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ANTI-SLAVERY.
British Methods Praised at Geneva.
Shipping Firms Make Statements.
THE MINORITY REPORT.
Shanmei Commander Takes Fright.
BOMB AT SHEKLUNG. - .
200,000 RELEASES. •
Right Of Slave Owner To Recapture Likely Abolition Of Grilles Receives Northern "Red" Invaders Marking Approval.
Time. Fugitives.
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"RED" DANGER.
China Communists Bid For Power.
THE BOURGEOIS.
What Does Mrs. Sun's Visit Portend?
To-morrow the peace confer-
PROMPT POLICE.
Two Armed Robbers Captured.
A WOMAN STABBED.
Coustable Shoots Fleeing Chinese.
Inquiries made by a "China bomb in Sheklung and the
Two armed Chinese attempted Geneva, Yesterday. Discussion of the recent judg Mail" representative yesterday as "disappearance" of a Hong Kong ence of the Kuomintang is to to commit a robbery in Shamshui- po last night. A plucky resist- ment in the Supreme Court of to the attitude to be adopted by steam-launch at Shanmei (not far
the prin open at Nanking.
ance was put up by the would-be Decidedly conflicting messages have been received about the Sierra Leone upholding the right the leading shipping Companies from Bias Bay) are
Anti-Communist elements in victim and his wife which result- situation north of the lower course of the Yangtze River. Pro- of a slave owner to recapture an relative to the proposed amend- cipal items in to-day's news from the Nationalist Party will make ed in the latter being stabbed by
escaped slave was raised at the ment of the anti-piracy laws fail- Canton. Nationalist sources hint that the Northerners are still retreating sixth committee of the Assembly.ed to establish anything definite Both have a relation to the ris- a strenuous effort to save the one of the robbers. In attempt- the ing to make their get away, one Sir Edward Hilton Young said although it appeared to be the inga of "Red" forces in different Party from defeat and without mentioning where the Nationalists are advancing.
Chinese nation from disgrace, of the robbers was shot at and the decision disagreeably surpris unanimous opinion that the aboli-parts of the province, From a usually reliable quarter it is learned that Marshal Suned the British Government and tion of the grilles was a move in At the port of Shanmei (which says Mr. George E. Sokolsky in wounded by a Chinese constable.
lies between Hong Kong and the "North China Daily News." The house attacked by the rob- Chuan-fung has gone from Pengpu (in Kiangsu province) to Tsinan-revealed hiatus in the Legislation the right direction.
The manager of a leading local Swatow), the local commander He says:—
bers was No. 185 Laichikok Road, Cu (in Shantung) to attend a council of war, and that he is to move of Sierra Leone which needed
shipping firm, when approached took fright on the approach of a "It will not be surprising to Wong Lin-kee, who used the front occupied by a shop-keeper named more troops into the north of Anhui province.
The committee approved the on the matter, sid that until the small armed force which is hostile those who have watched the half of the ground floor as his
Communist Previous despatches regarding Nationalist captures on the Tien- Slavery Convention and congratu-Government plans relative to to the Canton administration and activities of the
shop, and slept in the rear por- tsin-Pukow Railway are described as exaggerated. It is now main_lated the British representatives searches were more fully disclosed to Hong Kong with his staff. Party of China to find that theytion. The shop was closed at 9
on the completeness of their re-ed it would be premature to make A Chinese steam-launch from are again active at this moment
as compared with the statement. In any event the Hong Kong was requisitioned it when the Kuomintang seems toutes later Wong and his wife re- p.m., last night and a few min- tained that Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's front lines are still at Chu-ports
of union and tired to sleep. About 10 o'clock, chow (about twenty-five miles away from the north bank of the meagreness of others. The Bri- shipping companies would have to is stated, to convey the garrison be on the verge
tish report showed that 200,000 get together first and a statement with their arms and equipment to when the Nationalist armies are Wong was awakened by someone
Canton. Yangisze) and that the Nationalists are marking time in Pukow (on slaves have been liberated in the might be made later.
meeting with some success. Effective Deterrent,
Panic Increased.
