THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
NORTHERN WAR SPREADS.
CHANG'S DECLARATION AGAINST GOVERNMENT.
PEKING DENOUNCES MARSHAL LU
·CONFLICT PROBABLE THROUGHOUT CHINA.
CHEKLANG ARMY ADVANCING' ON CHANGCHOW.
(THROUGH IKUTER'S AGENCT.]
MÜRDEN DECLARES WAR.
SHANDRAL, September, stb.
Chang Two Lin has declared war against the Peking Government and. Marshal
Wu Pei Fu
CHANG'S INDICTMENT.
Spasonai, September sth.
Marshal Chang Tao Lin has issued a
CABLES.
LATEST GABLES. [THROCA REUTER'S AGENCY.]
IRISH BOUNDARY DISPUTE.
AN IMPORTANT LETTER
INVESTIGATION BY POLITICIANS.
LONDON, Septenber sth.
FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD PEACE. BRITISH PREMIER ON THE LEAGUE.
9TB, 192
DOCTOR'S ORDERS.»
THE BRIGHTER MEDICINE
OF TO-DAY...
SCOTTISH SPORT.
COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP,
PERTH DEFEATS -FORFAR,
[BY ROBERT LVND IN THE "DAILY NEWS,”
NEWS."] [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
There is no denying that doctors aære be Ebisurnak, August 8th. Scottish cricketers had a mixed expeni. coming more reasonable. They are be ener. In the West of Scotland the game coming more tulerit of the wehknesses was "played under ideal weather condi- of ordinary men than they used to be. tions, but risewhere rain brought about They used to be always interfering with abandonment at more or less early stages. what we ate and what wh drank and ând- Fortunately the stements did not greatly ing qut what we liked and telling us tɔ interfere with the principal matches. By give it up. They sent us to bed whens losing to Perthshire on the historic North we did not want to go to bed, and they Inch Forfarshire drop out of the running made as take exercise when we did not for this sen800's Scottish Counties
want to take exercise. To put yourself - Championship title, the winning of into their hands, indeed, was to lend a County. Aberdeenshire, and Perthshire was to listen carefully to their advice which now rests between Clackmannan dog's life, and the only way to be happy
The struggle for the mastery between the and then go and do the opposite of what two great Northern rivals was of the they had told you...
Ever since a great modern specialist aving to le tenaciously fought for. "The Forikered me a diet of roast beef and bur Perthshire captain, J. A. Ferguson con-gundy, however, I became aware that a tributed an invaluable innings for the change for the latter was coming over The Right-Hon. Edward F. L. Wood, champions at a critical stage, but in the profession. I had been living for M.P.. former Minister of Education, was this department the feature of the
months on vegetables-on mock the speaker at a luncheon held on August match was the great effort made by 4 The punitive Mandate enumerating BRITAIN AND THE SOUDAN ath in connection with the City of Lon-Lindsay to force a win for the Forthi 89 made from vegetable marrows, and
don Vacation Cours in Elication ac dui, do la thấy chỉ veteran was
Chi Hsich Yuan is ordered to send an.
Losnox, September 7th. Mr. MacDonald has arrived. Inter- viewed by Router, ho stated that the foundations of world peace had been well It is hoped in "some quarters that this and truly, laid." "He was of opinion that Ulster Government may be influenced in the names Herriot and Geneva would be layour of agreeing to appoint a Boundary for ever associated with the new world Commissioner by the action of Lord Balera. M. Herriot has declared for the four in publishing a letter to Lord Birken first time that we seriously envisaged head, one of the acgotiators of the Anglo-practical measures to enforen and ensure Irish Treaty. The former wrote to him in peace apart from the commissioners' work |expeditionary force against tas, white all March, 1940, strongly contending that the of elaborating schemes All the schools military officers in that region are in-boundary clause meant that a Boundary and universities must be taught that our structed to co-operate with Chi for the Commission was intended to make only countries aim at peare, ahil not war.
minor readjustments, and saying it was restoration of peace and urder, and alsineonceivable that any competent and WORK OF THE TEACHERS. usual grim character, every run scored for the protection of foreign lines and banest arbitrator could take the opposite property. The Mandate saya the Pre-view. Thirty members of the House of
sident's chief object is to maintain pener
Commons of all parties are new touring the boundary region and investigating and pacify the people. -
the situation.
by Yang Haarig's crimes and ordering Belegraphie proclamation in which he says armed tores to be ued to bring iu to thhellespite the fact that the people of submission on the authority of the Central China are suffering from military appres-Government was promulgated after being discussed at a special Cabinet meeting sion mul that nine homes out of ten in
this afternoon. A communiqué states the
w
MEETING WITH ZAGĦLI'L IN LONDON.
