1927-09-05 — Page 7

CHIANG'S ROLE.

HOW HE SACRIFICED

THIS PRINCIPLES.

DICTATOR FOR ONE YEAR.

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IN CANTON FROM DAY TO DAY.

PASSING OF FINANCIAL CRISIS.

CHIANG KAI-SHEK WANTED.

(Our Own Correspondent.)

Canton, Sept. 4. A large demonstration was held to-day at noon on the East Parade Ground when a resolution was passed urging General Chiang Kai-shok and the Five Commis- sioners in Nanking to resume their duties.

More than 5,000 persons were present, and most of them went there at the request of the Government.

General Chiang Kai-shek played an important role in the affairs of the Kuomintang and was virtually the dictator of South China for the short period of the year. After that he eliminated himself from political life and retired to a temple outside of Ningpo, where ho can think of the greatness which he might have achieved had be not sacrificed every political principle to achieve greatness. For it was Chiang Kai-shek who brought about split after split in the Kuomintang so that, by a pro- cess of elimination, he might rise The officials most enthusiastic to the principal position in the for the re-instatement of the Nau- Party, writes Mr. George E. Sokol-king Generalissimo and his col- sky in the Far Eastern Review. leagues are General Tang Yin- It was Chiang Kai-shek who wah, the Commissioner of Public brought Borodin back to Canton Safety, and Mr. Tang Yang-po,

Director that he might Political

of Army in May, 1926, 80 have arms and munitions for his Northern Expedition. It was Chiang Kai-shek who elevated the Marxian Teng Jan-da to a con- trolling position in the machinery of the Party so that he could utilize the propaganda agencies of the Communists in his interests. It was Chiang Kai-shek who over- To-night it is scheduled that in threw the communists and attack-Quential officials will speak at ed the very men who made his Chung Shan University, and other military successes possible when Jucational institutions explainl

the achievements of Marshal they impeded his Naploeonic am- Chiang and the necessity to con- tinue the Northern Expedition. Such notables as General Li Chai- sum, Tang Yin-wah, Mayor Lam

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1937.

AMERICA & CHINA. MERCHANT HIDES HIS FUKIEN EXPORTS..

SHANGHAI CHAMBER

DENOUNCED.

RELATIONS "THREATENED."

"The attention of the Nationalist Government authorities has been. called to the activities of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, which organization apparently has departed from the usual policy of o trade chamber and is" devoting itself to propaganda calculated to induce the American Government to interveno in a military way in China," according to a Kuo Min News Agency re- port...

WEALTH,

́EVADING THE GOVERNMENT

AT CANTON.

STORY OF WHEELBARROW.

(A Special Correspondent.)

Canton, Sept. 4. Many stories are being told in the city of how merchants and storekeepers tried to outwit the government and get away with money which was their own pro- perty; during the stressful days of

last week.

HANDLING OF LOCAL PRODUCTS.

TRAFFIC ON MIN RIVER.

The Min River forms the main artery of commerce between the Fuklén interior and the sea const The portion of the river between Yangkow and its estuary is broad and free from gorges or rapide. Above Yangkow the river branches off into two tributaries: the Tung Chi or eastern tributary and tho Hai Chi or western tributary, both draining a highly mountainous" country, rich in raw materials. By As soon as the rumour was cir- the Tung Chi such districts as Kien- ning and Pucheng can be reached In this connexion, a spokes-culated that the Government was and by the Hisi Chi, Diongloh, Shao- man of the Ministry of Foreign making more demands and was

wu, etc.. Both these waterways aro Affairs said last week that part- cular attention had been directed making a round of the houses as- called in Chinese ehti, or mountain to recent tesolutions and cables certaining how much money the stream, because they are narrow which has been sent to Washing-people possessed, many of the and difficult to navigate for ordin- ton, D. C., by the American Cham- business men," collecting their ary junks, states the Chinese Econo ber demanding that the American cash, harriedly made "a bee line"mic Bulletin. Only some types of. Marines be used to prevent China for Shameen. Orders were later specially constructed vessels can the shallows and from increasing her customs issued that anyone found enter duties, reports the Shanghai Times, ing Shameen with money was to rapids. For cargo traffic three boats arc com- quoting the aforesaid news agency. be arrested and the money con- types

