THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 16th,
PANIC IN TIENTSIN NATIVE CITY.
CHIHLI-SHANTUNG TROOPS REBEL AGAINST PEKING
GOVERNMENT.
RAISE KUOMINTANG FLAG AND ESTABLISH
THEMSELVES 150 MILES SOUTH OF TIENTSIN.
MAIN FENGTIENESE FORCES FEAR ATTACK FROM FENG YU HSIANG.
PEKING FOREIGN MINISTER'S COM- MUNIQUE TO CHINESE
DIPLOMATISTS ABROAD,
General Li Ching Lin, Tupan of the metropolitan province of Chihli; is the latest Northern leader to throw over the North and espouse the cause of the Kuomintang It is reported that bis troops, the 2nd Division of the Chihli-Shantung Army, acting uider his orders, have rebellist and raised the Kuomintang flag. Their new headquarters are at Chuengchow,, 150 miles south of Tientsin, on the Tientsin-Pukow Railway.
The population of Tientsin (Native City) are in a panic in consequence of this contretemps.
The main Fengtienese forces are now centred at Paotingfu and Martial Shekachong, on the Kishan Railway (Chikli Section). Jaw has been declared, in anticipation of an invasion of Feng Yu Hsiang's troopa.
Mr. Wang Yin Tai, Peking's Foreign Minister, has issued a sort of communiqué to members of China's diplomatic staffs in. Europe deploring their hard lot because of the Central Govern- ment's financial stringency. There is an interesting reference to Sino-Foreign treaties.
CHINA'S REPRESENTATIVES ABROAD.
(Wak az Fat Puo.)
SHANGHAI, July 15th. Mr. Wang Yin Tai, the Peking Foreign Minister, has telegraphed to all Chinese representaties and Chargez d'Affaires abroad, to the following effect --------
THE FENGTIENESE MAIN
FORCES.
(Wah Taz Yat Pao);
I ́ ́ KAWASAKI DOCKYARD'S
LIABILITIES.
CAUSES A
CRISIS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
1927
A NOTORIOUS IRISH ROUND THE WORLD AMERICA'S HEAT
AGITATOR.
WAVE..
FLIGHT.
COUNTESS MARKIEVICZ PASSES AWAY.
HONG KONG TO BE VISITED, FORTY PERSONS SUCCUMB.
[THHOUGH RELter's Agency.]
The death
is
SHANGHAI, July 14th. Fuller reports from Japan show Countess Markievicz, that the Kawasaki Dockyard situa-known Irish agitator. tion has, produced a crisis of con- siderable magnitude.
Although the book assets of the company are 330 million yen, it is estimated that at present they will not realise more than 150 million, which is estimated to be less than the company's liabilities.
The dookyard is able to produco the biggest battleships, as well as submarines, aeroplanes, occan-going Reamers, and rolling stock, and also possesses separate works for making blacksheets, the increased production of which, it had been hoped, would obviate the necessity of importing this material from Britain.
As orders for warships now fre few and far between, the company is unable to exist on these nor is business bright for ordinary ship- building.
Meanwhile the company's 12,000 workmen are being paid largely from the proceeds of sales of the stock in hand.
State Ald Opposed.
The newspapers continue to op pose State aid, and urge the direc tore to help the concern out of their private fortunes made in the past year out of big bonuses, and also urge the stock-holders to pay the unpaid portion of their shares.
This internal orisis has probably nd its repercussion on lapon's at- titude at Genova.
[A message of July 8th stated: In addition to the China crisis, the Japanese Government is faced with a recrudescence of internal financial trouble.
ANOTHER PACIFIC
VENTURE.
He intends to land at Honololu, Yokohama, Manila, Hong Kong, Constantinople and Paris.
DUBLIN. July 15th.
The local office of the Vacuum announced af Oil Company yesterday received a York the well- cablegram from ite New
Office to the effect that Captain [Countess Constance Georgine William P. Erwin will start on a Markievicz had been a member of worka flight from San Francisco the Dail Fireann (Irish Free State about August 12th, in a Swallow Parliament) for Dublin City, South aeroplane, equipped with a single since 1923: and had been Secretary Wright Whirlwind engine, exel for Labour, M.P. (Sinn Fein) St. Įsively lubricated “with Gargoyle Patrick's Dublin, December 1918-22. Mobilçil “B.” "She was a sister' of Sir J. A. R. Gore-Booth, Bart., and married, in 1000, Count Casimir Dunin de Markievicz. In 1916, she took part in the Dublin Rebellion, and was sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted to penal servititude for life. She was released in 1917.
