FENGTIENESE FAIL. IN PEACE ATTEMPTS
WITH SHANSI'S GOVERNOR.
NORTHERNERS REINFORCING FRONTS ON THE RAILWAY ZONES.
GENERAL CHANG - TSUNG CHANG'S NEW OFFICE..
GENERAL SUN'S TROOPS CONCENTRATING IN SOUTHERN SHANTUNG:
MARSHAL FENG AND GENERAL YEN TO TAKE JOINT ACTION.
It is now definitely conarmed that the Northerners' attempts
the Fengtianese are reinforcing their armies in Chilli and Shan- tang.
De to negotiate peace with Shami's Governor have failed and that
General Chang Trang Chang announces that he bas assumed the post, of Impector General of Chibli and Shantung while Marshal Sun," another of the leading Northerners, has ordered his troops to concentrate in South Shantung.
A report in the vernacular Prean etates that, as soon as Marshal Chiang Kai Shek gives orders for...a general attack Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang and General Yen Shih-Shan will net jointly.
AWAITING MARSHAL CHIANG'S 'ORDERS.
(Wal Tas Yat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, March 5th.
As soon as Marshal Chiang Kai Shek gives orders for a general attack on the Northerners. General Yen Shib Shan and Feng Ya Hsiang will take joirs action.
CHINA'S CUSTOMS TARIFF.
Wah Tas Fat Pao.),
FELINGHAI, March 8th. Regarding the provisional reved Customs staff rases, the Dutch Minister (doyen of the Diplomatic Body) proposes that as soon as Sir
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'CHIHLE AND SHANTUNG'S INSPECTOR-GENERAL.
(Wah Te Tot Pao-Y
SEANGHAI, March 5th. General Chang Tsung Chang issued a circular talegram on the 1st inet, sanouncing that he had assumed office as Inspector-General Shantung. of Military Affairs. in Chihli and
FENGTIENESE AND SHANSI.
(Fah Ts Yot Pao.)
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 6th, 1928.
RUBBER FACTORY
ABLAZE
ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE STRAITS.
$500,000 DAMAGE.
THROOM RICUYER'S AGRICT.)
Bixgarone, March 5th.
Ons of the largest rubber factories in the island has been destroyed by Bre. The loss is estimated at $500,000.
RUBBER.
RESOLUTION;
DOOR CHINESE
[THHONOR REDTER'S AGENCY.]
BINGAPORE, March 5th, Selangor Chinese Chamber of Commerce have adopted a resolution in favour of the gradual removal of rubber restrictions from the end of 1928, "provided the Dutch pro ducers do not agree to co-operate in the scheme.
MEXICAN PLOT,
MURDER OF PRESIDENT AMONG PLANS.
{EKUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
MEXICO CITY, March 4th. The Ponce stato that through. the arrest of a Catholic priest named Osorio Leyva, they have dia hovered a widespread plot to se sassinate President Calles and General Obregon, the only candi date in the field to succeed Presi deat Calles in the presidential election: WWW.
SHANGHA March stb. According to a secret report from Peking, received by the Nan- king Government, the Ankrochun leaders have failed in their repest- Fed attempts to General You Shih Shan to make penes. They are consequently hurriedly reinforcing the fronts on the Kin-Han andligious Liberty is alleged to have Tientsin Railway zones.
Miles Lampson, the British Mini-GENERAL SUN'S TROOPS, tet, returns to Peking a meeting will be called to consider the mat-
ter.
A Peking report states that the Ankochyn Government has de- cided to adopt the provisional revised tariff rates," making them effective for April 1st.
(Wah Tis Yat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, March 8th. Sun Chuan Fang's troops hare been ordered to concentrate at -Yenchow and other strategic points Fin Southern Shantung
SIGNOR MUSSOLINI'S EGYPTIAN CABINET
SPEECH.
