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BRITONS IN TONGSHAN AREA.
ARMED MEN.
Scattered Soldiers Now Infesting The Railway.
IMMEDIATE NORTHERN OUTLOOK IS BETTER.
MST.
BLISHED
1945
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
'HERMES" OFFICER
KILLED.
FLYING ACCIDENT.
CRASH WHEN PRACTISING AT WEIHAIWEI.
CHANG TSO-LIN'S "DEATH."
STRONG SUSPICION. CHINESE REPORT OF FUNERAL OBSERVANCES.
CALAMITY IN THE PHILIPPINES.
VOLCANO ACTIVE.
HALF A TOWN.SINKS INTO THE|
SEA.
GENUINE SIR WILLIAM CROOKES
(English Mado)
LENSES
Ars the ONLY PROTECTION against the trople sun-they absorb the ultra violet and infra red rays so dangerous to the
eyes.
Many Imitations-the genuine from
LAZARUS
Hong Kong) Only European Optician.
LINER CALLS FOR WARSHIP!
A STRANGE AFFAIR.
8 "DESPERATE STOWAWAYS” CAUSING TROUBLE.
SILENCE FOLLOWS.
London, Yesterday.
SHUN
PO NOT TO FIGHT.
APPEAL DROPPED.
·DIFFICULTY IN FINDING THE $1,250 BAIL.
PUBLICATION SUSPENDED.
Publication was suspended by
BLUE INK-INSTEAD OF RED. A ONE-MAN MACHINE.
SEQUEL TO 'QUAKES.
Weihaiwel, Yesterday,
Peking, Yesterday,
Manila, Yesterday. Mayon volcano is throwing up Lieut. Raymond Arthur General Charg-Hsueh-liang of
The mysterious plight of 600 the "Hong Kong Morning Post" Aldridge, R,N.," who is a Flying Manchurian Army has gone to red smoke.
It is situated on Luzon Island passengers en route to London (the "Shun Po") to-day following Officer in the Royal Air Force, Mukden (the capital of Man-1100 miles east of Mindoro Island. from Brisbane in the 14,000 ton the conviction and sentences by The eruption is believed to be Commonwealth liner "Jervis Lt. Col. F. Eaves, D.S.O., at the Britons in the Tongshan mining area (of the Kailan Mining was killed to-day when carrying churia). He has been appointed
out a practice flight on a Fairey head of the Manchurian Govern- connected with last week-end's Bay," which is at present believed Magistracy yesterday. Administration) and other foreigners are in danger for the second Flycatcher plane, attached to ment in succession to his father, earthquakes.
The fines of $25, $250 and $500 of the steamer to be midway between Australia time this month. The first was when the defeated Northern troops H.M.S. "Hermes," which is in Marshal Chang Teo-lin, whose Fortuna" who have returned and Ceylon, is indicated in a
had not been paid nor had the death is now strongly suspected from Mindoro have reported that Colombo telegram quoting a wire- Publisher and printers surrender- were converging on the place and assembling rolling stock prior to port.
-British Naval Wireless. retreat. The present.menace is from scattered hordes of armed men
The "Kung Sheung Yat Po" in-sunk, into the water.---Reuter.
half the town of Caminawit has less message from the "Jervis ed themselves at 10 a.m. to-day'
Bay" sists that Chang Tso-lin died a
when the time expired for bail of who were soldiers, who are infesting the railway which passes
good many days ago. One of its
"Having trouble with eight $1,000 and $250 to be found, through the zone of British and other foreign activities.
correspondents reports that fun-
desperate stowaways is any pending an appeal. warship available," which was
On the whole; however, the immediate outlook in North China is better than it has been for a good many days; to-day's news is the best this week.
were
evacuated.
PRIVATE INTERESTS.
The accident occurred at 10.62
a.m. when the machine crashed.
Deceased is believed to be single-British Naval Wireless.
The Fairey Flycatcher is one of the small 'planes often seen' in ` Hong Kong, operated by one Įman. H.M.S. "Hermes" left Hong Kong a few weeks ago for exercises in the North. Weihuf- wei is a port in Shantung pro- vince.
