THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 12th, 1927.
HUNAN AND HUPEH WANT “HONEST- MINDED" KUOMINTANG MEMBERS.
AN APPEAL TO NANKING. RE-ENTRY OF THE ANFUITES.
READY TO TAKE UP FENGTIENITES' BURDEN
IN PEKING.
DISGUISED JAPANESE TROOPS SAID
IN SHANTUNG. TO BE FIGHTING
The Northerners appear to have consolidated at Tsinan, where General Chang Tsung Chang and Marshal Sun Chuen Feng are reported to have resumed control on the 10th inst.
There is a report that the Kuomintang forces have received a considerable set-back in Shantung."
Japanese troops, it is said, have been seen at Kiomi, west of Kinochow. They are believed to be ready to go into action "disguised as Fengtion troops."
It is reported that Nanking's abolition of-likin has been postponed until November lat.
Delegates from Hupeh and Hunan have arrived at Nanking to request the Nationalist: Government to send a punitive expedition into these. provinces against the Reds. The delegation also request that "honest-minded" members of the Kuomintang should take over the reins of government in both Hupch and Hunan.
JAPANESE REINFORCE MENTS FOR TSINGTAO.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
TOKYO, July 11th.
A company of railway, and tele- graph troops for Tsingtao from Tokyo is arriving on the 18th inst."
The Government has stated that
reinforcements further planned for the present..
no
MORE JAPANESE REIN- FORCEMENTS FOR CHINA?
(Wah Taz Yat Pao.)
EHANGHAI, July 11th.
are
WHAT THE RUNAWAY GENERAL GAVE UP.
(Wah Psz Yat Pan.).
SHANGHAI, July 11th. Reports from Tsingtao to hand state that the Northern defectionist, General Chen Yi Yen, has given up all strategic points along the Tsinan-Tsingtao Railway.
MEXICO'S “ENEMIES.”
MEXICAN FOREIGN OFFICE
SEEKS INFORMÁTION.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}
Mexico City, July 11th. The Mexican Foreign Office is Mexican Consule circularising abroad instructing them to report the names of foreign firms dealing with the enemies of President
Calles' Government.
The information is sought in order to place an embargo on the pro- perties of the guilty firms in Mexico and to boycott them.
MORE SOVIET ARRESTS.
ALLEGED SPYING FOR BRITAIN.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Moscow, July 11th. The official Tara agoncy states that over 25 persons, including a number of ex-naval officers and off- cials of military and civil instátu tions, have been arrested at Lenin grad in connection with the report od discovery of a large spying organisation directed by an agent
at Reval.
IRISH POLITICAL ASSASSINATION.
VICE PRESIDENT O’HIGGINS SHOT DEAD IN DUBLIN..
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
DUBLIN, July 10th. Vier-President: O'Higgins, while en route to Mass, was shot and seriously wounded by three men in a motor-car. He was shot three
times in the body and once in the
head.
No arrests were made.
LATER.
Mr. O'Higgins is dead. Details of the outrage state that Mr. O'Higgins was with his wife, and was walking near their ro sidence in the Blackrock suburb when a motor-car, drew up close to the footpath, and ita three oc- cupants emptied their revolvers nt the couple. Mrs. O'Higgins was not bit, but ronched home in a state of collapse..
The police are stopping all motor- cars in an effort to find the assail- ants. Within half an hour of the shooting, the police all over the city had held up all motor-cars and searched them, also houses with garages.
Mr. Kevin O'Higgins was
of the British secret service, who garded as the strong man" of the was attached to the British Lega- Free State Government, and tour- tion, first at Helsingfors and thened, the country in the recent elec tion, vigorously attacking the lie publican and De Valera parties.
Mr. O'Higgins' Career, He was Vice-President,
and
S.S.
R
CHICHUEN."
MASTER ESCAPES PROM THE HANDS OF BANDITS,
REPAIRS VESSEL AND GETS AWAY,
ITHROUGH REUTEN'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, July 11th. Samuel Fisher of San Francisco, master of the steamer Chichuen,
inst.
THE NAVAL CON- FERENCE.
AN ILLUMINATING COM MUNIQUE.
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)
RUGBY, July 10th.
The public sitting of the Geneva Naval Conference takes place on Monday afternoon.
THE LURE OF THE ATLANTIC.
GERMAN WOMAN TO MAKE AN. ATTEMPT.
FLIES
"
EVERYWHERE.'
