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China Mail
No. 25,958
POTTERING ABOUT.
CHIANG KAI-SHEK AND THE OTHERS,
POLITICAL SIDELIGHTS.
SHED
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1928. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
TWO TEST BATSMEN IN FORM.
HOBBS & TYLESLEY.
SURREY AND YORKSHIRE DRAW AT THE OVAL.
CHAMPIONS WIN AGAIN.
Rival "Nationalist” Factions Are At Loggerheads. Two of
SHIP OF STATE GOES FULL SPEED ASTERN.
A NEW YORK DISASTER.
TUBE: TRAGEDY.
20 KILLED MANY INJURED WHEN TRAI DERAILED.
REPORTERS DEBARRED.
New York, Yesterday.
Later. The train was packed with
NORTHERNERS SHOUT
DEFIANCE.
THEIR NEW MOVES.
STRADDLING THE SHANTUNG- "CHEFOO ROAD.
'Your Eyes Are Safe With Us.”
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Manager:
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FLO... (London),
IS THAT SO?
Thoughts Terse, Perverse-and Worse.
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According to a local paper, ona GUNS, BOMBS AND STORES. of our Magistrates is anxious to avoid Bias .. Which is a the sixteen players
That the Northerners, with good job; for we wouldn't like to already chosen by the M.C.C. to Twenty persons were killed and only the remnants of their de see our bowie notes suddenly dis- defend the Ashes for England in many injured in a Tube train defeated armies, are taking advan- continued. Australia, both batsmen, scored railment at Times Square Sta- centuries in the series of first-tion, the centre of the business tage of the Nationalists' halt, class cricket matches which con-and-theatrical world.
and shouting defiance to the world cluded at Home overnight. They Folice surrounded the station China's ship of state has gone full speed astern to where it were the evergreen Jack Hobbs to prevent reporters from enter was before. A "China Mail" contributor, in his review of the and Ernest Tyldesley of Lanca-ing.
shirc. political outlook, insists that a storm is brewing and that a depres- Hobbs was playing for his. sion exists, but he does not predict an immediate typhoon. county, Surrey, at the Oval, "rush-hour" passeers and the Chiang Kai-shek's toothache-should not be taken too seriously, against traditional foes in York-current was cut off bringing to a the writer counsels. As "a fickle swain," he is "spurned" by the shire; but no advantage was gain- standstill the whole westside and
underground system and result Kwangs Big Four, As a leader who "spends his time pottering ed by either side. about," he is in danger of being supplanted by the "Christian For the champions, Tyldesleying in tremendous overcrowding
had the satisfaction of seeing his at all stations. General,"
Police reserves were called out Rival factions are at loggerheads. Each is striving, to circum-side run up a total of 542, Watson vent the other. Yet none is prepared to risk a dust up just now, contributing 236, and winning by and every ambulance in the city was summoned for. emergency it appears.
eight wickets,
The Hon. L. H. Tennyson, a duty-Reuter's American Ser- former Test captain, hit up 217 vice. against the West Indies. Detaila follow:-
NO "BUST UP "
YET.
[By Li Chung-yin."]
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Lancs. Victory.
London, Yesterday. At Brighton, Sussex lost to Lancashire by eight wickets. Scores:-
whether provincial semi-auto- Wholesale sulking by leading nomy is to go by the board.
In a resolution to which Mar- Nationalist officials is importantshal Chiang Kai-shek and his not so much because it creates a former love, the Extremista, gave situation as that it reveals one special weight, backed by the (Wensley 107). which bodes ill for the Nanking influence of the "Christian Gen- Government,
In other countries, once such a matter is brought into the full light, it must be dealt with even though drastic measures be no cessary. China is different from the rest of the world, at the moment.
Sussex 300 runs and 282 runs
Lancs. 542 ruma for 9 wkts., eral" (who hopes to instal him-[dec. (Watson 236, Tyldesley, E., self as the new overlord at Nan-118) and 41 runs for 2 wkts. king), the fifth plenary session.
