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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1924.
PROTECTION OF TIENTSIN.
UNITED STATES LAND MARINES.
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APPEAL FOR VOLUNTEERS.
The presence of Marshal Wu Pei-fu in Tientsin and his message to the Diplomatic Corps in Peking, denouncing General Feng Yu-hsiang as a traitor and an ingrats, and asserting that Tsao Kun has especially Instructed him to assemble 100,000 mėn. eliminate Feng and restore the situation, bas' created a serious situation at Tientsin. Already 200 American Marines have been landed, while H.M.S. "Hawking" and H.M.S. "Durban" are lying off Taku Bar at the mouth of the river-The Municipal Council has appealed for additional volunteers-an appeal which is being
readily answered.
U.S. Marines Landed.
"(Routar's Service.)
Say
THE CHINA MAIL———
"LITTLE" HSU'S STAY.
STILL A VISITOR IN THE COLONY,
UNDER POLICE QUAND,
WHO'S WHO IN THE CRISIS.
SOME POLITICAL CHAMELEONS.
FRIENDS NOW FOES: FORMER ENEMIES
RECONCILED,
leaders?
(By Gal Ming for the China Màil,)
As reported in yesterday's "Chinu Mail, General Hau Shu tseng, better known to the public as Little Hen, is a visitor at
No apology is needed for this manding the 3rd Division. Chang No. 61, Caine Risad, the residence brief explanation of the sign Tao-lin was nominally Military of Mr. Li Yow-how, formerly Civil ficance behind the names crapping Governor of Fangtien, the most Governor at Canton but now living up daily in the messages from the important of the three. Man- in rotirement in the Colony.
North anent the Peking crisis, churian provinces, but he had So far he has not made public his By now the majority of non-collected a large army under his intentions ns to the future but those Chinese residents are familiar banner, Tsao Kun gradually, who profess to know, allege that as with what the personal names extended his scope and was he cannot go to England, ho may stand for; but how many can tell appointed. inspector-general of return to the North.
off-hand-by way of explanation three big provinces. Wu followed This morning's vernacular papers to an interested newcomer, for him, consecutively up each rung "Little" su originally intended instance the significance that in the ladder of fame.
How Dr. Sun Stood. pory headquarters in the city and to visit London, but a number of lies behind the names of the
While Tsao and Wu increased isaned a message to the Diplomatic politicians interceded with him to
To begin with there is the their powers. Dr. Sun, who has Even Dr. Sun Yat- Corps denoming Feng Yu-hsiang go to Canton, as a traitor and an ingrate, and sen sent a representative to Hong. difficulty of strange dialect protested most volubly against Tientsin, October 28. asserting this TRAO Kun hans kong to discuss matters with him. Strange in that local Chinese do Tuan, arrived at an understanding This afternoon B party of 200 specially instructed Wu to take During the intercourse he suddenly not pronounce the names as they with him, not because they agreed. stops to cope with the situation. received news of the Peking compare spelt. The practice, in effect but because they were opposed to At present there are twoslajun-Therefore he is assembling an army This caused him to change his mind a legacy of the early days of the other two. se destroyers and one British, of 100,000 ton to eliminate Fong and intnediately desire to land. A China's foreign intercourse, of Justice of the Prace approached accepting the Mandarin as the French and Italian gum-bout in the, and restore the situation.
Wu holds the railway to Peking the Hongkong Government on his official dialect, has resulted in a He states that behalf. Permission was given and form of standard spelling, that of There has been an excellel rey far s Lófa.
Again names of ponse to the local authorities Tien. Kingsu Shantungite forces are he.. proceeded to No. 1. Caine the capital. (sin Municipal Council) appeal for coming up by rail vin Tainanin and Road: the residence of La Yew places, parties, institutions etc.
Hupeh troops by train from Han
get mixed up and are confused with personal names. Many brains with troops have left kow. Shunlikuma and are waiting a The Shanaikin front has been few miles from Pientsin. They entrusted to Peng Shou-hsin and are said to bo bound for Peking,
Chang Fu-lai, who will adopt the General Wa Pei-fo remains in defensive. At present it is holding the native city. He sent emissaries out well.
American rines, was landed.
riwr.
vonunteers:
to the Consulates, this morning, Chunghsintien Magazine. expressing the hope that he would.
be allowed to remain here a few
days.