WHAT AUSTRIANS AND GER MANS THINK OF IT.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
VIENNA, March 5th. The newspapers. comment 00 Signor Mussolini's speech is res trained. They point out that Mussolini dwelt on the subject of national freedom whereas the burden of the Austrian complaint
related to enltural freedom.”
RESIGN.
NEW TREATY REJECTED,
WORK OF EXTREMISTS.
[TREOUGH EEUTER'S AGENCY.}
been found in the" priest's house.
ORVILLE WRIGHT'S
H
́ ́AEROPLANE.
TO PROPAGATE BUDDHISM.
TEMPLE FOR KENSINGTON.
WEALTHY CEYLONESE
DONATION.
(THROUGH BEUTERʼN · AGENCY.]·
COLOMBO, March 5th.' Three Buddhist priests are going to London to establish a temple at Konsington to propagate Buddhiam, A wealthy. Ceylonese is meeting the priests' expenses and donating 16,000 rupees towards the establish ment of the temple, la
A CHANCE FOR STORY TELLERS.
G.$25,000 PRIZE OFFERED.
ALL NATIONALITIES.
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THE COTTON INDUSTRY:
EMPLOYERS WITHDRAW
GRECOMMENDATIONS.
NEW
GGESTIONS.
"[THROÚGA REUTER'S AGENCY.}
Loanoy, March 5th,
ZINOVIEFF LETTER.
STATEMENT-REGARDING A
"NOTORIOUS DOCUMENT,
PART PLAYED BY THE "DAILY MATA”
[TTROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
OBITUARY.
BARON. SINHA,
NOTABLE INDIAN
IMPERIALIST.
{THROUGH ANGLER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, March 5th. The death is announced of Baron Saha
LONDON, March 4th." In connection with the joint con In consequence of a letter in this ference of cotton employers and morning's Observer, in the course of operatives at Manchester to-day, it which Sir Thomas Marlowe, the elevation to the peerage as the lab For many years prior to his is announced that the former has former editor of the Daily Mail, Baron of Raipur, Lord Sinha wae definitely withdrawn their recom-explains that the Daily Mail receiv-sano Sinha, K.C.S.I., Govenor of well-known as Sir Satyendia Prae-
mendations regarding hours and ed a copy of the notorious Zinoviel | Bihar and Orissa. He studied law in wagre, and suggested the establish Letter from two different sources England and was a Xing » Cous- ment of a voluntary Joint Com mittee of Enquiry to investigate on October 23rd, 1994, but in which ant practised as a barrister in
finance taxation, hours, wages, Trade Union restrictions finishing charges, marketing and shipping."
HIGHWAY ROBBERS IN MEXICO.
ALLEGED AMERICAN NAVAL DESERTERS.
TRAGIC END.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE:]
CALEXICO, Cal, March 5th. Four Americans, three of whom | were alleged to be American naval deserters, and who were arrested on a charge of highway robbery, escaped from gaol, at Ensenada but SIR HARRY POLAND. were overtaken on the Tijuana Road and shot dead by a posse of Mexican officials
OLDEST MEMBER OF THE
BRITISH BAR
DIES IN HIS 99TH YEAR. [TEROPGE REUTER'S KOENCY.]
LONDON, March 4th. The denth is announced of Sir.
ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY.
GRANTS AND ASSISTANCE GIVEN,
" ́ANNUAL REPORT TO BE
PRESENTED.
the Calcutta High Court. He THE he emphatically exonerates Mr. J. | " Standing Counsel ”” to the Gay- D. Gregory, a statement has been issued to the Press by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald,
sent of India in 1003; Ad- and 1015-17; a tepeeltadre of roente-General of Bangal, 1907-8)
India at the Imperial War «Com- ference; Freeman of the City of London Under Secretary of State
for India in 1990. He was the
Mr. MacDonald was Premier at the time of the publication of the Zinoviel Letter, and he points out first native member of the Viceroy's that Sir Thomas Marlowe's letter Executive Comroil in India; shows conclusively that there was member of the Imperial War Cabinet in 1918. He was at all a conspiracy, and that the originame profound admirer of the of the Zinovică letter was probably British. He was born in 1864. For a fake, but certainly its use was
ears he had been in indifer-
a fraud."