The Countess W38 the first the British woman elected Parliament, but, as & Sinn Feiner, ".
she was unable to occupy a seat.-
She was returned to the Dail Eireann as a De Valeran at the recent Irish General Election.] ́
to
BIG OPIUM HAUL AT SEATTLE,
SEVERAL ARRESTS.
.....ÉREUTÉRŐS...AMERICAN SERVICE.]
SEATTLE, July 14th Ocials claim to have made one
SHANGHAI, July 15th. The main Fengtienese forces at the front are concentrated at Pas tingfu ́and Shekachong, both being situated on the Kin-Han Railwayed the Finance Minister's scheme seizures when four residents were for leading the Kawasaki Dockyard arrested and bailed out in uzun Company 20,000,000 yen from-the
Chilli section) They are declar
While popular opinion has quash-
of the largest ever" opium
TERRIFIC STORM FOLLOWS
THE HEAT,
DESTRUCTION OVER WHEAT BELT.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
NEW YORK, July 15th. Over 40 persons have died during the heat wave throughout the East the past three days as the result of
ern parts of the United States, but a terrific storm now seems to have broken it,
New York strects have been con verted into miniature rivers and [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE) Another Pacific Flight,
there was a very severe congestion of the railways and trams when OAKLAND, Cal., July 14th. Ernest Smith,
400,000 people who left the city and civilian aviator, has started on a had gone to the beaches to escape flight to Honolulu.
the heat, Bed homewards after the 'downpour.
Mr.
A Radio Beacon.
T
young
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14th. Smith at one o'clock this after noon wireleased:"Latitude 37 North, Longitude 123 point 50 West, going he. Beacon Great,"
The "beacon" to which he re- ferred consisted of continuous signals sent out by transmitting stations at San Francisco, and Hawaii, parallel to each other, across the ocean, so directed as to form an unseen pathway a hun- dred yards wide.
Smith and Bronte, his navigator, are directing the acroplane along this path...
Aeroplane Wreckage, ST. JOHN, Newfounland,
July 14th. Wreckage which it is thought may be that of Captain Nungesser's and Major Coli's aeroplane the
A hailstorm also broke over the Colorado wheat belt, which it is estimated will cost the farmers €.81,500,000. It has ruined the
crops.
THIRD DEGREE" METHODS IN AMERICA.
ALLEGED TORTURE OF PRISONERS.
NEW YORK.
SCOTLAND'S. WAR
MEMORIAL.
UNVEILED BY THE PRINCE OF WALES.
IN. PRESENCE OF THEIR MAJESTIES.
[THROVAN REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, July. 14th. The Prince of Wales unveiled the Scottish National Memorial at Edinburgh, in the presence of their Majostics the King and
Lord Methuen, and a great gather- Queen, Princess Mary, Earl Haig,
ing, which included the Scottish nobility and celebritice,
The memorial is 4 Hall of Honour on the summit of Castle Rock; containing a shrine where a casket holds the names of 100,000 Scotsmen and Scotswomen who fell in the late war.
A "Hall of Honour,”
[The structure of the Hall of Honour is after the design of Sir Robert Lorimer. The beautiful stained glass windows in the shrine, by Dr. Douglas Strachan, and there is also some striking F.R.SA., are a notable feature, bronze work designed by Mrs. Meredith Williams, in
the in
terior. There are original concep tions introduced into regiment- al memorials, which are after the design of Mr. Pilkington Jackson, and they are likely to please botli the artist and the soldier, with their combination motif.]
"NO WHINING SCHOOL BOYS."
In a case heard in the Appeal EXTERNAL EXAMINATIONS. Court at Brooklyn, counsel argued that the conviction of Frank { HEAD TEACHERS' DENUNCIA-
TION. Puglisi for robbery should be get side on the ground that the ad- missions made by Puglist had been forced from him by the third
appeared, and truncy is well- The whining schoolboy has dis-
nigh non-existent," declared Mr.
