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TO STRIKE IN REAR? [MR. D. G. M. BERNARD.
Wu-Han Armies To Join
Expedition.
NATIONALIST PLANS.
Leaves For Home On Tuesday.
FOR LONDON OFFICE.
Attack On Christian. General If He Outline Of Career And Activities In
are
Loies.
Hong Kong.
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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1928.
TENSION EASES.
Communist Threat To Swatow.
TROOPS VENTURE OUT.
Refugees Report Usual Red Atrocities.
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ARMS FOR CHINA.
Questions In House Of Commons.
FUTILE EMBARGO.
Most Of The Powers Refuse To Ratify It
London, Yesterday.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
MACAO OPIUM.
Geneva Agreement Mentioned.
RE-EXPORT QUERIES.
Mr. Lee Hysan Questioned On Yue Sing Affairs.
Evidence as to the agreements
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EMPIRE RESEARCH.
Big Scheme For Agriculture.
COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
Stations Suggested in Queensland, Ceylon, Africa and Malaya.
London, Yesterday.
BEFORE COUNCIL.
Watchmen To Submit Their Case.
DANGEROUS DRUGS..
Four New Bills Submitted This Morning
In Introducing a Bill to amend The Imperial Agricultural Re- the Dangerous Drug's Ordinance,
Wuchang, Yesterday. The Colony loses an important
Swatow, Yesterday. The tense situation which pre- The armies under the Nation-member of the business
In the House of Commons at and conventions entered into by alist Generals in Hunan and munity and one who has taken a vailed here as the result of a question time Sir A. Chamberlain the Interested Powers Hupeh provinces (led by Pei keen interest in local affairs in Communist approach has eased said he had not yet abandoned Geneva Conference on Opium fig- London in October and then tour- Kemp) at this morning's meeting of at the search conference which sat in the Attorney-General (Sir Joseph Chung-hai and Cheng Chien) are the departure of the Hon. Mr. somewhat. Troops (of the Canton hope that the Nanking negotia-ured in to-day's hearing of the ed Britain has concentrating.
D. G. M. Bernard, Managing Government) stationed here have tions would lead to a settlement. case in which Mr. Pedro Jose Lobo report. It recommends the crea- was intended to enact legislation now made its the Legislative Council, said that it It is believed that the concen- Director of Jardine, Matheson been despatched to Chluyeung, Sir Robert Thomas asked in sued Mr. Lee Hysan for damages tion in the United Kingdom of to give effect in Hong Kong to the tration is part of the projected and Co., Ltd., who, leaves Hong which is separated from Swatow view of the fact of the con- for alleged libel.
clearing houses of information in International Convention on Oplum · offensive against the North, Kong for Home on April 3 by the by water.
tinuance of strife, ifi China, was Mr. Lea Hysan was cross-ex-Agricultural science to serve the and Dangerous Goods which was However, rumour is current (a.s. "Aeneas." Mr. Bernard will Chiuyeung lies in the road prolonged by the ease with which amined by Mr. C. G. Alabaster, whole Empire and the recruit- signed at Geneva in February, that all the Nationalist lenders succeed Mr. Landale in London along which the Red horde will the contestants could obtain arms K.C. (for plaintiff)..
The as Director of Matheson and Com- have to march if it has designs for Europe, whether the prospect
ment of training, interchange of 1926. The existing legislation had not acting unison.
In reply to counsel, defendant scientific workers in agriculture already anticipated in some res- rumour is that these armies- pany.
on Swatow. The Communists of the League Convention of 1925 said that when he got Fung for the whole of the Empire. after moving up the Peking- Mr. Bernard. who is a nephew Have been marching eastward on the control of the traffic in Cheong's letter (the translation Stations Hankow Railway, to Honan pro- of Ethel Lady Buchanan Jardine, from the Hoifung and Lukfung arms would soon be ratified by of which contains
pects the requirements of the 'Con- are suggested at the alleged Queensland, Ceylon, East Africa, vention but it had been found vince may attack the "Christian widow of Sir R. W. D. districts of which Swabue is the members in addition to the libel) he got with it Lu Kin Butt's West Africa and Malaya. Ceneral" Feng Yu-hsiang in his Jardine, joined H.M.S. "Britan the port. The Canton expedition two who had done so. rear, if he sustains a serious re- nia" as a Naval Cadet in 1904 and which ejected the Reds has not Sir A. Chamberlain replied that shares. That was the first time minimum staff,
receipt to Miss Tin Po for $100 highly qualified men will be the nical alterations in law and also to make certain. alterations in the verse at the hands of the North- served in H.M.S. "Ariadne" on followed up, hence the latter have the effectiveness of the China he had seen a receipt of the Yau. Apart from capital expenditure dangerous drugs regulations. The ern forces. British Naval Wire- the West Indies Station.
