Oct. #4.
No one, certainly is "in any! mood for shouting: the upheaval has been too great, the damage to trade and property too grave, the loss of life too poignant;: but we may hope that Shanghai and the district immediately sur rounding it are fairly out of the. wood, The police in" yesterday Gazette was most reassuring. the previous twenty-four' hours local condit shad shown marked improvement; the railway. station and Chapei are occupied with good troops; the price of rice has dropped as boats have begun to come in, refugees are returning. to their homes. The troops, for merly Marshal Lu's, who were sent to the Kiangwan barracks, allies. On the 15th the Volu teers were concentrated in Sai-agents have committed against own fellow provincials and against Kuan, a wealthy suburb of Canton, and besieged, with the Yannanese mounting machine guns on surrounding buildings against them the city which is peculiarly as- Evidently they Kept up a. brave sociated with h defence for we are told that mem-is a blot on Dr. Sun Yat-sen's rebers of the Red army disguised pute that will never effaced. as civilians got into Saikuan and It is the culmination of x course set fire to it to burn out the of oppression and faith untoers.
Many civilians, which Canton will forget. further stated, fleeing from the Admitting that there may be an- flames were shot down other side to the dispute between nanese and Reds.
Of the num-himself and the hers of killed there ix no estimate, untoers which we have not heard, but the destruction by fire is put with every allowance for circum-] down at not less than $10,000,000. stances not reported here, the} 'The Volunteers' resistance col outrage remains too for} lapsed, as well it might, but those were generally regarded ax a doubtful quantity, and when the story came that an officer had marched into the Golf Club' house and proposed to take over, in order to quarter 3,000 soldiers in it, one wax prepared for squalls." But the officer' seems to have been put off without difficulty and the latest repo on the troops is that they a having very well. Like Balbu appeasing the boy with a sift, the Kiangwan country people ha Leen swift to conciliate the sold ers (and to protect their ducks and chickens) by making them presents, The Chinese; Chamber of C e ix to it that they are fed, And any excuse to cov correspondent As one ing from ton on the instant never entertaine any Gove presumption of who escaped are said to have xot when the Hupeh away with their Yuen-min, now at Langhua something" more is. likity north to reinforce Marshal heard of them, agine, of the afl tions which are said fu, ax he ix expected to do in {the next day is moving the troops that nam:
should descend to such] through dastardly crimes. and, even by a long. stretch of Imagination assuming that the Merchant Vol-untoers are rebels, it is something province.
The story is so monstrous revolting that one would fa believe it untrue. But comes When read of the fate of other' new for a responsible Government setting The bri breach Voluntee the rebellion to their fo us from too many source allow of any doubt. Axa may be pleaded that Dr. Sun of the} not personally order the fi ween Sun and the] Lut apart from the fact are to our cannot, needs 9 ection. however, the responsi filled The Volunteers Canton with Yunnanese mercenare by_no means a new organiza- uries—whose p has been protion. "In fuet they date from the vided by a monopoly the foun ing of the Republi elf, have received a Government char-great scandal—and for the form ter and have been revi and ation of the Red army, we happier di 's) complimented that on August 29 during the first: by Dr. Sun himself.
There are! still many details to fil in, but the: beginning of the difference dates, we think, from the autumn of strike, he wished to bom 193 when the presence Sun's mercenaries from Yunnan, Hu- would ask, this coni nan and even,-we bel ye, Honan what distinction there is between made the Volunteers more active] what Dr. Sun pr posed to do on' in organizing patrols and defence] August 29 and w was actually: of the Still, however, there done between October 10 ud 15 Was no open rupture and the and how the Consular Body. in Volunteers opti ned. a Governe spite of insults levelled particular ment permit for the importation Iv axa nst Great Britai and her] of the very large consignment of representative and a spec arms ammunition which the rageous reference to Sir Fr Norwe steamer Hav brought Aylen on y the day before the out to them last July.
