MARSHAL CHIANG KAI
AT NANKING.
SHEK NOW
PREPARING FOR THE FOURTH KUOMINTANG
CONFERENCE.
DR. C. E. WE INTERVIEWED.
KUOMİSTANG FACTIONS ANGLING FOR MARSHAL FENG YU HSIANG'S SUPPORT.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4th, 1928.
MARSHAL CHIANG PERSONA NON GRATA WITH THE NANKING FACTION.
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Mar-hahiang Ku Shek is now in Nanking paving the way, it is stated, for the Fourth Rusuniatang Conference." He appears zó have obtained most of his supporters. From the Left Wing The the Party, whong Lander was the notorious Wang Ching Whit”
mute to Europe. It is met than ever evident that the Nanking action is by no mean disposed to welcome Marshal Chiure. Nyidently both farthaps are keen to have Mashal Feng Yu Hsiang enrolled under their spelai banner. At present, he is
iku they appear i nominayopal, to the Nankingates," kat nime wave of him, they have went a delegatim to disande kim Thus dogs to withstatul a blandishments from their rivals. China's politica: puzzle. besome time than ever puzzling.
ANGLING FOR MARSHAL CHIANG KAI SHEK AGAIN
FENC.
IN HARNESS.
7) at PanS
Sgsen, Jan. 3rd.
Wah Ta: Tu! Pao.)
SHANGHAL, Jun. 3rd "Marshal Chiang Kai Shek moj Geral Ho Ying Chi is a vreded to Napkota from Shanghai | tempting to win Marsha! Feng Fu on the 2nd inst. fog the purpose! Ilslang over to Marshal Chiarig Kai Shek's side from the Narking nự pheparing but the uh Khomin- tang Confereta. It is stated that hi funtion, while the latter am also „intends imam Catete to call a joint fouling a delegation D. dissuade. vonjetence an, jaz the inembers of Moral rug from any such steps. the Executive Committer and those
Marshal Chiang'a resumption of and the Court of menchment, the pest of Commandersin-Chief of Should the h Kensintang Conthe Kuomintang Army may be pos- jard awing to the Nanking fae- ference fall
The Left Wing" leaders, who j¿'on's persistent opposition. include Mrs. Liao Chung Kai,
Kao Sai Kwang, Chen Kung Pu and Chen Shiu Jen are hos hiding in Harshal Chiang's private res Shanghai, "Awaiting Vidence Marshal China's call wh- they will proceed. Sanking to attend th conference.
FIGHT IN CHAPEL.:
DR, C. C. WU'S VIEWS.
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BRITAIN'S PENSIONS A SECOND DELUGE.
SCHEME.
NEW ACT IN OPERATION.
AFFECTS NEARLY HALF A
MILLION PERSONS.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
Regay, Jan. 3rd. The final section of the rec-
FLOOD HAVOC FOLLOWS THAW IN ENGLAND.
ROADS IMPASSABLE AND HOUSES UNSAFE.
TRROUGH REUTBR'S AGENCY.]
LosDus; Jan. 2nd.
is now the "Rather “ feature of the weather "reports, but miidness" has taken the fond of | persistent rain." Snows are rapidly Understing with the result that the
tributary Pensions Scheme, which was embodied in the 1015 Act, be- : came operative yesterday,
IMPROVEMENT IN BRITISH TRADE.
WHAT THE BANKERS' CLEAR ING HOUSES REVEAL.
IMMENSE TURN OVER,
(BRITISH WIRKLEAN SKRÝTOKĮ
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MISS GLEITZE'S BIG MARITIME CUSTOMS
SWIM.
ALMOST REACHES GIBRALTAR.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT IN PROGRESS.
LORITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
1
REVENUE.
CANTON'S BIG DECREASE.
NATIVE CUSTOMS ALSO (DOWN,
[TAROUGH REUTER'S MOENCY.]
PENING, Jan, Ind. Reony, Jan 3rd.