had more or less a free hand in Arms embargo agreement of 1919 Seng firm. The share receipt did the annual maintenance will be changes made were largely in the less.
moving cast towards Swatow. was largely impaired by the fact not say that the Yau Seng had £20,000 on each.
Refugees have arrived
nature of provisions to stop up anything to do with the opium The report emphasised the loopholes in the present legislation Swatow from the west and they report the usual atrocities by the
monopoly of Macao but defen- need of highly trained men for, and to strengthen the defence of Communists. British
dant claimed that, in conjunction the Colonial agricultural service the Colony and the world generally Naval Wireless.
with the information received and suggests the founding of against dangerous drugs. from the compradore of the Mer-scholarships to promote agricul- One important addition to the cantile Bank, the receipt did point ture. The report recommends list of dangerous drugs made by the establishment of "correspon-the recent Geneva Convention was
at
Start in Hong Kong. Having left the Navy in 1906, Verbal Help for Nanking.
Mr. Bernard arrived in Hong Hankow, Yesterday, Kong in January, 1911, to join At Monday's session of the Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd.. Nationalist conference at Chang- having been at the cash desk in sha, the Nationalists military Hong Kong for a year and in the leaders of Hunan and Hupeh pro- shipping office for a year he was vinces (ie., Generals Pei Chung- transferred to Hankow in March, hsi and Cheng Chien and their 1918. After lieutenants) passed a resolution there, he was transferred to Tien-terday.-Router.
a year's service other six were put to death yes- advocating Generalissimo Chiang tsin and in November, 1915, he
immediate
[Note: The tension in Han- push
office, being authorised to sign munist plots.] was appointed to the Shanghai kow is due to suspicion of Cont-
• Kai-shek's
against the North; but no mater ial form of assistance was agreed
upon.
per procuration" in 1916.
In July, 1917, Mr. Bernard was
Interest here is now centring appointed to Hong Kong and in on the arrival from Nanking of the following year he was author-
Hankow Executions.
Hankow, Yesterday. Daily executions continue. An-
General Li Tsung-jen (who is also ised to sign for the Firm. Three GERMANY & PEACE.
years later, in March, 1921, he succeeded Mr. John Johnstone in charge in Hong Kong.
FAIL,"
"THE LEAGUE DARE NOT
*. MINISTER'S DENIAL
Berlin, Yesterday.
Ito that.
Ten
necessary to make certain tech-
In reply to counsel, defendant dence centres" and bureaux as the drug known under various said that Lee Yue Sing, whom he smaller-scale clearing stations, had stated to be the sole proprie- the funds for which amounting to hemp plant. The local law went names derived from the Indian tor of the Yue Sing firm the £20,000 annually to be adminis- further than the Convention in pro- business with which defendant tered by a body on which the Gov-biting possession of the plant or himself was connected-was his ernments, Dominions and India nephew. There were no share-would be represented.-Reuter. holders in this.
A Share Certificate? Shown a document which pur- ported to be a receipt for money deposited in the Yue Sing, defen- dant stated that he did not regard that, as share scrip. It was Sir Austen Chamberlain. merely a receipt for money in- that some of the principal arms- vested in the firm under certain supplying stateamotably Ger conditions,
any part of it. The tincturò de- rived from the plant was of medi- cinal use and would be included in.
plant was also used in the form of
SHOCKS IN EUROPE. the list of dangerous druga. The EARTHQUAKE TAKES DEATH hashish.
TOLL.
Watchmen's Bill.
