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AGGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS BEING PREPARED IN THE NORTH
AMOY CHINESE STILL INCENSED AGAINST
JAPANESE
WOMEN OF SHANSI HOLD WOMEN'S DAY,"
SUN YAT SEN MEMORY TO BE
CELEBRATED IN NANKING.
News is to hand that both the Fengtienese and Marshal Feng's troops are barily engaged in concentrating their troops pending agressive action.
The women of Shani, similarly with their Cantonese intern, demonstrated their desire on Women's Day" for the removed of certain political disabilities affecting their sex.
The third anniversary of the death of Sun Yat Sen is to be alebrated on a big esale in Nanking on the 12th instant. ►
NORTHERN ARMY'S
MOVEMENTS.
{THROUGH SETTER'S AGENCY.]
NANKING AND SUN YAT SEN'S MEMORIAL:
(Fab T Fat Paa
PIXING, March 9th.
SHANGHAI, March Oth Generala Chang Hruch Liang and Arrangements on a large scale Yang Yu Ting returned to Paoting are being made in Nanking to fu after no extensive tour of in celebrate the and anniversary of spection of all the Fengtien troops Sun Yat Sen's death, on the 12th The memorial service will on the Kin-Han front. It is freely inst reported in Fergien circles that cover three days from the 11th to the North is prepared for an offer 13th. During the occasion pro- ve against the Kaominchun. It paganda corps will be organised by is stated that General San Chuan various civil bodies and be sent to Fang will concentrate 70,000 men all public places to expound the between Tenchow and ming. Ar Three People's" doctrine to the soon as he launches via attack people. The Cinema theatres in against the Koninchun the Feng- the city will show pictures illustrat
THE HONG KONG DAILY PR
BRITISH NAVY RAID
ESTIMATES,
RETRENCHMENTO AXE
WORK
THE FIRST LORD'S'
MEMORANDUM.
{THROUGH REDTER'S AGENCY: J
Loxbox, March 9th. The Navy •Estimates.... total £87,300,000, which is £700,000 below theoriginal estimate for the current year and $1,180,000 below the gure as amended by the Sup plementary Estimata.
Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a Memorandum accompanying the Navy Estimates, calls attention to the considerable reduction owing to the Reduction Programma by two cruisers in 197 and one in 1828.
On the contrary, provision for the Air Army has been ingressed by £158,000,
The Memorandum dwells on the satisfactory development of naval anti-aircraft gunnery and also on the progress of the employment of aircraft with the fleet, had says"
in that the catapult installed. H.M.S. Resolution in addition to H.M.S. Findictive and the redus tion in the building programme and other economies enabled a reduction in the personnel by 1,289 bring it to
100,050,
1925 Programme,
The programme of 1998 includes provision for commencing construc-
SATURDAY
MARCH 10th, 1928.
REDS.
MALTVE: DO GOOD
BIG HAUL AND IMPORTANT ARRESTS.
[THEOCOK REDKER'S AGENCY.].
SINGAPOEL, March 9th A fortnight's streguous police activity culminated in a raid on the beadquarters of the South Sons Revolutionary Party,, which is a Communist organisation
The haul comprlaed seditious fiterature, completed "bombs and materials for their manufacture.
Two Chinese "were": arrested, is- einding the leader of the organisa
tion:
RUBBER CRISIS.
A BRITISH GESTURE.:
· WILD · RUMOUR.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGEVOY.}
LONDON, March 9th. Suggestions are being made that the Government's resent action re garding rubber and the restriction scheme is merely another gesture to America at the expense of
the British taxpayer and these sugges tions, together with the rumour that the rubber shareholders would be sacrificed as a quid pro quo for the reduction of the American
MEXICO PURCHASES BRITISH ARMY
BRITISH PLANES.
12. BRISTOLS" SENT TO VERA CRUZ.
(REUTER'S "AMERICAN SERVICE}]
EXPERIMENTS.
THE ESTIMATES BEFORE THE
COMMONS,
MECHANISED WARFARE.
[THżovan RAUTER'S ACENGT.)
