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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1928.
No. 25,843
ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
FIGHTING ON 100-MILE FRONT.
VICTORIES
CLAIMED.
Nationalists Said To Be On The Losing Side.
REPORT OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK REVOLT.
Fighting hus broken out along the whole of the hundred miles front on which the Nationalists face the Northerners, about 400 miles south of Peking.
Hostilities on the other two fronts continue. As is usually the casse, all the four principal factions engaged in the campaign claim victorios. :
Reverses for the Nationalists have yet to be confirmed. But! it is significant that the Nationalist authorities in Shanghai are greatly perturbed and have taken extraordinary precautions.
Rumours are still current in Shanghai that the Nationalist camp at Hsuchowfu has fallen and that at a point in the Nationalist line
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"DEAD ON COURSE."
Last Seen 88 Miles Due West Of Ireland.
Dublin, Yesterday.
MILAN BOMB.
Italian King's Narrow
Escape.
WOMEN & CHILDREN VICTIMS. Dastardly Attempt To Assassinate
The King.
Milan, Yesterday,
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ROYAL GIFT.
From Afghan's King To King George.
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MANSLAUGHTER CASE
Further Police Court Proceedings.
FRESH EVIDENCE
Kelsey Gives His Version Of The Affair.
to
was
man-
REALTY CO.
Offices And Residences
»All Occupied.
TO PAY LESS INTEREST."
Activities Reviewed At Annual Meeting.
All offices, premises and re- sidential property at Repulse Bay belonging to the Hong Kong Realty and Trust Co.. Ltd., were fully occupied dur- ing the latter half of last year. Rental income had been there- by increased. The mortgage indebtedness of the company, amounting to $500,000 is to be carried as an overdraft-at lower interest.
Chief Petty Officer William What is regarded as the finest George Kelsey of HM.S. "Am- A Reuter message states that Fourteen persons were killed the German trans-Atlantic flight and forty injured when a bomb specimen of Persian hand-writing brose," at present attached started at 5.28 this morning, exploded in Julius Caesar Square in existence has been presented H.M.S. "Titania" on account of his
The departure of the trans-just before the King opened the to King George by the King of ship's departare for Home
through the Atlantic fliers, Captain Koehl, annual trade fair. Despite the Afghanistan.
again before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy this morn- Baron von Huenefeld and Com-outrage the King carried out his Afghan Minister in London.
Fitzmaurice, from programme of driving through This manuscript was written mandant Baldonneil Aerodrome, was wit-the grounds and visiting the pavi-200 years ago on milky white Ing in connection with the nessed by many of Cosgrave's lions.
paper made from bamboo ancient-slaughter charge against him.
The defendant was alleged to A big
Milan, To-day. ly used in the East. Government supporters.
The writer used the pointed have caused the death of a Chinese The bomb exploded ten min- crowd assembled in the dark in
on the the early hours at the illuminated utes before the arrival of the nail of the index finger of his who was knocked down aerodrome.
Royal procession.
right hand to write the 50 or more Praya, near the Po Tak wharf, by The victims included five pages, in which every stroke and public motor car No. 313, which the The Start.
defendant drove in the early hours The "Eremen", took off benuti-Alpine troops who were lining the curve is perfect.
The work occupied five years. of the morning of March 26 last. fully in under 1,000 yards, and
The crowds deliriously cheered Two other ancient manuscripts. When the case was resumed this was escorted by a Free State aero-the King at the conclusion of his accompany the gift.
morning. Mr. Lindsell told Mr. G. S.' One is a treatise on horses, Hugh-Jones (for the defence) that. plane across Ireland. Flying con- ditions were ideal, and the airmen
written in gold in Persian charac- he had carefully considered the. ters, and the other, also written solicitor's arguments and had come in gold, is a masterpiece of to the conclusion that the prosecu-Those present were the Hon. Sir Arabic handwriting comprising tien had made out à prima facle case Shou-son Chow, Mr. E. M. Ray- Moslem prayers-British Wire-which the defence had to answer.mond, Mr. P. K. Kwok, Sir Elly less Service.
hope to reach New York in under
of communications (along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway), there has 36 hours, though they carry been a revolt against Chiang Kai-shek.
