THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11th, 1927.
CANTON ASKED TO DESPATCH TROOPS TO KWANGTUNG-KIANGSI BORDER.
TO INTERCEPT DEFEATED "RED" TROOPS FROM KIANGSI'S CAPITAL.
HANKOW INSTITÚTES Á "PARTY-CLEARING COMMISSION."
JAPANESE MINISTER HEARS DR. C. C. ON NANKING'S CUSTOMS POLICY.
TRAGIC AFFAIR AT VANCOUVER.
THREE PROMINENT CHINESE NATIONALISTS KILLED.
(THEOUGH ALTER'S AGENCY.)
VANCOUVER, August 10th Three prominent local Chiness WUNationalists were killed in a shoot-
Nanchang, Kiangsi's capital, has changed hands of late as the result of what no doubt was heaty fighting. The "Red" troops were ejected from the city, and the anti-Reds are now in possession.
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Memwhile, the defeated are reported to be making their way to the frontier of Kiangai and Kwangtung.
Canton has been notified, and the military authorities advised to send. troops northwards with a to intercepting the "Red"
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The meeting at Nanking between the Japanese Minister and Nanking's Foreign Minister seems to have been rather a one- sided affair, for though Dr. O. C. Wu set forth the Nanking Government's reasons for adopting their present policy regarding the Chinese Customs service the Japanese Minister said not word in reply. That is what seems to be conveyed in one of the vernacular telegrams to hand Also, probably the Japanese may have concluded that the time for mere words is over and that the time for action" is" at hand.
A NEW HANKOW
INSTITUTION.
Tak Tx Fat Pan).
SHANGHAI, August 10th. Following the step taken by the Nanking Government, the Hankow leaders are organising a so-called
Commission,
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"Party Clearing whose object is, to clear out all Communistic influence from the -Government and the Kuomintang. Ali government officials, depart Kuomintang mental staffs and members are required to register their names.
If anyone is dis- covered or suspected to be inclined to the Communistic Party, he must give notice in the Press acknow- ledging that he is willing to sever connection with it, or he will be
• considered as a counter-revolution. ary and banished.
Le Hankowites under General Chang Fat Kui, after capturing, Nanchang, are chasing the enemy to the south of Nanchang. At the same time General Tang Seng Chi han telegraphed to General Li Chai Hain at Canton to despatch troops to the Kwangtung-Kiangai border or, further north to intercept the defeated troops.
NORTHERNERS' ADVANCE.
NANKING UNEASY.
(NAVAL WIRELESS.)
NANKING, August 8th
A FRUSTRATED KIANGSI GENERAL STRIKE.
(Wah Tz Yat Fao).
SEANCEAI, August 10th. Instigated by the Communists, the workers of the Nanchang- Kiukiang Railway attempted to call a general strike during the time when General Chang Fat Eur's troops were mobilised to attack Nanchang, but the plan was successfully frustrated. Gen- eral Chang has ordered that the General Labour Union and the Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway Work ers' Union be closed, and all labour union leaders, treacherous to the Kuomintang, are to be arrested.
The Hankow Government has an nounced that those Communistic leaders who enlisted their names in the "Revolutionary Works Com mission" at Nanchang are here- after not entitled to Kuomintang membership and are to be arrested.
Di. C. C. Wa, Nanking Foreign Minister, received Mr. Yoshizawa, the Japanese Minister at the For eign Office of Nanking, yesterday at noon. Dr. Wu delivered a speech dwelling on the principal foreign
ing affray at a Chinese newspaper office here. The affair is believed to have political significance.
MOSCOW SOVIET'S LONG SESSION.
TROTSKY AND ZINOVIEFF
WARNED.
(THROUGH BRUTZS 8. AGENCY.]
Moscow, August 10th. According to an official agency, the twelve days' plenary session of the Central Control Committee of the Communist Party has ended with the restoration of unity, fol- lowing a declaration by the leader of the Opposition renouncing a number of their views.
The meeting resolved to withdraw the question of the expulsion of Trotsky and Zinovie, but repri manded and warned them.
SHANGHAI A "CHOLERA-
INFECTED PORT."
DECLARATION OF YOKOHAMA HARBOUR AUTHORITIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, August 10th. As the result of a cholera patient having been found aboard a boat from Shanghai the Harbour Authes rities at Yokohama have declared Shanghai a cholera infected port. Consequently, all vessels arriving from there will be subject to quar antee inspection..
