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No.

FOUNDED BLTAZAME THURSDAY, MARCH 17,

HANKOW'S NEW COUNCIL.

THREE BRITISH TAIPANS NOMINATED.

NATIONALISTS ASKED TO WUHU AGITATIONS.

RECOGNITION PROBLEM.

In connection with the handing over of the British Concession at Hankow to the newly-created Sino-British Council, which took place on Tuesday, the three British Councillors nominated to serve on the new body are the Hankow managers of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, Messrs. Mackenzie and Co., and Messrs.-Jardine, Matheson and Co. The Nationalist Foreign Ministry has nominated the Mayor of Wuchang as Director and three Chinese Councillora, including a

Labour leader.

CHINA DEBATE.

PROTECTING BRITISH

COMMUNITY.

GOVERNMENT COMMENDED:

London, Mar. 16.

In the House of Commons a re-

China.

THE "LIMCHOW" NOW LOCATED.

PICKED UP BY HENRY

KESWICKNLARG

IN TOW TO HAIPHONG. Somewhere on the high seas be tween Hongkong and Holbow, the

sponse to wireless calls for

distance.

as

1927.

十四十月二,

RED TERRORISM.

RECENT SHANGHAI

MURDERS.

HOW AGITATORS WORK.

Two murders by hired assassins! of the Shanghai General Labour Union marked' yesterday's dovelor situation, says the Shanghai Times of Saturday last.

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THE KUOMINTANG.

REPORTS OF SPLIT DENIED.

CHANG KAI-SHEK'S POWER.

Reports current in the last few reconditioning to be carried out at in the Kuomintang is denied by Among other important works of days of critical internal friction

new hospital, work on which will says a message to the Canton shortly be put in band.

Gazette of the 12th instant. The Victoria Gaol has, for many years message continuca:.. past, been in a state needing m

It is authoritatively stated that

The two killings resulted from the refusal of mill management provement and a scheme of better the present Central Executive to permit labour posters, to be ing the accommodation. has been

:

surcooded in strengthening the

STOP talution was moved by Sir OliveChinese 9.5. Limchow is presumed ments in the Shanghai labour Victoria Gnol is the construction of high party officials in Hankow,

Morrison Inviting the Housb ap- to be drifting with her engines and prove of the foresight of the Gov-propellor disabled. In search for ernment and to congratulate it on her is the Kowloon Dock tug prompt action in taking steps to Henry Keswick which left Hong safeguard the lives of Britishers endangered by the Civil war in Long on Tuesday morning in replaced. on the walls of their mills. drawn up. New roofs of rainfore-Committee Conference has already

The first occurred at 6.45 o'clocked concrete are to replace some of authority" of the Party in the morning when a Chinese the present tiled roofs for certain The mover drew attention to the

This situation has been brought foreman employed at the Doong portions and there are lots of At yesterday's session the most remarkably efficient mannor in which the Defence Force was mov- about, not through the cutting off Shing Cotton Mill, 181 Gordon

the re-establishment of the M being carried out, ed to Shanghai and to the East. of communication (the Limehow Road, was shot down on Macac minor repairs and improvements important decision thus far, taken The new hospital, which will beary Council which will have con- con- The labourers at this plant had IIe Hoped that of the Opposition being fitted with wireless which is Road while on his way to work. divided against the resolution, the still in working order and

gao hospital (between the Old

Cause of Reports, Jouse, by its vote, would send a tantly keeping in touch with the ceased work. From 19.30 o'clock erected on the site of the existing trol over military affairs."

tug) but because the exact post- until 11 o'clock on Thursday morn Bailey and Arbuthnot Road), will A great deal of the present cheering message to those

A Hon of the steamer has not beening as protest against the

be a three-storey block. The ground discussions in the Forty.con- Shanghai and show the real opin-ven. It is also possible that the management's removal of posters or is to be used as offices and frence, and present speculation ion of the whole country.

