"LEFT WING" MEMBERS OF KUOMIN- TANG TO ATTEND THE
CONFERENCE.
WANG CHING WEI AND HIS SUPPORTERS FORMALLY BANNED."
•
COURT OF IMPEACHMENT AT WORK.
MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED IN SHANGHAI NATIVE CITY AND WOOSUNG AREA.
The forthcoming Kuomintang Conference at Nanking should, barring one of the many little incidents that so easily occur in » Chinese politics, materialise shortly in spite of the fact that Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek is by no means the hero he once was In fact, there is a gradually in the eyes of the Kuomintaux. strengthening opposition' appearing in certain quarters to Chiang's assumption of leadership.
While several of the Left Wing," or extreme section of the Party, will be present at the Conference, Mr. Wang Chẳng Wei and those who were closely identified with him in Hankow, Can- ton and Shanghai, will along with Wang Ching Wei himsell, be rigorously excluded-from participation. Though it is well-known that Mr. Wang is now well on his way to Europe, there is stili strong opposition to him, as is evident by the action just taken by the Court of Impeachment. It would appear that Mr. Wang got away haze too soon:
Martial law has again been declared in Shanghai's antive city and the Wocsuing area, probably owing to the fact that a Northern cep has just been frustrated in Shanghai..
THE GREEN HOWARDS.
LEAVE SHANGHAI FOR HOME.
V
ENTHUSIASTIC SEND-OFF.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Jar. Oth. The transport Dorsetshire, left for home with the first battalion of the Green Howards and 200
MARTIAL LAW ENFORCED IN SHANGHAI'S NATIVE CITY.
(Wah Tes Fat Pab.)
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7th, 1928.
SHANGHAI, Janney 8th. Martial law has been enforced in the Shanghai Chinese native city and Woosung district,
On the night of the 4th inst a gudners. They were given an enrercantile steamer when entering thusiastic send-off, in which the the Wooeung harbour refused to Fourth U.S. Marines were the most
prominent.
WU PEI FU TO RETURN.
(NAVAL WIRELERS.]
NAKINA, Jan. 5th. Chiang Kai Shek arrived here ou January 4th.
General Yang Sea is reported to a combination, the be forming feminal head of which will be Wu Pei Fu.
The Japanese "Consul has also returned and the Japanese flag is. again flying in the Consulate.
THE "OUT-AND-OUT OPPOSITIONISTS."
(Wah Tu Tat Pao.)
SHANOBAI, January 6th. " "Ceft"! Some members of the. wing of the Kuomintang including Mrs. Liao Chang Kai, Chen Shui Jan and Wang Lu Ping, are ex- pected to attend the 4th Kuomin- tang Confereare while Wang Ching Wei, Koo Mong Ys, Chez Kung: Pu and Kan, Nai Kwang, regarded Beout-and-out prpositioniste," will be excluded.
SOUTHERN ARTILLERY CORPS DISARMED.
(Foh T Tat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, January 6th.
THE FLOODS IN ENGLAND.
THE THAMES CONTINUES TU
RISE.
RECORD AT SHEPPERTON LOCK.
[URITISH WIRELESS SERVICE. ]
RUGBY, Jad oth
BRITISH EMPLOYERS ITALY'S RETURN TO
AND EMPLOYEES.
THE COMING NATIONAL CONFERENCE.
"A COURAGEOUS STEP."
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)-
Tropy, Jan. 8th. Mr. Citrine, Secretary of the The Thames continued to rise Trades Union Congress, referred during yesterday, and in the after-yesterday to the coming national noon its level at Shepperton Lock was the highest recorded there for 33 years. Following the thaw a further fall of 100 tons of earth has delayed the opening of the South ern Railway line between Merstham and Coulsdon.
It is hoped that normal traffic will be rumed on Monday.
** OUTLAWING
WAR.
THE KELLOGG NOTE TO FRANCE,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PAXIS, January 5th. Icstractions have been seat to the French Ambassador in Washington to enable him to reply to Mr. Kellogg's letter with regard to the anti-war ban,
་་
Britain Informed.
conference between employers and employees. He said the group of employers who had called the con- ference had taken a courageous step. At the conference they would consider various faces in relation to the position of British industry He conceived it probable that in endeavouring to adjust relations between employers and workers the co-partnership would be subjected to yery careful study.
BRITISH OLD AGE" PENSIONS.
FIRST PAYMENTS UNDER NEW SCHEME.
£225,000 DISBURSED WEEKLY.
[BRITION WIRELESS SERVICE}
Rygay, Jan. 5th. LONDON, January 8th.
