SHANGHAI
TO HAVE ANOTHER GENERAL
STRIKE.
ANOTHER OUTRAGE IN SHANGHAE
HEAD OF ENGLISH FIRM BRUTALLY TREATED.
SOUTHERN TROOPS NEARING NANKING.
VICTORIES FOR SOUTH REPORTED.
MORE NORTHERN DEFECTIONS.
The Shanghai General Labour Union. announce that they will call a general strike at Shanghai, beginning from to-day and lasting until the Nationalist Army enters Shanghai." The Union states in the course of a communiqué, that the strike is "purely political."
Following upon other successes in Kiangsu, the Southern troope are now within 20 miles from Nanking, China's ancient capital on the south bank of the Yangtzekiang. It is reported that the population of that city ia in a panic, evidently not so much because of the approach of the Southerners, as owing to fear, of Lae return of the Shantung troops, who have made themselves "extremely unpopular" while in Nanking.
Further defection is reported in the North, a General and enë who is stated to be both a "General and an Admiral," having gone over to the Southerners.
Another report is to hand to the effect that General Chiang Kai Shek, who is generally regarded as the Kuomintang's leading military man, has been denouncing the Communists" He de- clared to be absolutely groundiesa the rumours that he had "some acerét understanding" with the Fengtienese. But he admitted that he had had a difference of opinion with M, Borodin, which, however, was a "personal affair." "
The Soviet. Embassy, having again sent a Note to the Wai. chiaopu with reference to the Famiat, Lenina seizure, have evoked a spirited reply from the Fengtien military headquarters.
Two outrages are reported-onë from the International Settle- ment of Shanghai, the other from Chungking, far up the Yangtzo. The former refers to a very brutal attack on an aged man, the head of the well-known and old-established English firm. of Geddes & Co. The details will be found in a telegram in another column, from which it will be seen that the incident was of a particularly disgraceful character. The other outrage that at Chungking-refers to British naval atores being audaciously "commandeered" by coolies, to their plucky retrieving by unarmed naval sailors, accompanied in a motor-boat by the local British -onsul, and to a subsequent struggle with an armed Chinese mob.
ANOTHER GENERAL | NORTHERN TROOPS
STRIKE.
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TO BE CALLED TO-DAY IN
SHANGHAI
"PURELY POLITICAL
[THROUGE, LEUTER'S AQÈNCY. 1.
SHANGHAI, March 18th. The Shanghai General Labour Union will call for a general strike,
EVACUATE IMPORTANT STRATEGICAL POINT..
(CHINESE PRESS SERVICE.]
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, MARCH 19th, 1927.
A SHANGHAI OUTRAGE.
HEAD OF AN ENGLISH FIRM BRUTALLY Treated.
ATTACKED BY ARMED
ROBBERS."
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, March 19th. Four armed Chinese, yesterday, entered the house of an old man, named, C. E Geddes, the head of a well-known English firma bore, and locked up the Chinese servanta in a cupboard. They then tied Geddes legs and hit him on the face and bead with a revolver till he signed cheques totalling-Taels 8,000 They released him to-day in an exhausted condition, after the cheques had" been cashed
The crime is symptomatic of the growing lawlessness, partly as the result of the success of terrorism and partly because the foreign police, since the Mixed Court rendi. tion, do not, possess their former to eject the awarma of criminals now infesting the Settle- ment.
power
AN
OUTRAGE AT CHUNGKING.
NAVAL STORES STOLEN BY COOLIES.
BRITISH CONSUL AND
SAILORS ATTACKED.
(THROUGH REUTRE'S AGENCY.]
FERING, March 18th As an example of the kind of thing with which British naval men are having to contend with up-river is furnished by an incident at Chungking ou the 17th instant, when coolies, belonging to the so
called
Avenging Society" seized atores which were being conveyed from & gunboat to the shore canteen, and, towed them across the river to the city.