GOVERNMENT LIKELY TO
FALL.
Trouble was feared in the the Economic Conference, the BELGRADE TRAGEDY Tongshan mining area on June 8 first of its kind ever held by the when foreign women and children Chinese Government since the Britons in establishment of the Republic, neighbouring places were given the uption of going into Tientsin for safety. Latest develop- ments are described below.
Chase or No Chase?
Peking, Yesterday. The situation in the Kailan Mining Administration area, at Tongshan, is quiet. at present. The chief danger to Britons and foreigners is the presence of sent- tered Northern troops (previous- ly in the Shantung and Chihli armies, now disintegrated, and distinct from. the Manchurian Army proper), who are spread out from the north of Tientsin, along the Peking-Mukden Rail- way to Shanhaikwan.
Control by the Nationalist allies in the Peking and Tientsin areas is divided by private in- terests which clash. Until unity among the Nationalist victors is established, it is anticipated, the Nationalist Armies will not march. further north in pursuit of the Northern remnants.
One Line Clear. Meanwhile the railway from Tientsin to Tongku (at the 'sen) had been cleared of Northern. stragglers.
Mr. T. V. Soong (Nationalist
Unawać & WILKINSON, 1. U
Mr. T. V. Soong, the Na- tionalist Minister of Finance.
LATEST DETAILS.
Budapest, Yesterday.
דיו
IT MAY RAIN.
S. W. or variable winda, moderate; fair at first, some rain later, is the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow.
Officers
NEW SPEAKER.
OUSLY ELECTED.
CAPTAIN FITZROY UNANIM-picked-up by H.M. cruiser "Enter- Bail has not been put up and, prise," who replied in the nega-, the "China Mail learns author- tive, but asked the liner if the itatively, the appeal will not be situation were seriotis.
London, Yesterday. Captain Fitzroy, M.P., has been unanimously elected Speaker of the House of Commons.---Reuter.
First Army Officer Ever Elected Speaker.
London, Yesterday. A British official wireless mes- sage states:
proceeded with. Accordingly, the
As the "Jervis Bay's" crew is over one hundred, the authorities next step must come from the in London are puzzled that eight authorities.
stowaways should be so trouble- The "China Mail" understands some as to necessitate the inter- that the "Shun Po's" attitude is ¡vention of warship.
Since morning no news has that it can neither afford to pay been received by the Admiralty or the fines nor to appeal,
Question of "Face.” There was considerable dif-
eral observances are being pre- pared. Another points to the use
There was a large attendance and at the steamship's office in Lon- of blue ink (a sign of mourning) for chopping seals in Chang Teo- the public galleries were crowded don.-Reuter. lin's court, instead of the tradi- when Sir Robert Sanders (Conser- tional red ink, as evidence of the Vative) moved and Mr. Bowerman DR. HADEN GUEST. fidence
(Labour) seconded the selection of
A message from Belgrade says old warlord's death. that a deputy has been killed and. [Note: The last authentic Captain Fitzroy. Both referred to two 'deputies seriously injured news came from official London the fact that he was the first array In the
course of tumult in the sources which, based on intelli- officer who had ever been selected Yugoslav Parliament.
gence from Peking, stated that as Speaker. The ex-Minister Rachich fired Chang Tso-lin expected an early
and complete recovery.]
G.O.C. REACHES PEKING.
Peking, Yesterday.
Major-General A. E. Wardrop, General Officer Commanding the British North China Command, arrived at Peking from Tientsin yesterday afternoon-Reuter.
[General Wardrop left Shang- hai about two weeks ago for the North, in view of the crisis which was then, impending in North Chinn.]
several revolver shots in the direc
Minister Arrested.
Peking, Yesterday. The vernacular papers report that Chang Yin-huai, Minister of Communicationa under Chang arrested at Tso-lin, has been Tangshan on the charge of being implicated in the bombing of Chang Tso-lin's train at Mukden. Chang Yin-huai is a relative of General Yang Yu-ting, Chief of Staff to Chang Tso-lin-Reuter.
Sequel to Bomb Plot.
After the motion had been un-
THE NATIONALIST FLAG.
