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ESTABLISHED
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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927.
HANKOW'S FRESH ALARM.
Martial Law Now Being Enforced At Wuchang.
MILITARY DANGER AND FAMINE.
FUTURE OF TIENTSIN STILL BEING CONSIDERED.
Heavy Cost of the Extra Forces In China To The British Taxpayer.
FALSE HOPES.
Missing Atlantic Fliers' Fate.
REPORTED FINDING DENIED,
New York, June 15.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
VOIKOV'S DEATH.
Sentence on Russian Youth.
M
WARSAW TRIAL DRAMA..
Warsaw, June 15.
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EXPERT VIEWS.
"Leung Kwong" Disaster Inquiry.
had
THIS MORNING'S HEARING.
Captain R. D. Thomas, Superin- A message from Quebec states "I killed Voikov but I am not tendent of the Hong Kong Tug and Chiang Kai-shek Soldiers Being Executed Daily. that it is reported that Captain guilty of murder," calmly replied this morning's resumption of the Lighter Company gave evidence at Nungesser and Captain Coli have Kowerda at the opening of his inquest on Air. F. B. 4. Martin and been found alive. Reuter's trial here.
others who lost their lives when the Kowerda added that he did so s.s. "Leung Kwong" sank in Cap- American Service..
on account of what the Bolshe-suimun Pass on May 22 last. Report Denied..
vists had done in Russia-Reuter. The witness said that he Montreal, June 17.
Sentence Passed,
formerly been 26 years on one of A message from Chicoutimi.
Warsaw, June 16. the Steamboat Company's vessels thirty miles from the River
The extraordinary tribunal has on the Canton rup, and, of course, Bond, whence the original report sentenced Kowerda, who assas- had been through Capauimun Pass emanated, denies that Captain sinated Voikov, to life servitude, many times. Ile would most de- cidedly consider it his duty ns mas- Nungesser and Captain Coli have with the loss of civic rights. been found.—Reuter.
The court at the same time in the Pass when on the Canton ter of a ship to be on the bridge Earlier Messages.
decided to recommend the Pre- Quebec, June 15. sident of the Republic to com- Intense interest has been mute the sentence to fifteen years' aroused by the report that a penal servitude.-Reuter. forester has been mysterious flares, apparently of Verey lights
Hankow is again in a state of great alarm owing to the new threat of attack, the acute food shortage and the danger of trouble among the large number of returned troops,
Martial law has been declared in Wuchang, on the opposite side of the river, and large numbers of Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers In plain clothes are being executed daily.
The future of the British Concession at Tientsin is still being considered, as certain points have not yet been settled by the Bri- tish Minister and the Peking authorities.
Figures have been given in the House of Commons of the extra. cost of the British forces in China, the Navy's additional charges alone amounting to a sum of £240,000.
WUCHANG CLASHES.
Returned Soldiers Fight Pickets.
Hankow, June 15. The shortage of rice and other food supplies, taken in conjunc- tion with the return of lurge numbers of soldiers, the clashes which have already occurred be tween some of them and the pickets, and the now threats of an advance against Hankow have led to the declaration of martial law at Wuchang (on the opposite side of the Yangtse to Hankow). All gates are heavily guarded and shut at night.
Chengchow Conference. It is understood that a large number of Chiang Kai-shek's
COMRADE BORODIN.
Immediate Dismissal Said To Be."
In Prospect.
From an unquestionable source it is learned, says the "North China Daily News," that a Min- ister of the ilankow Government informed an important foreign 'official that Comrade Borodin and the other Russian advisers will be dismissed wholesale almost Immediately.
General Yang Sen is said to be still making his way onward, with Hankow and Wuchang as his final objectives.
General Yen Hsi-shan has now definitely announced that he has severed connection with the Feng- tien forces and that he will op- pese them.
Chang Tso-lin's Four Principles.
a basis for unity in China.
Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's army has retired from Haichow by water to Tsingtao.
CAPTCHARLES NUNGESTER
OUR $50 PRIZE.
Cross-Word Puzzle Competition Result.
The result of the "China Mail's sixth $50 Cross-Word Puzzle (Second Series) will be found on page 6 of this issue. Against laat week's 32 winners there is only one winner this
Feng Planning Attack. According to Japanese reports in Chinese circles, Marshal Chang Teo-lin's attitude is considered a stubborn one. It is said that he was aware than Gen. Chiang Kai- shek and Gen. Feng Yu-hsiang were forming an alliance, but whilst he approved of Chiang's attack on the Communists, he would have nothing to do with Feng, whom he considers an enemy. As a result, Feng is re- ported to be planning an attack in the fog and flown over Labra- along the Peking-Hankow rail- dor to northern Quebec and
landed in some remote spot.
way,
week.
run.
