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NANKING EDICT.

A PROCLAMATION BY

CHIANG KAI-SHEK.

"WAR ON IMPERIALISM."

The following is the text of proclamation by General Chiang Kai-shek's new government at Nan- king:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

LABOUR OPPOSITION

EXPRESSED.

EXCITED DEBATE ON TRADES UNION BILL.

BATTERY OF INTERRUPTION.

London, May 2.

Excitement over the Trades Unions Bill was reflected in At the present Eme when the re- crowded House of Commons, when volution of the people is taking a the Attorney General, Sir. D. M. rapid development, and when the Hogg, moved the second reading." people are hoping eagerly for the

He emphasised that while the complete realization of the aims of Government were willing to con- the revolution, the Nationalist Gov-sider amendments, remove - eriment, in accordance with the biguities, and eliminate defcets, wish of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and with They would resist to the utmost the opinion of the mufority of any amendments designed to de- members of the Kuomintang, and feat the main principles of the also based on the resolution of the Bill, which they regarded as right, Central Execution Committee, was just, and necessary, formally moved from Wuchung to Nanking on April 18, 1927. The reasons for this ensure are ob-

There were frument Labour in- terjections, notably

TUESDAY,

MAY 3, 1927.

JAPAN'S POLICY. BALKAN WAR CLOUDS. THEFT AND MURDER

GOVERNMENT'S DRIFT RESENTED.

:

BRITAIN AIDS IN KEEPING PEACE.

London, May 2.

IN HUNAN.

FORCIBLE OCCUPATION OF FOREIGN BUILDINGS.

Since the evacuation of all the

As the result of a communica- DEMAND FOR INTERVENTION.

LOYAL SERVANTS KILLED. tion made by the Italian Govera- Tokyo, April 12. ment to the British, French, Ger- A correspondent writes that the The Japanese nation has been man and other Governments, on following items came from Siang- tan, Hunan, through. Chinese deeply impressed by the affronts March 19, in which our attention letters:--- inflicted on Japanese nationals and was called to certain military pre- the Japanese dag in Nanking and parations stated to be proceeding Americans from Siangtan, events in Yugo-Sigvia, it has been de-have moved rapidly. Following it is becoming daily more and more ided among the Powers concern the departure of the American and Consuls and the big evident that a powerful sectioned that it is unnecessary, and Japaneso desires an end to the policy of would indeed be useless at this anti-Japanese parades in Chang- "drift" which is another of the date, to conduct an enquiry into shu it soon became the desire of names that base been bestowed on the past, but that should a fresh the People's Party at Siangtan to the Foreign Minister's non-inter- occassion arise while the convertake over the Community Guild ference policy, and a recourse to autions are in progress, represen-building and equipment. An arm- stern measures. The alarming extatives of Great Britain, France ed soldier guard and many pičkets tent to which Bolshevism has in- and Germany are to be available came on April 11, and asked the filtrated into the ranks of the to carry out an inimediate enquiry. secretaries in charge to hand it over. There was a School it over. Kuomintang and the gradual grip

Sir Austen Chamberlain stated. There was a School going on but by the tentacles of Communiani on "I need not say that throughout that hal to be closed and every- China also are important factors have acted in agreement with the body connected with the Guild" was when Sir Row making the Japanese realize French and German, as well as compelled to leave after the keys that the Communist peril in China with the Italian and Serbo-Croa-and buildings were handed over: vious. From the points of view D. M. Hogs referred to the gen- a very real öne and that it may, tian Governments, to arrive at This has been the centre of the of the general welfare of the cral strike, bul the Speaker's arm if allowed to grow unchecked, have solution, which I am confident is Christian, work of the Presbyterian Party of political expélienty, ofthetfuines prevented unruliness. milltary strategy, and of geo-Sir D. 31. Hogg declared that they prepercussions on Japanese required by both the Balian and church for more than seven years. enterprises in China, on Korea, on Yuzo-Slay Governments, and this it has carried on many kinds of graphical convenience, Nanking de- | Government regarded the inci-