The first payments of pensiona The United States' Government payable under the contributory bas informed Britain of the con.
scheme to persons between. 65. and tents of the Kellogg Note to France to years old who have been in- with regard to the proposal to re-sured under the Health Insurance nounce war, but Britain has not scheme, are being made to-day and been asked for its expression of
it is estimated that the amount of opinion.
additional money disbursed by bringing into operation this scheme will approximate to £225,000 weekly.
(KRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] The Times" Comment,
RUGBY, January 6th. Commenting on Mr. Kellogg's note the Times emphasises that while Britain is for the present merely a sympathetic and keenly interested outsider, the attitude of
be subjected to search by the Woo-France must have particular sign sung Fort authorities. She was immediately fired on by the fort and was compelled to stop and he
&arched...
A NORTHERN "COUP"
FRUSTRATED.
(Wah Tat Fat Paa.)
SHANGHAI, January 6th.
ficance for Britain in view of the Franco-British co-operation in the efforts for promoting Europena poseb. One result of these efforts has been that Germany and ether formerly hostile nations have been gradually brought into the prac tical movement for the consolidat tion of penes. Another result has ween the growing confidence in real achievement coupled with reluct ance to pin faith to too general formulas that precipitately declare a speedy end of war. Ameries haa missed this experience and has
By means of Health and Unem ployment Insurance and contribu tory and non-contributory Old Age Pensions, working men and women are now provided for by the State against, the more serious misfor- tunes of life.
.
U.S. INVESTMENTS ABROAD.
LAST YEAR'S RECORD, [REUTER'S AMERICAN" SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, January 5th. All peace-time records for Ameri can investments abroad were broken last year, according to the statistics of the Department of Commeres,
Purchases of foreign securities totalled over enr-and-a-half mil liard dollars. Latin-Amerien coun- tries increased their barrowings, but Europe continued to be the chief borrower.
Novelties were provided by the
British companies..
.
UGANDA'S DEVELOPMENT.
RAILWAY NEARLY
COMPLETED.
In the Shanghai native dty a taken her own separate way of seert haunt was raided by the settling with Europe matters consappearance on the market of several nected with participation in a police and a large quantity of do-world war. At the same time it 'cuments were seized. They showed cannot be forgotten that she has that a coup d'etat was hring plan- from time to time most usefully ned and directed by Sun Chuan, adapted her polier to the facts of the European situatied Her co- operation, preparation and execu- tion of the Dawes plat has been very valuable and though not a member of the league she has gradually become associated with its most numerous
Fang and Chang Tsung Chang against the present régime.
Mr. T. V. Soong proceeded to Nanking this morning to amume the office of Minister of Finance.
THE COURT OF IMPEACH- MENT.
(Wah : Tat Pao.)
some
of
activities.
U.S.A. AND NICARAGUA.
THE WILD BEAST OF THE
• MOUNTAIN."
(BKCTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE
SHANGHAI, January 6th.
MANAGUA, January 5th. Messrs. Wu Chie Fei, Chang
The rebel" chief Sandino was Ching Kiang, Chao Le Che and
one of the leaders of the Liberal other members of the Court of Im- army until the latter laid down their arms in accordance with the peachment, have jointly communi- agreement reached by President ented to the Nanking Government Coolidge's Envoy, Mr. Stimson, General Sandino, however, refused urging them to try Wong Ching to surrender and gathered to his Wei, Koo Meng Yui and Cheri Kung standard all those dissatisfied with the settlement and founded a little Pu, as being seriously implicated Republic in the Nueva Segovia dia- An artillery corps belonging to
th the work of the "Reds."
trict on the border of Honduras.. He seized American mines, levied the let Independent Division,
Shortly after his arrival at Nan-
taxes, coined money in the name stationed at Shanghai under Gening, Marshal Chuang Kui Shek of the Republie and established a era! Ho Ying Chion, suspected of
telegraphically requester all "Kuoost rigid (prohibition regime, ander which a man caught selling being in secret complicity with mintang leaders to attend the com- intoxicants was shot. Even the Northern warlords, General Hoing conference. Wu Chia Fei, Li members of bis own party call him ordered them to be disarmed yes Sheb Cheng have not responded to bandit and assassin, while San- dino styles himself as The wild beast of the mountain." terday
the request
(THROUGH BLUTKE'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, January 5th. The Colonial Office announces
extension of the Kenyo-Uganda that the Tororo Mbalamuti-Jinja Railway is being opened on January 11th, providing for Jarge cotton producing areas of Uganda a direct railway outlet to the const
Hitherto, the comraunications from Uganda to the sea have been by steamer from Lake Victoria ports and the Kisumu terminus of the Uganda Railway.
