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HOSTILE TROOPS MARCHING ON HANKOW.
SITUATION BECOMING MORE TENSE. CHINESE LEAVING BY EVERY BOAT.
COMRADE CHEN ON "UNAUTHORISED" MILITARY
MOVEMENTS.
CHIANG KAI SHEK ARRIVES UNEXPECTEDLY IN SHANGHAI.
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tenec, The situation at Bankow is becoming more news being circulated that hostile
coverging troops are the enty from various points, The nearest, however, appear to he still
sixty miles W The population is then ever panic-striken, and every boat leaving for down-river is venwded with funkow residents glad to get away. Mr. Eugene Chen, however, discredits the rumours and will only concede that certain statements regarding "unauthorised" troup movements on the Hupela Hunan berder are being investigated.
Chiang Kai Shek has arrived unexpectedly at Shanghai. IL is, therefore, probable that after the British Minister has inquired into the situation from the British coronanders, that he may confer with the Knomintang leader regarding the further need for the Shanghai Foreign Settlements being defended,
The Japtiese destroyer Momi was subjected to heavy and con- Tinous fire from Northern broops while anchored off Chinking. A Japanese oficer, while on the bridge, was wounded. The des troyer returned the fire with her main artament, and ultimately pru veiled en far way to Hankow,
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 19th, 1927.
YUNNAN'S TUPAN TO THE BOMBARDMENT
CO-OPERATE WITH NANKING.
SOUTHERNERS MOVING STEADILY NORTH-
WARDS.
(Wah Tsz Yat Pau.
SHANORM, May 19th. The rebellion of ticurral, Liu To Lang against the "Reds" may act like dynamite among the rank and
fle of the Hopeh troups to take action against the Hankers Govern- anent, which they aver has done nothing more than selling up Bol- shevik tyramy over the Liang-Hu provinces upch and
Many leading bodies, representing a large number of upch interests have jointly appointed a delegation to appeal to Hupeh military officers urging them to take netion en musse to drive out the Reds" from that province.
Marshal Chiang Rai Shek has issued a circular telegram declaring tha: General Tang Chi Yao, the dictator of Yunnan province, wishes to co-operate with the Kuomintang. Marshal Chiang hopes that General Tang wil shortly go to Nanking in order to confer with leading Kuo- anintang officials Ull party and national reconstruction pings.
Marshal Chiang Kai Shek arrived at Shanghai at 10 o'clock this morn- ing.
The Southerners have taken Wuyi, north of Pakow. They are now steadily advancing northwards along the Tientsin-Pukow aitway. The defeated Shantung and Chihli forces are preparing for further retreat to suchow.
OF WOOSUNG.
TWO HOURS' FIGHTING.
CRUISERS' DIRECT HITS.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, May 18th. The Northern cruisers Hatchi and [Chunho, part of General Chang Tang Chung's flotilla squadron,
resent bombarding the Wamsung forts, held by the Souther ners, and the forts are replying.
THE TRADES UNIONS' BILL.
LABOURITES TO CONTINUE
THE STRUGGLE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, May 17th.
A Labour Party meeting held to consider its attitude towards the
ECONOMIC CONFERENCE.
DISCUSS THE RATIONALISA- TION OF INDUSTRY.
TARIFF BARRIERS,
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
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GENEVA, May 17th.
re
SOUTH AFRICA'S FLAG CONTROVERSY.
GENERAL SMUTS'
OPPOSITION.
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Care Tows, May 17th. Failing an agreement between The Ernopic Canference indus Trades Unions Bill, following i
the conflicting parties, the Govern-; yesterday's walk out of the House trial committee has passed a of Commons, has decided, despite solution as regards rationalisationment has introduced a Flag Bill in the limitations under which the of industry, laying down that the the National Assembly laying down Government's guillotine mation rational organisation of production that, subject to a popular referen- has placed them, that they will con- and distribution is the principal dum, the design of the national tinus the battle against the Bill factor in increasing output, im- flag of South Africa will be a St. in the House, hence the Labourites proving labour conditions, and re-
George's cross on AL sreen field. turned up at the resumption of theding prices; also that during
such process the legitimate interests while the Union Jack will be flown of thr workers should be safe with the South African flag on guarded where the early stages of certain spreified necasions. rationalisation may involve unem ployment or mere arduous working
committe stage.
