POOR BORODIN: POOR
CHEN!
THE ACTING DIRECTOR OF CANTON'S POLITICAL BUREAU SPEAKS OUT.
"YES, WE WILL KILL BORODIN."
MILITARY AND POLITICAL
SECRETS.
[By J. G. PATON.J
*lý we do not destroy the com tourists then they will destroy Us Cheer communion will try and do to the "Kuomintang what Russian Bushevism dd to Kerensky. But we will destroy communisin.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JUNE 3rd, 1927.
1 sau thai & supposed a did. **Di Lourau propaganda las plus- a big part,' Li Lian added ed
11 is ensentini to keep hastily. up our troops spirus and to pre- pare the way ahead for their vie The Political Department I am acting has done zruch work.
MECHANIZATION IN THE BRITISH ARMY.
THE
HIPEREMAIN TALL
FORCE.
TRAINING SEASON PLANS.
гу
20
INDIAN RULERS' STATUS.
MISSION TO LONDON
VITAL ISSUES " AT STAKE.
THE ETON BOY POLICEMAN.
VARSITY MEN, TOO.
LURE OF THE C.I.D.
It is an open secret that not a few u who regulate the traffic in London streets, and who so miitely answer so many perplexing inquiries, include not only public school men but also graduates of universition.
I understand. writes the Daily Telegraph correspondent, that re- cent private discussions between the leading princes have resulted in the decision that Mr. L. F. Rushbrook Williams, C.B.E., Foreign Minister
Most of these gifted and well- of the Patiala State, and Colonel Kailas Narain Haksar, CLE..edicated young inen are ex-officers member of the Gwalior Slate Coun- who find in the promise of the vil, should go to London shortly police force a wider and more con- for the purpose of gauging opin-genial opportunity for their adven nothorities, seeking expert advice on the Constitutional position, and otherwise advancing the point of
CALCUTTA. Following recent ufterances of the Maharajas of Benares, Bikanir, The following official statement and Kashmir, evidence continues to
An old Eton boy who is now a arqummate that the rulers of the was issued by the War Ofen:
An Experimental Fore of an independent tudian States are ne-police-constable is by no means an the Metropolitnu pletly mechanized units in bengtsels, taking steps to safeguard exception in.
their interests, in view of the pos Polier Farer. assembled at. Tidworth with the aljret of discovering through praesible enrly revision of the Constitu
th effect of tion in British India. tical experience mechanization on the organization and the tactical employment of highly mobile units. The fores will an Link battalion, comprise
FIN armoured car brigade, Royal Artillery, a pack battery, Royal Artillery, a field company, Royal Engineers, signal unit, and an infantry bat a machin salion re equipped as Koululation with machine Commandant? R. J. Collins, CM.4).
the D.M.T. Will you miss Borodin's genius 18.0. intely
over the com as a propagandis, i asked.
Indin, will take We can do without. Omand of this forer on May 1st view of the Indian States and
the Statutory Commission." own organization is very goal. The ander the orders of Majo-Ceneralrging a full hearing of it before Russians, of course, are very good
Sir John Burnett Stuart, K.B. E.,
It is also announced that a num a that sort of thing. They never 7.B., C.M.GE, D.8.0.
ber of prominent princes are form They send different flet you alopre
agen to talk to you all day and don't let you hear anything else. They are very clever. Now Boro din has four tools but, of course, we are going ----,”
I was in a large well furnished, Lory. 1 in the headquarters of the
;)
dition Bureau of the Nationalist director of the Political Departus: Colonel (temparary Collion there, cuusalting the proper furous spirits than could be obtain
(autoumen." Revolutionary Army Outside, spruer soldiers ate their bows of set: guards saluted and walked up and down in perfect | form; everything was as it shall
bethau arnis behind the lines.
Darsid the messphere was swei tering and moist.
WAS
Inside the atmosphere was swTi- tering and dry
The speaker an absurdly smali, dapper little chap who wore his green grey ficer's uniform like a log-seout. Ia ment, habyish fner just reached over the top of!
Interrupted hastily.
And what of Eugene Chen Is
the table and never the ghost of a the war of the trols.
Poeting
Anik
Over Li Laan's face there passed je
His, just the suggestion of an exper Preased at unwrinkled akin. slender, delicate hand stretched outsion, imost of pity, the pity of t before him. Angers touching fingers, child whe chides an elder brother. in apputed evangebeni style.
He was linn, Acting Director
of the Political Department
We will kill Borodin," he added
as though it were ruineusequen
til after hight,
What About Shanghai?
Eugene Chen, unfortunately. an understand the real situa tin Cina. He knows nothing out i le cannot, help p- eause he thinks like a foreigner. It
“delicate
La Liu spoke more in sorrow sensitive fingers and stroked his than a wigger. virginal chin.