LONDON, September 8th. Router understands that Zaghiul Pasha has informed Mr. MacDonald that, he is
MISSIONARIES OF
CIVILISATION.”
at
some
mock chicken made from haricot beans and bread crumbs. foam on principle a the Imperial Hotel,
at the wicket Forfarshire's prospects wäre
vegetarian. but I suppose I must have Mr. Wood said they had now euse for bright, but the later barsmen failed to hope that education was being definitely culats hint, and Perthshire won deser-Practised my principles the wrong way, for they were making me haggard. Even lifted out of the danger of being treated vedly. The match between Clackmannan
so, 1 do not think I could have departed
aspirations seemed to be shattered when
soon as he mentioned" the words roast
Szechuan, Bran, Kwangsi and Kwang Government at first hesitated to issue the ready to meet himr. MacDonald has a question of party politics. (Hear & County and Fifeshire was even more ex from them exceps under the strictest tung have been picked fare, am, in addi Mandate but has now done so because la accordingly sent a communication hoping hear.) As a result of that, he thought/Citing. The Wee County's Championship doctor's orders. But I confess that, as tion, deught has affected more than ten openly revolted against the Central Gov- that the meeting will accur towards the that those who had its interests at heart in just under two hours they were dis-beef." I began to feel better already, and end, of September. It appears almost could look forward with some degree of nisa for a moderate 70. Fifeshire, how it would have been flying in the face of certain that the meeting will be in confidence to steady progress along eyer, fared, even worse. Though Halley.
crnment.
The Mandate has 'in view Provinces, which, are in a pitiful plight, the hastening of the end of civil war.
President Tab Kun and Marshal Wu Pei "Fa. with perverted minds, are bent more than ever upon showing their ferocious tangs. Not only have they shown no sym- path towards the affected provinces, but they are afflicting hitherto unaffected regions with military calamities.
OX
THE MARGH,
TO ATTACK THING
Marshal Lu in a communique states that
the Chekiang second army, comprising 20,000 meng yesterday morning advanced from Chaughing. 10 miles south-east of Taihu lake, in the direction of bing, 30
miles north.
A report was received this morning that the Chekianites were only 10 miles fron thing, which is expected to fall to-day or tomorrow. The main objective is believed to be Changehow, which is the Kiangsu headquarters.
The wickedness of Tao Kun and Wa Pei Fu." he says, "has accumulated mountain-high. They have bribed Mem- bers if Parliament in order to stent their present positions, have destroyed the self- government system and are trying to appropriate the remitted Boxer Indemn ity to their own ends.". Chang Tso Lin adds that they have been allowed some
FIGHTING AT LIÚHO. There have been attacks and counter- respite only because of the intensity of j the distress of the people, which has made attacks at Linho, where, a rewanganiqué „him refrain froin causing further devasta-ars, the position remains practically the
tion to China.
Chang Tso Lin adds:2" I feel it my bounden duty to lead my Artus und swear to rid the country of these taitors, therely removing the obstacle to our National peave and reviving the vitality of the people. Nobody will be disturbed wherever my Army happens to be, as my only object is to kill the chief offenders,
Am
་
London in view of the fact that Mr. MacDonald, owing to numerous engage. ments, is unable to leave England.
THE WORLD'S SPORT.
HOME RACING.
ST. LEGER.
THE
Loxpos, September sth. Latest St. Leger scratchings are: Burslem at 11/0 to-day and Hurstwood. The St. Leger probables are giver on, other page. I
OBITUARY..
MISS GORDON-CUMMING.
Loypos, September sth. The death announced of Miss C F Gordon Cumming.
and scientific lines. received considerable assistance from the
nature to do anything but go out end obey him as soon as possible at the near-. est restaurant.
