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SHÄNGHAI TENSION.
Armed Men Threaten To
Fire.
TAR
$1,000 DAMAGES.
Claimed For "False
Acensation
17, 1927.
CANTON SPLIT
Chang Kai-shek Shorn af Political Power
SUMMARY COURT CASE.
The Film as a Bond of
· Empire,
́HELPING HOME STUDIOS.
Alleging that he had been falsely
Rugby, Mar. 16 taccused and wrongfully detained.. Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister, Fre Cheung, Cho-gen, thengineer of sident of the Board of Trade, Waterloo Road Yaumati claimed moved the second reading of the Another attemptby armed men to enter the International Battle $1,000 damage in the Summary Cinematograph Flims Bill whith
Court this morning against Man matt at Shanghai nearly resulted in a grave incident.
Удделки
1, bien of Tauriell as whose has for its object to increase the instance, it was Allergens arrost proportion of British films shown Whan reflased entrance the men threatened to open fre and a
land:charge. WAS DESIA. critical situation was only averted by kis hit of an interpreter/
Regarding the Nationalias split General Chang ported to have been deprived of all political power."
CHINESE NAVY. Reported Defection To The
South.
Wireless messages from the North received by the local naval authorities from Shanghal refer to the report of the defection of the Chinese Navy to the South and state that the Kiangnan Arsenal and dockyard remains in the hands. of the North..
Ships off Wusung, under Ad- miral Yang Shu-chuang are flying the Cantonese fing.
..
The Canton Split. Referring to the split between the Moderates and Extremists in the Nationalist Party, the mess. age states that General Chang Kai-shek is reported to have been deprived of all political power.
The Shanghai railway strike continues.
The Shanghai-Nanking Railway line has been interfered with, but has since been repaired.
The general strike celebrating the anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's death did not materialise.
The chapes brought assist leider en komm
tiff at Kowloon Magistruły was for far greater production and with hakes the alleged livery of certain rub-distributon of. British films
ber rings and rollers the properta asserted in the ategest langi of a rope manufacturing After hearing the evidence, Ainsworth the Magistrats amiss
diminish the danger to British subjects in China.
Mr. Barker declared there was a garrison of over 6,000 armed men before the troops were sent to Shanghai, and it was protected by a large British fleet.
ed the caas:
This morning, it was stated for plaintif (the defendant in the police court action) that he was a parthur in the firm in question and that the ringa, etc. found on his premises were in connection with a certain process with which the triskarials had to be treated in the course of their preparation
Mr. Lloyd George (Liberal lead er) deprecated the motion as an attempt to make party capital. He said it placed in a very awk- Mr. Prior (for the defendant) ob- ward position those who, likejected to the question of partnership himself, supported the despatch being introduced alleging that he of the Shanghai force because had made enquiries from the plain they relied on Sir Auster Chami's sceltor before the case refat berlain's word that the troops ing to certain partnership books and would not be used aggressively or was told that they would not be
introduced. to assist either faction.
Partnership Issues Mr. McCallum (for the plaintify If the extremists won in China indicated that he was proving part it would mean 400,000,000 people nem blp through plaintiff's own evid
fence.
Labour's Unfair Attitude.
OUR $50. PRIZE.
Cross-Word Puzzle Competition Result.
The result of the "China Mails" eighth Cross-Word Puzzle Competition will be found on page
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Plaintiff after giving evidence BS) to alleged partnership referred to the process by which he treated these articles, but ratuned to give the formale of the preparation away.
Mr. Prior wisehd to press the plaintiff to write the formula down, not for publication, but to get a
6 of this issue. Two competitors.chemist's view on its efficacy aa he tled for first place, with fully correct solutions.
(Mr. Prior) put it to plaintiff that the idea of his having the articles op his premissa for treatment was, "all gubbish.”.
His Honour (Mr. P. Jacks), 1 would help the case.
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WAR AND RIOT.
Danger Zones on the Yangtse..
NOTES ON NEW NAMES.
Are, Cropping up, in
the latest despatches front the Yangtee as the scenes of war and anti-foreign riots.
A rough sketch map is given on this page of the Yangtze River valley by which non-Chinese will
aall the better to follow the
Trolita: Broke out recently on what is nėrally known as the {{ddle.aper stretches of the Vangta with Hankow as the cen ate (see map).
the Imperia Contarance 183 Autumn in a resolution sansa the very outset. The measures proposed in the Bill were those considered at the Imperial Confer- ence.
WES
The cinema
the most universal medium to-day through which national ideas and national atmosphere could be spread
Labour agitators have got out. of hand at Hankow, Kiuklang, Changsha, Ichang and other Treaty Ports...
Jumping off Point.
These last two weeks, the trou- ble has spread downwards to the lower course of the River, the Nationalists having taken over territory eastwards of their pre- rious frontiers.
point.
