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No. 25,760 HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JANUARY
CHANCES OF WAR.
KWANGSI FACTION SEEKS REVENGE.
A BAD
SIGN.
Canton Troops May Now Oppose Ironsides.
LIKELIHOOD OF
CONFLICT
AROUND CHINA NEW
YEAR.
CHIANG REINSTATED. SUBMARINE'S FATE
1928.
Nationalist Fortunes Not Special Committee to
Changed.
LOOKING FOR HELP.
Generalissimo Flirting With Hankow Leaders."
Investigate
SOME BODIES RECOVERED.
Personal Experiences Of
Congremm
Washington,Yesterday
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month:
"IRENE PIRACY.”
Peking Government's Protest,
LIST OF DEMANDS.
"Adequate Punishment Of 14
Commande
N. LAZARUS
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(Personal Attention).
HITCH OVERCOME.
Document Allowed To Be Stamped.
CONTRACTOR'S CLAIM..
Mr. Potter's Assurance. To Chief » Justice.
MURDER AT SEA?
Dead Men Taken From Steamer.
"ANOTHER INJURED:
trango Happenings Abroad
#Bukusan Maris."
6.8. "Mukusan
The Supreme Court case con The Japanese Very much the same as before
Shanghal, To-day.. Chiang Kai-shek "resigned" a few It is announced that President The Kup Min News Agency cerning a contractor's claim which Maru" arrived in port yesterday months ago, with the Party still Coolidge fa considering the ap- publishes the text of a lengthy compelled to adjourn eine die when the police boarded the vessel His Honour the Chief Justice was flying the emergency flag, and divided against itself.
pointment of a special Committee protest forwarded by the" "Wo- As briefly as possible, that to investigate the submarine 84 chao-chu (Chinese Foreign Office, Yesterday afternoon upon dis- they found that their attention was up the Nationalist disaster: Reyter American Peking) to Sir Miles Lampson covering that an agreement had required for an alleged murder and would sum
British Minister, on December 22 not been stamped, was continued attempted suicide on board whilst fortunes to-day with Chiang Kai-Service.
protesting against the sinking of this morning, special leave to rec- the ship was on the high seas, on shek reinstated as Generalissimio,
the Irena on October 20, retify the omission being given the way to Hong Kong. When his Generals brought Province Town (Massachussetts), questing an expression of regret volved. The claim arose out of a ship were taken ashore on the The sum of $26,187.40 is In- Two Japanese members of the pressure to bear on him, he with-
Yesterday: Divers have recovered three the recalcitrant Generals, have bodies in the chging room of the
Chances of further war near Canton are rapidly dwindling as the Kwanggi-faction is showing a tendency to administer punish-drew. There is no guarantee that ment to military corps which did not side with it in the crisis two
months ago.
With General Li Chai-sum back at the head of affairs, units in the Kwangsi army are moving out as if to give battle to the Iron- sides. In the West River, half a battalion of Papersides has been
disarmed.
Such news will, of course, be disquieting to merchants who had hoped for conditions approximating to peace. Hostilities so close to China New Year are likely to have an adverse effect but hope has ...not been abandoned."
PAPERSIDES CHASED.
teen won over to him again,
In fact, the armies under the Kwangsi military faction and several others who surrendered from the Northern side are still opposed to him."
Seeking Support Everywhere.
Having to seek support wher- ever he can, Chiang Kai-shek has clung to a section of politicians whom he has accused before of being Leftists, Pinks and Reds. These are led by Mr. Wang Ching-" wel (in temporary exile) and are known as the Canton clique.
General Ho Ying-ching's army --numbered the 1st-has stuck to Chiang Kai-shek. Now there is a possibility that the units in
bering at least 50,000 men, are treating with Chiang Kai-shek.
Reports from Canton, inspired are under orders to proceed up the former Hankow Army, num-
[the East River.
by official or semi-official sources,
Two more brigades of Kwang- must be accepted with reserve.
si troops are moving out to Shek- However, overnight news points ung and other preparations lend te a campaign against the Iron-strength to the war rumours. sides being possible.
Observers report, on the other Then friction is increasing be-hand, that the Kwangsi army is tween the Government and the 5th Army under General Li Fook- lum (known as the Papersides) who contral Honam, on the op- bosite side of the River to Canton, A belated despatch admits that battalion of Papersides, on rison duty in the West River a, was pursued by the Kwang faction's 18th division, prior to
Canton being re-entered.