MR. B. NEWTON.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TANKOW, May 18th. Mr. Basil Newton, the British
Fontbitious.
LATER.
The commercial sub-committee. dealing with the customs tariffs Legation representative here, left situation, submitted a report aine- for Peking to-day.
ing at the removal or diminution of tariff barriers which gravely imper trade, recommending that raw materials export duties on
[THROUGH ARUTER'S AGENCY.] Several Fights In Progress.
PERINO, May 17th. It is reliably reported that severe fighting a taking place at Shang hai where six brigades of troops of Wu Pei Fu and Tiên Wei Chun are opposing the main forcer of Tang Seng Chi, while two Mukden cavalry brigades are moving to attack Tang's rear.
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should never be imposed for the purpose of subjecting consumer countries to an increased burden, or placing them in a position of inferiority.
WhatRationalization" Means.
GENEVA, May 18th. Rationalization (not nationaliza tion) of industry means, according to the Drafting Sub-Committee, that governments, public institu- tions, professional and industrial organizatious should promote stan-
The British section of the popu- lation has strongly demanded the
A STOPPED EXECUTION.
DEATH SENTENCE ON MAN TO STAND.
COURT DISBELIEVES, HIS SISTER.
the
WHO KILLED MAY DANIELS?
SEARCH FOR THE MURDERER.
FRENCH GOVERNMENT
ORDERS,
BOULOGNE
The court of criminal appeal.- The Lord Chief Justice (Lord Very definite instructions have Hewart) and Justices Avory and be issued by the Ministry of Jus
farther tion, in Paris that the mystery of Sankey dismissed appeal of William Knighton, the the death of Miss May Daniels, the miner, of Ilkeston, young London nurse, whose boily years old erbyshire, whose execution for the was found on the eliffs at Wimille, ik near the Napoleon Columio, ou Burder of his mother, fixed for date early in April, was, almost at, February 26th, after she had been the last moment, cancel by the missing since October 8th last, is Home Secretary, who referred the te in leared up. case to the court for consideration of new evidence.
Knighton had been brought from Bagthorpe Prison, Nottingham, in
Linotur-ear,
His mother was found with her throat gut, the wound having been inflicted with a razer as she lay asleep in bed.
The case has excited in great deal uf interest, the main features being that drevased and a friend, Nurais Marathy, went for the day to Boulogne. Nurse Macarthy lost sight of her friendl and returned next day alone. Until yesterday, says a copy of the Daily Mail to hand, it Sie Beary Maddocks, K.C., who as officially assumed that the girl appeared for Knighton, confessed died as the result of an illegal to some embarrassment because of operation, but an examination of the muvelty of the ease.
He ex. her exhumed remains by Dr. Paul, plained that he felt some difficulty the eminent French pathologist, has how to proceed.
established the fact that there was incfusion of the Union Jack in the
Lord Hewart: When this case no ground for this theory and that came before the court a few weeks the girl was murdered by strangu flag itself.
age the ground of appeal was one lation. Her murderer used such General Smuts is vigorously opof insanity. The court, upon the violence that bones of the neck were
materials that had been before the fractured. posed to the Hill, declaring that jury, came to the conclusion that Detectives are starting their in- neither the British nor the Dutch however, has been further investi- chief of the inabile brigade of the matter, vestigations anew, and M. Uccanin, the appeal failed. The will submit to coersion, and the gated by the Home Secretary and Sûreté Générale, is visiting Bon- his experts. We have no doubt logne initiate the inquiry. The Bill will leave an aftermath of about the result of the inquiry. It Public Prosecutor at Duuni is also bitterness and suspicion which will to confirm the view that there taking the liveliest interest in the
was nothing in the suggested de investigation. fence of insanity.
poison public life for many years.
PRESIDENT OF FRANCE.
HONOURED BY OXFORD.
(THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 17th. President Doumergae had a me
The then Pau reports that the Kumminehun troops have reached the Langhai railway, and threatening Loyang. The Wu Pei dardization and undertake: investi-morable welcome at Oxford, where Fy Commander, Chang Chih Kung, | gations on an international scale he was made a Doctor. of Civil is opposing them, and the Mukden with a view to ascertaining the most aw, and an honorary degree in
Sir Henry: The difficulty at the Trial was to suggest a motive. Now the suggestion that may be put before the court is that some one other Lian tiu priserer had a motive for the murder.