Unarmed naval'men, accompanied by the British Consul, Mr. Pratt, pursued the coplies in a motor-boat. The coolies then dropped the stores, which the naval men picked up. The latter wore returning to their Heavy firing was heard near Wu-motor-boat "with the Consul when sih which, it is believed, will sooner the mob attacked them with sticks or later fall to the Southerners and stones, forcing them to aban
SEANGHAI, March 18th. The Shantung-Chihli Alied Forces have evacuated from Chengchaw; an important strategical point lead, ing to Nanking.
MORE QUESTIONS REGARD RECORD MILE
ING SHANGHAI BRITONS.
MR. CHURCHILL'S EMPHATIU NEGATIVE
(TAROTOR TER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 17th.
INDOOR RACE.
RAN IN NEW YORK BEFORE 10,000 EXCITED SPECTATORS.
easy
THROUGH AMERICAN SERVICE]
pro.
In the House of Commons, the question as to British subjects in
New York, March 16th. Shanghai contributing to the cost The slim Swedish champion, of the Defence Force
was again Edwin Wide, running with smooth raised at question time and brought an emphatic answer
strides and the thick rot from Mr. Churchill, who had stated that the
American champion. Hahn, patriotic offers of the British Com-ressing with swift choppy stops, manity of Shanghai in war time grimly contested every yard of a regarding income tax had been mile race amid the frantic excite dropped or account of the Con- ment of 10,000 spectators at Madi- .itutional issues involved.
son Square Gardens, terminating in a victory for Haha by four yards, His time was one-fifth of a second above the record.
Comdr. Kenworthy suggested that these patriots should now be asked
to contribute to the cost of the Defence Force, and the Chancellor evoked Conservative cheers by re- plying "Certainly not. They have been suffering more than any other class of British subjects."
NATIONAL BANK OF CHINA SHARE CERTIFICATES,
SENSATIONAL ARRESTS IN
BARCELONA.
[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
MADRID, March 17th. Barcelona newspapers report the arrest of three foreigners in whose 'rooms were discovered a large num- ber of share certificates of the National Bank of China, which are believed to have been stolen from a London bank.
A CHARGE OF "EXTREME GRAVITY."
EX-LIEUT.-COMDR. BROUGHT UP AT BOW STREET.
BAIL REFUSED.
[TÉROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 17th Bow Street Palice Court, was crowded at the opening of a case which the detective described as of "extreme gravity," relating to a retired Naval Lieut.-Commander, Furness, who is charged with an named Colin Mayers, of Barrow-in-
offence under the Official Secrets
Act, the exact nature of which was
undisclosed.
The detective, speaking in a whis.
beginning from to-morrow and inst-hands. It is reported that all the don the stores. The party reached per," asked for a remand
"till the Nationalist Aray ing enters Shanghai."
In the course of a communiqué the Union states that the strike is purely political.
SOUTHERNERS "CLOSING- IN" ON NANKING,
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, March 18th.
The Southerners are closing in on Nanking. Their latest accesses in- clude the capture of Wakiang, 13 miles from Scochow, and Lishui, 25 miles south-east of Nanking.
"Within Twenty Miles.” - According to the latest information from reliable foreign sources, at Shanghai this evening the Nation alists are now within 20 miles from Nanking, where numerous Shan- tungese, wounded, are arriving,
Shantung Troops Unpopular.
Shantung troops now stationed at Wesih have been ordered by Gen cral Chang Tsung Chang to evacu ate, the Southerners continue to
press.
MORE NORTHERN DEFEC-
TION REPORTED.
[CHINESE PRESS SERVICE]
SHANGHAL, March 18th.
as con-
THE WORLD'S CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP.
1
BRITISH PROPERTY HELD SERVICE OF WRIT.
BY THE SOVIET.
VALUED AT £180,000,000,
NO CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSAL BY THE BOLSHEVIKS.
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
RUGBY, March 17th. The Under-Secretary for Foreign
ON SERVANT OF ALLEGED
BANKRUPT FIRM...
IRREGULAR BECAUSE DELIVERED TO UNAUTHOR- ISED EMPLOYEE.
IMPORTANT JUDGMENT
DELIVERED.
2.
