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No. 25,683 HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1927.
THE NORTHERN WAR.
Fengtien Suffers Reverses On Two Fronts.
FIGHT TO FINISH?
Shansi Forces Able to Concentrate Attack.
FAMOUS GENERAL REAPPEARS.
OLD ENEMY OF CHANG.
All
LABOUR IS READY.
Fears General Election Is Far Off.
EX-PREMIER'S STATEMENT.
BOMB PLOTS.
Ingenious Scheme To Involve Canton.
DEFEAT FOR HO LUNG.
Party To Prepare Programme For General Li's Forces Now Entering
On Wider Control. Next Campaign.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
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STEAMER TROUBLE.
Chinese Seamen's Union Again.
DISMISSAL QUESTION,
"San Nam Hoi" Crew Called Out At Kongmoon.
N. LAZARUS
Hong Kong's Only European Optician- Established Over Forty Years Manager Ralph A. Cooper, M.A.0.A.
Registered Optometrist (Canada).
THE JOBLESS.
Revolt of Middle Age.
"FINISHED AT FORTY."
Two Sides Of Question Which Is Vexing Humanity.
Youth's revolt is a familiar
COPYRIGHT LAW.
Association Charges A Bookshop.
INTERESTING ARGUMENTS.
Are Unsold Copies Part Of Authorised Edition?
Mr. H. J. Armstrong appeared, Trouble with the Seamen's London, Yesterday.
Bomb plots involving three At the Labour Party confer- Russians have been discovered by Union at Fakkal, the port of theme, but a retired business man before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this ence at Blackpool Mr. MacDonald the Canton authorities, it is re- Kongmoon, West River, has been of Brooklyn, who prefers to be morning to represent the Book- Although no definite developments are, to hand regarding the moved a resolution instructing ported, and an ingenious scheme experienced by the master and known merely as "Mr. Action" is sellers' Association who charged agents of the "San Nam Hot," a organising a revolt of the middle the Tai Shing Bookshop under the Ordinance progress of the war in the north, it is now certain that the Feng-the national executive to prepare has been brought to light.
the general election programmė.
It is said that the plotters had river boat of 784 nett tons, plying aged against "the callous dictum Merchandise Marke tien reverses already reported have not been underestimated.
The ex-Premier said he was hoped to tranship about a hun-between Hong Kong and Kong- of business which adjudges men with infringing the copyright of past forty as too old to keep pace book entitled "English and prospects of a peaceful settlement of the trouble between Shansi afraid the election was not com-dred bombs from Swatow to Can-moon.
The trouble arose out of the with younger workers." Some Chinese Dialogue" by Wong Le- ing as soon as they would like ton, the explosives to be concealed and Marshal Chang Tso-lin seem to have disappeared, and it is owing to the Covernment's limpet till the arrival there of the Com- dismissal of one of the seamen 250 persons, according to the bing, Hong Kong, the assignees evident that both sides intend to pursue the campaign. Shansi has qualities and intention to drain munist army which has now been and, in consequence, all the crew Brooklyn "Eagle," recently met of the printing rights of which the initial advantage as her attack can be concentrated whilst the the cup of authority in protection expelled. The plan was for agita- remained ashore when the vessel at his call in the Prospect Park were the Empire Printing Press.
of its own class interests, but tors in the city to start a reign was due to leave Kongmoon yes- branch of the Young Men's Chris- (Tsui Chan).
Mr. C. A. S. Russ, appeared for Fengtien forces have to await reinforcements from other areas.
"we are ready for the election of terror once the invaders reach- terday, their action being dictat-tian Association of that city, told
Fed by the Seamen's Union. of their vain efforts to find work, the defence. when it comes."
ed the environs.
It is understood that H.M.S. and formed an organisation to Mr. Armstrong asked for permis. The conference unanimously The bombs were brought, it is adopted Mr. MacDonald's resolu- suspected, into Swatow when the "Cicala" was appealed to for help fight the prevalent idea "that on ston to amend the charge and bring Communists were in control. by Capt. Sparke and the agents his fortieth birthday some awful it under the Copyright Ordinance. tion after discussion in which the Three Russians are alleged to have but the river boat was unable to change comes over a man to unfit He said that the ordinance under consensus of opinion was in faheen concerned in smuggling the take action in view of the fact him for new tasks."
which the defendants were not vour of drafting a programme bombs about. None of the bombs that the steamer flies the Chinese "Mr. Action" said he had him- charged was the ordinance. under All is not well with the Feng-least a week, but two or three but showed differences regarding reached Canton as the authorities tion armies posted in two different of the more pugnacious generals its nature. For instance, the secured Information.
self faced the uncertainties of which the search of the defendants' ensign.