"It has always been their another man, he perceived, was holding him by the throat, and the north bank of the Yangtaze) in preference to pushing onwards. past 15 years in territories under
The manager of another leading
At Sheklung (on the junction tactics to desert the Kuomintang treating his wife in a similar man- British influence.-Reuter. General Chang Tsung-chang of Shantung province is stated to
shipping firm said that the pro- of the Canton-Kowloon Railway when failure was in the offing ner Neither of the intruders posed amendments were wise "in with the East River, about forty and to return at the moment of spoke a word. have asked Peking to send reinforcements of troops from the Man-
Bo far as they go." It was satis-jmiles east of Canton), a bomb churian provinces of Kirin and Heilungkiang to launch a drive
Wong said to the man who was factory to note that the Govern-was thrown one night, fortunate-
Bury Again. against the north of Anhui province.
holding him: "If it is money that ment had pledged itself not to en-ly without damage or casualties.
"They never supported the you want, I will give it to you," force the grille system, for the Then the panic was increased by
because but the man made no reply 'and abolition of which the Minority the arrival in the city of a hand. Nanking Government
gripping Wong's report had chiefly striven. If the ful of troops who were keeping they believed that it was doom-continued other recommendations of the out of the way of an advancing ed to failure; they deserted throat. Then followed a terrific Minority Report were carried enemy.
Hankow when it looked as though struggle between Wong and his
WU PEI-FU'S STRENGTH..
Hankow, Yesterday. Troops have been despatched to: Puchi to deal with a Communist | outbreak.
Mentioned by Reuter as the a few hundred troops.-British scene of the "Christian general's" Naval Wireless. massacre, Changte (in Honan pro- vince) is stated in a Chinese re- port to be the point on the Peking-Hankow Railway to which troops of the "Christian general” retreated after having been at tacked by Fengtien troops from the south of Chihli province.
From Taming; a base of strute- gie importance, the Chihli force marched about twenty miles due west.and entered Linchang where three baitalions of the "Christian general's" army were disarmed.
Red Spears' Rising. The report continues: "The dis. armed troops fell back (in a south-westerly direction. for about twenty miles) to Changte, The Red Spears are rising against the 'Christian general.'”
A little further north in Chihli province (i.c., nearer Peking), Fengtien troops have advanced westwards to Hantan and Tze chow. This constitutes a threat against the troops of General Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi province who are retiring on Shih-kin-chwang,
Mystery of Borodin.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
Fengtien troops are reported to have occupied Kai Feng.-British Naval Wireless.
partisans of the Nanking faction of the Nationalists.".
The outcry against these three politicians is based on alleged participation in Communist in trigue.
he
success,
The latest accusations conclude pathetically: "If any more of the out he was of opinion that the Shanmei is on that part of that Government could not sur- assailant which lasted half an Red element is introduced our new regulations would prove a Kwangtung's eastern coast which vive. Now that there is pos- hour.
far more effective deterrent to is now disturbed by bandita and sibility that all elements in the
Wife Stubbed. Party will be in serious danger.”
guerillas and trouble is breaking Kuomintang will reunite and In the meantime his wife also (Note: Mr. Chen Kung-po piracy.
[The Minority Report was that out elsewhere.
that the various Nationalist struggled with the man who was has been Commissioner for For-
of the representatives of the Two brigades of infantry are régimes will be joined together tackling her. Then the wife call- the stairs at Hanko, binted Chambers of Commerce, and the going from Shiukwan, on the into one Government, the Com-ed out "Save life" and she was eign Affairs
combined Coast Officers Guild North River, to Hoyuen in the munista, are busy inside and promptly stabbed by the robber. when the Nationalists captured who withdrew from, the, Com- East River basin,
outside the Party, seeking to Wong also called for help, and the city Previously,cials inmittee appointed by the Govern- At Waichow, a strategic city on gain a large, if not preponderant, simultaneously a police whistle Canton.]