Mexico Ciry, March 9th. Twelve Bristol aeroplanes have arrived at Vera Cruz from Great
Losnos, March 8th Britain to reinforce the Mexican The coming of the time when few Air Corps.
'PLANES COLLIDE.
TWO AMERICAN AIRMEN KILLED.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN, BERVICE)
MANAQUA, March 29th. As a result of colliding with a Buzzard, which broke the strut of its supporting wing, an aeroplans orashed near Esteli,
soldiers will actually march, any great distance to battle on food but will be carried by air, or by motor vehicles, was contemplated by the Rt. Hon. Sir Worthington Evani In Introducing the Army Estimates in the House of Com
mons.
He declared that the additional mobility and carrying power ot mechanical vehicles, together with the striking force of tanks was creating a revolution in warlare,
THE CAIRO RIOTS.
STUDENTS CALM DOWN.
ANOTHER UNFORTUNATE
"BOBBY."
ERBUTES'S AMERICAN,” SERVICE. ]
CAIRO, March 8th.
Except for a few students par iding the streets in motorcars shouting "Long live Liberty" the afternoon and evening were withs out incident
The morning's demonstrations were mainly directed against the polac. The STOKO laboured a plain clothes officer:
Bevorat the Waft ringleaders WAIS
The Secretary-Feneral of the Council of Ministers has issued, in Franch and Arabic, the text of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty the docu→ ment contained in the British White Paper, together with a very important letter from Barwat with expectations. They had learn Pasha to SA Chamberlain, ed more from actual experiments |
¡dated March 5th, in which/ Barw than in years of speculation.
The General Officer Commanding The occupants, Capt. Byrd (who
a series of experiments in mechanis- is not related to his more famous ed warfare at Tidworth Kad report namesake) and Sergeant Frank-ed the results were fully in accord forter, who parachuted from an altitude of 250 feet, were killed.
INDIA'S COTTON CRISIS. It was impossible to abolish after regretting the failure of horses altogether but the mobility negotiations, expresses the convic
A DEPRESSION.
DOLEFUL STATEMENT.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. 1
BOMBAY, March 8th... Speaking at a dinner given in honour of Sir Leslie Wilson, the
of cavalry had increased by part of tion that efforts should be. the horses' load being transferred to 'ed by both sides, at least to prepar the lorry.
Shanghai Defence Force, Sir Worthington-Evans pointed out that the cost of the additional troops in China would come un der Supplementary Estimates He nevertheless profited by the oppor
the way for the conclusion of an entente which was the dearest wish of the two countries
des
It is understood the United States Chargé d'Affaire le making & representation to the Egyptian
Lien troops on the Kin-Han fronting Chinese revolution and Suation of 2 cruisers and 1 submarine näval estimates, wefa, montioned Governor of Bombay, by the Miltunity to pay a tribute to the good Government in regard to the Yat Sen's lectures on revolutionary depot ship, flotilla leader and 8 today when members were asking owners' Association, Mr. Mody, the work and behaviour of the troops students' demonstration against the theories will be reproduced by destroyers, 6 submarines and I'river supplementary questions in the gramophone.
will join in.
(Wah Tez Tat Pao.) Marshal Fang's Movements.
SHANGHAI, March '0th. In view of the impending war with the Fengtience, Marshal Feng Ya Hsiang has proceeded to Hsin- sheng to prepare for direct opera- tions. The whole of his headquar- ters staff have been transferred to Kodfengiu.
THE WOMEN OF SHANSI:
(Wah Tis Tat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, March 8th.. The women of Taiyuan, capital of Shansi, observed: Women's I'Day!!!
yesterday and at a megos
Generalis Chang Hsu Kiang and Yang Yu Ding have conferred as to plans of hunching an oden-meeting resolutions were passed
sive attack on the Fengtienes in the direction of Southern Chihli.
THE ANTI-JAPANESE BOYCOTT,
(Wah Tai Tat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, March Oth. According to a report from Amoy, a general boycott against Japanese goods will begin from to-day.