VICTIMS TO BE BURIED AT ARLINGTON.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)
BOSTON, January 6th. The bodies of the victims of the submarine S. disaster will be buried in the National cemetery at
THE GOLD STAN- DARD.
AN IMPORTANT DECREE.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ROME, January 8th. Italy's return to the gold stand- ard has been followed by a decree requiring all public, social and commercial institutions to obtain Government authority before negot ating loans abroad. Such'authority is unnecessary for the ordinary ope- rations of discounting bills of ex- change, opening banking credits, granting delayed payments for the purchase of goods, as long as the latter operations are concluded within a year.
Only loads for productive objects in the general interest er to increase. experts or develop production with- · in the kingdom, the products of which would otherwise be imported, will be authorised.
CENTURY-OLD HOTEL ABLAZE.
THREE GUESTS
INCINERATED.
PREVIOUS "UNSUCCESSFUL
ATTEMPTS."
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
New Yoxx, January 8th. Two men and one woman guests were incinerated in a fire which destroyed the century old Werkore Hotel at Ossining.
Thirty-five persons were saved by the heroism of the firemen.
Three unsuccessful attempts were made last year to set the hotel afire.
SPURIOUS MEXICAN
DOCUMENTS,44%
WHAT HAND-WRITING EX- PERTS SAY.
[NEUTAR'S AMERICAN SKEVICE.]
THE BERLIN EXPLOSION.
WORST IN PRUSSIAN CAPITAL FOR MANY YEARS,
18 BODIES RECOVERED: 7. PERSONS MISSING.
(THROUGH REUTER'F ADENOT.)
BERLIN, January 6th: Eighteen bodies have been hitherto removed from the explosion ruins, and seven persons are still missing. The disaster is the worst in Berlin for many years.
THE FAISAL-DOWISH RAIDERS.
ANGLO-IRAQ PUNITIVE
FORCE.
(THROUGH LIUTER'S 'AGENCY.]'
BAGDAD, January 4th. The formation of a combined Anglo-Iraq fores sufficiently power- ful to punish to Faisal-Dowish raiders was announced by the Premier is the Chamber of De puties."
He added that operations would be completed within a month,
SCHNEIDER CUP:
TO BE HELD EVERY TWO
YEARS.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
The
PARIS, January 5th.
Aeronautic International Federation, has,, on the British initiative, decided that the Schnei der Trophy face will be held every two years, instend of wery year.
There will be no roes this year. [BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] The Federation's Decision.
ENGLISH WOMAN
ARCHITECT'S SUCCESS.
COMPETES SUCCESSFULLY FOR THE NEW SHAKES. PEARE THEATRE.
(THROUGH BOUTER'S AMENCY.]
Loxos, January 5th. Miss Elizabeth Scott, the 20-year- old daughter of a Bournemouth doctor, and connected with famous architects through being related to Sir Gilbert Scott, B... has been chosen from the 72 original com- petitors as the architect for the new Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, at Stratford-on-Avon, which will hold 1,000 people.
Miss Scott was one of the last six competitors, including three English and three" American, "from whom selection of further designs resulted in the Assessors, consisting of two Englishmen and one Ameri- can, unanimously deciding in favour of Miss Scott.
[Sir Gilbert Scott, to whom Miss Scott is related, is well-known as one of England's leading architects, Among his principal works is the new Liverpool Cathedral.)
[BAITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]:
Of "Bold And Splendia
Conception,
RGBY, January 5th. The new theatre at Stratford-on- Avon will replace the one burned down in 1926,
Although she is only 29" Miss Scott's design has been considered." the most suitable of the six sub- mitted by three English and three American architects, who
Were chosen by the Assessors from the 72 original competitors. It is des cribed as of bold and splendid con- has ception in which fell advantagó beer taken of the exceptionally beautiful site on the banks of the Avon...
Miss Scott states that her design is based on the function of the build- ing. Her idea is that anyone seeing. it from outside should know that it is a theatre in, which Shakespearo is being played.
More than £230,000, much of which has come from America, has been will be, for its size, one of the finest subscribed for the theatre, which
in England. -
STEEL-MAKING BY. WIRE-
WIRELESS. WORK OF A NEW FURNACE. "GREAT ADVANCE ON OLD METHODS,"
Reory, January 8th The decision of the Federation Aeronatique International to mo WASHINGTON, January 5th
under dify the existing rules Handwriting experta, including which the contest for the Schneider
SAZSFIELD, Dec. 7th. three employed by Hearst himself, Trophy is conducted, was .com-
What is picturesquely and cor- have testified that the documents municated to the Royal Aero Club|rectly described as stoel making by purported to be taken from Mexican resterday. The most important wireless was demonstrated to a secret.archives are spurious.
