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SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1927.
IF PEKING FALLS.
Will War Or a Treaty
Follow?
WHY UNITY IS UNLIKELY.
STATUE "CRIES,”
Queen Victoria And Hong Kong.
AMAZING LOCAL CREDULITY.
Credulity could hardly go further,
[By "LI, Chung-yin."} Calculations are being made than the avidity with which the connection, an area more suited
already as to when Marshal Ignorant are accepting a ridiculous would be that in the region of Chang Tso-lin's Fengtien Party atory regarding the statue of her the Victoria Recreation Club and will be driven out of Peking. late Majesty Queen Victoria being it is now intended to erect the Irrespective of the period of inked with a predicted disaster to
time needed-and presuming, for the Colony. wharf somewhere in this neigh the purpose of this review, that inspiration, it knows that the faland Because the statue has divine bourhood.. The Kowloon con- the Southerners will continue to of Hong Kong will collapse into the nection will be made at the end advance unchecked as they have sea, yery shortly, say the rumour been doing what will be the mongera. They claim to have seen of Jordan Road, This is effect of Kuomintang rule being tears from the eyes, to restrain the scheme which has been in the air extended to the far north of flow of which the neck has had to for a period of over four years China?
be tied up with electric wires! and now that the Colony has re-between the rival sections of the At the moment, we have a race
"Proof." turned to normal conditions, the Nationalists... Reckoning__in
Further, the rumour mongers Government has every intention straight lines, the Nanking Army aw what happened. He reported maintain that n Chinese policeman of pushing on with the good and the Hankow Army are each at once to his superiors. To pre- about 500 miles from their grand vont the alarm spreading, the objective-the capital of China. authorities detained the officer in
The Race for the Spoils. prison ! General
work.
government
for
This
Judging from the calling for
Chiang Kai-shek's A responsible stevedore whe forces are nearer the coast while told the "Chinn Mall" what he knew. tendera in connection with the General Tang Seng-chi, as the ac-and he was quite serious-re- construction of a prison Hospital cepted leader of the Extremists' fused to give the policeman's name at Victoria Gaol, the Govern-Aghting strength. is further and number. But he had proof. The unfortunate man Inland, in the middle of North Oh. yes! ment has adhered to its resolu-China.
was bis clansman, and attempts to tion not to proceed with the If history is repeated, the two visit him in detention had failed as building of a new prison at Ngau conflicting cliques of the Kuomin-orders had been given that the pri- Shi Wan and to cut its losses on for the spoils.
tang will be fighting each other soner was not to be allowed to see
anybody.
Other Absurd Stories, the work already done there. Supposing Chang Tso-lin were
Hong Kong's disappearance Admittedly, the problem of deal-eliminated-and by his name is ing with sick prisoners at the meant all that the Ankouchun under the water has also been pre- stands for. He retires once more dicted in connection with the Rock present Victoria Gaol is a most outside the Great Wall into his of the Frog Deity, situated some- where between Talpingshan and difficult one, and it is obvious stronghold of Manchuria where he
The Rock Deity Mount Davis. has hitherto been unassailable. has been trying to reach the sum- that some such provision as that Even then there cannot be one mit of the Peak. Once it gets contemplated must be made if united
the there, the island's fate is sealed. the present restricted buildings eighteen provinces of China Fortunately, the Frog once incurred
Proper.
the displeasure of a goddess, who are to remain as the best the
Pecuniary Strategy.
smacked his face, and restricted Colony can do in the way of a. Viewing the position further in his progress to the length of 4 prison for a populace which has that the struggle will begin all fable was recount 1 in the "China
this light, expert observers say grain of rico every year. grown by leaps and bounds. But over again. The Fengtien Party's Mail" several years ago and Mr. the fact remains that the new restriction to Manchuria means R. E. Lindsoll referred to it in his airship-accommodation, not to 'prison would have solved a pro- the removal of one virile group recent popular lecture at the Helena More recently which, in theory, having sacrificed May Institute. mention also the residential and blem which has long been acute a great slice of China will be con- Hong Kong had a fable of the unf that of providing accommoda- tent to stay within its own sphere. "orn in the Royal coat of arms on the City Hall's north wall. The What has been aptly described scene has now shifted to Statue tion and necessary medical facili- ties for prisoners at present for more than military tactics. equally far-fetched.
us pecuniary strategy will count Square, and the next scare will be' Both the local and Imperial housed in buildings covering In the light of events since the Governments are committed to something like 11% acres in com- split in the Kuomintang ranks, one is led to think that the quar- considerable expenditure in con-parison with the 14 acres orrel will not be closed by combat. nection with the scheme and there more which would be devoted to War by negotiation seems the Chiang Kai-shek had no objec- tion to the Hankow faction as seems every possibility of it a similar institution in England. more feasible course.