The Maritime Customs Revenue Remy, Jan. 2nd. in the Trovement in trade
Miss Gleitze, the London typist. for 1927 amounts to H.K. -Tls. tehon generally ascribed for the
"divreaze of Tla Treard turnover of money during
just failed today to swim across 05,057,000,
9,433,000 compared with 1928. The Gibraltar. This was the Straits of the past year repared by the
her second attempt. She left Tan- sterling equivalent ng an average hankers clearing houses. Chepties
od. 13/10 paid at clearing houses exceeded
kier in a tug for a point west of | exchange the previous year by *thos
The main causes, that place, being accompanied my $9,675,000 compared with £12,183,000 £1,723,00×1,998). The Automobile Association has gording to the clearing house British Consular represimitatives to last year. toaday received, reports that roads inspectors, were: the "gradual react as independeøer witnesses. are flooded throughout the countrycovery and expansion" of trade, 's Lakes have formed in, Sussex and other home counties where the
Lakes Formed It Sussex.
ir 450.000 persons, between the ages recol perd threatens to be quite is of 85 and 70 who have been insured.
serious as the snow bold up. under the National Health Schen which eavers 15,000,000 Keekly wage parters, will be entitled, forthwith to a pension of 10s. weekly, irres pective of any other; Breans they may possess. The benefits also ap ply twins of insured persons,
Entering the water at three some industries and the large move clock in the morning she was
the Government's debts conversions Tangier and Gibraltar at Another sretion of the act which son has been deepest, and abris tent of funds in connection with i sighted more than half-way between
دينة
roads,
and the immense turnover of money on the short Joan market."
How
came into operation with the Nudiniensions are steadily increasing.
Subsidences are reported en You relieves workpeople over
sem railways, interrupting traffic. remarkable has ten the growth of years of age from Hability to pay
Traveller along "sunkea
banking business in the present Beatch contributions under the
century is shown by the anmial in fasurance Scheme "but employers which were formerly choked with. dris, are now exposed to the!
in clearings from under are still required to pay their share of the contribution in respect of dangers of quiniature avalanches £1.000.000 us over £41,000,000,000
in the past year. such workpeople,,
THE DAWN."
ATTEMPT TO ALIGHT NEAR SCHOONER.
A LOUD SPLASH.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
PORTLAND (Maine), Jan. 9nd. The captain of a Nova Scotia schoner, which has just put in here, reveals the probable fate of the Atlantic aeroplane " Dawn"
He says that on the evening of Doceraler 23rd, whilst off Cape Cod. SHANGHAI, Jan. 3rd. Soer resiring from the Nanking and an offer on watch distinct- Foreign" Offer, Dr. C. C.Wa base heard the muffled wear of aus (returned to private life in Shang | aeroplane engine suddenly grow hai. In giving his epition with louder, the a loud, splash bike a tgard to the fate of the 4th Kun-beavý body dropping into the water | migtang Conference, he said that from a great right. primarily the calling of the CoHe adds that it was impossible erene» bad as legal basis, in, for anything but a seagoing vessel cordance with Kuomintango live in the then mountains It is probable that, the Conference, but for the sake of sens
Dawn attempted to alight near A very serims shooting affair Sinking all factional differences took place in the Ying Hsiang Zang Komutang members had come to the schooner but sank immediately, Village in shape to the east of
an agreement that means must be Taxwell Boad Extensinti gestreday, then to enstitute a' de jare' Cen- evening when a gang of sea 001
tea! Government. Bener the pro- armed robberslashed with mem bers of the thinese Merchant posed Conference. Volunteer Corp resulting in the death of one of the latter, and the wounding of the others. Several rabbers and is pedestrians were Bise wounded,
YOLUNTEER CORPS AND CO ROBBERS.
Saxsor, December 30th.
It appears that shortly after 5.30 pita, two volltears as they ap proached the cornce of Lingting and Woobea Honds were approached by several mnes who suddenly opene
fire. Ta volunteers were on- armed and the robbers then pr verdest to lot the shops in the vicinity. Another volunteer named Kwok Yu Ting saw the affair and opened fire, henting one of the robbers. The rubbers returned fire mortally wounding Kweh. The shots attracted the attention of other volunteers who rushed to the scene and a pitched battle took place. Members of the Tientung Fire Brigade also arrived intending to turn chosen the rubbers but they were fired az and had to retire,
Poor Police Equipment. The police of the district number ing about 20 could only muster (Continued on next Column.).
TROUBLE ON IRAQ,
FRONTIER.
