WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1927.
HANKOW THREAT.
(Continued from Page 1.),
that America te preventing any thing definite being done regard- ing Nanking.
CHINA TO-DAY, '
bly at Peking or Tientsin. British Under Foreign Secretary's
Review, Reuter.
PEKING RAID.
Britain Awaiting Authentic Information.
THE CHINA MAIL.
·A MARSEILLES PROPHECY
FULFILLED.
JAIL FOR PRODUCERS OF
· INDECENT "PLAY."
GREAT ENGINEERING FEAT.
NEW YORK JUSTICE,
Paris, April 26,
China was the subject of a ques- are convoyed by men-of-war, and AFTER 2,700 YEARS. “THE VIRGIN MAN.” tion in the House of Commons. In spite of retaliation by the
Sir L. Worthington Evans, latter. Secretary of War, said as far as Foreign property at Nanking possible such families would be has continued to be looted since left undisturbed in their mar- the incident a month ago, Latest ried quarters, but in some cases reports, however, show some im they had to quit for families of provement. The troops appear to the relieving units. In such cases be under better control and loot It is suggested in certain quar- the outgoing families made their ing has decreased.
London, April 9,1-- ters that in view of General own arrangements. They were
It has taken eighty six years and New York-The author, "pro- All the Communists have left Chiang Kai-shek's
supposed granted a lodging allowance, or if or have been arrested, and an about atty five million Franca to ducers, actors and actresses of the moderate attitude, the Powers they preferred it, they were found anti-Communist proclamation has realise the prophecy made twenty Broadway play "The Virgin Man" seven centuries ago, by Aristado, have been sentenced to imprison- should await developments, but alternative quarters.-Reuter. been posted in the name of Gen-priestess of Artemis, who told the ment on the ground that the play most foreignera here hold the
erai Chiang Kai-shek. At Wuhu astonished founders of Marseilles is indecent, 1. opinion that delay will merely
most of the foreign buildings have that a "miraculous ring one day Newspapera stigmatise the queer *mean a repetition of Nanking:
been occupied by Southern troops. will seal the union between, Mar- justice of imprisoning: hard-work- elsewhere sooner or later, possi-i
Hong Kong Trade.
scilles and Etang de Berre." To-ing theatricala and allowing a At Chinking on April 20 the day searchlights wore piercing the sniggering audience to go scot free.
subterranean gloom. Mr. Dou
Governor Smith has signed a new. advance troops of the First Namergue, in the leading motor boat, "padlocking" law to enable the Rugby, April 26.
tionalist Army, on their arrival, followed by a little flotilla of police to close offending theatres. Mr. G. Locker Lampson, Under commandeered all foreign build- similar craft containing members Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Ings in the Concession as well as of his suite, Inaugurated the won-
new waterway tunnelled NEW PRAYER BOOK, gave a resume of the situation in the British Consulate for billets derful China in reply to questions in for the troops which were expect- beneath the Rove mountains, four ed to strive from Nanking, and a half miles long and seventy Parliament. London, April 26. He said: "Military operations Later, however, as a result of the feet wide. The tunnel and canal are the culmination of remarkable In the House of Commons, as between the Northern and South-local military commander's re-engineering feat planned in 1841 regards the documents seized in ern forces are for the moment at presentations to General Chiang and begun in 1911, and links. Mar-
In view of Sir William Joynson the Peking Legation Quarter, Mr. a standstill. The northward ad- Kai-shek, the latter ordered the selles and Rhone via the wide shel G. Locker Lampson said he was vance of the Southern forces be troops not to enter the Conces-tered Etang de Berre, which will Hick's insistence that the bishops unable to state until the docu-yond the Yangtse has been check-sion, and the advance troops were berome an important harbour, ments had been examined what ed, and they have been driven all evacuated from the Consulate considerably benefit the industry should pledge themselves, to dis- of Marseilles and district, while clpline the clergy from infringing action the Government will con-back over the Yangtse in the re-and Concession
Shanghai itself is quiet, al with the completion of the Rhone the new Prayer Book, it is note sider it desirable to take in the gion of Nanking by the forces of
magnificent worthy that Lord Halifax, late Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, which though trade is stagnant. On the waterway will join the Mediter President of the English Church matter.
Mr. J. C. C. Davidson (Conser- have now reappeared and taken other hand reports from Hong rancan in the North Sen. Rauter. Union, declares in the Church
Kong show that in South China vative) asked whether Mr. Lamp- part in the operations.
aware that an
The Northern troops have not, British trade is again reviving. official resume of some of the docu- however, crossed the Yangtse. The demand for British goods is ments had been issued stating The Yangtse is for the moment growing, and the coasting trade that care need not be taken of the boundary between the North-is on the whole satisfactory-Bri- British subjects in mob violence ern and Southern territory, except tish Wireless Service.. because the British Government at Hunkow, where the Southern was not likely to do anything but troops still occupy the country: issue words, whereas Japan was north of the river. very likely to use force.
