SIR
FRANCIS "AGLEN'S VIEWS
ON CHINA.
"CIVIL STRIFE DOING UNTOLD HARM.”.
HANKOW INDUSTRY AT A STANDSTILL.
BANK OF TAIWAN'S, AFFAIRS.
SII FRANCIS AGLEN NTERVIEWED.
[THROW REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, April 18th "Undoubtedly all sections of the community ari united in desiring to abolish the pivileged position of the foreigner, leclared Sir Francia Aglen, interviewd by Beater on his
WARSHIPS HIT ON THE YANGTSZE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,
SHANGHAL. April 18th.. The U.S. destroyer Ford was hit by rifle are at Nanking.
The Chinese gunboat Chutai, of the class of 750 tons and dring a Rear Admiral's dag, was hit by a return from Peking. Such nation-six-inch shell at the North Bank She was hulled al feeling cannot be ignored. It near Chinkiang. has simply got to be recognised." below the bridge, the shell passing
without Sir Francis Agleadded: "Recent through
bursting, but reports, however, indicate that a making a hole three feet in diame considerable section of the Chinese ter. The ship had to be beatbed are beginning to walise that the policy hitherto pursed under Bus- sian direction is fraught with dan- ger to the country. it is sincerely to be hoped that the present move- ment will bring to being a really stable Government, ́na the present civil strife is doing untold harm. All sensible Chinese are vell aware of this and until there is a respon- sible authority with whom Foreign Powers can negotiate there is no hope of commercial prosperity in the country."
NANKING AS CHINA'S CAPITAL?
(Wah Te Fat Pac.)
SHANGHAI, April 13th. The Kuomintang in Shanghai Native City are holding a meeting for the purpose of considering the
advisability of establishing the capi- tal of the country at Nanking.
KUOMINTANG GOVERN--.
MENT.
(Wah Tas Fat Pac.)
SHANGHAI, April 18th.
JAPANESE BANKERS.
CONFER AS TO BANK OF
TAIWAN,
AID FROM THE BANK OF JAPAN.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TUESDAY, APRIL 19th, 1927.
THE STRUGGLE ON THE YANGTSZE.
THE LABOUR PARTY TREASURERSHIP.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MR. MACDONALD NOT NOMINATED.
[THROĠGE REUTER'S. AGENCY.]
LONDON, April 17th.
NANKING, April 11th The cross-river engagement, be- tween the Northerners at Tukow and the Southerners at Nanking increased in intensity yesterday,
A long, private debate at the the firing continuing all day with- |
annual conference of the Interna- out respite.
Passing ships are still subject totions Labour Party at Leicester centred in the decision of the National Council not to nominate
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fire from both banks of the river.
More Looting In Fankbj.
The International Exports Com paay premises were occupied by Cantonese to-day, and what pro perty remained was looted,
Mix-Up Of Chiness Flajı
CHINKIANO, April 17th. While Silver Island itself was
flying the Nationalist flag, the forts at the north end of Silver Island were to-day observed to be flying the Northern dag. A, Southern cruiser exchanged gun-fire with one of the forts, and later the lagship of the Chinese Yangtaze Beet was fired on by a battery on the north
shore.
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald for the treasurership of the Party.
Mr. MacDonald's supporters sought a reversal of the decision. but their resolution was negatived by 312 to 112
The conference adopted a list of Parliamentary candidates, in which Mr. MacDepdďa name remains.
BERNE AND MOSCOW.
SWISS PEOPLE FEAR AGITATION.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
GENEVA, April 17th. The resumption of diplomatic between Berne and relations Moscow, although not mentioned at Berlin as an agreement, is view ed unenthusiastically by the Swiss people, who remember the general strike of 1918, and are disquistened
BRITISH SQUADRON AT
MALAGA.
| OFFICERS' ROYAL DANCE PARTNERS.
AN ÅNGLO-SPANISH **ENTENTE.”
MALAGA, March 2nd. This evening the Fleet will return to serious business after several days of galety and sight-seeing The Third Battle Squadron and Sixth Destroyer Flotilla" have paid a most enjoyable visit to this place, while the battle-cruiser Repulse and the Centaur and Fifth Destroyer Flotilla have been to Almeria, and the Second Cruiser Squadron 40 | Orat. «
The two-fold attraction of tho
visits of the Spanish Royal Family and the Third Battle Squadron to Manga has been a very important matter for that city, the people of which have been most assiduous in their endeavours to demonstrata their loyalty to the Queen and their appreciation of the British nation
and the officers and men of the feet.