Hankow, October 26. The magazine at Changhaintien, the Kinh Railway, has beat The view is expressed that this is taken over by Feng Yu-hsiang's impossible in view of contravention brigute. ~ comprising 5,000 men of the Boxer protocol, whereby nofter a skirmish with the guards. Chinese troops are allowed to be Daily Bulletin.' stationed within so many Ji of the "Settlements' boundaries..
Troops Leave Peking,
Peking. October 27. The city was denuded of troops last night except for the guards it rounding the presidential palace, and a small party at the telegraph
office.
Baitle Expected.
Shanghai, October 27. It is unofficially reported that Wn Pei-fu las arrived at Tientsin and is concentrating his troops at Lofa, midway betwa Peking and Tion- tein. There are indications that a battle is pending.
bon. Chinese detectives are gard. ing the door for protection and Little" Han is watching events before making up his mind as to bis destination, and awaiting favonable opportunity.
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Accordingly, the following is to assist those not yet conversant. It does not claim to be authority. Strictly, it is not even an article that can be quoted us an infallible reference. To do away with technicalities, recourse has not been made to text-books so
the attempt is merely one to set forth rather the small points than historical data.
In the Spring, of 1922, Changi so-lin fell out with his neigh boura. Wu Pei-fu, with the approval of his chief, defeated Chang Tao-lin but did not crush him. This caused Chang Tso-lin to be described as Dr. Sun's ally,
both being enemies of the Chihli party. By this time, Tuan was in ou retirement but still opposed to Tsao.and Wu.
Chang, Tuan and Sun. Time passed and Thao Kun rose to be President with Wu Pel-fu as his right-hand man, controlling the army with which they retain them were Chang Tso-lin, the ed their positions. Ranged against
Mukden warlord; Tuan Ch'i-jui, head of the defunct Anfu party; and Dr. Sun Yat-sen. All three have differing aspirations and the two first-named were, at one time or other, on the same side as their opponents. Dr. Sun had previously
Apropos the part about Hsu's re reiving news of the Peking roup. the following may be of interest:
When the Blue Funnel steamer Dardans rived early on, Fri- day morning. Title" Hsu was told. in the course of an interview given to the China Mail," that Cantonese Pronunciation. Fr. Sun had sent a protest to the
Of primary importance at the Diplomatic Corps, against his de-present moment because of his The Chinese press denies the tention at and deportation from dramatic coup is the Christian rumour that Tay Yung-sing nd Shanghai. Tls. He adnited General, Feng Yu-hsiang, but it nude his way to Mukden, and was news to him as he had been would be advisable first to give a states that he is now living without off from outside intercourse list of names with their posts and been Tuan's most active decrier. the other defented genemls of his white detained, staff at Unzen near Nagasaki. It is stated that before his departure from Shanghai he remitted $6,000,000 to Japan through one of the foreign banks. Upwards of 800 packages formed the general's personal baggage which he look on board the "Shanghai Mara with itn. Apparently defeat is not ac
tupanied by any lack of comforts. Accordingly. Hsa knew of the| Two members of the pollen foree Cristinn general's coup pot later of Chinwangtao made an use than tiffin time on Friday when it cessful attempt to ussussipate Mar-hud already been intimanted toʻkim" shi Wa Pei-n inst week; accord that he would not be allowed to ing to a risport in the North China | land in Englund. He did not leave
The Present War. Star." The would-be assassins the "Dardanus" till about noon on
Latterly, one of Peking's-the arrested and immediately Saturday.. The inference is that Tuan Ch'i-jui, pronounced TanChihli party's-satellites ousted
the break in his trip was not Chue-ray fuen Kay-suey in brought about by news of the Cantonese), nominated by the an "independant" military gover Peking up but because he had no Christian General aa the new Chang Tso-lin declared war on hor at Shanghai, Simultaneously, President.
Peking, not so much to assist the Shanghai man, but because the strongest rivals. opportunity was ripe to attack his
Tientsin „October 27. Determined To Fight. Wo Pei-fu who arrived, at Tien-were tsin yesterday, has established ten-executed.
FOULED CABLE.
DOUGLAS SKIPPER IN COURT.
NOMINAL FINE IMPOSED.
Because he anchored his ship the "Haifoong," in a prohibited area-the cable reserve off Douglas Wharf-on October 17, Captain W. S. Turnbull was fined $5 at the Marine Court this morning; stay of execution was, however, granted for seven days.
