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KUOMINTANG CONFERENCE PROVES PREMATURE.
DEGENERATES INTO A "TEA PARTY."
MARSHAL CHIANG STILL TRYING TO ASSEMBLE A QUORUM.
HUNANESE OFFER PEACE TERMS TO HUPEH LEADERS.
The Fourth Kaomiatang Conference, which appeared at the end of last week to be about to realise expectations at least in making a start-has proved abortive, It has degenerated into a Tea Party," and unless those eager to have the Conference held" are much more fortunate then they have been it is probable that the Conference may be postponed till an indefinite date.
News regarding the Hupeh-Hunan mtbrenk is more satisfactory, as it is reported that a Hunan delegation has arrived at "Hankow to negotiate peace terms.
From Fukien it is reported that the attacked ('huënchow and that though the resisting the issue is doubtful.
THE KUOMINTANG CON- FERENCE.
(Wah Ts: Yat Pax)
SHANGHAI, January 15th. The plenary session of the ith Kuomintang Conference is not ex- pected to be held at present even, though a quoruñi may be obtained.
Marshal Chiang Kai Shek has decided to try to induce as many executive members as possible to Nanking before the plenary session enlled. There is much jealousy among the various cliques.
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NANKING CONFERENCE NOT YET HELD.
TEA PARTY", INSTEAD
[TRROTOR REUTER'S AGENCY.]
rebellions elements" have Government troops are
FUKIEN CITY ATTACKED.
(Wah Tv: Fat Pao.)
IL
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JANUARY 16th,
THE CHINA STATION. THE WONDERS OF
H.M.S. KENT "' RELIEVES THE "HAWKINS."
FOUR MODERN CRUISERS COMING TO CHINA.
'(THEOCON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Jan. 14th. Commanded by Cap tais Wolle Murray. H.M.S. Kent has been selected to relieve H.M.S. Harkia As the flagship of the China
Station. The Kent is a new 10,000 tom cruiser armed with eight 3-inch and four 4-inch guns, and has a speed of 32 knots.
TELEVISION.
NEW APPARATUS NEARLY
COMPLETED..
:
SUCCESSFUL DEMONSTRA-
TION.
[RETTE'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
NEW YORK, January 14th. A number of scientists yesterday evening witnessed a demonstration designed to prove that television has almost sufficiently advanced for general introduction into the home. On a machine a mail plate was shown which presently became luminous and the face of a man The cruisers Berwick, Cumber manipulating a machine at clee herland. Cornwall and Suffolk,trical works three miles away grew risible. He was shoking a cigar, sister ships of the Kent, are in process of fitting out and are de the smoke of which was seen ascend- stined for the China Stationing. His remarks were distinctly
heard. Hence by the middle of the yeaT
The face of a young woman then the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, will
She was playing a appeared. consist of a homogenous group of mandaline, the notes of which were the most modern and most power-clearly audible. When she showed ful cruisers.
a book in illustrations, were plainly visible.
SHANGHAI, January 13th.
According to
report from
Orders have been issued for the Fakien, the rebellious elementa com-
cruiser Conrand to leare England munded by Ko Yi and Yueng Han
on February 13 on a trooping voy" Leh in that province have again attacked on Chuenchów. The Gov-relief crews for the gupboats on the nge to the China Station carrying
emment troops are resisting, but no definite decision has yet been reach,
Yangtze and West River.
ed.
A Hunanese delegation has arriv. el at Hankow for the purpose of offering place terms to the Hankow Jendres, Pence, it is stated, may be effected.
The Conference is regarded as abortive and some of the executive members who have been in Nanking
SHANGHAI, Jan. 14th
According
the Kuo Agency the Fourth Plenary Con-where. ference was not held yesterday an, Marshal Chiang went to Tanghan cwing to unexpected latentions,
yesterday. He did not return to
to attend the conference will prob- Miably leave for Shanghai and else
there was no guorum
PAN-AMERICAN CON-
FERENCE.
COLOMBIA'S 'NEUTRALITY,
Th
-ד
[REUTER'S AMERICAN RESVICE.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13th.
A telegram from Bogota says. that the Chancellor of Colombia, interviewed, declared that he had Linstructed the Colombian delegates to the Fan-American Conference to remain nestral in the event of
The meeting was converted into Yanking the same evening. He has discussion as to the United a tra pity at which arrangements recently kept in telegraphic com- States' attitude toward Nicara were discussed concerning the Con-unication with Yan Shih Shan and
gua." Feng Yu Haiang in connection with ference.
a joint expedition against the Feng- tienese.