Meanwhile M. Rozet, the examin ing magistrate of Boulogne, will retain nominal charge of the case..
Dr. Paul has told the police thai thinka Mim Daniele was flung to the ground with such violetic before she was alrangled that the body was badly bruised.
Scotland Yard Help.
Allegations By Prisoner's Sister. Doris Ivy Knighton, the pri- aoner's 16-years-old sister, was then
It is probably certain," said a sworn and in an almost inaudible voice she gave what was enlled the high authority to-day, "that a man new evidence. She dealt Grst withis.comcerned in the matter. We shall an occurrence two nights before the search for further evidence. At the moment all the witnesses we have murder when she was sleeping as usual with her mother in an up- been able to find speak only of Miss
Janiets and two other women.
**Ong of these women, we think, stairs room. Her brother (the pri soner), she said, slept on the floor below and her father, who was anus are able to identify ns-Aliss invalid, had a bed in the kitchen. McCarthy, the friend who accom 1 was dozing off," she stated, | October 6th, but of the other woman when somebody erawled upstairs we have no knowledge.
Five Southern destroyers, upon commander. Wang Fu Lin, eficient methods of production and the same faculty was conferred on Her brother was helplessly drunk.panied Miss Dunicis to Boulogne on
hearing that this bombardment was likely, withdrew.rapidly from the vicinity of the forts and proceeded up the Whangpoo River to safety- They are now opposite Langhua, a little beyond Shanghai.
Cruisers' Direct Hits.
hastening from Changchow to go to Chang Chih 'Kung's assistance.
General Yang Sen has reached Shasi,
Admiral Tyrwhitt As Hankow.
HANKOW, May 17th. Admiral Tyrwhitt hat arrived bere on board H.M.8. Hawkins.
[NAVAL WIREL£88.] Shanghal Normal.
SHANGHAI, May 17th. There is an entire lack of in-
LATER. In the course of two hours' firing the cruisers scored three direct hits, The doing considerable damage. forts constantly replied, but failed to hit the cruisers, which sub-cident at Shanghai, the place being! sequently steamed away northward.
THE BRITISH MINISTER,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.]
SHANGHAI, May 18th. Sir Miles Lampson, aboard H.M.S. Furyforc, is due at Shanghai to
morrow,
CHIANG KAI SHEK.
[TYROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, May 18th. Chiang Kai Shek has arrived from Nanking.
The Kuomintang Central Bank in Shanghai is to be renamed as the THE HANKOW SITUATION. Sun Yat Sen Bank.
JAPANESE DESTROYER
FIRED ON.
WARRANT OFFICER
WOUNDED..
RETURNS FIRE WITH MAIN ARMAMENT.
(THROUGH NEOTER'S AGENCY.].
SHANGHAI, May 18th. The Japanese destroyer Mfumo, with the Japanese Foreign Office Mission to investigate conditions on the Yaugiaze aboard proceeding to Hankow, was fired 71 by the Northerners while anchored off Chinkiang yesterday night.
The destroyer replied with her main armament. She pulled up her anchor so as to avoid the fire, which continued for two hours. A warrant officer was while on the bridge..
wounded
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
SHANGHAI, May, 18th.
A telegram from Hankow, dated the 17th inst., stutes :-
normal.
The Southern Offensive,
CHINXIANO, May 17th. Although the guns on either side
M. Briand, in the presence of a encourage an interchange of indistinguished gathering. formation. Also that goveraments should be advised to take periodie ally, a census of production on lines. laid down by the International Institute of Statistics.
COLONIAL CONFERENCE.
DISCUSSION ON LEGISLA- TURE PROCEDURE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 17th. The
Conference has Colonial dealt with the efforts to assimitate
REVOLT IN THE PHILIP- PINES,
REBEL LEADER SMARTLY CAPTURED.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
It may be that we shall have to
on his hands and knees. The door- way is narrow and the intruder 1 crawled through slowly. He was ask Scotland Yard to help us, for making an awful noise just like it is likely that there is someone in iny father makes when he has a London who can tell us what we heart attack after taking exercise." want to know."