Policy Viewed With Alarm.. The 13th division was proceed g to Samshui to join comrades ming down the West River. ear the point of assembly was is Paperside battalion which re-
ed
New Garrison at Arsenal.
up
Competing for Services, This Hankow Army bitterly op- posed Chiang Kai-shek at one time. Then it was defeated by an expedition from 'Nanking, led by a General of the Kwangsi faction.
Three Bodies Found.
ter
for the violation of China's sover
eignty, compensation and indem dispute on the building of 15 police launch. One must, whose nity for the persons, dead and in- European-style house at Yau- name was given as Locaku Yoshit- jured, for the cargo and for the mati, on Kowloon Inland Lot No. ni, aged 40, was removed to the ship lost, also adequate, punish- 1801. It is between the owner hospital suffering from a stab ment of the Commander of the and the building contractor and wound alleged to have been self in- submarine L4 and the surrender concerns extra work done in re-flicted, of the seven persons detained inspect of the erection of the houses. Hong Kong for trial-Reuter,
Plaintiffs were the Sang Loong dead when the police boarded the The other man who was already contractors, 14, Man Lam Street, hip, was named Kienburi Hayaski, Yaumati, and their claim was aged 32, and his body was remov against Lai Sui Ching, 10, Winged to the Victoria Mortuary. He TWO AGAINST ONE. Lok Street, the landlord, for was alleged to have been murdered $26,187.40, being $7,000 balance whilst the ship was en route to due under a contract dated
MAN ASSAULTED WITH HAMMERS.
CURIOUS REPORT:
men
January 8, 1924, and the remain- Hong Kong. der, $19,187.40 was claimed for It is not yet clear how the two extra work done..
were concerned with each Defendant denied the debt, other. The only thing that is at stating that the extra work was present known in that one, was not required by the contract, and found obviously killed, whilst the Fung She (25), an unemployed, that a portion was not extra work, other was discovered with serious Chinese of Yaumati, reported to but was included in the original injuries, which, it is stated, could Defendant counter only have been self inflicted. Whe- the police at 5 pm, yesterday that contract.
at 11.45 a.m., on Tuesday, he went claimed for $8,770.11 as damages ther there had been a quarrel be in the company of a man named for work which was defective or tween the two, or it was a case Tang Chik-kam, who, had promised unsatisfactory and the omission of amok is the subject of investi
of certain work.
gation at present. to find employment for him; tớ an empty. house in Yaumati (street unknown).
JAPAN BANKING.
REPORT ON DEFFAULTING ¿CONCERNS.
-DIFFICULT READJUSTMENT.
Tokyo, Yesterday The year-end report of the Fin-
the 36 banks which defaulted in
REP EH. LA GUARDI
wrecked Submarine $4.
Mr. F. G. Jenkin, instructed by American Service.
Mr. A. E. Hall, was for plaintiff, "Everything Possible
and Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., in- In the house they met another structed by Messrs. Hastings, merely protecting the railway
Baton, Yeste man, whose surname is Young. Dennys and Bowley, was for de- and adjacent areas, this being At one time the Hankow Army Mr. F. La Guardia, a member of After the Introduction, they dis- fendant. necessary as the Ironsides are was going to join up with the the House of Representatives, focussed the prospects of Yeung giv-
Stamp Costa.: only 20 miles away, further Kwangsi faction but it is now lowing a 36-hopra voyage tubing the complainant work to do in When the court-opened this the East River.
holding out for better terms with marine 38, which executed vari. 8 new, firm which ha proposed to morning Mr. Jenicin, said the Chiang Kai-shek a competitor for us evolutions, Including diving, open, in the house parties had been able to overcome its services.
has decided not to deliver in Con- Suddenly Young and the man the difficulty. His side would Although troops have been re-gress a vigorous speech which he Tang set upon the complainant, as-pay into Court the cost of stamp. Sources favourable to the Iron- sides maintain-in the Ironsides' called from the Shantung front to had prepared attacking the Gove saulting him, it was alleged, with ing two agreements, having the ance Department in connection with
He put up a fight as third to the other side interest that the Kwangsi army protect Chiang Kai-shek and his ernment for falling to rescue the hammers. has been severely defented, and new Government at Nanking, the men imprisoned in Submarine S4. best he could, but was eventually His Lordship: I will then direct April, 1927, states that readjust Northerners continue to do badly; Mr. La Guardia declares that overpowered, when his two assafl- these two documents as being in ment has naturally been difficult that the pro-Chiang Kai-shek but they still hope that Chiang he found that everything possible ants relieved him of $25 which he on your undertaking to pay $202. and only 12 with a total capitalisa- Mr. Potter: And if your Lord-tion of 104,000,000 yen and liabili hampered by his former sup Meanwhile the Kwangsi ad-porters. Our political correspon- been restored and changes made ministration in Canton city has dent. where necessary, the latter in- Mr. C. C. Wu has petitioned the cluding the guard at the arsenal. Nanking Government to recall his The Canton papers have pub-appointment. He says he believes lished documents, rather belated- that the time is not ripe to take ly, referring to the Communist up the revision of Treaties with
division on the Fukien frontier
has joined hands with the Iron- Kai-shek's administration will be was done for the lost men. He had in his pocket and then decayship says so, we will pay the $101 ties of 57,000,000 yen due to 100,000:"
sides.