THE YOUNG GENERAL'S
BIRTHDAY.
7,000 SHANSI TROOPS WITH OUT ARMS.
TRO RECTER'S 10ENCY.]
PEXING. Jan. 14th... Fan Fu and, other members off the Cabinet are going to Paotingfu this afternoon officially to cele brate General Chang Hsu Liang's birthday, but it is hinted in some quarters that the question of the Presidency will be discussed by the
mi aitary leaders and politicians.
NEWS FROM THE YANGTSZE.
JAPANESE SHIPS FIRED ON.
ENAVAL WIRELX38.]
It is admitted that the apparatus is not yet ready for the market but it is stated that it will be an ad- vance on anything of the kind hitherto discovered.
THE LONG-DISTANCE.
FLIGHT.
FAILS OWING TO SHORTAGE
OF FUEL
. [XRUTZE'S AMERICAN SERVICE}
ROOSEVELT, Jan. 13th Begrined and begrensed Cham berlin and Wilbans descended at o'clock in the sternoon owing to
shortage of fuel, 8 minutes balow
the record
[Earlier telegrams are printed on page .]
TRIALS OF THE DANCE TEACHER
NERVES.
U.S.
PROHIBITION EXAMINATION.
1.500 OUT OF 2,000 AGENTS FAIL TO PASS.
COMMISSIONER'S VIEWS.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN AERVICE]
WashisGros. January 14th..
1928.
Prohibition Commissioner Ryan is distressed because 1,500 out of bis force of 2,000 agents have failed to pass the Civil Service examination legally required of them. Mr. Ryan" fears that the dismissal of the delinquents may be ordered and asks whether an easier examination is not possible. He says that he could not have passed this one himself and is of opinion that inen should-be accepted owing to character, experience and person- ality and not because they can pass n written trat.
RIGHT TO CHOOSE HUSBANDS.
DEMAND OF JAPANESE GIRLS.
PARENTS AGHAST.
TOKYO.
Japan's modern girl, "inspired by the Hollywood example, as depicted on the cinema screen, is in revolt against the Japanese system of marriage selection. Farents are aghast at demands from many of the rising generation for the right to select their Own husbands, priests
thunder and Lenshers against the evil tendencies of the day, and police are striving to sup- prous books and pictures that tend to lead Japanese, young women out of the path of their mothers,
As yet the girls have broken through the bonds of custom in pnly A few places. and perhaps one- reason why marriage in, Jupan is still not preceded by courtship is that the youths of Japan Are Dot as lamorous for a change. They are still willing to wed girls chosen by their patents,
Colombia has long cherished feel- ings of resentment against the CAREER FOR CIRLS WITHOUT inny consist merely of an ap. United States in view of the lat ter's recognition of the revolution whereby Panama broke away from Colombia and formed a separate
Pity the poor dancing mistress I. All the dancing classes are in full swing once more, and the dancing Republic, making it possible for the mistress has again taken up her
United States to build the. Panama Canal. Here, if the Colombian delegates remain neutral it is be- leved very unlikely that many.
delegations
hard task.
Wine Cup Ceremony. The wedding ceremony differs ac cording to the weath of families. pearance at the ward office and registration of the bride by the groom as his wife; it may consist of the mere moving of the bride into the home of her new husband, in which case she is not registered as a wife until later, usually when she is to becoine a mother. Then, the name of the girl is inscribed in the family record of the groom by his parents, and the ward office is notified. Even registration in the ward office does not complete a union. Nothing but inclusion in the family record makes a girl a fall wife.
"Yes, dancing for a living is harder than danting for joy," said a well-known London dancing mis- from Latin tress to a Daily Express repre- America will stoutly oppose Pan-sentative. Before a girl can call American policy of the United herself a qualified teacher she hutemple ceremony, for which the States.
SIASI, Jan. 14th. leports are to hand that Japan-other esu chipe have been fired on twenty miles below Shasi.
Military Operations.
YANGTZE, Jan. 14th. From reports to hand it would
Seven thousand Shansi troops appear that the stage is being set with 2,000 horses from Chochow have arrive at Tungbow, where for military operations both in the
Twenty-one republies will be're-" presented at the conference. Two Russians Arrested At Havana.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13th. A telegram from Havana states Russians who are alleged the have that the polien bare arrested two
pose of fomenting trouble when
a difficult training to undergo an several examinations to pas Nowadays danging examinations are often stiff even for suppl: dancers.