In these efforts the British Colony and the British Club have greatly assisted the local authorities.
HOW SHANGHAI COMMUNISTS WERE ROUNDED UP.
SHARP FIGHTING. IN: NANTAO AND CHAFEI
PLOT TO-ATTACK THE SETTLEMENT
FOILED.
The Arst shot in the struggle, bands, or which in a circle appear. between the Kuomintang and the ed the Chinese character for labour, Communists for mastery in Shang feverishly worked through the night hai was fired at five o'clock yester-organizing secret parties to appear day (last Tuesday) morning in the at dawn as though from nowhere, struggle between armed Kuominta seire and occupy the premises of tang and "Communist labourers for the General Labour Union in the possession of the General Labour Buchow Guild in Chapel, to kidnap Union in Chapel, says Wednesday's Wang Shao Hus, the militant Com- North China Daily News.
munist leader of Shanghai, and to Simultaneously smaller bands of anronnee to the Chinese people that Kuomintang labourers suddenly fell the labourers of Shanghai are not upon labour and Communist head-associated with Communism. quarters in various parts of Chapei The soldiers, under Genetal · Fei. and Naatso, seized the buildings Chung Hi, loyal Kuomintang wherever possible and when they troops who are antagonistic to the met with obstacles, there was firing Communist opponents of their party. and shooting which early morning and general, were sent to critical risers heard in all parts of Shang-places in Chapei and Nastao to maintain order and suppress riot
hai.
The struggle between the Kuo-ing. mintang and Communist Labour Unions began to become intense im- mediately upon the arrival of
Communists' Fierce Resistangs. Promptly at Are, the fight start-
Last Saturday morning the Ad- miral commanding the squadron (Rear-Admiral Roger Backhouse) went ashore to present his compl ments to the Military Governor and the Civil Governor, and then called at the Boyal Principe de Asturias General Chiang Kai Shek in Shanged. The armed Commuunists arous Hotel, where the Queen and her hai. It was at that time known ed, fred back Several have been family are staying, to see her that the General Labour Union killed, including two soldiers of General Pet's army and perhaps as to planned
perpetrate Majesty, who received the Admiral
outrages in person..
similar to those in Nanking for the many as 50 are reported wounded. In the afternoon the British Con- purpose of leaving no place in The noise of the battle wa most by the installation of Soviet agents al (Mr. Alac Henderson) and Mrs. Kiangsu for General Chiang to make conspicuous in Nantao, bordering Henderson held a reception of the his headquarters. The Kuomintang on the French Concession, but it otheers of the feet at the Asturias inbourers complained bitterly of the also went on. briskly northwards of suits of reems in the hotel, and who attitude of the General Labour the Settlement.
in their midst.
The engagement was "briel, the flagship being struck by shell which entered through the bridge and passed through the ship caur ing considerable damage and lore- ing the cruiser to withdraw.
The forts below Chiakians are showing increasing activity.
H.M.S.S. "Vindictive" And "Carlisle." SHANGHAI, April lith. TOKYO, April 18th.
The Commander-in-Chief reports After conferring until past inid that Shanghai and elsewhere are night, the representatives of the
normal. H.M.S. Findictin and THE NEXT FIRST SEA LORD. leading banks have agreed among | H.M.S. Carlisle have been ordered
to Hankow, while E.M.S. Dauntless SIR ROGER KEYES A LIKELY themselves to accommodate and fund as far as possible, and adopt is returning to Hong Kong. a friendly policy towards, the bank's which otherwise might incut a great loss by reason of the difficulties of the Bank of Taiwan, although con- crete proposals have not yet been
formulated
LATZE
Bank Of Taiwan Olosing.
all its business for three weeks, beginning to-day, excepting the headquarters and the branches in Formosa
It is reported that, accompanied by two other cruisers, the Chinese warship Haichai have appested off
Chúsan Island.
propaganda, of
OTHER
CHOICE.
"POSSIBLES."
