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TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1929.
CLASH IN HONAN
FENG'S SUPPORTER HELPING NANKING
MORE DESERTIONS
AMANULLAH AND SOURIYA
DEPOSED ROYALTY
EX-KING AND QUEEN NOW IN BOMBAY
MOHAMMEDAN SYMPATHY
London, festerday.
Shanghai, To-day. The report of a former Fengi Yu-sang supporter, General Han
the! Fu-cha, refusing to desert Nanking-forces has been confirmi ed by several reports from inde- pendent sources. A clash between A Bombay Government represen. Genral Han's troops and those tative met the special train convey- under General Sun Liang-cheng, ing ex-King Amanullah, ex-Queen pro-Feng Yu-halang man, has Souriya and party on their arrival been reported to have taken place here. in Western Honan. General Sun's mait forces are concentrating at Loyang and Chengehow; which is the objective of General Han's at- tack.
Other of Feng's subordinates, Ma Sung-kwei and Sih Yao-san, are also deserting Feng and are The increased tonnage is account-marching their forces in the direc ed for by the expanding buy- ing power of the East-Reuter.
tion of Chengchow from Hsucheng and Yiucheng, on the Peking-Han- how-Railway, according to reports
PROVINCIAL RULES in out by Nanking.
NUMBER AND STANDARD OF
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Canton, Yesterday. Drastic measures to limit the number and to regulate the stan- dard of all middle schools es tablished and maintained by local authorities of various districts of Kwangtung were
considered and
adopted by the Educational Experts' Committee ander Consultory Com- mission of the Construction of Kwangtung, at a meeting held yes- terday afternoon, of which Mr. Wang Chia was chairman.
Steps to this effect had to be taken as middle schools without the proper standard of education have been increasing in numbers. The following regulations were adopt ed:----
(1) No junior middle school is allow- ed to be established in a district city which has not more than 40 high primary schools.
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(2) No senior middle school is allow ert to be established in a district. which has more than 18 jenior middle schools, (3) A district city, already having a junior middle school, is not al- lowed to have another within the are of 50 square miles unless it is found that this middle school has insufficient, accommoda- tion for a large number of sta- dents.
(4) A senior middle school, if any, in any district aity is forbidden to adopt the same curriculum as that adopted by another one in the same city which is establish- ed by the Provincial Government. (5) Any middle school established by
local district authorities quired
to be registered at the Provincial Education Department and ratified by same before it can begin to enrol students. (6) A middle school which is trans- formed from a high primary school must have financial sup-
is re-
The public were excluded from the platform.
Amanullah, looking depressed and fatigued, Immediately drove off rapidly in a Rolls-Royce motor car amid ahouts of "Allah Huakbar", | ("God is great") from the crowd of
Mahommedans and Pathans.
This Mahommedan cry is one of condolence at funerals and in other troublous times.
The ex-Queen and others follow ed in other cars,
There was also an ambulance Request to Hankow According to a report from offi- with nurses, which was kept in cial circles in Nanking, the Nan- readiness, in view of Souriya's im- It drove king military headquarters has re-minent accouchement. celed a telegram from Genern away empty. Has asking for reinforcements in order to take over Honan in the Conse- shortest possible period.
The party is staying at the Tsj Mahal Hotel. Reuter.
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To the influenza epidemic which raged during the early weeks of this the fact that year is attributed with one exception, the death rate for the first quarter of 1929 is the quently, the Nanking military au- highest recorded for any first quar- thorities have instructed the Han-ter of the present century. kow Government to take active steps to assist Han Fu-chu.
Deaths registered number 201,299. This was 67,978 more than in the A later report says that Gen-corresponding quarter of 1928. eral Sun Liang-cheng's troops are The death rate was 21 per 1,000 it is claimed still being heavily engaged by for 11.63 of which the pro-Chiang force, and General influenza Sun is still able to maintain his cause.
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This rate was exceeded only in the feared that General Sun may not first quarter of 1919 when influenza be able to offer resistance very much was again responsible for the death longer as other loyal forces of rate of 21.3 per 1,000.- British are withdrawing Wireless Service. Feng Yu-hsiang from Western Honan to the Shen-
si borders. Feng's forces at Tangkwan are also beginning to CAMPAIGN OF FEAR evacuate.--Nan Chung Kuo News Service.
Earlier News
Hankow, Yesterday. The tension is easing locally with the prospects of delay in the General opening of hostilities,
Ho Ying-ching, who has just re-i
THOUSANDS OF SPECULATORS RUINED
DECLINE OF STOCKS
New York, Yesterday. Liquidation proceeded steadily turned from Nanking, interviewed, and relentlessly on the Stock Ex- stated that the Central Government change all day long.
was safe from every angle and that' It is computed that thousands port from other sources in addi- al the rebels would certainly be of small speculaters are ruined, tion to that which is maintained suppressed as Nanking was recaly-
to support a high primary school.
“MOPPING* MABEL"
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Shanghai, Yesterday.
Statisticians estimate that the Federal Reserve Board's "Cam paign of fear" has resulted in the deftation of stock values to bil- lions of dollars.
A Nanking report to the Kuo Min
The leading stocks declined agency dated May 25 that from 30 to 60 points from the troops of Han Fu-chu, while advanc-peak of the recent bull movement. Washington. Yesterday, ing in the direction of Chengchow, Reuter's American Service. Dubbed "Mopping Mabel" by cashed with soldiers belonging to "wet" opponents Mrs. Mabel Sun Liang-cheng has been confined Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney from Hankow. Sun Liang-cheng General and leading prosecutor in Hew up all the railway bridges on
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charges of violating the prohibition be Kaifeng-Kweiteh section of the ordered Immediate repairs to laws, announces her early retire- Lunghai Railway on May 28, while Lunghai Railway so as to facilitate Feng Yu-haiang's troops blew up a transportation of troops westward The step is believed to be due to number of bridges between Xen-in a drive against Feng Yu-halang. her dissatisfaction with the moder-chen and Menglun on the Peking-Reuter. ate attitude of the Hoover admin- Hankow Railway. istration towards prohibition.-Reu- A report from Nanking says!
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