In most weddings there B
ried
bride dons a ceremonial wedding kimoon, has her hain dressed for the first time in the style of a mar- woman, and wears a pink veil. The ceremony is Shinto, with music from bamboo Butes, conch shells, and drums and deep-toned chantings by priests, and the bride
EARTHQUAKE.
SHOCKS FELT IN BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG.
".
NO. DAMAGE.
(THROUGH. REUTER'S AGENCY.)
BRUSSELS, January 14th. Two earthquake shocks occurred yesterday night east of the pro- vince of Leige, North Luxembourg, and the neighbourhood of Brussels.
No serious damage was done sad there were no casualties.
.
WILL OF LATE LORD CAMBRIDGE.
VAN DYCK PORTRAIT OF CHARLES L
CRYSTAL VASE FOR THE QUEEN.
The Most Hon. Adelphus Charies, Alexander Albert Edward "George Philip Louis Ladislaus, 1st Marquess af Cambridge (formerly Duke of Teck), of Shotton Hall, Shrewsbury? brother of the Queen, who died on October 94th, left unsettled (pro- perty of the gross value of £44,331 with net personalty £33,265,
7.
THE LATE MR. "THOMAS HARDY.
REMAINS TO LIE NEXT TO THOSE OF DICKENS,
*EMINENT, PALL-BEARERS.
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[balrian WIRELEAS SERVICE.)
Heooy, Jan. 13th. It is stated officially that the re- pains of the late Mr. Thonak Hardy, which will be buried in Westminster Abbey Monday afternoon, will lie next to those of Charles Dickens.
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Crasoro RITER'S AGENCY.] Heart To Be Buried Al Stinsford.
LONDON, Jan. 13th. The late Mr. Hardy's heart is to be buried in the churchyard of Stinsford Dorset, and his body at Westminster Abbey. This step has been taken out of regard for the many relatives of the writer who are disappointed at the fact that Hardy's personal wish will not be respected namely, "that he should be buried at Stinsford (the Mell- stock of his novels) where his father, mother, and first wife are interred.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE] A Compromise.
Recor.. Jan. 14th.
An eleventh hour afteration in the Ee left to the Queen, as a token arrangements. for the burial of the of affection, the crystal vale prelate Mr. Thomas Hardy was made sented to him and his wife on their last night. marriage by Sir Frederick Wigan : It WAJ decided to place the and to his brother, the Earl of famous novelist's heart in the Athione, portraits of Adolplus, churchyard of Stinsford, near Clor- Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge. Duke of Cambridge. and of cheater, and to inter the ashes in
Westminster Abbey,
The bulk of his property he left The decision copresents a ̈ com- to his wife, but among a number of promise between the views of articles to devolve as heirlooms in Hardy's own people in Dorsetshire. including several relatives who de- the family of his eldest son is a picture of Charles I.'s children by sired him to oe buried in his own Van Dyck. There is also a pearl countryede, and those who took the and brilliant quatrefoil négligé, view that the great writer belong- ontent with two diamond-ed not to Wessex alone it to the mounted baroque pearl drops, whele nation. known the Rhedey Earrings," of which it as stated:
These earrings were given by a Count Rhedey to his wife. She would not believe they were rea and it de said that her husband, with his sword, cut a piece of one of the pearls off. The mark of the cut is visible.
The decision is in keeping with: Hardy's own wish, the opening words of his will were: "1'desire to be buried in Stinsford Church."
The Heart Removed.
A doctor removed the heart last night. Numerous other instances of biriat of the heart apart from the body are recorded by history. Another heirloom is a plain, but such cases have been very raro barrel-shaped ewer "given by the in modern times. The tragic late Gentlemen of Richmond for a host of the poet Shelley is recalled."
cast race upon the birthday of HR. H. When Shelley's body was the Duke of Clarence H.R.H.shore near Viareggio in July, 1829, the Duke of Clarence and the it was for the : e buried in eand
Later in the presence of Byron, Hunt and Trelawney it was crem- ated to pernit the interment of the The Queen's Governess
ashes in the Proestant Cemetry at A personal legacy was that of Rome. The beart which would not £100 left by the Marquess to Me.urn was snatched from the flames. Brieka, an Alsatian, who 119
by Trelawney. It was given to to Princess governess-companion
TOW at at White Mary Shelley and is ny (Queen Mary)
Bournemouth.
Navy of Old England with three.
A.D. 1793.
