東亞日報
- Hankou district calm; southern army wins popular support
- Wanhsien incident to be settled locally
- Non-permanent Council members: nine countries to be elected on the 14th
The page combines favorable reporting about the southern army’s position in Hankou with a British assurance that Wanhsien will be addressed locally. Its League Council item describes informal allocation of seats before an election. Reading the bodies exposes the different status of each statement: a correspondent’s assessment, diplomatic intention and a prospective political arrangement.
Selected Hankou report with an unreadable part of the programme omitted, the ambassador’s policy statement and reaction, and the clear opening of the Council-seat report. The full page and uncertain ninth-seat forecast are not transcribed.
Translation
Hankou district calm; southern army wins popular support
Hankou, which has passed into the hands of the Guangdong army, is calm. Since the 13th, the various military units have jointly held mass meetings to welcome the southern army. Meanwhile, the Guangdong army rejects communist propaganda, proclaims government for the people, the overthrow of the warlords and the abolition of unequal treaties […] greatly increasing the southern army's popularity.
(Mukden dispatch)
Wanhsien incident to be settled locally
[…]
The ambassador sought Japan's understanding of British policy and action toward China concerning the Wanhsien incident. He declared groundless the reports that Britain was planning and negotiating a temporary occupation of the Yangtze or a joint demonstration by the powers. He stated that Britain would not change its existing China policy and intended to settle the Wanhsien incident locally. Foreign Minister Shidehara expressed his agreement and his hope for a local settlement as soon as possible.
Non-permanent Council members: nine countries to be elected on the 14th
The allocation of the nine countries to be chosen in the general election of non-permanent League Council members on the 14th has become an extremely difficult question. Following determined efforts to resolve it through informal negotiations among the delegations, Belgium, Sweden, Romania, Poland, Chile, Cuba, Colombia and Uruguay have already been agreed upon for election as non-permanent members […]
Context
A military advance with a political programme
The Hankou dispatch links the southern army’s reception to slogans about popular government, warlord power and unequal treaties. These promises explain why a transfer of military control could also be presented as a change in political legitimacy. Rejecting communist propaganda, as the dispatch describes it, is part of that public positioning: the army is defining the kind of revolution it wants its audience to support.
Why Britain explained its position to Japan
A local incident on the Yangtze could become a wider diplomatic crisis if other powers expected occupation or joint military action. Britain’s ambassador sought to limit those expectations by denying such plans and reiterating continuity in policy. Shidehara’s response welcomed a settlement confined to the locality. The exchange concerns the scale of the response as much as the immediate dispute.
Small-state representation was negotiated before the vote
The League sought peaceful cooperation among states, but influence within its institutions still had to be distributed. A fixed number of Council seats meant that backing one candidate affected another’s chances. The informal bargaining described here was the work of assembling a slate that enough delegations could accept. It helps explain why a procedural election could occupy international news alongside military and diplomatic events.
Original
漢口一帶平穩 南軍大得民心
漢口一帶平穩
南軍大得民心
廣東軍에게歸한漢口는平穩하야十三日以來各軍隊聯合으로南軍歡迎大會가開催되고一方廣東軍에서는共產主義宣傳排斥하고民本主義를標榜하며軍閥打破不平等條約의廢棄 [...] 크게南軍의人氣를揚하는中이더라（奉天電）
萬縣事件은 地方的으로解決
萬縣事件은 地方的으로解決
英大使對外相陳述
[...]
萬縣事件에關한英國의對中方針及行動等에對한日本의諒解를求하엿다 卽大使는最近英帝國의對中方針에就하야一部에長江의一時占領又는列國의協同示威觀戰을畫策交涉中이라는等說에對하야事實無根한旨를聲明하고英國은從來의對中方針을變更하지아니하고萬縣事件에就하야서도地方的으로解決할方針이라는뜻을述한바幣原外相은右에對하야贊同의意를述하고一日이라도速히地方的解決을期하기를希望하엿더라
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