It is very regrettable that all ing strict martial law over those Post Office savings bank deposits, of G:$25,000, for alleged smuggling White Bird, has been found on the degree"-the boating of the pri- A. Saywell, of London, at the an
with
Mr. Wang Chung Hui assumed the Ministry of Justice in Nanking
diplomatic representatives
places with a view to resisting a Гергев stalls abroad have been unpaid for possible invasion of Feng Yu so long a time due to the dire finan Hsiang's troops. · cial stringency of the Central Gov- enghent. I am not unmindful of that and my recent plan of re ducing the staff of the Foreiga
According to a reliable report Office is for the purpose of saving from Tientsin, the 2nd Division of a certain amount of money to the Chibli-Shantung Army-have,
on the 14th inst
finance our diplomatic representa-under secret orders from General tion abroad.
Li Ching Lin, raised the Kuomin
it is felt that the Government's of the narcotic. decision to let the dockyard com- pany fend for itself, though ap
Simultaneously, a Chinese wAY
interior of Newfoundland, by two hunters.
The railway authorities are ar
··
spot.
proved by the Press, is likely to arrested at San Francisco while ranging that a party shall visit the the city," said counsel," which is bring Baron Tannka into strong
- consignment from disfavour with important political claiming interests, as the Fifteenth Bank, Seattle. popularly known as the "Peers
Que-of-the-arrested en is-a- "Bank” (because its depositors in-
clude most members of the Upper Seattle diver employed to explore House) is heavily involved.
The dockyard company owes the bottom of Puget Sound, and
10,000,000 yen, of which 22,000,000 recover parcels of opium thrown
is due to the Fifteenth Bank.]
HARBIN.
JOIN WITH FOREIGN CON- SULS IN CONGRATULATING
THE GENERALISSIMO.
The importance of revising the tang flag and established their THE WILY COMRADES IN existing Sino-Foreign treaties is headquarters at Chuengehow, 150 insisted upon by all classes and dif-miles south of Tientsin on the ferent political groups. Unfor Tientsin-Pukow Railway. tunately, taking advantage of our On learning of this, the nativo internal.chnos, corruption of taxa-city of Tientsin has been thrown tion and judicial systems, the for- into a panic. eign Powers are still holding to their opinion that the revision of treaties cannot be carried out at present.
Destruction is easily taken up, while construction is a difficult matter is a maxim which was spoken by the late Dr. Sun Yut Sen,"
NANKING'S LOANS.
STATEMENT BY VICE-MINI- STER OF FINANCE.
[THROUGH RELTER'S AGENCY.]
secured on salt revenues of
General Li Ching Lin is Tupan of Chibli, He is reported to have had a difference of opinion with many of the Fengthenose leaders, especial: ly General Chang Heuch Liang.
HUNAN-KWANGTUNG FRONT.
HOPE TO LESSEN FALL IF IT COMES.
overboard by accomplices aboard trans-Pacific liners
NEW GRAND MASONIC TEMPLE.
TO BE ERECTED IN LONDON:
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
LONDON, July 14th. HARBIN, June-23rd. In the presence of 9,000 Grand The official announcement that Lodge representatives of English Chang Tse Lin had become Dictator and Empire Lodges, the Duke of Was somewhat belated as for, as Harbin was concerned, for it was Connaught pushed a button in the only made known on Monday morn model of a crane and foundation ing, and consequently it was noon before all official and business stone erected on the stage at the establishments hoisted the five- Albert Hall, whence the actual barred flag of the Republic and foundation stone of the new Grand closed their doare. Nowhere in
sonar by detectives after bis arrest. "There is not a police station in
not equipped with lengths of rub. ber hose for beating prisoners,"
The detectives involved denied the CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S LIFE beating of the man, and said that
STORY.
any rough treatment he hud receiv ed was due to his attempt to escape.
not have attempted flight, as he was Counsel replied that Puglisi couid between two officers in a motor-car
INJUNCTION AGREED TO IN
LONDON FILM SUIT.-
nual conference of the National Liverpool. He was moving a re- Association of Head Teachers at solution deprecating attempts to reintroduce external examinations into the schools, and expressing the opinion that this would substitute
cramining" for true educatio
In a strong condemnation of the old system of oxaminations he said that to impart knowledge by force forcible was as unrighteous ge
feeding.
