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PLANS OF WAR.
TALK ABOUT TAKING CANTON.
WU PEI-FU'S HOPES,
Much Strategy. But Will It Work?
HONGKONG, MONDAY, MAY
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ALLEGED PIRACY,
LEADS. TO SUPREME COURT ACTION
CLAIM FOR CARGO.
1926.
RENT DISTRESS.
BANK OF CANTON AB CLAIMANTS..
DISTRAINT PROCEEDINGS.
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THE MISSING MAN,
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SPOTTED BY FORESTER.
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COMMUNISTS GO.
CANTON PURGING "RED" ELEMENT.
·RUSH TO BE "WHITE.
Echo of Last Year's Shangha!.....
Shooting"
Prom Our Own Coricapondent.)
Canton, May 20
The Nationalist Army has been: absolutely purred of Communista, and because of the drastic action Laken against Rods in the land forces, the Communists of the Navy are rapidly resigning or producing evidence that they no longer belong to the Communist Party.A
Many months ago, when General Chang Kai-shek won a "mystery man" and when his attitude or Communian was
not known, the
A sensation was caused at the The circumstances of an alleged Judgment was given this morn piracy near Macao of a junking in a case in which the Lee Central Magistracy this morning bearing cargo to the value of Shing Company was plaintiffs, during the hearing of a charge of (From Our Own Correspondent.) $14,000 were the subject of en-the Nam King Restaurant, defen- unlawful possession of camphor quiry at the Supreme Court this dents and the Bankot Canton, wood against two women from Shaukiwan when a Chinese spec morning, the Wing Yuen firm, claimants. Canton, May 20
Giving judgment Justice tator from the body of the a The
Kuomintang Nationalist Consignees of goods on the junk..
Court was taken into custody by a claiming damages amounting to J. R. Wood Goverment of Capton is not pin
These proceeding taken forest guard. He was identified ning all hopes in its fight against over $4,000 for alleged breach of
by the Bank of Canton in the Disas the man who escaped at the contract. We Pei-fu solely upon the prowess The claim was against Laitress for Rent Ordinance 1889, time of the raid on Saturday of the armies of Hwangtung and
Kwong, alleged to be the owner of section 21 The relevant portions morning. Kwangsi provinces. Instead, the
of this section are, a follows:- A pathetic, eircumstance men the junk. military and government leaders.
The claim of plaintiffs, who Any-person alleging himself to be tioned in Court was that since the here are nourishing a not entirely were represented by Mr. H. G.the owner of any property seized arrest of the two women a three impracticable hope that the sum mer will witness a tremendous Sheldon, was that there had been under this Ordinance may "(after year old son of one of them had
fallen from thrust southward by
the reno piracy or that if there had certain formalities) apply to the accidentally organised Kucminchun armies (of been there had been connivance: Court to release distraint verandah and was in a serious and that in any event the piracy article and the Court may-recondition in hospital. In view of the "Christian General.")
