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No. 25,803 HONG KONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1928.
IN THE NORTH.
PEKING MARCH ON SHANSI.
"THREE ROUTES.”
Govt Troops Supplied With Newly Purchased Arms.
PESSIMISM IN NATIONALIST RANKS OVER HUNAN.
Units of the Peking Government are reported to be marching on points in Shanel province which were attacked before the recent lull set in. The march is announced to be in "three routes," a term very much in favour among Chinese militarists when announcing an offensive. Arms which were supposed to have been purchased abroad are being distributed among the Peking Army, One of the Generala who received 10,000 rifles is a former governor of Swatow who joined the Northerners after the 1925 debacle.
MR. E. B. C. HORNELL.
Leaves On Monday For Shanghai.
LOCAL ASSOCIATIONS.
SPIRIT OF YOUTH.
Britons Who Go Overseas.
EXTENDING FACILITIES.
Good Work For Peak Residents And Dominions Secretary Points Out
Flower Shows.
How Empire Will Gain.
Hong Kong loses a resident who for many years has been prominently associated with its interests, in the departure on Monday for Shanghai of Mr. E. B. C. Hornell, Secretary of the China Sugar Refining Co., Ltd., and a member of the staff of Jar- dine, Matheson and Co., Ltd.
Mr. Hornell has been transfer-
red to the Shanghai branch of
Jardine, Matheson's.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
ARCHITECT WINS.
Suit For Professional Services.
JUDGMENT FOR $9,251.
Mr. E. D. Shank v. Mr. Louie
Leung.
* Your Eyes' Are Safe With Us":
N. LAZARUS
Hong Kong's Only European Optician.
(Established Over Forty Years). Manager-RALPITA. COOPER, M.A.0.A.. Registered Optometrist by Canadian Govt. Exam.
(Personal Attention).
UNDER ARMS.
MILLION AND A HALF MEN.
GRAND
CONFLICT COMING.
A sum of $500 having been paid Peking Govt. And Nationalist Federation At Issue.
[By "Li Chung-yin."]
Competent observers estimate that one and a half million men in China are under arms. With the Peking Government and the Nationalist federation, both preparing for a grand conflict shortly, it may be supposed that a very intensive campaign is due.
Such is unlikely to be the case. At the most, and including re- serves behind the front line, from four to five hundred thousand wili be engaged. Fronts may extend for many miles but conditions can- not approach those which one associates with such vast armies in other parts of the world.
London, Yesterday. The House of Commons to-day into Court by the defendant, judg passed the second reading of a ment was given by the Chief Jus private bill, the object of which tice (Sir Henry Gollan) in Original is to extend the benefits of the Jurisdiction this morning, for FORCES IN FIGHTING LINE WILL NOT BE VERY BIG. Empire Settlement Act.
plaintiff in the sum of $9,251, at the Mr. A. A. Somerville (Conser-conclusion of a case which occupied vative) who moved the second several days at the Supreme Court.. reading, urged the necessity of The claim WRS for $9,751, iT giving
more encouragement to respect of architectural, services, the spirit of adventure of the the plaintiff being Mr. E. D. Shank, young men of this country. He of Powell's Building, Managing said we ought to be sending out Director of the Hong Kong Excava- in 1906 when he joined the three hundred thousand men in- Company, and the defendant being Mr. Hornell first came out East to the Dominions yearly two or tion, Pile Driving, Construction Shanghai staff of Jardine, Mathe- atead of the present average of Loule Leung, of D, Connaught Road. son's being transferred to Hong fifty to sixty. thousand.