Manchuria and even on Japan Pro-has been to dissipate any possible sociul and community service, as cupies a much more important sion of lock-outs in the Bill as

134 * * . The sudden Sino-Russian source of friction and the promo well as the activities connected position than Wuchang

of Christ in jess and inept, because a gen flash and the challenge to the tion of full discussions between with the Church eral lock-out was nalikely to hap-Soviet by Marshal Chang Tao-lin Rome and Helgrade. The British China. “ pen, but in the event of the on-

Armed Soldiers and Pickets, are causing apprehension in Japan Government have no other interest

The building now is eniled the In the midst of the wave of re-players being so foolish as te at-

as to whether this may not pre- in the question thou the preser-

The vived imperialism, made still more tempt to coerce the State or the

eipitate an international crisis,vation of prace."--British Wireless. People's Recreation House. dangerous to the Nationalist move- Government, the right Course

People's Party has appeinted a and the tone of public opinion has ment of China through such in- would seem to be not to fine taken a sharp furn for a stronger

committee of 11 members, all strumentalities as foreign troops, imprison the directors, bus to use and more effective China policy.

of whom were well-known to the compradores, etc., coupled with the the existing Emergency Powers

Guild, so that no violence was used destructive machinations of the Act and take possession

The General of the

in taking, it over. Communist Party which have prov-works and run them. (Labourite

Secretary of the People's Party told the Guild Secretaries that no ed disastrous to the revolutionary cause the responsibility of the Na

violence would, be used, if they tionalist Government has become

allowed them every opportunity to

more extensive and heavy.

investigate the premises and aided But at

them in every way possible to take this critical moment there is, as has always been, one course of ac-

London, May 2. the building. There was nothing to lock-outs being included with national crisis on the Asiatic con- tion open to the Government, and

Answerity a question in the else to do. Armed soldiers and strikes in the Bill.

tinent. This atatement was made that is continually to follow the principles laid down by Dr. Sim

Sir D. M. Hogg further declaredat & special Cabinet meeting and House of Commons, Sir Austen pickets were watching the pre- Chamberlain expressed regret that mises even after all the Guild Ser- and to execute the policies of the that a large sedion of the Labour-the War Minister also took the opit had been necessary for the Bri-vants and Secretaries had left. Party.

Hes at pinned their faith on apertunity of criticizing the For- general strike as a weapon, there-eign Minister's belief that Manish High Commissioner to call The John Miller boys' school ian Government to sentences pass-the Farmors' Union, which is now Zorn it was the tigerment's Loun-churit would not be threatened by the serious attention of the Egypi- building has been borrowed for

the Communist blight. "On the

Future Very Dark. general strike was legal, and any contrary," said the War Minister by the Gyptian Commission very strong organization in the participant therein committed a "I am of the opinion that all North Bryptian subjects connected city. crime against the community.

China is threatened by Commug with assaults on European wo-

Foreign Troops Pilloried.

Way to the New World.

On the one hand, while the Gov-

The War Department is partien- larly anxious that the policy ci drift of Baron Shidehara should laughter and ifonical cheers) abolished and, two days before Nevertheless, It a case could be mule out, even to prevent misreat Peking, the War Minister (en- the raid on the Soviet Embassy presentation and misconception, the Government would not objeetral Ugasi) declared that all signs. were pointing to a serious inter-

den duly to make it clear that a

Labour Member Turned Out. Labour interruptions culminated in the Speaker ordering Mr. Jark Jones to withdraw from the House during to-day's sitting, and the Speaker, also cantioned several other Labour members,

erament is bringing all the nation's revolutionary elements under the Party's Three People'a. Principle, so is to make concerted action pose sible, on the other hand, it aims at the up-rooting of all foreign in- perialist, militarism, and other anti-revolutionary movenients. The convening of a People's Congress, the abrogation of unequal treaties, the Three and the execution of People's Principle and the other matters which the Government is

Sir D. M. Hogg concluded a two striving to bring about within the shurtest possible period. In order hours' speech amid battery of to enable China to become an intraptions, Opposition groans dependent nation, and the Chinese and Ministerial cheers.

ism."