"Both are now totally discredit- and manacled to one. He neserted Forcible feeding with amenit that prisoner's injuries included mole and palatable knowledge two broken ribs.
was part of the system in vogue The court reserved its decision. when schools were examined to eco In connection with this case it is that the work had actually been. recalled here that Mr Ruth done. There was the stern inspec Snyder, accused with Judd Gray tor, the hard tests, the atmosphero of murdering the former's husband, of fear, and the detention and asked the court to delete her con- other punishments of the backward fession of the crime from the scholar. One hoped that it was as evidence on the ground that the obsolete as the thumb-acrew and police had secured the same by other instruments of torture, and questioning her for long hours at would never be heard of in the a stretch, preventing her going to twentieth century. It was the sleep, and roughly awakening her wickedest system
over imposed when she dozed from exhaustion.
upon children, and the teachers are prepared to resist to the utter- most any return to those evil days."
-In-the-Chancery Division before Mr. Justice Eve, a settlement was announced of the action brought by Charles Chaplin and the Allied Artists Corporation against Par- kinson and others, in which plain tiffs asked for an injunction to restrain defendants from showing a film bearing the title "The Life Story of Charles Chaplin,"
Mr. Maugham, E.C for the plaintiffs, said the defendants, other than Moss Empires, were prepared to submit to a perpetual injunction, and to surrender the negatives and copies of the film to plaintiffs solicitors, and to pay an agreed sum for costs. As against Moss Empires all further proceed ings would be stayed, each party HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. payaan sel representing the defen-
their own costs.
PRECIOUS METALS IN
CANADA..
A report from Shiukwan statesanchuria have the celebrations of Masonic Temple was electrically the film, to say that they intended
that the pro-Nanking Cantonese troops have recaptured Ichang, in Hunan, thus confirming recent re- ports that there have been military operations on the Hunan-Kwang tung front.
(NAVAL WIRELESS.] Hankowe. Nanking.
KIUKIANG, July 14th. Large numbers of Hankow troops
the Manchurian warlord's investi- ture been carried out on a grander scale than in Harbin as nest of the leading officials are in
Peking Harbin temporarily has usurped Mukden's place and is now both the political as well as the trade centro of the Three Eastern Provinces. This being the case, it is not it all · surprising that the official and semi-official Soviet institutions flew the U.S.S.R. flag alongside the emblem of the Chinese Republic. It was a diplomatic politeness they hardly could avoid, though no doubt it went very much against the grain.
The Bolshevik al Soviet representatives also were in
laid at Helborn.
This temple is to cost over £1,000,000, and will cover two-and a-half neres
RUBBER- SMUGGLING.
·STATEMENT IN THE COMMONS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 14th.
In the House of Commons, re-
dants, other than Moss Empires, said he had been asked by Mr. Par- kinson nad Mr. White, who made no discourtesy or harm to Mr. Chaplin. They realised that they had been guilty of certain breaches of copyright,
Mr. W, E. Summers, of Ponty- pridd, said that no one wanted the return of the old external examina- sions. The parents don't want them they are a very enlightened lot of parenta in Britain to-day. As the result of a successful The inspectors do not want them. petition by the Governor and Com- We do not want them." Day of Adventurers of England ginning te sak myself who does trading into Hudson's Bay, which want these things. We want to was granted by the Judicial Com-resist the return of those terrible mittee of the Privy Council, over days when the noughts were on the which the Lord Chancellor (Vis- children's states and the crosses on MARY PICKFORD ON HOLLY-count Cave), presided, an appeal their backs."
WOOD SINS.
will shortly be heard involving -
"We know who want these portant questions of law relating examinations," said Miss Maraton, to property of very great value and of Birmingham. an area in Canada, formerly known employere who want the fitness of They are the LOS ANGELES,
as Rupert's Land, comprising many mind of the adult, and to pay the "The motion picture industry is thousands of square miles..
wages of a child." (Hear hear.) tired of being spanked for the sins
The petition was supported by The resolution was carried un of its hangers on, and in future Sir John Simon, K., and the animously. will protect itself from undeserved Hon. Geoffrey Lawrence, K‚C., Mr. Theobald Mathew, who appeared"
Much time as devoted to the chastisement."
A declaration to this effect was for the Attorney General for the problem of the backward child, a the banquet of the Academy of vinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, to go out, said Miss L. Swann, were adopted. "' I don't want it
FUTURE DISCIPLINE.