Surrey v. Yorks. blandly announced that provin
At the Oval, the match between cial branches of the Nationalist Surrey and Yorkshire was left Political Council will 'cense to drawn, no decision being arrived function on Jan. 1, 1929.. at even on the first innings.
Those at whom the resolu-Scores:-
tion was directed made no York 325 runs (Oldroyd 124). protest. In effect they quoted Surrey 273 runs for 4 wkts. the famous Asquithian phrase: (Hobbs 105).
We have the unique circum-Wait and See." stances of several rival factions
Somerset Win.
One thing the aimed-at party: At Taunton, Somerset defeated being nt loggerheads, each did do. Seizing the Nanking Worcestershire by an innings and scheming its hardest to cir-Agreement with Britain as an76 runs. Scores:-
cumvent the other, and none opportunity not for what it Somerset 497 runs (Young yet prepared to jeopardise the stands for, but because the man 153). nominal degree of co-operation who had signed it is a protege of Worcester 214 runs and, follow- which keeps the Nationalist the "Christian General" the op-ing-on, 207 runs. Party together as the power position of Hankow denounced behind the Nationalist Govern-that part of the Nanking organ- ment.
Such circumstances existed be. fore the calling of the fifth plen- ary session this month.
NO BUST UP.
Notts v. Essex.
At Trent Bridge, Nottingham- isation represented by Dr. C. Tshire took first innings points Wang as head of the Foreign from Essex. Scores: Ministry.
A COUNTER-SMACK. To understand this counter- smack at Nanking, it is necessary to explain the antecedents.
Notts 814 runs, and 169 runs for 8 wkta., dec.
Essex 226 runs and 16 runs for 2 wkts.
the
In other words, the Chinese
Warwick v. Northants. ship of state has gone full speed
At Branches of the Political Coun-
Coventry, Warwickshire- several cil function in certain cities as beat Northamptonshire on astern to where it was
of the first innings. Scores:- times this year, for instance, dur-the local reproduction
principal Nationalist Government Warwick 298 runs for 8 wkta.. ing. the period immediately fol-in Nanking. Their powers are dec, and 101 runs for 1 wkt. lowing the Tsinan imbroglio with very wide but such are centred in Japan, or just after the "capture" the No. 1 General of the territory of Peking, or just before the fifth plenary session was held.
At each of these stages dis- cord was rampant. Yet there was no bust up, no resumption of war between the factions. In view of what has gone be- fore, the safest conclusion come to is that discontented parties will continue to sulk and to scheme but not risk a war.
Would it be too optimistic, though, to think that things have reached such a pass that publie opinion is the chief de terrent which keeps the war- lords from war?
ATMOSPHERICS. :
concerned.
There are
Northants 163 runs.
Another Drawn Game, At Cardiff, Glamorgan and branch Political Leicestershire drew. Scores:- Councils at, and dominated by --- Leicester 864 runs for 7 wkts.,
Glamorgan 93 runs for 4 wkts.
Hants v. Tourists.
Canton: Marshal Li Chat-sum, one of the Kwangsi faction's Big Four..
{dec.
At Southampton, Hampshire Hankow: General Li Trung-drew with the West Indies tour- fen and General Pei Ching-hsi, jing team. Score:-- two more of the Kwangsi Big Hants 429 runs (Newman 118, Four.
Hon, L. H. Tennyson 217), and 32 [Note: The fourth of the big 'ans runs for 2 wkts. is General Wong Shiu-hung of Kwangsi province.]
Kaifeng Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Christian General."
Taiyuan: General Yen Hai-shan of Shanai.
The "Christian General," be it The matter being problemati-noted, openly sponsors abolition
of Council branches. Centralisa-
cal, the answer can only be tion of control at Nanking will theoretical. But evidence has not suit his book. The others oppose been lacking that a crisis of the it. first order was on its way.
POTTERING ABOUT.