As for burgundy, I had not the saber objection to it on principle that I had to beef, but I had been drinking water for several years, and had come almost to like it. That may be the reason why argued at first against the doctor's
"All-I
agreed, rational. That would be an intense advantage, state of the pitch, his six Fife wickets for Nevertheless, whatever Parliament might seven runs must rank as one of the best try to do, everything depended on the bowling performances of the season. teachers, who were the missionaries of
Though the prospects of Drumpellier re. civilisation. (Cheers.) Education."if it taining the Western Union Championship title are slighter as the result of their meant anything, must always mean the defent by West of Scotland the position play of mind on mind, and the reaction in this competition has if anything been of one mind on another. Intelligence was
made more open. «Uddingston, with five prescription in this matter. very wayward and fastidious thing matches still to play, against three by want you to do,” he said, with a persus- and it was not to be dragooned or cour Kelburne, the present leaders, would apsive sunile, is to drink ons small glass red, though it could be influenced by per- pear to hold the better chadees. -".. sonality was said that only a frac tion of an iceberg was seen above the water In the same way he believed that, whatever appearance of permanence the ordinary everyday activities of life might assume, the feal seeds of man's hopes and aspirations and his divine dis contenis were buried in much deeper
could we
not
Counties Championship. Clackmannan, 70: Fife, 51. Perth, 1945 Forfar, 114.-,
Westera. Union, - Clydesdale, 136; Ayr, 99. Uddingston, 80; Poloc; 75. West, 146; Drumpellier, 83.
Club Matcher. Watsonians, 128: R.H.S., E.P., 44... Kelburne, 158; (las. H.S., F.P. 08.
"
11 Nov "two
of burgandy with each meal." 30." I protested vehemently; glasses." Well, then, two,” he laughed, wring at once the reasonableness of my attitude, so long as your glasses aren't tumblers on stalks." While doctors are
prepared to meet us half way in this fashion, I for one shall continue to sing the praises of the profession.
LEAVE SMOKERS ALONE.
Miss Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming, who has passed away "at the Fifteen hundred more reü:forcement age of 87, after travelling in the East soil, and although
for about 12 years, devoted the later
sec Them, we knew most certainly ATHLETICS. have been sent to Lithe from Shanghai years of her life to the development of
Of course, doctors differ on points such the invention of the Numeral-Type for that they existed. Therefore, the At the Rangers' Athletic sports, there to-day.
the use of illiterate Chinese, both blind teachers who turned their pupils cub Champions ever seen at a Scottish meet only, righ to consult representatives of
was the most distinguished gathering of as I have mentioned, and I think it is e and seeing in Mandarin-speaking dis tricts of Chinn. She was the 12th child into the world with the generous spiriting. E. H. Liddell put it fine perth schools of thought. I myself behave of Sir William Gordon-Cumming, the of adventure, which was faith, and the formance in winning the invitation
quarter-mile from scratch, and Cin the matter with the most scrupulous stoun. 1.
and the sense of sympathetic understand race; while J. V. Scholz, the 200 metres
BIG CONFLICT PROBABLE.
LONDON, September 8th.
There appears every prospect that second Baronet, of Aityre and Gordon-power of perseverance, which was hope, Grifiths won the half-mile "invitation impartiality. I know two specialists, one Chang Tso. Lin's grave action will lead to one of the biggest, cunfliers in China; since the Revolution, involving all the
EARLIER CABLES. GERMANY AND WAR GUILT.
ing of the difficulties of others, which was Olympic champion, placed the 190 yards of whom is an enthusiast for water, and charity, could rest assured that they had not been unfaithful to their trust, what-iron to a credit by a narrow marti: other of whom has such a fanatical ever they might have done in the teaching in from R. McLean, to, whom he en faith in wine that he would almost order
leaving all others absolutely namolested. | Yangtze and Northern provinces. The MAY REPUDIATE RESPONSIBILITY, / of actual knowledge, (Cheers.)
Let the Sap of Heaven witness this utter- ance of mine."
PEKING DENTAL,
pircular telegrani.