Moscow, Yesterday. The Chinese "Legation" in
ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO JOIN CONSERVATIVES.
LETTER TO PREMIER.
about publishing the apology drafted by the acting First Magistrate and read out in his judgment. It was felt that publication would have entailed loss of "face" which would have been likely to prove fatal from a London, Yesterday.
business point of view. The al- Dr. Haden Guest, who resigned ternative being left out, the only from the Labour Party and Parlia-course remained to go to prison ment last year on account of the (without hard labour), leaving Party's attitudo in the General jout the question of the fines.
When a "China Mail" man call- Strike and on the despatch of the Defence Force to China hus sent a jed at the "Shun Po" office this Moscow has hoisted the Nation- barred flag used since the incep alist flag in place of the five- his intention of joining the Conmen,
letter to Mr. Baldwin announcing morning, he found a number of obviously of mechanical servative Party in consequence of staff, one of whom said that he tion of the Republic-Reuter.
the latter's policy in social, economic, did not know where the publisher [Reuter uses the term "Lega-reform and in the maintenance of was nor did he feel competent to tion" but this was raised to the political stability, especially in the say whether the publisher would standard of an Embassy when increasing political, economic and return. The speaker said that he Karakhan was appointed Ambas social co-operation with the domin-Was staying on as he had received andor to Peking. Although Rus- ions.-Reuter.
no "instructions." No effort had sian sympathies lay with the Na-
been made to bring a paper out tionalists, the Peking Govern-
this morning, he added. 'ment controlled the Chinese
Embassy at Moscow until recent collapse.]
the
CONGRATULATIONS!
APPOINTMENTS FOR POLICE OFFICERS.
Peking, Yesterday. General Wan Fu-lin, the Feng- tien divisional commander who
Might Have Got Sympathy. captured Chochow last autumn, has been appointed, tupan of Hei-
Opinion among Chinese circles is that no paper would have pub- lungkiang province by a confer-
lished the apology if it had pre- jence of Mukden officials.-Reuter. [Note: He is a cavalryman.
viously taken up the attitude "NO. 2" IN THE "C.LD." animously accepted, Captain
A adopted by the "Shun Po," tion of a group led by Stephen He succeeds General Wu Chun-
:
Chinese merchant who advertises On the other hand, fifteen Finance Minister) submitted five Party, whose nephew, Faul Raditch, his bomb injuries. Heilungkinng honour of his selection.
Raditch, leader of the Peasants sheng, who died as the result of Fitzroy was loudly cheered when he
The following temporary appoint- rose to express appreciation for the
ments in the Criminal Investigation very extensively in the vernacu troop-trains are due to arrive at
of the three provinces
Jar Press, however, expressed the at Police Head- Chin-wang-tao to-day, where (it important questions for discus- was killed. Rachich was arrested. ia one
Afterwards Sir R. Sanders and Department
view that the "Shun. Po" would forming Manchuria.]
Mr. Bowerman escorted him from quarters, have been made with have got a great deal of sympa Beigrade, Yesterday, "BREMEN'S " CREW. the mace was put on the table to
his place to the Speaker's chair and effect from June 12:-
thy-some of which might be Chief. Detective Inspector T. for all the provinces and the es-
practical-from the masses, if the The Emergency Cabinet has
indicate the occupation of his seat Murphy to be acting Assistant apology had been inserted forth- tablishment of a sound national ordered criminal proceedings to be ESCORTED INTO BERLIN BY by the Speaker.
Director of Criminal Intelligence, with. banking system.
instituted against Raditch (Racie?) |
Ex premiers MacDonald and with temporary rank of acting 2.-proper
of who has not yet been captured and
Lloyd George and leaders of the Assistant Superintendent of Police domestic and foreign loans and has decided to recommend a grant
three parties in the House then in (A.S.P.); the improvement of credit withjof pensions to the relatives of the
turn rose to offer congratulations, the object of raising funds for murdered deputies. They have ap-
Berlin, Yesterday.
after which the House adjourned rehabilitation purposes.
pealed to the Press to refrain from)
Three-quarters of a million for the day. exciting public opinion.
persons frantically cheered while! The Prime Minister has sent Berlin's population watched the
is likely) the arriving Nationalist sion. units will stay for garrison duty. The Nationalist troops already at Chin-wang-tao have received or- ders to move eastward into Man- churia.