Du shuddered.
Li Lian memand those
Yes, we will ki Baredin," he repeated
i
Poor Chen! Poor Burudi
How!**
And what about the sions and the international settin Chiang Kai Shek wil dreides, i ment at Shanghai I asked.
1 it does!
We will not use forer to retake them Li luan replied.
1 personally would
We wil ki hi falter.
Russia Still Cur Friend."
You al yazke sure you won! let him get pencețulą, atay to An
I suggested.
Peng
Russia wergest does nut
Muscow has told us that į nize bin. he actions have been without any i Dorset safet
flat
And you believe that 4
friend, Russia has been Russia is still our friend. Kussiä with remain or trend if she wusines hut if Moser seals any more me who try to disrupt the Kuomintang they we wil treat her as perialistie enemy."
Liang paksed and run bir bogers over the table.
In the meantime." he continued dy, we will kii Borodin.**
(he, was reminded of a child sitting innocently playing with a razor a lus lourd by achilent,)
I answered because
Kilf
it served the natural thing to say
will certainly Yer, wr Borodin, he repeated.
Am outside the soldiers went on eating their rice.
This, having disposed Fu effee tively of is predecessor and no doubt former idal, Li Lian again! brought his hugers together and
talked of of things.
timec
**Chiam Kai Shek captured Shanghai just in time he can The Communists, before the drive on Haugehow, had ch ed an agreement with Chang Tsung Chang, providing that he should attack Chiamy in Nanchang while The communists suddenly advanced In his rear. But the capture of Shanghai and Yanking upset their plans.
Then he disclosed a military secret-the only one drug the entire interview, perhaps the only
one he knew.
|
It is hoped that the result of the tests to which the units will be adjerted during the training sea. son will be of very material value in guiding the further development of mechanization in the Army as a whole.
A Military correspondent writes: This announcement anplifies the if official statement, published in The Times on April 1st, that Colonel Collins find breth trans
ed in the professions or in trade
Their ambition is to be employed fat as plain clothes duty men, and then to be included among the de retive staff of the C...
Languages And Classics. Several constables on duty in the West End can not only dirret. Frenchinan, a German, a Spaniard. or An Italian to his required destination, but can also discourse
nently on the classics.
a standing committee of the Princes hamber, meeting at Simla in May, to exchange views in- formally among themselves and with Government officials in regard To vital issues likely to crop up during the cevision of the Reformning. Inspector of Constabulary, in Scheme. The leaders in these dis his annual report to the Home in the drafting of a “definite de tips to policemen, cussions, which will be preliminary Ole, asked the public not to offer elaration of rights and policy for
That is why Sir Leonard Dun-
The London policeman of "to-day
is to get on in the Force,
frred from the equam of the! Presentation at the next session of most be a man of education if he the Princes Chamber, will prole ably be the Maharajas of Bikanir, Patiala, and Kashmir.
successivit
to
Intany Brigade at Portsmouth to and the 7th Infantry Brigade Tidworth,
I. X Colonel Commandant dark who "goes 19 the Staff
older 5 G.SU.E
Very General Knowledge. How many eluented men could answer off-hand the following ques ions included in the general knowledge examination of a first-
Extremist Attacks. The points that are particularly perturbing to the princes at this time are obsence, bait their present jelas constable ?— netivities are no doubt largely the year of the hitter attacks-nude-on- them by Swarajist orators in the Nationalist
It had en generally understood that this were unportuan experi ment, to which this Säugetary at State for War referred in his speech
Congress, combined Da the Army Estimates, would he carried out under the enmand of with the campaign of vilification in the native Press, which the rulers Calonel J. F. C. Fuller. The mili tary assistant to the Chief of the of the States are sharing to an in Imperial General Staff, siney Focreasing extent with British offi ruary, 1926, and a lendimi advoente ciais. o nechanization. The change of command, therefore, has led the subject of much discussion in mali
And when, and if, you get them berk la negotiations what will you d about the money that Fondign Powers have put no them. Witary circles, you repay 20
1
1
That will be arranged. By whoin!"
It sounded like the Peuple's party but, the ques being hardly covered by the al nooks, Li Lian may be excused for storing the reply.
Anyway," he added, "we would certainly make compensation."
And the prior
That will be arranged." By whom
By the Again the reply was indistinct hat it sounded as
Colonel Collins, while Director of Military Training in India, gav considerable attention to mechanical 2172 impartial development, student rather thing as an expottenf. of any particular school. Very in- Indian anceuvres, and important feriating tests were carried out af data were obtained over ground which provides our largest land frontier, and in some ways is not dissimilar to the terrain of the Near East.