· JAPANESE BISHOP. WILL BE CONSECRATED BY
THE POPE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ROM, August 9th. The Pope has appointed Gennaro Hayasaka, of Hakodate, to be Bishop of Nagasaki. He is the first Japanese to be a Bishop.
He will come to Rome to be con-
TEXAS TO HONG KONG BY AIR.
FIRST LAP STARTED.
G.$60,000 OFFERED FOR. SUCCESS.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)
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DALLAS Texas, August 10th. Captain Erwin has started for San Francisco on the first lap of his attempted fight to Hong Kong. competing for the G.835,000 prize offered by Mr.Dole, pineapple merchant, and G.$25,000 offered by Mr. W. E. Easterwood.
THE LATE MAJ. GEN. SACCO & VANZETTI.
LEONARD WOOD.
LONDON PAPER'S TRIBUTE.
· COMMENT, ON U.SA, AND THE PHILIPPINES.
[THzOGU AFUTER'S AGENCY.).
EVE OF THE EXECUTION.
ANOTHER RESPITE?
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
CHICAGO, August Bib. The Catholic church here in the centre of the parish inhabited by. 150,000 Italians, has been bombed and the pillari and "windɔws shat- tered.
The neighbourhood was previous
INDIA'S FLOODS.
CROPS DAMAGED OVER WIDE AREA.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
CALCUTTA, August 10th.
It is reported that the flood in
Gujerat damaged or destroyed 10 per cent of the cotton, 30 per cent, of the tobacco and a large propor- tion of the food crops north of· Broach. The probable loss of cot- ton at Gujerat and Kathiawar is
LONDON, August 10th. The Daily Telegraph, in 蟲 tribute to the late General Leotard Wood, as a great Colonial Ad. ministraor, whose task in some rely flooded with handbilly advertis-150,000 bales. Large cotton areas
pects was more difficult than Lording a Sacce-Vanzetti protest meet-
ing. Cromer's in Egypt, stresses the im-
If he reaches Hong Kong, he in-portance of American sovereignty tends to continge his world flight in the Philippines and says that Erwin originally intended to take thoughtful Americans, recognising His bride, aged 20, but Mr. Dole that the Chinese element there is stipulated, that nobody could parti- becoming more important, as the eipate under $1.
migrants work while the Filipinos prefer leisure and while Japan, with a large surplus population, is not far away.
BRITAIN'S NEW SEAPLANES.
TO COMPETE FOR THE
SCHNEIDER CUP."
Judge Thayer and the Sentance.
DEDHAM, Mass., August 0th. Judge Thayer has refused to re- voke the sentence of death on Sacco and Vanzetti, or stay the execution, which takes place to-morrow.
* [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
U.8. Embassy in London
LONDON, August 8th.
ני
A night-long vigil ontside the American Embassy to-morrow night has been organised by demonstra- tors against the sentences on Sacco
protest
Similar eleventh-hour
It is extremely convenient, with China in a state of chaos, for America politically and commer cially to have a secure base inand Vanzetti. Manila within reach of Shanghai and Tientsin. The withdrawal of meetings are being held all over R.A.F. OFFICERS TO ACT AS Americans from the Philippines, Britain wherever there is a United
PILOTS.
either now or in the near future, States Consulate. would very seriously weaken the position of the Western Powers in the "Far East," and thus complicate still further an extremely difficult situation.
[RITIKH WIRELESS SERVICE)
RUGBY, August old. Press representatives were allow ed to see to-day, at Calshot Air Station, two of the seaplanes which will attempt to win for Great Britain the Schneider Cup, at Venice, in September.
These seaplanes were the super Marine Napier and Gloster Napier Fourth...
Great precautions have been taken to ensure secrecy regarding these racing machines, and neither their speed nor technical detaile are divulged by the correspondents. They are, however, the fastest that have ever been built in this coun-
try, and it is believed that Great Britain has a splendid chance of winning, the Schneider Cup. Last year the speed of the Italian win- ning machine was 846 miles an hour, and those of the two British planes are declared to be much
swifter.
A feature of the canchines in the Napier engine, which is stated to be the last word in mechanical perfection. The en- gines are amazingly compact and KUOMINTANG SCHOOL IN tight, though they develop astonish-
ing power.
secrated by the Pope at St. Peter's, twelve-cylinder with great pomp and solemnity, at
policy adopted by the Nanking the end of October. Government to withdraw the Chi- nese Customs control from the hands of foreign Powers in view of the fact that it affected their for- eign policy as a whole.
