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No. 25,888
“ITALIA'S” S.O.S.
THE DERBY.
THE HONOURS.
Message Received By Operators.
Fairway A Strong
Favourite.
CHANG TSO-LIN'S WOUND.
OUTRAGE DETAIL
Wu Chun-sheng Succumbs To Bomb Injuries.
WARLORD'S SON AND OTHERS HIT
+
IN ENGLISH AND ITALIAN.
Italian Explorer Wirelesses His Position in Kingabay.
Stockholm, Yesterday, About midnight wireless opera- tors at Gaevle, Upsala, Bjaernum and Trelleborg picked up a mess age in English and Italian, re- peating "Italia Nobile S.0.S. four Kingsbay East."
An S.O.S. Received.
Moscow, Yesterday. The Committee for the relief of the "Italia" has been informed
General Wu Chun-sheng, one of Marshal Chang Tso-lin's ablest supporters, is stated in several messages to have died through in- juries sustained in yesterday morning'a bomb outrage at Mukden,
One report says that, Chang Tso-lin himself is seriously injured The wounded, include one of his sons, an ex-Premier, a Minister by a wireless amateur in Vozne- and others of importance.
sensk (North Dvinsk) that he picked-up yesterday the following
A vernácular paper says that papers found on suspected assail-"Italia Nobile Franz Josef S.0.5. ants point to their having had some connection with Canton in the which corresponds with the belief past.
on a 38-35 metres wave-length
here that the airship had landed in Franz Josefland."-Reuter.
Danger of a clash between the Manchurians and the Japanese What the Russian Committee is (who control the South Manchurian Railway) is believed to have passed.
Daing. Moscow, Yesterday. The committee for the search
The mention of the bombs as being of Soviet origin occurs twice of the "Italia," in view of the re- in despatches to hand.
SOVIET BOMBS ?
Most important of inter news concerning the bomb outrage at Mukden, coming at the time of a crisis in North China, is the fol lowing:-
Tokyo, To-day.
ceipt of the S.O.S. cabled earlier have decided to send an expedi tion of icebreakers and an air- ship to Franz Josefland along the route which the "Italia" is sup- posed to have taken.-Reuter.
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SECRET MOVES.
NORTHERNERS “GO OVER.”
JOIN NATIONALISTS
A Bag of 80,000 Men For Southerners.
CHIANG'S TROOPS NOT YET IN PEKING.
About 80,000 Northern troops are likely to surrender to the t.garet Hall, Oxford, a great niece Nationalists (according to a cable from Tokyo), following secret of the poet, and Miss Edith overtures by a General who has beer in the background for several Campbell Walker (Australia),
Mr. John Scott Haldane (Pre- years. Palais Royal II 88/1't. and o. sident of the Institution of Min- Black Watch 83/1 o.; 40/1 ting Engineers) becomes a com- Fernkloof 33/1.
panion of Honour and the astro nomer, Mr. James Jeans has been knighted. Reuter.
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Port Hole 50/1. O'Curry 50/1 o.; 66/1 t. Others 100/1.
Scratching. Heirloom was scratched at o'clock on Monday-Reuter.
"SOME RAIN LATER."
N.E. winds, fresh, cloudy, and some rain later, is the forecast until to-morrow at noon.
A large but feeble anti-cyclone
pression is still shown to the south of Pratas.
Mr. Mu Teh-ui and Mr. Yuk Ui- « SOUTHERN CROSS." is central near Tokyo. A de- kan are both seriously wounded but there are no details as to the condition of Chang. Teo-lin and Mr. Pan Fu,
It is confirmed that the Japan- A Japanese report from Muk. ese and Chinese authorities at den says that General Wu Mukden are investigating the Chun-sheng has died as a result. facts concerning the bomb out- of the bomb outrage, though rage.
his death is being kept secret! Press despatches report that lest it disturb his troops in anti-Japanese feeling has been Heilungkiang.
calmed as the result of it being established that the Japancae were not connected with the out-
Marshat Chang Tao-lin's con- dition is reported to be gerious, -Reuter.
rage."
No serious disturbances neces- sitating the despatch of Japanese
ON ITS WAY FROM U.S.A. TO AUSTRALIA:
MESSAGE RECEIVED.
Wellington, Yeaterday. A wireless message picked-up shows that the "Southern Cross" at 12.26 this morning was over the Phoenix Group-Reuter.
At Faji.
QUEER CASE. MAN ALLEGED WRONGFULLY
DETAINED.
EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE.
North Borneo's Governor. Mr. John Humphreys, who was given a C.M.G., has been Governor of British North Borneo since 9 1926. He entered the Colonial Service in 1905, and has served in Malacca, Dingdins, Johore, Treng- ganu and Kedah.-Reuter.
·FOR LONDON!
FROM BOSTON IN THREE- ENGINED-FOKKER.
