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No. 25,762 HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1928.
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NATIONALIST POLITICAL HIGH LIGHTS.
NANKING & CANTON.
Has Kwangsi Faction Joined Chiang Kai-shek.
́TERRIFIC - GALE.
North London Wall Blown Down.
EXCITING RESCUES,
P. & 0. Liners In Collision At Tilbury.
SHANGHAI NERVOUS.
Agents of Marshal Sun In City.
TROOPS DISARMED.
Nationalist Forces Maintaining Strict Vigilance
Shanghai, Yesterday,"
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month,
BANK LOSSES.
Officials of Central Bank Arrested.
- POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE.
Clansman Of Wang Ching-wei Remanded In Custody.
Two well dressed Chinese were
Nervousness is prevalent in produced before Mr. Roger Edward Shanghai on account of the pre- Central Magistracy this morning on Lindsell, police magistrate, at the
London, Yesterday. Having weathered the blizzard, the great thaw, and the floods, the
a Marshal Sun REPORTED MOVES CONSTITUTE NEW THREAT TO PEKING. courtry has how been swept byly responsible for a number of casualties and considerable dam- age.
The whole trend of Nationalist politics seems to have changed overnight, indicating re-union of the Kwangsi military faction (which is in control in Canton) with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Nanking. Government
General Li Tsung-jen, one of the big four of the Kwangsi group of Generals, is reported suddenly to have changed his attitude from one of opposition to co-operation, on the understanding that the Left- ist (or Canton) clique of politicians be kept out.
The Leftists sponsored the Ironsides who wrested Canton from
the Kwangsi Generals and held it for about a month, hence the bitterness between the Kwangsi and the Leftist groups.
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TROUBLE "VALUES" IN 1922 AND NOW.
LOCAL BENEFITS.
Money Being Driven Into The Colony.
once of agents of Ma Northern a criminal charge of having receiv AT LEAST TEN MILLION DOLLARS MORE FOR "INVESTMENT. (Peking) Army.
At Nantao (a Chinese area ad- joining the French Concession), The North London wall was a number of Nationalist troops blown down, burying and killing have been disarmed because their
loyalty was under suspicion
a woman.
A West London hoarding col-British. Naval Wireless.
lapsed, two men and a woman being injured. Another hoarding' in North-west London crashed on top of a man and a girl,
The P. and O. liners “Razmak” and “Mooltan" collided at Tilbury. The former was blown from her seriously damaged. Her sailing course and her bridge was very
HIDDEN “PERIL.”
Intelligence About Disgulaed Northerners.
ed_monies not belonging to them.
[By "Li Chung-yin.”].
"Each time a shell is fired into or near Canton, it is worth $100 to me."
This sounds rather callous but the words were spoken to me with all seriousness in 1922 when Canton was in a state of slege for a month. The speaker was the compradore of one of the river steamboats.
It is hardly necessary to quote the old adage about an ill wind
Behind their arrest Hen much that may be of political significance in regard to Canton and the efforts of Gon. Li Chal-sum to set his of the Kwangsi faction to power it house in order. Upon the return
was discovered that there had been a serious loss of funds from banks, etc., and the arrest of the two men described below may have some im- portant bearing upon the matter.
The Charge.R Following the report in yester-
The charge is one of receiving other Chinese paper (the "Hong 5, in Hong Kong, montes, to the Kong has benefitted, if only indirectly, by the recent trouble in day's "Kung Sheung Yat Po," an- between December 29 and January blowing no good, but I recall the words vividly to show that Hong to Bombay has been delayed, Kong Evening Press") says that extent, fo $100,000 which they 'Cante
Gusts, sometimes at the rate the Chinese military and police knew, had been stolen from the of 60 miles an hour, Inshed the authorities at Shanghai are main- Central Bank of China," the pro Thames along the Embankment taining strict vigilance (in areas perty of the Canton Government." into a semblance of a rough sea under their jurisdiction) because The names of the two defendants and showers of spray deluged the they have received intelligence are Wang Tsung-chu and Chiu Pok barges.
that Northern troops ünder Gen- sang, officials of the Bank, bak view to establishing contact with
Avalanche of Tea.
eral Chang Tsung-chang and] Both defendanta were represent Canton, thus carving out a large A horse van, whilst crossing Marshal Sun Chuan fang are try-ed by Mr.. M, K. Lo and Mr. T. slice of South China for them-the Tower Bridge, turned over ing to enter in disguise with a H. King, Director of Criminal In- selves.
and an avalanche of ten chests) view to an internal attack.
telligence, proxecuted. Naval forces are also moving was hurled into the river. The The Northern war lords named in both directions on the Siang driver and horse were not hurt. River (a tributary of the Yang- Many pedestrians were blown tsze) says the "Hong Kong from the pavements under the Evening Post"), while infantry, traffic and exciting rescues were outposts have already fired a few witnessed. volleys.
