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A STRANGE AFFAIR
NORTHERNERS AND THE OTHERS
WHEELS
AND WHEELS
Factions in the North Working Overtime
"SETTLING" WITH MANCHURIA
[By "Li Chung-yin.”]
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1928. PRICE $3.00 Per Month.
"ANKING" PIRATED
U.S.A. REPLY
NOT IN FAVOUR OF PACT
DETAILED STATEMENT
London, Yesterday. The American reply, presented to the Foreign Office, anys that the Anglo-French Naval Agreement ap
THE MASTER IS WOUNDED
THREE KILLED
CHIEF ENGINEER AND CHIEF OFFICER AMONG VICTIMS.
SHIP DUE HERE
The well-known British steamer
"Anking bolonging to the China torflold & Swire) was pirated in the Gulf of Tongking on Wednesday, Sept. 26 with dire consequences which point to a fight between the officers and the marauders.
"General Pei Chung-hsi (commander of the Nationalist Expedi-pears to fulfil none of the condi-Navigation Co., Ltd. (Mosers. But tion against the Northerners) is visiting General Chang Hsueh-tions which to the American Gov Kang (head of the Munchurian Government) for the settlement of important questions regarding the Railway between Peking and Mukden and also regarding the territory between Luanho and Shan- haikwan."
This is an extract from a significant cable from Reuter detail, ing latest developments in North China subsequent to the winding- up of hostilities between the Nationalists and the Northerners-in other words, the first developments of importance after the civil war and the extension of Nationalist Government to the whole of the twenty-one provinces.
CLIQUES WITHIN CLIQUES
trouble from him.
ernment seem vital, and ft leaves an unlimited and very large cinas of effective fighting ships; and this very fact would inevitably lead to a recrudescence of naval competition. disastrous to national economy.
. 10,090 Ton Cruisers
It appears the only classes of naval vessels which the Agreement proposes to limit are cruisers of or below 10,000 tons, armed with guns of over 6-inch and up to 8-inch calibré and submarines of over 800 tons.
The Government of the United States holds that any naval limita
The fact that the Nationallat commander has to "settle" mat- ters with Manchuria may, how. indicate much below ever, the surface-much that (if the surmise is correct) justifies suspicion, in spite of appear. ances of a united de facto ad- ministration in China, of hitherto tentative factional alliances being made for factional and not national pur- poses.
Why, then, has the "cease fre"
'Less Acceptable" Wheels within
and wheele
The present proposal is even leas eliques within cliques. That is the bean sounded by General Pel who
than the proposal portent of "settlements" or "under-now devotes his attention, Instead, acceptable atandings which, in view of the to settlement of matters relating of the British delegation
(1) the railway connecting the three-power conference. immediate past, are more emÏNCUB
China Proper and Manchuria and The Note also objects to the limit- than innocent.
(2) the war zone through which ation of submarines below 600 tons the railway runs?
with Japan's warning him against tion to be effective should apply to adopting Nationalism all go to all classes of combatant vessels and limitation of only such cruisers prove that there is no fear of would be an imposition of restric. He even com- tions only on types peculiarly suit mitted himself further. He put ed to the needs of the United States, several army corps in the field It is clearly apparent that · limita- against the Northerners, and suf- tion of this type would add enor. fered surprisingly heavy casualties mously to the comparative offensive for his pains to gain favour with power of the nation possessing the Nationalists by fighting on their large merchant tonnage whereon aide against his former colleagues, preparation may be made in peace. the Northerners.. '
time for mounting 6-inch guns.
to
Dormant Alliances
Agreement would tend to defeat the primary object of any Disarmament Conference and no useful purpose would be served by accepting them
The only other military groups were those led by Marshal Chiang as a basis of discussion. Kai-shek and Feng Yu-halang (the "Christian, General").
to
the
Unsultablo For U.S.A.
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Captain C. E. Plunkett-Cole, the popular aster, is wounded. Mr. H. Thorison, who has been 26 years in China Navigation Co., has becalled. He was the chief engt
TYPHOON COMING ?
LESS THAN 200 MILES FROM HONG KONG
SMALL CRAFT SEEK SHELTER
A typhoon is less than 200 miles from Hong Kong. It continues on its course, it is likely to pass during the week-end to the south of but close to the Colony.
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Thoughts Terse, Perversc—and Worse.
"Scots Gather."-headline... You bet they would!
