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REMNANTS OF NORTHERN ARMY.
FENG'S SERVICE.
Shansi and Nanking Leaders Join In..
A THREAT TO KIANGSI PROVINCE.
Further signs are forthcoming that the respective military groups in the Nationalist Party are doing all they can to continue the semblance of co-operation.
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After an interval of several weeks of anxiety, it appears that the remnants of the Northern Army (in that they constitute a thorn in the side of the "Christian General") are to be got out of the way by being withdrawn into. Manchuria,
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APPEAL.
BEFORE 5 JUDGES.
FURTHER EVIDENCE AS TO SLATER'S IDENTIFICATION,
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DIVORCE.
£2,000. DAMAGES.
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SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN'S VIEW
London, Yesterday.
London, Yesterday. Members of the Liverpool Cotton Mr. H. W. Looker (a former Exchange by 156 votes to 186 re- Hong Kong resident) drew atten- business hours of the Exchange the fact that the "Northerners" jected 13 proposal to extend the tion in the House of Commons to from four to five o'clock.
U.S. MARSHAL'S TESTIMONY. MET AT FELIXSTOWE FAIR.
NAMES AND SCORES.
London, Yesterday,
London, Yesterday.
Bisley, Yesterday. The Slater appeal was heard Agreed damages of £2,000 Nigeria won the "Morning Post” before five Judges of the Scottish were awarded to George Stanley junior imperial Kalapore chal- Criminal Court of Appeal in Edin- Hankinson, assistant, Hong Kong lenge cup with a score of 524
and Shanghai Bank, Harbin, who Out of ten teams the British Slater was present.
was granted a decree nisi in the treaty ports of China was second,
the Advocates of the proposal pre- (meaning
Manchurian His counsel called three wit-Divorce Court against his wife 523; Federated Malay States dicted a great increase in the turn- Armies), in their retreat north- nesses, namely, the widow of the Enid, now living at Leamington, sixth, 503; Straits Settlements
over of business.
ward and subsequently back into Glasgow Doctor Adams, who was Francis Brodie Lodge, to whom 479..
on the ground of adultery with eighth, 492 and Johore ninth,
At present the Liverpool and Manchuria, had carried off 6,000 the first who saw Mrs. Gilchrist's she was introduced at Felixstowe The conditions were: Four hour together.
New York markets open only one railway trucks and 300 locomo- body after the murder but was Fair. not called at the trial, Mr. Rough- bead, an Edinburgh lawyer, who edited a book on the trial and Mr.
Marshal in New York.
No far away from the encampment of the Northern rabble, a notable memorial service has been held at which General Yen Hai-, Pinckley, assistant United States shan,, who fought the "Christian General" two years ago, took part in offering condolence to those killed in that previous campaign.
From the capital of Kinngsi province in Central China comes, however, the disquieting news that the former 6th Nationalist Army, allegedly Communistic, may threaten to over-run the territory.
GUISE OF UNITY.
Peking, To-day.
NO OPEN SPLIT.
Harmony Among Nationalist Leaders?
men.
Pinckley testified that Slater was identified in January 1909 prior to his extradition. He said that when he and Slater were go- ing to Court they passed a group of people in the corridor, namely, Mr. Fox, the attorney for the Bri- tish authorities, Helen Lambie, another woman, and two police Witness heard Fox say: "That is the man." An important memorial ser-
Appellant's counsel said that vice has been held at Nankow
Helen Lambie declined to attend Pass, the defence of which by
the appeal and there was no ma chinery to compel her attendance. the "Christian General's" Kuo-
Peking. Yesterday.
He invited the Court to pronounce General Feng Yu-hsiang's ar-appellant's trial a miscarriage of minchun two years ago against
of Manchuria, ex- rival here last week is regarded as justice.--Reuter. the armies Marshal Wu Pei-fu and General dispelling the reports of serious Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi, has not dissension among the tenders of been forgotten.
the victorious Nationalisti The service was in memory of armies. Undoubtedly there is those in the Kuominchun who some disagreement on the ques-! fell during the defence.