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENʊY:]
LONDON, July 10th.
A young German woman, Frau- The cruiser question was discusslein Then Rasche, has arrived at
route to
America to fly the
She says that the facilities for training for long flights in com- mercial machines are better in the United States than in Germany,
the steamer was aground on the yesterday and suggestions which whence she intends
Atlantic." who was captured by bandits while ed by the Executive Committee Croydon r upper-Yangtare, escaped from the are to receive further cosideration bandits and refloated the Chichten, were made for over-coming differ- After repairing the vessel he ences in viewpoint ou this issue. safely reached Ichang on the ath The communiqué views of the British proposals for reducing ton- The compradore is still in the nage and gun power and lengthen where only sports machines are ing the age of battleships were available, and declares that Levine The Japanese is anxious she should sign a con- also considered. hands of the bandita.
think that this matter might be tract to fly his firm's machines. profitably taken up by the present She hopes to attempt the Atlantic Conference but that care should be fight later in the summer. taken not to allow it to imperil what they regard as the Confer enco's principal object, namely, the limitation of auxiliary craft, and should be held up until agreement is first reached thereon.
FRACAS OUTSIDE A MOSQUE.
TROOPS AND CIVILIANS COLLIDE.
(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.]
BAGHDAD, July 10th. Twe Iraqi soldiers and throo civilians were killed and 18 soldiers and 23 civilians were injured, in famous fracas outside the Kadhimain Mosque,
a
A crowd estimated at 100,000 were
commemorating the historic martyr- doms connected with the Muharram, when soldiers who were unarmed somehow angered the crowd, a section of which attacked the
using knives.
Capital Ships.
Thea's father is a wealthy brewer at Essen, and gave his daughter art, acroplane a few years ago.
"Now I fly everywhere," she tohl Reuter. "I flow on the present trip from Essen to Paris, and cross. ed the Channel, landing at French The Americans stated they do and English coast towns to replen not object to informal exchanges ish my petrol. I shall fly to South- en the British capital ship pro-ampton to-morrow to join the pósala after a successful agreement steamship Leviathan.”
on auxiliary craft. They added that such an exchange should not
at the 1931 conference by any of prejudice the decision to be taken the Powers but should rather be to elicit information which would on able the proposals to be thoroughly
Comdr. Byrd.
CHERBOURG, July 10th. The America, Comdr. Byrd's Fokker aeroplane, is returning to New York by the s.s. Leviathan on Tuesday.
A Le Touquet message states that
It is alleged that the British intelligence service assisted the monarchists, and that the Finnish intelligence service carried espionage in the Leningrad mili-Affairs. He was only 35 years old,
A very ugly situation was saved and has followed the tragic inte tary district, especially with re-
of his father, who was shot dead in by the coolness and tact of an Iraqi gard to the manufacture of chemi- 1922.
for the "Red" army and navy.
Alleged Confessions,
on Minister of Justice and External troops, many civilian Arabs freely studied. The Americap delegatio Byrd and his companions wero
General Chang Tsung Chang and Marshal Sun Chuen Feng returned to Tsinan on the 10th inst. and resumed control over the railway which, since the 10th inst., has recals Isumed normal traffic.
unfavourable ค Facing such
The Tass agency also states that situation, the Kuomintang troops in the course of the trial by the man med who had been reported to bave
Supreme Court, taken Kiomi or advanced further Druzhilovsky, who pleaded guilty north, have apparently received of espionage against the Soviet,
considerable set-back.
E
EL
recommend that if it is agreeable to all signatory Powere the 1931 presented to the Prince of Wales, conference should be held early who was present at a gala in their. There was wild enthusiasm on the that year rather than in August in honour. Mr. Kevin O'Higgins was Gov-officer, who led his men from the order to give ample time to deter
reached by the Conference in re- The monuments were hung with the ernor-General Healy's nephew, by vicinity of the mosque; and sub-mine the effects of any decision arrival of the airmen at Dunkirk, marriage, and was imprisoned nt
ment programme which begins in freedom of the city was bestowed November that year."
on Byrd, who is the first freeman Belfast during the disorders there,sequently the police restored order. gard to the capital ship replace-American and French fings, and the
there for a century. The British delegation made Later, De Valera appointed him Mr. Cosgrave's assistant in the
reservation to the effect that they themselves Sinn Feiners local government
not consider could board, but Mr. O'Higgins support-
bound not to raise the question during the Conference even if com- od the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1821. He was appointed Minister of
ploto agreement were not reached on all other points. What Modification of Design Mcans. law in 1929-23, altogether 77 irre-
With reference to this American head of the administration of the
circles British recommendation gulars were executed
think that a few months cannot be
Struck Several Times.