LEFTISTS NOT WANTED.
It is also reported that the Rightist faction of politicians, who have lost a good deal of pres- tige recently, are also siding with Chiang Kai-shek.
The news quoted has a very important bearing on the Na tionalist cause generally and on the situation at Canton,
If the reconciliation bears fruit, there will be no. hostilities between Canton and supporters of Nanking.
On the other hand, the primary
NEW INVADER?
Canton,
leaders of the Nationalist Party Yunnan General Helps Nanking v. will be working jointly once more in the campaign against the Pek- ing Government.
NEW SITUATION.
Latest Nationalist Position Explained,
Shanghai, Yesterday. The Kuo Min News Agency states that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has already taken over supreme.command of the Nation- alist Armies and adds that a meeting will be held on Jan. 5 under the chairmanship of Gen- eral Tan Yen-kai.
It has been decided that Mr. Wang Ching-wei, Mr. Chen Kung-po, Mr. Koo Meng-yu and Mr. Kan Nai-kwang (all Leftists, of the Canton faction) be barred from the fourth plenary session; and that Mr. Chen Shu-jen, Mr. Wang Lo-ping, Mr. Wang Fa chuen and Mrs. Liao Chung-kal "whose guilt has not yet been ascertained," shall be tried by the fourth plenary session.
Support Asked For. The Government Council has
The trans-Channel air services were suspended.
Many vessels on the Irish Sea flew for shelter.
Eight men were seriously in- jured in Belfast through a scaffolding being blown down. —
On police application to Mr. held Shanghai before it was cap-Roger Edward. Lindsell the pair were formally remanded in custody. until Tuesday next..
DRIZZLE OR MIST?
Dull Weather Forecast For The Week-End,
of
Money diverted from Canton to Hong Kong since the Red reign of terror does not make a large sum comparatively be cause several millions of dollars were sent down before by owners who became apprehensive during the banknote erffis. . A financial expert gives it as his considered opinion that at least $10,000,000 has come into the Colony for investment
st. $10,000,0 during the last three months,
EXPERTS VIEWS.
There have been several con-
A Wang Clansman. Wang Tsung-chu is a clansiLBI of Mr. Wang Ching-wei, the leader the Nationalist politicians known as the Leftists or Canton tributory causes. Before its over Wharf Co. group, who are referred to in a throw by the Ironsides, the pre- Dock Co. cable elsewhere. In this issue. sent, Kwangtung Government. Tramway
During the Ironsides brief under General Li Chal-sum levied "Star"
"Fresh N.E. ~ ads, generally overcast, somo dridzia.or.mist."
The above is the weather fore-gime in Canton Mr. Wang is popu cast for the 24 hours ending at larly known to have been in charge noon to-morrow. It is issued by of the Bank's administration. Mr. the Royal Observatory, Kowloon, Chu is also believed to have been and applies to Hong Kong, the ad connected with the Bank, jacent coast, and Formosa - Chan- nel.
The Canton Government Reuter.
Casualties From All Parts, having split from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's (Nationalist)
Rugby, Yesterday. Government at Nanking, it is in- A severe gale visited the Bri- teresting to note an unconfirmed tish Isles to-day, doing con- report-giving here for what it siderable damage on land and sea. may be worth-that a new in-Deaths and injuries to persons vader has appeared on the field. caused by the falling of walls,
He is General Lung Yuan, who roofs, and trees, are reported tured by the Nationalists nine a few months ago succeeded to from all parts." the rule of Yunnan province,
months ago. A few thousand of Two Peninsular and Oriental their troops discarded their arms lying in the south-west corner of Uners collided at Tilbury. The and sought sanctuary in the Set- China, adjoining French Indo- "Razmak," when leaving with tiement but were subsequently re- China, Siam and Burma,
passengers for Bombay, was
By following the upper course blown out of her course and Patriated. Some of them are sus- of the West River, Yunnanese crashed into the "Mooltan." The pected to have stolen back as civil-
forces could attack Kwangal pro-Razmak's" bridge was damaged, vince, it being a part of the do- but no passenger was hurt. The mains of the Canton Government. "Razmak" will continue her voy- Difficult country along the Yun-age.-British Wireless Service. nan-Kwangsi frontiers has pre-
Thames Rising. vented war in the past and may
Rugby, Yesterday. do so again.