From whatever cause their more active imerest may have arisen
get that their territories comprise fand there is an inclination to for a. third part of the total Indian territories, and eitain a quarter of the total population), it is a development of the greatest sígni- ficance.
of interest
Critics of the princes' present nervous attitudes deviare that they
Jack themselves are largely to blue through their
their Constitutional changes hitherto in the possible effect of the position, and suggest that the late Mr. E. 8. Montagu, when he framed the reforms in 1918, intend The Experimental Force will bed a more prominent and ambitions an all-petrol" one, equipped with
on
By what characteristics of ap- pensarcir dres, or man- nem could you tell an American. en Australian, a Frenchman, or Todian in a London street ?
What do you know about the Washington Agreement, the Third Tatermatica, the British Legion. Whirley Compile, the Fascisti, and the Geneva Protocol ?
Weite short notes on any three of the following: Lord Allenly, Mr. J. H. Thomas. E. Hendren, Mark Twain, Signor Mussolini, Marie Corelli. Jack Dempsey. M. Trotsky.
And here is a testing problets in psychology: "Is there any truth in
statement that the rainal is horn, not wide. Mustrate as far as you can from your own perience."
w
TOO MANY IRONS.
€
though the same powerful body the latest machines, able to travel rule for the Chamber of Princes BAGS STUFFED WITH CLUBS.
than they have ever attempted to
that would arrange whether coni-
occupy.
This is true, but the fact is that FAULTS OF MODERN GOLFERS. the native rulers are now realising that, while the first instalment of
While watching the players in the the reforms did not directly affect Varsity gorf match at Hoylake some
to this season under the Australian them, the next step may possibly be of us who learnt ur game with leer Colonel Foster, and which of a different character. mayr old gutta ball fell to talking
cross-country result in the necessity for their de
with
at high speed and carry powerful pension would or would not be paid fere over long distances. On Salis would also arrange about the price.bury Plain it will have a mounted Bounterpart in the 2nd Cavalry "I want you to impress on your
Brigade, which will be temporarily i
readers that this is not a fight be ween the left and right wings of it is a fight between our party. the Kuomintang and the C
Southern Press The Juubisis."
"The Nationalist agent continued. Party is not anti-foreign hut anti- Imperial. We are not the enemies, of foreigners, nor Christianity, nor Reengnising that Li Lian was again on homeground and knowing the rest by heart I brought the
interview to a close
to the various units from those at
Muc-
ther the Oxford or the Cambridge team could play a hall in the wind with what we used to call a it of heel. That kept the ball from
alust, the imited number of ghois. will operate Bhanical transport to increase finitely envisaging an India with a which are in the bag of the modern
The 1st Cavalry Federal form of Government assignedfor writes Mr. C. B. rains al action. Brigade at Aldershot will be equiping essentially different functions Farlane, Scarcely our player in and for this purpose also, and, as be tested, the training season will infantes carried in lorries will also provide data on three important heads namely, an all-mechanical and cavalry. The 9th Field Brigade, forge and mere mobile infantry 17th Field Company, R.E., 5th Tank Battalion, and 2nd Pack Brigade are available on Salisbury Plain for the general test.
Another Misunderstanding. Then why did your soldiers Fire at me this morning I asked Li an looked startled, like a parrot J explained, that bus suddenly been asked to learn a new word. telling him of how Cantonese troops near Whapon Military Academy NEW huel fred on our river steamer, the Lung Shan, early that morning. I even conceded him the fact that We are informed, says the Straits eight shots out of about. 50 had Times, that at Palembang, Suma- tra, half way between Singapore actually hit the boat.
Li Lian, however, was equal to the occassion,
Thirty Thousand Killed, "Our latest military reports show that if the communists had not betrayed the Kuomintang, Chiang Kai Shek would have been in Peking two months ago. The Feug-standing," he said triumphantly.
The good old tex-hook Ladi tien troops had no spirit and any
scared again. way they are notorious cowards.
Bu have the Nationalist sui- diers ever really had a battle or bave your victories all been won by propaganda " I asked.
Li Lian, seemed to hesitate he- tween a natural affection for his awn department and loyalty to the Nationalist Army.
are.
AVIATION IN SUMATRA.
FIELD ON ENGLAND- AUSTRALIA ROUTE..
and Batavia, commerce and indus-
inevitably, resulting in the lime present existing, in circumstances light being thrown in a more vivid nunner daily on political mana- Provincial Councils.
uvres in the Assembly and the
It is not surprising, therefore, that the princes have resolved to take precautions against the dan ger that the framers of further re- forms may ignore the magnitude of the interests committed to them.
DEBT TRAP FOR GIRLS.
RUSE TO DECOY STAGE ASPIRANTS.
GENEVA.
It must hve been a misunder, try have joined hands in construct the problem of how to rescue girls
And then
"Of Course
ing
a splendid aviation field, men- suring 100 by 200 yards.
blew from right to left.