And as a political meteoro The Kwangst Big Four have logist, I say, after recourse to steadfastly and consistently re- the most delicate instruments sisted all efforts to make them and involved calculations, that vassal of Nanking because, ob- a storm is brewing.
viously, as vassal they will
But I cannot say that the have to render tribute in the storm is here. There is a de- shape of a portion of their local pression, like one of those revenues, which Mr. Claxton tells us
Chiang Kai-shek's difficulties about from time to time as be- are great. No wonder he should ing on the fringe of the Pacific, have such bad toothache. To, near the Philippines. Whether carry through at the fifth plenary that depression will develop session the programme which into a typhoon or not remains was to be his political gain, he to be seen. A
Bought the hand of the Extrem Communism v. anti-Communism ist group at the cost of being is not to be the issue at stake. spurned as a fickle swain by the The bone of contention arises Moderates. from the very root of the forma tion of the one central adminis- tration for the whole of China, a ASQUITHIAN PHRASE
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Currents are how movin in
cles towards the test set down for the first of next year,
And if he goes pottering about aimlessly, with a velled threat of staying outside the sphere of Nationalist activities as his best effort in statesman- ship, he may find himself face
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THE "SUI
Tunney says that Heeney was game. Yet there was no is indicated in an overnight wire-grouse about him. less despatch.
Having seized Chefoo after a sortie, and then counter-attacked understanding cannot," says
"The peace that passeth all
General successfully,
Chang contemporary, "be hoped for in
Is that so? Taung-chang has staged another this world." episode by straddling the road from the interior of Shantung to Chefoo.
He chartered the Japanese steamer "Maolure Maru" and load- ed it with troops, guns, bombs and stores and sent these across the Gulf of Chihli to the port of
TAI" FIRE.
PICTURE SHOWS THE LIST on the "Sui Tai” when the - flames were eventually subd ued.—(Welcome Studio).
400 MILES AWAY.
Latest Typhoon News.
A feeble anti cyclone is central over S.W. of Japan..
The typhoon is about four hun- dred miles south of Hong Kong blowing westward.· ́
E. winds, moderate, fair at first, seme rain later, is the forecast until noon to-morrow.
The following telegrams were received from the Manila Obser- vatory at 9.00 am, to-day:
24, 4.00 p.m. Typhoon in about 120 deg. Long. E. and 18 deg. Lat. N. moving W.N.W.
Typhoon in about 135 deg. Long. E, and 17 deg. Lat. N. mov-
West Indies 413 runs (Martining N.W. |185).-Reuter.
HOSES AT WORK on
Hong Kon
24, 8.00 p.m. Cyclone or Ty-
THE "SUI TAI” FIRE,
ire at her
Lungkow, on the northern coast of Shantung.
"Shark in Harbour," announced our evening, contemporary in a poster this week...We sincerely trust it did not bite the reporter who made a prize scoop
a few years ago with his story of the garoupa with a child's arm inside its anatomy.
'Dr. Randall Davidson, late Archbishop of Canterbury, speaks
it sounds like a grocer's job. provisions" of the existing law. of a committee to "weigh the
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An oven is being invented, What we want to see now is a food without supervision and says a London paper, which cooks race between an electric hare and an electric tortoise.
blows a whistle when everything is ready.. Other advan- tages, in Hong Kong at least, are
The New Reporting:-First that it cannot "squeeze" and hash up a case, than ignore the never asks leave to go to "Canton corrected version, and then refuse more far." to say you're sorry.
The two stages of journalistic We hear of a temperamental decline:-(I) Mis-reporting, '(II) actress who threw up her missed reporting:
part sick.
She must have been
On his way back to his native village to get married during the "Civil Servant in the Dock,"-aummer holidays, a. Chinese local heading... Another Im- schoolboy rushed into a clan fight maculate Immersion?
Many a plump person goes to a fat-reducing quack, and away sadder and wider.
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comes
... It was useless, however; his clan won.