A WOMAN PILOT.
New York, Yesterday.
Most of these troops belong to units which Marshal Chang Tso lin did not care to bring back into Manchuria with him. They were faced with the prospect of a fight for existence, or of joining the Nationalists, or of being disarmed. Should the report prove cor- rect, the hands of the Nationalists will be appreciably strengthened, principally with a view to subduing the influence of the "Christian General."
Not all the Manchurian troops are out of the Peking area and the Nationalists have yet to enter the northern capital. Two Manchurian army. corps; however, are, concentrating on the railway as though to bar the way of the Nationalists into Manchuria,
PROTECTING MANCHURIA.
Tokyo, Yesterday. the bridge on the railway near
A report from Tientsin says Yangtaun, thereby preventing the that as the result of secret nego-transportation of the 3rd and 4th Mr. George Putnam, the pub-tiations on the part of a Chihli Manchurian army corps back to Hisher, has announced that the (Northern) Party under General Mukden. three-engined Fokker in which Northern troops, including 50,000 action by the troops of General Chi Haich-yuan, about 80,000 The incident is attributed to Wilmer Stultz flew from Boston to Shantung men under General Yu Sun Chuan-fang who is reported to Halifax to-day, is bound for Lon-Lung-chung and 20,000 under have gone over to the Nationalists, don vin Trepassy, Newfoundland. General Sun Chung-fang, are re-although another despatch says that Stultz will be assisted by an ex-ported to have gone over to the Sun Chuan-fang left Peking last perienced woman pilot, Miss Nationalists, Amelia Earheart of Boston. The
night with General Chang Hsueh- It is understood that these lang (the son of Chang Teo-lin). neroplane will be equipped with troops will co-operate with the
General Yang Yu-ting (chief of pontoons-Reuter's American Ser Nationalist Generala Yen Hal- the Manchurian etail) was to have
shan and Chiang Kai-shek for the left at the same time but be aud Travelling at 150 Miles Per Hour, purpose of lessening the influence denly elected to remain, in connec
of Feng Yu-hsiang.
tion with which there is consider- able speculation as to the motive. Reuter,
An unusual case was mentioned, [The Phoenix lelands are be before Major C. Willson at the Cen tween the Equator and Samoa.) tral Magistracy this morning, in which a defendant who was want Suva, Yesterday.ed for alleged embezzlement is vice The "Southern Cross"
has 1923 was alleged to have been wrongfully detained in Hong Kong by three other men who had to
Chang's Son Wounded. Mukden, To-day (delayed), Marshal Chang Tso-lin was in a troops are anticipated, as the arrived.--Reuter. special train passing on the rail. 5,000 men who are now at Muk- way to the north of Mukden when den are considered sufficient to
MARSHATA CHANG
deal with any eventuality.-Reu- ter.
Clash Narrowly Averted. Additional information given by the "Kung Sheung Yat Po" is as follows:
BANQUE DE FRANCE.
RAISES ITS BUYING PRICE FOR STERLING.
THE INTERPRETATION.
Faris, Yesterday.
The train had twenty-two cars. There were several assailants, who bore the appearance of The Bank of France has raised Southern plain-clothes soldiers. [its buying price of sterling from The first eleven blue cars (all 124.02 to 124.10, which is inter- 1st class) were wrecked. The preted a5 a clear denial of the next four (1st and 2nd class) revalorisation rumours.-Reuter. were damaged.
Chang Teo-lin was slightly in- jured and several others were in- jured.
Chang Tso-lin's bodyguards took up positions on the South Manchurian Railway, and the Japanese railway guards did like-
THE “ARRACHART.”
FORCED 'DOWN AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
face serious charges in connection
with the detention of the first man.
The
St. Johns, Newfoundland,
Yesterday: Trans-Atlanticer Fokker
has arrived
The matter was further complicat- "Friendship" ed by the fact that the man who Trepassey from Halifax after a took out the warrant for the arrest fight averaging 150 miles per hour. of the first defendant on the em-Reuter's American Service. bezzlement charge was absent when
the case was called, and it was al
It is reported that General Chu Yu-pu (another Northern) has agreed to co-operate with
Alleged Breach of Faith. at General Chi Haleh-yuan.-Reuter.
Shanghal, Yesterday. [Note: Chi Haich-yaan-formerly
There was some skirmishing. supported Wu Pei-fu. He fought to-day at Liuliho and to the north posscassion of Shanghai of Nankow Pass.. It is alleged. several years ago but has since kept that the Nanking Government In the background.]
leged on behalf of the defendont whereupon the CD.I mentioned that his accuser had absconded. that the amount of bail was fixed The principal, figure in. this un- on the warrants before. his Wor- usual case is Mow Yat-chuen, allas ahip. He thought that the amount Mow. Koon-wah (36) described as was $10,000. unemployed.
for
General Yen for Feking.