HAS HSUCHOWFU FALLEN?
A Naval wireless despatch pub- lished yesterday stated that firing had been heard in Pukow the night before, from the north-west.
AT SHANGHAI.:
enough petrol for 45 hours' flying.
a
route.
✔
GENERALLY FAIR.
Light westerly or variable winda, generally fair, fog__in morning, is the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow.
The anticyclone is central near Tokyo. The apes of a V-shaped depression lles over Ishigaki
The aeroplane used for this flight is the Junker monoplane, "Bremen," which is piloted by the famous Lufthansa pilot, Captain Koehl. Baron von Huehnefeld. ¡the owner of the machine, is ac-
companying Captain Koehl ns passenger, while a cable of April Strict Martial Law in Chinese 7 stated that Commandant Fitz- maurice, Chief of the Irish Free State Air Force, had received per- Fukow is on the north bank of!
mission to accompany the attempt visit to the hospital to see the in- the Yangtze, opposite the Na-
Strict martial law is being ob-as second pilot.
jured, tionalist capital at Nanking.
In September Commandant From Pukow, the railway runs served in the Chinese city, Cha- north-west up to the front, over a pei; Paoshan and other Shanghai Fitzmaurice was with Mcintosh in districts under Chinese jurisdic his unsuccessful attempt to cross hundred miles away.
tion,
the Atlantic."
About 30 miles north-west of Pukow is the town of Su- ehow which must not be con- fused with the city of Hsuchow. fu, further north.
The rumours in Shanghai, quoted in an overnight cable, are that troops stationed at Su- chow have rebelled against Chiang Kai-shek.
If there has been any firing in Suchow consequent upon the al- leged rising, it might have been heard in Pukow on Tuesday night.
Severe Fighting.
Nanking, Yesterday.
Severe fighting has taken place
at Hsuchow and Haichow, the Nanking Nationalist armies! under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-
i
Districts.
The "Bremen" has been at Baldonne! for over & fortnight, waiting for a favourable oppor- tunity to make a start..
100 Per Cent. Suicide.
By a coincidence, says the "Kung Sheung Yat Po," it was the first anniversary of Chiang Kai-shek's order to purge the Kuomintang of the Red ele- ment, an order which was fol The Meteorological Observatory lowed by raids and attacks on at Hamburg refused to issue, offi- jcial weather reports for the bene- Communists last year. 'Chinese reports add that pre-fit of the fliers, saying that a cautions were taken in the Inter-trans-Atlantic fight at the pre- national Settlement at night; also sent time would be "100 per cent. that raids have been made by the suicide."-Reuter. French Concession Police on five
The "Bremen" was last seen 88 ¡places, resulting in the arrest of miles due west of Ireland, dead
more than twenty persons and thejon her course. seizure of literature and Com- munist material.
CANTON'S REDS.
shek having launched an offensive Vigilance Maintained: Swatow against the Northerners on Wed- nesday-British Naval Wireless,
Peking, Yesterday.
Military circles in Peking claim
Position.
Vigilance is still being main- that their (Northern) troops at-tained in high degree in Canton. tacked the Nationalist forces he-Red agitation is mainly respon-
West Atlantic Gale.
Washington, To-day.
The latest bulletins from the Weather Bureau state that the "Bremen" will probably encoun- ter strong winds in the West At- lantic, assuming the gale is of the proportions to-night. Keuter's! American Service.
tween Tai-er-chuang and Han-sible but political causes have intelligence seems to be convinc- chuang on Tuesday and defeated also been traced. Troops in the ing but the list of captures bcara
city and environs are on the qui the taint of exaggeration. vive.
New Policy. From Swatow comes the news Also from Nanking, it is report-
the Nationalists.
However, no claim has been
"INFORMAL.”
BAILIFF'S SEIZURE OF GOODS.
THIS MORNING'S JUDGMENT.
Defendant's Evidence.
-
These were among the fea-- tures of the chairman's review at the annual meeting of the company to-day, held in the company's office in Exchange Building.