The Anfu clique, hended tv declared that he had produced Justice in 1922, and while he was The Japanese, Government, it is
the personal direction of Dr. reported, will give an order to the Marshal Tuan Chi Jui, is reported forged documents for Bulgaria at Japanese military authority in to be again active after undergoing Popoff, the Bulgarian Minister at China-to-send another contingent. long period of dormancy. The from Dairen to the Tsinan-Tsingtas leaders of the elique declare that Berlin, who was in touch with a railway zone. More troops, station- they are able to take up the task ed at Kobe, are designed to be des of establishing a modus vivendi Government in Peking should the patched to China, and also start for Fengticnese no longer stand on posed by two Russian exiles.
Tsingtao on the 13th inst.
According to a report from Nan- king, the abolition of likin, decided upon by the Nanking Government, has been postponed until Novem- ber 1st.
Delegates from Hupch and Hu- nan have arrived at Nanking.'" Their mission is reported to be to request the Nanking Government to
send a punitive expedition against
A number of Japanese troops are -reported to have appeared in Kioni, west of Kiaochow.
their own in Peking.
EXODUS OF KOREANS. ENTERING MANCHURIA “IN SWARMS."
PERING, June 25th. Since early last spring, large groups of Korea peasants have been pouring into North Manchuria, Within the last two months they
British officer.
Druhilovsky also alleged that the famous Zinovieff letter was com
AUSTRIA AND U.S.
COMMERCIAL TREATY.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
VIENNA, July 11th.
A commercial treaty granting Austria rust-favoured nation treatment has been concluded between and the United States, for a period
of eight years.
LINER HITS ICEBERG. PASSENGERS' THRILLING
the Reds" in these provinces have entered Chinese territory "in They also request that Nanking swarms and are causing consider- should appoint some "honest-mind-able embarrassment to the Chinese ed Kuomintang members to take polite who see possibilities of the
EXPERIENCE. the reins of Government of the two permanent settlements of these wan- dring men, women, and children.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] provinces.
According to a statement made by one of the officials in the Commis-
LONDON, July 10th: A thousand passengers on the sion of Foreign Affairs at 'Yenchi, It is
the poor harvests in Korea for the Canadian Pacific liner Montcalu alleged that they are disguised as past three years have forced the had a thrilling experience in a farmers into more fertile lands. dense fog at the Saint Lawrence, Fengtienese soldiers
in order to
At the present time, 1,550 men, when the vessel slid on a submerged fight for them at that point. The women and children are located nt ledge of a huge iceberg, and heel Many of the women passengers Japanese troops at Tsingtao and Huelchanhsien, 2.175 at Wangching ed over to an alarming angle.
hsien, 2,650 at Yenebisien, 2,287 at Tungninghsion, and 1,820 at Ho fainted. Dairen have already mobilised.
The vessel fortunately got clear, lunghsien.
but was delayed in the icefield for 44 hours.
ARRESTS IN PEKING.
ALLEGED KUQMINTANG
PLOTTERS.
(THROUGH REUTER's agenox.}
The immigration of these Koreans into China will have considerable influence upon the standards of living of the natives, states the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Commissioner has been instruct ed to determine ways and means to limit further bands.-Chung Mei.
ITALO-FRENCH FRONTIER
DUBLIN, July 11th.
· Details of the assassination of Mr. O'Higgins, show that he was struck by several bullets, and collapsed. More shots were then fired into his body as he lay on the ground. A medical examination showed that he was hit seven or eight times.
SINGAPORE'S GUNMEN.
Mr. SONG ONG SIANG'S COUNCIL.
ALLEGED IMPORTATION OF ARMS FROM CHINA.
J
LORD READING'S PLEA.
IMPORTANCE OF OUR FRIENDSHIP WITH AMERICA.
The Marquess of Reading Was The continued activities of gun- considered ample time for altering among those who welcomed over 100 men in Singapore was to be the the design of battlesnipe and that American doctors visiting London & task headquarters of the English-Speak- period required for such subject of a question by Mr. Song three years is much nearer the at Dartmouth House, Mayfair, tho Lord Reading confessed that he Ong Siang at the meeting on July it is for this reason that the decting Union. 3rd of the Legislative Council. sion to reduce the size of battle- Mr. Song Ong Siang was to ask ships would be singularly opportune was going to the Dorby because since it would enable the modifica present) insisted that he must take Governmout to say what further taken at the present Conference Lord Dawson of Penn (who was measures have been taken or are betion of designs to bave been com as much fresh air as possible.