Shanghai, To-day.
wired to the Shansi authorities » instructing them not to agree to allow the Manchurian troops to The Nationalists have promis-withdraw unmolested, but to ed not to molest the Fengtien press on immediately. troops left in and around Peking Generals Yang Yu-ting and and peace seems assured during Chang Haueh-liang of the Man-1 isfa'. arrival to take over. the interval before the National-churian Army wired to General Yen Hai-ahan.of Shansi protest-
"Detained Without Consent." The charges against him, were: Mr. Loseby said that if the police (1) that he being a clerk of the was going to stick to that ball, then Led Keo Arm, did defraud the said he would have to go into the facts Nanking has appointed General Many Manchurian troops are The Nationalist Government of ing against the breach of faith. firm of the sum of $1,198.16 in Chi-of the case. He said that his Yen Hsi-shan the commander of leaving their fronts and march- neso 20-cent pieces on March 18, client was illegally brought to the the garrison at Peking and Tien- ing past Peking but hitherto Constantinople, Yesterday. 1923, by making false entries in Colony and detained here for seven tein. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is everything has been quiet and The "Arrachart" has been forc- cash book; and (2) being a servant days without his consent. In the urging him to assume office imme-orderly-Reuter wise; a clash between the two ed down owing to bad weather, of the Kwong Cheong Lan firm, he meantime the complainant in the diately. Accordingly, Yen Hsi- through misunderstanding was and has landed at Constantinople did defraud the same firm of case had vanished. narrowly averted.
shan is expected to bring his
Tokyo, Yesterday. $245.86, $286.54 and $194.05 on
It was, Counsel said, brought to army (the 3rd Group Army) to A report from Tientsin says December 14, 1925, by making false the notice of the police that his Peking,
that the Foreign Garrison have entries in the cash book,
client had been arrested outside General Feng Yu-hsiang has taken up defensive positions but like plain-clothes soldiers were tempt and is returning to Paris. was Yuen Yat-hong, described as tained here, and they had taken government of Chihli province, turbances though the Japanese The complainant in both counts and brought to the Colony and de- decided not to take part in the thus far there have been no dis- seen near the railway station on Reuter.
Assassins from Kwangtung?
One of the Japanese officers
says that several men who looked
the evening before the attack.
On the morning of June 4, several men in plain-clothes were seen to be acting suspiciously.
.
-Reuter.
Flight Abandoned,
Constantinople," Later. Bignot has abandoned his at-
AIR RECORD.
They were examined but tried to BELGIANS STAY UP FOR SIXTY escape. The fugitives were
HOURS.
Brussels, Yesterday.
Marshal Chang Tso-lin, the head caught. A bomb made in Russin of the Blanchurian Government, whose condition is reported to be was found, also some scraps of serious as the result of injuries re-old letter paper bearing the im- The Belgian aviators, Crooy at ceived in a bomb attack on his train, print of a Nationalist recruiting Groenen, at Tirlemont aerodrome,
depot of Kwangtung.
established a new duration record
a terrible explosion wrecked both. the train and the overhead bridge. existed in Kwangtung towards seconds.-Reuter.
Details are Incking but it is re- the end of last year when the
one of his sons was wounded in
when the case was called.
the
соц-
to
Tientsin Concessions.
the managing partner of the Les steps which resulted in the arrest but he recommends the appoint- have been obliged to disarm a Kee firm of No. 82, Chinese-street, of the three men who were
ment of two of his generals to number of Chinese who tried to and he was not present in Court cerned with the illegal detention of Wan Keung Po."
the provincial government. enter the concession. the present defendant. Mr. Loseby
WE FIGeneral Sun Chuan-fang has "Not Guilty.”
submitted that the case was one in Pureult or Not?
resigned the 'commandership of Mr. F. H. Loseby, who appeared which the defendant should be ad- Light le thrown on the sudden the Shantung-Chihli allied forces,
change in Chang Teo-lin's plans and has announced his withdraw for the defence, entered a ples of mitted to ball, "not guilty."
The C.D.I, said that he was not which caused him to evacuate al from Tientsin, though his troops are reported to be retreat- Chief Detective Inspector Tat the moment in a position Peking rather precipitately.