MR ARTHUR POPE
Quastion Of Publication." In his letter to the Observer. Bir Thomas Marlowe "relates" that he Me Arthur Uglow Pope, 0.1E, received a telephone message from who died during the last week of a friend that a document showing January, passed through some the relations between the Bolshevists anxious experiences during the La Chinese (zerolution of 1911, leading and the British Labour leaders," to the establishment of the Ro had been circulated to the Foreign public. As manager of the Shang- Office the Home Office, the Ad-hai-Nanking Railway, he had a
fa miralty and the War Office.
The friend stated that Mr. Mes Donald knew all about it, but was set trying to avoid publication,
Subsequently, says Sir Thomas Marlowe, he received two copies of the letter separately from other friends, and he relates how, when he learned that the letter was being published in the Press, Sir Eyre Crowe decided to publish it official
The following annual report signed by Mr. C. G. Alabaster, the Pre aldent, will be presented by the St. George' Society at the annual meeting which is to be held only. Friday at 5.30 p.m. in the office of the Hong Kong Jockey Club
**Not A Penny Paid.** Sir Thomas, Marlowe says he has
Mexicus to revolt in the name of Harry Poland, R.C., who was prob
A quantity of literature urging the League of the Defence of Really the oldest member the legal profession. He was in his eth year and had been a barrister for 73 years. katy kan dinada Bir Harry Foland was for many years one of the counsel to the Treamry and the Home Office, In 1803 he retired and was mighted From 1871 to 1904, he was Recorder Your Committee, bas pleasure in of Dover, and also for some years presenting to you the report and never seen Mr. D. Gregory, nor he was an alderman of the London statement of accounts for the year had he had any connection with County Council Since his retireending December 31st, 1957 The him. He never paid Mr. Gregory ment, the late Sie Harry Poland cash balance in hand stands at had written much on the reform of $1,351.72, including $40261 rom the Magazine Fund, and in addition, the law. He was a bachelor]'
the sum of $3,000 is on Fixed De posit.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE'S NEW ATTITUDE.
ELETTES'N AMERICAN HERVÍCH: 1
WASHINGTON, March 4th. The Smithorning Institute is making strong efforts to win back been to Britain as the result the Wright aeroplane, which ha
of a dispute between Mr. Orville Wright and the Institution authori
The secretary now offers to change the label affixed to the Langley model, which describes it as the first maching capable of flight to the original Langley flying machine of 1903 restored.
This offer is conditional upon Mr. Orville Wright's promise to
deposit this original machine
CAIRO, March 4th.
where it has always been wanted, Sarwat Pasha, the Egyptian where it will have a position of Premier, has resigned though it is honour, and where the label wil understood that before he tender-state that it is the first heavier. than-air craft in the history of ed his resignation, he informed the world to accomplish a sustain Lord Lloyd, the British High Com-ed and free fight under its own rejected the terms of the new power and carrying a man,"
Loxpay, March 4th. Treaty with Great Britain,
The Sunday Times says that the The Egyptian Cabinet has resign- Wright machine is at present at the ed as the result of the dispute over South Kensington Museum being
between dismantled.
missioner, that the Government had
The Government argen Reichspost welcomes the assurance that Italy desires good understanding with the Treaty.
the German peoples but fears that Since the convertions betwee
barrier thereto.
divergencies in conception and Sir Austen Chamberlain and the ideas will form an insuperable Egyptian Premier in London during the summer, Sarwat Pasha has beet scheming to erect sufficient support to withstand the expected attack the extreme Nationalists. A by
British Military Occupation.
