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POLITICAL EVENTS IN CHINA

DISCUSSED.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1927.

BRUTAL ASSAULT.

HACKED WITH A HATCHET

AT MIDNIGHT.

The annual meeting of member of The American Chamber of Comacres was held in the American Club at Shanghai last week, Mr. F. F. Fair- 'nun, the President, peccpying the chair and there being between be complainant, and the defence was Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the and 70 membert presont. The Chair-conducted by Mr. D. McCallum. man presenteil a report explanatory if the year's work, of which extracts follow:

Yesterday afternoon, before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, a number of Chin-a ese, including two women, wers charged with assault.

Political events of the past year in China are so well known to you that it is not necessary to refer to them here, except in-so-far as they are reflected in the activities of the Chamber, Nreillers say, a great part of the time of the Board of Directors has been devoted to con- sidering ways and means of protect ing, in-so-far as possible, American husiness interosis from the many un usun! dangers which have threaten ed. particularly in the past six months, during which time law and order have been destroyed in the greater part of our natural trading territory

Giving evidence, Sergeant Whant stated that on the night of April 9, while he was in No. 7 Police Station he heard Police whistles being blown. On going out to a nearby teahouse he saw several men assaulting the complainant,

Dr. J. R. Craig said that he ex- amined complainant on the 11th April and found that he had mul- tiple wounds on his buttocks and legs which were from half an inch to two inch long and about half an inch deep. He said that the wounds might be caused by the hatchet produced in court, Com plaivant was six days in hospital.

How it 'Began.

BRITISH POLICY.

LORD BIRKENHEAD ON CHINA.

Lord Birkenhead, who addressed large gathering of West Mid- land women Unioplata at. Cover- try, said the policy of the Govern-

they recognized the reasonable- nient in China had showed that

ness of a sincere and honest claim based upon nationalism, and that they were prepared to make many concessions. On that side of the problem they assumed a moral lead to the world, because they made the most unselfish and most solf-sacrificing proposals that any country in the world had made úp to that time. At the same time they acted on the view that it was on the whole desirable to take certain precautions.

It must be admitted, he cont- tinued, that the leaders of the Labour Party were in a difficulty because the same authority which had given ordefs to the Bolshevist element in the Southern Chinose armies had given orders at the Mr. Lo then gave a’brief outline same time to their dupes and It is significant of the harmony as to the events whien led up to creatures in this country. These and spirit of mutual helpfulness the trouble. He said the com- gentlemen do not work for nedring. with which we worked with other plainant and the third defendant In fact, they seldom work at all," salier organizations in China that were partners in a firm which he added, amid laughter, "but the one of our Arst emergency activities carried on business at No. 7 Water kind of work that they condescend was an offer of aid to follow-nation Street. The complainant's share to undertake is, believe me, liber- als in Hankow. As oarly as last. De-

was $500 and the third defendant's fally and constantly refreshed by ember, the Amerienn Chamber of share. was $1,000.. For a few financial considerations which Commorce in Hankow. wrote asking years they were or the best of proceed from Moscow." this organization to use its best en-

terms. After three years however leavours to secure local publicity as the complainant drew from the to the intolerable conditions, which,ompany $700, which was in ex- ven at that time, were assuming cess of the capital he contributed alarming proportions in Hankow. to the business. There was little need of the Cham- her to take any action on this re quest, as the events in Tankow, which immediately followed the des patch of the letter from the Tankow Clumber, were of such a nature as to obtain full publicity, not only laplly, but theonghent the world,

Protection Asked For.

Inter, as the situation thero he came more alarming, the American Chamber of Commerce in Hankow established a letter of credit in the

The third defendant therefore considered the complainant no louger a partner of the firm and the complainant did not go near the firm again. He went back to his old work, which was seafaring, and even his wife, who was in the habit of going to the shop for an occasional cake of soup or a towel urther trilles, kept away from the shop.

Money From Australia. Some time after this the firm lent $60 to a man who later went

are of this organization, whereby wo were enabled. it the necessity | away aroso, to ship foodstuffs to the American community in Hankow on 8. Naval vessels, if other means of transportation were not available.

to

the

The most alarming circumstance about the contemporary develop. ment of trade unions was that in So many cases the official posi- Lions, through superior energy and more subtle intrigue, had been Captured and were still retained by the more extreme elements in the party. "The result," gard Lord Birkenhead, "is that moderate leaders may make mode- rate speeches, but it is hardly possible for them to reach mode- rate conclusions; and, so continu- ally you see the humiliating pro- cess at work that in the House of Commons advise la given by the leaders and it is not obeyed by the rank and file. Only yesterday 1 observed that Mr. Wheatley had Australia. On the

withdrawn his valuable presence seventh moon last year the man sent £7 from Australia and in his from the Front Opposition Rench,

the letter instructed

I did not observe that that situa- firm to pay the complainant £2 av repay-ion had imposed any very obvious ment of a personal loan. The de- limitations upon his controversial Although all of the shipments spefendant, however, did not pay activities, but we are told the ex- ciled by the Hunkow Chamber were

complainant, but kept the moneyplanation is that he will be able He up for prompt despatch on re-

to himself notifying the complain- to speak more freely if he sits ceipt of telegraphic instructions, the ant of the step he had taken. The upon the back benches. If that service was no carried through, due complainant wrote to Australia view be well founded, he may re- de the extensive evacuation from and mentioned the matter to his lieve a little the Labour Opposi Hankow of our nationals, on the ad- vice of Government olieinls.