Eoyalty At Reception,
Hotel and Her Majesty, who has a
The Communists
was accompanied by the Crown Union, which had arrogated to itself fought in the narrow streets of Prince (the Prince of Asturias), her
family.
two daughters, the Infantas Donu powers of government, had estab- Chapel and finally got into the com- Beatriz and Dona Maria Cristina, lished its own Political Bureau and pound of the Commercial Prees and her mother (Princess Beatrice), its own Commune in Chapel and where they entrenched themselves," attended the reception with her Nantae, which kidnapped and as taking with them, it is reported, sassinated opponents and threw the two machine-guns, with which they fear of their mighty, secret organi- expected to fight to the last In sation in the hearts of hard-working the mélée Wang Shao Hus, the honest labourers who wanted to lender, disappeared and a word earn their rice bowl in peace.
The Queen and her daughters danced with the raval officers and residents The Crown Prince, who ia a little lame, has just commenced to take dancing lessons at Malaga
The Garnival, Arrangements had been made for Malaga'a carnival to coincide with the visit of the Fleet. This opened
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Coup d'Etat. In Visw..
The authorities are reported to
swept through Communist ranka that he had been killed in the Bght, which is not yet confirmed, they lost their courage and began
The Daily Express some time ago announced that "Earl Beatty, First Anti-Chiang Propaganda.
Sea Lord at the Admiralty, is like HANKOW, April 18th. Confirmation has been reived ly to retire from that position of the split between Chiang Kai shortly. The name of Admiral Sir Shek's party and the Southern Roger Keyes, who was in command The Bank of Taiwan in closing party at Wuhan, and anti-Chians of the operations against Zeebrugge with a battle of Bowers. Hour after have known that the Gener to agree with General Pei's demand
very virulent and Ostond on April 23rd, 1918. is
mentioned as his successor." early retirement of Earl Beatty in practically a foregone conclusion, since he only remains in office "for the present" at the request of the First Lord. The choice of his successor cannot be regarded with the same absolute certainty, although there is not very much prove correct. For months' past
Tokyo Newspaper's Comment. The Rengo learns from a reliable source that the Bank of Japan is
The Kuomintang National Gov-sending 20 to 30 million yen of còn- ernment will function shortly, and vertible notes to Formosa to-mor a Joint Conference of the membersrow for the purpose of aiding the
of the Central Executive Committee Bank of Taiwan. It also learns
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and the Court of Impeachment од
nature has made its appearance. A ramour which is in circulation that Chiang Kai Shek is planning to march on Hankow with the in tention of ridding the pice of Communists is causing the general situation to remain uncertain.
Few Foreigners Beyond HaIOW.
There are now no British gun-
army in the foreign troops, but
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did
not
hour: a procession in three line Labour Union was planning a coup that they should submit to his moved up and down the wide Calle d'état here, seeking & embroil the orders, being further stimulated by The de Marques de Larios, and the most Southern
conflict his threat to use field-gens. There grotesque costumes and masks were worn by those in many hundreds of with decorated motor-cars and horse and
in this impromptu fort. donkey vehicles and by those along still, not having completely broken were no fewer than 300 Communists
Hankov, they For the time being with
What action the soldiers took be the route. everyone acquired the carnival send their soldiers into Chapel in The carnival continued on sufficient numbers to suppress this
Fond disarming the Communists, is spirit. the following day, when main some-
got known. what interfered with the festivities powerful well-financed subversive organisation. During the past week, towards the close of the day.
On Saturday the Queen and Royal
the company including indicate to the General Labour
The General Labour Union has not been formally dissolved, but in
boats on the river above Haskow, doubt that The Daily Express will Family lunched with Admiral Back. however, steps have been taken to effect, it has ceased to exist. The
The remaining foreigners beyond
house,
Kuomintang and General Labour
the highest authority. that Honkow include one Japanese and The Naval and Military Record several members of the Spanish Union that it was not wanted in this Unions will be merged into will be called, in which many pre- the headquarters and remaining one French, subject at Changking, hins expressed the opinion that nobility and the captains of the district. Its political organs were organization under the control of
arranged resolutions will be pre-branches of the Bank of Taiwan are seated for the routing out of all
also suspending to-morrow Communistic influence.
"Not By A Few Military Dictators."
EXODUS OF MISSIONARIES.
60 PER CENT EVACUATED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Messrs. Wang Ching, Wei, Tao Yen Kai and Mrs. Sun Yat Sen have telegraphed to Nanking (from Hankow) that they will attend the Conference. They are stated to be
SHANGHAI, April 18th. of opinion that the Northern Ex-
The present Eastertido will long pedition should continue against
be remembered by reason of the the Fengtienese Party and that the fact that more than 80 per cent. of internal problems between the Kuo- the 6,000 Protestans Missionaries in mintang and the Communistic Party Chins on January 1st have depart- should be settled by a majority vote
ed, the remainder are mostly in the dud "not by a few military
dicta-
Treaty Ports. The exact number tors."
of Catholic missioners remaining is undetermined, but it is known that they have been forced out in large numbers by the Communista.