Reference was also made to the transfer of the architectur- al business to Mr. G. W. Grey and Mr. J. Bentley Hawker.. Mr. J. Scott Harston presided.
were blown to pieces by it and the Summary Court this morning licence for the years 1926-26. He
and accounts have been in your hands
as
Mr. Hugh-Jones thereupon de-Kadoorie, K.B.E., Com. Leg. Hon, cided to place Kelsey in the witness Mr. John Fleming. (directors), box.
Mr. J. H. Taggart (managing director), M. C. F. V. Ribeiro Kelsey, who said that he was al(acting secretary) and Messrs. • first class Engine Room Artificier W. J. Hawker, P. H.. Suckling, and held the rank of Chief Petty A. W. Smith. R. Soonderam and Officer; told the Magistrate that he W. E. Van Eps (shareholders). had had 16 years' pensionable ser-The number of shares represent- vice in the Royal Navy. He had ed was 56,475.
Chairman's Speech. spent the whole of his working life
The notice converting the meet- The Explosion.
Mr. Justice Wood held that, the with machinery, and had beening was read by the secretary. Most of the victims were
was informal but driving motor cars since 1922. He The chairman then read his ad- women and children. Those bailiff's action
an English driver's dress as follows:-- standing near the fatal lamp-post not irregular in giving judgment in produced
Gentlemen-As the report and fragments of the lamp-post which in the case in which Pan Tak-sam, bought his own car in 1922 were principally responsible for a contractor, claimed $750 in rea-since that time had driven that car for several days, I will, with your
the same pect of scaffolding poles, etc., seiz and others continuously until the permission, treat the terrible slaughter.
The King's life was evidently ed by the bailiff which were alleg- came to the China Station about 12read,
The report of the Auditora is saved by the fact that the clocked to have been claimant's property months ago. On and off the wit
ness had hold a driver's licence in as follows: and not the judgment debtor's.
Judgment creditors were repre- England for about 20 years,
"We report that we have audited the above balance sheet sented by Mr. Hin Shing Lo and the
Coming to the evening in ques-
with the books and vouchers of claimant by. Mr.. P. M. Hodgson,
tlon, Kelsey said that he His Honour said he was of ashore at 7.45 p.m., on March 24.
the Company and have obtain- opinion that the seizure of the He had had a few drinks
ed all the information and ex- while scaffolding poles on January 4 by ashore, but was perfectly sober
planations we have required, Mr. Wiltshire, the bailiff, was in when he engaged public motor car
and in our opinion auch balance sheet is properly drawn up so formal. He was not going to hold, No. 313 that night. however, that it was an invalid
as to exhibit a true and correct view of the state of the Com-, procedure. He was going to decide
pany's affairs at December 31. 1927, according to the best of our information and the ex- planations given to us and as shown by the books of the Company.
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. regulating the infernal machine was inaccurately sét.
Panic followed the explosion,
Asked
came
Led by Mr. Hugh-Jones to the
Took the Wheel.
Linstead & Davis,
Chartered Accountants,
Auditors. Hong Kong, March 31, 1928."
Financial Position,
that the seizure was in process of point where he and Whitworth re- execution and in consequence he entered the car after their visit to (His Honour) had jurisdiction the house in Kec Cheong-street, under the section of the Summary Kennedy-town, Kelsey said that both Jurisdiction Ordinance under which he and Whitworth got into the back proceedings were brought, i.e., Sce- of the car. After the car had mov- tion 25, and he proposed therefore ed on a little, he (Kelsey) Jeaned to give effect to the view expressed toward the driver and asked him: at the hearing, and to give judg-"Can drive car, John?" The driver ment on the issue for claimant with inquired: "Have got licence?" and costs and an order for payment out, the witness replied: "Have got
The last statement of accounts Mr. Ring Shing Lo: I received English licence."
presented to you was in respect of a letter from Mr. Hodgson and am
the year from July 1, 1926, to After this, Kelsey said that the June 30, 1927, but the Directors here to oppose a written judgment. what ground, Mr.
it advisable in Hin Shing Le continued: We only driver stopped the car. He said have considered made by Peking that Hsuchowiu that General Chúi King-tong who ed that the Nationalist 1st Group cries of terror mingling with submitted to Your Honour's juris-something to his foki who was sit-the present instance to present to (the Nationalists' main, base)
the covering a period of six months so has been captured. (Note: An
commands the 5th Army under Army, under Chiang Kai-shek shrieks of agony of the victims diction as arbitrator. In this case. ting next to him, and the, foki left you a statement of accounts Marshal Li Chai-sum, has arrived himself, forced a passage on the It was a terrible spectacle, many wrongly.