Limehow has drifted so fast that piaced on walls inside the pre-stores and will also contain the pri- in outside circles, have centred Mr. R. Mitchell Bonks (Cons.)

son mortuary. The operating thoa- around the present necessity to attacked Labourites for their atti- it is out of the usual track of mises.

tre, surgery, examination and re-abolish the emergency measures. tude on foreign affairs and said steamers. that Britain in their eyes was' al-

Since leaving here on Tuesday

taken last fall and re-establish- morning in response to wireless

rmal party organization. calls from the Limehow, the Henry Keswick has been engaged in continuous search for the disabled vessel. The Limehow, through its wireless installation, has given several positions; and the tug has carried out the search in pursu- ance of these directions, but so far without result.

at

The Chinese navy at Shanghai has definitely gone over to the South, the warships at Woosung now flying the Nationalist flag. Admirál Yang, the Commander, is said to have gone up to Klakinngways wrong. They preferred to Regarding the recent disturbances at Wuhu, Sir Auston Chamber-trust a foreign revolutionary to lain has informed the House of Commons that Mr. Eugene Chen has been asited to telegraph instructions for the protection of British lives and property and the suppression of anti-British agitation. The situation is said to be Improving.

It was also stated in the House of Commons that the question of the diplomatic representation in London of the Nationalist Goy- ernment has not yet been discussed.

London, Mar. 16. deliberately damaged, but the The agreement reached with the necessary repairs have been effect- Southern Nationalist Government ed.

a British official when it came to investigating facts. He envisaged them telegraphing their congratula tions to the Indian leaders during the Mutiny and protesting against He con the relief of Lucknow. tended that it was not Mr. Eugene Chen but British millowners who had improved the lot. of Chinese workers and if Mr. Chen Wanted to improve them, let him begin with the Chinese mills.

Partiality for Bolshevists.

Up to eleven o'clock this mor- ning, there was still no news as to the Limehow having been located.

Later.

"!

The Second Murder..

The second murder occurred at ception rooms will be on the first 7 o'clock in the morning when floor, whilst the whole of the top Tan Chen-sun, a private detective floor will be used as wards for sick employed by the Shanghai Cotton prisoners.

fanufacturing Company, 90 Yang-

The hospital at present is in a tzepoo Road, was shot down on very out-of-date, building. Yangtze poo Road while on his way home from work. He immediately rushed off in an ambulance to the St. Luke's Hou- pital but died there an hour later.

was

HAZARDOUS FLIGHT.

COUNTRY.

London, Mar. 16.

It is explained that, at the time the Northern expedition started; the exigencies of war led to tem

rary suspension of the military council and placing control of nilitary operations in the hands of General. Chang Kai-shek,-

This measure naturally led to the concentration of a large measure of authority in General

Thcen two killings bring the

Dssassins of the Shanghai Genera1 list of killed and wounded by paid DE PINEDO CROSSES SAVAGE Chang's hands in regions where a At 12:30 this afternoon, word Labour Caion, the Laboa Prote was received that the Limehow tion Society and other radica!! Mr. Bariks asked whether the had been located, at a place called organizations to about 2 in the regarding the British Concession The general strike, supposed to Cantonese Government was de- North Channel, and is being towed past month, Win one exception at Hankow came into operation coincide with the anniversary of mocratically elected and why we

by the Henry Keswick to Haithe victims were men. yesterday, when the old Munici-Sun Yat-sen's death, did not ma-heard nothing of its Prime Minis phong, instead of Hongkong, as ter. He taunted the Labourites was the original intention when pality was dissolved. The Muni-torialise.-Natal Wireless.

SHANTUNG TROOPS, Prevented from "Entering Shanghai.

Shanghai, Mar, 16.

cipal Council have given valuable co-operation in the delicate de-' tails of transfer and the Chinese. authorities, for their part, have| displayed good faith and goodwill, Two thousand armed Chinese At the annual meeting of rate-troops were refused admittance to payers yesterday, the necessary the International Settlement on business, including the voting of March 12th.

críticnl situation

state of war was maintained. The war is still being carried on but the transfer of the Government to Wahab has made the re-organi- A message from San Luiz de zation on a permanent basis of

consolidation necessary. Ther Cacere says that in the course of his 600 mile flight to there from for one of the urgent acts of the Asuncion to-day, the Marquis De present C. E. C. conference has The modus operandi of these Pinedo and his companions, flew been to place the Party back to its

functioning. labour foreman, or other person led by aviatora. responsible for the labourers of The route lay over impassable

- Methods Of Agitators.