MRS. PACE'S TRIAL,
THE QUESTION OF COMPENSA- TION RAISED.
tion as to whether to attack Man-¦ ATTORNEY-GENERAL OPPOSES Feng Yu-hsiang (the "Chris-'churia, and on the disbandment tium General"), as commander-in-of troops, and also other problems į chief of the Kuomiuchun, con- will require careful handling, but ducted most of the ceremony. an open split or conflict is gen- lle was assisted by Marshal orally regarded as very unlikely Chiang Kai-shek of Nanking, at the present time.-Reuter. General Li Tsung-jeu of
Kwangsi and representatives
of various armies, numbering 5,000, took part.
"THE "RED" ARMY.
SEEKING PEACE,
Manchuria's Terms for Co-operation.
London, Yesterday. During the House of Commons questions the Attorney-Geacral said that it was not desirable in the interests of justice generally to entertain any proposal for compen- gation to Mrs. Pace, who has been acquitted after a careful and fair
The Judge approved of the damages on the ground that it provided a fund for the mainten- ance of the two children.-Reyter.
CAPT. LOEWENSTEIN.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS BY WIDOW IN BRUSSELS.
ACCIDENT THEORIES.
IRA
Brussels, Yesterday.
At the instance of Madame
Loewenstein, the First Civil Court has appointed Count Roger Vander- atraten Ponthoz as executor of the estate of Captain Loewenstein. Madame Loewenstein also applied for leave to presume the death of her husband.
The magistrate is examining the case, and the evidence of the Bri-
FAIR TO SHOWERY.
competitors, 10 shots at 300, 500 and 600 yards.
The first meeting of the Manches-tives, which was practically half ter special sub-committee appoint- the rolling stock of the railways ed by the Federation of Master Cot-in China north of the Yangtze; ton Spinners Associations to in- also that two British firms were vestigate the overcapitalisation of the industry decided to appoint a
owed over £1,000,000 for rolling sub-committee to act if necessary stock supplied to these railways'; with the Cotton Yarn Association and that large sums were owed to and collect information concerning other British firms for railways the financial position of the Ameri- material. the can cotton-spinning mills with a
China scores were:- Gunner Lancaster 138. Corporal Glover 135. Corporal Grimes 127. Sergeant Terrill 123. Bishop Ferruson Davie 128, competed for Singapore.
The Prime Minister of Johore, Dato Abdullah, coptained Johore team. Reuter.
FATAL COLLISION.
INQUIRY INTO A COOLIE'S DEATH.
Results Unlikelycar
view to reducing, with the co-opera- tion of the banks and Government: Accordingly, Mr. Looker asked. the financial, overhead costs to an what the Government proposed to economic level.
do about the matter. Mr. G. S. Hammersley (Con.) | Sir Austen Chamberlain declared that the banks bad a (Secretary of State for Foreign stranglehold, on the industry and Affairs) replied that he was not suggested that a solution might be aware what rolling stock had been carried off. Constant efforts were being made to secure pay- ment of debts (due to the Bri- tish firms) but results were un- likely until unified control emerg- ed in China. He did not think, Sir Austen added, that an enquiry as regards the carrying off of the rolling stack would help at pre- sent. Reuter.
Coroner, and a jury resumed the of a special cotton bank-Reuter.
Mr. R. E. Lindsell, sitting as found on the lines of the formation
Inquiry this morning into the death of a truck coolie, who died in the Government Civil Hospital as the result of public motor car No. 427 colliding with the track near the Jockey Club's stables, Causeway Bay, early on the morning of June
S. E. or variable winds, moder-22 last. ate, fair, to showery is the fore- east until noon to-morrow.
Preasure in high to the south of Tokyo and low over China. There are indications of typhoon about 700 miles east of Manila, moving W.N.W.
