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“大英十月廿一號 禮拜式H 中華民國庚午年八月三十日
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1930.
EXECUTION OF "GREY? “BUTCHER OF CUBA.” PUNISHMENT FOR
GENERALS:
Fate of Leaders of Doubtful Troops.
Nanking, Sunday.
DEATH OF FAMOUS SPANISH
GENERAL.
BLACKMAILER.
Pity Whipping Cannot Be Ordered.
"It is a great pity that black- cannot be whipped," re- mailers marked the Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.) at the Old Bailey in sentencing George Frederick Hamil- ton, 45, motor driver, to five years' penal servitude..
IN NINETIETH YEAR.
Madrid, Yesterday. The death occurred to-day of the Having taken an active part nonagenarian, General Weyler, one against the Central Government of Spain's oldest national figures, at the beginning of the Yen-Feng dubbed "the Butcher of Cuba," rebellion, the "grey" generals, owing to his ruthless campaign to Wan Hsun-tsai, Yen Yin-chi, and end the War of Independence in Wang Lu-wu, who had been cap- Cuba in 1896.-Reuter. tured one after the other by the Nationalists, were executed yes
Shih Leaves Hsinhslang. terday by order of the Nationalists Shih Yu-san has evacuated G.H.Q., the former at Nanking Hsinksiang to the districts in the and the latter two at Hsincheng northern sector of Honan and The three generals formerly had southern sector of Hopei, leaving gome 100,000 doubtful troops that city to the control of the held a public office, the nature of Junder their command.
Kuominchun under Lu Chung-lin.
Hamilton had pleaded gulity to demanding with menaces three sums of £20 each from a clergyman, ob- taining £1 by false pretences from a woman and stealing a magneto.
It was stated that the clergyman
It will be remembered that Shih has further requested the which was not disclosed. Wan, leading 50,000-60,000 men Central Government through
Mr. Gerald Dodson, who prosecut-
on the Lung-Hai line fighting the General Han Fu-chu that he beed, sald that Hamilton gave himself Nationalists, was offered the post permitted to station his 60,000 up to the police at Plymouth "for
Agency.
From Other Sources.
of chairmanship of Honan by troops in either Charhar or Sui-a couple of joba ho had done re Yen Hsi-shan, but was subse yuan province.-Canton quently made a prisoner by Liu Mou-yen, a former Kuominchun general, whose sudden turn over to the Central Government was practically out of the knowledge of the former, thus resulting in his arrest.
Peking, Yesterday. A message from Taiyuanfu states that Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang ar rived there on October 14 and left almost immediately with M. Wang Ching-wei, in order to meet
Marshal Yen Hsi-ahan.
All re-
turned to Taiyuanfu on the even- ing of October 15.
News cently in London," but he had, per sistently been demanding sums of money from a clergyman, alleging familiarity between the clergyman In the and his (Hamilton's) wife. course of his duties the clergyman had befriended Mrs. Hamilton, who was under his supervision, and that was the only reason they were Stubborn Resistance.
brought into relationship at all. The other two "grey" generals
Fifteen Convictions. Wang and Yen were made cap- tives during the battle at Hain
Detective-Sergt. Northcott, who cheng on the Ping-Han line; they
It is reported at Taiyuanfu that proved Bfteen convictions against had offered a stubborn resistance against the Nationalists, and had General Shib Yu-aan haa disarm-Hamilton for larceny, embezzle. not given up their defence until e a number of the Shansi troops ment and fraudulent conversion, the report of the fall of Kaifeng hence the southern border of the said that he wrote a letter to a was confirmed. The Kuominchun province is unguarded. The Shansi titled member of Parliament threat- forces are returning from Shichia-
ening to expose him. general Chang Wei-ol who was chuang towards the South, and all also captured among the prison- the motor buses in South. Shansi ers on the Ping-Han line, was bean commandeered for the
He has continually blackmailed luckily pardoned through the re-transport of troops..
He is a commendation of General Ma
The economic situation in Shansi the clergyman?—Yes.
has robbed Fu-hsiang, and had since been ap
The plausible llar, and is continually growing worse. pointed Councillor of the Military provincial bank notes are practical people who befriended him. He got Council.
ly worthless, and the post office, in touch with members of an
Yen And Feng Meet.
The Recorder: Has he blackmail-
ed anyone else?—No.
defrauded them.
A reliable report from Peking, railway and telegraph offices all de Apostolic Church at Brixton and states that Feng Yu-hsiang, hav-mand payment in silver.
The farmers are holding up grain | In passing sentence, the Recorde ing arrived at Taiyuan last Tues- day, expressed that the Kuomin-BS they will not sell it for Shansi said his only regret was that the The result is that prices law did not give him sufficient chun troops had been handed notes. over to General Lu Chung-lin and are soaring, in apite of the best power to impose a 'more adequate that he himself was going to re-harvest for many years, and there sentence than five years' penal tire. Feng went to Yangchuan, is a serious undercurrent of dis- servitude, which was the maximum in Shansi last Thursday to inter- content. view Yen Hsi-shan, who, after having conferred with the former,
Fighting Still On.
immediately returned to Taiyuan,
Shanghai, Yesterday.
Fighting is still reported to be
and appointed Chang Yin-wu as taking place in the vicinity of
penalty,
COTTON MISSION.
EGYPT.
WORLD FEDERATION.
Acting Commander-in-Chief in Tungkwan, between the Govern. JAPAN TO SEND DELEGATION TO ment troops under Yang Fu-cheng his stead.
Another report asserts that and Kuominchun forces.
AR A Nanking message makes Feng Yu-hsiang and Yen Hai- shan have held several confer- official announcement that Chang ences in various places in Shansi, Haueh-liang has wired to Chiang
Brussels, Yesterday, deciding that both of them should Kai-shek that he is sending addi-
At the Committee of the Inter retire, but temporarily remain in tional Manchurian troops within Shansi to watch the situation by the Great Wall so as to assist in national Cotton Federation, In- handing over the military com- the maintenance of peace and or cluding representatives from the
European principal
countries, mand to their subordinates. der in Chill. Should their remaining in the The surrender of Sun, Lien- Japan decided to send a mission country opposed to, they would chung, an important Kuominchun to Egypt to investigate with the then go abroad-Feng to Russia commander, and his troops, has Egyptian Government "questions and Yen to Japan.
been accepted by Nanking.-Reu- of interest to spinners of. Egyp
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