Shanghai, To-day
on the other side's arising and the flight of a section the United States. bach. Half the men in the unit, of the Canton, Navy just before It is believed that the out- but 250 strong, were disarmed. the Kwangsi army set foot in Can- standing feature in the coming
The Spring will be ton before the New Year.
a struggle for Then the Kwangsi leaders are documents are in the light of ex- power between the Kwangsi-ites ging General Li Chai-sum to posure of anti-Government in-in Hankow and Canton and the der the Papersides out of Ho-trigue.
Chekiang party in-Nanking and Shanghai-Reuter.
m, so that they can be dealt
h away from the fastness of
ir own stronghold. Because
Papersides have maintained
der in Honam for years, the people there view the Kwangsi
tentions with alarm.
Doubt in War Reports.
It is still maintained that the Ironsides, having withdrawn to the upper East River, have come
from Swatow.
REDS ROUTED.
Pro-Canton Troops Win Near Pakkai.
Fort Bayard, Dec. 31.
Communists in the southern
CONFIRMED.
Yan Chuen Feng Was Executed.
Kiukiang, Yesterday.
that Yan
peninsula of Kwangtung province It is confirmed have been trounced by troops Chuen-feng has been executed. loyal to the Canton Government,
Up till a few days ago, the Lui- chow peninsula had been clear of trouble. Then troops from the
YANG, AND WU,
Both Go Up River. To Wanhsien.
in contact with Kwangsi troops port of Pakhoi and from Luichow endeavouring to reach Canton fought a Communist band at On- po, a large market town two day's from Pakhoi. The troops are fol- Yang Sen, accompanied by Wu lowing up their victory and pur-Pei-fu, has left for Wanhsien.
According to reports here, the suing the Reds on to Limkong.
Now that Canton is again in the hands of Kwangsi troops there is
Fachow and Kochow. Luichow Nationalists are sending an ex- and On-po are quiet again. peadon against Yang Sen-Bri-
There are very few foreigners tsh Naval Wireless. at. Luichow just now Two of Wuhu Kerosene Tax. them had to go inland for a few
Wuhu, Yesterday.
now proposes to advocate larger ed. submarines and higher wages for the "brave men who risk their livea dally in them."Reuter's American Bervice.
AFGHANS KING.
VISIT TO CONTINENTAL
CAPITALS.
LONDON IN FEBRUARY.
CIGARETTE END..
CAUSES A FIRE IN COCHRANE STREET.
on the other agreement. Your depositors had reopened. Fifteen Lordship appreciates, I hope, that banks with a capitalisation of 22, neither of us were trying to get 000,000 yen and liabilities 16,000,- documents before the Court with-1000 yen due to 188,000 depositors out paying for them!-
were still closed. One bank with Mr. Potter then continued his a capitalisation of half a million cross-examination of plaintif yen and abilities of five millon In The Contracts. "..
yen due to: 38,000 depositors hed Opening the case yesterday, Mr. liquidated while the affairs of the A fire broke out yesterday on the Jenkin referred to the contracta, remainder with a capital of 147,- third floor of No. 22, Cochrane the main one dated January 8 and 000,000 yen and liabilities of 511,- Street, occupied by a Chinese medi- the two of supplementary char000,000 yen due to 715,000 deposi cine dealer named Cheng Fook utter dated January 5 and 10. tore were lo "process of readjust- The outbreak was supposed to have Dealing with the first contract, ment."Reuter. originated by a carelessly thrown Mr. Jenkin drew attention to the cigarette and smouldering near the opening paragraph, which stated Rugby, Yesterday.