The girl then alleged that owing to the behaviour of the man she screamed.
One line of inquiry which the de- tectives may follow is the sugges- |tion that Miss Daniels's prescnce in
Sir Henry: Did you form any Boulogne may have been resented opinion in your own mind as to by someone whom she perhaps who it was?Yes. I thought it thought, would welcome her, and was my father. 1 said nothing and who, in blind rage, may have mur-
dered her. he said nothing to me. MANILA, May 18th.
added the girl, "The man, Wood, who Governor-General
then began to crawl away and my stopped at Iloilo to direct the anti- mother awoke, and I said, There revolt mesures, yesterday persuad
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Inquiries will probably be made in London to ascertain if there was any such person with whom Miss is a man in the room. She re- Daniels had been associated.
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she esl Fior Intrencherade, the self.plied, 'Don't be silly
minutes afterwards styled Emperor" of Iloile, and thought she heard somebody else in leader of the Negroes rehellion, to the bedroom on her mother's side of the bed She saw her brother board Governor Wood'a yacht, standing there and when asked was doingtre said, "Nothing," and struck a match.
of the river continue to exchange the procedure in conducting busi- fire, there has been no developmentness in the Colonial legislatures, which then sailed from Iloilo with what he
HARROW, May 17th.
A message from Shasi states that General Yang Sen, the perpetrator of the Wanhsien outrage, yester day commanderred AL Portuguese steatorr for use as a transport.
up to the present towards the big which is admittedly difficult owing of the the varying nature Southern offensive which was fore- to
problems of individual Colonies. easted.
Interesting suggestions forthcom- Portuguese Steamer Commandeered,
ing included the adoption of a regal emblen for each assembly, the gradual transition from the presi- dency of the Governor to that of an elected Speaker, and also the adop tion of model sets of standing orders by groups of colonies asso- Yang Sen moved a large body of ciated geographically or otherwise. troops, some in the steamer and some in junks towed by the vessel, to a place about eight miles on the Hankow side of Yochow. The troops were landed on the south bank of the river.
It is understood that Yang Sen's troops are acting under the orders of Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, and
The local situation, in tenser as the result of the news of incoming troops marching on the city from that they are anti-Red" various directions.
TSINGTAO'S EXCESSIVE
TAXATION.
BRITISH CIGARETTE CO. CLOSE THEIR FACTORY..
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TSINGTAO, May 18th. The British Cigarette Company's factory has been closed, owing to
All Chinese The foreign settlement at Shas the excessive taxation imposed by
whid have enough sah to clear out are going down-river by every avail- able boat.
It is reported that Yang Sen is moving down the Yangtze now having joined up with the Wu Pei
is reported to be quiet, I
Southerners Go Up The Yangtze.
NANKING, May 17th.
The regular cross-rivor, traffic
Fu elements on the Han River; and between Nanking and Pikow has the combined force is within 00
Serious troublebeen resumed now that both places miles of the city.
threatening in Southern are under the Nationalist regime, is also Hupeh, where a body of Hankow
to and the situation is returning to which has gone over troops Chiang Kai Shek in marching up normal conditions. the Canton-Hankow railway to wards Hankow.
It is reported that they are now only 20 miles from the city and have torn up part of the railway.
To day a train from Wuchang to Changsha turned back.
The Northerners have, several field guns in strong positions be hind the hill just beyond Pukow, and at intervals yesterday they engaged the Nationalist guns at Tiger Inland and Lion Hill.
Large numbers of Southern forces aro now moving up the river bauk from Nasking.
the Provincial authorities, and the regulations rendering it impossible. for the company to continue busi-
ness.
The loend illegal cigarette tnxa: tion has been increased to 30 per cent. as from May 10th.
Intrencherado a prisoner.
The Governor-General will trans- for the rebel chief to another vessel coming to Manila..
TRADE WITH RUSSIA.
FIGURES FOR APRIL.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, May 17th. The extent of Anglo-Russian trade was shown by Sir Philip Cunliffe- Lister (President of the Board of Trade) who, replying to Comdr. Kenworthy in the House of Com- mons, stated that the imports for April wery £1,400,000, while the British exports, were £228,000, the re-exports £1,200,000.
and
BRITISH DEFENCE FORCE.
QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS.