In moving that the Bill providlife London, Yesterday. Telegrams from Rome and Bel-of watchmen should be re-commit- for the registration and regulation grade slow that the earthquake re-ted (it had already passed through
a Kwangsi man. like Pei Chung hsi and Li Chai-sum) when, ac- cording to an opinion expressed the part of the Hunan-Hupeh Na-
Public Services. tionalist Generals in the anti-
Mr. Bernard succeeded Mr. North expedition will have been P. H. Holyoak as the representa- decided.
General Hu Tsung-tu (who
tive on the Legislative Council of the Hong Kong General Chamber Speaking on the failure of the many, Czechoslovalche and Defendant's attention was call-corded by the seismographs at the Committee stage) the Attorney commands an army corps under of Commerce and the following Geneva disarmament conference Russia, were
not parties to it. ed to the fact that he together Kew, Brussels and Munich at 9.50 General said that, this was for two General Li Tsung-jen) arrived year he succeeded Mr. A. O. Lang to come to a definite conclusion at Germany declared her readiness with another were described as yesterday morning was felt slight- here from Changsha this morn-ins a member of the Executive a banquet given by the foreign to accede through her Minister at Managing Directors and
two ly at Rome, more severely in the amend the clause giving power of purposes, Firstly, in order to ing-Reuter.
Council. During the period of his Press Association at Berlin to a meeting of the Diplomatic Body others as Directors, Did he still Carnatic Province in North Italy, arrest to watchmen 80-as to limit Departure for Front. public service he has interested members of the Government and in Peking on February 21. The seriously say, asked counsel, that and also in Slovenia and the
Nanking, Yesterday, himself in various matters ap- Diplomatic Corps, Herr Strese-
the Yue Sing Company was a Adriatic coast of Jugo-Slavia.
such power to police watchmen It is reported here that Gon-pertaining to the welfare of the mann hotly denied the insinua-
Company carrying on business un- Tolmezzo, Cavazzo and Verzegni cortain interested parties to appear only; and secondly so as to enable eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek will Colony.
tion that Germany really did not
der the sole proprietorship of his suffered most. Many houses were before the Council at the next leave the capital, Nanking, for In addition to many important wish general disarmament but
nephew?
wrecked and the Cathedral at' the Northern front, on March 31. positions in the business world rather to obtain the right to arm
meeting this day week, so that sub- Tolmezzo showed serious cracks. British Naval Wireless.
occupied by Mr. Bernard. includ-herself.
missions with regard to any par- Up to now eight deaths have been ticular provisions of the BII! could reported.-Reuter.
be made on their behalf.
“SOME RAIN."
N.E. winds, moderate, general- ly overcast, some rain, is the off- clal weather forecast until noon to-morrow.
There, is
The anticyclone is now central over mid Japan. A depression
now no indication of a depres sion to the E. of the Balintang Channel. Moderate monsoon
Defendant replied in the affirm ative and stated that if counsel wished to go further he must look up the Company's conditions. Counsel then referred to bank. ruptcy proceedings taken by one, Lee Kin-fo, against the defendant in Macao to get the Yue Sing wound-up in Macao.
Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C. (coun- ael for defendant), interposed and said it was difficult to see how
NO HELP.
OBSERVATORY BOYCOTTS
The P.C.M.O.
In moving the first reading of a Bill to give effect to a change in the name of the Princfple Civil FLIERS.
Medical Officer, the Attorney- General said that it was proposed Berlin, Yesterday, that the Medical and Sanitary ser- The meteorological observatory at vices should be reorganised and ***
[Note: Chiang Kai-shek's de-jing the Chairmanship of Direc Herr Stresemann refused to be- parture for Hsuchowfu, the Na-tors of the Hong Kong and lieve in the final failure of the tionalist main buse against the Shanghai Bank and other large League of Nations on the disarm- Northerners, has been postponed business concerns in the Colony League dared not fail for it had lies over Indo-China.
ament question and declared the several times.]