If those were intangible things: they were surely most important things in a civilised country and
Then the troops went a great Empire. The strongest Anking was the Jumping-off bouds of Empire were just those down to Wuhu (see map) where intangible banda common out the local Northern rabble, turned look, the same ideas and the same over to Canton. At this port the ideals typified in a common laCustoms Club Customs guage and common literature
Films were shown to-day millions of people all through the Empire, and they must unconsel
CHEERS FOR PRINCE.
Point to Point Race Won In Good Style.
یسب
Rugby, March 16. The Prince of Wales. won the Grenadier Guarda Regimental point to point race at Bicester by two lengths amid the cheers of a
Service.
large crowd-British Wireless
offices
and
were looted and several non-Chinese were in danger of their lives.
Roughly speaking, the South- erners are now, hammering away at the zone between Nanking and Shanghail One arm is moving thyards from Hangchow and has sent out a "branch" to make for Hankow by an indirect route. Fighting continues but the North- erners still hold their lines.
Prediction Borne, Out.
refused entrance empire, making one-third or one, dicated that he did not think this-ously indgence the ideas, and our province,
are concen-
The situation is improving at Wuhu, the Chinese commanders attempting to keep order.
Ningpo is quiet.
リ
DEBATE IN THE HOUSE.
A "Cheering Message" For Shanghai.
London, March 16. In the House of Commons. resolution moved by Sir Clive Morrison (Conservative). inviting the House to approve the fore- sight of the Government and con gratulate it on its prompt action" in taking steps to safeguard the lives of British subjects endan gered in the civil war in China.
talent.
The offensive on this sector is probably a feint, as most of the A Shanghai Crisis. Referring to the incident at
"crack Cantonese divisions are Shangha when 2,000 armed Chin-
moving down the Yangtse from Wuhu. Their main objective Ja. fese were refused passage, the
message states that a further 500 being added to the Communists
Nanking, the capital of Kiangsu who were
Fok of the British people. Only a This clay is not only of strate- threatened to open fire, and a fourth of the population of the thieu quation was only averted world. Our business was pot to Plaints we also examined to traction of something like five par gie importance but is also of his by the aid of an interpreter..
force our factory or our social the pollah garing come to his house?
and taken him to Exuma Follca cent at the present time of thetorical, note.It has been the Admittance has also been re- legislation on the Chinese-but tor fused to 250 'armed men who at leave them to govern themselves. station. Defendant, he stated, was films shown in the British Empire southern capital of Emperors in
with the Police and had pointed were of British origin.
the old days and was the seat of Captain H. D. King, the Gov- out the Police.
From a trade viewpoint the inthe Taiping Rebels government tempted to enter the North gate.
ernment spokesman, asserted that Shantung troops
Plaintiff was asked by Mr. Prior fluence of the cinema was no less about seventy years ago, until negotiation had been the forefront if it was not merely the presence important. Before the war 25 General Gordon defeated
the trating.
of the Government's policy all the of defendant with the Police that per cent of the films shown were "Son of Heaven," as the Canton time. They had also maintained made him say that it was defendant British, but during the war Britese adventurer styled himself. strict neutrality, unlike the Op who had caused the arrest to be ish progress in the industry was A prediction was ventured in position and had entirely. sided made. Plaintiff answered that the with the Nationalist South and defendant had pointed him out to stopped, and it was then that the "China Mail" a good many competitors forged months ago-when the Cantonese ignored the Northerners who held the Police who had subsequently American
ahead, very often using British captured Hankow and continued views just as honestly and sin charged him with theft,
Acted On: Instructions.
to march directly northwards cerely as the South. We were
Inspector Fallon, who had carsted Faced with such competition, that before trying to attack Pek- not acting alone but in conjunc-out the warrant, said te had acted the British industry needed some ing they would wheel sharply tion with all the other Powers on instructione from the Police measure of security, and the Bill eastwards, follow the course of
The Labour amendment was re-station The writ had been handed ! ajected by 241 to 118 votes, and to him there. He understood it had sought to give it. It was proposed the Yangtse and make an attempt
the Conservative vote of con-been made out on the request of that the quota of British filmson, Nanking first.
exhibitor must show
Tide Not. Turned. fidence was agreed to without Wilkinson and Grist. The plaintiff which an
was in custody for about two hours should always be lower than the Nanking is connected to Shang- division-Reuter.
before being released on bail.
quota imposed upon the renter. hat by a railway which-accord- Witness was asked if there were The renter's quota would begin inlng to to-day's, wireless has al- tools or any machinery about the 1928, and the exhibitor's in. 1929, ready been interfered with. Ver- shop which could be used in such and the quota in each case would nacular cables, say that Kuomin processer as those to which plaintiff start at 7 per cent and rise 214 tang soldiers disguised as civil- had referped... Witness, stated that there were a lot of articles about per cent each year. He submitted ians cut the line. Whoever it may Rugby, March 16. " but he saw no machinery.
that the figure was not too low. have been, the incident points to The agreement reached with The case is proceeding.