We feel we have been brought in the car. The driver sat on
foki's sent, and the witness then that hereafter, subject to your earlier report from Shanghai sug-there to direct operations against Grand Canal and subsequently horribly mutilated bodies lying in
of the gested that Hauchowfu may have
His Honoar: I think you had bet-came forward and took the wheel, approval, the accounts
on the fallen to the Northerners but this the neighbouring Communists.siormed the Northern defences on all directions
¡ter appeal.
the driver's foki taking the wit-Company may be closed It is also stated that the Reds the opposite bank. now seems improbable.)
have evacuated Wal-loy, which is
Mr. Hin Shing Lo asked if Hia ness's place in the back beside more convenient date of Decem-
ber 31 in each year. From Shanghai comes the news The Prefect of Milan has insti- Honour intended giving a written Whitworth," across Haimun Bay from Swatow, that the Peking warlords have tuted an enquiry with a view to judgment and Mr. Justice Wood re-
I think that the balance sheet Witness drove the car in an east- shown a change in attitude. This discovering the bombing mis-
plied in the negative.
erly direction along the Praya. and accounts as presented, taken new policy is said to be sponsor creants: Many, detectives are go- ed by General Sun Chuan-fang,
A stay of execuilen for a fort-There was no traffic at the time in conjunction with the amplify- who is bearing the brunt of the ing to Milan from Rome.
The Mayor of Milan has placed night was granted. Nationalist thrust on Shantung at the disposal of the police Sun Chuan-fang suggests peace 100,000 lire for anyone giving in- with Shansi province and also formation leading to the discovery mains open for several weeks. It leaving the wharf. He sounded the stances there is no need for me with the Nanking Nationalists, of those responsible.
is one of the greatest fairs of its horn, slipped the clutch and applied to enter into detailed explanation provided they agree to sever con- The bomb was concealed in a kind held on the Continent and is
2,000 Prisoners. General Chang Tsung-chang of the Northern Army is directing operations from Hanchuang.
Yesterday, 2,000 prisoners the Nationalist allies of from Shanai and the Kuominchun were brought into Peking, on their way to being sent up to Man- churla-Reuter.
[Note: Haichow, Tai-er-!
ON EACH FRONT.
Claims Made by the Rival Generals..
Chinkiang, Yesterday.
Search For Miscreants.
and the witness travelled at about ing remarks thereon appearing in the Directors' report, show com- 25 miles per hour.
prehensively the financial position Approaching the Po Tak wharf, of the Company as on December the witness saw two pedestrians 31, 1927, and in these circum-
chuang are all near the boundary, troops are moving about here (onChristian General," who is de fore the passage of the Royal pro Leipzig in importance, and it at avoiding the pedestrian without
Small batches of Nationalist nection with Feng Yu-hsiang, the lamp-post and exploded just be-almost comparable with that of the foot brake, thus succeeding in in connection therewith.
HALF A MILLION.
between Shantung and Kiangsu the south bank of the Yangtsze nounced as the real enemy of provinces, in Lat. 34.80 N. ap- River, 45 miles below Nanking) Peking. proximately, in a line running It is reported that the local Na- from east (ie., inland) to the tionalist military commander has Tientsin-Pukow Railway.
absconded with $30,000-British Hanchuang is inside Shantung. Naval Wireless. Here the Grand Canal and the
[Note: Chinklang is the Na- Tientsin-Pukow Railway inter- tionalist base for operations sect. And the Nationalists have across to the north bank of the been moving up the Canal and the Yangtaze and then up the Grand Railway..
Canal.]
Taint of Exaggeration.
(Continued on page 6.)
of the car.
Committed. For Trial Mr. Lindsell committed Kelsey to stand his trial at the next Criminal Sessions on the manslaughter charge.
cession, which continued its pro-tracts visitors from all over the any difficulty. grees.