Mr. Yoshizawa gave no definite reply to Dr. Wu's speech and on the same afternoon he proceed
to Hankow by a Japanese
It is reliably reported that the ed Northerners have occupied Peng-steamer.
General Ho Ying Yam assumed py. There is an atmosphere of un- rest in civil and military circles, the office of Chief of the Military Numbers of wounded have return- Department of Nanking Govern
ment on the 11th instant. ed from North
Shanghai-Nothing to report. Other Yangtaze Porta-Nothing to report,
TROOPS AT LAOHOKOW MUTINY,
TOWN.
THREATEN TO BURN AND
DESTROY ENTIRE CITY.
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FARCHENO, July 25th."
SHANGHAI.
PARTY WORKERS' TWO MONTHS COURSE.
TO REPLACE COMMUNIST
1
PROPAGANDISTS.
are men
women Laane
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE] The Funeral
WASHINGTON, August 10th.
With military-honours, Major-
Rumanian's Quixotic Offer.
BUCHAREST, Augus: 0th.
A disabled Rumanian soldier named Crangu called at the Ameri- can Legation to offer bis life in order to save Satco.
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A Fractical Joke ?
LONDON, August 9th. Some alarm was caused-to-day General Leonard Wood was buried by the explosion of a bomb at at Tall Knoll, Arlington. Mr. Aldwych tube station, in Loaden. Kellogg represented President Coo- The explosion took place at ten
the o'clock in lidge
morning, but Aldwych station is one of the least busy etations of the metropolis, and was practically empty at the time. No-one was hurt, and beyond serat ches on the walls, and the shattering of some plaster, no damage was done.
U.S. COTTON. ·
BIG JUMP IN PRICES..
AN ACCUMULATION OF
ORDERS."
· [RETIER'8. AMERICAN SERVICE]
are reported to have been destroy- ed by abnormal floods in Lower, Sind. Crops are fourshing else- where.
L
OBITUARY.
THE KING OF CAMBODIA.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, August 10th. The Indo-Pacific Agency да nounces the death of King Sisowath
of Cambodia..
(THROUGH HAVAS AGENCY.]
PARIS, August 10th. The death is announced of Poom- penh Sisowath, King of Cambodiä.
NEW AMERICAN CRUISERS.
A FRESH BUILDING
3
PROGRAMME.
(RHUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]"
RAPID CITY, August 9th. President Coolidge has approved the building programme of the Navy Department's general board, which is officially described as
moderate.".
The programme approved by Mr. Coolidge will involve probably the construction of 12 cruisers of 10,000 toms, armed with 6-inch guns, in addition
eight 10,000 toon cruisers already under construc- tion.
to
Hoderate and Adequata,
LATER. At first it was thought the explo
Mr. Coolidge's approval of the sion was the work of sympathisers naval programme, which it is in- with Bacco and Vanzetti, the con- timated the President considere to NEW YORK, August 9th, demued Italian Communists, await-
be moderate and adequate for the nation's defence followed a confer- Cotton futures-which-advanced ing execution in America. Invesence with Mr. Wilbur, the Navy G.810 a bale yesterday," "jumped tigations, however, showed that the Secretary, G.88 more to-day in a scramble by bomb was not of a destructive the cotton trade to bear traders' character. It was of the home buying orders, estimated at 100,000 made kind, and consisted of an ex bales, which accumulated yesterday plosive substance in a mustard-tin. during a period of inactivity in The railway company regard the which the market was unable to incident merely as a stupid prac rise.
tical joke.
(REUTER' AMERICAN SERVICE.]
Another Appeal."
BOSTON, August 9th. Sacco and Vanzetti's counsel have
Prices went up with a bound on the opening to-day, and the 20 cent In the contest. For the Schneider line was crossed in the first hour of Cup, Britain has never before been trading, after which the upward represented by Service officers, but this time six cfficers of the Royal movement slowed, but the under- filed an appeal against the decision Massachusetts Supreme Air Force will go out to Italy to tone remained very strong, and of the
moderate.
LATEL
act as pilota. They will be accom- the reaction from the top was Court denying the writ of error. panied by 27 mechanics of the Air Force, in addition to mechanica from the aeroplane firms.
Air Vice-Marshal Scarlett will be in command."
AN ECCLESIASTICAL
CONFERENCE..
BEING HELD AT LAUSANNE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.]
Precipitate Decline. In the last few minutes trading, However, the market experienced a precipitate decline of over four dollars a hale, leaving the final prices about 3 net higher. The violent setback is attributed, to extensive profit-making
This is another effort by the de- fence to utilise the State Courts as much as possible before applying to the Fedral Cours.
