FENGTIEN SUCCESS ON SHANSI BORDER.
BOTTLING UP THE SHANSI TROOPS,
FIGHTING IN WEST SHANTUNG.
THE QUESTION OF MARSHAL LI TSAI HSIN'S
RETURN.
DEFEAT OF THE CHRISTIAN GENERAL.
It seems certain that the Fengtienese have scored the first dalinite success of the offensive in capturing Tsingsing on the Chentai Railway, and in driving the Shansi troops back into the Niangtaekwan Pass, which is a precipitous defile in the moun- mains on the Shansi border.
The intention of the Fengtienese appears to be to bottle up the Shansi forces in this pass, when they will have no scope what- soever for action. When the Northerners have thus managed to safeguard their exposed flank, they are expected to more south against Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang.
Northerners and Southerners are also in conflict on the Tamingfu front, where General Chu Yu Pu has ordered an attack upon the Kuominchua, At present the result of this battle is unknown. Marshal Sun Chuan Fang has proceeded to Tsining to direct operation on this front.
The question of Marshal Li Tsai Hsin's return to Canton is not very easily decided. Marshal Li is at present in Haugchow- and says that when he reaches Shanghai he will be able to deter mine definitely what course he will pursue. On the other hand, there are reports which make it appear. that Marsebab Li is virtually a prisoner in the hands of Marshal Chiang Kai Shek.
Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang has met with a defeat in Southern Chihli at the hands of the Fengtienese forces and has lost a battalion which has been captured, NORTHERNERS CLAIM
SUCCESS.
BOTTLING UP SHANSI TROOPS.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PEKING, April 7th
The Fengrienese officially claim. that they have captured Tsinging on the Chentai Railway on April 6th. The Shangi troops are retreat- ing towards Niangtaekwan,
It is believed that the Feagtien object is to bottle up the Shane troops within the pass in order to chapose of the danger of a Bank attack while the "Fengtien army is engaging the Kuominchun.
Marshal Sun Chuan Fang arrived
SOUTHERN VICTORY
RUMOURED.
MORE TROOP MOVEMENTS.
[NAVAL WIRELESS.]
NANKING, April 7th. On Friday night a rumour wAS current that the Southernere had gained a victory on the Pukow- Hauchow line, but no confirmation has been received.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL 9th, 1928.
MULTI-LATERAL
BABAEATY.
U.S. AND FRENCH. COR-- RESPONDENCE.
SUBMITTED TO OTHER POWERS.
(BKUYER'S AMERICAN BREVICK]
WASHINGTON, April 7th. France and the United States hare agreed to, submit the Franco- American correspondence on the proposal of a multi-lateral treaty. renouncing war, to Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan.
THE AMOY SITUATION.
(THROUGH BETTER'S AGENCY.}
Axor, April 8th. All danger of a serious incident being crested owing to the dispute between Chinese and Japanese has now passed. Apart from the con tinuation of boycott conditions things are again normal.
The Japanese cruiser has depart ed but a destroyer remains, while
AMERICAN SHIPPING.
GOVERNMENT LOAN FUND.
FOREIGN MAIL CONTRACTS.
1
(IKUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
WASHINGTON, April 8th. The Merchant Marine Committee of the House of Representatives has approved, the Jones-White Shipping Bil, which is intended to stimulate private ownership of the Merchant Marine.
This Bill, which embodies the Jones Bill, wie
drafted by Mfr. White, the Chairman of the Mer- chant Marine Committee. It pro- viles for the widening of the terms of the Government's Ship Construc- tiga Loan Fund to permit borrow. ng three quarters of the cost of a ship instead of two-thirds as t 15. present.
it also provides for the granting of long term foreign mail contracte, and the entrance of the Govern- ment into marine insurance busi-
дезз
The Committee also adopted a the American flagship and destroy: provision empowering, the Presi- er division, which arrived on April | dent, in time of national emergency. ath, left for the North yesterday..
BRITISH NANKING
DISCUSSIONS.
AMERICA DID
NOT
APOLOGISE
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, April 6th.