Golfers to lay have to play so Bat the wind shalt blew the ball back from the right. That is all very well if the shot comes off. int il lightest bit of hook gruds ( ball far away to the left.
ring carried away when the wind
Many such shuts were seen at the shirt fourth hole at Hoylake. and I came to the conclusion that the players as a whole carried far Moreover, Loo many iron clubs their irons were so very much loft- d that they could not keep the ball down except by digging up-u huge divet and ever that method was not always successful,
Oat the other day Jock Hatchi- son, the famous American profes gional, went round his cours in host par figures using only a loft- rd putting lock.
A special committee of the League, of Nations is engaged in studying
Son lungs were simply stuffed with ambitions to appear on the with irons: indeed, the paddies
theatrical pro-right one. The site is along the motor-car-stage from white-slave traffickers often had a difficulty in finding the None of the great players of the ducers. road, eight miles worth-west of trading 18
rarried many clubs. They Our impresario's nsual procedure | past Palembang, 260 miles from Singa- there have been pore and 950 miles from Batavia.
master and with which they could many misunderstandings between The course has been laid out under to engage a troupe of girls for a preferred a few of which they were the Nationalists and the foreign the supervision of experts of theatre in a remote town. When re-
Dutch Government and will behearsals, which last about a uth, play many different types of are concluded the impresarin die strokes: now-a-days golfers have so Powers."
I agreed, shook hands and wan tried out for the heaviest traffic
appeare. The girls, who are paid many irons that they are masters dered out through the ts of planes.
At the end of May the place will salaries during this peril, find of none. neatly dressed soldiers,cating
settled-with the connivance of the He compromised. Siace last their rice, convinced that I had met in visited by a squadron of six that their hotel bills have not been proprietors of these establishments June we have lost 30,000 soldiers a charming, industrious, studious, military aeroplanes from Java.
Palembang is a rapidly develop "Su that honest and sincere idealist-whe
A suave and then appears on the killed," he declared."
some dny grow up ing place, situated at the river and that they are stranded, Morsi which can be navigated by
Harry Vardon has won champion- shows what fighters our soldiers may,
Daily News:
Inrge ocean steamers Every month scene and offers on certain condi an average of 50 steamers call at tions to pay the debts of the dis-ships when carrying no more than ten clubs all told: Joe Kirkwood, the harbour, besides several oil tressed girls. Sometimes a woman sects to which the various mission steamers. Palembang is also the offers an inexperienced girl a part with only seven elabs, can play any ary mucieties from the West belong-terminus of the railway-line of in a cinema company, and installs type of shot: John Ball, the grent iron clubs which would keep the ed, and could not enjoy self-deter South Sumatra which covers a dis- her in a luxurious flat and provides. Hoylake, amateur, always preferred mination
And
self-management. "tance of 200 miles. The import and her with expensive gowns. A man.
more than a few weeks later, presents the girl halt tow. If loft was wanted skill returns Were
did the trick. The result has been that Christians export
with a bill for furniture, rent, and have been unable to develop a free quadrupled in the last 13 years. independent spirit, and our fellow In the vicinity of Palembang the clothes.
The unfortunate girl is unable to PEKING.
countrymen have misunderstood us B.P.M. (Royal Shell) and the
N.K.P.M. (an affliation of the pay, and is threatened with arrest in many things An independent Chinese Chris-
It is the hope of the missionary Standard Gil Co. of New Jersey) for fraud, but she can remain approaches being played with
again on certain conditions.
huge deep-faced mashie niblicks and 1inn Church for China is being
Commissioners of the League of niblicks lofted enough to get the old. vigorously urged by agents of the societies now that we should throw have their oil-fields and refineries.
They
a house made Short, Whip Society who are off the dependence and reliance on
petrol, etc.
Nations, with great difficulty and ball over
Inshioned folk" wonder what golf Beretly distributing circulars at them which we have hitherto had, tons of oil every year 080,000
Five banking-houses and 23 Euro-some risk, have traced the traf own independence.
is coming to. and week our
And in spite of his dozen irons, The result must be to arouse a new pean trading companies have their fiekers, but so long as the different spirit of courage to hear responsi-branch-offices in Palembang and Governments will not take com. bility, to found our owe church. also Chinese, Arabs and Natives bined and united action against the scarcely one amateur of to-day can and we ought to rise to this to have an active share in the local white-slave traffic it will be difficult classed as really perfect in iron
Lo stamp out the trade. gother."-Unital Press.
CHINESE CHRISTIANS.
A CAMPAIGN POR INDEPENDENCE.
several Christian churches in Pek- ing says a United Peres message to a temporary.
In part, the circulars say:
Our churches were in the first place connected with the various
trade.
During the heavy wind at Hay-i take the Varsity gollers could not To keep the ball from soaring.
play.
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