New York's "General Strike,"
New York, August 10th. The twenty-four hour general strike, as a Sacco-Vanzetti protest was not "as popular as the leaders
SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE WAR predicted.
DEBT.
FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED IN LONDON.
· [REITISH WILKLESS SERVICE]
The Labourites and police respec- tively estimate the participants at 400,000 and 145,000.
The mass meeting arranged to be held at Union Square proved a very quiet affair, due to rain and the presence of 1,000 uniformed police. Similar precautions were taken at thirty radical halls, where the pro- ceedings passed off without a break out of undue enthusiasm.
Dynamite Time Bomb At Chicago,
CHICAGO, August 10th..
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It is believed that "full speed ahead" has been ordered ne regards the construction of eight additional cruisers sanctioned by Congress. The keels of two of these have al- ready been laid, and it has been decided that the whole eight will be launched within three years, if ready.
Mr. Wilbur, in a etatement, de clares there will be no change, of plan due to lack of agreement at Geneva.
New Respite Indicated.
BOSTON, August 10th. "A new respite is indicated by Governor Fuller's announcement that he is considering a defence plea for a stay of the execution. The Executive Council will sit on the 10th instead of the 11th inst as it must advise on the respite it the Governor consenta.
Fitty Arrests At Boston. front of the State Bouse in prc- Fifty pickets, for parading in test against the execution of Saces and Vanzetti, were arrested. *-
On Furlough.
LONDON, August 10th. Both approaches to the American Embassy in London are held by armed and uniformed police. The only occupant of the Embassy is an English caretaker, all the off cials being on furlough.
Dynamite Explosion.
JOPLIN, MISSOURI, August 10th Six persons were injured, two houses demolished and scores of others unroofed by an explosion" of dynamite at Miningtown Pitcher, Oklahoma.
An interesting school at the edge of the French Concession, is that presided over by General Pan I Tze, who is also connected with the Military Headquarters at Langhus. This school exists to train Kno mintang Party workers, such aa secretaries of party locals, labour One tu'an of the soldiers-the unions, students unions, orators, 1st tu'an of the 1st in of the lat speakers, etc The course lasts szemutinied. The mutinous only two months, but most of the ruffians did their utmost in ran- 450 students have studied in col sacking those of the shops and leges and middle schools previous houses which they could easily to admission to the school
There
and and break open. The largest gold
: Lausanne, August, 10th. silver smith, Tien Pag Lou, had students, all wearing the SOLDIERS LOOT HAN RIVER been looted. Although the gates uniform, so that it is difficult to tell According to indications obtain and windows of this shop were them apart when they are drilling able at the Ecclesiastical Confer very securely closed and the The course of study is highly ence on Faith and Order, "meeting mutineers couldn't get in, they had specialized and includes the social here, the strongest appeal for sustained losses because the lawless and political sciences, organization unity, so far, has come from mis- soldiers got into the building by work and the history of the Kuo-sions in China, Japan and India, climbing over the walls from ad mintang party. The students have where national Christian churches
Rvour, August 9th. jacent houses. It is said that Tien to submit to iron discipline. They are against European and Ameri-
can denominationalism.
An agreement for the settlement of the Berb-Croat-Slovene war debt Towns and cities along the Han Pao Lou is the only shop that live in the school which has spaci Buffered big losses on the business, The place is kept spotlessly clean aus dormitories and drill grounds.
to Great Britain was signed this SIR GEORGE LEWIS' River especially those eitasted on prosperous street, Tan Kia Kai.
morning, by the Chancellor of the the Upper Han-have been more or After the shots had been volley and the students have to take care,
TRAGIC DEATH.
Exchequer, and the Serb-Croat "less frequently disturbed either by ed and volleyed for some 30 of the rooms themselves. They are
Slovene war debt, which amounte bandits OT by undisciplined minutes, it became quieter and required to rise at 6 am and to
[BRITIER WIRELESS" BERVICE.]