The claim was in respect of Kong ten years later as Secre tary of the China Sugar Refining Amery,
The Rev. Hon. Mr. L. M. S. negotiations in 1924 when defen-
Dominions Secretary, dant proposed to Co.
put up thirty Raid the Government endorsed the houses in Kowloon and it was; During Mr. Hornell's residence second reading of the bill with suggested by counsel for plaintiff in Hong Kong he has taken some reservations. He deprecat- that defendant at the time of the prominent part in many local ed the idea involved in a bill of building boom, was anxious, to push! activities, He was one of the using unemployment benefit for on with the work but when the promoters and organisers of the the assistance of emigration. He boom slackened he did not proceed Peak Residents' Association said it was only men likely to suc-with the scheme and had now which was founded in the early coed that we ought to encourage repudiated the arrangement come to part of 1922 and has been assidu- to go Overseas. The mere fact for architect's fees. ous in following up questions of men being unemployed was Mr. C. G. Alabaster, K.C., raised by Peak residents through not in itself any argument why for plaintiff and Mr. F. C. Jenkin lies with the Nationalist side. troops are divided between south the medium of the Association. we should run risk of exchanging for defendant. churia had been returned to the He has been Secretary and Trea- unemployment in this country Powers, it is understood that the surer of the Association since its with Home surroundings for un- Powers have not agreed to re-note that a capable successor has roundings.
inception and it is antisfactory to employment in unfamiliar ́sur- accept the Note."
Hence Marshal Chang Tso-lin's been found in Mr. A. Murdoch, of office has handed on the Note to | Jardine, Matheson's.
Pessimism hus again set in regarding Chiang Kai-shek and the Hunanese situation, as one of the Nationalist units there is believed to be opposed to Nanking,
.
No development of importance is reported from Canton except the embarkation of a brigade of Papersides for the East River on an expedition against the Swabue Reds,
CANTON QUIET.
Cables from Tientsin state that the order to attack Shansi pro vince was given on Thursday, after which a fairly large force began moving up to the old front "in three routes." The object is to crush General Yen Hai-shan who threw in his lot with the Na- tionalists last year..
Armas and munitions are being distributed to Peking forces; in the field. The largest allotment is of 10,000 rifles. One of these went to General Lau Chee-luk, a former Cantonese governor of Swatow, who has distinguished himself in rearguard actions against the Nationalists.
HUNAN PROBLEM.
What Each One Is Doing To Another.
General Tan Yen-kai is still dubious of going to Hankow to take up the appointment (by Chiang Kai-shek) of commander of the 4th Nationalist Group Army, according to the "Kung Sheung Yat Po."
the Chinese Foreign Office.- Reuter.
Salt Affairs.
Residents' Gratitude. Mr. Harnell has also been Secretary of the Peak Club since Peking, Yesterday. early in 1923 and he was recent It is understood that Mr. F.ly the recipient of a presentation Hussey, Freke, Associate Chief for his work in connection with Inspector of the Salt Gabelle, will that body, the presentation of a shortly proceed to Shanghai to silver salver inscribed with a discuss salt affairs.-Reuter. hundred and twenty names being made by Mr. P. C. Hall, Chairman of the Club.
A great deal of hesistation and the restricted attitude towards Empire settlement which was some dominions, was due to the shown oversens, particularly în idea that we were trying to get rid of people we did not want here in order to let them take their chance of sinking or swim-
LYING IDLE.
SOVIET GOLD IN 'AMERICA.
was
LONG FRONTS.
Superiority in numbers now eral." About 85,000 Aukupchum
On paper the Nationalists have Chihli (facing the Kuominchun) an overwhelming advantage. But it should be known that less than half of the Nationalist forces can be put into the field.
and north Shansi (resting after a drive against General Yen Hsi- shan, the most northerly ally of the Nationalists).
Possession of large territory is What Money Can Do. a military disadvantage in China.
At the moment, Chiang Kai- Units have to be spread out and shek has not more than 25,000. are thereby rendered vulnerable. men in position for action against. The Northerners had more pro- the Ankuochun in Shantung. Bat. vinces when the war began in reinforcements are to New York, Yesterday.