Significance of Names. going through in due course. To encroach. still further on the
working partners in the Kuo- Should General Chang Kai-shek mintang but that he above all The completion of the reclama- space available, for the erection enter Feking at the head of the desired the temporary expulsion. tion is calculated to take some of a hospital will be to render Nanking armies, his next step of three men whom he could not thing like eighteen months and the problem of the prison au must lie in the direction of Han
towards unifying the country tolerate.
Borodin, of course, was one. the construction, of the buildings thorities even more acute. At kow and the territory it controls. The others were General Tang a period somewhat less, so that the time when the Ngau Shi Wan Before the Cantonese embarked Yen-ta (who was Chiang Kai- within three years or so it should scheme was squashed, the Gov-on their expedition of conquest, shek's immediate subordinate be- the wings in the Kuomintang fore he became a politician) and be possible to "take off" from ernment may not have seen its were dubbed Right and Left. George Hsu Chien. The Nanking Hong Kong and land in England way clear to expend the money These names no longer serve. We leader is said to have offered terms to these within nine days of departure. on a new gaol but, with a return have had Conservatives v. Radi-very attractive
cals, Nationalists Proper v. Com-three in return for their absence The great value of these and other to more normal conditions, it munists and Moderates v. Ex-from China for a stipulated Empire serial schemes lies in appears to be a "penny wise, tremists. The re-admission to period, during which their in- the elimination of difficulties, pound foolish" policy to adhere politicians who were persona non and
Chiang Kai-shek's counsels of Auence would have been nullified and sometimes misunderstandings to its decision and attempt to grata, the joining up with the re-established all over China, Given the Kuomintang firmly
which are caused by the present reconstruct buildings which have spective sides of adventurer-war-for what it may be worth, the of the long since outlived their pur-Hankow to others (whether by were willing to accept but their lords, the favours extended by story is that the two Chinese comparative isolation Colonies, Dominions and the pose. Motherland. Air transport is vital to our an Empire. It will give quick communication not FIGUEIREDO. On June 3, 1927, only for commercial but also for
at 1 The Albany, Hong Kong, Florentina
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EXPLAINED." ("Tita"), in her 30th year. should be to us what our ship- R.I.P. Funeral will pass the
From a nation of; Monument to-day at 5.30 pm: ping is. (Macao papers please copy). sailors we must become a nation TRAYNOR-On May 28, 1927, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Traynor, a son.
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same
accident or design), have all com-Russian taskmaster was obdurate bined towards creating greater and refused point blank. confusion. The only names which
Peace Rather Than War. serve appropriately to-day are "Nanking" and "Hankow."
Because Nanking is now win- Christian General'e Part. ning in the field against the Straws in the wind point to the Northerners with very little leading anti-Northern generals actual fighting, it is logical to desiring an alliance, if only a assume that Chiang Kai-shek will working understanding can be ar-continue to adopt the Mexico City, Juna 3.
rived at. They know one another tactics. His "settlement" with of airmen.. Shipping built the plains that the decree cabled on form of a "gentleman's agree-either on pecuniary strategy or The Foreign Office now ex- too well to accept less, say in the Hankow, therefore, will be based Empire. Air transport, if con- June 1 is in nowise a boycott of ment;" and more cannot be ac-war by negotiation. However, ducted along the right lines, will American goods which may still complished without specific guar- this must come after Peking is be purchased in Mexico for Gov-antees, which nobody is prepared taken and it is not certain yet keep it.
ernment departments, but was to give.
whether ' Chiang Kai-shek or lissued owing to delay in the de- By entering the fray at a rather Tang Seng-chi will win the race The provision of an efficient, livery of merchandise bought in belated stage, Feng Yu-halang to that goal, if a race there be." vehicular ferry across the har. the United States, also because (the "Christian general") of the Looking further ahead, pros- bour will add very considerably ped in transit by the United himself a factor in Chinese poli- The day may come when the...