to approximately £95,800,000, will soldiers, or by both; but Biang- only occasional shots were heard go through military drill in uniform
be funded and repaid by 620 The purpose of
Rugs, August 9th. yang, Fancheng and Lachokow re- And, of course, the looters satisfied every morning. mained safe, though at times con themselves in the night-bird ad- this drill is not only to maintain Sir George Lewis, who met his uities of the following amounts: In 1927, £150,000; in 1928, siderably terrified, in the midst of venture. The installation of the the discipline of the school, but to death tragically on the railway (on 2250,000; in 1930 to 1935, inclusive Lively Démonstration. trouble and turmoil. Alas! Lao- Standard Oil Company, which is prepare the students for military falling from the balustrade of his £300,000 a year; in 1940 and 1941, Led by a pretty bobbed school hokow's poor turn has come at close to the Shui Hai Men city gate conditions, so that they can march hotel just as an express train last. It was at about 11 o'clock outside the city, was fired upon by along with the armies at the front, approached) at Territe, Switzon 100,000 a year, and in 1942 to girl of 16, a crowd of 4,000 Sacco
Vanzetti sympathisers, at night on July 17th when two those of the soldiers who were should they be assigned to party land, was one of the most notable 1088, inclusive, 2600,000 a year.
At Asuncion," signal shots were red.
An agreement has also been reached roaring Third stationed on the city wall overlook-work among the soldiers. Men or
figures in the London legal world.
ANUNCION, August 10th. The signal shots wounded coming the installation compound.
clash with the Trafie in the streets of the nort where in the neighbourhood of the The total damage and less seat the school for longer periods for tors, Messze Lewis and Lewis, Croat-Slovene relief debt to Great towards the Loop district and dis-
Britain. The amount of this deht persed after a Tung Ping Lou city gate and the direct result of the mutiny have stal Fan I Tre explained that Siz George Lewin, Like his father, has been agreed at £2,066,643, and bombs and resolvers; 67 men and protest strike organised news- which was built up by his father,
police,who resorted to tear gas was paralysed and a Bacco Vanzetti Shui Hai Men city gate which aze not been ascertained. mot far away... Instantly, reapon. The mutineers returned to their previous to the founding of his be was employed in many causes it will be repaid in full, with in- sive shots followed. In about Ave ranks afterwards; very few of school most of the party workers celebres and was guardian of the terext at 6 per pent, over a period women, including the leader, papers were not published. minutes, more shots were fired them had run away with their were Communists and that in this secrets told to him by many famous of 15 years The total payment were arrested
amounts to between £100,000, and
Motor care were smashed and without cease for about half an arms and ammunitions to join ban-way, the Communists gained an people. He maintained, however, amau hour.
At about 12.30 midnight, dit gangs. Seven of the ring ascendancy over the Kuomintang. the tradition successfully developed £150,000 per annum, during the windows broken.
Swedish Government's Refusal, the redness of the sky indicated the leaders, it is reported, were execut- As the Communists have now been by his father of being confidential years 1927 to 1931, and thereafter burning of houses. Four large ed.
adviser to clients in trouble and will, be approximately £240,000 per The responsible officers driven out of the party, it is neces.
STOCKHOLM, August 10th.. shops a hardware shop,- sundry Brigadier General Sun Ching Wustry to develop other workers who diffenity rather than technical annum for the years 1932 to 1941.
The Government refused a re- goods shop, a piece-goods shop and Colonel LE YIG Sau-have can take their place but who will legal expert Hir best achieve Azuities in respect of the war and a satin cloth shop on the 61 been sent to Tengchow for confine be oppered to Communism Theats were probably in cases which debt have been scaled down during quest hy a delegation to intervens with the United States Government Kai have been set on Are by the ment or struunt of the crime com- main purpose of the school then is never reached court and of which the years up to 1048 in order to
take account of the Serb-Croat- to postpone the sentences. mutineer
mitted by las soldiers under their to train Anti-Commmistic Kuomin- no one but those concerned ever
heard anything.
Slovène liability for the relief debt. (Continued on next Column.) (Continued on next Column.): direct command.-Hanków Herald. tang party workers.
A tramp beard a ticking sound in a dilapidated building adjoining branch Post Office and informed the police; who discovered a dynamite time bomb.
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The crime is attributed to sym;- pathisers of Sasso-Vanzetti,
Bombs at Buenos Aires; - BUENOS AIRES, August 10th. Two bombs exploded, one at the. Palace of Justice, the other at the Railway Station of Velezarsfield.
women of special ability are kept He was head of the firm of soliel- for settlement of the Serb and mob the polirationalThere were no casualties.
General
marched
Happenings La Haiti,
SANTO DOMINOo, Haiti,
August 10th. Armed forces are protecting the American Legation at Montevideo. An unexploded bomb was found in
he centre of the city. The day's general strike was orderly The trazas are running but are strong- ly guarded by regulare. News- papers are not being published.