GENERAL LI LIEH CHUN PREDICTS
DEFEAT FOR MARSHAL
CHANG TSO LIN.
INCLUDES FENG YU HSIANG AMONG -" MODEL LEADERS.
HOPES THAT ALL WILL HELP TOWARDS THE
**NATIONAL REVOLUTION.”
NORTHERN GENERALS REPORTED TO BE AT
VARIANCE.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd,
BRITAIN'S POLICY U.S. COAL STRIKERS.
IN CHINA
UNDERLYING PRINCIPLES.
AN UNPOPULAR STATEMENT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, 'Nov. 1st, At a Chinë Association dinner.
in London, Lord Southborough de
REPORT THAT SUN CHUAN FANG WILL GO TO JAPAN.clared that until Chinese Nation-
CHRISTIAN GENERAL" AT KIUKIANG: EXPECTED SHORTLY IN NANKING
OR SHANGHAI.
The veteran Kuomintang leader,-Li “Lích Chur, addressing a meeting celebrating the anniversary of the Nationalist Government, "predicted that as the “militarist" plans of Tang 'Seng Chi had collapsed so also would collapse the plans of Chang Tso Lin. Among others he referred to. Feng Yu Hsiang and Yea" Shih Shan model leaders.".
It is reported in the native Press that Chang Thung Chang and Sua Chuan Fang, powerfd)- Northern leaders, are so much at variance that the latter is contemplating trip to Japan.
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Feng Yu Hsiang is reported to have arrived at Kiukiang, and it is believed that he will shortly proceed either to Nanking or Shanghai.
NORTHERN GENERALS AT
VARIANCE.
(Wah Tu Tat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, NOV. 22ad. According to another report, General Chang Tsung Chang is at variance with General Sun Chuan Fang. The latter is reported to have fled to Tsingtao from whence he will proceed to Japan.
KUOMINTANG TROOPS
OCCUPY YOCHOW.
(Pah Ts: Fat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, Nov. nd.' General Ching has telegraphed to Nanking stating that the Kuo- mintang troops have occupied
Yochow, in northern Huann, while
SHOT BY THE POLICE.
SEQUEL TO WARNINGS IGNORED.
B. AMERICAN `NERVIOR}
DENVER, Nov. 22nd." Diätegarding a warning by the Mountain Fuel Company, who work the Columbine coal mine, where a strike has been proceeding for of constructive capacity, the safe-months, hundreds of strikers en- guarde-under which British trade | gaged in a demonstration on the has hitherto been conducted should property.~. not be further: weakened.
aliam could furnish some evidence,
The dissolution of the British
concession at Hankow had been
most harmful to British interests
there and in the Yangtze valley. The safeguards represented by the concessions should be "temporarily maintained, and the negotiations for a radical change in the nature of the British concession at Tico- tsin should not be continued. (Cheers.)
The police warned them to depart, on the police fired, killing three but the order was ignored, where persons and seriously wounding others, the latter including a woman dressed like a man.
The Governor has declared mar- tial law in the disaffected areas.
1927.
DUCLOS AND MARTY. S.S. "DITMARKOEL.
POLITICAL CRISIS IN BELGIUM.
APPEAL COURT'S DECISION.
"RED
REORGANISATION OF THE
ARMY.
LINE OF MACHINE GUNS FOR FRONTIER.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
EX-DEPUTIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENGT.]
PARIS, NOV. nd.
The Appeal Court has commuted
· the sentences of Duclos and Marty to 2 years and 3 years', respective-
BRCESZLA, Nov. cond": The Cabinet has resigned owing|V. to differences of opinion regarding the reduction of the period of military service,
The resignation of the Cabinet was due to failure to agree on a proposal by the Counts De Broque- ville, the Minister of Defence, 10 submit the question of the "re- organisation of the army, especially
the reduction of the period of military service, to a commission. - Meanwhile, according to the news paper Soir, the frontiers commis- sion has decided in favour of the
construction of a long line of concrete machine-gun shelters from Lixhe to Neerbaren, and the recat- instruction of the forts of the Meuse.