Mr. Bernard has acted as Pre Mercenaries' Part. sident of St. George's Society, a duty which, if not fulfilled, must
Wuhu. Yesterday. President of the Hong Kong lead to serious consequences. Two steamers of the China Mer-branch of the China Association, The leading military States had chants S. N. Co. (Chinese Ang) Chairman of the War Memorial now to speak. He hoped their may be expected along the S.E. have arrived here from Kiu- Committee, Chairman of the expectations would not be disap-coast of China and over the kiung, with the 8th division of Committee, City Hall, non-official painted. Despite all criticisms northern portion of the N. China that in any way had a bearing on Hamburg refuses to issue official that the Medical Head should d the 3rd Nationalist Army on Justice of the Peace, President of and disappointment he had not Sea.
the libel action. It was a fact weather forecasts for the benefit of known as the Director of Medical the Hong Kong Rifle League, abandoned hope that the great
that bankruptcy proceedings had Koehl and Baron von Huehnefeld been taken in Macao which were declaring that
and Sanitary Services. Local junks are being comman-Chairman of Trustees of the idea of peace would, prevail for
a trans-Atlantic deered by the troops for trans-Sailors' Home and Steward of the the benefit of humanity-Reuter.eeting, decided to impress upon under appeal at the moment. He flight at present is "100 per cent. port work.---British Naval Wire-Hong Kong Jockey Club, among
their Governments the necessity would ask His Lordship to pre-suicide" in view of the unfavourable | In moving the first reading of a leas.
of preventing the exportation of vent any attempt to get informa- weather conditions.-Reuter. war munitions to China and ex-tion which might be used in that pressed the conviction that the regard. non-adhering Powers ought to be induced to do so as soon as pos- sible.
His Lordship said he under- The Japanese Foreign Minister stood the matter was only being on March 1 urged the Soviet Gov. referred to on the question of ernment to prohibit their nation- credit and instructed Mr. Alabas-
board.
other official positions.
[Note: A previous message
Mr. Bernard was married in said that there were 4,000 men on Hong Kong in 1922 to the daugh- the two steamers. They are Yun-ter of Sir Charles and Lady Addis. nanese mercenaries, who belong Both Mr. and Mrs. Bernard to General Chu Pei-teh's com-leave a host of friends in Hong mand. The decision to send help Kong and their loss will be con- down the Yangtsze to Nanking siderably felt in social and other has occasioned surprise because circles.
Chu Pei-teh has all along main- tained a policy of aloofness. Wuhu is 197 miles below Klu-! kiang, on the Yangtaze, and 65 miles above Nanking.]
New Commander.
Shanghai, Yesterday.
A message from Nanking says
JAPAN & CHINA.
EXPERIMENTS WITH AM
LINE.
Shanghal, Yesterday.
A Japanese seaplane has arrived
that the Nationalist Government at Shanghai from Tomie Goto
THROWN OUT.
REDS IN WARSAW DIET.
Warsaw, Yesterday,
.
Question of Credit.
BRITAIN & GENEVA,
24 CONVENTIONS RATIFIED FOR BRITAIN.
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London, Yesterday.
The S.C.A.
Bill to provide for the incorpora- tion of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, the Attorney-General-aafd that the list of property in the schedule to, the Bill was a list of property at present standing in the name either of a present substan- itive holder in the office of the
"Gentlemen, you will be thrown als from engaging in these ex-ter that the examination must be out," remarked the Prime Minieter, (portations. Representations were conducted along those lines and ing to Mr. Rennie Smith (Labour) holder of that office or in 'some. Re- In the House of Commons, reply-Secretary for Chinese Affairs or some former or acting substantive M. Pilsudski, in a matter of fact made to the Czecho-Slovakian not with a view of getting any Sir A. Chamberlain said that 34 voice to the Communists who were Government by the British Minis-particulars.
conventions, protocols, etc. were gistrar under the title of the constantly shouting and interrupt-
Mr. Alabaster stated that the concluded under League auspices, Secretary for Chinese Affairs or ing while M. Pilsudski was read-
purpose of the question was only of which Britain signed 30 and his Registrar General, `All this pro- in so far as credit, was concerned. Majesty ratified 24 in respect to party stood in the name therefore He had already referred to the Britain.-Reuter.
ing the presidential message
30
the opening of the final session of the Diet.
.M. Pilsudski maintained his tem
Council has appointed General Island, south-west of Nagasaki, per wonderfully. His supporters Chien Ta-chun, commander of the which left this morning taking started a counter-demonstration. 32nd Army, as commander of the four and a half hours. The flight Shanghai and Woosung Gendar-
Finally the Minister of the In- merie, in succession of General of an experimental nature to terior entered with a posse of ascertain the possibility of opening police and seized and dragged out Pei Chung-hsi-Reuter,
[Note: General Chien Ta-chun up a regular air-mail and passer-Ave of the noisiest Communists. is a supporter of Chiang Kai-shek, ger service between
China and· A Socialist candidate was elect- He left Kwangtung with his army pan. The seaplane belongs to ed as speaker of the Diet in the face recently. General Pei Chung-hsi the Japan Aerial Transportation of the Government candidate, is a Kwangai man now in Hunan.] Company-Reuter.