Affairs, Mr. Locker-Lampson, reply- ing to a question in the House of
An important judgment in con- Commons, asid that the value of nection with the service of a writ trading, industrial and manufac by a petitioning creditor" on turing properties, of which British avant, or employee of an alleged subjects in Russia had abandoned acting Chief Justice (Mr. Justice debtor firm was delivered by the without compensation, was estim-J. B. Wood) at the Supreme Court Ated by claimants at approximately yesterday afternoon. £180,000,000. He was unable to say what proportion of this represented the Bankruptcy Court last Satur liquid assets. Discussions had taken day, it was alleged that there had place from time to time with the been no proper service of the peti- Soviet Government regarding the tion. liquidation of these claims, without satisfactory result. The British Government were awaiting a coo- structive proposal hut, hitherto,
In this case, which came before
Oficial Receiver (Mr. E. L. Agassiz) When the oase first came up the
referred to the law as it applied to servico on servants of Arms alleged to be in bankruptcy.
CAPABLANCA SURE TO WIN, none had been made by the Sovjet He claimed that the petitioning
Government.
creditor bad merely gone to the [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] [Message incomplete owing to premises and asked for an assistant
poor reception.)
of the debtor firm, whom he served. with the document in question. It" must be, the Official Receiver then contended, ascertained frst that the. person served was in a de facto. position of administrating the firm's áfinira
NEW YORK, March 18th. The world's chess champion, M. Capablanca (of Havana), whose title was at stake, is assured of first place in the International Chess Tournament and of a prize of $2,000. The tournament is not yet Enished, but Capablanca, with 12 points, cannot be overtaken. Of 17 games he won 7, while 10 were 'drawa. Alekhine and Nimowitach are at present level for second place with 10 points.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S DISARMAMENT CON- FERENCE.
A NEW AUSTRALIAN CRUISER.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)
RUGBY, March 17th. Lady, Cook, the wife of the Ans- tralian High Commissioner in Lon don, to-day launches the new Aus. tralian cruiser Australia at Clyde bank, Scotland.
{THROUGH RET (EK'S' AGENCY.] The First of Two 10,000 Ton Cruisers.
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LONDON, March 17th. The Australian cruiser Australia, STILL TRYING TO PERSUADE launched at Clydebank, is the first
FRANCE TO PARTICIPATE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
of two 10,000 ton vessels, provided by the Australian Naval Pro The other cruiser Can- gramme. berra is also being constructed at
DUCHESS OF YORK.
PARIS, March 17th. In renewing the invitation to Clydebank. France to be represented in some way at the Naval Disarmament Con- ference, the United States Note points out that the measures con- templated will not only facilitate the work of the League of Nations' advance the solution of the problem. Disarmament Commission but will
It declares that the discussions will
be limited to questions of naval dis
armament not yet resolved by
free
GREATLY IMPROVED IN HEALTH.
(BEITIEM WIRELESS SERVICE]
"RuGuy, March 17th. The Duchess of York has benefited
Treaties and each Power will be greatly by her rest at Wellington, to take up the position it where she will remain until Sunday judges mest favoumble to her pro-when, in H.M.S. Renown, he will their gunboat without sustaining siderable technical evidence had to tection as a basis of negotiation. serious injuries.
leave, to proceed to Australia. The protested to the authorities.
Mr. Pratt han be examined.
Duke, meanwhile, is proceeding with his tour of the South Island of New Zealand. THE "PAMIAT LENINA" AFFAIR.
A PROTEST AND A REPLY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, March 18th.
Mayers' counsel aaked that bail be allowed, declaring that Mayers had occupied a highly responsible position:
FATE OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB.
ווי.
MARKET PREMISES
The police opposed bail, and the RESTAURANT TO USE HAY HONG KONG THEOSOPHICAL Magistrate remanded Mayers in cus- tody for a week.
According to the newspapers, Mayers was born in British Guiana and served in the Submarine See-
It is reported that General Pak Pao Sau, together with two other The Soviet Embassy has sent ation but retired, at his own request, of Marshal Sun's subordinates, are Note tö the Waichiaopu, to the a few months ago to accept a post- surrendering to the Southerners.