ment in 1924 and prepared their the East River, a part of the Can- own report. Summarised briefly, ton garrison is under suspicion, Voice in its affairs." the Report urged that, if Indian Remittances Stopped. To-day's cables from Shanghai guards were withdrawn, grilles General Wong Shiu-hung, head Mr. Sokolsky suggests that the their victims, and without wait- held by troops of the "Chris-nent the Kuomintang peace con-removed (except those around of the Kwangsi government and Communist invasion of Kwanging to steal anything, made a tian general," Feng Yu-hsiang, ference are somewhat misleading the engine room and stakehold an ally of General Li Chai-sum of tung province has for its main dash for the back door, where one against whom the Fengtien and it will, accordingly, be neces- entrance, and bridge), an ade- Canton, has stopped remittances object the cutting off of Nanking of them was shot down by a Chin- Party of Peking, is waging war
quate fleet of patrol craft pro-to Gen. Fan Shek-sang, the Yun- from Canton, the traditional ese constable. spasmodically:
Further war
vided and police supervision, nanese adventurer who was given revolutionary base.
It was learned after the affair news from Honan province is
both ashore and in the Harbour, command of a Nationalist army
At Moscow, the Chinese Com-that the alarm raised · by Wong given elsewhere in this article.]
materially enforced, there should corps which is roaming about on munists are rapidly gathering and his wife was heard by Chin- Shanghai Conference.
be little to fear from the possi-the provincial boundary between under the leadership of Mrs, Sun ese constable C814 who happened bility of piratical attacks in the Kwangtung and Hunan. General Yat-sen, Mr. Eugene Chen, Mr. to be passing the house at the
Fan Shek-sang was sponsored by Teng Jan-dah and Mr. Chen Tu- tirne.
[Note: Kaifeng is on the Lung-Hai Railway, south of the Yellow River, in the north cen- tre of Honan province, which is
Shanghai, Yesterday. The Kuo Min News Agency announces that Mr. Wang Ching- wei, Mr. Sun Fo, General Tan Yen- kai and members of the Central Executive Committee, also vari ous army commanders, are going to Nanking to-morrow morning, after many conferences at Dr. C. C. Wu's residence as a pre- liminary to the conference on Sept. 15.
M. Borodin and Marshal Feng the visit of the Wu-Han leaders The news agency states that Yu-hsiang, the "Christian gen to Shanghai was partially success- eral," are reported by a foreignful inasmuch as Tsai Yuan-pet source to be at Loyang (Honan-and Li Shih-tsen have already fu).
General Galen is thought to be twenty-four members of the Cen- consented to go to Nanking where
at Hankow.
There are indications that intral Executive Committee are tercourse between the Hankow expected to be present.
Postponement Predicted. faction of the Kuomintang and Nevertheless there are indica- the Third Internationale has not tions that the conference will be been suspended, yet. "Kung postponed and that the Shanghai,
Sheung Yat Po."
Types of Methods.
Mr. Chen Kung-po.
future.]
shuf..
Communist Objectives.
was blown outside the house. This scared the robbers who im- mediately released their holds or
He promptly blew his the two Kwang governmenta
whistle and this brought Chinese some time ago so as to streng- then the northern frontiers Moscow is now becoming constable C462 to the scene. against possible attack from the headquarters of the Chinese
Police Ruse..` IN THE NEWS.
Hankow.
Communists and from that The constables held a hurried The "Red" invader under Gen- place, they will direct all their consultation and it was decided ITEMS FROM TO-DAY'S POLICE erals Yieh Ting and Ho Lung who activities in China.
REPORTS.
have entered the north-east of Kwangtung are reported to be Jewellery and clothing worth marking time at Pingyuen and $113 was reported stolen from not making any attempt to ad-more clear No. 86 Wellington Street last vance. night.