In addition to this recent action, fiscated. The police made many monly employed on the different reports have reached the Govern- arrests, most of them as night sections of the Min River. Between ment from the United States that when, under eaver of darkness, Foqehow and Yangkow, a type of the American Chamber of Com- marchants made doring attempts flat-bottomed boat, about 40-60 feet merce in Shanghai has been cir- to evade the "law." One amali from bow to stern and capable of culating newspapers and trade storekeeper, having as his worldly carrying 200-300 piculs of cargo, bodies in America with "litera-wealth $8,000 attempted to get is the common means of conveyance. ture" compiled by notorious tools away by climbing over the roofs The boat, though having a shallow of local "diehard" interests which of the houses in his district. He draft, is not capable of negotiating contain unwarranted attacks upon was discovered and arrested, how the rapids or coping with swift cur- rents. Above Yangkow, two types' the Nationalist Government and ever, and all his saving confisent-

of boats, the "sparrow boat" and its officials, the general purpose ed.

the "dove-tail boat", are employed. of which apparently is to get the American Government to become

An amusing story" is told of a The "sparrow boat" is about 20 feet embroiled in the imperialist con-rich merchant, well-known in the long and capable of loading 20-30 hope in this country except inga Wen-koi are on the lecture pro-spiracy for military intervention city, and with near relatives hold-piculs. Its bottom is so construct-

bitions.

Affairs. A circular telegram has been sent to Nanking and other provinces to the effect that Canton, or at ienst certain important officials, want Chiang Kai-shek to resume his position as Com- mander-in-Chief of the Nationalist forces.

gramme.

Financial Crisis.

in China.

"A Serious Matter."

Foreigners in China, obsessed with the mania that there is no strong man, favour Chiang Kai- shok as they have in the past stupdily favoured Yuan Shih-kei "and Tuan Chi-jai. They seem to

The financial crisis is now

In reference to the activities of have learned nothing from Chinese history. They seem not to be able settled, at least to all appearances.

the American Chamber of Com- to realize that these so-call. The bankers and other merchants.merce in Shanghai referred to, the strong men

Foreign Office spokesman pointed in China invariably have undertaken to raise the

out that whilst the Nationalist fail because they are not strong: $10,000,000 loan. for the stablist-

The Government welcomes legitimate they are tricky; they are masters tion of the Central Bank.

no six executive officials of the

criticism and co-operation on the of intrigue, but they have

part of foreign commercial Chamber of Commerce were re- Chiang fundamental strength.

or Most banks

ganizations in China, nevertheless Kal-shek came closer to having leased last Friday.

when a foreign chamber of com- popular following than any of the have resumed their business but

merce, such as the local American her militarists but his popularity several of them are still closed.

The Government requires the organization, departs from was almost entirely created by the Communist propagandists when lean to be paid in Central Bank legitimate commercial pursuits and transforms itself into a pro they were his supporters and he notes and there is a demand for lost it when they ceased to boost these notes which means a restora-paganda organization for the dis- him. He went to Ningpo ten days tion of their previous credit. before this article was written and Treasury officials still attribute aiready his name is but eccaal-the crisis to the mischievous work

nally mentioned even in Chineseof seditionists and speculators. political circles and then, only in à reminiscent mood. He may r tarn to public life, he may even some day lend an army to conquest but he will never again play the role of an overshadowing leader in th Nationalist Movement.

How Kuomintang Suryives.

Arms Carrying.

Following the discovery of arms in recent raids on Communist dens. and other places, the Police Authorities have cancelled all licenses to carry armas Ly The licences were individuals. issued before the coup op Good The strength of the Kuomintang Friday when the radicals were in. freely issued out . lies in its ability to absorb and power and

The police new pro- withstand the shock of catastro-licences, phic failures. It goes through its hibit the carrying of arms unless new license failures and comes out alive. Dr. the holder gets Sun Yat-sen used to boust that he from the Police Headquarters. failed 1 times and yet continued

his work. Many times he was

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Fighting on Border.

driven out of his base, Canten, Ly It is reported that General Chin the very men he elevated to highTakwan's troops were engaged position. But he always returned. battle with the soldiers of while they are in oblivion, their General Yip Ting a few days ag, names hardly known to the rising the scene of the conflict being on

The vitality of the the Fakien-Kiangsi border generation.

Aceprding to the report, tieneral 1ovement depends upon its caprci- tv to survive failures,

MISS BERYL SIDNEY.