"Flour dearer."....Broad, on the other hand, continues to go down.
E p.
"Shark Trimmings" is a fashion able headline. But for elaborate trimminga try a shark of Ice House street.
One of our Golden Garters goes to the "Daily Press" representative who had the courage to call the Napier wedding "one of the big gest and most interesting social | lowed by a loud report? events of the season."
We see advertised, 's Famous 'Bank'. Watch."
Batiks seem to want all the watching they can get.
"Reporter's
New adjectives will be required, however, by the time the Tattoo comes along.
At 12.45 last night, the No. 2 signal went up, indicating that a gale is expected from the north, The Royal Observatory reported:- "A depression has passed with. in 100 miles north of Pratas, moving westward. It may deve-think that blonde girls have the lop and produce a gale at Hong best time.....All the fun of the Kong,”
Mr. D. Clones, the chief offi- | - cer has been killed.
..
Pratas is the meteorological sta-
A Chinese quartermaster was] tion about 200 miles south-east by also killed
cast from Hong Kong.
E
A very brief wireless message from the "Anking" was received]. this morning Curiously, it came
"A LOOK AROUND".
A further series of chatty notes on British Colonial Government, particularly as it applies to Hong Kong, is included in the items under the heading, "A Look Around" on page 6 of this issue. The first appeared last Saturday. More Information about the busi- ness of administration will be given on successlye Saturdays.
from Honghai, Bay, which is about 70 miles from Hong Kong and be yond Bias Bay....
the "deck" clase.
Gulf of Tongking,
Expected This Afternoon Then the "Anking" must have. passed southward of Hong Kong missing the approach to Blas Bay and gone into Honghai Bay where the pirates decamped.
|
Small craft began to take shelter
A woman correspondent seems to
fair.
D C A
"Sympathy from the Bench." Not just a wooden smile.
A paper refers to a "Bottle's Ocean Travela."....With inside in-- formation?
at Causeway Bay or Yaumati this morning but a number remained be-
From what we have seen of some hind. Even the ocean-going steam-people, it doesn't take much to give ers have taken precautions.
them the hiccups.
MORE FIGHTING :
OUTBREAK WEST OF TONGSHAN
MANY PRISONERS
Chinwangtao, Yesterday, Fighting with heavy casualties
No, Emmelene; the dancing in- structors who choose the new dances for the season are not called hop-pickers,
O
Some race meeting are starting later....Punters think that some horses finish late enough already.
D
C. CO
Club for Boy Offenders,” runs |á headline.............It sounds rather has been reported west of Tong-drastic; why not try a birch first. shan (l.e., in territory hitherto cap tured by the Nationalists from the cording to a morning contemporary. We are glad to observe that, ac Northerners), but the Nationaliste Sir Henry Pollock was able to get appear to have the situation well to the wedding on Friday,.......... in hand. The surrender of North- ern troops and the round-up of A gossip merchant says that a them by Nationalists continues famous film star has had a secret prisoners from the Northern Army, ment would spoil this. with guns and, stores, have been
oved west of Kuyeh (back to their The Peace Pact has been signed; own lines) by the Nationalists, but the average theatrical manager
plece packed.
Armed resistance by Northern are against the Nationalists on the Peking-Mukden Railway at Kuych resulted in about 800 casualties That part of the railway between Lanhsien and Tientsin is now open to ordinary traffic.
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"Is dog racing straight?” asks sports writer.....On most of the tracks the animals seem to go round
1 pang ··
Missile."
It is almost impossible, we are told, for a "gun" at the butts to see a driven grouse coming head-on towards him. In such case, the onlookers see most of the game.
to?
What are our young people coming
A recent
hoadline "Abandoned Twins."
"Passion for shooting," says a headline. In Los Angeles they are sometimes shooting for passion.
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In some parts of Georgia the chief occupation of the people Is making moonshine whlaky. What
& ulce State to be in!
+
"The dollar in Europe's Or the pupil of finance.
Underground shares have risen. Did they come up on one of their own escalators?
A magazine has an article on giraffes....Sometimes when a herd swallows the wrong thing there are miles and miles of sore throat.
"Villages May Be Submerged.” ....While this may happen in the case of the villages, it is not pro- posed to water the capital.
"Radio Shares Soundings?
*Inquiry.**.
·ET ERGOING CE
To-day's Wellerism. Sweets to the suite" as the floorwafter said
into the private dining-room of the millionaire hotel guest.