Jon their fondness and partiality assistance was sent from this societies is to send a letter to aver country never before travers. normal Atatus with normal organs

for the Cantonese and Bolshevista,port.

in which connection he aroused much laughter by quoting the Prothblower's Anthem.

Mr. G. Barker (Labour) moved an amendment regretting the os

urtations despatch of the special Shanghai Defence Force as un- necessary and calculated to in- ereuse rather than diminish the taxes and the approval of the A further 500 troops, who were danger to Britishers" in China. #transfer of the assets to the new prevented by the British forces He declared there was a garrison Municipality was transacted. De from entering, threatened to open, of over 6,000 armed men before bentures are being registered in fire. A the Consulate as specific charges averted with the aid of an inter that it was protected by a large was troops were sent to Shanghai and against the Municipal properties preter. These were from the British fleet. and a bond is under preparation Shantung forces who are concen- whereby the new administration,trating round Shanghai. on receiving the assets, will un- Later, another 250 men ende- dertake to meet the debenture pay-voured to force an entry by the ments, to protect the debenture North rate; but they were again charges on properties and to prevented. British Wireless. notify the debenture-holders of their assumption of liabilities.

Councillors The three British nominated by the British Consul-

Better Wuku News.

Wuhu, Mar. 16.

DIED INTESTATE."

LETTERS OF ADMINISTRA- TION GRANTED.

The late Mr. James Portland Long, an American citizen, who died at Yunnanfu on August 30th, of manager of the Yunnan branch 1922, whilst acting in the capacity

the plant, asking his co-operation jungles and inhospitable swamps,

in

Official. Denial." Reports of the departure of

the forthcoming "patriotic haunted by alligators and giant General Tan Yen-kai and the in- general strike to mark the capture snakes, so muddy as to make land-tended departure of Mr. Hsu Chien of Shanghai by the Nationalisting virtually out of the question, and other party leaders is official- forces."

The only inhabitants of these rely denied. The leaders are uzani- Should this datter be ignored gions are fierce half-savage In-mously supporting the Party.

Party questions have been free two letters of warning are dis-dians, and, had the airmen been patched, and, when these clicit, no obliged to make a forced landing, ly discussed at the present confer- satisfactory reply, a hired gun-their position would has been most erco and differences have ban sion, full agreement has been man is set on the victim's trail to perilous, ns the seaplane was not freely ventilatd but, after discus shoot him down at the first oequipped with wirelesa. loaned a pistol and half a dozen-Router. portunity. These "unmen are

The next destination is Manaos, reached" by all members of the of the British American Tobacco cartridges and given $10. Upon Company, left estate in Hongkong the return of the pistol the killer is presented with another $10 for valued at $7,000.

The deceased's will proved in-committing the murder. valid, and letters of administration have now been granted to his sig- ter, Mrs. Mabel Elliott Gourdin, of Hongkong.

Mr. Lloyd' George's Views. Mr. Lloyd George deprecated the motion as an attempt to make party capital. It placed in a most akward position those who like himself supported the despatch of the Shaugbai Force because they

Letters of administration have relied on Sir Auston Chamber- General for the new joint Council Naval Wireless.

The situation is improving.lain's word that the troops would been granted to Mr. D. J. Lewis, of Messrs. Johnson, Stokes and Mas- not be used aggressively or toter." in respect of the estate of the are the local managers of the Asiatic Petroleum Company,

If the extremists won in China itate Mr. Francis Glass, electrical

engineer, of the Hongkong Elec Messrs. Mackenzie and Company

wold mean that 400,000.000 petric Company, who died at the and Messrs. Jardine, Matheson and:

Everything appears to be quiet. were added to the Communists' Government Civil Hospital on July Company.. The Nationalist

capire, making it one-third or one 31st, 1926. The estate is valued Foreign Ministry has nomin---Naval Wireless.

fourth of the population of the at $2,200. world. Our business. was not to force our factory or social legista- tion on the Chinese but to leave. them to govern themselves.

nted the Mavor

Wuchang of

Ninguo Quiet.