Lodge. In the recently published (THROUGH LIUTER'S' AGENCY.]
ife of Queen Mary by Kathleen Woodsid (Hutchinson and Co.) there is this reference:
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The Pall-bearers.
LONDON, Jan. 15th. Brieka was very much a per- It is officially stated, that the sonage a the household at White pallbearers at the funeral in the Lodge, welding her potent sway Abbey on Monday will be Mr. over the quest malleable years, of Baldwin, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the Princes with unceasing Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Sir James pride, and an intensity and Barrie, Mr. Bernard Shaw, Mr. thoroughness that left nothing John Galsworthy, Sir Edmund wanting. She did more She Gosse, professor A. E. Housman, left her pupil with a lasting for the Provost of "Queen's College, sense of gratitude.
Oxford, and the Master of Mug- dalear College, Cambridge, •
WATERLOO BRIDGE.
they are reorganising, but the War ichaug and Wanhsien areas, and arrived from Mexico for the pur society's examinations caused and groom exchange three cups of FAMOUS LANDMARK TO GO.
The results of a well-know o
disappointment Intely. Only 15 Ministry is at present in possession also in the vicinity of Yochow and President Coolidge arrives to-mor- per cent, of the entrants were pass- row for the Pan-American Con-ed, get all had been considered by of their cris.
Tungting Luke.
ference.
the mistresses efficient enough to toe the line. The Fengen leader, General Yu There are many rumeurs about Chen, who was imprisoned in the as to the alliance and intrigues of Suniyuan area at the outbreak of hostiliths against Shansi, has writ different military leaders, but on
ten several letters from Taiyuanfu, the surface the situation on the arging a Fengtien-Shansi pente. middle and upper river shows co Yu Chan is being treated more
change.
a guest than a prisoner. FENG YU HSIANG AND. THE
· MISSIONARIES.
HONAN EXCESSES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY, }
PEKING, Jan. 14th.
C.M.S.N. Co.'s Floating Staz, SHANGHAI, Jan. 13th. Discontent and unrest is rife among the sailors and fremen em- ployed by the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, this being due, it je stated, to their The statement General Fe wages not having been paid for the Yu Ezing (the so-called Chris past two or three months from the tion General") that foreign Im Company.
The dispute is being fostered, it perialists in his territory wil henceforth mees with unreserved is reported, by ex-employees of the
refers to Company," opposition "apparently
of the dispute in consequence Canadian and other missionaries i: Hosan, towards whom policy seems already to have been the coastal service. carried out. Anyhow. authenti news has reached Peking that the Kuominchun recently looted the premises of many Canadian Presbyteriana who evacuated Ho- An in the Spring on the advance of Feng Yu Hsiang's forces.
ITS
ARTIFICIAL SILK.
IN
DEVELOPMENT GERMANY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] FRANKFURT AM MAIN,
Jan: 13th:
hot wine.
A Japanese wedding kimono is un omate costume, elaborately de- corated, with starks and pine trees the usual motif, both typifying long life and happiness. Wealthy brides preserve the wedding
The less wealthy may hire their wedding clothes.
The wedding veil, which is tied over the hair, is known as the tsunokakushi," or horn cover." because it is believed that all have horns of jealousy, which ought to be concealed.
Of recent years honeymoons have
When the student has passed her examinatiois, which on average take two or three years, shekimono. generally has to work up a compr
That is a big tion fn hersell difficulty, büt, once let her do it, and there is a lot of money to be made out of dusting.
"Perhaps the easiest Way to An extraordinary general meet-make money by teacting dancing ing of the Farbenindustrie has is to hop across the seas. Some of
my pupils have gone to Africa andheen tatroduced in Japan. sanctioned the issue of 250 million marks of convertible bonds carrying New Zealand, and have done well interest of at least six per cent, out of it, but have noticed that redeemable at Latest in 1943. It is the majority of dancing mistresses stated that the, Company is now who go abroad And good husbands, ranked second among the artificial and then give up their good dan.. silk producers of Germany. Five ing classes. Tact. thousand kilogrammes of viscose are produced daily at ita Wolfen Warks. Three other factories are being constructed whose daily out- each. The production of Uctat is at prescut 2,000 kilogrammes daily and is also to be increaed to 5,000 kilogrammes.
this there is a temporary suspension of put is also to be 5,000 kilogram strensoua work. Then I have to
General Yang Sea's Troops.