4.

EUROPEAN WOMEN

men.

ASSAULTED.

PART CONDONATION IN EGYPT

||

Some of the foreigners leaving the Province had made arrange- ments with the Shanghai Commer- cial and Savings Bank to handle during their

of

The reply of the Egyptian Gov ernment te Lov. Lloyd's represen-but

During 1926, he said, there was Newspaper Comment.

a number of cases of much assaults Indications that the War Office, on British subjects, and recently a money for them and that powerful section which aimilar assault was perpetrated an absence, but the Bank left soon thinks alike with the War Offee, a European lady of other nation-after the foreigners and some of The sentences imposen the Chinese left in a very serious, desire drastic action are to be seen ality, in peenliarly brutal freumhe deposits were taken away and in the publication of two articles stances.

situation. The compradere of the by the "Yorodzu." The "Yorudaa" by the Egyptian courts in these

cases were, in most instances, the Community Guild was surrounded is regarded as a War Office organ

minimum prescribed by law, ander a whole day. by employees and the first of the articles, writ-

Christian work seems very dark ten in the shape of an address to had proved inadequate as a de-emanding money. The future of the soldiers of the Imperial Japan torrent.

unan. There are still groups Army and signed "Oshima" is bes

believers meeting in private, to become a Tree people fossent- Mr. J. It. Clynes, who replaced lieved to be the work of a high ing a government, for the people, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald (in hos military officer. The article was

nearly all public meetings have There has been a series of arrests the Three People's Principle will of the people and by the propic; pilni in Philadelphia suffering heie: "Stand Up Brave Soldiers tations, which have received the had to be withdrawn, neressarily have to be carried out bronchitis), was given an and Fight!" and asked now much approval of His Majesty's Govern

nected with the foreign firms in Army was going to meni, had not yet been received.and murders of compratores con is not only Chine's sole on rising to move the longer the iT !!

Changsha, and the hunting down He sat suffer the indecision of the Gov-British Wireless, means of salvation, but also the ection of the measure,

that while he did not believe in the | erament,

of many financial leaders in the The whole movement province. way to a new world.

polley at a general strike, he re-

is backed by hatred and paying kardial the present Bill as a mal- culated and deliberate art of class.

back of old grudges and ancient feudo are restored in new forms, bistility. He declared that when

under the People's, Union and serks he thorough execution of aber returned in office it would

The policy of the Government, labour organizations. Business is this principle and eamot Int re

feita duty to repeal the net. The

however, still continues to enjoy at a standstill and work of all stand these oppaased to it as wellwerkers would insist on the right

considerable support, buy, as day hinds is much interrupted by. as those oppressed to the National-

and holidays

and parades, The succeeds day, and as more ist Movement with the part of the masses of them to exercise i

full freedom, whether Government

more detailed reports come in of Christian leaders are working un- creating class distinctions, as nati revolusjury, The Government ruployees or not, and sell or with.

atrages in the hinterland and of der very difficult conditions and the increasing dangers has faithfully pledged itself to tell their labour as they chord or

through some find it best to withdraw all Christian activities Communism, public opinion is aggressive principles aid down by Dr. Sun,jected.

peaceful slowly veering towards advocating until the situation becomes more

The Anti-Revolutionaries.

The

Goverment,

therefore,

to the preservation of the Party, The Bill would erect a great and and to the shatin Chin and plans an insuperable barrier of has assumed the full responsibility of putting an end do all obstacles uncertainty and doubt in the to the complete realization of its policies.