Taking the chart, the witness demonstrated the course he would take when approaching the Pass, at International Conference? the West. Ile would steer an al- Paris, June 5. most easterly course unt Green The newspapers declare that Island or its light appeared through the Russian problem was con- the Pass. Then he would put his sidered at yesterday's private helm to starboard and keep to the discussions at Geneva.
Lantao side of the channel, where
Britain and Russia.
.
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The French correspondents on the water was very deep, this subject discredit the possibil- Replying to the Coroner, the wit- ity of an Anglo-French-German ness said that he knew the "Moon- Alliance against the Soviet. The drew practically the same amount She was a towboat and "Petit Journal's" correspondent of water as the "Leung Kwong." declares the possibility of holding If the coxswain of the "Moon- an international conference on the shine" stood some 500 feet from the Russian question is being con- Weat of the red light at Mawan and sidered:-Reuter.
then turned practically due South [Boris Kowerda, a 19-year old towards Lantao, the witness would Russian monarchist, fired at, and not call that reasonable navigation.: fatally wounded M. Voikov, the The witness explained that at the Soviet Minister to Poland as the time of the collision (7.30 p.m.) it latter was leaving for Moscow. was in the middle of the ebb tide. Marshal Chang Tso-lin is re-
M. Voikov, was walking along the On that day the tide began to ebb station platform in company with that it was half tide at 7.30. The at 3.12 and was. low at 11.16, so ported to have said that he will
WM. always be opposed to using thej
M. Rosengolz when the assassin, tide was possibly running between Nationalist flag and the term or petrol torches in the sparsely several revolver shots. M. Voikov coxswain had stood out until 600 Kowerda, approached and fired 2% and 8 knots at the time. If the "revolutionary" for his army. In
populated Saguenay district to fell. Some passengers rushed to feet off the red light he ran the regard to the late Dr. Sun Yat- the north of the St. Lawrence his assistance while others seized risk of running into the reef in the sen's "three people's principles" river below Quebec. he suggests the addition of a
Kowerda. Kowerda subsequently vicinity of the light. fourth ("the true character of the
It is thought possible that the stated that he shot M. Voikov for Mr. Bennett pointed out that what the coxswain had said was people"), which should be used as Aviators Nungess and Coli may political reasons.]
that when he altered his course he have passed over Newfoundland
was within 500 feet of the light. Rugby, June 15.
The Coroner said that he had In the House of Commons to- day, Labour member asked whe-subsequently qualified his state-
ment in the afternoon. ther any of the twenty Russians Mr. Bennett replied that he had recently executed were employed not been re-examined on that part as spies by the British Mission to of his evidence. He said that it Russia..
was obvious that the coxswain com- Mr. Locker Lampson, Under menced to turn when 600 feet away Secretary for Foreign Affairs, from the light. It was not fair to replied: "The answer phatically in
is em- suggest to the Captain that the would refer to the statement re-the light,
the negative. Icoxswain was steering straight for cently given to the Press by His The Coroner qualified his ques- Majesty's late Charge d'Affaires tion by asking if at any time the in Moscow, which is a complete Coxswain was within 500 feet of refutation of the charges made the light it was safe navigation.
Possing the Light. by the Soviet Government."
Captain Thomas said that for a The First Step.
vessel of her size she would be per Mr. Locker Lampson told an- fectly safe even if she were a little in other Labour member that the over half that distance from the "Policy Committee" have appoint- Saguenay district has been order initiative to improve Anglo-light. To pass the light within 500 ed Chau Lan and Ip Ki to form a ed to search for any trace of the Russian relations should come feet of it, however, the witness Soviet Government would not call that good navigation, special committee to deal with the aviators, but as there
are few from the Changsha disturbances. Kong Evening Post."
"Hong roads in the district and com- whose hostile activities had com- but there was no danger.
munication is only possible by pelled the British Government to mally a ship should pass in the centre of the channel between 800 boats or afoot and it may be some suspend diplomatic relations. time before any definite news is The Soviet Government knew and 1,000 feet from the red light.
The Coroner naked if he received. Reuter's American perfectly well that if they came going North and he was approach- forward with contructive propo-ed by another ship from the South sals we are ready to consider at night he would expect to see the Doubts in Paris.
them but first of all they must starboard light first the witness re- Paris, June 15.
desist from propaganda againstplied "Yes, just for a little while. Rugby, June 15.