'Plane Examined.
London, Yesterday.
A
U.S. A SENSATION,
Sharp Brenk in Prices.
New Orleans, Yesterday, One of the sharpest breaks of the
The driver of the motor car gave year occurred in the cotton market evidence. He said that his car was following the publication of the
the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, the The main lines concerned are
Peking-Hankow Railway and the
Peking-Mukden Railway.
an Oldsmobile with a right band Government acreage report showing Peking-Mukden Railway, drive. He had driven the car four an increase of over 11 per cent, or five times only before the acci- dent, but he had held a driver's licence for four years.
At a little after 1 a.m., on June 22, his car was hired by a party
compared with July last.
Heavy selling sent down prices to $4.26 per bale.
New York.
American
500.
* Obligations on materials sup plied: $4,691,124.10. Tientsin-Pukow Railway.
The British and Chinese Cor- poration, Ltd., had £2,300,000 of mortgage, bontis., On Dec. 31, Prices dropped 85 points in a few 1924, the balance unredeemed of tish witnesses on the aeroplane was West for a trip round the island. report. The increased area under "China Year Book," was £1,092,- of five Chinese in Queen's-road minutes at the issue of the acreage the British loan. as given in the taken this morning.-Reuter. The weather was fine when they cultivation is much larger than was,
started on the trip, but rain began anticipated. — Reuter's to fail soon after they passed the
Service, trial. The questions as to the Major Cooper Chief Inspector of Repulse Bay Hotel, and it continued holding of a public enquiry into the the Accidents Investigation Sub-to rain until the ear reached position of the Coroner's and the Committee of the Air Ministry to- Causeway Bay on the way back to
West Point. providing of legal assistance of day conducted a private examina- accused persons would receive due tion of the Fokker monoplane from
The lamps on the witness' car consideration. Reuter.
which Captain Loewenstein is be- were full on, but they might have been dimmed somewhat by the rain lieved to have fallen while crossing
water on the glass. The lamps the English Channel last Wednes- day. The door leading from the were of 21-candle powers' each. As cabin and its fastenings were care witness was being paid $3.50 per the trip was a pleasure one and the fully tested. It is understood that hour, he was in no particular hurry,
THIRD FLOTILLA.
TO STAY IN MEDITER- RANEAN.
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It is noteworthy that although General Yen Hsi-shan of Shansi
Peking Yesterday.. then fought against the "Chris- | '
The Manchurian peace dele- tian General's" Kuominchun, Yen lisi-shan sent representatives to gates have arrived in Tientsin join in the ceremony.
and are leaving for Peking short- The Generals have returnedly. It is understood that the from Nankow Pass to the West-terms under which Munchuria ern Hills-Reuter.
will fly the Nationalist flag and accept the Three Principles are that General Chang Hsuch-liang shall be appointed chairman of The third Destroyer "Flotilla, the Manchurian Political Com- after an absence of two years in Loewenstein's disappearance will be that meant more mittee, General Chang Tso-hsiang chairman of the Kirin Committee, China, has been ordered back to the chine. Opinion is divided as to The spot where the sccident It is now reliably reported that General Yang Yu-ting chairman Mediterranean and will arrive here whether, in view of the rush of air occurred was fairly well lighted but.
of the Fengtien Committee, Gen- en August 8. the 6th Army which revolted eral Wan Fu-lin chairman of the
along the fuselage, it would be pos- owing to the rain, the witness Its understood that the sible to open the door of the cabin could not see very far ahead. He against the Kwangsi Nationalist Heilungkiang Committee, and "Platilla" will not return home to during a flight.-British Wireless first saw the truck when his car Generals in Hunan and then also that they shall retain their marched into Kiangsi province is armies under their own jurisdic-rommission until the "Fourth Service.
Nanchang Merchants Try to Buy It of.
Klukiang, Yesterday."
now 60 miles south of Nanchang,İ the provincial capital.