The plan is to rally the southern must have been at some point of lease such article Recording to this the prosecution did not Kuomintang voted to put a "party
- the case and
observer". In every army office, in Nationalist forces for a push north, deviation from the prescribed such terms as it in think just." press
WILY leniently dealt every company of the army, and on and for the Kuominchun, after course Evidence would be call. The circumstances are as fol-woman
The debtor from whom with by fine of $15. The avery ship of the navy. These In wianing Shansi province, to cuted, said fr. Sheldon, to show that lows: down through Shengi and the rich the boat was seen two hours after rent is claimed is inuited com- other woman who had been fined men were really known spraa
navy in particular these eastern provinces, through Kwei- the piracy was alleged to have pany, the Nam King Restaurant, $50 for a similar offence recently the
occurred and reported nothing un. Limited On May 8 last this was fined $100, or eight weeks" "observers often incited the men chau province, and so make a
to disobey orders from their junction with Chang Kai-shek's usual to the coxswain of a launch Company owing arrears on rent hard labuor
When the man arrested inside superiors.. which was in patrol in connection for ten months, auggested pay- Canton forces in Hunani OT
ment on account. The arrears the Court, subsequently To-day it is announced that all Kwangs. An ambitious plan, but with anti-piracy measures,"
The owner of the junk had told amounted altogether to $27,085. charged with being concerned Communist observers" have been one not impossible of accomplish. ment, particularly if the Kuomin& graphic tale on his return of For this amount the warrant of along with the women in the re- weeded out of the Nationalist moval of wood, he claimed to be a armica from the First to the Sixth the alleged piracy on October 15 distress was duly sued. chan can continue to win against carly, in the morning, and had warrant was execubon May 10. victim of mistaken identity. Armies, inclusive, and that those Wa Pei-fu, sufficiently to cause
stated that 50 armed men had In pursuance of the warrant, the Evidence was given of his escape in the Navy are resigning pell mell. withdrawal of south-bound armies, overtaken them in launches and bailiff of the courted movable during the raid, and on his own Even Chan Kung-pak, head
of the and so give Canton a breathing.
Bureau, long overpowered them, it taking two property fourd on the premises admission that he was a friend of Feasant-Labour
Red has turned Lepace.
There is one fly in the ointment. days for the cargo to be taken off mentioned in the warrant and in the unfortunate woman in the known as The minchun admittedly and landed. A report had been the apparent possession of the case he was found guilty and fined violently and vocally anti-Com- made at the Water Police station, debtor, with the furniture, At-$75, or six weeks hard labour. being munitioned from Russia.
The case for the defence, repretings and other effes in use by What will they be willing to do:
sented by Mr. H. Somerset the defendant company on the for Canton if the movement to oust
All the complete restaurant premises. Fitzroy,
secretly and by subterfuge, just as Communists from Nationalist go denial that Lai Kwong was goods seized under the warrant,
the anti-Communists worked before ernment positions continues to be
of the
General Chang. Kai-shek- took his junk are now claimed by the Bank of pressed?
had held himself out to be Canton who allege itself to be.
stand against Bolshevism and the The Enemy's Secrets..
Russian on May 15, Whether from. Meanwhile the Nationalist Gov- the owner. Admission was made the owner of them
It has been: that a contract was made between Under section
fright, conviction or expediency ernment claim to have discovered plaintiff and the Kwong Hing the practice of the Court to re-
cannot be told but daily, scoren of the details of Wu Pei-fu's plan for Arm, a firm of buck, but no lease from distrain in the absence
A gold wristlet watch and a people are resigning, at least advance against the South,
agents mar"} een paint of good grain shino the con- tongue scraper which had been nominally from the Communist which Includes many strange sagutan at kahe in the converted into a wrist band found organisation. strategies and treasons. The an the junk were admitted.
ownership of appras other than on the person or a Chinese youth - E nouncement of this plan, as given
Mr. Sheldon, for the plaintiff, the debtor. This practice was arrested at a tea houso”, were out here to-day, follows:-
said that evidence would be given proved in formal judgment de identified as
173
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Generale Chan Kwing-ming.
the owner
or
was
The
was
· INGRATITUDE.
CHINESE YOUTH ROBS HIS MASTER.
AN INCORRIGIBLE ROGUE, '
munist.
in short, to-day the Communists
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With Hongkong
part of property With troops still moving North, the Political Propaganda Depart ment has just organised a Prepara-
tory
This
the
Committee of War Time Political Propaganda, with Chen Konk-polt as the chairman, committee is composed of repre- this morning..
sentatives of the Political Depart- Defendant was formerly employment of each array, and also of
The com ad under Dr. Kew to look after the Kuomintang delegates. dogs and this enabled him to enter mittee will work at spreading Kuo- the house and steal articles from mintang principles among time to time.
bopylations of villages and towns Dr Kew said that he had done enptured by the Kuomintang quite a lot for the boy in an en armies. deavour to make him good, but bei Chang-tat, chief of police, haz persisted in robbing him even after lasued a proclamation saying that running away from the house. Ha ha has been infirmed that both asked that defendant be given a flogging and then banished.