chimney. Buy the time the fire that the contractor should give The King and Queen of Af-was discovered, a large hole had satisfaction to the Building ghanistan will leave Egypt to-mor- been burned on the floor, and the Authority, architects and land-} row for, Rome on a State visit to alarm was promptly given. The lord. There was also a paragraph the King and Queen of Italy. Fire Brigade turned out within a which stated that one-inch thick Thalf Virt will last two weeks. few minutes, but on arrival found Canton square tiles should be
Rugby, Yesterday. Their Afghan Majesties will then that the fire had been extinguish-laid on the roofs with lime, earth, The London Chamber of Com- proceed to Paris, where they will ed by the inmates of the house and cement well mixed up for the merce received last year 1,180 ap- Replications for membership......- The With the exception of the burned purpose. floor board little damage was done There would be considerable Chamber regards this as some by the fire, which might have as argument over the third contract, proof that trade revival is really a Bured bigger dimensions had, it not because the defence relied upon it fact."British Wireless Service been discovered early and prompt action taken by the inmates of the house to check it.
FRESH AND FINE.
N.E. winds, fresh, fine, to cloudy, is the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow. ! The anticyclone has weakened slightly and spread eastward. Fresh to moderate monsoon may be expected along the S.E, coast of China and over the China Sea.
THROWN BY PONY,
UNKNOWN EUROPEAN'S
ANTE MOUNT.
in the main. It dealt with the "extras" and provided that terms
be written out and signed by the
TRADE REVIVAL.
MEMBERSHIP OF LONDON. CHAMBER.
for extra work or omissions should NEW COMMANDANT. parties before such work became FOR SHANGHAI VOLUNTEERS
CORPE
London, Yesterday, The War Office announces the appointment of Colonel H. B. H. Orpen Palmer to be Commandant of the Shanghai Volunteer Force.
Reuter
valid. There was also another to the effect that if work or mat- erials were not satisfactory, the owner was at liberty to give that no necessity for the Kwangsi
work to another contractor, any leaders at Swatow to march back,
expenses so incurred to be deduct- ed from the contract price. especially as the greatly superior
Additional Work:/50 be the guests of the French Re-report was made to the Police Work was started on February. force of Ironsides bars the way.
public.
yesterday by Mr. W. J. Kerr, custo- Another obstacle in the way is days and the only one left was a the Soviet Government and its lady who was among 60,000 rived at in connection with the end of February on a State visit at about 1230 p.m., on Tuesday, Authority gave an occupation No settlement has yet been ar- They will arrive in London at the dian of the Fanling Golf Club, that 8th, 1924, and the Building Communist army in the hinter Chinese. Conditions have improv kerosene tax question-British to King George and Queen, Mary
whilst an European, name unknown, permit on May 26 in the follow covered by the additional work land of Blas Bay,
ed a good deal of late. An occa Naval Wireless.
The British Minister in Afrown from his mount, but ex From time to time, the defen al contract and that they were
was riding a hunt pony, he was ing year tenders was covered by the origin sional correspondent,
ghanistan, Sir Francis Humphreys, cepting for a shaking did not suffer dant required additional work to true extran in every sense of la bn his way Home from Kabul any injury. The pony bolted, and be done. The first additional the word
Still, reports persist that the Kwangsi expedition from Swatow (marching in support of General Li Chai-sum) has been defeated twice by the Ironsides in the East River basin.
Protecting the Rallway.
Commandeering of native craft
Nanking Appointments.
Shanghai, Yesterday Mr. T. V. Boong has been off cially appointed Finance Minister
[Note: This part of Kwang- tung has not been involved in the recent struggle between the Kwangsi faction and the Iron- sides because it was out of reach of the Nanking Government, and arrangements for the visit. The subsequent report received at the making a total of $3,200. The Whilst Mr. Potter was cross
will require a good Contral Police Station this morning plaintiff supplied a tender for the examining plaintig Hi because stated that the pony had since defendant's signature in respect notice that there was though they been recovered.
to discuss with the Foreign Secre- up to the time the report, was made items were 80 concrete window Plaintiff's evidence bore out
And, officials of the Court the yesterday, it has not been found. A shelters at a coat of 140 each; the above opening. ******
of the main armies:
arranger Mr. Sun Fo as Minister of Con struction, which is apparently a deals of d new portfolio, the ladies of Mr. Quo Tal-chi is appointed are ignor
by troops of the Canton Govern- SHANGHAI OUTRAGE. acting Foreign Minister during the pur
ment has also caused uneasiness
18 believed that the boata. used to transport Kwangai to Sheklung, a large town ted at the point where the loon-Canton Railway crosses fver 40 miles east of
let of the shallow
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sent not accepted
their
stións for uropean visit
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of this work, but it was not algn on c ed. The defendant said it was not coun necessary to bother with the for- observed mality and the plaintiff was satis- fied
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the cont admitted they had the omission.
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