Mrs. Thompson of No. 9 Chatham Road, Kowloon, has re- ported to the police the theft yesterday, from her bedroom, of a diamond ring worth £25,
*
A Chinese living at No. 54 Whitfield attempted to commit Nanking and Wu-Han sections of sary to wait a few days until the suicide yesterday afternoon by [Note: Loyang is on Lung-Hai Railway, in the north six delegates who, with six mili- section of the vernacular press the Yacht Club. He was rescued the the Kuomintang will each appoint conference is actually sitting. One jumping into the harbour near
centre
DOGS AND CARS.
that while C462 guarded the front Why Go to Moscow? door,. C314 should dash round to the back entrance. As C314 ar- It is becoming increasingly rived at the back door, one of the who the Chinese robbers dashed out of the house. Communists are. For instance,The constable promptly challeng- it had been assumed in the pasted him, but brushing the con- that Mrs. Sun Yat-sen and Mr. atable aside, the robber made a Eugene Chen were not Com- dash for liberty. Drawing his munists, but the mere fact that revolver, C914 warned the fugi they unnecessarily took refuge tive that he would fire if he did might easily have remained in tice and ran on. C314 then fired in Moscow at a time when they not stop. The robber took no no-
Nanking, indicates beyond a his revolver, and the robber was At to-morrow's meeting of the shadow of doubt where their brought down, shot through the Legislative Council the Hon. Mr. affections lie,
thigh. He was taken back to the D. G. M. Bernard will ask the fol-
The conduct of Mrs. Sun Yat- shop where he was kept a prison- lowing questions:
(1) What experience is consider Kuomintang leaders who feel when he
sen is particularly resented by er until the ambulance arrived, ad necessary before Police meets that she is boldly attacking the hospital together with Wong's was removed to the
L
QUESTIONS BEFORE COUNCIL
TO-MORROW.
of Honan province, tary officers, will be in conference suggests that Mr. Wang Ching- and removed to the Government are entrusted with the shooting of Kuomintang in the interests of wounded wife.
south of the Yellow River. The to endeavour to co-ordinate the wei and his Wu-Han supporters Civil Hospitól..»' Christian general captured conflicting interests.
are confident of success while an- Loyang in May this year. and General Ho Ying-ching is re- other section persistently pre- According to a report made to has made it his main base for ported to be adopting an attitude dicts failure for the conference. the police by the manager of the a drive against the Northern- tantamount to a refusal to co-
In one report, the methods of King Heng Pawnshop of No. 343 ers. It is connected, with Han- operate with the Wu-Han faction. Mr. Wang Ching-wei are describ- Reclamation Street, Yaumati, a kow by the Peking-Hankow and Reuter.
ed as "persuasive," those of Mr. foki of the firm absconded yes Lung-Hai Railways.]
Sun Fo being "forceful," and Gen-
Trade Delegation.
Ichang, Yesterday. General Yang Sen received the foreign Trade delegation which has arrived at Wanhsien.
The British Senior Naval Off- cer of the Upper River, the Com- mercial Vice-Consul, and others were received in a friendly spírit but Yang Sen stated that he could do nothing at present with the people, who were still anti-British over the Wanhsten affair, demon- strations in connection with which were held on its anniver- sary.
[Note: Mr. Wang Ching-wei,eral Tan Yen-kai'e policy is said terday with a $100 note which was entrusted to him to change into notes of smaller denomina. Temptation. Considerable attention is still
Mr. Sun Fo and General Tan to be "negative" or "passive,"
Yen-kai are the acknowledged
leaders of the Wu-Han faction.
Dr. C. C. Wu is Foreign
tion.
Minister of the Nanking Goy focussed on the five politicians A Chinese, who was banished
who resigned from Nanking when
ernment.
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dogs, and
·
(2) What weapons are used. Communism, whereas when she' The question as to where the
Hired Car Control
made her pronounciamentos, it; other robber had gone to proved The Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton was believed that she was op-to be quite a problem. Wong, who pursuant to notice will ask the fol-posed not to civilian Govern- guarded the back door after C814 lowing questions:____
Are the Government prepared ment under the Kuomintang but went after the wounded robber,
to militariam.