FURTHER LONDON COM- MENT ON MR. CHEN'S NOTE.
- JAPANESE PREMIERSHIP,
EMPEROR CONSULTING
PRINCE SAIONJL
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, April 18th. The Daily Telegraph, in a leading article, says that 'Mr. Chen's Note
[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]. speaks in a tone of calculated in-
Toxo, April 17th. sult to the intelligence of the Powers. The newspaper says that For the purpose of conferring with the Gears ("elder statesmen") foreign Ministers at Peking are agreed that the situation requires regarding a successor to the Prime Minister, Mr. “Wakatauki, the
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1.20.
reported to be an open opponent of the Commanista.
two Americans and one Japanese at Ichang, and one Japanese et Shasi. The American Consul at Hankow has now chartered the ss. Kiangwe for the remaining America com munity to live in during the strain. ed situation which is daily develop ing in that port, and it is under stood that the community is now reduced to minimum. Several nasty incidents have been reparted to local authorities from Hankow caused by mobs of coolies who are out of work and hungry and adding complete his time for another four and placed those with whom they a considerable amount of anxiety to teen months But it may well be danced, more or less indiscriminate
that he will be held to have comfy, quite at their case. the prevailing-situation.
The situation at Hankos is in-plied with the regulation after deed extremely serious and appears serving two years, which is the to be growing tenser every day, equivalent to a normal sex com. Industry is at a standstill. Mobs mand in home waters. and crowds are in a truculent mood, and foreigners de not go far from the Bund
squadron Her Majesty was re- Admiral Sir Roger Keyes will ceived by a Royal salute on board destroyed, its telegrams and letters the Political Bureau of General Pei succeed Earl Beatty and that the ing the fron Duke.
The Queen and her family also were intercepted and censored, its Chung Hsi's army of which the chief reason why the litter was attended & big dance the Prin- lesser leaders were arrested. Fina Director is Mr. Chen Chun, who is extending his exceptionally long cipe de Asturias the same night. ly, it became evident that there tenure was to keep the post "warm" Many British officers were present. could be no further delay as a mass until the Commander-in-Chief in Here it was found that Spanish
ladies who are married or betroth meeting had been called for yes
Labour Must Behave. the Mediterranean has fullled the
ed do not dance, except with their terday for the purpose of welcom-
Mr. Chen said last Tuesday after essential qualification of holding husbands or sweethearts, but the ing Mr. Wang Ching Wei who is
caval officers found partners anong actually in Hankow at the present noon: command of a "first-class fleet.
other Spanish ladies, the members time. It was suspected that the "The policy of the Government Sir Roger Keyes has been Com
of the British colony, and some
Communists planned to utilize this is to have labour working in bar- mander-in-Chief in the Mediter-American ladies.
The Queen and
to her daughters occasion throw themselves mony with the revolutionary ‹ army were most gracious at this gather- ranean since May 15th, 1925, and in the normal course he would noting, as they have been, at others, against the barricades and to in and Government, but when labour
r. The selection.
The selection of the First Bea Lord, of course, rests with the Cabinet, and the choice is arrived Hankow Concentrating Troops.
HANKOW, April 17th. at on the principle that the First The Hankow authorities are con- Sea Lord holds 4 per cent. of the tinuing to concentrate troops et voting power by virtue of his office, Hankow, and most of the shops and the remainder of the Cabinet and houses in the native eity and 55 per cent Three other names the foreign buildings are being have been more or less prominently used as billets. It is estimated that mentioned sincs speculation first there are over 20,000 troops now began to concern itself with the in Hankow, mainly men from the question as to who will succeed Seventh Division, with some from Earl Beatty, these being 'Admiral of the Fleet Sir Charles Madden the Fifteenth Division.
The troops of the 7th ere dis-and Admiral Sir John de Bobock the despatch of a mach stronger Emperor has despatched a repre-regarding the orders concering the and Bir Oxpand Brock. The fact statement to meet the Fowers' re-
they partially locted the Hecreation would seem to involve the fixing of Saionji is now staying.
Club yesterday.