The Canton Union.
job-hunting after the age of forty, premises was made. parts of Chihli province to guardare pouring their forces into the M.P. Mra. Ellen Wilkinson and Chasing the "Reds." .'
Evidently the trouble was even-and at a later meeting, with about
Mr. Lindsell pointed out the diffi the approaches to Peking. fighting line.
Mr. Maxton demanded a very bold Of the men detained from the No official statement has been Not only is General Shang Chen, the lutung of Suiyuan, made about discord in FengtiengTamme based on Labour's 5.8. "Haihong" when she arrived in tually settled through the efforts 300 present, he helped to launch cuity that as the search was made Hong Kong from Swatow lust Sun- of the master and the compra- what is to be known as the Co-under the Merchandise Marke Or- biggest demand.
Membership dinance, the warrant must have exerting pressure on the Feng-camp but this week has been given Mr. Ernest-Bevin declared it day, five are still stated to be indore. who acted as mediator, as operative Action
custody. tien outposts, but his superior, over to significant councils of war was impossible for the next La-
according to latest reports,, the Corporation, devoted to "helping been issued for an offence commit- Their identity has been establish ship left Kongmoon early this the elderly who need work.' Its ted under that Ordinance, and sug- General Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi and appointments on the various bour Government to carry social-ed. They are alleged to be leaders morning and is due in Hong Kong methods, we are told, will include gested that the charge be proceed province, seems to be entering sectors.
ism. Therefore, instead of bound-or officials of Communist organisa-
helpful publicity for the un- ed with under that ordinance. into the campaign in earnest. Strategic Disadvantage.
ing for fantastic schemes they tions in Swatow and will be dealt at 4 p.m. to-day. At present, the Fengtien forces should have a short programme with by the Police,
It is stated that the action of employed and practical catering to' Then, again, such a famous
Mr. Russ objected to the charge " warrior as General Lu Chung-lin are at a strategic disadvantage of immediate objectives that General Wong Shiu-hung (gov-the owners in dismissing the sea- the needs of employers.
Four Solid Months,
being framed under the Merchan- ise Marks Ordinance, under which is reported (according to the on both sectors.
would bring back Conservative ernor of Kwangs and ally of man in question was
Cheering tales of men and "Hong Kong Evening Post") to Yen Hsi-shan has, even in nor-Trade Unionists into the Labour General Li Chal-sum of Canton), quence of the request of the Chi-
It was essential that some marka mal times, most of his men along fold-Reuter.
who was reported yesterday to have nese Seamen's Union in Canton be ready to take the field.
his eastern frontier, the most
reached Swatow, is pursuing the and that the Kongmoon Seamen's women who have won success in must have been made on the articles T. U. Act Denounced. Epic of Nankow Pass.
new fields after having reached Communist army which was eject Union took up the cudgels on his the fateful, age were related at renuine. As there was no such al-
complained of to The conference of the Laboured General Lu Chung-lin was for-likely source of attack if any.
from Swatow, and Chao-chow. behalf. Fengtien's garrison on this Party at Blackpool passed a re- Other pro-Canton units have reach- merly the right-hand man of Mar-part (which would be the western solution denouncing the Trades ed the port, including the command
these meetings, but most of the The "Sun Nam Hoi" is owned
untitled to costs.. lowing letter one of hundreds shal Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Chris-frontier of Chihli province) is Union. Act' recently passed by of the Swatow Defence Commis-by Mr. Soc Sho-nam and the stories were like that of the fol.legation against his clients he was to "Mr. Action"-in Mr. Armstrong argued that the tian general." After being sur smaller by comparison, the other Parliament and pledging the party sioner who retired before the in-agents are the Fat Hing Loong that came
The rounded in Peking last year, Gen-defences of a large area being to repeal the measure at the vaders. This batch was in the Kee.
which a former order-department action was not a civil one.