Mr. G. K. Hall Brutton defended and Mr W. E. L. Shenton appear ed to watch the case on behalf of the Douglas S. S. Co., Ltd., owners of the ship. Mr. W. R. Hillyer, assistant boarding officer, was men tioned as complainant.
THIEVES JAILED.
MR. GREIFF RECOVERS HIS WATCH.
In connection with the loss of a gold watch and chain from the per- son of Mr. John, Greiff, an engineer on the s.s. "Englestan," while he was at the Orientál Shows, Kow loon, on October 19, two Chinese appeared at the Central Magistracy this morning, charged with theft.
Later on Friday maning the the respective Cantonese pro-Chang still had a well-organised China Mail man showed hit nunciations,
and effectively-equipped 'army in Tsao Kun (Cho Kwan), Preai-Manchuria; Tuan lived on his the message received by the Com- modare ment the Peking crisis.
dent.
prestige in the British Concession; Wa Pei-fu (Ng Pui-foo), Mar-Tientsin; and Dr. Sun was waging Tau remirked that it was the first time he had heard of it but he hadahal, Inspector-General of several an occasional' word-war with the
provinces and till the crisis, the Chihli party. esported it.
strongest military man in the Here it would perhaps be country.
opportune to add that General Chang Tso-lin (Cheung Jok-Chan Kwing-ming who occasion- lum), Marshal, ruler of the three ally threatens Canton, declared his provinces constituting Manchuria.subservience to the Chihli party Feng Yu-hslang (Fung Yuk-when he fell out with Dr. Sun in cheung), General, commanding June, 1922. the 11th National Division, known as the Christian General...
Northward Bound?
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In The Same Linc.
Wu Pel-fu led
ehoice in the matter.
However, now, that the star of Tuan Ch'ijul--who is Hau's in- mediate superior and for whose Wu Pei-fu were the leaders of the Before the coup, Tsao Kun and "unofficial" history readers ar re- ferred to a special article in this Chihli Party, in power at Peking, his troops and offered battic at issis in the ascendant, it would and whose away extends practi-the Chihli-Manchuria border. Up not be strange to hear that He cally throughout the eighteen to the time of the coup last Thurs- intends to go to Tientsin, or for provinces of China Proper with day, neither side had gained any that mutter, Peking, to join his oh the exception of Kwangtung and material advantage.
Kwangsi.
chief..
Their greatest rival has been Chang Tao-En-rivals because they were competitors in the same profession.
Christian General's Career. Feng Yu-hsiang, the Christian general, has only risen te fame during the last few years. His troops fought. wih distinction on Friend And Then Foe. Wu Pei-fu's side in the Chihli, v. Curiously enough-but charac-Manchuria war of 1922. At first REPORTED PEACE IN WARteristic of modern Chinese politics he was in Central China but was
CANTON PARS.
AREA.
-Teno. Wu & Co., as recently as transferred to Peking, a step 1920, fought on the same site and which he is alleged to have re- for the same cause as Chang sented. Tso-lin their enemy
was His reason, as announced. for inzette fiere, are now no anti- "Little" Hsu), who, as heads tired of war.
Canton Tuan Ch'l-jui (and his lieutenant turning against Wu, is that he is But it seems Sun troops in the Fust River din of
the Anfit party, were strange that Chang Tso-lin should
The articles, valued at $100, had been disposed of to a money changer for $15, and the discovery by a detective led to the arrest of the two men. A foki at the money changer's shop, who purchased the watch from the second defendant, absconded before the police were trist. on the scene.
After Mr. Brutton had entered a plea of "not guilty,”, Mr., Hillyer went into the box. He deposed.
Both men were found guilty and that on instructions from Mr. C. I. sentenced to four months' and six Thomson, senior boarding officer months' rigorous imprisonment he visited the shin on the day in
respectively, -qtestion-and-he-saw-that-the-ship-
had picked up the telegraph cable lying on the harbour bed
Cross-examined by Mr. Brutton,
RICK SUPPLIES.