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four mausers and four rifles be Even then' (having been deprived of their arms last March) and kept away from the scene. After kaoting for three quarters of an hour, the rubbers made off in "a northerly
direction.
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THE "RED ROSE."
LEAVES RANGOON FOR SINGAPORE.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
ReGay, Jan. 2nd.
from the banks. The Thames in rising rapidly,
ان
TOUN.
The chief increases are:
is
Tientsin-Ti 9:20,000. Dairon-T341,000; Harbin.-Tla, 298,000. Swatow-Thx 235,000. Antund-Tlà 103,000,- Decrees are shown by Shing-
hai Tla 7,025.000. Hankow.-T13.12. 263.000.- Canton-Ta 1,338,000. The Native Customs Resens under the officiating Inspector G- eral's control, amounts Tis.
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Later she was reported only one mile from Tarifa, the southermost point of Gibraltar, and was expect. ed to land there. Eventually, how... ever, news was received that Mins
All the foreign loan and indesinn- (leitz had had to abandon the 2.781.000 a decrease of Tis, 7:0,000., swim," the sea having "become very
ity obligations secured by the Cus choppy. - {THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.)
Six hours after Miss Glitz hadoms, including the Service Re- Increased Stock Exchange Activity.started another British girl, Miss
The Torrential Thames.
Lospos, Jan. 3rd.
LONDON, Jan. 2nd From the moorland, stream Devon to the rivers of South Wales, The very gradual recovery and the Midlands, and the North Coun- expansion of trade in some indus all tries, large movements of funds in try, including the Thames,
connection with Government finance waterways, within twenty-four hours!
Land an inngaie turnover of money have become raging torrents, cont firming fears of extensive Bloods. the Short Loan Market are the principal causes Thousands of acres have been inun ascribed as dated: and houses have had to be (quart from the depression caused increase in the activities of the hurriedly abandoned, the occupants by the coal dispate) for the large Bankers Clearing House for 1927 being rescued with difficulty,
as compared with 1928.
The grand total amounted to a
record of £41,000,000,00 new sterling, an increase of 27 per cent over the nerñal year 1923.
Hadent, began an effort to swim organisation Loan, have been met in full, the net in silver of the the Straits, starting from Alcazar
| 10,81! compared with Ts. 33,183. past of Tangier, British Consular above gold alligations being Th.. representatives were, in her case alsu, in an accompanying tug, and precautions had been saken'aguinu owing to the higher silver rate of sharks attacking the swimmer. Fexchange on the same later reports stated that Miss last year Hudson was making good progress.
MACAO NEWS.
A WHARF IN THE NEW PORT.
Msexo, Jan. 2nd. Work commences in the New Your an nwharf in the Now Port.
the first important work in the rently made outer harbour of Maran, le is a good beginning for the New Year.
There are several feet of water m'the main ronds, isolating towns and radway stations. Numeroąś cattle have been drowned and only trees along the banks indate the normal course of many rivers.
Now issues in 1927. £$15,000,000 (BRITISH. WIRELESS SERVICE}
showed an increase of 100.00% Roads Impassable.
over 1926, while the growth of Stock Kroux, Jan. 2nd. Floods which are reported from Echange business is reflected by the
Days which exceeded the 1920 and of granite blocks, and the all parts are being regarded by total of £3,980,000,000 on Settling long and the first 180 fee, will he
snowdrifts. bad" as the previous
feet of wooden beams and steel" motoring-associations as being us The Royal Automobile Club and total to £33,000,000 and the 1995 pier will then be continued-fox_220 girders. The width of the pier will be about 46 fist.
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The British aeroplane Red The volunteers exchanged shots Roase," with Mrs. Keith Miller and For some 15 minutes but there were
no arrests effected. A considerable. Captain Lancaster, aboard, left amount of loot was dropped by the Rangoon to-day for Tayuy, and robbers wha; however, carried away
A big their wounded. Same two hours Singapore on a further stage of later, soldiers arrived and searched their fight to Australi the district but were unable to find real gave the Hiers au enthurias- any trace of the robbers.
. the end-off.
Victim An Energetic Recruit. The deceased volunteer had only been a member of the earps for three days and on his first night of duty succeeded in arresting three Armed robbers. It is reported that a letter was received by the officer is command of the Volunteers, from the chief robber stating that re prisals would be taken.