"effect that the Embassy's protests tion with a well-known armament A General and Admiral, regarding the Pamiat Lenina affair firm. It is stated that "the charge Pei Shu Cheng, Admiral of the are unanswered, and that as the relates to submarines 01 and X1, Northern Fleet in Chihli Bay, haa Soviet is now in possession, of all the latter being the largest in the led his whole flect to Shanghai in the facts, it again "protests in the world co-operation with General Chang
Taung Chang, and is reported to have tendered his resignation bath
strongest macer against the out" rage and demands the immediate
FRANCE FLOURISHING.
FOR GOOD.
"You may take it that the Kit- Cat Club is doomed for ever so far as the original premises are con- cerned," said Sir Walter Gibbons to a Press representative.
SOCIETY.
CELEBRATION OF FOURTH ANNIVERSARY.
Last Thursday the Hong Kong Ladge of the Theosophical Society
Sir Walter is the landlord of the rooms in which the Kit-Cat Club celebrated its fourth anniversary. were situated, and he has been The meeting was opened by Mr. granted a license for the premises
Chang Tsung Chang's mòn have as a General lately appointed by release of the vessel and the persons BIG INCREASES IN TAXATIO cocktail bar will be converted into work of the Lodge was carried on
already become extremely unpopu- Genera' Chang Tsung Chang and as
lar with the Nanking inhabitants, an Admiral Commanding the Fleet. who bitterly complain of looting and
raping; and thousands of Chinese GENERAL CHIANG KAI SHEK are fleeing down-river owing to their DENOUNCES COMMUNISTS. fear of further excesses in the event
of the Shantungese being driven back to the city.
NANKING'S POPULATION IN
A PANIC.
[CHINESE PHERS SERVICE.)
SBANGHAI, March 18th. After Mui Ling Kwan and Kiang Non Chin, two important, points near Kanking, had fallen into the hands of the Southerners, the fight ing spread to about twenty miles off Nanking, which city is now in a panic, and all commercial activities are at a standstill.
(CHINESE PRESS SERVICE)
detained.
The Ankuochun Headquarters, in a statement, say that the "Mukden authorities learn with intense sur- prise that instead of apologising
df
YIELD.
(THROUGH HAVAS AGENCY.]
PARIS, March" 18th.
them.
After evidence had been called last week, the case was adjourned for legal argument. This took place on Monday, and arising out of this Mr. Justice Wood delivered his judgment yesterday.
to
His Lordship said he was asked. set aside the service of a creditor's petition owing to irregu larity. The debtor firm was the Yeo On arm, the trading name of the individual being Li Fai Kam.
After quoting various sections
effecting the case, His Lordship continued that the question arising for decision was whether in the circumstances shown to have occur red a valid service of this petition upon the debtor firm had been effected.
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It appeared from the evidence. that Li Fui Kam, trading as the Yee On firm, continued to do busi- ness at No. 37, Jervois Street, until February 17th. He then held a meeting of creditors, and after do- ing so left his place of business. His later movements, ad not been traced. No subsequent commercial transactions by, the firm took place. Li Fai, Kam took with him the other chops
At the time of his departure there fittings and trade stock upon the premises worth a considerable sum of money. Seven or eight em- ployees of the firm, including one of the witnesses, Au Chí To,, re- mained on the premises. The firm had done business for several years and Au Chi To, had been a mem ber" of the staff for a long time. On this occasion he was the senior em- ployee, and was given 8100 to pay wages and make current disburso- ments, and was instructed to act as custodian of the premises and con- tents.