Ningpo, Mar. 16.

as Director and three Chinese WUHU DISTURBANCES. · Councillors, including the Chair-Trusting Nationalist Government. man of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the local Labour

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London, Mar. 16. leader, the latter expressly to deal. In the House of Commons Sir with labour problems-British Austen Chamberlain, replying to Wireless.

assist wither faction.

NICARAGUA'S REVOLT.

BRITISH WARSHIP

WITHDRAWN.

Strike Movements.

LABOUR MEETINGS.

ORDERS TO CANTON NEWSPAPERS.

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council.

Discussions of. party questiona are in no way interfering with cperations which are in full swing and being successfully carried on.

Incident Magnified.

One incident falsely reported In addition to the killings the

and given undue prominence in Labour Unions are continuing i

the loen press is the military force the

students and labour fracas which their endeavours to

took place here, on Thursday: workers out on strike. On Fri

The Canton Kuomintang Head-Great political significance Is day, about 5,000 labourers in local mills walked out in response quarters has given orders to the attached to the conflict by local thero to the correspondents but the facts of to the appeals of agitators placed vernacular papers among them:

effect that they should give more the case are that the incident is The

at first occurred the publicity to Union meetings, nimportant and devoid of signl- After the row and in- Oriental Cotton Mill, 36 Yangtze-parades, and other mass move-feance. poo Road, when 500 employees of ments.

vestigation by the authorities the the weaving department ceased

crowd dispersed and the labourers At present such reports, which who had been seized by the work on the pretext they were "protesting against mill workers are very numerous, are only pub- students were ordered to be re- evening the being fined for negligent work." lished in full by the Kuomintang leased. Later the strike apread to the Papers, while the private-owned students apologized to the labour entire plant and now 3,600 are out. journals seldom give them much union.

At 8.30 o'clock on Friday morn-space, as the people are getting

In the

New members of the standing ing 1,469 employees of the Naigal rather tired of reading such items. committee of the political council Wata Kaisha Mills No. 5 East and

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were elected at yesterday's C..C.. session. The sessions will prob EXPLOIT.ly close on Tuesday.

FEARS OF DISASTER DISPELLED.

Wang Ching-wei wanted.

Britain's Neutrality. Captain D. H. King, the Govern- Com. Kenworthy as regards thement spokesman, asserted thit disturbances at Wuhu, said that negotiation had been, in the fore-

6 West ceased work as a protest French and Japanese Next?

Mr. Eugene Chen had been asked front of the Governments policy

London, Mar. 16. to telegraph instructions for the all the time. They had also main-

against the mill management re- SUBMARINE'S Hankow, Mar. 10.

Answering questions as to how moving posters placed. in the pre- It has been decided by the protection of British lives and pro-tained a strict neutrality, unlike

A big movement to urge Mr. Political Committee of the Na-perty and the suppression of anti-the Opposition who entirely aided many British warships were now mlacs. These posters advocated o government" and He declared with the Nationalist South and in Nicaraguan waters Sir Austen "workers" British agitation.

Wang Ching-wel to terminate his leave of absence and to return to tionalist Government that the For-that the Government was most leth ignored the Northerners who held Chamberlain said that only H. M. approved of the murder of workers The

Canton will be launched by the eign Department will be made reato interfere and had dealt with the views just as honestly and sincere-S. "Colombo" was despatched there. loyal to their employers. ponsible for the rendition of the Nationalist Government on the ly na the South. We were not She left again on March 5th, the strikers insist that these posters

People's Movement Committee of the Provincial Kuomintang. Thy Japanese and French Concessions basis that the latter having as acting alone but in conjunction British Charge Affaires having be replaced, and brand the action En 'Hankow.--Kuo Wen.

reported that her presence was no of the management as "high" sumed responsibility, would dis-with all the other Powers.