Newspapers are sceptical re- this country. British Wireless The Coroner: Supposing you did Replying to questions about garding the report from Quebec. Service.
see the starboard light and then General Yang Sen has taken China, Mr. Locker Lampson, It is pointed out that the aviators
you saw both lights coming to- up his new headquarters here, ar- Under Secretary for Foreign had no flares and as the Saguenay
wards you, would that be quite riving on Tuesday with a large Affairs, stated in the House of district is not entirely uninhabit What are described as) usual? Yes. number of troops in steamers and Commons that the naval author-ed it is unlikely they would not "Locarno" discussions arranged Then you would expect to see the junks.
ities and His Majesty's Minister Several units of his army were had agreed that British residents, have met other human beings:-on short notice, which were con-port light only ?-yes, shortly after-
ducted privately in Sir Austen reported this morning to be mov- including a small proportion of
[Captain Nungesser started Chamberlain's room at the hotel witness said that if he were going Answering another question the ing up river on the North Bank. women, might now be permitted
greatly intrigued the down the centre of the channel and Ships at Nnght.
to return to Hankow and Kiu- from Le Bourget, to fly to New have
York, accompanied by Captain journalists attending the League he saw both lights bearing on him kiang. Chinking, June 15.
M. Briand, Herr Van in the same track, the witness said Mr. Locker Lampson said that Coli, in a huge aerodrome named Council, The restrictions imposed by the Chinese authorities regarding the British troops had been despatch-the "White Bird," painted white der Velde, Herr Stresemann, M. he would alter his helm to star- entry and departure of ships at ed to Tientsin and Peking in vir- to facilitate being spotted in the Scialoja and Baron Ishii were board. night have been removed. Bri-tue of an agreement between event of forced descent into the present at the conference which
Great Britain and the other sea, with a black heart near the lasted two hours.
The Ministers, who are very Firing Stopped.
Powers on the one hand and the cockpit on which a skull and
Supposing the collision occurred Chinese Government on the other cross-bones and coffin are daubed reticent will meet again to-day.
pretty near the contre of the chan- Shanghai, June 15.
nel and the ship sank in less than The local situation is unchang-which was signed on September 7, white, "to shew I am not afraid," as Captain Nungesser explained.
ten minutes is it possible it could ed. The Chenglin authorities Asked whether all the Powers The plane soared out of sight and
have nunk near the Lantao ahore? are carrying out their undertak-
Unless she was going very fast ing to prevent firing on foreign with interests in the Far East has not been seen since.]
Banquet to Lindbergh.
at the time. If she was bearing ships in that district.--British were adopting the precedent of
with non-interference
New York, June 15.
South winds, a moderate tem- towards Lantao ahore the tide Naval Wireless,
Chinese matters,
Four thousand New York men perature, fair to showery-such is would push her in as she was sink- Lampson declared that he could attended a municipal banquet at the weather forecast for the next ing.
The witness added that it fully not express an opinion upon this, the Hotel Commodore in honour 24 hours, for Hong Kong, the ten minutes elapsed between the It was, however, the policy of of Captain Lindbergh.-Reuter's Formosa Channel, and the local time of the accident and the sink- His Majesty's Government, who American Service. hoped to secure its general adop tion as far as possible British Wireless Service.
sokliers in plain clothes are being executed daily,
The result of the Chengchow Conference appears to have been unfavourable to the Wuhan au- thorities. British Naval Wire- less.
Ichang's Food Troubles.
Ichang, June 15.
The shortage of rice is acute here as well as Hankow and the
local population is apprehensive as to the future.
tish Naval Wireless.
TIDE OF WAR.
Nanking's-Successes and Reverses,
Reports are to hand that the Nanking armies have gained several Buccesses on various fronts. From another source it is learned, however, that they have met with some slight re- verses.
Advance on Hankow. General Hsia Tao-yin (the "mystery general") is reported to
It is reported that the Hankow Every forestry
1901.
SAFER HANKOW.
The Return of British Subjects.
purely
Mr. Locker
(Continued on Page 7)
STRIKE AT MANILA.
Service.
Reuter.
official
Geneva Mystery.
Geneva, June 15.
WEATHER FORECAST.
coast..
.
wards.
Nor-
were
Would you under any circum- stances bear to port?-Cortainly not.
"Leung
ing it was possible the Flight to Java.
Pressure has decreased con- Kwong" might have sunk at the Budapest, June 15.
siderably over Japan, and has in-spot marked on the chart That Vanlearblack's aeroplane from creased slightly to moderately was, of course, if her engines were Amsterdam has landed according elsewhere; it is highest over the still going and had not been revers- to programme.-Reuter..
China Sea and the Philippines and ed. An earlier cable from Amster- relatively low over China general- dam stated:The first passenger-ly. The depression has moved! carrying aeroplane from Holland into the Sea of Japan Up to the time of going to to the Dutch East Indies has left preas this afternoon the local the Schipel aerodrome. The office of the Dollar Line had re-passenger is M. Van Learblack ceived no notification from Manila with a valet. They hope to com- be still advancing, and fighting is of any "hold up" so far as the plate the return journey in five
4.6. "President Taft is con- weeks via India and Singapore. cerned.
Reuter.
in progress at Wuaueh, which is below Wuchang..
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