the
According
Asset-If Not Virtue.~
In the same article it is driven from power. However, in acquiesce so readily. Possibly, it hinted that Chan Kwing-ming has the summer of 1917, Tuan Ch'i-is because Feng feels that he lacks jui, Chang Tso-lin, Tsao Kun and the qualifications of President fallen out with his ally, Lam F. tor of the Arsoal and erstwhile barely getting into the limelight-jui as the next President, Tuan Jne Chockman, sometime DirecWu Pei-fu-the last two-just that he hag-nominated Tuan Chi- Hongshan Magistrate; has re- joined forces in crushing Chang is an ex-Field Marshal and Pre- turned to Dr. Sun`s -Kuomintang Hsun who replaced the Manchu mier. Told. Yesterday's Canton Boy Emperor after an absence Gazette" says —
of approximately six years-on The coup has shown Tsao Kun the throne for a matter of hours, in an ignoble light, hiding either Jue Chockman, a prominent On this occasion they united in the Legations or in the Presi- he replied that he did not see the ped and steered N: 75 degrees W.
revolutionary leader, has been because it did not suit their pur-dent's Palace and issuing a pro- anchor let go nor did he arrive and passed 220 feet clear of the before the ship had tied up to the Star Ferry pier. When his bow was
appointed Chief of the Municipal pose to see Chang Haur as a clamation depriving Wu Pei-fu, Auditing Department by order of successful king-maker. wharf. Answering His Worship in line with the eastern end of Governor Hu Han-min, succeed. Lieut-Commander G. F. Hole,Blake Pier he let go the starboard
ing Mr. Wei Yuk, the retiring R. N.) witness said that the
Chief. It is believed that Mr telegraph cable was foul of the anchor, went full astern and came
Jpe will assume office to-day. ship's starboard cable.
whart alongside Douglas Mr. R. J. Stevenson, electrician about 25 feet off. At the same time, of the Public Works Department,
In denying reports of a rice testified that his attention was he swung the wires to the east famine, the Canton paper says that three steamers were discharging reserve and he was convinced that was alongside he gave orders to the cereal, that 50,000, sacks more drawn that afternoon to the cable side of the wharf. When the ship there yesterday, 40,0000 sacks of the cable which had been fouled hoist up the anchor. It was the are expected in the next few days, active allies and Dr. Sun acting as politics Chameleon characteris by the Haifoong" was the reported to him by the chief officer that the public has been hoarding Government telegraph cable which that there was something hold- had been recently laid across the ing the anchor. He eased up the supplies and that a bumper harvest harhour. After giving technical wires and hove in the cable. When is expected.
The money shope
(native -evidence witness produced a plan the anchor was clear of the
and was mibsequently cross ex-water he found that the cable was bankers) are resuming business and amined by Mr. Bratton,
fast to the anchor. In his opinion, merchants are bringing back their Evidence of Captain,
the cable had shifted from its stocks. Captain Turnbull gave evidence Hongkong on October 10 and as
position. Previously, he in detail as to what occurred on the cable was laid on October 14, the arrival of the ship, that days he was not present. -from Swatow. At 10.10 a.m., he.
.
up
left
Replying to His Worship,
was off the Naval Yard and he Captain Turnbull, stated that the
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Pier his zone was Nys dog Mr. W. C. Bird, chief officer of
W: He had been going alongside the Halfoon also gave evidence.
Douglas Wharf for the last ten
years. He always headed for 30 verdier and imposed if fine at 54. feet from the wharf and did the same on October 17 Gomilung close'
to the Star-Reny plerakay work
“dead zlow. When an reached they end of the Star Ferry pier ho-stop.
ordet.
his most loyal. and ablest sup The Chilli Party's Risc. porter, of all military rank. For After this Tuan became para-the time being, Chihli's star has mount for a while. Dr. Sun Yat-been eclipsed. Feng Yu-hsiang is sen, the late Dr. Wu Ting-fang the man of the hour. Peking in (China's Graid, Old, Man) and in his hands. Contrary to his others set up a rival government custom of acting alone, he seerns in Canton. The next step, as to be in league with Tuan Ch'i-jui
fall, brought about by Tsao Kun, Tao-lin.
Wu Pei-fu and Chang Tso-lin as Such is the manner of Chinese already stated, was Tuan's down and he has the approval of Chang
spectator.
tics constitute an asset, if not 'a
Tsao Kun had risen from a virtue. Finally, it would be in- "division general" to become teresting to learn what Dr. Sun Tuchun of Chihli, the metro-thinks of it all and whether he is politan province and Wu Pel-fu still in negotiation with Tuan had succeeded him as officer com- Ch'i-jui and Chang Tso-lin.
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