THROUGH REUTER'S AJENCY.]
i,
PARACHUTE WARFARE.
DROPPING MACHINE GUN TEAMS BEHIND ENEMY'S LINES..
He described how during the war bags of rice and other foods were thrown out of aeroplanes from 1,000
Night Of The Crime. Describing what happened on the night of the murder, the girl said i
3 the wars of the future a she held her inother coughing and gurgling a great deal, and her Commander-in-Chief will be drop- Brother came into the room saying, ping machine-gun teams and de "How long has she been like this "molition parties behind the enemy She replied, "She has been like lines in parachutes before launching that a nice while,"
an offensive. Parachute flares wil She saw no blood on her brother's reach enormous propertions," said elothes after the murder, but the Flight-Lieut. F. O. Soden, Royal next day she saw some clothes be
Air Force, in a lecture in London. fonging to her father and mother in the sink. They had been wrung Gut. She had seen her father turning clothes in the house.
Her mother and father, she said, fest to isolated troops in Iraq, and a pilot dropped tins of petrol from and been on bad terms for over a about six fees into a riser at the year. She had seen her father hit bottom of a ravine to enable an
Before her mother with a stick.. she gave evidence at the police
"I do not think," said Lieut. stick to the story she court her father had told her to
Soden, "that the parachute has coroner.
bern taken seriously from this point Replying to questions by of view. Sooner or later we must Maurice Healy (for the Crown), the have a supply and transport side girl agreed that when she gave evidence before the justices ahe of the RA.F. solely for this kind
of work." minde no suggestion that her father had een to the bedroom. Her father had been ill in bed for 21 days.
Butruths.
fd the
portant wireless station to func
tion.
Few people realized that para- chutes were us essential on an aero- plane as lifebelts and lifeboats on ship. Every new machine now When the girl concluded her being built for the Royal Air Force was designed to carry parachutes, evidence the Lord Chief Justice said: We are all satisfied that the and it was a punishable offence for witness, Doris Ivy Knighton, in her pilot or passenger to leave the LONDON, May 17th.
-amended statements which she has ground without his parachute." made has not only told what is In the House of Commons, reply untrue, but what she knows to be
The effect is to establish more: ing to Mr. E. Thartic (Labour) untrue. If we had any doubt upon with regard to the strength of the that matter wo should have given clearly than ever the importance her father opportunity of of a confession which the appellant, Shanghai Defence Force, Captain denying it, but we do not think it admittedly now a sane man, made on the morning of this murder. King stated that it consisted of is necessary to do so.
When Sir Henry had announced He went into the Ilkeston polies twelve infantry battalions and one
that he would call no further station at 7.25 a.m., and said, Marine hattalion, with ancillary evidence, Lord Howart intimated have dong the old woman in; Î that they did not desire to hear Mr. have cut her throat with a razor. The razor is lying by the side of Henly for the Crown.
I have been OM the Lord Hewart, pronouncing judg- tho bed. ment, said: The defence of in- booze."
There was ample evidenco to annity has entirely failed. It fail- ad before the jury, it failed on ap convict Knighton spart altogether peal to this court, it failed on the from his sister's evidence, and not investigations by the Home Secre least was his own confession and in his department,
EX-KAISER NOT WANTED IN GERMANY,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BERLIN, May 17th. The Reichstag has passed the third reading of the Bill for the protection of the Republic, and troops. preventing the return to Germany
There were seven infantry bat- of the ex-Kaiser for at least another
taliona and ancillary forces in two years, by 323 to 41. Count Westary, supporting the liens just arriving.
The German National lender, Hong Kong, including four batta- It was not proposed to bring home the class A reservists framtary and conducted by specialists the evidence he himself gave in the
Officials hore seem to realise that a crisis is pending despite the fact that Mr. Eugene Chen has stated
Bill, declared that it still remain. that the aforementioned reports are
whether the false, that “ unauthorised' troop It is reported that Marshal Changed to be decided movements near the Ilunan-Hupeh Trung Chang's troops have cut the article relating to the ex-Kaiser border are under investigation.' Pukow-Tientsin railway about 30 was to be incorporated into the new
Civil Code. miles above Pukow, (Continued on next Column).
Shanghai in the near future.
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witness-box at the trial.
The appeal was dismissed.