be sent $5,000,000 of Soviet gold les 1926 and the wider the scope, soon.. There are several armies. impotent in the vaults of New York the less unity there was in com- posted in the rich territory banks, according to the "Herald-and. Relative positions are around Hangchow, Shanghai, Tribune," in consequence of the only to two provinces in China manders of these have manifest- now reversed., The North clings Nanking and Wuhu. The com Treasury Department's ban of 1921 Proper, but defends with only a cd fuctuating degrees of loyalty forbidding the admission of gold from the Soviet Union to the the comparatively short semi-gate the required funds, they are moderate degree of enthusiasm but as soon as Mr. T..V... Soung Federal Reserve Bank. The news circular front. Most of the units unlikely to risk Chiang Kai- has been associated is the Hong cial weather forecast until paper points out that only a special are in the centre-whence they shek's displeasure by refusing to order from Washington can make Kong Angling Club. It was the
the gold effective for the purposes necessary.
can be shifted conveniently when fight. Quotas from these can: General Huang Fu, adherent of original intention of the pro-
intended. Reuter, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek moters of this Club to obtain data ming overseas. Unemployment and former Mayor of Greater on fresh-water and sea-water was our own domestic problem Shanghai, was installed as Minis- fishing with a view to compiling a which we had got to solve on our ter of Foreign Affairs of the record which would be of use to own. lines by finding the true Nationalist Government on Feb. angling enthusiasts. Nothing balance of industry and readjust-
21.
HUANG FU.
Friend of Chiang as Foreign Minister.
Another branch of local activity with which Mr. Hornell
A
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CLOUDY AND MISTY,
North-east winds, fresh, cloudy, with mint, is the off-
noon to-morrow.
POLICE KILLED.
LISBON,
Lisbon, Yesterday.
HINKLER FLIGHT.
bring the Nationalist front line strength up to 75,000, if not 100,000,
Nationalist Revival That conference at Kaifeng, where Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Kwangsl's Big Four shek (as commander-in-chief of
Reference to the Nationalist ment's forces) the Nanking Nationalist Govern- armies at Shanghai and Nanking and General brings to mind the name of.a Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Christian General who was probably the General (as commander-in-chief strongest after Chiang Kai-shek's of the Kuominchun), called them-resignation, and who has faded.
Chiang Kai-shek showed himself Teung-jen, one of the big four of to be in earnest and his prestige the Kwangsi faction dominating was revived somewhat by the Canton. It is known that he "Christian General's" profession handed over a good many of his of goodwill towards him. It may best men to another of the big well be that some of the Nation- four, Pel Chung-hsi, for service. alist Generals who were pleased against the Hunanese. But he to see Chiang Kai-shek resign has upward of 10,000 remaining last August have now been won in the Shanghai-Nanking zone or back to his support.
thereabouts.
has been done in this connection ing the occupations of our pops-SUSPECTED CONSPIRATORS IN The installation of General for some time and it is being con- lation. Huang Fu as Foreign Minister sidered whether it would be best We were not asking the Domin- was featured by elaborate cere-to bring the society to an end or ions to help us to solve our own Another report says that Ger- monies in the main auditorium of to continue with a view to attain problems. What we were doing eral Cheng Chien, who is a Hu- the Government Building at Nan-ing the original object of the in settlement was in the spirit of A party of auspected conspira- selves brothers, has turned to be entirely into the background dur nanese and now has much power king, when, in the presence of founders. in Hunan, is opposed to Chiang high Nationalist officials, General
willing co-operation in Empire tors assassinated two police deteca stroke for the Nationalists. ing the last few weeks. He is Li Interest In Rowing. Kai-shek, but favours a private Huang Fu formally took oath of
matters in moving people fram tives who were investigating their understanding, with General Tan office.
Mr. Hornell was the donor of one part of the Empire to another. activities.-Router. the Hornell Cup for Hong Fours It was very desirable to make it! Yen-kai himself, in the interests
Distinguished Career." of Hunan military clique. Tan
(rowing), his object being to en-quite clear here and in the Domin- General Huang Fu's assump-courage rowing among those who ions that this was a policy of co- Yen-kai is also closely related to tion of the foreign affairs post are engaged in office work here operation and not a policy of our Hunan and there may be soon automatically relieved from his and who have not the opportun- trying to get the major advan- truth in this report.
duties as acting Minister of For-ities for keeping fit as fall to the tage. The need of the Dominions Chiang's Confidence. eign Affairs, Mr. Que Tai-chi, lot of Service members. Some for more population was greater
A REPORTED FORCED Chiang Kai-shek, however, is Commissioner of Foreign Affairs years ago, Mr. Hornell himself than our need of reducing our
LANDING. supposed to have confidence in at Shanghai, who was appointed took an active part in rowing and population. While we should the outcome, as he has ordered by Nanking to act pending selec- was cox to the Jardine, Matheson benefit from it, the country to
Peking's Fighting Men.