The retreating Northerners arc expected to call a halt at the Lai River, but it is not anticipated that they will contest the position if the attack by the Nationalists. -British Naval Wireless.
THAT BREACH OF FAITH.
Kuominchun Leave: Diploniats Protest Again.
1 uniform currency system
management
3. simplification of the system| of taxes so that the revenue will
den to the taxpayers.
Further Details.
of the Raditch Party.
Vienna; Yesterday.
50 AEROPLANES.
SPLENDID WELCOME.
Inspector L. P. Lane of the "Murder Squad," to be acting Chief Detective Inspector, vice C.D.L. Murphy:
From a reliable source the "China Ma" gathered that some of the principals of the leading vernacular papers were to meet for an important con- ' 'ference this afternoon.
Capt. Fitzroy's Career.
Sub-Inspector K. W. Andrew of
On inquiry from Messrs. Lo & messages of condolence to the triumphal procession of the Captain the Rt. Hon. Edward
the "Larceny Squad" to take Lo, the defending solicitors, the be improved without undue bur-bereaved and to the headquarters "Bremen liers, who arrived Algernon Fitzroy, P.C., J.P., D. charge of the "Murder Squad" vice "China Mail" was courteously
is Member of Parliament for South Inspector Lane: and aerially escorted by fifty aero-
informed that defendants were 4-revival of commeres and
Detective Sergeant Flattery of trying exceedingly hard yester planes. They were formally. wel- Northamptonshire. He is the third the solution of problems asso- A telegram from Belgrade atatea comed by the Burgomaster, and son of Lord Southampton and was the Detective Staff to take charge day to raise the bail. Since then, ciated therewith.
born in 1869. He was Deputy that the Democratic members of by the American and British. Ant Chairman of Committees in the of the "Larceny Squad," vice Sub-the solicitors had been unable to 5-shifting of expenditure the Government have decided to bassadors.
| Inspector Andrew.
get in touch with clients and the owing to the completion of the resign and it is expected that
House of Commona. He Was The latter, in a speech, TC-
The appointment of Inspector solicitors had no further instruc- war from wasteful to productive Radical Ministers will also with-joiced in the courage and skill educated at Eton and Sandhurst, Peter Grant as Chief Inspector has tions in the matter. enterprises, and the carrying out draw. The result will be that the shown and that Ireland had been was a
Page of Honour to the been confirmed as from March 27, of the rehabilitation plans of the Vakitchevitch Cabinet will fall associated in that courage, skill Queen and a lieutenant in the First 1928.
late Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
Peking, Yesterday. General Han Fu-chu (com- manding the vanguard of the "Christian General's" Kuomin- chun) is reported to have left Peking, taking with him the troops in the Manchurian brigade who, commanded by General Pao! Yu-lin, kept order in Peking dur-namely, Currency, Public Debts, ing the interregnum, were pro- mised safe conduct, and then dis al Expenditure. They will hold Reuter. armed by Han Fu-chu.
sectional meetings in camera and]
Reuter.
Five Committees were formed,
Rachich Arrested.
Vienna; Yesterday. Rachich has been arrested.-
Taxation, Commerce and Nation-
In this way, Han Fu-chu is report their findings and submit again ignoring the orders by the recommendations to the general Nationalist Government of Nan- session at the meeting on March king for the safe passage of the 26 next-Reuter. Manchurian brigade to Man- churian..
The Diplomatic Body has again lodged a protest with the Nationalist Government--Bri- tish Naval Wireless)
Yangisze Quiet,
Tokyo, To-day. Owing to the quietness in the situation on the Yangtaze the Navy has decided to withdraw the cruiser "Abukuma” and four flotillas of destroyers, in addition
INDIAN SENSATION
BOMBS, PISTOLS AND KNIVES FOUND IN VILLAGES.
Delayed News.
