東亞日報
- The Southern Army’s Advance and Cooperation among Sun, Zhang and Wu
- Daosheng Bank Established in Tianjin’s British Concession
- Opposition Challenge Ignored
The September 27, 1926 Dong-A Ilbo’s headlines linked the southern army’s advance to cooperation among Sun, Zhang and Wu and condemned a peace movement as the work of warlord lackeys. Another headline announced a bank in Tianjin’s British concession, with a subheading alleging a purpose of sending out funds for communist expansion. A political headline described the government as ignoring an opposition challenge over a photograph incident.
This edition translates all three supplied headline-and-subheading excerpts, including the Shanghai byline. Continuous article bodies could not be reliably reconstructed because of fading, crowded columns and clipping. The exact cooperation arrangements, evidence behind the funding allegation and detailed government response remain outside this reading. The identifications of people, the bank and the photograph incident in commentary are contextual inferences. A's bank subheading, 赤化資金流出目的, is retained; the captured Korean history database entry instead reads 赤花資金貸出目的?, differing in wording as well as punctuation.
Translation
The Southern Army’s Advance and Cooperation among Sun, Zhang and Wu
A peace movement by the warlords’ lackeys
Jo Deok-jin in Shanghai
Daosheng Bank Established in Tianjin’s British Concession
To send out funds for spreading communism
Opposition Challenge Ignored
The photograph incident and the government’s stance
Context
The military pressure behind warlord cooperation
Sun, Zhang and Wu most plausibly refer to Sun Chuanfang, Zhang Zuolin and Wu Peifu, the regional warlords confronting the Northern Expedition. Wu controlled central China, Sun the southeast, and Zhang the northeast and parts of the north. The National Revolutionary Army captured Hanyang and Hankou on September 6 and 7, 1926, putting Wu under immediate pressure. These advances help explain why cooperation among the warlords was newsworthy: a campaign striking one regional power also threatened the others. The subheading’s description of peace campaigners as warlord lackeys casts their movement as serving those rulers’ interests.
Daosheng Bank and the communist-funding allegation
Daosheng appears to refer to the Russo-Chinese Bank, known as 華俄道勝銀行. Its Tianjin presence in the British concession dated to 1896, well before this report; it became part of the Russo-Asiatic Bank through a merger in 1910. Its subsequent history crossed the divide between revolutionary Russia and banking operations abroad. A later U.S. claims review found that nationalization affected its property in Russia, while its foreign branches continued without Soviet interference under a Paris head office. This distinction matters to the subheading: Russian origins alone do not establish Soviet control or a communist-funding purpose. The earlier Tianjin presence also leaves the precise meaning of the headline’s announced establishment unresolved.
The photograph that became a political weapon
The likely reference is the photograph of Pak Yeol and Kaneko Fumiko embracing in a preliminary interrogation room. The National Diet Library identifies its circulation as the photograph scandal that shook Japanese politics. A later study discusses a contemporary account dated September 29, 1926—two days after this newspaper issue—that linked the affair to Seiyūkai efforts to bring down the Wakatsuki cabinet. The study also describes how the photograph was used to attack the government over the couple’s treatment in custody. This political struggle provides a concrete setting for the headline’s pairing of an opposition challenge with government disregard.
Original
南軍의步武와 孫張吳의合作
南軍의步武와
孫張吳의合作
軍閥走狗의和平運動
在上海 趙德津
天津英租界에 道勝銀行創設
天津英租界에
道勝銀行創設
赤化資金流出目的
野黨挑戰은默殺
野黨挑戰은默殺
寫眞事件과政府의態度