Semi-Communists in Nanking, did not go out of the house that way, C462 who was guarding Nanking is being over-crowd- the front door was equally posi
to deal with motor cars plying for publle hire in the public streets of the Colony by,
(a) Fixing a scale of fares, or
was certain that the second man.
(b) Insisting that each motored by semi-Communists, by the tive that the man did not get out car so plying carries with It men who were responsible for all his way. A search of the house a meter registering an Ap the strength which the Commun- was then started, and after a long lata developed in Canton and hunt, when the searchers were Hankow.
proved scale of charges,
OURA.
Tokyo, Yesterday..
Tsai Yuan-pei and Li Shih-General Chiang Kai-shek retired from the Colony for a period of five years, returned within six cians who resigned on the be seen whether they will stand to months of the completion of the THE WORLD FLIGHT. tsen are two of the five politi-into private life. It remains to Nanking Government in sym- the last by their chief of whether term. He was produced before pathy with General Chiang the fruits of office in the project Mr.RE. Lindsell at the Central "PRIDE OF DETROIT LEAVES Kai-shek.
ed coalition ministry will prove Magistracy this morning and General Ho Ying-ching auc- too big a temptation for them. Was sentenced to two months ceeded Chiang Kai-shek as com- The attitude of each is said to all. Another Chinese who was mander of the 1st Nationalist vary-one or two being said to be banished for 10 years, came back
The "Pride of Detroit" off hopped Army and is considered a Nan- stubbornly opposed to reconcilia- after an absence of only five from Omara at 6.35. mer
tion, and others being said to be months. He was stated by the Kasumigaurn-Reuter, king "diehard.”1-
police to be a bad character! ready to compromise,
The name of General Hsu who had been in jail twice and Shung-chi has been in the lime had previously been twice light. A few years ago, he was banished. Mr. Lindsell passed commander-in-chief in Canton, sentence of 12 months fall and He is one of the conservatives of 20 strokes of the birch. the Kuomintang right wing and is More opposition has been dis- no surmised to be negotiating played against Dr. George Hau with both the Nanking and Wu- Chien (Minister of Justice in the Han factions According to one Wu-Han Government), Mr. Chen correspondent he is desirous of Wu Pel-fu is at Kwai Fu with Kung-po and Mr, Koo Meng-yu by (Continued on Page 7)
Yang Sen guarantees protec- tion against brigands in his sphere of influence but states that he cannot stop the boycott.
No sampans are allowed to go
to ships, no coal is available and
of
the supply of provisions is doubt- ful.
supply
Yang Sen claims the right of presage for his troops in British steamers, to which other foreign vessels have agreed.
PATHETIC CRY.
Accusations Against Alleged Communists.
FAIR TO SHOWERY.
:
about to give up, their quarry was Why are so many mem- found concealed in a dark corner
bers of Mrs. Sun Yat-sen's party of the cockloft behind
seeking office in the new Govern-"junk." He was unceremoniously
ment which is to be established dragged out and marched to the
at Nanking? Have they re-police station. pudicated her altogether or are they acting as her agents? These are questions which cannot be ignored, and are not being Chinese people will not have time to be lulled into passiveness to ignored by Chinese,"
The Communist Party of aggression. The anti-Commun- China is reorganising, is pre-ists are in a fighting mood, for paring to grapple with what they feel that the Nanking Con- they call the bourgeois national-ference is an exceptional op Letic reaction of Nanking.portunity to save the Party from Light easterly or variable winds, and
defeat and the nation from dis- fair to showery, is the official wea One Saving Grace race and if the Communists and ther forecast until noon to-morrow. This will undoubtedly be the their semi-Communist agents The depression has curved to major political struggle for some ruin this Conference, It will eastward and la now N.W. of Tokyo time to come, but it has one prove beyond a shadow of a A trough of relatively low pressure extends from Tongking across the saving grace and that is that the doubt that the sole aim of th The closing Fate of the dollar, Visayas to Yap Conditions over anti-Communist elements within Communists is on lon demand, to-day was 1/117/10. Chips are uncertains
the Kuomintang and among the fusion in China.
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