The Ministry of Marine has ls-first preparatory meeting was held SHANGHAI HAPPENINGS. charge their duties. He earnestly The Labour amendment was re- longer necessary, since sufficient handed."

sued an official statement with re-on Tuesday in the Provincial 7,000 On Strike... trusted that they would-Reuter.jected by 241 votes to 116, and the American forces had been landed

gard to the reports that submarine Kuomintang.headquarters at Cun Conservative vote of confidence for the protection of foreign life

The total number of mil 16 had sunk. NATIONALIST RECOGNITION. Was agreed to without a division and property. No British subjects workers idic is now brought to It states that the vessel was sub-

Another Conference. -Reuter,

task refuge on the "Colombo." It about 7,000. hands including 2018 morged for 72 hours under perfect A Chinese telegram received in. was not anticipated that in the at the Sung Sing Cotton Mill, 78 control, and returned to its buse Hongkong says the General Con- Question Not Yet Considered.

present circumstances it would be ward Road, who were locked ou still submerged in perfect condi-ference of the Central Executive ers, and the ships at Woosung,) In the House of Commons, Mr. SINGAPORE INCIDENT. again to despatch any by the management as the result tion.Router.

British warship to Nicaraguan of disturbances created by them watora. British Wireless.

Navy Goes Over To South.

Shanghai, Mar. 16. The Chinese Navy is reported

to have gone over to the Southerni

London, Mar. 16.

under Admiral, Yang Shu-chuang,) w. Windsor (Labour) naked are already Aying the Nationalist whether, seeing that a diplomatic flug..

representative of the Chinese

AWAITING RESULT OF INQUEST.

on March 5. The men had attack- ed the foremen and supervisors of

Madrid, Mar. 16,

ton,

Committee, which is in session at Hankow was to have closed ite sensions yesterday, after which the mill and threatened to shoot granted all seamen, that no sca- the Commissioners recently elect.. The Kiangaan Arsenal and Nationallet Government had been Dockyard remain in the hands of appointed to Japan, the question of

Todays report issued by the the assistant manager for tele en he angared except throughed at the Conference were to func the offices of the Unfoh, the formation as the highest executives of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's, adher-tha diplomatie representation of

Koyal Observatory states that the phoning for police assistance.

Kuomintang Government, The will moderate.

The Chinese Seamen's Union is tion of an 8-hour day with double the ents.

monsoon London, Mar. 16. that Government in England had The split between the extremists boon discussed with the Chinese In the House of Commons, reforecast up, noon to-morrow also becoming active. At a mee-time for overtime and that no one The Conference, however, decided.

third Congress of national Kub and moderates of the Kuomintang Foreign Minister.

plying to Mr. George Lansbury is: "Eus winds, moderate; ovor- ing of 80 members at 3 o'clock be dismissed without the sanctionat a meeting on Tuesday to call a Party is definitely 'confirmed, and Sir Austen Chamberlain replied with regard to the disturbance at cast at first, finer and warmer on Thursday afternoon they pas of the Union..

They also resolved that a de rintang delegates to be held. In ed a number of resolutions to in- though every indication is that that the question of the diplomatic Singapore in connection with the later."

figurato their re-entrance Into finite sum of compensation be fix- Hankow some time, next month

The Kuomintang branches in the moderates are in the ascen representation of the Nationalist Sun Yat-sen celebrations, Mr. L.

labour activities. Among othered. for those seamen who lose their ancy, it is reported that General Government in England had not S. Amery said that the Governor

thinga they decided that all sen Evos on duty, that the employers Kwangtung, Kiangst, Hunan, and provinces under the Chang Kai-shek has been deprive; been discussed. Fin did not think had stated that he proposed to

men who lost their employment boar the medical expenses of the other ad of all political power.

that the Nationalist functionaries await the conclusion of the In-

because of the May 30 inciden seamen and that to foreigners.em- Nationalist rule are instructed to The strike of the employees of who, ho understood, had been sent quest on the dead before consider

ployed on vessels bo permitted to make preparation for electing should be given berths, the

Idologates to the Congress. the Shanghai-Nanking. Rallway to Japan at various times, ing whether any further enquiry

general increase in wages be abuse the scamen, continues. The railway line was (Continued on page 12.j was desirable.-Reutor.

TO-DAY.

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