANGHAI INVENTION.

+

The increase in the number of

armed robberies In Shanghai has

conflict with Canton; as well as the feasibility of installing effective attitude in Britain which warned alarm devices to help in combat- against a rupture of Anglo-Soviet ting this form of serious crime relations, which would affect harm- from which Shanghai particularly fully, in the first place, those suffers. financial and industrial groups A very ingenious electric alarm which were advocating a rupture of system has been invented by a relations. The position of England Russlan engineer named Mr. A J. in the East would not be streng Bapenoff, who calls it an "electric thened as

the result of greater watchman" and claims that a: a hostilities between England and the very small per capita cost he can. Soviet.

wire up the whole of Shanghai to the various police stations so that instantly the police may be thform-. as to the very building involved.

In conclusion, M. Litvinoff ex pressed the hope that reasonable elements of the English public and the British Government would pre- vail over those advocating a policy of "coercion and force."

This system is electrified, and by means of a very ingenious com- bination of wire eyen a large aren like Shanghai can be easily con- MOSCOW METHODS.

nected with a central point. Mr. Soviet Campaign in China.

Bafenoff would install concealed buttons or switches in each houss According to M, Bukharin, the or office. Those connect with Soviet leader, China "is the first to wires leading to the telephon make an organised attack against and, using the telephone wires to transmit the electric flash, A prompt alarm can be given at the police station.

Britain."

that a service was impossible.

But, fred still by Mr. Little's dream, Captain Plante induced "As soon as the Chinese victory some Chinese capitalists to form is assured, China will be made the the Szechwan Steam Navigation centre of. operations against Company, and designed a vessel Britain's neighbouring colonics." with twin screws that worked in The Pravda explains that it to tunnels so that they might not be imparative to knock Britain, about shattered on the rocks. She pass-elsewhere before starting the ed the gorges safely in October Indian revolution.

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5,084

Ascertaining the building in- volved is made very simple. At the station, the inventor would, have a combination of coloured lights which, as soon as the alar is sounded, indiente a signal. Con- sulting a diagram accompanying"

1909, made 14 trips in,1910, and It recalls that Karakhan, the the station instrument, a couple the battle of 30 years had been former Soviet envoy at Peking, was of seconds work results in picking How the trade of Chungking appointed head of the Eastern out a card upon which the loca alone has grown since then may be Department of the Moscow In-tion of the building, description

ternational...

of tenant and other information, scen from the following shipping

are found, enabling the police figures.

The Soviet is now sending three to be sent out to answer the call. Year.

classes of agitators to China. The

The Inventor has a model of his political, who will be attached

invention in working order at to Chinese personages and institu-

"Tailorcraft," Kiangse Road. Al- tions, to adviso on political and

ready he has about 100 numbers working on his instrument but he belleves he can install his invention so as to wire up 40,000 Shanghai buildings to the police station in the vicinity. The total cost of maintaining his invention, which he believes will guarantee,

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military matters; secondly, a trade The decay of the junk traffic, agitator charged with the task of which, together with the sinking of intensifying boycotts; and third- junks by the wash of steamers, has ly, a labour organiser for workers naturally embittered thousands of militant trade unions. junkmen, has not been due to the foreign alone. The Chinese have learned that passengers

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Mr. George Cottrell Downing security and freedom from bur goods, if conveyed by steamer, run of Beverly, Llanishen, Glamorgan, glaries and other crime, is not less risk of being seized by a solicitor, who died last Novem-more than three or four taels per militarista. And it is also worth ber, aged 76, left $209,972, with month. remembering that ships dying the net personalty £284,301) Nearly British flag, like the prosperous- £100,000 is left to Mr. Downing's

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