The next thing that Kelsey saw! world. King's Change of Plans,
King Victor Emmanuel has was another' man walking in front The King probably owed his life Ito the fact that he went directly made a practice of opening it, for of the car about 8 or 4 yards away pedestrian was struck by any part
The man was then in front of the What a General Hopes to Get to the Fair from the station in-some time.
After the inauguration the left wheel of the car, so Kelsey ap- From Ichang.
stead of following the plan pub-1 King visited the hospital and plied the foot brake and turned the lished in the newspapers,
car to the left as he judged that Ichang, Yesterday. It is believed that the clock-spoke to victims of the outrage.-
Reuter,
was the best way to miss the man Marshal Wei hopes to collect work of the bomb'was placed in a
Hundreds of Arrests. who was walking across the front On the Whole Line."
$500,000 from the local merchants street lamp opposite the entrance
of the car from left to right. Milan, To-day.
Two other charges against the From Hanchuang, the Canal
before leaving Ichang. It is to the Fair at night and timed to
The pedestrian continued to walk There have been a hundred ar-
defendant were then considered. runs eastward to Tai-er-chuang While 2,000 prisoners have doubtful if this can be done as explode when the King reached
rests, mostly precautionary, in across the road and did not attempt
These were (b) did unlawfully where, it is stated, there has been actually been seen in Peking, the General Yang Sen took $300,000 the gatea.
| to retrace his steps. The square was crowded and connection with the outrage.
drive licensed public motor car No. fighting. Further east, is Hai-armies from which these were away with him before he retreat-
Over Praya's Edge.
813 in a rockless manner in Con- chow. If the intelligence convey-taken are still claiming victories. ed westward, up the Yangtsze, in those people near the lamp-post All the lamp-standards have a,
A girl'e mall opening of about a yard from By Mr. Hugh-Jones: He (Kelsey) naught,road Central at 8.80 a.m., ed above is reliable, then it can be The Shansi allies of the Nation-the middle of January-British were blown to pieces..
head was entirely evered, and a the ground and is used for the In- said that troops along the whole alfats report activities on two Naval Wireless. of the Shantung-Kiangsu front sectors of their front, in which [Note: Ichang is on the Upper Fascist boy scout as shockingly spection of cables. It is believed turned the car to the left amartly, on March 25, 1928; and (e) unlaw that the criminals, disguised as but not hard. As he turned, the fully did drive Henned, publle are in action:
cavalry and artillery played a pro-Yangtsze, 370 miles aboye Han mutilated. Hauchowfu is to the south of minent part.
kow. The "Marshal Wel" refer- The bodies, laid out on the Fair workmen and pretending to effect back of the car skidded at right an- motor car No. 918 without az ap-
could not do anything with the a.m. on March 25, 1928. Hanchuang,
The "Christian General's" Kuo-red to may mean anybody, as grounds, afforded sombre spec repairs, comfortably placed the gles with the edge of the Praya. He propriate driver's licence at 3.30 Trafic Sub-Inspector Alexander The front is about 400 miles minchun also boasts of captures rapid changes take place up there. tacle in strong contrast to the bomb at its base. south by cast of Feking and is at from the Northerners.
There is a General Wei I-san who gala decorations.
The outrage is variously attri car and lost control. He was cer- buted to anti-Fascista, and the tain that he missed the pedestrian withdrew the (b) charge, and Milan's Fair. On the other hand, the North- was once believed to be in the least 100 miles long. However,
After Kelsey having already pleaded not the whole length of the line erners report to Peking that they neighbourhood, nominally as the The Fair at Milan is held an- anarchists. Elaborate measures with the front of the car. is manned by the rival armies. are making steady progress! protege of the Wu-Han National nually and is named the "Inter are being taken to prevent excit- the car skidded he lost sight of the "guilty" to the (c) charge at the The 2,000 prisoners referred to War despatches reaching Nan-ists of Hankow. He may be an national Sample Fair." It is held able Fascists from venting their pedestrian and the next instant the first hearing, of the case, Mr.
gép by que te lagre, qowing to the gure in permanent building at the rage against supposed criminals, car went over the edge of the Lindsell imposed a fine of $10. the Northern war.]
of graphic detail. Some of the mrsed approach of Yang Sen. Toutskirts of the town, the 185