ICHANG, Jan, 12th. General Yang Sen's 20th Arm is being withdrawn. This having come about through an "arrange. Опо ment made with General Leh Ti
instance is Girls Boarding Hing whose and Army is repite
F
School which fitted up this year new beds, bedding, equipment and coks. It was looted and burned Similarly, elsewhere, missionaries report that personal and mission property has been stolen or des troyed.
The Canadians also state that many converts have been despoiled and ill-treated. some being tor- tured and killed..
ing the 9th Army.
General Ha Trung Tu.
HANKOW, Jan. 12th.
SOVIET ATTACHE AT 'STOCKHOLM.
⚫ (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] - STOCKHOLM, Jan. 15th. The Soviet Legation has official Soviet Naval and Military Attache at Stockholm has gone to Russia on holiday.
It is rumoured that General Huly announced that of Gras, the Tsung Tu is going to Ichang.
Wuhu, Situation Obscure.
Wius, Jan. 12th.
It is believed that his departure The position hero remains obis the result of the recent case, in acure, and there no change to which a young Swedish officer was report.
charged with espionage.
EX-HANGMAN AS ACTOR,
LORD CHAMBERLAIN. INTERVENES.
We take long holidays, but they mean hard work as well. Every day I de two or three hours
▪! It is of good, solid practice. attend dancing lectures, during my holiday, for the dancing mistress learn. Each season brings new daices, and they have to be learnt out of term time.
must ever
-can
"I make it part of my business, too, to lay in store of tatt und patch up my patience when I am on holiday, so that when a heavy "man treads on my toes and says, Really, modern dancing is to
i
with him agree easy graciously!
"Tact and patience, they pre two of the most valuable assets & dane A really ing mistress can have. healthy girl, with few nerves and a will to get on, is likely to do well as a dance teacher."-Ez.
LONDON, Dec. 15th.. Mr. Stanley May, manager of the theatrical company in which John Ellis, the farmer official executioner, is appearing at a Gravesend theatre, has been asked to appear at the office of the Lord Chamberlain to-day.
The Lord Chamberlain 'is the official censor of playm.
Many protests have been trade against the appearance of Ellis on the stage. He comes on in the final act, when the execution scene is played.
The play concerne Charles Peace, the murderer, and Ellis pinions Peace" and pulls the lever to bang. him
Ellis has appeared twice nightly during the week, and the theatre has been crowded on each occasion.
NEW BRIDGE FOR SIX TRAFFIC LINES.
The fate of Waterloo Bridge, which for so long has hung in the balance, is now virtually decided, and yet another of London's famous landmarks will disappear.
There is little doubt that the London County Council will shari ly announce its decision to proceed with the demolition of Rennie's master-piece to make way for a new bridge to canry six lines trafic sbreast.
CHORUS GIRL'S BUSY DAY.
SECRET MARRIAGE, IN MORNING.
REHEARSAL AND NEW SHOW AT NIGHT..
Married in the morning, attend- ed a dress rehearsal in the after- noon, and acted in the opening performance of "Clowns in Clover in the evening.
This was the busy and romantic day of an 18year old member of the chorus of the successful Adelphi show.
She is Margaret Shotter, and her husband is Capt. Alister Målder, who served in the Guarda
Secret Ceremony, Miss Shelter left home is usual on December 1st, saying nothing to unyone about her plans.
The decision hinges on the report of an expert committee which has been examining the recommenda- tion by Lord Lee's Commission of the erection of a double-deck road and railway bridge at Charing
She went to St. Pancras Register Crowa
The experts have satisfied them Office, and there not her future selves that from an engineering friend, and a
husband, Miss Barton, an old friend of Capt. point of view the Lee Commission'a Miller. proposal is impracticable, apart from
The marriage ceremony over, the
which the cost would be more than double that originally party lunched together, and the estinated (nhout £8,000,000), and bride in the afternoon attended the drem rehearsal without breaking consequently prohibitive.
Mother Surprised.
This report will be in the bands the secret. of the L.C.C..very shortly and the decision relating to Waterloo I knew nothing of Margaret's" Bridge cannot then be long delay plan to get married," Mrs. Shotter ed, for the Council undertook to told a press representative." Capt. hold its band only until the ex- Mifier is an old friend of the perts had reported on the Charing family and although we knew they were attached to each other, we Cross proposal.
had no idea they entertained, such
The experts may on their own responsibility submit an alternative an idea.
"I received a message to the scheme whereby road traffic only could be carried transversely across i effect that my daughter would not the river from the north of Trafal- be returning home after the show, Far-square
south-easterly but I was much surprised to hear.
later of the secret marriage.
direction.
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