- LATER, Two More Deaths: Eight Police-
men Seriously Injured. - Unpopular Statement.
Two more miners, wounded Referring to the Hankow agree-yesterday's affray, have died. Eight ment, Lord Peel, amid cries of policemen were seriously injured it and the Chamber will be asked to disset, saíd he hoped that when China began to settle down it might be recognized that it was the British Government which took the important atop of trying to deal with Chinese nationalism to
the battle before the police, who only numbered -95, fired a point blank volley.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN FREVICE)
the best of its lights. Until a stable An Appeal To President Coolidge. government were established, the Government would not depart from their policy of neutrality.
* Underlying Principles. Mr. Hilton Young was loudly cheered when he laid down as the three underlying principles of Britain's Chinese policy: first, that
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2nd. Mr. Green, President of the Labour Federation, headed de- putation to President Cooildge and requested the convocation of a
conference of miners and mine-
strike in owners to settle the
The works will begin in January,
vote a credit of 10,000,000 francs for the purpose.
ITALY AND YUGO-SLAV "PROVOCATION.”
DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST RECENT TREATY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ROME, Nov. 21st. Processions, speeches, and patrio- tic songs, were features of the demonstrations in various provin
SIR ALAN COBHAM'S VENTURE.
AT MARSEILLES.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.1
Rroby, Nov. 21st. Sir Alan Cobham, who is flying to Africa, to make an aerial survey of the continent, left the French
aval base at Hourtis, near Bor- deaux, this morning, and reached
© Marseilles this afternoon.
He affected a perfect landing in the middle of the harbour..
He will probably leave to-morrow the Mediter- morning to cross ́ranéàn," and is expected to make a
stop at Ajaccio, in Corsica.
BRITISH IMPERIAL TRADE.
QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
Rugby, Nov. 21st.
FEARED TOTAL LOSS.
VESSEL ON THE AMHERST ROCK,
CREW EN ROUTE TO SHANGHAI.
[THROUGH REUTER'S. AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Nov. 2nd. Heavy sons yesterday prevented the tugs Saucy and Dominic going alongside the steamer Ditmarkoel,' which has gone ashore on Amherst Rock. She is a German vessel of just over 8,000 tons, carrying coal from Chinwangtao for the Kailan Mining Administration, and an earlier message reported that three holds were leaking.
It is now feared that she will be a total losa. Her crow were taken off this morning, and are on the way to Shanghai.
SOUTH AFRICA'S. GREAT FUTURE.
BRITISH EMIRATION
~~URGED,
[BRITISH WIRELESS. SERVICE]
Ruan, Nov. 21st. The majority of the delegates of the British Chambers of Commerce who have been meeting, at Cape town, representatives of commercial bodies of South Africa and other parte of the Empire, were back in England to-day.
The opinion was generally ex Replying in the House of Compressed that a great future lies be
mons to questions as to what steps fore South Africa. Some of the
A foreign report says that a wire the enemy has retreated towards the interests of Britain and China, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and cial cities against so-called Yugo are being taken to increase the sale delegates urged the importance of
less message from Kiukinng states that on the 20th inst. Marsal Feng Yu Halang arrived at Kiukiang a Japanese stemmer. He will pro eeed to Nanking or Shanghai shortly. The report has not yet bren confirmed.
GENERAL LI'S VIEWS.
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Changsha. He said that it would not take long to eradicate them.
The Nanking Military Council has received a telegram from Tien- tsin stating that General Chu Yu Pa, the Chihli military leader new co-operating with General Chang Tsung Chang intends to resign his post owing to his army having General suffered considerably. Chang Tsung Chang wishes to place the leadership of the Chibli troops in the person of General Hsu Yuen Chuen.
Wah T Tat Pao.)