The friend. from Aus- tion from that unparalleled dull- ralia came back last month nad ness of controversy which has up On January 15, following the Han-

it was while he was having din to the present marked the die- kow rota, a general meeting of the new on the 9th April that the third charge of their duties. membership of the Chamber was

defendant, came with the first de- held in the American Club, for the fendant and asked him and cum- purpose of urging upon our Governplainant to go out to tea. ment the seriousness of the situn The four of them left together tion in China, and the negd of ade- and compainant's wife began to quate protection for American in- Ket suspicious. She therefore tereats. The presence of 2 corporate looked out of her window and she membership of noticed a group of men who were known to the third defendant shadowing her husband. She fol lowed the procession to the tez hour she saw her husband being house and after waiting half an assaulted. She blow u police whistle and the whole crowd was taken to the police station.

annies out of a

100 testified to the tremendous in- terest taken in the American husi ness community,

A resolution which had been pr pared by the board of directors was adopted unanimously, and cabled the following day to the State Depart ment in Washington, through Con-

friend.

Tai Ping Theatre, and on their The next night they went to the

return at about one o'clock in the morning the wife suddenly notic- Pany of two men shadowing the complainant. They tried to make run for it but before they knew he was brutally hacked with a hat- it the complainant was caught and

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Negotiations with China. Replying to Mr. MacDonald's contention that they should nego tinte with China, Lord Birkenhead declared: "According to the esti- mates we have formed of those personalities you might just as well negotiate with a shark or a is no one to jelly-fish. There

Though this country, if it had to stand alone, negotiate with." would not shrink from an indi- vidual responsibility in the dis- charge of honour, he was not without hope that the realization at this moment was primarily ad would spread that while the threat dressed to Great Britain, in its necessary implications, in its

sul General Lauss, urging the fullest en-operation with the Settlement an- thorities of Shanghai in any efforts they may be called upon to make in protecting the lives and property of the third defendant in the con- certain extension it must affect qur citizens here. Another resolu. tion also unanimously passed at the meeting and cabled to Washington by Conant-General C. E. Gauss, con- cerning the customs surtax of 2% per cent. levied from February 1, request that steps he taken to pro

chet,

The ease was adjourned until Lee American imports from such Tuesday next at 2.15 p.m. illegal taxation.

A third resolution was also unani-

mously adopted at this meeting, and

The

equally every other nation which had great interests in China. most recent outrages had affected perhaps more Americans and Japanese than it had affected British subjects. "There is in- deed a spirit of insult and of reck- lessness abroad in that country which, it seems to me, for its cor- rection will certainly require the counsels of the civilized and anti- I am glad to state that within a ment wouki merely have the effect Bolshevist nations of the world," short time thereafter the member of continued operations elsewhere he added. "In those deliberations ship of the American Company and any steps that the Municipal the foremost, if an incidental, step S.V.C., was doubled.

Council might take would not, there will be to require suitable repara- Within a few days after thefore, buye, the desired result.

tion for the intolerable insults, despite of the resolution to the

murders, and outrages which have In conclusion, I wish it were pos- already been committed." State Department at Washington,sible to express tlie boliuf that the Mr. Kellogg's statement as to dr ensuing year is likely to be niere

In a final reference to the Com- Government's policy in China was peaceful and prosperous than the munists, he asked if everything publicly adnounced. This

tate past, but we all know that, not since English in their eyes was so vile ment assured as of protection to the Boxer trouble have conditions in why did they stay in England. American life and

Chinn.

property in China been more serious, and that Wo are now facing a period of New Government Building. change and re-adjustment fraught with many dangers. I can only ex. Our efforts have been unrelenting press the hope that we may all work in an endeavour to secure an initial together for the best intercate of appropriation for the construction of the American community. I my this an American Government buildingin no narrow national spirit, but in in Shanghai on the side of the pre- the firm belief that what is best for Rent Consulate. When Consul-Gon-us is best for all foreigners and oral Cunningham returned to Wash Chinose on well. ington, he took with him the original copies of the report which had been prepared by the Chamber's commit teo on engineering and architecture and concurred in by the board of

directors.

Why not go to Russia? "I am not forced by my colleague who has special charge in such matterą to make any definite or formal pro- posal," he concluded, "but I should be astonished If the most gener- ously-asulated passages from Lon- don to Moscow were not forthcom- ing for every Communist-man, woman, and child-who is telling us how odious England is and how delightful Moscow is." (Laugh- tor.)

.

The Chamber papsed with EC. clamation a resolution extending to Mr. Fairman and M, V. G. Lyma its pincere thanks for the splendid. servico which, they had rendored

Sanitary A meeting of the during the past year in their respec Board was held yesterday, those Shanghai Gold Exchange. tive capacities of President and Vice-present being Mr. N. L. Smith The Board of Directors concurred President of the Goneral Committee. (chairman), Dr. S. W. T30, MI. in the views of the Shanghai Gen- The following were elected on the Wong Kwong Tin, Dr. S. C. Ho, oral Chamber of Commerce, to the board of directors for the ausuing Mr. J. P. Braga, Mr. H. J. Jack- effect that, while the board appro-year-O. B. Arthur, W. H. Bolton, man (acting D. P. W. ) Dr. J, C. cinted the disturbances the Gold Ex-T. J. Cokely, W. I. Eisler, R. F.Macgown, Dr. G, W. Popo, (M.O. change causes the local merchants, Evans, W. 5. Flaming, C. H. French H.) and Mr. D. Davies (sacretary). in their opinion any attempt to re- C. B. Gardner, 8. C. Kingsbury, There was no business of public

interest. thove the exchange from the Bettles J. B. Murray, F. J. Raven.

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