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“HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1927. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
FINAL BREAK.
GENERAL CHIANG KAI-SHEK “DISMISSED.
HANKOW SURPRISE.
FENG YU-HSIANG COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.
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The Hankow Reds have issued three mandates, one "dismiss ing Ceneral Chinang Kal-alich, unuther appointing Marslut" "Feng' Yu-halang his successor, and the third severing all relations with Shanghai and Nanking. The appointment of the so-called Christian General na "Commander-in-Chief” comes as a complete surprise, and is evidence that the Hankow Reds fear dissension in their own ranks. They appear to be playing for safety by choosing a general who is himself too far away to make trouble and whose appointment will prevent jealous" among the men on the spot,
NEW CHIEF.
General Teng Seng-chi As Associate.
2
done nothing in the present civil war to help the Southerners against Peking.
His appointment as Chiang Kai- shek's successor comes as a total Shanghai, April 19. surprise. The Hankow politicians According to Chinese reports may have agreed on Feng Yu- received here this afternoon thehsiang as he is too far away (nt Nationalist Government at Han- the moment) to, develop into an- kow has issued three mandates.
other Chiang Kai-shek and the The first dismisses General appointment may have been made Chiang Kai-shek from the post to avoid a squabble among the of Commander-in-Chief of the Hankow generals for the post. Nationalist. forces and orders his arrest and punishment.
The second appoints Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang to succeed Gen-
Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang.
ral Chiang Kai-shek with Gen- eral Tang Seng-chi (Military Gov- ernor of Hupeh) as associate Commander-in-Chief
to
Tang Seng-chi.
WAR NEWS. Hankow Moving Against
North?
WUCHANG MILITARY PARADE.
Hankow, April 19. Believed to be preparatory to a: move northwards against the Fengtien Arrearge military parade was held at Wuchong to- day, the troops being addressed by General Tang Seng-chi-Bri+ tish Naval Wireless.
[General Tang Seng-chi com- mands the 8th Nationalist Army and has the biggest command in Hankow. The move indicated against the Northerners is from the north bank of the Yangtse up towards Honan at. Hankow,
BOMBER CRASHES,
Four Airmen Incinerated In
England.
London, April 19.
An Air Forre bomber crashed at East Church, Isle Sheppey Four airmen were incinerated. -Keuter.
"pretender" to the military gov province, to meet the advance of
General Tang Seng-chi was
ernorship of Hunan province. Allies of Wu Pei-fu drove him the Fengtien: Army which has into Kwangtung where he was come all the way down from Pek-
ing to Wu-hsing-kwan.]
$70,000 OPIUM HAUL.
The haul of three bags of pre- pared opfum reported in yester day's "China Mail" to have been made on board the s.s. "Kutsang" ia valued at $70,000. The drug is Chinese opium from Amoy and was evidently, intended for Singa- pore.
Firing on Steamers.
Wuhu, April 19. Steamers passing Tatung Pago- da (on the Yangtse) are all being fired on from that quarter.
re-
Otherwise, the situation mains the ame with nothing new to report.-British Naval Wire- less.
[At an near. Wuhu, the rival armies are on opposite banks of the Yangtse.]
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TELL-TALE PEPPER.
Adds Two Years To A Sentence.
WONGNEICHONG ROBBERY.
Shanghai, April 20,
The fact that he had pepper on The P. & O. mail steamer his person when searched by the Police added two years at the "Khiva" went, ashore this morn-Criminal Sessions this morning ing at 4,80 at Steep Island Pass to the sentence passed by Mr. robber con- a hundred miles south of Shang-Justice Wood on a
victed of entering a hut and steal- ing jewellery from the inmates.
hui.
She soon had 18 feet of water in the No. 1 háld, but this was reduced to eight feet by nine
o'clock..
The prisoner in question had plended guilty and his sentence' was five years' imprisonment.
Another prisoner, charged with complicity in the robbery, and whose plea was taken as one of to "not guilty" was sentenced three years' imprisonment.
Two tugs and H.MS. “Durban" and H.M.S. "Wolsey" have gone to her assistance.
His Lordship commented There is no danger to the pas- the possession of pepper by the sengers. Reuter.
A HONG KONG PASSENGER.
The "Khira,” one of the pre-war P. & O. bents built specially for the China run, is a vessel of 9,000 tons and 9,000 hp, and is com- manded by Capt. C. P. Cooper, 0.B.E., R.N.R
The "Khiva" arrived here at 4 pm on Saturday and left at the same hour the following day.
Fortunately, in one respect, the passenger list was not a heavy one, there being to first-class passen- gers and 24 second-class passengers
SEVERE MANILA QUAKE.
Manila, April 20.
An earthquake lasting forty seconds took place at 1.31 this morning. It was the severest in recent months. It cracked a few buildings but there were casualtiesReuter.
no
on
other prisoner and said his in- tent was obvious.
The arrest of the two men in question was the sequel to a chase by the Police and villagers in the Wongneichong and Breadwood Road neighbourhood.
When the charge was read to them this morning, the first pri- aoner said that the second prison- er forced him to go. He did not want to go.
This was taken as a plen of "not guilty."
The second prisoner admitted that he had taken part in the robbery.
first prisoner, Mr. H. K. Holmes The case proceeded against the
prosecuting, for the Crown:
I a.m. Robbery, D. The hut in question was one of several on the outskirts of Wongneichong, being Inhabited by a widow, her son, his wife, the widow's daughter and her amall child.
F.
