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NORTHERN DRIVE.

UNITED ON THREE ROUTES.

THE SITUATION ANALYSED.

THE HONGKONG " TELEGRAPH.

"TELEGRAPHIST'S

CRAMP,"

POST OFFICE REPLY TO WORKERS' CLAIM.

Interesting statements with re- gard to "telegraphist's cramp," Northern military movements and its gradual disappearance as continue to be much obscured by a permanent disability among rumour, but there seems to be Post Office operators, were made doubt now that Sun Chuan-fang, at the Civil Service Industrial Chang Tsung chang and Wu lei Cours, when Mr. E. Raven, an a fu are at last moving in unison and sistant-secretary the Post are making a determined drive Office, replied to the claim of the southward on three main routes, Post Office Workers' Union, for with flanking.columna, to retrieve Increased remuneration Lo the their losses, not to mention their operatic staffs in the cable rooms reputations, Sun Chuan-fang, at the Central Telegraph Office, moving with his usual rapidity London. down the Grand Canal, has, write It was urged on behalf of the Mr. Rodney Gilbert in the N. C.Junion that the work of the men Daily News given the Southerners fcalled for a specially high degree no opportunity to recover From or intelligence and efficiency, and their panic and has not only reach ed the Yangtze but, according to the latest reasonably reliable ad vices, has crossed the river below Chinklang, seized the railway and advanced as far towards Shanghai as Penniu station.

|INFURIATED MOBS.

JAPANESE SUFFER AT HANKOW.

FIRST DETAILED STORY.

The following in the first un- ficial account of the attack on the Japanese Concession in Hankow on April 3rd, and was received by mail by Reuter in Shanghai frum a correspondent in Hankow.

Small Beginning.

affair

He says: "The netuni began in a small way by Chinese youth throwing stones at Japan- ese sailors, but gangs of coolies had been looking for trouble for weeks previous. The sailors, 3- turally, resented the stone-throw- that operators suffered from having and remonstrated. Coolies ing to manipulate many different cursed them. They cursed back. keyboards in the course of their Then rienha-coolies, always boil- daily duties.

ing for a serap. joined in the cursing, which attracted crowds of the lower-classes.

Mr. Raven denied, that the opera tors' work was increasing or that there was. Any una strain

them by the

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"As there were only six afilors, new the conlien rushed al them. The Shanghai on Tuesday was full of placed gossip about a Southern retreat methods. As the resalt

of im-sailors rau to a Japanese res+ towards Cheklang

both proved methods of working, Mr.taurant and were chased upstairs. from Changchow and Soochow, bodies Raven remarked, it was expected A fights ensued. Soon afterwar from the former city moving west that what was known as "ele-

ashout went up outside that a of Taihu via thing, the those raphist's cramp," would entire resha-coolic has been stabbed to from Soochow taking a course eastly disappear in the future death by Japanese Imperialists of the lake via Wakiang. If there Where cases, however, occurred.

The word was immediately dashed is foundation for these current re- the Post Office dealt sympathetic-to the riesha-coolies' union and is ports, there is a reason why large ally with the sufferers. They a short time thousands of hate. berlies of Northerners should not be were exempted from manipulative maddened coolies began to attack within striking distance of Shang-work that might aggravate the the Japanese Concession. The hai at almost any time.

malady, and where they were able In do reasonably efficient work in went up everywhere: 'Kill the Japanese, Murder the Im- ther positions, the pay was not

perjalists," The mob seemed to abated.·

became mad with the fury of ita own shriekA.

A Contemptible Defence. In this community even a amali body of troops would certaini meet with no serious resistance. When Chiang Kai-shek made up his mind to move his forces out of

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Dwindling Complaints. Since 1910, when a department- "Japanese civilians caught in commission investigated the the streets were beaten and their subject, telegraphist's crampelothes torn off. The six sailors | }==|=|=|-

Shanghai he took everything be

left had received close attention by | wine overpowered and carried off could rely upon and here nothing hat division the Post Office medical officers.

A of 7,000 Chekiang troops who and as the result of careful ab for never servation they had been able to Jesting the enemy come within exclude from the service persons striking distance of them. The likely to be affected with cramp worthies are commanded by Gen- und in other ways by scientific eral Chow Feng-ch'i, the first man, treatment had reduced, with marki to betray, Sun Chuan-fang in the success, the effects of cram Kiukiang area and turn over to the hat occurred among the existing South, so it is unlikely that either staffs.

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to the asion headquarters in thr native city. Japanese in every district of Henkow were set upo in the streets by mobs, Some werd benten insensible and ba yond recognition and some killed.