He
SMAL
also
a
and enterprise of Germany in Life Guarde,
Officers being the first to make the west lleutenant in the Reserve
and Captain in the Reserva Regi- ward Atlantic flight-Reuter.
ment, 1st Life Guarda. He served in the European War, 1914-18 and was wounded in the first battle of Yprea, He married the daughter of Lieut-Col. Douglas-Pennant and has two sons and one daughter.
LOST IN DESERT.
HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF * TWENTY-ONE PASSENGERS.
RESCUED BY R.A.F.
IN LAPLAND.
BRUTAL MURDER..
CORPSE ON PRAYA EAST RECLAMATION.
POLICE INVESTIGATING.
BANISHEE THIEF.
RETURNS FOR WORK BUT STEALS INSTEAD.
A Chinese was this morning, at the Kowloon Magistracy, charged before Mr. Schofield on two offences, namely, for stealing a quantity of Motives have yet to be ascertain- clothing and for returning to the ed for a brutal murder of a Chin- Colony before the expiration of bla
ese man whose body was found 5 years' banishment. when workmen were about to begin Sergeant Brittain, in charge of the day this morning on the Prayathe case, said that at 8 pm, yester East reclamation.
day, the defendant entered, 114, The wounds beggar description. Tainam-street, the residence of a The skull had been cleft in two. Chinese doctor. The latter at the One ear was cut away and also one time was at the front door and, eye. There was a deep knife- hearing a disturbance Inside re- wound on the neck and another on turned to the house and saw defen- the cheat. A Stockholm, Yesterday.
dant with a basket under his arm Chief Detective Inspector Murphy leaving through the back door. whose new appointment is referred Complainant blew a whistle and
·CLIMATE..........!
· Belgrade, Yesterday. A telegram delayed by the cen- sor, gives the first authentic ac-
[The Speakership carries a salary count of the tragedy in the
of £5,000 per annum, and is almost Skupatina in which two deputies
Invariably awarded with were killed. -
Basra, Yesterday. peerage.] The trouble originated in IL A motor lorry which left here speech by M. Rachich, for Nasiriyeh on June 16 with Montenegrin deputy who in attack-twenty-one passengers has been ing the Opposition provoked uproar located by the B.A.F. after a long and fisticuffs after which M. search. The lorry had stuck in the DUTCH ROYALTY IN A COOL Pernar, a member of the Radich sand in a remote part of the desert. Opposition 'abused Rachich. There Police hastened to the spot ́onj was further uproar and the sitting camels and found the passengers, was suspended, the President ris-who included two women, In a state
of collapse. They had trudged Queen Wilhelmina and Princess to the cruiser "Jintau" which has arms were licitly being imported and emptied the weapon into the
Rachich flashed out a revolver fifty miles through burning desert. Juliana have arrived at Abisko in already been withdrawn-Reuter. the police surrounded suspected Opposition deputies and disappear-ous wild melon and his body was
One Arab died of eating poison- Lapland.-Router. villages near Mandra and raided ed amid the disorder.:* ON ECONOMICS,
abandóried-Reuter All the casualties were among houses. They discovered a con Chinese Government's First
siderable number of bombs, pistols the Radich Party.plan
Barsa Ritchek and Phul Radich Conference.
and knives.
were killed, Stephen Radich, Pernar Five arrests, including that of a Grandja and Jola Chitch were
wounded.Reuter, woman, were made.-Reuter,
Shanghai, Yesterday. Speaking at the first session of
RESULT OF POLICE RAID.
Rawalpindi, Yesterday.
As the result of information that
Ing
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.
Copenhagen, Yesterday-Den- mark, and the United States have signed a Treaty of Abitration simi- The clearing rate of the dollar far to the Franco-American one on demand, to-day was 2/0 3/18. Router.
N
to elsewhere. In this issue)` is con- gave chase, and the thief was ar- ducting the investigation.
rested by an Indian constable,
The accused pleaded guilty" on London, Yesterday. General Sir both charges, stating that he had Philip Chetwode has been appoint returned to the Colony dor employ.. ed Chief of General Staff In India, ment. Mr. Schofield sentenced pri
succession to Lleutenant Boner to 8 months' imprisonment on General Sir Andrew SkeenBri- the first charge and 8 months' hard tish Wireless Service.
Jabour on the second."