In spite anniversary of the Republic, found' of the permit Dr. Sun seized the it consistent with its dignity arms and only consented to hand attend a reception given by the them the merchants pa Canton Government on that ing him $500,000. this niversary and shake hands with agreement he did not keep, but its representatives. when the merchants accepted it] As for Dr. Sun Yat-sen himself towns, Huchow, for instance, thrice skinned," Shanghai much to be thankful for, from further afield we set arent tale, Particularly distressing ix the report to be found in correspondence coin to-day of little bands of sold robbing and terrorizing, Woosung district. Liuho suffered enormously, so has Nar ziang. and it can hardly be doubted that other llayges. and towns hin been afflicted in varying decrees. If we come to think of it, the} troops taken over by Kiangs or paid off and disbanded cannot account for all whom Mat had in the field. After his there was interregnum, or, more correctly, no reg num" at all, during three or four days, the men knew was that their leaders had deserted them.
In such circumstances there must have been numbers who, with weapons and ammunition plenty, took to the country to live as they could. It is that not a few, returning to Shanghai station, slipped off into Chapei, sold thei melted into the crowd. It the greatest importance in view of the perennial evil of armed! robbers, 8 worst in winter that some attempt should be to recover those arms, Furth demanded further terms (One is the only conclusion that can be lad to note, in passing, that at come to, is that he is mad, that he Toast the merchants did got pa has come to regard himself as a exer the $500,000).
Tt was clu port of divinity, against whose this perted of wrangling over pleasure the lightest resistance and. the recantation] isa sin, who is always icht what-demanded of Inv. ver he does chile those who pak, head of the Vol- differ from him, whatever he that the would do, are wrong. But courts more, while one hates to think of the ex-soldiers being shot down for doing what moat of un would have been tempted to do i circumstances, the—maraudi groups abroad in the country must be rounded up. Some ago Brigadier-General Bruce was Adviser on Police of law, while they do not condemn to the late Admiral Tseng, a man who has committed a crime scheme for convert= was primal rily due through insanity, know how to tremist wing of the Kuomintang, deal with him otherwise, And a but Dr. Sun cannot escape res- crime has been perpetrated such for it.
Its composi- as one can find no parallel for rs to be such is) all the annals of that Republic traditionally associated with red- of which Dr. Sun has been both ness in politics, its members being the founder and a potent influence recruited from the worst elements! in its collapse. al troops into end: heme: must be lying somewhere in the archives of Lunghua and now There is nothing earth for General Bei Bao-shan's wa troops to do; "he is a noted brigand-hunter; and they, as former companions of the; mar-anders, are the best men to catch them and bring them back into of decorum and diseip Turning from the local situa-no doubt that Marshal Chang's troops have made a stood along the road to Jehot and pushed their way: ther great victories claimed are [evidently without foundation, 1s ave the advances which are sup pored invariably to have followed tack all along the which Marshal Wu has wid, at least four times, ordered. We fully jute that in modern warfare newspaper correspondents cannot be allowed a Tree hand. But it in cere lly ies which exist only [in imagination, "Meanwhile Mur shal Wo Pei-fr has been at Chine want ut and yes terday's message from our core respondent at head speaking of a new scheme following on a special council, sugieste that he may have found the Fengtien position harder nut to crack than he expe his, of course, ix pure supper tion, as is the belief, which non the less inerensex day by day, that the war in the perth ix move towards at des Hock with the de h side (oe strange for Any own War Few men, if well Thold hack a vastly gereate which Chinese armies would seem one yot to lack the requisite skill, 1 this theory, that a deadlock has beyeun, coreer, wil the two acmics sit down opposite each other and ait for spring to enable th won fighting? Or will [there ho the usual compromi terrible waste of men and nil the sovereignty indeterminate ax either has been all Kianyeats and the aundd that the michel district hus come back lor the control of Nanking to which ft properly belongs, Under such favourable conditions much may. be done, whoever reigns in
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