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Really, this is too bad. Here is a famous heraldic artist so far forgetful of the great dignity of Some football spectators hav. his calling as to suggest that the ing spent the summer in watching flower to be incorporated in the baseball at Happy Valley, hawk-coat-of-arma which Sir Alfred ers are expected to do a brisk Mond, as a peer, must possess business in cotton wool during should be Al-Mond Blossom. the coming season in sales to What next?. sensitive players.
One firm, however, has offered a case of the stuff to the new Referees Association so that the hawkers will not have an oppor- tunity of putting up prices.
The favourite flower of the dance-maniac ought to be the jazz-mine.
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While repairs were being effected at the City Hall bend in the tram-lines, a traffic policeman with a green armlet was put on duty to divert motor vehicles up by the Bank... A very ap- propriate distinction in colour, we think, and one that should be worn by many more. traffic con- stables.
Chang Tsung-chang himself is
On the other hand; motorists remaining in safety, near the An enraged pedestrian is stat- are hoping that more traffic Manchurian frontier,. and has ed to have thrown a brick at the gadgets will be put up so that established his headquarters in head of a P.W.D. foreman in if they are hauled up for flinging Chinwangtao, a port much used in charge of excavations in crushing remarks with impunity summer by the British Fleet, Queen's-road.... We wonder they can-say that such were not
On the other hand, units of the how the marksman would have directed at individuals. Manchurian Army hitherto occu-fared with any moving target.
stance, at Lauhsien, are being withdrawn to Shanhaikwan.
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pying exposed positions, for in-
:
"We stand back of every auto
A horrified cry comes from Manchester. A man wearing a blazer, with club crest, has been
Most serious, surely, would be
The Kailan Mining Administra-we sell," says an ad. Fine! The
quiet.
tion zone at Tongshan remains front end is the dangerous end. seen on the Royal Exchange.
phoon W. of Northern Luzon less than 100 miles distant moving W. or W.N.W.
品质
"I would sooner be known, as a the complaint about the running- good actress than a beautiful short of some members. woman," says Dolores Del Rio. On the other hand, many a stage favourite would rather be known now, we understand, is not to The fashion at bathing pienies a beautiful good woman.
actress than a brag about distances swam but
as
about the length of sharks seen close by.
This last mentioned typhoon is apparently the one that has been moving in the direction of Hong Kong for the past two daya. Áð. A Summary Court debtor said cording to the above it is just last week that he had quite
A headline says: "Fight at a over 400 miles from the Colony.forgotten whether he owed any wedding," but the fighting gen- thing ...Some chit-eigners erally starts after the honey- would give anything for shroffs to have a memory like that.
moon.
The top-hat is under a cloud Hotel residents complain of because of the "fear complex" in the dance-bands which prevent men in matters of fashion, says them from getting any sleep an expert Man has ever
.That makes them sit up!
been a shy creature where clothes are concerned. Even Eton and The Colonel of a Canton regi- quail when they wore their first Harrow boya have been known to ment, says a vernacular paper, has declared that he will fine any
spat.
man under him who neglects his duty There is nothing like Sessions that a very diminutive It was revealed at the Criminal
a cut for making a soldier look robber stole several suits of
smart
There is no fun like work," says Mr. Selfridge
Some people, however, cannot see the joke, pokona o mes
Couldn't women's clothing resist the charm of short skirts, we suppose?
Marchal Chiang Kai-shek is singularly silent this week skoler The dentist who treated him for toothache must have used effec-. Writing homes about China, 8 traveller said that Chinese wives
tive gas. NAVANSES have to wait for their husbands In spite of what the Chief to speak first In Hong Justice said about children wa. Kong, however, foreign husbands think there is some sense in the still have to wait until their wives atop t
bright green lizard appeared in King's-ro Chelsea, and was
min
saying that is better to coax a baby to be good than to let it grow. up to be good for nothing. koj Reso
Mention at the Sessions, of attacks on the veracity of wit the nesses, reminds us that many a that true word is seaken through to