At 1 a.m. the widow was door and saw a man roused by a banging on the hut climb through the window space, go to the door and admit three others who then proceeded to rob the inmates of their jewellery and $25
taken into the Kuomintang Party.
Nanking, April 19. -- Chiang Kai-shek started his
The Chinese civilian population booked through and five first-class northern expedition to support hurriedly evacuated Hsiakwan and one second booked in Hong
The widow's daughter, who him. The result is Chinese, his- yesterday when a few shells were Kong out of a total passenger capa- was taken by the throat and tory. Victory after victory wasured into it from Pukow-British city of 90 first-class and 65 second- forced under the bed, started to
class. won. From a following of a few Naval Wireless.
shriek and call "Save Life."The thousand men broken in morale, [Hsiakwan is a suburb of Nan- believed to be a Hong Kong man, treat and the son of the matshed Only one of the passengers is robbers, startled, beat a hasty re- General Tang Seng-chi extended king, on the south side of the the others booked here having owner chased after them, follow- his army to at least 30,000 bayon- ets with artillery, etc.
Once Hankow was taken, his activities ceased. He consolidat- ed his position at Hankow and the surrounding territory, leaving the Nationalist campaign to Chiang Kai-shek's Party.
There was a time when Tang Seng-chi was described as conser-
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Crown Solicitor commented.. lows:
When arrested and charged-by Mr. J. Allan, Mr. L. J. Backhouse, Police who ran from Broadwood he (Tang) disliked Russian super Yangtae, facing Pukow on the Eng. Comdr. R..J. Brown, D.SO. Road, the first prisoner said. "I vision and Soviet principles. north bank General Chang Mr. G. W. Britton, Mr. E. W. Bram-
Doubt was removed a month Tsung-chang's Shantung Army is bleby, Mr. C. C. Bastin, Eng. did not rob. I went into the ago when the Kuomintang confer- holding Pukow and shelling the Comdr. G. Bevis, Comdr. P. Batter, matshed and only touched the Miss M. Brockway, Mr. H. W body of a man. I know nothing, General Chiang Kai-shek.
ence in Hankow appointed Tang Southern positions.] Seng-chi to a number of import
Curtoys, Mr. A. L. Campbell, Dr. about the articles stolen. Chinking, April 19. General Chiang Kai-shek was ant positions.
The north bank of the Yangtse and Mrs. Campbell and two chil- merely went with the second pri originally appointed commander-
dren, Mr. A. Choate, Lt. P. Apparently, the chance to be- River from Pukow to Shi-ker-Dimsdale, Mr. W. Dunbar, Mr. the two men not arrested."
W. Boner for a walk. I do not, know in-chief by, the Kuomintang coun- come the leading general of a wel is being held by Shantung E. G. Evans, Mr and Mrs. Edney Bridges Street Robbers. cils, this being prior to the expedi-Party was too great a temptation troops, and Marshal Sun Chuan-and Infant, Capt. H. G. C. Franklin, tion leaving Canton.
The two men charged with His "dis to resist, even if it included a fang's Northern troops hold posi- Mr. D. S. M. Fraser, Mr. G. H entering a house in Bridges missal" is referred to editorially. Communist yoke.
tions from Shi-ker-hwel to Tung Flinn (Jr.), Mr. W. Gill, Rev. W. W: Street on the pretext that they Chiang Kai-shek first became The "associated commander Chow-British Naval Wireless. Gibson, Mr. C. P. Guss, Mrs. known several years ago when ship is a political expedient. Tang [This message means that Hewitt and child, Mr. J. Hill, Mr. Were to attend to a sick woman General Chan Kwing-ming was Seng-chi will lead the Hankow along the lower course of the R. and Mrs. Hughes, Mr. G. M. and with then robbing the women fighting for the late Dr. Sun Yat- clique's army (anything up to Yangtse, from Pukow down to the and Mrs. Hollywood and 3 children, inmates of jewellery, were found sen on the East River.
100,000 strong), as an "associate" estuary, the Northerners hold the Mr. J. Hempsey, Mr. R. R. guilty at the Criminal Sessions Twice he left the Kuomintang of the Christian general but ac- north bank, General Chang Hutcheon, Miss E. G. Hewat, Mr. yesterday and sentenced to three fold, the first time as a 2nd grade tually by himself.
Tsung-chang's Shantung men hold G. C. Inston, Mr. H. P. King, Miss years' imprisonment. staff officer attached to a division and the second time
The danger to the Hankow the upper reach facing Nanking D. G. King, Misa L. Lace, Dir. and as a first clique, apart from action by and Marshal Sun Chuan-fang the Mrs. Lawson and child, Mr. A. S. grade staff officer attached to an Chiang Kai-shek, is referred to lower reach, facing Chinking and
porta below.] under War News.
army.
After Dr. Sun's quarrel with
to
General Chan: Kwing-ming, Chiang Kai-shek returned Kwangtung and became director of the Whampoa Cadet Academy. With the Cadets as his support, he rapidly came to the foreground after the Kuomintang Army had expelled the non-Cantonese mer- cenaries in the summer of 1925. ⠀⠀
CHANGSHA TYRANNY.
Peasants' Union Assumes. Control
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authorities, the total received" to K. K. Roxburgh, ¿ Mr. F. H.-F. An official announcement has date being $20,000. British Swayne, Mr. J. Sansom. Mr. W. C. Government would have to find increased from commanding the ornment dismissing General Chinese merchants in Hong Trowell, Miss G, Taft, Mr. 8. G. million pounds. What was want- Smith Miss C Me- be in the neighbourhood of five. 1st Nationalist Army to being Chiang Kabahek. commander-in-chief.
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