The Jocal Japanese Consul is rew ported to have declared that add5- timal Japanese guabouts will be despatched there.
MR. HUANG ·FU.
(17ah Ter Yat Paò.)
demanding the Government to grant
gunboat and 4 sloops-representing | House of Commons. a reduction of T cruiser and an in- crease of 4 sloops as compared with the programme laid down in 1995.
Many important services have oither been deferred entirely or are being p vided at a leisurely rate, which the expectation of a prolong ed-period of peace alone warrants,
HOLY WAR - FEARS DECREASING.
the right of property inheritance IBN SAUD REPORTED GOING to women.
MARSHAL CHIANG.
(Wah Ter
• at Pao.).
SHANGHAI, March 9th. Marshal Chiang Kai Shekhar decided to postpont his journey to
Hsuchow until to-morrow.
DEVASTATION BY THE YELLOW RIVER.
20,000 PERSONS, RENDERED
HOMELESS.
The China Intereational Famine Relief Commission has received a SHANGHAI, March 9th. messago that the Yellow River has Mr. Huang Fu, the Nationalist broken its banks mear its mouth at Foreign Minister, went to Shang-Litsing, Shantung. About eighty hai this morning. He hopes to in villages have been inundated, and terview Bir Miles Lampson, the 20,000 or more people me homeless. British Minister. We
The last break in this vicinity The Nationalist Government has occurred in 1921. Details of the appointed Mr. Tang Yu Liang vice-present break and its exact location, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
are not yet known..
SAMOAN AMNESTY,
ILLEGAL NATIVE POLIO
SET FREE.
THROUGH
WELLINGTON, March 8th" The sentences of six months' im- prisonment on 400 members of the illegal Mau police forces who were arrested on intimidation charges, have been suspended, and the pri- soners ordered to return to their villages and to co-operate with the loyal natives,
George Major-General Sir Richardson, the Administrator, has
sued a statement recognising that. the natives have been misled by the Europeans He was therefore, din inclined to continue the imprison ment of the appointed policemen, but insists that henceforth must obey the jaw
Some of the natives. the Man have pain, the
over-da
TO MECCA.
(THROUGH REUTER'8 AGENCY.]
chairman of the Amociation, said that the cotton industry was again faced with serious difficulties.
They had lost all hope of attain- ing normal trading conditions un til they were protected in the Home markets against unfair competition and the export trade amisted as was done similarly in other indus mtries of a national character in
other countries.
The matter was first brought up when a question was asked as to whether Britain in the course of the past, year, had exchanged views with the United States Govern ment concerning the removal of the rubber restrictions
Mr Löcher the negative
ma replied
BRITISH DOMINIONS;
NEUTRALITY.
under exceptional conditions of ser sent to China åt short notice and
vice. He appealed to employers to And the men re-employment
{BRITISH VIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, March 8th
American College..
"U.8." Minister. WASHINGTON, March 8th. Mr. Franklin - Mott Gunther, chief of tre division of Mexiona The experiments at Tidworth, | affairs in the State Department, set out with mechanicarllery bus been appointed United States and the Somerset Light Infantry Minister to Egypt vice Mr. Merton mounted in six-wheeled lorries
The firm problem was to settle
Hey Ya Howells reugned. what auxiliary units track to be as sociated with the tank battanton which was treated as the main as-
ried out
Stocks in the mills were consulting foron in order to enable tinually - accumulating and more spindles and looms were stopping The price obtained by the manu - EMPIRE UNITS EASTER OF facturere was becoming increasing
OWN DESTINY. “
(THROUGH REUTER & AGENCY.]*'
LONDON, March 8th. News has been received in Len-. don that The Sand, the King of the
CAPE TOWN, March 8th Hedjas, is shortly having for Mecca, and well-informed sires to semain neutral in the event of The right of a British Dominica, express the opinion that if this is true, it may be taken as indicating Britain being involved in war was that the situation in Ambia is much dealt with by General Hertzog in a easier and is cleaning up.