Chin suffered some reverses as h's He Feudalism in China, is different troops were poor fighters. The feudal lord does not expect to was sent to Fukien to meet the survive failure. When he fails he invasion of General Yip Ting who retires to some foreign concession is bent on returning to Canton. or foreign country to enjoy the Although General Chin lost about

which he richos

garnered 100 men, his presence in that in the days of power. Where are vicinity has retarded the onward the great Tuchuns of 1921? It march of Yip's fortes towards this would perhaps be a better ques- City. tion to ask, who were they? For- gotten, lost tu memory and his- tory, they sit in Tientsin and Dai- ren and Shanghai playing small politics listlessly and hoping some day to get back into some posi- tion, but never quile being able the grade, because -to make

younger men and other times have The only written their obituaries. exception to this' general rule is Marshal Wu Pei-fu, who, in a way represents something more than mere feudalism: he represents the ancient Chinese code of chivalric morals and ethics as lost to.China as the glories of Don Quixote were loat to Europe of another age.

Miss Beryl Sidney who is a talented member of the Forbes- Russell Comedy Company, which is opening a scason at the Theatre Royal on Sept. 16.

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semination of information inimical

to the friendly relations of China and America, then it becomes a matter of serious concern which the Nationalist Government can- not overlook.

for nearly a century and a half.

negotiate

of

Bamboo, Tea and Rice,

arc cot-

The chief exports from the interior consist of rice, timber, paper, bamboo shoots, and tea while the imports ton cloth, kerosene oil, salt, wheat flour and other manufactures.

The bulk of rice consumed in from Pucheng, Foochow comes Kienning, Shaowu and other die tricts near the head waters of the Min River.

For food stuffs Fanchow used to

Ing important positions at Hong-ed that it can be easily towed over kong, who did manage to evade rapids. The "dove-tall boat" is the Government and has got clear bigger than the "sparrow boat'' away with a considerable amount and can navigate both the upper of silver coin which his business and the lower portions of the river. demanded that he always keep on the premises. The bulk of his fortune, and he is reputed to be. nearly a millionaire, is in the safe keeping of a foreign banking firm. On hearing of the working of the Government plan he acted quickly, a theatrical troupe on the out- skirts of the city coming to his assistance. Not trusting any of his fokis he decided to give them the day off to spend how they liked but he intimated that it would be an opportunity for them to visit the theatre. Usually a generous depend largely upon the rice pro- master, the fokis saw nothing duced in the interior. la recent strange in this move and only too years there has been a sharp fall- gladly jumped at the chance of a ing-off in the rice expert figure of day's leave. Then, as the mer-the interior. The decline is from China and America have enjoyed chant says, for he has been inter- 800,000 to 300,000 piculs a year, peaceful and friendly relations viewed by the writer, the fun com-an Fukien rice dealers have to the first American commercial menced. The wife and female ser- import rice from the eonatal ports ship visiting Canton only a short vants were away from the house of other provinces to make up the time following the successful con- and so "we were without hinder- balance. The decline has been caused chiefly by disturbed condi- clusion of the American Revolu- ance." tion against domination by Euro- The merchant took into his con- tions.

The rice, exported from the pean Imperialism.

fidence his nephew, a clerk in the many years American merchants traded business. The first job, and it is various back country districts, is peacefully at Canton with the probably the hardest work that shipped by a class of local exper- Chinese merchants even before the merchant has ever done, wasters in "sparrow boats" to Yenping China and America entered into the counting out and making into a riverine port about 400 li above treaty relationship, America has small parcels, this amount of sil-Foochow, where the cargo is re-

been aggressive.

towar ver coin. They worked at it all loaded into flat-bottomed vessels China as have other nations; and one evening and far away into and brought down to Foochow to China has almost always been able the night and when all was com- to look to America as a disin-pleted put the money into rice Timber and Paper. terested friend at critical periods, sacks and covered the amount with

Timber is another staple export as for instance, the Open Door ordinary rice, It one be imagin- Policy, the return of the Boxer In-ed how much money was involved of the Fukien interior, the trans- demnity, and the efforts of Secret when the sacks used were visin portation and marketing of timber, ary Hughes to give China a square number.

The sacks, apparently and next in importance is paper, deal at the Washington Confer- full of rice, were then carried to of which more than a dozen a waiting hand cart and early in Warning Issued,

the morning the merchant and his accomplice, stripped and in coolie Unfortunately, however the local trousers and with begrimed hands American, Chamber of Commerce and faces, trundled this handcart seems to have come under the in- into the city, thus giving the ap Buence of certain European im- pearance of two coolies commenc- perialistic interests and foring their day's work. several months - has been When about half way on their conducting

detri-journey, (and the merchant, re- mental to the friendly refuses to say where their destima- lations, of China and American tion was and where the money bas

never

ence.