The Chamber of Commerce at Nanchang is sending money to this allegedly Ked army (which was in Nanking during the hor- rors of March, 1927) as a peace offering to the troops to keep: away-British Naval Wireless.
tion. Reuter.
TSINAN ECHO,
Japanese Compiling Information.
4.
Malta, Yesterday,
Flotilla," which is on the way home to refit, can recommission and re- turn, to the Mediterrangan.—Reuter.
MR. HOWARD ELLIOTT PASSESS AWAY.
TRAIN DERAILED.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN INDIA.
EIGHTEEN DEATHS.
Calcutta, Yesterday. Eighteen have been killed, eight
on the return from Brussels of and travelled at only between 11 and seriously hurt and 24 slightly in- Loewenstein's pilot, Captain Drew, 12 miles per hour. It was, he said.jured in the derailment of a passen- the theories were advanced for to his advantage to go slowly as ger train near Howrah tested during the flight of the ma- hire.
Relative's Opinion.
Brussels, Yesterday.
La
money for car The cause of the accident le at
present unknown.-Reuter,
H.M.S. "DAUNTLESS.”
was some 30 yards away from it. The witness sounded his horn in order to get the truck to leave the tram lines on which both. vehicles were travelling, going in the same tish
In
U. S. PONTOONS TO HELP IN SALVAGE WORK.
Chinese Central Railways, Ltd., of London, financed the southern section of the line and British off- cers are still appointed. This firm took up £5,000,000 worth of mort- gage bonds. On Dec. 31, 1924, . the amount outstanding was £7,176,750 but this figure appears to include also the balance out- standing on a loan of £3,000,000 from the German source interest- ed in the northern gection. Peking-Hankow Railway.
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and the Banque de l'Indo Chine are inter- ested in mortgage bonds issued for £5,000,000, the amount out- standing on which (on Dec. 81, 1926) was £8,250,000..
NOTHING SINCE 1922.
* Obligations on materiala in. clude sums in Mexican dollars,
and Washington, Yesterday. Taels, Yen, Gold dollars compliance with the Bri- Francs. M. Loewenstein's brother-in-law,
request, the Navy De- * Indicates identity of creditors M. Convert, who is a lawyer, in a direction.
parment has ordered the two not specified. RAILWAY MAGNATE. statement says he is convinced that Tho Coroner: The road
was pontoons recently employed to Loewenstein is really dead. Convert otherwise deserted?—Yes.
raise the American submarine S4, quoted the magistrate De
So that there Tokyo, Yesterday..
was plenty of which have a lifting capacity of Ruviere, who is conducting the en-room on the right of the truck for 80 tons, to proceed to Halifax to British Minister's Efforts Not to The Japanese Government is re-
quiry, who suggested that two you to pass, as is the proper thing, help to get the "Dauntless" off the calling Consul-General Fujita
Dennis, Yesterday,,bypotheses were possible, namely, for an overtaking vehicle to do? shoal-Reuter's American Service. from Tsingtao for the purpose of The death is aunounced of Mr. accident or crime--Reuter. compiling official information with Howard Elliott, Chairman of the regard to the Tsinan incident as Board of the Northern Pacific Rail- a preliminary to the opening of way Company and Director of many He Railway and other concerns. negotiation for a settlement of the affair, although it is admitted was an ox-President of the Har- Large numbers of the 20,000 or that the Chinese thus far have Yard Alumni Association-Reuter's 30,000 Northern troops who, after not been approached and Japan has not determined with whom
OVER THE WALL?
Northern Remnants Marching Out.
Peking, Yesterday.
being defeated, quartered in the to negotiate.-Reuter.. Kallan Mining
Administration
zone, are now moving north-east-
ward in the Kaiping-Chinwangtao
area.
It is reported that these North- erners are to go north of (ie., out- side) the Great Wall, and be un- der the orders of General Chang Hauch-liang of Manchuris.-Bri- tish Naval Wireless.
CARMARTHENSHIRE.