UPPER YANGTSZE. Nationalists To Take Shasi From Yang Sen?
Shaai Yesterday.
jang.
BOMBS FOUND.
Bandits and Communists
"Assembling?
The pair were arrested in
Chinese hotel in Hong Kong on Thursday.
BURMA TROUBLE,
ASSOCIATIONS DECLARED
`UNLAWFUL
POLICE REINFORCED.
Rangoon, Yesterday. The Police have been reinforced in various troublesome districts.
Twenty-four Burinese Associa tions have been declared unlawful. Meanwhile the tax collection is pro- gressing considerably-Reuter.
a loan of $10,000,000 on the (ns. tive) bankers and merchants,
Very unpopular indeed, this loan was not fully paid although Police undertook the task of col quotas were allotted and the
lection.
As on countless occasions in the past, a good many who had liquid cash sent their money down here with instructions that it was to be placed in sound in vestment.
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H.K. Govt, Loan Gone Up.. Quotations given are those of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, December 12 is chosen because that was the day when the Com- munista announced the formation of a Soviet Government. Those in the other column are the latest
Admittedly, some of the money was only remitted with the inten-"available at the time of writing. tion of temporary employment.
in
Change of Policy." Hoped-for improvement Canton when the "temporary" funds were to have been returned
The result of comparison la ob- vious. Some of the stocks have gone up 10 per cent, others leas, have shown bigger jumps, and there are quite a few which
Best of all, market quotationa for the Hong Kong Government Loan have also improved.
On Dec. 12 it was quoted at 4 per cent premium,nominal Yesterday it was 5 per cent. premium,
The Thames continued to rise. The artillery battalion attached stated Villagers attacked a police Then followed the Ironsides'
LA Rangoon, cable dated Monday, never materialised. during yesterday, and in the to the 1st division of Nationalist patrol near Paungde and aeriously coup. And the Ironsides were re- afternoon its level at Shepperton troops at Shanghai' is reported to wounded the station officer of puted to be Leftists and sympa. Lock was the highest recorded have been disarmed because of Hmattaing village. there for 83 years.
The Police thisers with the extremists. Following the thaw a further Chuan-fang's agents.
with Sun finally fred on the mob. Two of 'alleged connection
the villagers are reported killed and ists broke out, causing countless There is no necessity to stress
On December 12, the Commun- fall of 100 tons of earth has delay- A despatch from Shanghai outcome of an agitation for non- damage to property and mer the difference between "nominal five injured. The attack was the Bandits are present in large ed the opening of the Southern wired Mr. Hu Han-min at Shang- numbers in this vicinity, taking Railway line between Merstham sure thartily in N. Nad on ended payment of capitation tax in con-chandise. Large sums of money and "buyers" in addition to the hai urging him to go to Nanking advantage of the turmoil in poli-and Coulsdon.
temporarily in Nantao on Thurs- nection with which the Police en- quantities of jewellery and valu-higher price. Immediately to participate in the tical and military affairs.
It is hoped that normal traffic day while police and soldiers were deavoured to arrest woman. ables vanished. Little cash was fourth plenary session, while
searching pedestrians in Chapei Order has been restored. The vil- left in Canton to be sent for safe Chiang Kai-shek has wired the
and Paoshan, all the districta relage is large but situated in the keeping in Canton but a good military leaders at Wu-Han plead
ferred to being under Chinese depth of a jungle. some distance many of the capitalists who had jurisdiction.n
from Paungle. The attack was ing their support.
General Yang Sen's attitude to will be resumed on Monday.Bri- wards major factions is uncer-tish Wireless Service. tain. At present his 20th Army is moving up the Yangtze River General Ho Ying-ching's sub- and it is reported that the 2nd ordinate, Chang Tseng, is being Nationalist Army (under General appointed garrison commander at Lu Ti-ping) will move up from Shanghai as soon as General Pei further down to take Yang Sen's Chung-hei's 2nd and 3rd Armies | men's place--British Naval Wire- have evacuated, to Hankow,
lesso Marshal
Reuter.
THE FIRST SHOTS..
Kwangsi Faction's Army Moving stag
to Hunan.
UNLUCKY 131
NEW WARD AT GOVT. CIVIL, HOSPITAL.