Merchandise Marks Ordinance made manager writes
"I've walked the streets of New provisions for a summary charga York for nearly four solid months and the present charge was made now for a job, at any price. Bust- under that provision. ness hires only youngsters to-day, Mr. Lindsell agreed with Mr. telling them they have a future. Armstrong.
eral Lu Chung-lin (who then commanded the whole of the 1st Kuominchun and other armies) withdrew to the Nankow Pass where he defied the attacks of Marshal Chang Tso-lin and Mar- shal Wu Pei-fu for months.
In
August, 1926, Lu Chung-lin final- ly retreated with only a negligible loss of men or supplies.
It is interesting to note that General. Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi was one of the allies then fighting Lu Chung-lin.
Then and Now.
As a matter of fact, Yen Hsi- shan was, the only one in earnest at the beginning and he was de- feated because promised efforts to divert Lu Chung-lin's attention did not materialise.
Now Lu Chung-lin is reported as coming in on Yen Hsi-shan's side against his former enemies who took Peking from him.
But Lu Chung-lin is not to fight at Nankow Pass, whence he went outside the Great Wall. Inciden-
tally, the Fengtien troops are holding Nankow Pass against en- try inside the Great Wall. How- ever, Lu Chung-lin proposes to join issue from the north of Ho- nan province, close to the south of Shansi, and then to enter tho extreme south of Chihli province. Summary of the War. Reports received to-day gen- erally point to reverses for Feng tien which may be summarised,
as follow:-
Fengtien loss of Kalgan, in the northern sector, and an or- derly retreat to Suanhwa, along the Peking-Suiyuan Railway.
In the southern sector the Shansi army has advanced from Shih-chia-chuang and is aatride the Peking-Honkow Railway, the Fengtien defen-
Kalgan Occupied.
considered more important.
earliest opportunity. On both sectors the line is (in Wireless Service. the opinion of Colonel Lau Chee- kwong, late of the Cantonese army) in the shape of an irregular semi-circle with the Shansi forcen
British right wing of C, relief ex-
MINE COLLAPSES.
pedition. Newagine through about a victory over General Ho Lung at Kityang.
Coast Now Clear. With the eastern coast of Kwang- tung now clear of enemies, the
on the concave side From the RAILWAY LINE AND WORKS Canton forces are re-entering into
centre of the semi-circle, the
Shansi forces can move about to any part of the line with greater ease. They have therefore been able to press back the Fengtien front line and to push salients into the weaker spots.
1
NATIONALIST SPLIT,
Gunboats Active: Latest Peace
Movements.
Wuhu, Yesterday.
WRECKED.
control. Territory from beyond Mira Bay to the boundary with Fukien is in pro-Canton hands.
It la how learned that local were
NO LIVES LOST. ':' Sudbury (Ontario), Yesterday, bandits and Peasants Corpe
in conse-
MORTGAGE LAW.
PLAINTIFF SUES WRONG MAN.
LOCAL LAND QUESTION, Legal questions affecting the
dant.
make it appear
In that way they secure workers Asked what his plea was, Mr. at such cheap prices that a man Russ said that his clients were very with a family just can't compete, honest about the måtter and admit- "Business uses these young ted that they had 27 coples of the sters up, and when they are forty books left. These books they had they, in turn, will find that the bought from the people who had
The Blame.
Chad issued the 17th edition of the book. The books the defendants
The Mond Nickel Company's active in the hinterland of Bias mine at Worthington collapsed, Bay when the Communists held mortgage of property in the New future that business has for them the printing rights in 1921, and wrecking hundreds of yards of Swatow. The local volunteer mill-Territories were discussed in the is also out in the gutter to die." tia co-operated with the troops in Summary Court this morning the Canadian Pacific Railway and defeating the rabble and thereby when Ho Po-wan claimed against Editorial comment is inclined to had were of the 17th edition print- engulfing the railway. Nobody preventing a junction with the main Sum Wing for the balance owing divide the blame quite impartially ed in 1921 and bore the information was hurt as the station shifts "Red" army. were changing and the day men On Monday, a repair gang fore-under a mortgage alleged to have
seeker, and society. "Perhaps it Counsel added that the printing who had not descended far heard man of the Canton-Kowloon fore been entered into by the defen-among the employer, the job- "Printed at Ki Ngar, 1921."