There was no business carried an from February 17th to February 25th. On February 25th, a bailiff, tachment, seized. the property of acting under a writ of foreign at- the debtor firm. The petition was having control or management of served on Au Chi To, as the person
the firm.
on condition that the cocktail bar John Russell, and members stood in abolished and that water is for a while in silence as a tribute placed on every table.
to the lato Brother Archibald "I propose to make certain
Concluding his judgment, His structural alterations," said Sir Stephens, C.P.O., H.M.S. Carlisle. Lordship said: The onus is on the Walter. "A new entrance is to be The Hon. Secretary's (Mr. H. E. petitioner to show affirmatively tha made in the Haymarket and the Lanepart) report stated that the
the person served had the required a small dining room.
status. From the evidence, it ap successfully. The number of active pears that the authority received by "As for the stipulation that members was 93; 22 new members Au Chi To from his employer, or I am all in favour of it. I do not new Theosophical Lodge, the" Chi- date he was merely a clerk in the water shall be placed on all tables, having joined during the year. A February 17th last was defnitely limited. Immediately prior to that see why people should drink expen nese T.8. Lodge," was successfully sive drinks when they do not want opened in Hong Kong by the Fresi. firm. He was then directed to re- dential Agent for China," Bro. . main, at the principal place of James's Bench have made this The work of the Hong Kong Centre
"It is not the first time the St. Manuk, on November 9th, 1828 with the staff, for the purpose of business of the firm as its custodian, stipulation in a restaurant licences of the Order of the Star in the East making certain cash disbursements and I think it a very wise cue."
(an organization separate and discharge. Here his authority ended.
monics entrusted to his The condition that restaurant tinct from the Theosophical Society) Although he himself was not eub- proprietors should place water on
Was auccessfully carried on by the ordinate to any other members of every table is not a general one. Centre-Secretary, Ms. H. E. Lane. the staff he was not authorised to "It is not really necessary in most part, in absence of Bro. M Manuk do anything which would involve cases," said Mr. Adutt,
22 new members having joined the his employer in any liability what- Hotels and Restaurants Association,
Order during the year? "because in the majority of
Mr. Lauepart, who addressed the
The business therefore, was out staurants and hotels in London,
said meeting,
'that. Universal Bide his control or management. and especially in the provinces, Brotherhood is the only thing which water is either on the table or is is binding on members of the Theo the petition was, in my opinion, For these reasons, the service of brought at any customer's request. to Karma, Reincarnation, etc., are
sophical Society. Its teachings as irregular and must be set aside. [LECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE] It is usually taken for granted that
anybody who wants water can have not binding on any member. Undered for the petitioning creditor, in- Mr. E. S. C. Brooks, who appear. RIO DE JANEIRO, March 17th.it. It is certainly not the case that the inspiration of the Coming World timated that he would make ap- The Portuguese airman, Beires, a meal you must drink wine or some
because you go to a restaurant for Teacher the T.8. is to be. the plication for substitute service. corner-stone of the, fature religion This means an application for a has arrived at Fernando Noronha. other alcoholic beverage":
of humanity,
re-opening of the case afresh).
for the conduct of disseminating The yield in taxes for February malicious propaganda in China the exceeded 2,474,000,000 franes, show Soviet Embassy has had the ing an increase of $33,000,000 franca SHANGHAI," March 18th. audacity to lodge a protest with on the returns of February of last
the Chinese Government in connec- General Chiang Kai Shek recently tion with the seizure of the Pamiat
year and of 36,000,000 on the esti delivered a long lecture at. Nan-Lenina and the so-called diplomatic mated receipts. chang, the capital of Kiangai, de- couriera The presence of ma- nouncing the Communists. All terials
"Red" rumours attacking him, he said, as aboard the Pamiat Leanda THE PORTUGUESE AIRMAN, having some secret understanding defensible evidence of a with the Fengtienere are absolutely violation groundless. He admitted that he Agreement solemnly entered into by
of the Internati had had some difference with the the Russian adviser (Mr. Borodia), but closure of further details it is sufi Soviet. Pending the dir it was a personal affair and bad cient to point out emphatically that nothing to do with the policy laid the responsibility of this undesir down by the late Dr. Sun Yat Sea, able propaganda, which led to the to co-operate with the Soviet seizure of the steamer, rested with Government.
the Soviet Government alone."
in-
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NOW IN BRAZIL
of
the
re.
ever.