How Canton Comes In. Cheng Chien to bring his troops tion of a successor to Dr. C. C. crew.
Sydney, Yesterday. The forces under Chang Tso- which the emigration went should Hinkler, who is en route for lin, Marshal of the Ankuochun, to join the war against Peking.
Are these to be placed at Wu, who resigned in January. As Hon. Secretary of the benefit even more. To confuse the issue further,
Bunda Berg, is reported to have number about 300,000 men, of Chiang Kai-shek's disposal? In General Huang Fu has had a Hong Kong Horticultural Society Mr. Amery recalled that thej had a forced landing.-Reuter. an overnight message says that long and distinguished career in since 1924, Mr. Hornell has done Empire Settlement Act came into
whom half or a little more are en- their present position, such a de- Cheng Chien's command has been Chinese politics and during the much to keep the Society's aims force in 1922.
gaged in war service. The re-velopment will not occasion sur- In the first three contaminated by Red influence regime of General Tsao Kun as before the public and on him de- years the average number of per-
mainder perform garrison service prise; and it will lead to renewed General Pei Chung-hsi (one of President of China he had the volved much onerous work in sona assisted to migrate was
in Manchuria or in areas behind practical co-operation between Li the big four of the Kwangsi post of Prime Minister of the connection with the organisation 40,000 and in 1926-27 the number
the war zones. The "half" in-Tsung-jen and Chiang Kai-shek group and a colleague of Li Chai- Peking "Government. Huang Fu of the Society's Flower Show. As was over 64,000. In 1927 there
cludes the 2nd Army under Gen- which, in turn, may have the way sum of Canton) has acted dras- is a native of Cheliang, Chianga competitor from his own garden was a slight reduction as com
eral Chang Tsung-chang (about to closer relationship. between tically to prevent the Red element Kai-shek's province, and the tro and as Secretary of the Peak pared with 1926 of 2,500 almost
40,000 in the war) and General Canton and Chiang Kai-shek. spreading. Pei Chung-hsi, it are the closest friends. Huang Club, Mr. Hornell has carried off entirely due to local depression in
St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, about 25,000 men). These two "Christian General" is the most Sun Chuan-fang's 1st Army (of Of Chiang Kai-shek's allies, the
LOCAL WEDDING.
MR. A. TRAMBITZKY & MISS V. GRUNBERG.
been on the Advisory Committee done so badly. British Wireless Foreign
of the Peak Club and has.served Service.
war-
has
should be noted, is co-operating Fu resigned from the post of many prizes at the Shows. New Zealand, Taking all the cir- was the scene of a pretty wedding armies are in Shantung, facing powerful. He can probably spare with Cheng Chien in Hunan in a Mayor of Greater Shanghai Muni- Mrs. Hornell will also be missed cumstances of these years into on Tuesday, the contracting parties drive against the Hunanese cipality last August upon the re- from Peak social circles. She has account, he thought they had not being Mr. Alexia A. Trambitzky, of the (projected) frontal attack of 70,000 of his 100,000 men hordes, some of which are stated tirement of Chiang Kai-shek.
the Nationalists and flank for
service. General thrusts by the "Christian-Gen-Yen Hai-ahan of Shansi about 60,000 troops, nearly all of whom arc on “active” service in the campaign against Peking," in which neither side has shown energy.
to have surrendered to Pei Chung- hsi and Cheng Chien.
CANTON REPORTS.
Papersides Depart: Unions
Closed,
"TOTAL" EXTINGUISHER.
on the Committee of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club. She was a keen and accomplished golfer and got through to the final of PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION the Ladies' Championship when she was beaten by Mrs. Totten- ham. She was also in the final
YESTERDAY.