Kon was
The Nationalist. Split. Meanwhile a serious division
Mr. Lampson replied that he had seen various Press reports has appeared in the Nationalist but he was awaiting authentic in- ranks. General Chiang Kai-shek, formation.Reuter,
the Nationalist Commander-in-
MOSCOW'S INTRIGUE,
Contempt for Cantonese Generals,
Peking, April 27. The police to-nightssued statement by the accourants who carefully examined the books of the Dal Bank which were seized in the raid.
EARLIER MESSAGES.
Second Note On Nanking Outrages.
Peking, April 26.
A semi-official Japanese tele-
and Rhine canal
and
QUESTION OF - ENFORCING OBEDIENCE.
London, April 8.
Inaugurated by President. Times" that rigid obedience to the proposed Prayer Book cannot
· Marseilles, April 26.
be enforced by M. Doumergue has inaugurated rightly the new Rove tunnel which with ccclesiastical discipline. No grati- its 7,200 metres le the longest in tude was due to the episcopate, the world and constitutes part of which had merely tardily:sane- the 81 kilometres long canal from tioned what Anglo-Catholic Marseilles to the Ithone, which clergy had won for themselves. when completed will link up the port of Marseilles with the water- way system in the interior of! France, the Rhine and central Europe-Havas.
FAMOUS AVIATOR VISITS NEW YORK.
BOMB OUTRAGE.
New Delhi, April 9, Lucknow, April. 8. A bomb
of a gathering near the tomb of a Muslim, saint.
Thirteen persons were injured, one seriously.
Chief, has been dismissed from gram from Peking indicates the MARQUIS DE PINEDO. exploded last night in the midst his post, and has repudiated the view that there is American op- authority of the extremist Han- positon to the sanctions of the kow Government, which is under Second Note. The Powers will strong Communist influence. He probably merely demand only the has the support of
the more execution of the three requests in moderate elements of the Kuo- the First Note and later discuss a mintang, some of whom have third step should events warrant
it. Reuter. Joined him at Nanking, where he a reported to be setting up a government of his own.
Hankow's Troubles.
Captain Threatened.
Shanghai, April 26.
www
New York, April 26. The Mayor officially welcomed
OPERATIONS IN MOROCCO. the Marquis de Pinedo, who is closely guarded by the police, us
London, April 8. anti-Fascist demonstrations are
Madrid-General de Rivera feared. The time, of De Pinedo's announces that Spanish forces in arrival was kept secret. It was an Morocco will begin big operations York from Washington on the been made with France. morning of April 25, but actually he arrived on the evening of the 24th and was immediately hurried
A message from Wuhu, on threatened with rifies the captain The books, which are in perfect been placed in serious financial of II.M.S. "Caradoc" and several order, reveal that in 1926 and 1927 difficulties by the defection of Americans when proceeding to the Soviet Government paid over General Chiang Kai-shek, by the the shore yesterday. A protest
$10,000,000 in support of the Can-cutting of their communications was lodged. Reuter,
The Hankow authorities have April 25 says Chinese sentries nouneed he would arrive in New soon, and that arrangements have j
tonese military and anti-foreign with Shanghai and Canton and movements.
by the cessation of foreign busi-
I never enjoy speaking. Mr. Baldwin.
to a motor car to an obscure hotel.
An amusing incident was· `wit
If young men lack experience. Japanese Bluejackets. messed when a young Italian broke
through the cordon of police and they lack vision-The Prince of Tokyo, April 26, The money was paid largely ness owing to the disturbed con- through the military attache in ditions and lack of security either 1,000 bluejackets are being des concealed a bomb, tore the bouquet
The Navy Office announces that offered De Pinedo an enormous Wales.
bouquet. The police, suspecting It Peking. The police point out that for life or for property. They patched shortly for the protection apart but found nothing. De it is thus overwhelmingly proved that the Soviet Government was the now control only a relatively of Japanese residents in the Pinedo heartily shook the hand of small area in central China Yangtse Valley though as re- his admirer, who ruefully gazed at main support of the Nationalists.
Complete lists of the arms and around Hankow, and the civil and lefs rather than as reinforce the mangled flowers-Reuter's munitions supplied by the Soviet military authorities in the Lower ments, as the cruisers "Kuma," American Service. have also been discovered.