is the jobless men themselves, rights were re-assigned to Mr. the warning rumblings and suc-way (Chinese section) was fired at Mr. F. H. Loseby represented At Wade Island, two Chinese ceeded in reaching the surface and wounded near Sheklung (about
before the collapse. The Cana-40 miles from Canton), where the plaintiffs and Mr. E. S. C. Brooks, rather than the employers, who Armstrong's clients this year, when
are suffering from the aged-at- dian Pacific Railway workshopa line crosses the East River. The the defendant..
assailant was connected with rob- and engine roundhouse are set-ber bands.. tling in a huge depression. Tele- graph wires have been torn down. The mine which is 1,200 feet deep, is one of the Company's oldest workings. Reuter.
Mr. Sun Fo, son of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, who is working for the reconciliation of the Nationalist factions..
SPIES FOR POLAND.
بدید
MORE SOVIET DEATH SENTENCES.
Moscow, "Yesterday.
The Kamenetz Podolak tribunal tried 50 prisoners accused of espionage in Ukranian territory
Swntow Quiet,
Swatow, Yesterday.
the situation is normal.-British Naval Wireless.
Mr. Armstrong said that the
forty complex," suggests a hard- they issued the 18th edition, and Mr. Loseby said that plaintiff boiled editorial writer in the argued that the defendants could was the mortgagee of property in Brooklyn "Eagle," adding: not be charged with infringing the the New Territories, South, of man is as old as he squeals." The copyright of the 18th edition if they No change has occurred here. The The property was sold in August that many of the jobless have put
which defendant was the owner: St. Paul "Dispatch" also suggests sold copies of an earlier edition.
Mr. Lindsell agreed, and said Canton forces are in control and for $800 and the mortgage being themselves on the shelf. That that if there had been any infringe-
for $600 there was a balancé
ment at all, it must be an infringe owing and plaintiff was suing on paper goes on to say:---
"Many of those over forty may ment of the rights of the author the covenant.
blame themselves for failing into of the books and not of the as- Unfortunately, added Mr.
the delusion that, having learned siginees of the printing rights for MR. W. T. SOUTHORN. Loseby, he only saw the mortgage a trade, they had nothing more to 1927.
that morning and he had now die covered that the man who made learn and could live the rest of the mortgage was not the defen- their days on the little that they copyright of the author had existed Gant. The defendant was the had learned as a kind of capital. since 1899, and their contention purchaser of the equity of re- Those who realise that there is was that the books found in the de demption but he (Mr. Loseby) always something to learn in any fendants' shop were not copies of submitted that there was an im- occupation, and keep their minds the original 17th edition issued in plied covenant on behalf of every receptive and their self-conceit in 1921 which was already sold out.
The Magistrate decided that ho purchaser in such a case that he subjection, are less likely to com- would pay the mortgage money plain in later years that they are would allow the case to proceed on
not wanted.
the understanding that unless the from fault in this
"Many employers are not free complainants could prove that the They exaggerate the importance books complained of were infringe- of the pliability of youth and ments of the original rights, there
'could be no offence. underestimate the waste of the la- bour turnover."
ACTING ADMINISTRATING OFFICER
on behalf of Poland. Five of the SWEARING IN FORMALITY. chief accused were sentenced to death and others sentenced to imprisonment varying from five! years to ten years,-Reuter.
LEVINE IN SMASH.
"Miss Columbia" Is Wrecked.
Rome, Yesterday.
with interest.
Mr. Brooks contended that this was not so..
connection.
moderate;
Mr. Armstrong said that he had no doubt that be would be able to prove that the books were not part of the 17th edition of 1921.
The Magistrate, fixed hearing of the case for Thursday next.
The Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern was formally worn in as Officer Administrating the Government at a short ceremony in the Coun- cil Chamber at 1 p.m. to-day.