Northern forces are reported to have advanced to Hochow, and the inhabitants are becoming more uneasy,
THE COMPLETE MODERN WOMAN.
PYTHON PARTY AND FIVE HUSBANDS.
an inexhaustible banking account in San Francisco, roamed through the Far East, finally becoming Bhuddist.
Chinese Temple,
volve General Chiang Kai Shek in becomes a disturbing element, when further difficulties with the Powers. it arrogates to itself tasks which The local Kuomintang authorities are, detrimental to the movement thereupon determined that the time and disturbing of law and order, had come for the complete suppres- labour, must be disciplined." WILBUR PLAYERS. sion of the Communists.
At 4 p.m. the Chinese authorities Kuomintang Labour Anxillaries. were satisfied that they had the "ABIE'S IRISH ROSE."
More than 1,000 armed Kuomin-situation in hand and that they Five years ago Ann. Nichols, a tang fabourers, wearing blue denim would succeed in disarming all the somewhat struggling playwright, labourers' uniforms with white arm aimed labourers before nightfall. went to Oliver Morosco in Los She Angeles with a manuscript. discussed the story with the famous producer and at last he consented to a reading. He listened to the tween the Irish and Hebrew fami- tale of trials and tribalations be lies in the piece, shaking his head at times, nodding at other times.
She startled New York society oneNSE At the conclusion of the reading he said he would give it a showing."
day by giving a reception to the " That was Abie's Irish Rose, to POSES AS A BHUDDIST. Four Hundred to meet & twelve-fast- python. When she came to Paris. be offered shortly at the Star Theatre. He did give it a showing
PARIE, March 7th. she fitted up her magnificent house. Et the Morosco Theatre in Lon Princess Aimée. Crocker-Galitzine in the Trocadero quarter as a Chi Angeles. It made a fairly good im- nowa in America as the Python nese temple with more than pression on the critics but that Princess," is bringing it. for Buddhas The bedroom is arranged was all. Os the audience it was divorce in the Paris Courts against as the inner sirine, with nu ancient different. It was a great hit. The Prince Mistiansa Galitzine, her Buddha to watch over "ber; the heavy.bronze doors are from an The play con-
Indian harem. The former Aimée Crocker was leaped into the realm of big town fornis pioneer, and when she divor and says prayers in this shrine tinued for one year and Los Angeles the daughter of a millionaire Cali The princess burna jos sticks, theatricals.
Ced her first husband at the age of every day. She has a blue python seventeen she hid as a stowaway in tattooed around her right arm.
missionary abip sailing for! Her fourth husband, who was a Russian prince named Miskincft, After living in a straw hut there ran off with her adopted daughter, for ope winter, she went t India and and then, two years ago, the mor lived in a Rajah's harem for two ried Prince Galitzine, a member of months out of curiosity: Then, for the Russian noble family of that fifteen years, Migs Crocker, with name.
quirements and intentions; and this sentative to Kyoto, where Prince immunity of foreign property, and is, of cours, that these are the house was filled during the remain fifth husband,
a. time-limit for the satisfaction of the demands. Simultaneously, the naval authorities on the Yangtze might be instructed to prepare a scheme to enforce penalties, in the event of satisfaction being again refused. The Telegraph adds that what is not in doubt is the inten tion of Britain to secure the neces sary redress-it possible in co-opera tion with others, if not, by taking
her own measures.
YUGO SLOVAKIA'S NEW CABINET.
(THROUGH RIUTKE'S AGIMOT.]
BELGRADE, April 18th
The Cabinet has been re-formed, with Youkithevitch as Premier. and M. Marinkovitch as Foreign
Minister.
only three officers who at the time der of the week. when conjecture started fulfilled all the necessary, qualifications for the office. Whilst they are all very dis- tinguished and able sailors, we think that continuity of the pre- seat progressive policy of the Ad- A wireless report from Nanking | miralty is most likely to be assured states that three four-inch guns at by the appointment of Admiral Sir Lier Hill, Nanking, are Bombarding Roger Keyes-Naval and Military Pukow.
Mr. Newton has arrived. « Four-Inch Guns Against Pukow.
SHANGHAI. April 18th."
Record.
It was taken to San Francisco, where it again established a record Ultimately, it reached Broadway in New York, and no other play, in history has been so succesful. It is one of many ane plays that com prise the repertoire of the Wilbur Players, just arrived from three years together in dramatic stock.
Tahiti.