General Li Lieh Chus delivered a lengthy speech at the celebration meeting of the anniversary of the Nationalist Government. He said that General Tang Seng Chi's NATIONALISTS CLAIM IM-
PORTANT CAPTURE.
militarist plans had collapsed, while
Marshal Chang Tso Lin, "the well-
known tyrannical militarist leader" | NORTHERNERS "MAKE LAST
STAND IN KIANGSU."
Was
"
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Nov. 2nd
on the "point of complete failure. He considered that the model leaders including Yen Shib Shan, Feng Yu, Hsiang, Ho Ying Chien, Ching Chien, Li Chung Jen, Bei Chung Hsi and Chu Pei Teh, would never become "militarist and therefore he hoped that they would cooperate to the end a strategic point on the Tientsin order to carry out the national Pukow line. The message revelation.
tinues:
General Ching Chien who is now
directing affairs at Hanków, will personally lead his army towards Hunan. Two divisions have a ready moved to the Hunan border.
H.M.S. "VINDICTIVE " RETURNS TO SHANGHAI.
ÍTHROUGH ARUTER'S AGENCY.}
SHANGHAI, Nov. 22nd. H.M.S. Vindictive returned yes terday evening.
ROW IN THE BALKANS.
APPEAL TO THE GREAT POWERS.
A message from Nanking states that the Nationalists claim they have captured Kuchen, in Anwei,
in the development of inter- national trade, were identical; second, that it was of the profound est interest to Britain that the British Government should assert itself and maintain in ́China' con- ditions possible for trade to British merchants and bankers; third, that it was useless in the present cor- ditions to seek to bargain with
chaos.
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THE DISARMAMENT PRELIMINARIES.
SECURITY COMMISSION TO BE APPOINTED.
RUSSIA. TAKING PART.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.;
LONDON, Nov. 21st, Lord Cushendum, formerly. Mr. Ronald McNeill, who succeeded Lord Cecil as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, will represent the Government for the first time at the Geneva preliminary dis- atmament conference on November
30th.
The principal business will be the appointment and fixing of a con- date for the meeting of the security commission, to work in conjunction The Northerners are: hastily re-with the disarmament commission. · The latter will probably overlap the League Council meeting of
treating towards Hsuchow, where they are planning to make a last stand in Kiangau.”
MORE NATIONALIST SUCCESSES.
{THROUGH 23UTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Nov. 2nd. General Ho Ying Ching claims to have captured Mengchen, Tatien and Tungshanpu. The last-mention
ed is 20 miles from Hsuchow.
AMERICAN LABOUR PLAN.
A FIVE-DAY WEEK WANTED.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
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December 5th, which Sir Austen Chamberlain will attend.
[BRITISH WIRELESS BEHVICE.) Boviet Delegation.
Ruday, Nov. 21st.
Lord Cushendun, who took Vis-
Ohio.
Slav provocation. This follows the
The President replied that there Franco-Yugoslav treaty of a few of British goods in the British Prompt emigration.
was little use in calling a conler- | days'ago. eace unless the mineowners joined in the request."
**WATERSIDE STRIKE IN
AUSTRALIA.
SHIPPING HELD UP.
OVERTIME DISPUTE.
(THROUGH KRUTES's Agenor.]
MELIOURNE, Nov. 21st. After a decision by the Waterside Workers' Federation to strike against overtime, work ceased on the Melbourne wharves at 5 o'clock yesterday evening.
The oversee yessels affected in- clude the F. and Oss Koolian, due to sail for London at noon. She will be held up for several
hours.
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The steamship owners have issued a statement that the waterside workers are violating the award of the Industrial Arbitration Court, and it is impossible for the owners to carry on satisfactorily under the owners to carry on entisfactorily under the present. “intolerable" conditions.