PEKİNG DENOUNCES LE,
BERLIN, September 7th.
crded 4) yards.
it for a new-born baby. When I feel I should like to drink water, I consult the
The French Ambassador, acting under temper, and one of the symptoms of that | FELLOWSHIP OF THE BRITISH former because. I know he will tell me
EMPIRE EXHIBITION.
Under
SCHOLARSHIPS,
Since the war, the speaker went on, struggle began with the attempt of the
they had all been irritable and in a bad powerful Chihli party, under China's
state of minil was that the symptoms of military dietaton Wu Pei 'Eu, to obtain
to drink water. When I feel I should M. Herriot's instructions. has informed that state of mind was that the imagina- control of Shanghai and the rich sur-Herr Malzahn, the Foreign
tion was dull, and that one judged by TEN THOUSAND POUNDS. FOR PERING, September, stb.
like a glass of wine. I consult the second. things that were obvious and near to The Government denies knowledge of rounding region without which he is un-Secretary, that the despatch of Ger- one's hand. It had made them a prey to the
[becnase I know he will insist on my drink- Press, which told them what they ought
ing wine. The system works extra- Chang Tao Lin having declared war in a able to complete the project of extend. many's note disehiming responsibility for to think, and this they foliowed blindly Empire Scholarships to the value of prdinarily well, and what. I like espe ing their control in the Northern pro- the war would at the present juncture like sheep. (Laughter.) That was natural 10.000 will shortly be available as a vinees to the rest of the country. But create a bad impression in France, there but unfortunate. To most of them the result of the success of the Fellowship of cially, about it is that it relieves the most difficult task was to think inde- the British Empire Exhibition. Up to patient from the far too common neces- the Chekiang nillitary governor is helped fore it would not be to, Germany's inpendently if that task were easy it month ago receipts from subscriptionssity of disobeying doctor's orders.
tise. (Laughter.) The first advertiser | £30,000. This represents a total member
should not go to him unless I knew her discovered the human weakness that, if ship of nearly 25,000 Fellows. one went on saying the same thing long When the Scholarship scheme was first would tell me to do what I wanted to enough, then the proposition would be launched, it was hoped that at least ten da assented to out of sheer fatigue. (Laugh- per cent of the revenue could be devoted
The latest example of the brighter and ter.) That was really the secret of adverto educational purposes. As the audited
Yet, if Mising
was unfortunate that accounts show, this expectation has been inore reasonable medicine of the presents they should allow their tailor or dress more than realised: instead of ten per age is the statement of Capt. Whitney, maker to set the fashions they had to cent. there is about twenty per cent avail Secretary of the National Hospital or follow in the matter of dress, it was able.
Diseases of the Heart, that excessive There are now" being added to the smoking does not cause heart disease. I doubly or trebly unfortunate that they
I
Pexisa, "September 7th. "The Government has openly come out Canton President. Sun Yat Sen, who are ted that his Government was averse to against Chekiang by issuing a Mandate both now intervening in his favour. sending the note, but felt bound by its depriving Marshal Lu Yung Hsiang of
HOME PRESS COMMENTS. pledge to the German Nationalists, who his official rank and ordering Marshal
LONDON, September 8th.had made the note one of the conditions Chi Hsin Yuan, Military Governor of The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic cor- of their support of the Hawes agreement Kiangsu, to send an expedition to com respondent says the movement in favour It is understood that Herren Marx au pel the rebels to submit to the "Central of the Powers pacificially intervening in Stresemann, who are on holiday have Government,
by the powerful Chang Tso Lin and the terests to send it. Herr Maltashn admit. would be little use, for anyone to adver- of members had reached in round-figures always do what the doctor tells me. I
J
SPECIAL INSURANCE RATES.
sent to the Allies or not. Lord D'Aber non has not yet been instructed to make representations similar to the French A
bassador's.
BRITAIN'S WARNING.