The Neue Freie Fresse says that Mussolini's threats are unworthy of such a dominant personage and such a domináné nation..
The Neues Wiener Tagblatt says the speech does not reply to the charges made in the Austrian Austrian Parliament.
PAMUNDU BERLIN,
The speech Bats, March 8th.
THE FIRST PLANE.
WHY IT IS COMING TO
ENGLANDM
THE WAR ON THE IRAK
FRONTIER
TRIBES STILL THREATENING.
BRITISH TROOPS FROM INDIA.
[THROUGH NEUTEL'S 10ENCY.]
BASRA, March 4th. The town of Koweit is in a state of tension owing to reports from the interior, where a number of tribes are, it is clear, on the warpath, and a big offensive is boing prepared with Koweit is the main objective.
or anyone else a penny for the Zinovieff letters
Mr. MacDonald makes it quite
During the year numerous calls clear that he does not believe that have been made on the Society for the Zinovieff letter was communi- assistance and grants to the sum of eated to any outside body by any. $1,588.0 have been given wo
Foreign Office.
Frend.
On St. George's Day a wreath one inside the Foreign Office, or by was laid on the Cenotaph and later any other Department which receir- atifin held at the Hong Kong ed a copy of the letter from the Hotel. A cinema show was also held at the Queen's Theatre for the entertainment of soldiers, sailors and airmen. A wreath was also Iaid on the Cenotaph on Armistice Day
During the year, 30 new members joined the Society.
The accounts have been audited It is stated that the British by Messrs. Lowe, Bingham and authorities have ordered the im-Matthews to whom our thanks are mediate despatch of a battalion, of due troops to Koweit from India.
MAJOR MCCALLUM'S EXPEDITION.
difficult part to play between the contending forces. His duty was to preserve the line and keep it open for traffic, so he decided on a policy of neutrality. After the retirement of the Imperial forces, Mr. Popo recognized the revolutionaries an de facto in possession, and offered zo obstacle to the transport of troops and munitions for the advance" of the Republicans on Nanking
On the establishment of the Re public, Mr. Pope was appointed
Railway Adviser to the· Peking Board of Communications. The order of appointment, signed by Bun Tat Ben, stated: “It is necessary for us to secure the services of a person well versed and widely ex perienced in railway matters to whom the Board can look for advice and guidance on all matters relat ing therefor Buch a person is Pope, who has a wide reputati amongst Entoperns and a long ex-
perience in all railway matters. We hereby invite him to take up the post, so much beneath his merit, of Adviser to this Board with the hope that he will comply with our request and afford as assistance in every way.d
MR. M. S. SPENCER SMITH,
Sir Charles: Addis, Bir Edward In his opinion, the letter pdased Crowe, Mr. H. D. C. Jones (Hong- into the hands of politicians who Kong and Shanghai Banky Mi took the chance of rousing the Takao Incai (Sumitomo Bank), Mr. country upon fraudulent issues. Matani (Mitsui Bank) and Mr. H.
He feels that the Foreign Offee | Sumki, wers among those whatst.. officials erred in their judgment tended a memorial service for Mr. He is unable to understand why Michael Spencer Smith, held on he was not informed by telephone January 7th at St. Helen's Church, that the Daily Mail had secured | Great St. Helen's, Bishopsgate,, ¿- copies of the letter and intended Mr. Spencer-Smith met his denth to publish it, or why he was not as a result of a motor accident. He informed that the foreign Office was born in 1881 After taking his proposed to send a Note to M. degree at Oxford, with honours in Bakowsky w
modern history, he was for some CAR FROM INDO CHINA he never formed any definite con Lord Bearsted, live of them being Mr. MacDonald concludes that years in the business of the ste TO BEIRUT.
clusion about the Zinovieff letter, spent in Japan In 1919 he return. but the important point to be con-ed to England, and subsequently sidered was not its authenticity, but entered the service of Messrs. H. 8 the use to which it was put
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE
Echo Of Franca Cass,
- Rvory, March 4th... Matters raised on the part of the D.8.0.