It is not thought that Ibn Saud peech in the Assembly, when would have his capital, Riadh, in moving the ratification of the the centre of Arabia, if he thought perial Conference revolution,
perial the situation to be threatening
JERUSALEM, March 8th.
He declared that each. State of The Secretariat of the Palestine the Empire was now master of its Government announces that," the own destiny, and the sole judge af
rumours from Basta and Jerusalem of a declaration of a Holy War by Ibn Saud against the Moslems of Irak and Trans-jordania still lack confirmation. A
Wegotiations For A Settlement.
Cano, March 9th. Sheikh-Hafiz Walba is at present in Cairo following upon a visib to Koweit where he endeavoured, on behalf of Ibn Saud, to negotiate a settlement of the Iraq-Neid frontier. dificulties, 34 This contradicts the report that POONA RAILWAY FRACAS. The Saud has declared a holy war or is militarily assisting tribesmen. On the contrary, he states that Ilus Boud is making an effort to the quieter the fibesmen who have revolted because of British air, raids and the violation by weigh bouring states of trentica, po
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
(THROUGH REUTER'S "AGENOV.]
BOMBAY, March 8th.
It is authoritatively stated that only one persces was killed in the fraces between Pathans and Ghurkhas on the Bombay-Poona Railway at Khandala yesterday,
MORE RUSSIAN DEATH
SENTENCES.
THROUGE ESITTEN'S AGENCIA
TO BOMB MEXICO'S A PRESIDENT
GERMAN ARRESTED.
[REUTHE'S AMERICAN BRILVICE}
A MENICO Crry, March 8th: The Mexican Police bave arremed a man named Max Hobang, mid to by a German Army bomb expert,
He was taken into custody on suspicion of being implicated in the plot to assasinate President Calles and General Obregon, which the Police say they revealed in raid on a Catholic priest's house.
RIDA, March 8th The Soviet Military Court here According to the newspaper: El has santenced to death without the Sol, it was planned, to bomb the benefit of the recent amnesty, five presidential residener from the air, men charged with organising command also to blow up the trains on ter-revolutionary seta, especially in which President Calles or General connection with the setting on fire Obregon were travelling of the Dubrorsky textile factory in Both Holung and the priest, who 1928, disaster which caused was also arrested, declare that they 1,600,000 roubles darnaga
are ignorant of the plot
ly unremunerative. ⠀
AS
The situation, he declared, enough to dismay the stoutes timist and he hoped the Govern ment of India would see its way
developments. to do something more than watch
The State Department offieisla mid the view taken of the
gyptian crisis should not affect
the Commander of the large to Americo-Egyptian relations in any strike his enemy with the maximum
way and explained that the Ameri- of speed and effect:
and psychologically, the effect on Government of Egypt.
Results exceeded expectations can Government recognised
training had been very marked.
Remita Of Experiments.
Cavalry's Role.
British calvalry had to be ready-
thing positive about the outcome It was too early yet to say any of the experiments. It might be, ultimately, that very few soldiers to play its part, whether in Europe: would actually march on their feet or elsewhere, under widely different great distances to battle. It might conditions. It was proposed that be that divisional organisation with Bir Leslic Wälsor in reply, deits proportions of cavalry, artillery in each division two cavalry re plored the depression, which head infantry formation wall have to giments should exchange their be changed and that other, and horses for armoured cats. When smaller, groups of men in various Linds of mechanical vehicles, with this was done a cavalry division tanks, would be found to be the would consist of – two, cavalry beat units upon which to build a brigades and two regiments which larger force.
said was duc. to economic causes outside the control of the Govera: Imment, or of the Association of
which he was the guest.
the extent of its co-operation with
the Empire. Consequently, both by Taw and equity, the Dominion's right of neutrality could not be rejected nor was there any higher central authority.
* General Smate? Good Sense.
General Struts, in reply, urged very gravely that it was most im- portant to avoid all occasions where the question of neutrality could possibly be raised ga
INDIAN ASSEMBLY. ABSURD ACCUSATIONS AND
STORMY SCENES.