It was very important that there the Cantonese being very close efficient manner in which the Dey the Southern Nationalist Govern-
should be competition among on thie Northern stronghold. On fence Force had been moved to
the opposite bank of the river to Hement regarding the British Con-
British producers, and that was Nanking is Pukow, the southern Shanghai and to the East.
why the quota was deliberately terminus of the railway going hoped that if the Opposition divid- cession at Hankow came into
kept low-British Wireless Ser-North to Tainanfu (in Shantung), ed against the resolution the operation yesterday when the old
municipality was dissolved. House by its vote would send a
of Marshal the headquarters. Films in the East, King's Regulations enforcing. cheering message to Shanghai re- the new Chinese Municipal, Coun
Chang Tsung-chang and thence sidents and show the real opinion cil have given valuable co-opera-
Replying to a question, Sir on to Peking.
Although the pick of the Shan- in the delicate details of Is it safe to depatch mails via Phillip Cunliffe Lister expressed tung and "White" Russian corps Mr. R. Mitchell Banks, K.transfer and the Chinese author-Siberia? That is a question which the opinion that a scenario by a have been thrown into the battle, (Conservative) attacked the La-ities for their part have displayed many who are in the habit of using British author based on foreign the tide has not turned. bour Party's attitude to foreign
this route have been asking them story should be classed as British.
Big Battle Imminent. affairs. He said Britain in their good faith and goodwill.
At the annual meeting of rate-selves since the "concentration of Sir Robert Horne hoped the eyes was always wrong. They
Each day brings into promin- preferred to trust a foreign re- payers yesterday the necessary forces and outbreak of hostilities Bill would help to get such a pro- volutionary to a British official business, including the voting of on the Tientsin Pukow railway, duction of British films as would ence new names that the Canton- toxes and approval of the trans-which connects with one of the overwhelm the exhibition in the ese vanguard is threatening or has when it came to investigating fer of assets to the new municipal-trans-Siberian routes from Shang- East of films tending to lower the actually subdued. and it now facts.
Thai.
seems that an engagement on a Mr. Mitchell Banks envisaged ity, was transacted. them telegraphing congratulain the Consulate as
Debentures are being registered A correspondeilt in the North Prestige of Westerners,
China Daily News suggests that the rejection of the Bill on the
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald moved large scale is to be fought with
Nanking as the prize. specific the public would 46 well to indicate
About & week ago, Marshal tions to the Indian leaders during charges against Municipal pro on their mails the superscription ground that it compelled the Bri- the mutiny and protesting against perties, and a bond is under pre-in Dairen Ad as to leave the tish trader to supply goods irres- Chang Tsung-chang ordered a paration whereby the new admin Post Office there no option but to pective of their comparative counter-offensive on Wuhu, but Istration on receiving the assets despatch their maile by the safer of merits and the demands of their his men are still on the defence. undertakes to meet debenture pay- the two alternative routest
The mover of the resolution drew.attention to the remarkably
of the whole country.
the relief of Lucknow,
He contended that it was not
Mr. Eugene Chen but the British
mill owners who had improved the
lot of Chinese workers. If Mr
Chen wanted to improve them let him begin in the Chinese mills.
A Missing Prime Minister.
tion
NEW ERA.
Hankow Municipal Council Begins.
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ments; to profact, debenture On enquiry locally, "the", "China The debate was adjourned. charges on properties, and to Mail was informed that such a Reuter. notify debenture holders of their superscription would not help the assumption of liabilities.
local authorities and in regard to
Three British Councillors Shanghai the latter authorities Opposite direction to the ground
Mr. Mitchell Banks naked whenominated by the British Consul-must obviously be keeping in touch between Nanking and Wahu.. ther the Cantonese Government General for the now joint council with developments in the Tientsin was democratically elected and why we heard nothing of its Are the local managers of the neighbourhood and would not take.
Asiatic Petroleum Company risks which could be obviated.. Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co, and from Europe via Siberis continue to In the meantime, malla to and He taunted Labour members Jardine, Matheson & Co. with their fondness and partiality for the Cantorieso and Bolshevists,
The Nationalist Foreign Minis. travel regularly,
Prime Minister.
Frothblowers' anthem.- **
In this connection it is interest-
in which connectión he aroused try has nominated the Mayor of Ing to note that the Busalan consu- much laughter by quoting the Wuchany as Director, and three late is refusing to visa British Chinese Councillors, including the passports for trans-Siberian travel Chairman of the Chinese Cham on the ground that a galicato diplo A Labour member, Mr. Gber of Commerce and a local matte situation exists between Rus- Barker moved an amendment re-bour leader, the latter expressly to and England. It a pointed out gretting the ostentatious despatch deal with labour problema Er- that England defnitely threatened of a special Shanghal Defenceish Wireless Services to break off relations with Russia Force as unnecessary and calcul-.
ind” that the “issue was still unsettled?
ated to increase rather than
pre
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Whereas in the first few days of the Fengtien-Shantung. Party entering the fray, the majority of the Northern troops were poured from Nanking towards Shanghai and south of Shanghai, the new arrivals are being rushed in the
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