STILL AGROUND, '
American Service,
CUBA'S SUGAR,
"VIRTUAL CURTAILMENT."
Havanu, Yesterday. President Machado does not in- tend to restrict the forthcoming sugar crop but will not allow the grinding season. to start before Jan- The "Carmarthenshire" was still uary. This le regarded as virtual aground this morning, but probably curtailment. an attempt will be made to tow her
London, Yesterday.
to the docks at high tide.
[Note: The Northerners were The Royal Mail Company had formerly under the Manchurian chartered the vessel to the Glen warlord, the late Charig Tao-lin, Lihe.
who has been succeeded by his son, Chang Hauch-liang. When
the Manchurians gave up Peking,
they left the Northern rabble in the lurch.]
Jamaican Immigrants' Plight..
Kingston, Jamaica, Later, The Protector of Jamaican im- migrants in Cuba is discussing with the Acting-Governor of Labour the altuation, owing to 50,000 Jamai- cans in Cuba being unemployed.ard The ship has been refloated and many of them starving-Reuter's towed to dock.--Reuter.
American Service.
Refloated.
Later.
There was plenty of room on left side also.
DUTCH LINER,
2
REPORTED SERIOUS SICKNESS ON BOARD.
the
Do you agree that overtaking a vehicle should be done on the right?--Yea.
Proceeding, the witness said that as the truck did not leave the tram
Amaterdam, Yesterday.
Hines, he swerved his car to the left Serious sickness, with Eight in order to pass the truck.
The Coroner: deaths, is reported aboard the
You did this Rotterdam Lloyd steamer "Insu- against every known rule of the rond? For your own sake I want linde," due at Suez, to-day from Batavia for Rotterdam.-Reuter.
you to put this point straight as that is the mast damning statement to make. What excuse have you FLOATING DOCK.
Į for deliberately breaking the rules
of the road? FIRST SECTION PASSES GILBRALTAR
GREEK STRIKES,
NOW CALLED OFF.
be Relaxed.
A British Wireless Service message adds:--
Other facts stated in Mr. Looker's question were subse- quently correct, namely, that two Athens, Yesterday.
British firms were owed over The Labour Confederation has £1,000,000 for rolling stock to- called off the tobacco strike, and the paid since 1922, and that large wards which nothing had been strike and lockout in the shipping sums of money are also owed to industry will end to-day-Reuter. British firms for railway mater-
LECTURE ON “NEW CHINA.”
Brussels, Yesterday.
lial.
Sir Austen Chamberlain Indi- cated that efforts to obtain pay- ment had been made by the Bri-
Dr. Tsu, of the Central Executive (tish Minister at Peking, from the Committee of the Chinese National Chinese authorities, "but, owing The witness replied that he saw 1st Government lectured on "New to the fact that the railways were that the coolle who was pulling in China," here, under the auspices of the chief instruments of civil front of the truck had inclined to the University of Brussels,
Gibraltar, Yesterday.
the right so he swerved to the left. The first section of the floating
Proceeding, the witness said that dock for the Singapore Base kar
as he was about to pass the truck, passed here en route to the East-It suddenly awerved to the right and its rear swung to the left with
Reuter.
:
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.
war, it was inossible to expect The Chinese Minister to Belgium any result," etc. was present. Reuter.
the British Minister's efforts to secure pay- ment of these commercial debts
"Navertheless
the result that the car's right wheel immediately disappeared. The wit-would not be relaxed.**** hit the right shaft and the radiatorness got out and assisted the in- [Note: The amounts mentioned was penetrated by the left shaft. jured man, being soaked through by In the note given above refer main.......... The car stopped dead after the ac- the rain in a very short time. I to sums tent for building the The clearing rate of the dollar cident." It was still raining hard. The Inquiry will continue in the tailway and not for supplying coli-- on demand, to-day was 2/0 8/16. All the passengers left the car and lafternoon.
ing stock or materials.