TO BE POSTPONED TO AUTUMN:
"PRINCIPESSA MAFALDA”
ECHO.
DUTCHMEN DECORATED.
Landlords on Warpath Other features which have come under attention are:
The presence of so many strange: faces in many of whom, particularly the (Chinese) ladies who wear hats over bobbed hair, ar from: Canton. These can be seen making daily purchases every where,
Normal shiploads of cargo being transported both up to and down from Canton by the river boats.
Demands for higher rent by landlords of tenements Be cause of the increased popula- tion a
iber off tenants
Bombs (or other explosives) evidently premeditated. Five of continued to walt decided on a are reported to have been found the injured villagers are expected to change of policy.
recover. Three of the women They could not accept low rates in transit along raliways to casualties are elderly and fought of interest Indefinitely and there- Shanghai. A
most fiercely. One was killed fore began to look about for bet Bandits on Tsungming Island whilst attempting to dispatch a ter returns. (at the mouth of the Yangteze) policeman lying on the ground Liveliness Provided.. and Communists at Woosung (the wounded:] Feng Yu-halang (Note: Shasi is on the upper
Both the property and share claims the capture of Tal-an-fu Yangtze, 287 miles above Han- To-day's "Gazette" announces "poi" of Shanghai): are stated from the Northern Armies.kow. The 2nd Nationalist Army that the portion of the Govern- to be assembling.
GALLANT SEAMEN. markets in the Colony have been at very low levels for over two la considered as loyal both to the ment Civil Hospital now known as
years. Canton investors natural- leaders at Nanking and at Han-Ward Thirteen is to be set apart
ly turned to these because there kowang Sen may either be for the purposes of a prison SOVIET ELECTIONS.
were bargains to be picked up and allied or opposed to the National-under the Prisons Ordinance,
fortunes had been won in them 1899, and shall be known as The
during the boom years before the Prison Ward," Government Civil
slump in 1924 and 1925 Hospital.
Figures given herewith speak The Minister of Public Works for themselves. Most of the The Praesidium of the Central addressed the officers and crew of shares which have gone up during Executive Committee proposes to the Dutch steamer "Alhena," which postpone the Soviet elections, which are due abortly, until the rescued 886 persons from the Its the last few weeks are of the in. Autumn Reuter,
Han liner "Principessa Mafalda vestment class but there are n The Queen conferred the knight few stocks with an element of
FAT PAThat confidence is speculation. hood of Orange Nassau on Captain The long hoped for appreciation ed in Canton is evid MAY BE DISSOLVED.
Smoolenaars, and the silver and has also brought life to the share fact that during the Notice la given in to-day's bronze medals of the same Order on market, liveliness being a very there have been as
that the following the crew-Reuter
factor to maintain a gera going up from will be struex off the
there have been co dissolved unless
Last Saturday Ty shown to the con-
dict that the Car time to trade in 's Bank of East Aala 162h 11band political un Canton Insurance Co. #555 b53590 6
Hostilities are reported (accord- ing to earlier messages) to have broken out once more in territory south of Hankow, between the Na- tionalist troops from Nanidng and the defeated army which support- ed the now defunct Hankow.Gov ernment.
GREEN HOWARDS.
LEAVE SHANGHAI FOR HOME
Shanghai, Yesterday, The transport Dorsetshire
A left for home with the first bat About 50,000 troops are stated talion of the Green Howards southwards near Tungting Lake
APPOINTMENTS.
The following appointments are announced in to-day's “Gazette":"
The Hon. Mr. Roland Arthur
in a Chinese cable to be marching 200 gunners. They were given an Charles North to be an Official! (which is joined to the middle enthusiastic send-off in whian Member of the Executive and course of the Yangtze River), the Fourth U.S. Marines were the The expedition is under the com- mand of Generals who belong to the Kwangsi faction which is now dominant in Canton
The ex-Hankow Army inspir ed by sympathy: from Generalis
simo Chiang Kai-shek
bitter against his ex.
the Kwangel faction);
ing to resist
Political
most prominent.Reuter
WAR SECRETARY
DATE OF DEPARTURE FROM INDIA:
Rugby Yesterday, Secretary for? Laining Worthington
left Lo
mbitions;
It is the intention=
Kwanged faction
the ex
Fofficial
Bomb
turn' Rome,
Legislative Councils during his enure of office as Acting Secre tary for Chinese, Affairs, with effect from October 5, 1927.
Dr William Brownlow Ashe Moore to act as Principal Civil Medical Officer, with effec from January 6, 1928, until notice.
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