"One Japanese had given birth to a child a few days before was dragged out info

the street and killed.

woman

who

Bloodlust of Mob. "The muh was now chokeful of bloodlust.

the situation was unbearable and

commander or men will await th More working which, in the arrival of a large force, but al-past, gave rise to telegraphic most certain that they will bolt for jeramp, had gradually been re Chekiang if the returning threed, and new methods were be Northerners Luke Soochow. Generalfing employed that greatly simpli-

"Restaurants, stores, homes and Chow, a native of Huchow and fed and eased operators' duties.

odices w pillaged before the Japanese returned student, may While in 1916 there were 53 cases not decide to take the field since from cramp exempted from mani-panic Consul-General felt that- his headquarters are safely e-pulative working, the number

ordered armed forces ashore from tablished in the French Cen- since then had been gradually re-

the three cambouts. A few squads cession.

duced, until in 1925 there was only one case recorded, and none at all of marines landed, two short Straws Show the Wind.

bursts from a machine-gun were in 1926. One indication of the way the In the opinion of the chler fired and the streets were cleared wind is blowing is the very strong medical officer of the department, as if y magic. Coolies trample disposition of all the striking mill cases of more or less permanent upon one another in an effort to workers to return to work on any disability from telegraphic cramp get out of the concession. The terms the employers care to offer would practically disappear, and Japanese marines followed them them. A number of mills reopened the suggestion by the Union that without firing, until the concession to-day and received back hosts of a new typewriting operation would had been cleared, when Japanese meek and penitem labourers and revive dramp in another form was armed guards were posted at ali the Mill Owners' Association, since not seriously entertained by those intraneus. the burden of responsibility for who understood the subject. fixing terms was upon them, d- Mr. Raven also replied to the cided to be generous and grant a statement that the illegibility of ten per cent, increase in wages all the handwriting of the public around.

"It was the Japanese themselves who finally restored order. For an hour and a half these outrages continued unhindered by Chinese threw a severe strain on counter troops before the Japanese them- To revert to the military situa-clerks and telegraphists. He said selves were compelled to take tion, it is reported through that recently he had had an op-action. Even then no help was the Government-sa indirect foreign advices that, in portunity of examining sundry given by anticipation of a retreat, the messages which had passed over much for Nationalist promises of "nationalist" ferees in Soochow the counter. He found that many ability to protect foreigners. were doing no little looting in that city to-day ad either Jouted or attempted to loot the Japanese Consulate,

Latest reports indicated that while large bodies t "10- tionalists" had recrossed the Yangize in full light to Nanking,

of them were typewritten, others were printed in block leering, While a good number were written in what was almost copper-plate. Not a single massage would have given a moment's trouble to read.

That the outrage constituted an attempt to duplicate the affair of January 3 in the British Con- cession is entirely beyond dispute."

the route was checked before the RUSSIAN STOWAWAYS. alterly unsafe for foreigners:

main body had crossed and prepar-

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tions were being made for a stand)

against the North on the Pukow SENTENCED THIS MORNING. side.

mockery

Meaning of Nationalism. Speaking of life in Hankow, the correspondent says that it is

"Nationalism in lankow to-day is synonymous with cutrages and

b violence." "Envoys from Moscow," he con-. Two natives of Estonia, George times, "have mule the Nation- Wu Pei-fu on the Offensive. Bauer and Alexander Steyer, were

handed over to the police here whenalist movement here a

Cholies who for centuries have Still, further west, on the Kin-the 9.6. Delhi, on which they stew. Han railway, the allied forces ed from Vladivostock, arrived dur- been amenable to no other dis- under the general command of ing the week-end.

clipline than the sword now feel. free to loot, burn and kill, not out Wu Pei-fu are making a hard drive fa charging the men before for Hankow, The Red Spears in Major C. Willson this morning, Ser of patriotism-they do not know Honan have shown no disposition rennt Elston stated that their pre- what is is but out of sheer love to welcome the Fengtion troops sence on the steamer was not de-of looting, burning and killing, under Chang Hsuch-liang and for tected until they were compelled They feel secure in the knowledge a time it seemed that Red pro-by hunger to come out from the of Eugene Chen's recent assurance paganda was making some head forehold.

way among them, but the usual Both men were sent to prison for compromise was reached when the eleven days, at the end of which Fengtien lenders decided that they will be returned to Vladivos- Chang Hauch-liang should re-tock. turn to Peking and that Wu Pel- fu should resume his old role of commander-in-chief. On these terms the Red Spears not only put aside their hostility to Fang- tian, but joined the expedition ngainst Hunkow in large bodies,

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The report that Wushengkuan, plained, and probably correctly, absolutely the paas in the water-shed that divides Hupch from. Honan, had that all the Northern collapses in organized and controlled by the the face of the Cantonese advance nrgus-eyed Red Political Bureau. been taken by Wu Pei-fu cannot

have been due to disloyalty, to The city is filled with Russian be locally confirmed.

lack of co-operation, or to mutual Bolshevik advisers. They are at auspiclon among the high com-alf street corners. There are pro- manders. It is claimed that per-bably more of them in Hankow Local Northern sympathizers feet co-operation is now establish- now than all the foreign residents are naturally extremely sanguine. ad between the three Northern combined. They are dominating They say that Chiang Kai-shek columns and that, with the dis- the Political Bureau, the labour has lost most of his 1,800 Wham-sensions between the various unions, the public departments pon cadets avho, serving as non-elements in the Southern armies, and will eventually devastate commissioned officers, were the no serious. stand is anticipated this city if allowed to go on as

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