The waterside "workers declare that the strike is the result of the conditions laid down by Judge
count Cecil's place in the Cabinet, Beeby in connection with the bear-
Dominions, "Captain Hacking the
stated: After negotiations, dating meat of Overseas Trade, said trade A message of November 30th Under-Secretary for the Depari-
back to March, 1026, à Franco-
Slay Treaty of Friendship is ex commissioners had been appointed pected to be signed in Paris to-day in all the Dominions, with the ex- It is reported from Rome that. strong feeling has been aroused in Italy with reference to the Treaty, as being regarded as unfriendly to Italy, antagonistic to the League of Nations, and calculated to make trouble in the Balkans where France is now bound to Roumaniz
and Yugo-Slavis, while the Treaty is expected to draw Italy closer to Hungary and Bulgaria.j
HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM.
STILL UNDER CONSIDERA- TION.
[BRITISH WIRELESS · BERVICE.]
RUGBY, Nov. 21st. The Premier was asked in the House of Commons whether it was
the intention of the Government to present a Bill in the next session for the reform of the House of
Lorda.
Mr. Baldwin said he was not at statement on the subject. present in a position to make any
Asked further whether the matter was under consideration or whether
MILLIONS OF TOADS.
WE ARE ALL SOBER MEN."
AN AMAZING STORY FROM
UNITED STATES.
Dress object of facilitating, with the co-operation of the Department of Overseas Trade, the export of
"We all are sober men," said British goods to these territories. Ray C Steele, United States dis- Specific cases were frequently trict game warden, in Portland Oregon, recently, but we doubted reported where the work of the ourselves when it seemed that the trade' commissioners had contribut-road was moving out from" under
us, sideways. ed materially to securing important orders for British manufactures.
·SOUTH AFRICAN OİL"
REFINERY.
WORK
ΤΟ BE STARTED IMMEDIATELY.
(THROUGH BLUTER'S AGENCY.)
DURBAN, Nov. 21st
It is stated that the new Durban Oil Refining Company will start operating with one of the biggest crude oil companies in the world! with regard to supplies
We were driving on The Dalles- California highway along the cast shore of Upper Klamath lake, about 8.20 or o'clock at night..
Our attention was attracted by moving objects in the road. The road seemed to be covered with them. They looked like dead leares -being blown across the road.
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"We stopped and get out. We stepped on them. They were toade. Little ones, thousands of them. Our car had been killing hundreds of them. There were lots of other. cars on the road," doing the saine thing. The toads were moving from the marshland the higher ground. They were about the size of a dollar. The live ones were hopping right over the dead ones and continuing the migration,
"For seven or eight miles we drove through them. It was rain-
A refinery costing £750,000, anding, and it reminded us of the six 2,000,000 gallon tanks, will be stories people sometimes tell that it erected.
raina toads."
no action would be taken, Mr. | THE MARRIAGE OF Baldwin said it was obviously under consideration.
EX-KAISER'S SISTER.
THE BRITISH ARMY IN HONEYMOON IN PARIS.
INDIA.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
"We drove along that road again the next night and there was hardly n tond carcass to be seen. I don't know what happened to them. Maybe crows and magpies ate them. Maybe the rain washed them off the road. Maybe the traffic on the road had something to do with it!- All we know is there were only a few left"
| COLOGNE, Nov. 21st. The religious ceremony at the
Stanley G. Jowetty leader in Oregon of predatory animal control and Prince Zoubkoff was carried for the United States biological out at the palace of the Princess at
will leave London next. Monday to ing of the Federation's case in the LABOUR MEMBER'S QUERIES. wedding of the ex-Kaiser's sister represent Great Britain on the pre-arbitration courts The workers. paratory disarmament commission
at Genera, which meets on Novem-have declared the inter-State her 20th.
The business of the Commission stetner Kaharika "black" because is to appoint a special committee a cargo of zinc she brought from
Hobart for trans-shipment to Eng-. to deal with the question arti land, was loaded by the zing com- ganation of security, and parti eular importance will attach to the pany's employees. The owners have attendance of the Bussian Soviet decided to lay up the Kaharika
indefinitely. Delegation.