A REDUCTION.
HOME CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES,
London, Yesterday.
Products Distributors, China Building, on the late Mr. and Mra. A. G. Trambitzky, of Petrograd; and Miss Valentina P. Grunberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Grunberg, of Hong Kong. The Rev. W. W. Rogers, Vicar, officiated.
CHILD KNOCKED DOWN.
A rather serious motor accident occurred at Aberdeen yesterday
Estimated Strengths.
The bride, who was given away Leading Generals now up-coun-
A practical demonstration was of the Captain's Cup which was The Civil Service estimates for robe de style of white taffeta with knocked down by private motor
The estimated strengths in the by her father, was attired in a morning, when a Chinese lad was impending war might be sum- try are still being reported as "on given by Mr. J. S. Smith of Messrs, won by Mra, Dodwell. their way back to Canton." The Keller, Kern & Co., the local agents Presentation Yesterday.
1928 total £292,894,000, a reduction allver not and allver shoes to match. car No. 75, and sustained a frac
marised as follow:- only development of importance of the "Total" Automatic Carbonic- A presentation was made to
of £8,497,000-Reuter
Her bouquet was of white roses., ture to the ribs. The boy. was, is the departure of a brigade of Acid Dry Fire Extinguisher," in the Mr. E. B. C. Hornell yesterday
The bridesmaid, Miss Lock, at once removed to the Govern- Ironsides (from their barracks in "China Mail's" premlaba, Wyndham at the manager's office, China
COLONY'S MONEY.
wore a dress of crepe de chine ment Civil Hospital. Honam) to the East River, as the Street, yesterday afternoon.
Sugar Refinery when there was a
and crepe georgette of light violet aucleus of an expedition to bei
Rags and paper were set alight, large gathering of the Refinery chequer balance was $4,987,884.72. ried a bouquet of light pink roses. On Dec. 1, 1927, the Colony's ex-colour with hat to match and car- sent against the Swabue Reds with petrol and a type J "total" ex- Staff who have over-run the country-tinguisher was turned on to tho side between Swatow and Bins blaze. The flamea were put out Shaw, the Manager, the presente penditura 1,808,241.51. The The bride's mother was attired. In In the absence of Mr. G. M. During November the receipte Miss A. Miller, the flower girl, wore totalled $2,077,745.00 and the ex- a pink satin dress with silver lace, Bay,
practically instantaneously..tion was made by Mr. S. Baker,
A feature of the demonstration Chief Engineer fire de Colony's assets total $16.675,018.08. beige zeorgette. was the ease with which the ex- Reference to the difficult times tinguisher was set to work, ita por through which the Colony and the
Five more labour unions have
been closed and a women's insti-
tution has also been proscribed.
STOLEN OYSTERS.
A Chinese contractor: named
Peking Government.
Shantung Army Sun Chuan-fang Manchurian units
40,000
25,000
$85,000
150,000 Nationallst
Allies
75,000 70,000,
on Chui-po-tin, a native of Pin-shan The best man was Dr. M. V, in the New Territories, reports to Obrembski.
** the Police regarding a robbery Chiang Kai-shek's - Powers 'and Peking. tability, and the absence of intrl-businesses associated with it had been overcome, also to the staff Friends of the bride and bride- three years ago of 2,000 picul of Christian General"
Peking, Yesterday, cate instructions. The "China passed was made in the course for their loyal co-operation. groom were entertained after the oysters from his "oyatera beds, Despite the Chinese official Mail Chinese mechanical staffs of the speeches and tribute to Mr. Particular reference was made soremon at 606, Nathan Road, The loss in estimated at $3,000. Shansi's whole army, 60,000 statement of Feb. 22 that the found it very simple to learn how Hornell was paid for the manner to the compradore, Mr. Chos Po-after which the young couple left The Police are investigating the Note on the land leases in Man- it should be done.."
in which these difficulties, had sien, who also replied.
for their honeymoon, at Macao, matter.
205,000