European merchandise was stop-north-west, has once more made pects are still less attractive. The establishing of a large
to the value of Hong Kong as a States en route to Mexico. tics. He rides with the hounds in Communist element is really sub- aerodrome in Hong Kong to link!
port, as it will eliminate Waste- The Foreign Office adds: "The refusing Hankow's overtures and dued and Kuomintang rule is up with the proposed England ful handling of goods and afford America and Mexice cannot be of Nanking, and he runs with the Chins Proper. What then of the cordial relations between thereby keeping on the right side effective in the greater part of to Austraila airship route via
very necessary, facilities (at pre-affected by the decree eu hares in availing himself of Soviet rabble of converted tuchuns, mor Singapore will be one of the most sent lacking) for quick transport ter's American Service.
help and thereby maintaining cenaries and nondescripts who interesting and far reaching.
[A Mexico City cable dated touch with Moscow.ly of motore and lorries. The developments of modern times in
scheme, according to indications for what is interpreted here as
June 1 stated:As a reprisal A "Big Three Alliance? have been fighting for National- It should be recalled that when ism, not because they believe in so far as the residents in China,
given by the Government, alad the "systematic embargo placed Hankow "dismissed" Chiang Kaf, but because it pays them to be on the right side of the fence. Japan and the Philippines are includes the provision of passen by the United States on mer shek, the Christian general was commander-in-chief
Un Undesirable chandise bought by the different appointed concerned. The prospects of the
ger, accommodation, and in this Mexican Government depart and General Tang Seng-chi asso- Having backed the right horse, Colony figuring as a centre of connection it is interesting to ments in the United States, clate commander-in-chief, these generals (of whom there commercial aviation in the Far recall that when the scheme, was President Calles has ordered all In spite of the proximity" of 'are quite a number) have in- East are brought much nearer by first brought up in 1928, the cott American goods.]
Government departments to boy- Hankow itself, General Tang comes to a question of being en- General Yang Sen's threat to creased their retinues. When it the putting in hand by the Hong then Assistant Colonial Secre-
Seng-chi is advancing north; tirely subservient to a central- Kong Government of work in contary favoured the free transport
wards, away from Hankow, government, to placing provine nection with the development of
Observers attached to the various cial or prefectural revenues un... of passengers on the grounds
army, headquarters hint broadly der one control, to being shorn Kal Tack reclamation and the that it was in the public interests
that a treaty will soon be entered of personal power for the good construction of a modern aero- to have a free ferry just as one
Into whereby Chiang Kai-shek, of the common cause, there must drome. Plans at present ap- had a free road, in the absence
the Christian general and Tang be a certain amount of quibbling. proved by the Government go no of the provision by the Govern
Seng-chl will co-operate in a final Neither Nanking nor Hankow Paris, Jure. 3, drive on Peking the can forego the services of auch further than the completion of ment of a bridge between the The express casualties were all What has happened in the past men to day. Later they will find the sea wall and reclamation and Island and the peninsula.
French. The
occurred counts for little or nothing in it hard to shake off the undesir- awing to the express crashing into present day Chinese politics, But able element. Trae, the estab the construction of a typhoon
bayetal goodd trucks which fiou been cannot help remembering the lishment of the Kuomintang in Whatever the intentions of the derailed a minute previously persistent rumours about Chiang Peking, will by prestige alone,
Reuter Government in regard to passen-GrAn earlier es ger cha
rom the que
port
shelter for seaplanes, but com- petent authorities are ing con. Bulted
Home Pa
forplane-and perhaps
EXPRESS SMASH.
CAUSE OF THE FRENCH DISASTER, SOKON
the derail- Imes "express the concher but
overturned
Kai-shek's overtures to Hankow. 80's long way towards putting What Borodin Refused fear the venturesome, who, on the Gossip (which may have other hand, may also feel them emanated from groups no higher, belvés in a position to place their than camp followers )ranidsthat|c
reats above all else