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THE TRANS-JORDANIA ADMINISTRATION
FORMAL RECOGNITION BY BRITAIN.
SOLOMON ISLANDS
EXPEDITION.
"QUESTIONS IN THE COMMONS.
【THROUGH REUTZR'S AGENCY.)
[TEROUGHT REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Nov. 21st. In the House of Commons, Mr. T. Grifiths (Labour) asked whether t was contemplated that part of the British army should be permanent ly based on India, for use at any time in India, or in the Far East,
to augment the Singapore naval base,
Bona, according to the rites of the survey, is one of the low persons Orthodox Church, by the Bishop of who summediately believed the toad.. the Russian Church at Weisbaden, story.
There were only a few guests. The honeymoon is to be spent in Paris.
THE FLIGHT TO INDIA.
ANOTHER REPORT.
ITHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
LONDON, Nov. 21st, Reuter learns that Captain Me He drew attention to the resolu- Intosh did not descend la Poland Lion in the Ladian Legislative owing to engine trouble, but that Assembly in March, 1921, on the the weather conditions rendered Esher report, and accepted by the progress impossible. LONDON, Nov. 31st,
Government of India, that they
KING FEISAL. Questioned in Parliament respect ing the pumtive expedition to the alone should be responsible for the Solomon Islands to avenge the re
India Federation was striving to catablish stated that a treaty would shortly missioner, Mr. Bell, a cadet named universal five-day week in indus be concluded by which the autonom- Lities, and fifteen native police.
Earl Winterton replied that no try, in order to conserve the ous Government in Trans-Jordania uen, Captain W. Ormsby-Gore said such proposal as indicated in the physical, mental and spiritual would be formally recognised. a special force of constabulary had first part of the question was being powers of the workers.
The administration would still be been sent to the neighbourhood of considered and added that he was The whole social structure, he carried on under the terms of the the outrage for the purpse of not aware of any resolution passed said, would be strengthened if this Palestine mandate, an modified by restoring order, and effecting the by the Indian Assembly in the
terms quoted. the League of Nations memoranda. arrest of the perpretratöre goal were reached.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Rugay, Nov. 21st.
"They're most likely Hammond's spadefoot toads," said Mr. Jewett.
I saw such a migration in that. same locality four years ago, and another in the Catlow valley of southern Harney county in August, 1912: In the Catlow valley ; there were just acres of toads. I took some specimens and looked up the classification.
The species is named for a mas named Hammond who first distin- guished them. They are called spadefoots because of a round cal- ous-like growth on the soles of their hind feet. The eggs are hatched 'n low ground and when the toads are: grown they migrate to higher ground. After that they're seldom
it rains.
[TREOVOX AUTER'S AGENCY.]'
New Tong, Nov. Sist.
Soria, Nov. 21st.
Mr Green, the president of the The police charged with drawn American Federation of Labour, sabres, and a number of students addressing the union of orthodox were injured, following demonstra- Jewish congregations, said that the Under Secretary for the Colonies, cent murder of the District Com administration of the army in INTERESTED IN LAN seen above the ground except when
tions against the alleged ill-treat ment of Bulgarian minorities in Jugo-Slavia and Rumania.
Speakers appealed to the Great Powers to intervene and protect the Bulgars.
In the House of Commons to-day, Captain W. Ormsby-Gore, the
CASHIRE'S INDUSTRY [BRITISH WIRELESS LERVICE]"
Ruasy, Nov. 21st King Feisal of Irak left London to-day, to make a tour of industrial Lancashire, which will occupy two or three days.
Mr. Jewet likened the toads"- migrations to those of the lemmings. of Scandinavia, about which Car- veth Wells talls.
"When the migratory urge gets hold of animals subject to it, it takes more than streams of automo- hiles of an ocean to stop them, he said.-Oregonian.