While the report states that the Canton Christian College student who was killed was, at the time of his death, far beyond the West Bridge, a Chinese student from terial opinion on the subject, of ie evidence The aeases" is as|another school sometime ago in-sion of the Reds, remains unsolved. dangerous driving. The defendant] '1, "0" formed a friend of mine that Hui The Bolshevik in China at Greenwich was a motor-bus 3 shed before|¥-cheune, the dead youth, was not driver, who tried to pass another (1) Shameen was forrit fore bus and escaped collision with al the parade of June 23, while Shakee standing with east side of the West to know nothing about them. 'The telegram that Hsuchowfu fell on' Wednesday looks like a bad case, of nerves as Sun Chuan-fang was not to take that city until Thurs day, but it is possible that the Fengtien forces there were defeated "the other day at a meeting of the Union of Russian Associations Shanghai that regular Red troops were being sent into China dis-Kuised as emigrants. Tt was said hat. definite information had been jrecsived "to, this effect by local utter defeat of the Fengtien forces latantey. Regine General Bel Bao-shan.
The Russians and the name of 190: that the very in Kinngsu, their retreat without ud pee? fighting, is bound to produce a. quoted. Tu this connexion lowering of confidence in the huge local Russian paper, adds military organization which Marshal 1 is confirmed that the, former cos my sora pes eeabtiehet. anolt-Rinoft—leader of tinue to refer to the retreat very al. Gouthin-Met macao ie germane d ete a Sch remonbered, wae backward movements as wise and tora special Htussian necessary for the saving of men the"army of Gen, Feng and munitions and for drawing the {One quotes such statements under enemy into a trap, It is not yet {all reserve and all one would say clear, however, that on the question is that, while there is nothing in-of. programme there is any unity her ently improbable about them, among the anti-Anfu- anti-Fengtien there ought to be plenty of in-forces. General Sun Chuan-fang dependent sources of information in has not yet declared any antagonism Kalgan for learning the truth. There to the Central Government although is' good deal of evidence that hho has issued a statement opposing eng Vu-hsiang has been receiving the tariff conference. He has not considerable weekly consignments announced that his war is against of munitions from the Bolsheviks Tuan Chi-jui but that it is against /at Urga, and although he is credited Chang Tso-lin, There is room for with saying that he would never political guess-work in this, al-|ndvoeate or countenance anything though the statement will " now like Bolshevism in China, this may come if Bei Bao-shan and the Honan he only a blind. General Feng's forces are coming to his assistance policy is entirely inscrutable a The Sun Chuanfang stage of the|subject to influences not to be direction only because the car was pulled up dead. The stipendiary Magistrate referred to. the large number of accidents that arise from "cutting in," and, though accident Happened on this occasion, he fined the defendant for driving to the danger of the public. This, of course, will be applauded by all, In the ease at Dover the driver of motor-coach cut in between a stationary tramear and a tramcar travelling towards him. The motor-
Jexposed to shooting from every angle from Shameen. The committee, however, points out that the preparations for fortifying Sha-moon "were probably due to the Shameen authorities having had ne communication with Canton City for two days before the parade," and that "during those two days all sorts of rumours were rife within Shameen and the authorities were so nervous that they had almost reached a state of panic." front of the Victoria Hotel. A photograph taken the same day seems to bear out this gentleman, for in the back-ground, near the body of Hui Tu-cheung, a small foreign-style boat is to be seen on a frame where it has been placed while being painted. This boat the writer knows was at the time on directly opposite the Victoria Hotel, Chinese Who Shot Chinese coach was caught between the two tramcars, and though nobody was territory, and the Chinese therefore|tion the day of the shooting, many (2) Shake is in strictly Chinese prom what we know of the situa. indorsed "the giationsry CAF as|had ki street. a right to march down that of thave wounded were doubtices in the side as the report of the satiate pat Tit hence soldiers were in the parade, this wae armed cadets anal Satter tes was undoubtedly. considerably over on his left side, the ange wes actually driving to" the has been the custom in demonstra tions in the Inst few years in Canton.
(4) Governor Hu Han-min and Dr, C, C. Wu, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and others had addressed cos re eae ea toning "tors the demonstrators at a mass meeting and two, tramcars coming into] 14 just before the parade started, Says "Truth' fact, the damage to the tramcar cost several pounds to repair, but that is a detail of no importance. There was no breaking of glass—let alone bones. How, then, could the drivin be a danger to the public? Really, urging them to keep order in pasting Shakee.
(5) As the student section approached the West Bridge, "signals were suddenly observed for preparati for shooting near the Victoria Hotel.
(6) Then, according to the reports of the eye-witnesses, of the Canton Christian College students and Mr. Sham Sung, the chief-for a number of Chinese soldi got behind posts for protection, and they pointed their guns out on one side to take aim at the Shameen defenders, they were shot from the other side by soldiers in Shameen posted farther along and to the rear of those so wounded.
No Evidence of Dumdum Bul Some 38 of the casualties were examined at the Canton Hospital, and no evidence of dumdum bullets was found, but a letter from the rman of the Hospital Staff te ber of the Commission state: some of the wounds were obviously caused by ricochet and "Wounds so made might be thought by the uninformed war should be completed as soon} reckoned with, But apart from|\! his muddy-minded judgment makes inspector in charge of the ninth to have been' made by the dumdum Soa ink neat ton poten sian mere report, certain facts are plain) obitants of Dover: eral one feel quite sorry for the in-police station, who were at that It is plainly beyond dispute. One of our read-Rime at the West Bridge, a man was Pultt. It would be interesting if all the bullets taken from the bodies of his Peking troops within the! calculated to encourage rash and seen on the first floor of the Victoria. ers to-day, writing in the ce of those killed in the Shakee affair dins of Peking, Feng Vu-hsiang: pondence columns, underlines the hazardous driving in a town where Hotel who started to shoot at the could be compared with the many done nothing. strong hold that' Moscow exceptional caution is required, demonstrators with a revolver. dumdum bullets in the possession of emims that these movements were Canton. In the northwest Mongolia (7) Many of the wounded and kill. various foreigners living in Canton to quiet the populace, which does nothing more nor less than a
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