A FOUL SLANDER"
†THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCE.]
would be converted into armoured car regiments but which would retain intact their titles, privileges, Precedences and identity, as re- giments of the corps of cavalry of the line yanakan pen
Meanwhile they had to maintain forces which they knew to be valu able until they were satisfied some thing better could be substituted.
The policy being pursued was gradually to convert the existing formations which were organised
He believed, "by carrying out this: without reference for mechanical policy, they would have made the vehicles into formation based upon beat use of modern machines to ca- the increased mobility and fire able the cavalry to fill the role for pawer given by the use of the in- which, at least, in some countries. ternal combustion engine whether they were still indispensable. used in seroplanes or in land
Mechanising Artillery.
NEW DELHI, March 8th
With artillery, said the Minister, Heated scenes occurred in thements or transport, Assembly during the debate on the
The Cavalry.
"the difficulties were not so grent. Regarding cavalry, the War Heavy and medium artillery Indian Army question":
Two Minister snad it must be admitted being mechanised entirely, Mr. Motilal Nehru asked whethat the advent of aeroplane and brigades of the Field Artillery He wanted their relations with ther the savings on the Indian tank coupled with the enormously were mechanised. Some batteries the Government of Great Britain to troops in China, came out of their increased power of rapid firing were tractor drawn and one batters be so close and friendly that they pay, or whether it consisted of weapons of all kinds had had a was mounted in self-propelled would never even raise the question, boot.
serious influence on ability of the vehicles The rest of artillery was which should be regarded as purely
cavalry to perform nowadays the stalk horse drawn, yo academic and one for the future,
tasks expected of them previous to They had taken money in the the Great Warpsta vpn Estimates for mechanining ona War had changed, and would conditional field brigade for further. tinue to change, but it would always experimenta He intended to pur- be necessary to find the enemy and sue the policy of converting horse- to take precautions against a suz, drawn into mechanical units sa prise attack. Reconnatasance was oom as money was available. We therefore necessary. Long distance
Tan Boyal Horse Artillery and reconnaissance could, weather per- the Light Artillery would remai
ting, be done by aeroplanes, and for the present with horses and at medium distance aeroplanes War Office And Taventions.
ROYAL VISIT TO EGYPT.
PRINCESS MART ON HOLIDAY.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGISICY],
-Lospot, March 8th.
Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, accompanied by Lord and Lady-Boyn-have left for Egypt on a holiday man kangka
Cries of Withdraw" and de mands that the speaker should substantiate it much a foul slander" were immediately: rádmed on the official benches, and for a tins
there was uproar,
Nehru declined to withdraw his abeard accusation, but went on 10 assert that Indian troops were used against their will to humiliate the nationsis of another country
*Loses Faith
were of press advantsETHER A
Close reconnaissance,
virtually turned down the Comtiom
the
|| The War Office, was determined
The Moslem leider, Mr. Innah speaking as a member of the Skeen especially in equntry affording to utilise fully the inventions which Committee which conducted an in some cover, had still to be done had proved useful in civil hic bus quiry into the Indianisation of the by troops capable of speedy and they had to adapt them to trilitary Army made a strong protest de leat movement over difficult ases and they had to adapt the mid historia" regimenta with their [BRITISH WIRELEEN BERVICE, chang that the Government had ground and in the face of opposi army with ite dicious traditions valuable esprit de corps to the OF RUGBY, March 8th.mittee unanitous recommenda The problem in com Princess Mary and Viscount
new conditions Lascelles, on their holiday in Cairo will be the guests of Lord Lloyd, the British High Commissioner, and Lady Lloyd, for about a month They are travelling vid Folkstone, Boulogne and Marseilles where they will embark on the P&0.
liner Ranchi for Port Said
tions.
future of cavalry was to produce Mr. Jinnah said he was now con- force capable of carrying out the vinced that the British Governmcat odd accepted role of gaining in intended so hiuder, India to her formation and affording aim of pocsewing a national Armym the face of modern Geracral Bindwood's statement, he such an extent as these declared had completely destroyed mente could not be met by his faith in the bona fides of the aimmalt. Government
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