Ramarking that Lord Dawson regard to the provisional agree had another engagement which pleted by the 1841 conference. In ments reached on destroyers and
He pretends he is not go submarines a sense of disappoint nothing on earth must stop, he ments could only be reached after ment is expressed that such agreeing to the Derby. I suspect him. the British proposed limit for (Laughter unitary displacement in each case had been forced upwards.
Professor MeNeil and two Civic, Guards came up a moment after the assailants had disappeared in their motor-car.. A priest and doctoring adopted to deal in an effective were summoned to attend Mr. manner with the situation, O'Higgins, who was streaming with
Other questione standing in the blood Replying to a question, the. dying man said "I forgive them name of the hon'ble member were as all."
follows:
It is alleged that revolvers are The priest, kneeling in a stream of blood, ministered to the dying pressed his last wishes with regard assembled bere, If this allegation to his family and property. man, who perfectly coherently ex-imported in parts from China and
'The Dominions and the Cruiser Question.
The cruiser question is regarded Prior to his death, Mr. O'Hig-is true and the Police authorities
was dying at are cognisant of the fact, bave in- as of direct and vital importance. gins declared, "I
issued been
for a by the Dominion delegates not only peace with my enemies. I die for structions
Collins."
Sir James Parr, High Commis
said:
The medical profession in both countries bad not only the common ground of language as a means of interpretation, but it had the same ideals of honour, integrity and probity.
"The most important factor in human civilisation-and, believe
my country. I go to join Michael thorough and systematic search of to the British but to themselves. xe, I am not merely using rhetori geration-ie that the American and Mr. O'Higgins had been provid-personal luggage of all persons sioner in London for New Zealand,cal language or speaking in erag ed with police protection, but fre entering Singapore for firearms and one of New Zealand's repre- the British people should under-
sentatives at the Conference, ar- and their component parts? quently évaded his guardians. He had sent his personal. escort on a
Will Government say if it is con- message before leaving home.
templated to cancel, without assign ing any reason therefor, the license of private individuals who are at present holders of licences to keep
President Cosgrave's Tribute. LATER
the
The Official Report.
LATER. The Free State is horror-stricken of Mr. the assassination
rived in London last night and stand each other and should work said "New Zealand and Australia together, at least wherever it is of benefiting humanity,” said Lord are especially concerned with the possible for the common purpose cruiser question. New Zealand has Reading, making an eloquent plea foreign trade of over one hundred for Anglo-American friendship.
and President Cosgrave in a state
million pounds and most of her from the Motherland. They have ment with regard to the assessin
to be carried over twelve thousand Cruisers which we require for de- -fence and not offence of our trade" miles of ocean.
nenace to no tion of Mr. O'Higgins, says: "In
exports and imports are to
national mourning, mindful of the
"Australia's trade is nearly three routes can be
How could a scattered this hour of national loss and fire-arms?
hundred million pounds and. her country. steadfast, heroic figure who has been sacrificed, the Irish people
imports and exports are in the fleet of small defensive cruisers be same position, Obviously if our menace to a battle fleet to what- won't falter. Mr. O'Higgins in
ever nation it belongs ocean routes to Europe should be
It was because the maximum in ing determination has trodden the
under his dauntless courage kad unflinch. |-
cut or blocked by raiders our whole.
the Washington path blazed by Messrs. Collins and
economic life would be suspended. cruisers
The only care for the raider is Agreement is in their opinion too Griffiths, even unto death. Another over great defender of the nation has Kevin O'Higgins in Dublin.
The Irish people
The official account of the crime the cruiser as the late war proved high-and the number that can be built is, of course, ualimited-that, conclusively. INCIDENTS.
passed away.
"The British demand for seventy the British have suggested more may rest assured that the assassin's (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUY.}
bullet will not succeed in terroris states that the motor-car used by ing the country. There are, and the murderers was stolen in the cruisers wherewith to patrol and heavily armed and bigger cruisera: police tens of thousands of miles of 10,000 tons should be brought PARIS, July 10th.
will be, men enheartened by
thousands of miles of coast line Agreement thus limiting the num Shortly before midday on Sun of sea route and defend tons of within the ratio of the Washington A series of incidents on
noble example of the late Vice City on Saturday night. Italian-French frontier has aros President, and profiting by his
New
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ed considerable ill-feeling locally. laboure, will be ready to step into day three men drove it to the must seem to any intelligent per- Ler that would be built.