Ngai Bong-ping, Lin Fu. Tang the effect that defendant had livered by me on May 27, 1923, in stolen from the residence of Dr. Chine and Ma Twi are said to held out himself to be the owner. this Court, under. Distraint No. Row No. 47, Wong Nei Chong
Plaintiff would also give evidence 124, of 1923, from which judg-Foad. have been chosen to head the of conversations which had taken ment no appeat was entered. I The youth pleaded guilty to a movement in Kiangai ngainst
place between him, the defendant, propose therefore to follow the charge of larceny before Mr. R. E. Kwangtung and the Kuomintang. Of these the second, Ngai Bong- and the broker who had acted as practice which was adopted in Lindsell at the Central Magistracy
go between. The goods had been that case: ping is rather popular in Canton. taken over on September 13, but In order to obtain the release He was at one time chief of
various reasons for non-sailing of articles which have been seized police, and about one year agh had been advanced from time to the claimant must show that he sccrhfully refused the post c Mayor, Eow heid by Dr. C. C. Wu. time including the activities of is the owner within the meaning strike pickets and the fact that of that word as "used in that When he was offered the job he the junk could not get a full cargo. section. It appears that the de is said to have replied that he Plaintiff had stipulated that he fendant company on April 14 would not have it as a gift should be informed when the junk last executed an assignment to cause the Government was domin-made its voyage but the first he the claimant by means of a deed, had heard of it had been the fact affecting all the property which is that the junk was alleged to have now seized under the distraint been pirated: He had not been warrant. This deed was produced informed it had sailed.
to the Registrar on April 17, and was duly registered by him. This document is described in its cover 29 a "Floating Charge." On
uted by Reda.
Wu Pei-tu's plan is detailed us plazming to attack Kiangat and Human, then to appoint Tang Yui-tsu as commander-in-chief in Kiangai and drive Fang Poon-yan out of that province. This por tion of the plan has already been worked out.
Subsequent steps are to include thelping ip Hoi-yan to overthrow Tong Shang-chi in Hunan and make Ho Yiu-tic Hunan's com- mander-in-chief.
This plan is now, apparently, working with
..great success.
The case is proceeding.
Kiangaj and Hunan, is playing a waiting game, and even doing noth-perusal it becomes clear that it is ing to, assist General Tong Shang in fact, a mortgage to the claim- ant of the chattels in ques-
kwan.
...
His Worship remarked that flo- gig was not provided for a fence of this nature and sen tenced defendant to six months hard labour.
ACCIDENTS.
detectives and soldiers have been helping to smuggle passengers and goods to and from the Hongkong boats. He demands that this prac tice cense, and threatens heavy penalty to any persons caught violating the order.
Eight hundred policemen have been detalled to help Chang Kai- chr in his defeat North of Shiution. The consideration of the
shek'a soldiers to patrol the streets. Meanwhile news direct from mortgage is $24,000 It vests During the week-end, a motor. There will be mixed squada of 20 the legal ownership of those car driven by Mra. Pooley collided men to each block. At first it was Kiangal partly confirms this pro articles in the claimant, who is with a motor cycle ridden by Mr. thought that this order was to help gramme by announcing that Tang therefore entitled to an order for W Taylor at Chatham Road, but prevent unhappy clashes to-morrow, Tu-tauk of that province has been the release of those articles. the accident was not attended with May 30; the Arst anniversary of the Familiar Names,
named commander-in-chief of the There is here no question of any Injuries.