A shop in North London has been
....Kind of a repeating rifle, as it were! V
"Policemen drew their batons
and charged the crowd" when they and round. AMARA :
invaded the reserved, part of the Belfast greyhound racing track. The Peak Flats"-thought they People must expect to be charged were all sharps.
extra for the reserved seats,
Manchurian troops (allies of the Nationalists) are reported to have "Is it true that we don't walk advanced westward and to be re enough?" asks a contemporary. It pairing the trench system of the depends on how far from home you enst bank of the Lan River Brare when the car breaks down. tish Naval Wireless,"
CUBA'S SUGAR
TREATY WITH AMERICA DENOUNCE IN CONGRESS.
The debutante who refuses her first proposals is already in her declining years.
A girl's hat costs more than her frock nowadays. These overhead charges! VANE
woman'
Magistrates: "My husband left me three weeks after our wedding,
told the Mansfield
saying that he was tired of married life.....It generally takes a month or so.
The M.P. who lately bought a bus company is anderstood to be In favour of fare trade.
· 1,400 Passengers The looting of ten villages by the
On Sept. 10, the "Anking" left and says the United States would Hong Kong, as usual, for Amoy Northerners was a side issue. But
gladly, in conjunction with all na Swatow and Singapore. On Sept General Pei Chung-hst did not at
tions, abolish submarines alto. tempt to clean them up, and General
It will be useful at this stage, together; but if submarines must be 28 she left Singapore to return to Over 80,000. armed and unarmed wedding "for a change."..Come when he carried the peach Melba Chang Haush-liang tried to ex- plate the crime by sending relief delineate alliances which have lain continued they should be limited Hong Kong via Holhow (the port of Hainan Island), Swatow and Shortly after the Na- to a reaonable tonnage or number. Amoy. She had 1,400 passengers to the victims. Does this mean that dormant.
of The United States would be both General Pei and General tionalists gained possession
on board, the greater majority of Chang desire to incorporate the Peking, it was widely believed that happy to continue her efforts of (of. which naval, limitation but cannot COD-
As the vessel was three days out from the Lanhalen area, during the is more concerned with having his rifled for the third time. this year Northerners in their commands and the Kwangsi Group
Pei Chung hai
sent to proposals which leave the from Singapore and had not reach- last two days. is a thus add further to their strength? General
leader), General Yen Hel-chan of door wide open to unlimited build-ed Hoihow, it is concluded that the Unsavoury Methods
Shanst, and the Manchurian factioning of certain types of ships of s The worst that can happen is that which included what remained of highly efficient, combatant value attack began on Sept. 26, in the afternoon (as stated in the wire. the several main camps constituting their vassals (classified for con- and to restrict only a type peculiar-legs), when the ship was off the the military power behind the ventence as the Northerners) had ly suitable to American needs. coast of Indo-China, or was in the Nationalist Government in Nanking į tacitly agreed on en 11-defined The terms of the Anglo-French will form two or more groups to scheme of mutual preservation-not Aght each other. That, however, necessarily aggression against all will be going a very long way comers. Space forbids detailed evidence. So I ask leave to state for granted that what has occurred during the last three months in. both, the
The United States Government
After this the "Anking" began to domestic and diplomatic spheres of
The supposed danger
does not object to any Anglo- return to Hong Kong and is expect China shows convincingly that no
French Agreement which they think ed this afternoon. Captain Plun one faction, or leader of a faction, entent was the "Christian General" is in the interest of armament kett-Cole will be met by an ambul- dares risk wholesale opposition in who has been singularly silent of imitation, but cannot consent to ance for removal to hospital. the event of his disturbing the late in the councils of Nanking, the application of such an agree- As far as I kuown, neither Mr. peace at such a critical period in probably because of insurrection in ment to the United States. The H. Thomson nor Mr. D. C. Jones is Republican China's history.
his own territory. Chiang Kai- Nevertheless, this discussion, shok has turned politician and is negotiation, or intrigue (as it can now collaborating with the Kwangsig to use her best efforts to obtain
In Denmark people take off their be) la unsavoury because it is military group and their friends, satisfactory to all Naval Powera, “SUNDAY HERALD” typical of methods that have done the Rightist politicians.
