東亞日報
- Wuchang blockade: ships forbidden to anchor
- Nationwide speaking campaign to go ahead
- Yaqui unrest in Mexico
The page reports a Wuchang blockade and immediate consular protest, a nationwide peace-speaking campaign backed by Chinese public figures, and a Mexican brief linking a government troop expedition with suspended rail transport. Only the image-checked passages are translated.
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Translation
Wuchang blockade: ships forbidden to anchor
The Southern Army notifies foreign consuls.
The Southern Army has decided to blockade Wuchang from the 15th. It notified the foreign consulates that foreign vessels may not anchor on the Wuchang side and that vessels entering and leaving will be searched. Its proclamation warned that anyone violating these orders would be fired upon from Dabieshan. The consular corps consequently lodged an immediate protest. (Hankow dispatch, 17th.)
Nationwide speaking campaign to go ahead
Tang Shaoyi's peace telegram.
Wang Shizhen, Sun Baoqi, Zhao Erxun, Xiong Xiling and others expressed support for Tang Shaoyi's peace telegram. At a meeting on the 17th, they decided to issue a telegram and send representatives throughout the country to obtain the backing of provincial power holders and influential civilians, launching a major nationwide speaking campaign simultaneously. (Peking dispatch, 18th.)
Yaqui unrest in Mexico
Government infantry battalion wiped out.
Another 500 government soldiers have set out against the Yaqui. Railway passenger and freight services have been suspended, whether directly or indirectly affected. (New York dispatch, 16th.)
Context
Why a Chinese blockade involved foreign consuls
Wuchang faced Hankow and Hanyang across the Yangtze waterways, so a siege also placed river traffic under military pressure. A US diplomatic memorandum four days after this issue describes the Southern Army holding Hankow and Hanyang while besieging Wuchang. Foreign powers objected to searches without recognizing the army’s belligerent rights, yet could tolerate merchant ships submitting to inspection. The dispute joined control of supplies to competing claims over foreign shipping.
Why peace advocates sought support province by province
The proposed campaign aimed at both military power holders and influential civilians. That pairing explains why issuing a peace declaration was only the beginning: its sponsors still needed people capable of carrying it into effect in different provinces. Sending speakers nationwide was a way to turn a public telegram into a coalition, combining personal negotiations with visible pressure for peace.
Who were the Yaqui?
The Yaqui are an Indigenous people of Sonora in northern Mexico. Their resistance was bound up with defending land and control of their territory; the Mexican Indigenous peoples institute places the 1926 fighting within that longer conflict over settlement and land use. The brief cable reduces this struggle to troops and disrupted trains. Knowing the territorial stakes gives the name “Yaqui” a meaning beyond the military target presented in the dispatch.
Original
武昌封鎖로 船舶碇泊禁止
南軍、各國領事에通牒
南軍은十五日부터武昌을封鎖하기로하야外國船舶의武昌側碇泊禁止及出入船舶을檢査함을各國領事館에通牒하되右命令에違反하는者는大別山에서砲擊할터이라고告示하기때문에領事團은卽時抗議하엿다더라（漢口十七日發）
全國遊說決行
唐紹儀氏의和平通電
王士珍、孫寶琦、趙爾巽、熊希齡氏等은唐紹儀氏의和平通電에贊意를表하고十七日會議한結果通電을發하는同時에代表를全國에派遣하야各省實力者及民間有力者의贊同을求하야全國一齊히一大遊說을하기로決定하엿다더라（北京十八日發）
墨、야키族擾亂
官軍步兵大隊를全滅
五百의官兵이다시此討伐에向하얏는데直接間接을勿論하야鐵道는旅客及貨物의輸送을中止하얏다더라（紐育十六日發）