Shanghai shootings, but officials The next step in said to be to troops there, and that he will at collusion between the claimant In another accident in which a declare the patrol will be of inde attack Kwangal: to help Lin Fu, tempt an invasion of Kwangtungand the debtor. I make this order car driven by a European was con- finite duration. Shen Hung-ying, Ma Tei and Lau Early this week he received a ship in the present instance with some cerned, a Chinese girl received in- Taun-wan to recall their old troops ment of 2,000,000-cartridges from reluctance. It seems to me the jurica, and had to be taken to and to invade Kwange! by way of the Tan-yang arsenal. All boats landlord is being penalised for hospital, Porns Kweilin and Liuchow; to get. Tang on the river between Kamchau and having shown an exemplary A Chinese Bsherman from Ping Chiyao to send his troops" to Namcheung have been commandeer patience during a period of com- Chau Island was taken to hospital Kwangst by way of Pakahek, and ed to move his troops. He has mercial depression. If the Nam with a bullet wound in the neck to order Yeng Kwun-yu, Lau Chi- about 10,000 Klangsi men in his King Restaurant, Limited, being He was hit by a stray bullet luk and other local leaders to co-army in the southern part of the in arrears with its rent, had whilst shooting dogs. lect their old soldiers scattered in province, and is said to be recely caused to be remold from the southern Klangai, and to ask Chan ing aid from General Yeung Yu-hih premises this property so as to Kwing-ming and Ngal Bong-ping to and General Young Chi-ahang,prevent or hinder bailift from gather bandits and volunteers from former Yunnanese officare-once distraining the Bar the remedy
THE WEATHER.
to
$20,000,000 LOAN.
(Wah Ts: Yat Po.)
Canton, May 30 Nominally to finance the mill- tary expedition against the North, the Canton Government intends to float a public loan of $20,000,000
It has been heard that compl forecast until noon ratione have arisen in connection and to delare war against the ing their forces along the Kwang section 37 of the Distress for
generally cloudy, Mr. Eugene Chen an acting Mini- Nationalist Government. This tung border. Because of this Rent Ordinance. But if theAt 11:10 am today, the Obser ster for Foreign Affairs and another would make it impossible for Can Nationalist troops are being sent to established practical the Court, vatory report states that pressure, person may be appointed.
the Namhung district on the North is correct it is possible that the has increased moderately over ton to send help to Kwangai.
The resignation of Mr. Sung The third step in Wa Pei-tu's River, y s
same purpose may be legally as Japan, and S.W. China, and Taze-men' (T. V-Soong), Finance plan le said to be to attack Kwangwho's who
complished by the method of lightly at the majority of other Minister has not taken effect - But tuzy directly, to make Chi Heieb-Li Chang-tat, now Commissioner assignment by way of mortgage reporting stations. The northern Mr. Joong has borrowed large sums yuan generalissimo of the armles of Public Safety of Police Com-on removal from the promises depression is moving eastward to from the kin depots (eastons of the provinces of Yunnan,missioner of Canton, will probably
The costs of the claim will be ward Hokkaido. The Tongding brokers?) The Government has Kwangst, Hunan, Kianga! and go to the Northern front to aid paid by the plaintifie
depression has filled up. The ordered the accounts (calculation) Fukles, and to attack all along the General Chang Kai-shek when he
anticyclone Is moving eastward to be completed Frontier Ammunition, rifles and gom. He will then be temporarily
Into the Eastern Sea fald gune will be sent from Han succeeded by Lt Ki-tong, a mode kow, Chen Kin-min will find rate,
the three big rivers, of Kwangtung quartered in Canton, who are mass is provided for theandlord reader East winds, fresh with the projected appointment of
has sent many of his troops Fat, aimbat opposite Shameen, clear the district of pirates and
bon Min-chi
money for the five provincial L Fook-fam of the Fifth Army armies, and Lau Tsun-wan will go to Yungun to persuade Tang Chi who to co-operate with Wa Pel fu
Canten's Fears This progZAMMO
evidently, Fot given credence here, for the an ton Government, Izgajmul
John A de Courcy, three and half monthe old, died suddenly in his
The body the how
mor
closing
A Chinese youth was ined 87 at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn-
cha
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Magistracy this mor
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