The attitude of Iboraud is a conundrum.It is eaid on the one hand that he has sanctioned the tribal attacks owing to the anger. roused by the recent devastation BY caused by the RAF in their efforts to wipe out. Feisal-ed- Dowish's raiders. On the other hand, it is thought that he is un- Major McCallum, who accom able to withhold the tribesmen.
panied by two capable British [The Wababia recently appeared mechanics, and his wife, started NEW Yonr. outside Koweit and demanded per From Peking in June in two Canas The biplane in which the Wright masion to trado, otherwise they dran-built Buick, cars, arrived in brothers a 1000 sinde their first- would take what they wanted at Beirut on January 14th. The party He undoubtedly anticipated op-
successful fight in a heavier than the edge of the sword. The Sultan went by ses to French Indo-China, of the proposed now Treaty, espe position to certain of the clansex air machine which is now on its defed them, and H.M.8. Emerald where they were agreeably surpris Board of Inquiry into the allega After the war he returned to his cially that, relating to British mili-WAY to the South Kensington was sent to Koweit, and is skilled by the excellence of the roading the hearing of the Francs business in the City, and was elect
the travelling facilitics, and the tary occupation for a further ten Museum, London, instead of to the there.]
Smithsonian Institution at Wash-
years, which is generally regarded ington, will never be returned to
the main stumbling-block It was a stumding blockies that American soil. Ta Sarwat had since been playing for tion of Mr. Orville Wright, though
unpleasant impression in Germany time by protracting the conversg. by bag agreement with South Ken- and commentatore azo unanimous that Mussolini has seldom if ever tions through Lord Lloyd, boping
spoken more brutally or more
constitutes a challenge to the whole. of Germanism.
to
further concessions.from Sir Austen Chamberlain,
that he would be able to return
he may withdraw it at any
JAPANESE PRINCESS
5. CRITICALLY EL
(THROUGH BEITER'S
tions regarding civil servants durs
Lefevre & Co merchants, of which firm he became a partner. Wher the war broke out he joined the Army, became lieutenant-colonel and was awarded the MC and the
rest-houses. Owing to floods in case will be debated in the Comed a director of the Bank of Eng Siam Major McCallum had to take mons: some time after the return land in 1920. He was one of the his cars by train the last 100 miles from Geneva of the Foreign Secre most prominent of the younger mon to Bangkok, but frota there he tary Sir Austen Chamberlain in banking circles, and will always drore to Singapore to order to It is anticipated that the Labourbe remembered in the City for the avoid the floods in Burmir At Party will direct particular atten- great services he rendered to the of reconstruction and Me Orville Wright says it was It is offeToxo. Mirch 4th. Singapore he took ship again. The tion to the Zinovief lotter incident cause and rehabilitation of some the wish of his brother and him the condition of the Princess Hies, Calcutta From acre the party port, but the newspapers believe of the Succession States. sel that the biplane should remain the youngest daughter of the Em Stent along the Grand Trunk Road the Prime Minister will decline the Though the extreme Waldists in this country, and they had offer peror, who was recovering from an to Delhi, Lahore, and Peshawar, demand for a further inquiry into
ed it for exhibition to the Smith-
attack of pneumonia, has auddenly and thence skirted the North-West the incidents connected with the penny and the gentlemen from The Deutschetager Zeitung says were bitterly opposed to Sarwatsonian:Imstitution. but the director, becoma critical way Frontier to Quetta and on through letter and the publication of it in whom he received the copiez would
they y did not appear inclined to
Princess His is the younger of Baluchistan to Durday and across the Press together with the Noto of have been affronted it he had offer shoulder the burden of office at the asked for a machine of a later date. Italina assurances are invalid and
This Mr. Wright learned, was the two daughters of the Emperor Persis by way of Meshed and protest sent to Rakovsky thened money for the information they present juncture, and it was possible because must further weaken confidence in thats the Treaty would have been
a Langley machint, and Empress of Japan, being born Teheran to Baghdad, and so Soviet representative in London. supplied
through Damascus to Barut. The Recently, the committee presided if the Wardists had not became conchine tried in 1900, was si was Finned that Sarwat had not only had ready in the museum. Mr. Wright married in 1994 conversations with Sir Austen Cham further says In England the
ELECTION berlain, but had actually agreed to plane wild- the text of the Treaty
the manner in which Marsolini now declaresrevious. solem
#Italy a word promises throughout rejected without a Ministerial crisis,Placarded as the first heavier than last year. The Emperor of Japanads throughout India, were ex- over by Sir Warren Fisher inves. Sir Thomas Marlowe adds that he,
the world
TANGIER AGREEMENT.