An Implied Covenant? The appointment arises out of
Mr. Loseby argued that there the holiday of H.E. the Governor, ders retiring to Chingting. gunboats are using their search-
Sir Cecil Clementi, who left for was an implied covenant in every However, an effort by the Shan-lights to examine passing vessels.
transfer of property. subject to Mr. Levine and Capt. Hinch- the North on the "Empress of mortgage that the purchaser will si troops turn a flank of the The Wu-Han forces here have
FAIR WEATHER. repay the amount of the mort- Fengtien army failed, the given orders to Anhui province to cliffe who after witnessing the Canada" this morning. latter counter-attacking. obtain a big sum of money with Schneider race flew to Rome The warrant was read by the gage debt but unfortunately the
TYPHOON CROSSES THE which ratione can be procured for made a forced landing on October Acting Chlef Justice, His Honour mortgagee had no right to sue the
PHILIPPINES. Peking, Yesterday.
the troops.-British Naval Wire-4. The 'plane, "Miss Columbia," The Fengtien troops have with-
He was forced to pursue the was smashed but neither was Mr. Justice JB Wood and the new purchaser on the covenant. less,
North-east winds, drawn from Kalgan owing to a [Note: Chinese cables state hurt. Levine has given up plane seals of office were then handed round-about method of suing the
fair, is the official weather fore- flank attack threatening their that martial law is being observed of any further flights with that to Mr. Bouthorn as His Excellency original mortgagor.
the Officer Administrating,
Mr. Loseby claimed that there cast until noon to-morrow. communications. The. Fengtien by the Wu-Han troops at Wuhu, machine-Reuter. troops are preparing to make a re-with the Nanking outposts on the
After taking the Oath, the was no question as to the defen- Pressure is highest over the solute stand in the vicinity of qui vive further down the river.
Hon. Mr. Sauthorn said: dant being Hable to pay the Sea of Japan. The typhoon Nankow Pass.`
The two gunboats are likely to be an understanding has been arriv "I desire to thank you, Gentle balance owing but it was laid crossed the Island of Samar
London, Yesterday. The Shanal-ites occupied Kal those "borrowed" by Wu-Haned at between:
men, and particularly His Honour down in law that the money (Philippine Islands) on a wester-
The cruiser "Cantor will be de gan yesterday afternoon-Reu from Nanking some weeks ago.] General Tang Seng-chi, com the Chief Justice, for attending could not be recovered by way of ly track.
tached from her duties as Sunfor mander-in-chief at Wu-Han. and taking part in this solemn an action. He therefore asked
Officer's ship of the Nore Reserve Fengtlen Not Ready.
General Yang Sen of Sze ceremony. I am fully sensible of for an adjournment for him to see The two sectors mentioned aro
chuan province,
the heavy responsibilities of the if there was any way out of what
the 15th Inst. on a trooping voyage to be styled the right, and left
General Chin Yun-ao of Honan office upon which I have just was, after all, only a technical dif- name of the defendant to be
changed on the writ, wings, respectively, by Fengtien
province, who rebelled entered, and can only trust that, ficulty
Mr. Brooks, in opposing, said for Hong Kong. She will convey headquarters. Fengtien proposes
against the "Christian gen relying on your advice and assist Mr. Brooks objected to the ap- to drive a wedge into the "no Although much propaganda hasteral.” q
ance may, under Divine Guldplication. He admitted defen- he had never heard of a more relief crews for submarines for the Store Far East and also reliefs for the man's land" In between and been issued, professing opposition Friends Again, ance, be enabled to discharge the dant was the purchaser of the astonishing request.
His Honour Mr. Justice P. "Tamar" depot ship of the China thus strike at a vulnerable point to Péking, none of the Yangtaze Yang Sen is on the upper duties of this high office to the property but the defendant was in Shansucht dat al warlords seems particularly in reaches of the Yangtaze. In the greater good of the people of this not flable under the covenant and Jacks declined to recede to Mr. Station and other casual reliefs
Observers express the opinion terested in the North China cam-past he has made sorties on Wu Colony in which my wife and I never could be liable
Logeby's request and the plaintiff awaiting passage to the Far East. Mr.Loseby applied for the was non-sulted that Fengtich will not be ready topaign. A
(Continued on Page 7) take so deep an Interest" take the counter-offensive for at Word has reached Shanghai tat
ter.
New Alliances.
Prominent personages are mov- ing about on the Yangtze River with a view to establishing new alliances.
H.M.S. “CASTOR.”
CRUISER BRINGING RELIEF CREWS.
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