including those not represented at
hats when they enter a bank, Money always commands respect." the Chinese no good and have been Rupture now in inconceivable. the Three-Power Conference and is. To-morrow's Sunday Herald"
In regard to the trouble in the p repudiated whole-heartedly by word Therefore a logical conclusion is willing to consider, in any confer- will be another bumper issue. Cuban sugar industry, which le A Incal Club thinks that $3,900 and at least half-heartedly by deed. the General Pel is leaving the ence, Lite special needs of France Besides reports on all week-and
General Pel's Milosion
Northerners alone so that they can and Italy or any other. Naval Power. sports and other activities, it will
leading to a plebiscite of the pro- may be a high valuation for the
furniture, and equipment... sure It is noticeable, that General Felbe added to his own command or be This could be accomplished by per- again, include a number of valu- ducers on the question of the curly not. If the Agures that usually Chung-hel was expected to arrive taken into Manchuria to make mitting any of the Powers to vary able features, such as the pic-tailment, Walfrido Rodriguez, a prop the bar are thrown in. toge in Mukden, the capital of Man-either his army or Manchuria so the agreed percentage of tonnage in ture page (with scenes from ex-member of the Cuban Congress, churie, in the company of General much the stronger in numbers of classes within the total tonnage. Hong Kong and China), the world addressing the sugar planters ate
Wonder what an old-time Yang Yu-ting, chief of staff of the men
A proposal on these lines by service, women's fashions Illustributed all the trouble to the re- sergeant-major, would say to this wichuan,, • • No wond Manchurian Armies.
Is it a coincidence that General Great Britain would be sympatheti-trated, and a full page of the ciprocity treaty with the United pneumatic dril?
told that we are losing the This means that General Pel and Yen Hai-shan of Shansi should come cally considered-Reuter.
amusing antics of that screen, States.
Mantrade. General Yang are friends. But if back to Peking this week? He
favourite, Felix the Cat. there is any important question to went away when it looked as if the
Needless to say, the other settle, why need General Pel go to "Christian General" were going to
topical and Sunday articles will Mukden? General Chang Hsueh-snatch Peking. and Tientsin from
find their place." lang has sent representatives to him. Nanking to talk things over with the Nationalist Government and Nationalist spokesmen have con-- versed with Chang Heueh-liang. General Pot is a soldier, not a politician. His mission was to efect the remnants of the Northern Army from that area in the far unreasonable to think that the mem- By filing an north-east of China adjoining Man-bers of the entente referred to are allocation of churia and thus remove the obstacle making use of the opportunity to lengths for id the way of direct communication | secure
The railway between Peking and Mukden is held in sections by Yen Hel-shan's troops, Gen
American Government remains will-married..
a basis of further naval limitation
U.S. WIRELESS
KEEN STRUGGLE OPENS BETWEEN RIVAL CONCERNS
ROYAL TOUR
FAT MOMBASA
'eral Fel's troops, the Northern- RADIO CORPORATION'S MOVE WARM WELCOME FOR PRINCES ers, and the Manchurians. Accordingly, I suggest, it is not
position along the domestic
way and thus Radio espective posi
between China Proper and Man-Peking-Mukden Ra churia which incidentally, are the consolidate their two divisions (of the Chinese Botions for the public which count for nearly added, ot everyth
We never be ease Fire 1trol of
neral But
Can be no doubt
should
New York,
rday,
for the
· PLEBISCITE
Havana, Yesterday.
The well-known Bishop, who was afraid of being seen at his abiu tions, was not the Bishop of Bath
and Wells.
The police have just raided. Arz loved oner den.The per sons arrested pleaded that they were only trying to make a little, money.
Lewisham is to sum employed who refuse
"Lighthouse Contro
He contended that the Cuban A severe correspondent of a Government should denounce the morning paper says that the chief, treaty as constituting a restraint fault of modern woman. Is under prospects1 of trade. It was inefficient and dressing. And one of her chief harmful to Cuban Interests His attractions is underclothing.DE speech was loudly applauded. Reuter's American Service.
THE PRIVATBANK
ALL-NIGHT CONFERENCE IN
COPENHAGEN:
BANK SOLVENTE.
rday.
“Is it worth while to have £20,000. 0007anks the Rev. F. W Norwood. It would be worth our while de ajung
Somebody has Bottle Protector.
roof?;
“American žvisií London.
A silver suspender goes to "J.C." been for putting in, some good work at the Civil Service R.0.1-- in the library we man
best fellow
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