General Sun Chuan-fang felling in disorder to Tientsin. Murphy, who prosecuted, said that agree with Mr. Loseby that the
back. Accordingly, the Man It appears that the Manchurian [Note: Such recruiting depots of co hours 7 minutes and 32 the prisoner was arrested on two complainant in the case had abchurian armies had to retreat as troops have given up the idea of
warrants which were issued in stonded.
well. However, states the "Kung making a final stand at Liuliho on 1920. As the man who had those Proceeding to give the police Sheung Yat Po," not all the Man-the Changhaintien line, south ported that Chang Teo-lin was in-Ironsides controlled Canton.] a warlord at all.. His several ven- warrants issued was not present in version of the facts of the case, the churian soldiery in Peking has west of Peking. They are now jured in the shoulder; that Wu Chun-seng's Career. tures to Peking have all been un- Court, he would ask his Worship C.D., said that the two warrants left yet
concentrating on this line,-but-It: the arm; that the Minister for been one of the most picturesque Fengtlen province,tain Superintendent of Police as tion of the complainant In 1926, is not clear as an earlier cable, to the line at Lwanho, in eastern General Wu Chun-sheng has profitable. He is a native of to substitute the name of the Capon which the defendant was ar The Nationallata intention to-is reported that they will ultim rested, were issued on the applicawards the retreating Northerners ately carry out a general retreat Industry was also injured; and figures in the Manchurian Army. More than twenty years ago he complainant in the case for that General Wa Chun-sheng re- In stature and appearance, he fought on Japan's side in the war time being. He (the C.D.I.) was cause the prisoner absconded.
They were not then, executed be given below, refers to their desire Chihli, where they will make a ceived such a shock that his con- is the exact reverse of his over with Russia. Previous to that he not prepared to proceed Than a reward of $1,000 was offer Guarding the Retreat. What Britain Should Do
to pursue the Northerners. Last stand Reuter. dition is hopeless.--Reuter,
lord, Chang Tso-lin. A big man had been a leader of irregular case and would ask for a week's physically, he is well known for troops and it is popularly known formal remand, -
ed, he thought by the complainant It is becoming increasingly London, Yesterday. Soffor the defendant's arrest, but his imposing bearing. In other that he began his career as à ban- Mr. Loseby said that he was without result, until over a week evident that the Northerners pre- Commenting on Marshal Chang words, he is a typical warlord of dit; but he joined the Imperial going to apply for a remand for a fer to hand over to General Yen so-lin's withdrawal from Peking,
service in 1906.
was only one or two days in view of the
The defendant was then arrest Hei-shan and to keep out Feng the "Morning Post" expresses Born 65 years ago, a native of Since the Revolution in 1911, fact that the complainant in the ed and detained to Shakki, Heung-Xu-hsiang, the "Christian Gen- the opinion that British potty Mr. Mu Teh-ul (a member of the vate soldier in the Imperial Army arch of the three provinces of heard of the prisoner a arrest. In led up to the present charges assembly of Manchurian troops centres of peace and security (hitherto Premier at Peking), Shantung province, he was a pri- he has been the uncrowned mon case had absconded as soon as he rhan in respect of the counts which cral, should be to protect British sub Chinese cables mention thejects and interests, maintain ex-Peking Cabinet) and a Japan He has served most of his life Manchuria
the circumstances he did not think against him in Court. The defen ese adviser on Marshal Chang before and after the Revolution He has fought for and against If fair to detain the prisoner for & dant, was detained in Shekki for a along the Peking Mukden Rail within the British settlements Tso-lin's staff.
in the most northerly province of nearly all the leading factions in week preferepede the number of days, and eventually, he way, around Shanhalkwan, to se- and show goodwill to any govern Chun-sheng has died from his sides by Siberia he went to Peking. In June last think that a week's remand was un- wise
It is rumoured that General Wa Manchuria, surrounded on three control at Peking Late in 1926. The C.D1, said that he did not agreed, either voluntarily or other sure safe withdrawal ment that can establish authority wounds, but this is being hushed
was not known, to come to Another Chinese cable says in China
that the Diplomatic Corps is The Daily Telegraph.com/ up for fear that unrest may be ernor of Heilungklang, the pro- eralissimo of the Ankuochun capable. He added that should Hong Kong and make up the ad against removal of the capital siders, the present a unique oppor caused among his troops "Wah vince referred to He holds the Government gray anything happen in the meantime to counts concern
with the charges from Peking (to Nanking);
tunity for the Nanking Govern Keung Po.
first class Tashou · Paokuang Chang, Tacʻlin holds the first canso.
ment to issue a reassuring mani Trouble Unlikely Chisho decoration
class Order of Merit, the first
festo of its intentions and policy. Tokyo, To-day., 16 Chang Tso-lin.
class Tashou Prokuang
regarding's united China (except A War Office despatch confirms. About 52 years of age, Marshal and the first class Wenhu
Manchuria), which now, looks to that General ..... Wu Chun-sheng Cha
small tions
the Central Governmenta wounds.
|_ Premier" Among Casualties.
Shanghai, To-day.
Others injured in the bomb out rage at Mukden on the morning of June 4 include Mr. Pan, Fu
the most aggressive type.
Since 1924, he has been goy- year, he assumed office as Gen-
drop the 27S
the prisoner heHo
to Court before menger
then ask
New Complications?:
From Peking, cording to a report that unidentified