SHANGHAI, July 15th. Mr. Y. M. Chien, the Viec. Minister of Finance of the Nan- king: Government, interviewed re garding the raising of $60,000,000 Treasury Bonds, intended to be are arriving at Kiukiang and ap-
two parently the leaders are organis full force at the official reception provinces under the Nationalisting to meet the Chiang Kai Shek held at the Civil Administrator'a Flying to questions, Mr. I made by Miss Mary Pickford at Dominion of Canada and the Pro.subject on which several resolutions are already being opposition. Already several bodies residence and were the first to offer Amery said that so-far as could Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and Alberta, intimated that he was of London, that we have a regime, which issued, said that the protests of have begun to move east and their congratulations. At this re-be judged, rubbed smuggling was which was attended by more than instructed not to oppose the appanacea for all the ills of the back-
200 leaders of the various branches plication. the Chief Inspectorate of the Salt South, and a clash between the reption the foreign Consular Body carried out to such an extent as of the film-producing industry. Gabelle and of foreign bankera rival forces may be expected within
useless, were
"the Nanking the next week or so Government had abolished the Perey Chen, a son of Eugene Chief Inspectorate, so it is no Chen, has left Hankew, where the longer recognised and no longer position is obscure. exinte
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Aircraft on the Yangtare.
CHINEJANG, July 14th
also were present.
Chinese Eastern Harbin, the Railway and Manchuria itself are welded to the Apkuochun organiza
OBITUARY.
of
the
must accept the fact that our lives Supreme Court of Canada in April deed a little and can receivo,
.....
in the under-lands of the Hudson's'
counter.
ward child. Nothing will make a The petition was for leave to ap-backward chilid really, bright, but seriously to affect the restriction Upon us is laid a great respon-
sibility," he continued, and we peal from a judgment given by the there as a dulness that can become scheme.
and a dullness that can The complete elimination do not belong to ourselves. What last on a reference made to it by be tion, and two former directors of smuggling was difficult, but hurts one hurts all
the Governor-General of Canada as a polish that will help the dulness of 28. At times there may be need for to the power of the Parliament and to be hidden and help someone to the C.E.R. actually are in the new Cabinet, one having the portfolio Malayan Government was doing chastisement, but henceforth that Government of Canada with respect put a better face towards the of Minister of Agriculture and the ita utmost to repress it.
chastisement must come from with- to precious metals, gold, and silver things of the world it has to ca- in the industry.** other of Minister of Education.
Mr. Will Hage, who is known Bay Company, and as to the owner- Local Soviet officials realize that this consolidation in North China
as the Tsur of the moving piceship of such motale. The petition- is shoving them more on to the
ture industry in the United States, ing company, which was incor- ment by remarking that no one | brink of a precipice and that they
indicated afterwards that the porated in May, 1670, by Royal could be really bright in all things SHANGHAI, July 14th. must be very careful and watchful
obustisement from within will Charter granted by King Charles and that she was not very strong Shanghai continues quist, and, not to make a false stop. If Chang
be based on one of the by-laws of IL, claimed that the ownership of in geography: "I am improving except for considerable troop move wine in the end, they know their
the academy, which empowers the the precious meala in question was my geography," she said amad meat from Hankow, there is no number is up, but as the future
directora to expel any members vested in the company and not in laughter, by going out during change in the situation along the still is very uncertain they must The death is announced of Mr.. guilty of dishonourable or un- the Croom, oven after Rupert's the lunch hour and meeting busi Yangisze. No definite news from carry on as if nothing actually Charles Ford, ex-Superintendent of ethical conduct, or the commission rendered to become part of the ces min who travel. They teach me my geography se to a little the Shantung front has reached concerns them.-North China Daily the Botanical Department of Hong of any det involving moral turpi- Land, which it owned, had been sur-
child. Shanghai in the past 24 hours. News.
Kong.
tuda."-British United Press. Dominion of Canada.
Troop Movements. --
Prior to the unification of China's finances, the surplus of the salt
A Chinese Merchants S.N. Cam revenue was under the control of the Nanking Government, and net pany vessel passed up river to-day the
We are carrying aircraft. The steamer was Peking Government. -simply using the salt surplus, there recorted by a Chinese gunboat. fore the foreign bankers have no reason for complaining, since the loans are secured theroon and pro perly protected. The salt surplus has nothing to do with them. The Inspectorate may continue to talk and protest, but they are power. -less to control our actions."
(Oontinued on next Columa.)
MR. CHARLES FORD.
【THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, July 15th.
Miss Swann caused some amuse-