POWERS GIVEN TO SPAIN.
„ĮTHROUGH LETTER SLADEKUKA
The dissolution of Parliament is not unlikely. PORTAN VOR
Egypt's Independence.
LATER
"Its proper place and credit, I am assured. This its pr
THE BRITISH GENERAL
cellent, and Major McCallum was tigated the matter and it is con- had never to his knowledge seen allowed to use frontier roads sidered unlikely that any useful Mr. J. D. Gregory, not had any usually reserved for inilliery and purpose would be served by a furconnection with him, direct or in
directed me official traffic. The roads in Baltther inquiry.
MASAKHzeDonald's Views, would never have had in the at TO TAKE PLACE NEXT JUNE chisten were good in places as far What the Daily Mall Knew mosphere prevailing in the Smith-
Bay Quetta. Those in Perts were The question of how the Dailyina apcecir to his constituenny BOnian Institution, so I have sent
last night, Mr. MacDonald zoferri BRITISH WIRELESS ALEVICES mostly mera tracts, and their con ausbecame possessed of copy it to England
dition was aggravated by ruin and of the Zaunvieff letters before its to the result of the francs lvoer March 4th. now
publication by the Government is quiry said the punishment Viecount Yonger speaking at Major McCallum hopes to finish answered in a long letter by Siround guilty of the most Kilmarnock at night, wid that his journey by going
through
Thomas Marlowe, He states that folly had been swift and the Gene lection would not be Aleppo, Alexand
Adana, two days before its publication he severe held until after the Budget of 1929, the across the Taur 1 to tho heard of the existence of the Tettor He conndered from probably in June of Yearl Bosporus "and" from: Constantinople from two old and trusted friends, point of view, the
Tue financial position. of the across the Balkans, through North
On the following day he received excessive, but he also The condition of the Lord Chan-country; had improved coonder- ern Italy and France, to England copies of the letter from two differ needs of the Bervic cellor, Viscount Cave, following his 2b); ut the Chancellor of the In spite of heavy loads and bad, ent sources. The Zindvioff letter, punishment cas
is reported to be
mous" did not cost the Daily Aldat would not be able to do ronde the party-had ma
singler poulderens more satisfac
much to reduce taxation this year. ship during the jou
(Continued on next Column.)
It is understood that the Egyption Cabinet has replied to Lord Lloyd stating that the terms of the pro-ion posed now Treaty are unacceptable as they are incompatible with the ins dependence of Egypt
MADRID, March 4th,” A communiqué issued states that the Tangier negotia tions, which resulted in an agree ment between France and Spain tined mainly on the question of the powers to be given to Spain to prevent Tangier and the hinterland from being amde the centre of con- traband disaffection and armed oppressionsg against the Spanish to Zone and Morocco "generaly,
It is contended that the terms he right of Great Britain ypt which the Cabinet
LORD CHANCELLOR'S HEALTH.
pol
BAL THROUGH BRUTZE'S ADENOY.]
LONDON.. March 4kg