"The Bellicose Professor." The second artick was written by Dr. Shin Ninapiwa, one of the even bellicose professors? who, ago, demanded two score years

follows:- war with Russia. Summarized, at

The Government's non-inter- If vention policy is ridiculous. Japan is content merely to look on when her national prestige is fleated, then those who agree with such a policy are guilty of high The outrages at Nan- treason. mints of the trades unions.fadersking and Hankow are not sudden as to when it would be legal for ebullitions, but are the work of them to take action. He further an organized Government. There declared the Bill denied the right is no room, no justification, no of bodies of workmen' to act syn-logical defence for continuing the pathetically towards each other.

Such revolutionary principles are: first, a close co-operation be tween the people and the army; secondly,, the establishment of an honest and clean lovermnen;

"Wastrels, Robbers, thirdly, the promoting and pro-

Blackguards." leeting of China's industries, and fourthly, the consolidating of ur

The Libernis" attitude towards the Bill was voiced by the Hon. W. ganized agriculture and labour and nssistance in its extension. These are the declared policies of the Nat. A. Harney who condemned as a scrappy, superficial and directed against all strikes,

There was another fively scene, when Mr. Tom Griffiths, the

tionalist Government which will bebassed Bill, which appeared to be

carried out accordingly.

Destroy "Imperialisa" from

Abroad.

non-intervention policy longer. During the Siberian expedition, Japan spent over 600 million yen to save 3,000 Japanese nationals. To-day the lives and businesses of over 150,000 Japanese, are imper!!!-

in China, not to mention vast investments. Is non-intervention then feasible? Are the Japanese merely to be repatriated and their business to be abandoned to the tender mercies of coolic goldiers, robbers, and bandits? Japan will they are once des-

cost much bloodshed and billions

of yen. Let us cease this non- sensical non-intervention policy

Lige of the Empire." and uphold the respect and prea-

The Government, therefore, calls Labourite, demurred at a remark | never be able to build up these in- upon its military commanders, by a Conservative, and stalked out terests again lenders, and the whole nation to out of the flouse angrily shoutingtroyed totally. It will, any way. purge the territory now under its "Wastrels, robbers, thieves, black jurisdictions of all anti-revolution guards!" amid laughter: ista in order solidify its organi-

Sir Henry Slesser (Labour) in zation, to unify law and to main tain, order, to unite in one with the course of a detailed criticism dwelt on the alleged provisions of carrying out the Three People's Principle aimed at the prohibition of all under the direction of the Party, strikes and everything connected

therewith. to the principle Thone, opposed must be extinguished and the mis-

A Labour Supporter. guided elements set right, so that

Mr. George Spencer, recently the malevolents have no excuse for being anti-revolutionary and the expelled from the Labour Party misguided may be brought to their owing to his negotiating district actilements during the coal strike, proper places.

the express purpose

Let the Three People's Principle supported the Biit, expressing the

Suspicion of Radicals. Other articles have appeared ac- cusing Japanese radicals of at- tempting to enter into an under- standing with the Chinese Com- munists. These radical Japanese, states one article, are trying to Bolshevize the Orient and, with their Chinese compatriots, may

are taken in good time. The ar ticle concludes by warning Social- He said he believed it would ista and Communists in Japan that the people. May the strength of particularly assist the Labour there are "indignant patriots who the Revolutionary army destroy Party because it would curb the may make up their minds to end imperialism from abroad and do activities of the fomenters of dis- the Socialist agitation and tren- away with militarism and anti-re-turbance, especially when Labour chery once for all, even if this may May the returned to power. This specel cost the lives of the said patriots." volutionists at home.

This concluding sentence is, ru- Nationalist Government In the evoked Ministerial cheers.

The debate was later adjourned.garded as tantamount to instigat- shortest possible time accomplish

ing assassination, as was the case' -Renter. 1.this mighty task.

be the guiding principle of the opinion that it was in the best in-succeed,, unless proper measures Governnicht. Let it pave the way terests of trade unionism. for a new world. Make thin Goy ernment the real government of

following the great earthquake of 1929. The police, however, have not seen fit to interfere,

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