For

propaganda

be sold.

varieties are produced in Fukien backwoods, where bamboo groves thrive. In former years the year- ly export figure used to represent

(Continued from Page 8.) HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

and also detrimental to the best been stowed) they were overtaken TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS. interests of those American mer by a small company of soldiers on chants solely concerned in the de- the march. The soldiers seeing

The following general know- velopment of trade between China the "coolies" played their usual ledge paper has been taken from

and the United States.

Answers, for those who need them, will he found on Page 14

of this issue.

1.Who was Piero della Francescal Who was the first of the great Florentine painters?

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Which famous Flemish painter was, first 'the pupil of Hendrick Van Balan, and, latar, of Sir Peter Paul Ribeita?

4 What were the chief characteris- tics of Mciesquier's painting? 5 Who was the great contemporary af Peter do Hooch, nated for the wonderful beauty, refinement, and tone in his interiors with Agree?

In view of the fact that the trick of loading the truck with kit the Daily Express. American Chamber has its head and commandeering labour. The quarters on Chinese soil, the Na-merchant good-naturedly, but with tionalist Government is forced to pretence of grumbling, agreed to tall attention to this matter and to aid the soldiers along the route, issue a warning that unless the one worthy man at arms taking a seat on the baga of "rice." The American Chamber ceases its un- derhanded activities, the Nation- soldiers imagined that the laugh alist Government will be forced was on the poor old man as he to bring the matter to the atten-appeared to them but as we know tion of the American authorities the boot was on the other foot. and ask that action be taken by the After going a long way out of his American authorities to curb the road the merchant was allowed to Chamber whose pro-imperialist depart and, since he had been a activitica serve merely to provoke help to the troops, he was given and alienate all Chinese interested fifty cents as "cumshaw." He even in the continuance of friendly re- tually stored his money safety lations between our country and away and returned to the city and America.

He is now making, preparations to leave for a land where the Gov- ernment is not quite so grasping.

"The fifty cent tip that I receiv- Denial that the American Cham-ed," he says, "I ani presenting to ber of Commerce in Shanghai the government to help defray cabled Washington asking that military expenses." American marines be utilized to prevent the collection of increased taxes of the Nationalist; Govern-

Denial By Mr. Manely.

But the Kuomintang is in a dif- ferent position. It may be incompe- tent. It may be radical. It may sugested to programmes which are ruinous to the country. It may associate itself at times with the Communists. Its faults lead to calamities; its incompetence leads to confusion. But to the average Chinese mind, it is the be- ginnings, of a Chinese nation. It is often as unattractive,as all be- ginnings, ugly efforts at big things by puny men. But whatever it is, it is Chinese and appeals to Chin- esc psychology. It represents to the Chinese mind a hope for the future. It lacks coherence be their four-seater plunged down a ment was made by Mr. Warren In H. M. Supreme Court at cause it depends upon the popu- ten-foot embankment on the mainManely, Secretary of the Chamber. Shanghai, his Honour Judge Grain lace and the populace is of a divid-road near Aberdeen yesterday. The to the Shanghai Times. ed mind. It lacks perfection car was damaged, but the men sus- of organization because its tained only superficial injuries. At leaders have devoted their life the time of the accident, the owner experience to revolution rather was being taught how to drive the than to administration. It lacks car, the driver being coated beside

(Continued on Page 8.)

Two Chinese, the owner of the car and his chauffeur, had a narrow- escape from serious injuries when

him.

0 Name a famous French flower

painter.

? Whond work was the "Nymph of

Fontainebleau,"

now in

the

Louvre, and where was it exo- cuted?

8 What was the "Romaniie" move- ment in Art Who were its leaders in France!

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has given judgement for the plain-10 The Chamber, Mr. Manely stated, tiff in the sum of Tis. 6,000 and did request the American Govern costs in a case in which Mrs. 11 ment to take such action as may Marie, Branstatter claimed Tle. be necessary to protect American 10,000 damages from Mr. H. O. export to China against all illegal White for injury received in 12

motor car accident. `\(Continued on Page 8.)

What great painter, who was Michel Angelo's contemporary, paintert. the Stanza in the Vati can, and also the portrait of Pope Julius II.} Who was the greatest American painter toho ever lived?

Flemish Bome famous Name painters who began their carcore by working for Rübens.

decoration in Who painted a Papan goddess as

0 church?

Christian

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