News trickles across the desert too late for effective airfaree action. All the nomads are panic-stricken, BRUTAL ATTACK ON PEACE-Including the great Anizah triler, who are scattered along the desert FUL SHEPHERDS.
route to Syria. SERIOUS CONSEQUENCĒS
FEARED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BURMESE VILLAGERS ATTACK POLICE.
.SEVERAL CASUALTIES IN
JUNGLE FIGHT.
VIRAGO KILLED.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
RANGOON, Jan. ist. Villagers attacked a police patrol near Paungde and sericusly wound ed the station officer of Himattaing village. The police fually fired on These raids reveal the weakness the nob, and 2 villagers are re- of the Ingauds régime, which ap- ported killed and injured. The parently is impotent to control its attack was the osteome of agita- former supporters, and unless iption for ten-payment of the Capita- mediate punitive measures are de- tion tax, in connection with which yisi, serious political consequences the police endeavoured to arrest a
woman. Order was restored. in fra are feared.
RANGOON, Jan. 2nd. A Router cable of November
The village 'mentioned above is 1th stated that Faisal-Dawish had
contentrated 3,000 troops on the large, but is situated in the depth ing frontier, following a dispute of the jungle some distance from construction of a police Paungue. The attack was evident
the Automobile Association are sending out lists of roads onde water which is 15 impassable by inches deep in some cases."
Besides tuds additioïïal difficuity created for road traffe by which in maininture avalanches many places, a result of the thaw, slip from higher ground into the roadway. Nicht travelling is. of course particularly affected by such unexpected obstructions. Cou ditions in the English Channel are again bad. A strong south-wester- legale is "blowing and a heavy sen is running. This afternoon's Bou logne-Folkestone boat had to be
diverted to Dover.
total by £240,000,0©). ----
SKIRMISH IN NICARAGUA.
REBELS DRIVEN TO MOUNTAINS.
ACCURATE ANTLAIRCRAFT
FIRE.
[RECTEK'S DICAN SERVICE. !
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1st, Five officers and 150 mes of the Marine Corps are shortly going to Nicaragua from New York. A d tachment of 230 Marines arrived n Nicaragua in December.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] Ficods After The Thaw..
Rucny, January 3rd.
The Navy Department states that the The floods caused by yesterday's rapid thaw and heavy rain continue the insurgents with whom serious but during the night the Marines were in action appeared temperature became lower and the better trained, than rain ceased, thus easing the situa- tion. Steady wind has presented Nicaragua. They were armed with automatic rifles, machine guns, and
Году
usual in
In London, the most serious food-dynamite bombe. The battle insted s minutes before the insurgents ing accurred in the Harlesdea aren
were driven off. where 200 houses and several ruads
MANAGCA. Jan. 3rd. were affected.
Ameriena reinforcements march- Many important roads in Southern England are impassable hut coning on Quilash cans into comfiet General the followers of ditions in the Thames Valley, owing with to the preparations of the Thames Sandino and 1 marine was killed Conservancy Board, are less serious and 5 wounded. The rebels fled to
The mountains. than had been anticipated.
The water continues to rise at Reading, but the situation is con- sidered well in hand and cold dry weather to-day will assist the water to drain away.
BOMB
MUZZLING A NEWSPAPER.
OUTRAGE IN PENNSYLVANIA,
"[ZLOTER'S AMERICAN SERVICK] SCRANTON (Pennsylvania),
Jan. 1st. BAGDAD, JAD. 3rd."
Three persons were injured and Throughout the breadth of Iraq there, is seething indignation at
considerable damage done to pro- the atrocitis of Faisal-Dawish.
Sun. It is Recently he carried out his third post at Nasiriych, which Faisal-ly premeditated. The ave injured perty by an explosion of dynamite Dewish's brother attacked on Nov-villagers are expected to recover.in the printing department of the ferocious raid in six weeks on mi
elderly women, the Bercest of whom believed that the outrage was an Iraq tribe of harmless shepherds, ember 14th, killing and wounding Among the casualties were three Scranton Brening
was killed while attempting to dis attempt to intimidate the publishers slaughtering all males including infante and driving off the cattle
in exposing vios in the uity. leaving a miserable, remnant of
patch a policeman who was lying of the paper, which has been active on the ground wounded. women to die of hunger.
user the
5 policemen and 12 labourers,
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Pritish bombing planes were stated to have been closely watching The froutier.]