Zealand will always support the
The Plenary Session, The authorities are disquieted. his place and maintain his high
Two others in the British Admiralty in any measure.
GENEVA, July 11th Yesterday a frontier post near
and safety of the nation."
There is a possibility that the Mr. L. C. Amery telegraphed vicinity acted as acoute and signall- she conceives necessary to keep
And other Dominions equally re plenary session of the Naval Con tang plottarǝ and agitators arrestment is taking place at different Briancon was entirely painted with tradition of devotion to the welfare neighbourhood of Mr. O'Higgins' sons perfectly reasonable.
points along the Yangtze, but the Italian colours,
Recently thirty Blackshirts inad
Mr. Kevin Christopher O'Higed when they copied the Minister, the ocean highways safe and clear
cognise the force of facts in this ference, fired for to-day, will be who was proceeding to Mass.
postponed in order to enable the were arrested, although they declar- gins was born on June 7th, 1892,
The three motorists descended respect." sympathy to Mr. Cosgrave. O'Higgins, F.R.C.S.I., of Strad from the car and fired on the Britain and the Security of the Sea, Americans and Japanese to re- cruiser building The position at Shanghai remains they were not aware that they the son of the late Mr. T. F
Mr. Davidson, Chairman of the consider the British proposal with
regard to the The third incident was when an baily, Leix. He was educated at
Conservative Party organisation, men has been sent to Tientsin for the same.
international train from Vanti-Clongowes and St. Patrick's Col Minister, who ran across the road
number of years. Departure of Troops for India. trial there in connection with a
SHANGHAI, July 10th."
Plonary Bitting Fostponed. miglia, which was being run by the
The assailants left him assuming who was formerly financial secre- Programme, to be spread over a National University of Ireland, to plot, another lot have been handed
With reference to the statement the French, pulled up owing to lege, Carlow, and proceeded to the and Tell on the footway.
He married Miss that he was dead, but seeing him tary to the Admiralty in the pre- get his B.A.
The Pletary Sitting of the Naval over to the local headquarters of Ly Sir Austen Chamberlain regard adverse signal after half the train
British subject can ever forget that and each fired a shot at vital spota cruiser question, said that no
GENEVA, July 11th He sat as Sinn Fein M.P. for slightly raise his band, returned sent Government, referring to the the Tutung of Jehol, accused of ing withdrawal of troops, in the had crossed the frontier The Bridget May-Colo in 1991.
They then anade off. The car was later found abandon it is upon the security of Bea com- Conference, fixed for to-day, was- munications that not only his own postponed on the initiative of Mr. hatching a plot at Jehol, while it House of Cortions on July ath, the guard in accordance with French
Second Gloucesters and the Second law proceeded to place fog signale Queen's County from 1918 to 1022 is understood that a special mili- Durham Light Infantry, are ex on the line three hundred yards was member of the Dail for
It transpires that Bir, O'Higgins existence depends but that of every Hugh Gibson (head of U.S. Delega tary court will be formed for the pected to leave on July 15th aboard to the rear, in order to avoid Dublin County in 1923, and the ed in Milltown.
Mr. O'Higgins. for Jhansi
was alone when shot, his wife hay citizen of the British Empire. tion) in consequence of the death of vid accidents, but immediately he same year sat as Minister for Home
(Continued on next column).' trial of the remainder on a charge the Karmala
stepped on Italian territory Affairs of the Irish Free State, Calcutta.
ing gone to Mass earlier. of attempting to stir up trouble fu
(Continued on next 'column)... The remainder of the Twentieth enrabinier warned him off and ordered him to return to the train. Indian Brigade follows shortly.
PEKING, July 10th.
As regards a considerable num- ber of students and other Kuomin
(NAVAL WIRELESH.] Yangisse Situation Quiet.
SHANGHAI, July 10th. A certain amount of troop
e during the past week, apparent the situation generally is quiet, and ly there have been three distinct nothing untoward has been re-vertently crossed the frontier and plots, for one batch of the arrested ported.
Peking
(Continued on next Column.)
had crossed.
residence.