Tariff Question,
Peking, Yesterday.
It is understood that the North-
erners are not altogether satis- after paying loan charges, should fied with the progress toward be retained by each part pro rata," agreement with the South (the but apparently the South are Nationalists) as regards the tarif holding out for a still larger pro- question. The Northerners wish portion, though it is suggested the Nationalists to agree to the the arrangement would give them presentation of a Note simultaneja big surplus.
which is a greater blow to the Gov ernment than at first appeare-ter at Prague and Dr. Benes re- Router.
plied that he was unable to accede unless the agreement was binding on all states.
COMING HERE?
ANOTHER LINDBERGH
FLIGHT.
of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, daing that term to include- all individuals holding office, in: that postand the property was
Yue Sing as a sort of Jekyll and Hyde, that when it suited their purpose it was represented as an individual and when it didn't as stated that it amounted to held in trust. It was obvious that'
a business.
$8,000,000. It was necessary to sooner or later much of this pro- In reply to further questions raise that amount for the busi-perty might have to be dealt with defendant said that the proceed-ness to be carried out. About and at present the means of deal.. ings in Macao had been ex parte. two-thirds of this was owned by ing with that. property were not Counsel stated that the Court his family under his control. His very convenient, eg, in the case of had held that there was Com own money in it was over eight property held in the name of some pany to be wound up.. Did defen-lakhs. About a million was own- former registrar General it was dant still say that there was noted by his family or under his con-necessary to get from him power a Company in which there were trol. The rest was put in by the name of some deceased former of attorney whereas if it stand in. shareholders?
friends who wished to invest un holder of the office it was neces der the Company's conditions:
No Partners? Defendant stated that he had The firm had only been put in the sary to obtain authority from the. never recognised anyone as a name of defendant's nephew be executors. The simplest method. Sir A. Chamberlain added that partner or shareholder in the con- cause it had formerly been in the and that provided for in the new Britain was prepared to ratify the cern. He only recognised that name of the defendant's brother legislation was to Incorporate the arms traffic convention of 1925 money had been invested for the and on the latter withdrawing de Secretary for Chinese Affairs and whenever the principal arms purpose of the opium business. fendant put it in the name of his invest the property in him. It also producing Powers. were simul- That had always been the prac-brother's son out of respect to his applied to other property it might ously by Peking and Nanking to The Northerners are still hope-
taneously prepared to ratify. The tice in connection with the Yue brother. His nephew did not in necessary to assign to him in the Powers urging tariff autono- ful that the Nanking Nationalist
Washington, Yesterday.
replies to the British suggestion Sing. If he considered anyone as fact know anything about the trust. my on January 1, 1929, and an Government will agree to the pre- Lindbergh conferred for two ments, also from Japan and the illegal.
from nine European Govern a partner the firm would be direction of the business.
At:Age of 60. interim tariff meantime, but the sentation, of the Note, but sug-hours with the State Department United States, indicated that
Asked the purport of these In moving the f Southerners up to the present gest otherwise that they should which outlined, plans for a good there was no prospect of simul-ed himself the Managing Director that defendant had sworn that ance, the
Defendant denied that he call. questions, Mr. Alabaster stated mill to amend, send Mr. A. H. F. Edwardes (act will flight" to the Far East with a taneous ratification, Sir A of the Yue Sing. He used the his nephew was the sole proprie Another Discussion? ing Inspector-General of Chinese non-stop trans-Pacific flight to Chamberlain requested notice of Chinese term for General, Manator and counsel wished to show The Northerners, according to Maritime Customs) again to Tokyo and thence possibly across questions as to whether. any of gera. reliable Chinese reports, are will- Shanghai to discuss the matter, Asia to Europe-Router's Ameri- the Powers had expressed their
that the sworn information con-
have not agreed.
Questioned further with regard tained in the petition was f