A fenture of the recent fighting is the necuracy of the rebels' anti. against American aircraft fire aeroplars.
TIENTSIN CONSUL'S
HONOUR. [TREONGA ABUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, Jam 2nd. M. Saine, French Conan at Tientsin, has been named Officier of the Légion d'Honneur.
FAMOUS DANCER DEAD.
(THROUGH KEUTER'S AGENCY.]"
PARIS, Jan. 2nd. The death is announced of the famous dancer, Mias Lois Fuller.
[She was the lady who in the pineties, if we remember aright.
made famous what was known as the "Skirt Dance."
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The pier will be about 410 feet
obligations
The service of both interest and redemption on all domestic loane secured" un "cancelled indemnities bas en met in intl and the inter- est in domestic loans secured on the Customs surplus, which is un der the control of the Inspector General has also been met in full, but owing to the deficiency in re- venue no fedemption payments on any of these loans could be made. Redemption payments of the Con solidated Debt are therefore now two years in arrears.
DEAN INGE ON BIRTH CONTROL.
DUTY OF PARENTS.
SUPERSTITION THAT IS
SHAMEFUL,
Dean lige, of St. Paul's, speak. Scientific Ethics at the
The total cost will be approxi- mately $130,000, of which the stone is to cost a little more than $20,000. and is expected that the work wil be completed in rather lessing on
The builders Goldsmiths' Hall; E.C., said: than nine months.
a murked re- Harbour There has been
crudescence of superstition since the Great War, chiefly perhaps among the hail-educated rich.
What a shameful and discredit. able thing it is to see an other to wise intelligent person refusing sit down to dinner as one of 13. objecting to be married in May." or "touching wood" if he has said anything "unlucky."
re the Netherlands Works Company, the builders of the pork, and who are now engaged in harbour works at Hong Kong.
It is believed that this pier will suffice for all the immediate needs of the new harbour and the depth of the harbour bed on both sides of the pier, will be sufficient to enable the berthing of vessels of even 4,000 or 5,000 tons burthen.,
Conditions regarding the use of the wharf by vessels have not yet Uren. framed, but it is believed that they will be exceedingly reasonable.
HISTORY OF MACAO.
A book has just been published in
It is called. Portugues, giving an outline his tury of Macao.
Resume da Historia de Macau." It is by a French priest writing under the nom-de-plume of Eudore de Colomban and edited and trans- lated by Captain Jacinto Moura. In the book are a number of inter- esting illustrations,
730 AFTER A 46. A WEEK JOB.
Lewisham Guardians received 670 applications for two posts which they advertised.
There were 70 applentions for the post of charge engineer at the board's hospital at a talary of £6 a week and a dinner daily, and the board appointed Mr. W. J. Wil- liams. of Cardiff, an ex-Chief En- gineer of the Navy, who served in
submarine during the war. other advertisement for a working electrician.
There were 140 answers to the
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It there is a Gou Ite is certain- ly not a capricious Oriental - Las from whom favours may be "obtained by making friends with His courtier. He is not a mag- distributing ned schoolmaster Barks and prizes and punish- ments. And He is certainly not the head of the clerical profes
hion,
BODIC
The certainty that the lower animals are literally our dinin
to make Cous.rs ought change in our attitude towards then. The killing of birds and beasts for the pleasure of killing aristocratic them is mainly an diversion. The unusement 18 supposed to be that of a gentle- man, and of a gentleman with. means; but it seems a barbarons and degrading form of recreation. We cannot throw on the Deity 'the responsibility for bringing v- wanted children into the world and leaving them to the State to clothe, feed, and support by out- door rehef.
The morality of birth control depends on the motive The good citizen wants to do his best for his children and for "his country. If he has reason to think that his children are not likely to br healthy in mind or body or if it ia plain that there is no lopper room for large families in the class or the nation to which ho belongs it is his duty to act in accordance with that knowledge.
It is perhaps too much to hope that any Government will pen- abse the slum-dwellers who still produce large families to add new burdens to the "rates.