China is rapidly gaining ground both been asked, whether the note should be should feel they had to follow the fashions Scholarship Fund donations from various faay, he admits, cause disordered action of the mind. Ife pleaded, therefore, that sources, including the Kensington Colf the heart, but this can easily be cured. in the teaching of the future, citizens, Inge, the Thomas Wall Trust, Mis A. The Peking Mandate quotes a telegram in America and Britain.
they should seek to train the faculty of Fiocchi, Mrs. L. G. Hannam, Miss F. M. either by reducing the amount of tobacco from Chi Hsieh Yuan of September 4th The Daily News says it is our duty ta
independent thinking.. He did not say Studholme and others. It is expected consumed or by a period of abstinence. that they should ignore or underrate the that further special donations will I should, I admit, feel happier if he had in which he mentioned that Lu Yung Take a share with other European powers
inherited wisdom of the race, but bo received, and there is also a reasonable said that it did not need to be cured Haing on September 3rd issued in the defence of the foreign colony of
Lought, the really sane person was he anticipation of a good addition to the at all, but that disordered action of the who struck the balance between inde- Scholarship Fund from the Associate heart was on the whole rather good for circular telegram denouncing the Central | Shanghai.
In connection with the question of Ger-pendence of thought and regard for the Branch of the Fellowship which has now a man. This notion of cutting down the Government opened fire on the Kiang-
many's war guilt, the Vorwerth Geneva part, for that combination constituted been instituted. If, in the organisation amount of tobacco consumed savours too what we meant by sanity. Sooner or later of this Association Branch, the same demach of the harsh unsympathy of the old- "Buites on the 4th. It says President Tand The Times states that there has been a correspondent states that the news that the child of today was going to vote Can-gree of eronomy can be maintained, it is fashioned medicine, and the idea of total Kuo ha received telegrams from Wa Pel demand in the London market for special the German Government intended to send nervative, he hoped-(laughter)-Liberal hoped that twenty per cent. of its receipts abstinence from tobacco if one has not a noto to the Allies repudiating its guilt perhaps, or Socialist perhaps (laughter) also will be available for the Scholarship really heart disease will seem to most Fu. Wang Chen, Ping, Feng Yu Halang, insurance of property in China against sused general stupefaction. Mr. Mac. and it might be that when they were Fund
smokere positively absurd. The first-part all fifty years older they would take a The trustees of the Scholarship Fund- of Capt. Whitney's statement sounds ta Hsiao Yao Nau and Wonghun Ti-ching the risk of damage by war or civil compie Donald telegraphed warning the German wiser view of the alternative policies of Lord Askwith, Lord. Leigh and Sir Henry me so reasonable, and is so much in tunet drawing attention to the necessary to tion. The property covered is mostly in Government against committing such an the political parties. What was import MoMahon--will defar detailed decisions with what I have always hoped, that I act of folly. Mr. Branting and Dr. Nanant was the fact that, whichever way the as to the employment of the Fund until trust he will reconsider the second parti punish. Yong Hsiang. Lu's actions, warehouses of the leading cities, notably sen acted similarly."
child voted, that vote would help to settle the close of the year. But the general and amend 16 in such a way as to bring na reported in the telegrama, show that Shanghai. A good deal of business was A high British personage declared that the destinies of a great number of human principles have been agreed to, that about permanently cordial relations be- bo is a rebel and disturber of the peace, dons a few days ago on the basis of a would be finished. Apparently the warn throughout the world, and it was at value of £100 to £1,000, and, so far as make no unreasonable demands. All wo if Germany did this, then everything beings, not only in this country, but Scholarships will range from a total tween amokers and doctors. We smokers The President has therefore decided to three per cent. premium but five per ings have not been without effect, for upschool that the child should be led to form possible, be used to promote inter-Im- ask is to be let alone and to be gently to now the German Government has not judgmente on rational, moral, and sound perial relations by granting Bebolarships encouraged to do sa we please. Let the dismiss La Yung Hsiang and Ho Feng coat was quoted in some quarters towards sent its note, and is undecided whether it foundations (Chears) Without the ten to young people in Great Britain to settle doctors realize this, and temper their Lin, who are deprived of their official the end of the week. The rate for the should be sent at all, though the emission cher to help them there could be no con oversong, and to young people in the advice to us accordingly, and they will to send it will arouse wrath among the fidence as to what would happen in the overseph Dominions to take educational have no warmer or more faithful friend ranks and ordere
than we. German Nationalists,
next half-century....
courses in the Homs Country.
month remained at 30%. per cent.