The next race, therefore, will the Liberal revolutionary army in held during the year 1929. ". Nicaragua.
be
change is contained in the follow-party of visitors to-day by Messrs. [A cable, dated November 14thing new rule: The winner is Edgar Allen and Co., Ltd., of the Imperial Steel Works, Sheffield. stated:-The New York American to be the country which shall have The process is carried out by the reproduces the fascinile of a docu-
high frequency ment purporting to be an order gained three victories out of five Ajax-Northrop
furnace, and the furnace which signed by President Calles of successive contests to be held every
Messrs. Edgar Allen have installed Mexico, authorising the payment of two years.
is the first of its kind in the world 100,000 pesos to Zepeda, for the pur- ehase of arins and ammunition for
to be used commercially for the manufacture of high-quality tool steel. It is a great advance on the old method of melting in crucibles heated by coke or gas fires. The steel is melted by a high-frequency alternating curent which circles round the crucible and induces eddy currents in the steel to be melted. There is no external heat; in fact, the furnace is contained in a wooden box. It holds 450lb., as against 60lb. in the ordinary crucible, and the process of melting takes only about one hour.
A later message stated that in spite of the fact that the Mexican Embassy at Washington stated that the documents were forgeries, the "New York American published fur ther facsimiles alleged to have been issued by President Calles or his subordinates, showing the trend of Mexican policy with regard to Nicaragua.].
THE DAWES SCHEME.
41
AN ERRONEOUS AMERICAN REPORT.
[BEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
LETTER FROM ESCAPED CONVICTS.
NOW SAFE IN CANTON?"
SILLY ALLEGATIONS AGAINST GAOL AUTHORITIES.
The heat is induced by electrical effects similar to those used in wireless installations The walls of the crucible merely serve the purpose of a container, and no heat is passed from the outside of the crucible to the metal within
Advantages Of The Process.
Not antisfied with having success fully broken gool and made their way to Canton, the four Chinese convicts who escaped from Victoria Cnol in November have sent a long WASHINGTON, January 5th.
Letter to the Chinese General Cham-visit, The Treasury describes ne errone-
ber of Commerce here making alle ous and without foundation the gations against the Prison Auing high-class steel under very
report of the Journal of Commerce thorities. that the American Government con-
all inter-Allied debts.
MEXICO AGAIN PERTURBED.
ALLEGED RINGLEADERS
At a luncheon which followed the Professor Desch, of the University of Sheffield, said the furzace provided a means of mak strictly controlled conditions, with The letter was properly ignored out the slightest danger of com- tamination by foreign gases. The U.S. SUBMARINE DISASTER. templates calling an international by the Chamber at their monthly current consumption of the furnnee conference to discuss the complete meeting held yesterday, and al was remarkably dew, because the revision of the Dawes Scheme and though it was left lying on the heat was generated exactly where
it was wanted-inside the inetal.) table for members to see no one and not outside. The process seem- bothered to read it.
ed to have every prospect of being Apparently the letter was writ successful
Mr. C. K. Everitt, a director of ten by one of the prisoners out of Mesara, Edgar Allena, speaking on sheer bravado to show the authori-steel-making, said that Sheffield ties here that in spite of the net took second place to no centre in the world, and was always ready laid for them, they have successful to strive its hardest to fulfil all the demanda of the engineer. ly escaped G
Sometimes the steel-makers of the The four men are now in Canton city were rebuked because they did MEXICO CITY, January 5th, Six men have been arrested as and in their letter they declared not grasp with both arms every- the alleged ringleaders of a plot that they had been treated so badly thing that was. put before them.
There were many proposals to-day!" to create a revolution during the that they were compelled to make for the manufacture of steel direct present month in co-operation with groups in the State of Jalisco
According to the Government, the conspiracy was directed by Mexigna exiles in the United States by whom for the revolt had been. Amuggled into Mexico.
Arlington.
-
INTERNATIONAL MEDÁL FOR LINDBERGH. (THROUGH AMERICAN SERVICE,}
PARIS, January 5th. The International Aeronautic Federation has awarded Lindbergh the Gold Medal of aviation for 1027.
It has also decided that the Gordon-Bennett balloon race will be beld at Detroit on June 30th
ARRESTED.
[HEUTER'S AMERICAN 'ÉERVICE.}
arms
their escape. No address was from the ore, and a section of the given in the better but the Cham Press had been pushing that very her was asked to alleviate "the hard. They would have to push n good deal harder before they would su Berings of other prisoners under-get Sheffield to tackle that problem going sentence in the goal.
i at present