Yangtse area along the coast are, "Abukuma" and seven destroyers
It is further revealed that the for the moment at any rate, on are withdrawing in the near Soviet insisted on Russian repre- the side of General Chiang Kai future-Reuter.
sentation on all Cantonese councils.shek.
Soviet letters have been discover-
ed declaring that the Cantonese generals are slovenly and are ut
FURTHER £950,000.
Cost of the Shanghai Defence
? Force.
London, April 26.
Anti-Communist Raids.**
WAR COLLEAGUE.
MAGISTRATE'S EMOTION IN
recognised
COURT.
מם
London, April 9,
Shadows Before:
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE MAIL.”
Entertainments.
April 27-Queen's Theatre: "Lovey Mary."
April 27-World Theatre: "Code of the West.".
April 27-Star Theatre: "Salamny Jane."
Change of Attitude, -
Shanghai, April 26. General Chiang Kai-shek has A wireless message from Han- terly lacking in knowledge of staff-ot yet made any military move know, on April 25, says a tem- work and strategy and must have against Hankow, but he has taken porary change in the Chinese Russian advisers in order to auc-action against the extremists in attitude towards foreigners is A remarkable. incident took April 27-Tea Dance: at Cafe ceed in their campaign-Router.
the area under his control. Anti-noticeable they showing some place in the North London Police Restaurant Parisien, 4.30 p.m. din- Communist raids have been car- what more respect. This is due Court, when the Magistrate, Mr. ner dance, & p.m.- ried out by the Nationalist forces to the presence of H.M.S. Basil Watson, suddenly announced April 27-Dance at Royal En of Shanghai, Soochow, Wusih, "Vindictive" and H.M.S. "Car- with considerable emotion, that he gineers' Theatre, Wellington Bar- Hangchow, Ningpo, Swatow and lisle," which are anchored in Patrick McGuinness, motor driver,
accused person, racks,
April 29-Concert for Service Canton.
such a position as to be easily charged with impropriety, as a men at the "Cheer O," Y.M.C.A., Recent telegrams from the seen from the shore, and enabling former war colleague of his regi- Chater Road. treaty ports show that the Yang- them to take effective action ment
April 29-30-Grand performance tse Valley still remains the chief should the need arise.-Reuter. The case for the prosecution had by Prof, Harry Pisler, Lee Theatre, In the House of Commons, Sir area of the disturbances, and that Shanghat Stowaway. closed when Mr. Wataon ascertain- Percival St., Happy Valley, 9.16 p.m. L. Worthington Evans, Secretary elsewhere in both North and
London, April 26. ed the prisoner's Identity and the May 2-Dance at B. E. Theatre, for War, at question time, said South China the situation is Norman John Hughes was fined Magistrate retired from the Bench, Wellington Barracks under the the additional cost to the Army momentarily quiet. In the Yang- £10 at Southampton because he announcing that he would ask a Auspices of the Royal Engineers funds of the Shanghai Defence tse region a state of turmoil per- "stowed away" aboard the Cana-brother Magistrate to try the case. and Royal Corps of Signals Junior Force to March 31 was estimated Bists, and neither life nor pro-dian Pacific Liner "Empress of Mr. Watson enlisted as a private Dance Club, 8.30:p.m. Sports. nt £950,000.
perty of foreigners is secure. Scotland." Hughes declared that in the Irish Guards and rose to a The balance of transport The British communities in the the troubles in Shanghai during Captaincy. charges incurred prior to March Upper Yangtse area have had to the past two years had destroyed 31 payable in the current financial be evacuated. The British Con- his advertising agent's business year was £300,000. The cost of sulates at Chengtu, Chungking, there. He failed to get other the transport of the additional Ichang, and Changsha have been work and secreted himself on the troops recently sent to China was closed, and the British gunboats liner when it called on a world estimated at £250,000.
have been withdrawn from those cruise, but was soon discovered. The Secretary for War regret-ports. The United States, Japan- Hughes stated that his wife and ted that he was unable to give a ese and French communities have child are in Shanghai,--Reuter weekly estimate of the cost of the also been withdrawn.
2,000 Northerners Drowned. Forces.
Shanghai, April 26. Mr. G. Locker Lampson, Under At Hankow only about 200 Bri-
Two launches towing more Secretary for Foreign Affairs, tish subjects and about 76 Ameri- than ten boats full of Northerners Powers having military cans, unustly amen, quill remain attempted to reach the southern forces in China had not establish- and these are concentrated for shores of the Yangtae near the a special joint negotiating safety either on board the ship Nanking Fort. They were dis
covered by searchlight and fired body.
at, eighty shells sinking the lot. More than 2,000 were drowned.
ed
Tense Situation.
Reuter
MEMPHIS FLOODS.
HUGE TORRENT POURING.
-*** PAST CITY."
April 27-Annual Hong Kong inter-School Athletic Sports, H.K.F.C. ground, Happy Valley.
April 80-Postponed Easter Meet- ing of the Fanling Hunt..
April 30 Closing cruise of the R.H.K. Yacht Club, 3 p.m.,
May 7--Third extra race meeting of the H.K. Jockey Club, Race Memphis, April 26, Course, Happy Valley. Over 100 are known to be dead May 24-Meeting of Fauling In the floods here but it is estimat Hunt: Steeplechases, ed that from 800 to 500 perished.
Meetings Six more towns were overwhelm- April 28-Annual meeting of the ed. Arkansas City is under six Hong Kong General Chamber of feet of Water under six
Thousands of workers further May 17-Forty-sixth annual down the river are frantically meeting of the Canton Insurance strengthening the embankments, Co Messra, Jardins Matheson's using electric glares to detect leaks, offices, noon
It is calculated that 2,200,000 cuble - May 20-Fifty-fourth meeting of feet of water is passing Memphis Union Insurance Society of Canton, every second, ten times the normal Union Bldg. 11-am - Peace Sought.
Shanghai, April 26, Ten-million acres are inundated May 20 Sixty-first annual meet-
although the crest of the floods is state that Chiang Kai-shek in Reuter's American Service
Chinese reports from Nanking only halfway down the valley. Ltd. Union Building, 11.14 am
ing of British Traders' Ins; · Co.,
May 20-Fifty-eighth yearly addressing the representatives of
meeting of China Fire Ins. Co., Chinese banks and the Chamber}
Ltd., Union Bullding, 11.15 h.m. Feng Land Bale,
ART STUDENTS SUICIDE:
London, April 9,
May 2--Sale of Crown land at
or in houses on the river front. "Absolute Neutrality.” The British warships "Car-
Keppel Reviewing the situation in lisle," "Vindictive," China, Mr. Lampson referred to and. "Wolsey" have arrived to re- the split in, the ranks of the Na-inforce the British naval forces tionalists. He reiterated that it already in port. had always been the policy of His Most of the Japanese commun Majesty's Government to main-ity have also been evacuated. tain absolute neutrality. The Japanese are holding their
The Government was at present concession in force, and have land- of Commerce said that Sun discussing whether to make a ed field guns. They are refusing Chuan-fang and Chang Tsung- further reply to Mr. Eugene to resume trade until security is chang had sent representatives to Mr. John Winfield Heale, aged Mong Kok Taul, by public auction Chen's note or to take other steps established. The situation is very Nanking with the object of secur- 20, a student of the Royal College at the Offices of the Fublic Works regarding the matter, tense and large numbers of the
ing peace. The Nationalist Goy The Foreign Secretary had re- better class Chinese are leaving ernment in this connection de of Art, Kensington was found Department, & P ceived no report of a complaint the port. from the Soviet Consul at Shang- At Hankow, Nanking and Chin.manded the retirement of these banging in the outhouse In Lise--* seous hai that no letters or telegrams kiang the British consuls bave their armies to Shantung and Heale is engaged in business in April 28-Weekly public lecture tuchuns and the withdrawal of Bisley, Gloucestershire, April 27--Victoria Diocesan “Assen." "at home" Helena May In- Deceased's father, Mi Winfield stitute, 4.30pm had been allowed to reach the had to establish themselves on Chihli Reuter pr Consulate-Reuter.
board ship and at the two latter ports, such British subjects ad still remain are also living on board and are unable even to go ashore.
SOLDIENS"-FAMILIES.
Question Regarding Marrled Quarters.
Firing, on Steamers
→ As regards foreign property the London, April 26, position
India
of the HK Lodge, the Theosophical Society, 6 p.m.
London is the damnedest city in MEXICAN BANDITS KILLED. May 2 Dinner and Concert at the world--Mr A
Parrys Volunteer. Headquarters 7.45pm - Mexico City, April 26 May 3 Quarry Bay School holda Sixty of the rebels responsible spring festival, 11am. Launch for for the train outrage at Limon on visitors leaves; Murray Pler 10-20 April 20 have been killed in five a
You cannot be losing something,
better. The few, Luck and destiny are the excuses hour Eght with Federal troops, who - May 7—Annual dinner of the odation for the wives steamers running on the river are of the world's fallures Mr Henry pre pursuing the rest of the; band. Hong Kong Football - Club of soldiers at present, serving in continually fired on, even if they For
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