In the House of Commons, reply. ing to questions, Mr. Locker Lamp son said the question of allocating the Boxer Indemnity funds had not been raised in connection with the Nanking negotiations
He added that there was no hom- bardment of the city of Ninking by British or other warships, and there was no foundation for the More troop movements were re-statement that America had ex- ported. Several hundreds of men pressed regret to the Nanking Gov- ernment for the barrage put down and horses croseed from Nanking on Socoay Hill to Pukow.
Troop Movements Continue.
KIUKIANG, April 7th. Large troop movements are re
The negotiations, said Mr. Loc they were still being continued.
to requisition the ships wherein
FRENCH AIRMEN'S
FLIGHT.
TOKYO TO HANOI,
LONG NON-STOP ATTEMPT.
(THROUGH SLUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOKYO, April 9th. The French aviators, Costes and Lebrix, who arrived from America
last week, set off at 7,93 this morn-
ing to attempt a non-stop fight to Hanoi.
FRENCH FLYERS ARRIVE.
END OF A LONG FLIGHT,
(THROUGH HAVAS AGENCY:]
Paris, April 8th Cornillon and Girardot, the French frers, landed near Paris at 9.40 to-day, having covered about 10,000 kilometres in 65 hours actual flight from Paris by Algeria, the Sudan, Sénégal and Morocco.
THE "OLD MOORE" OF CHINA.
TROTSKY'S MURDER
DENIED.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM MOSCOW.
NOTHING HAS HAPPENED.
{THROUGH REUTER'S JOENCY.]
Moscow, April 7th.
THE RUBBER RESTRICTIONS.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE'S VIEW.
CONSIDER THE SMALL INVESTOR.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. }'
LONDON, April 7th.
Mr. Lloyd George in a speech at the National Liberal Club, attack. It is officially stated that the rumours of a mishap to Trotsky are ing the Government, referred to the quite untrue. Nothing has happen- rubber question. He said there
were in Britain over a million. ed to him.
[A telegram dated April 4th small investors in the rubber indus- stated that there were persistent try.. rumours in Paris that Trotsky had
It is not a question of whether been ahot by a Red fanatic, but
restriction ought or ought not to that the Soviet Government were trying to hush the matter up.] be removed, said Mr. Lloyd Georgs. or even whether it ought to be re- moved soon, but merely how it MAN'S LIFE IN THE ETHER. ought to be removed with the
minimum of injury to honest inves-
BODY THAT NEVER DECAYS.tors and honest business men.
The Government have done it in
VIEWS OF SIR OLIVER LODGE. such a way as to inflict the maxi- mum of injury upon British inves A world of reality and animatedtors and traders, and the minimum life, peopled with the minds of the of injury upon foreign investors men and women of this world, the and traders. minds of generations long passed, and with countless other beings un-
the Government has interest, and SHANGHAI SEER WHO TOLD hampered by any union with mat-
also the ships carrying mail con-
tracts.
SERIOUS FIRES AT
HAVANA.
STANDARD OIL CO. BLAZE.
HEAVY LOSSES.
{REUTER'S AMERIČAN SERVİCE
it
Havay, April 7th." The Standard Oil Company's tanks have caught fim and several hundred thousand gallons of ail are endangered..
Later.
· 20,000 FORTUNES.
HIS OWN VALUED AT £80,000.
The Best of Shanghai," old Li
Tsang Fu, who is said to have told
ter, was described by Sir Oliver Lodge on March 8th,
“The world of matter gives only An indication of what is really go-, ing on in the non-material, ethereal 'i Wa STA
An Optimistic View. (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE,7
New Yonk, April 7th, Mr. Henderson, President of the New York Rubber Exchange,'inter- viewed by Reuter stated that in his opinion the abolition of restriction
was not only in the best interests
of the British Empire but would ultimately bonefit the.' world gradually beginning to understand generally. He considered the situa
the fortunes of over 20,000 foreign- era here, and many times that num-world," he declared. ber of Chinese, has died of old age, leaving about £80,000, states a
that." British United Press message in the Sunday Times. Li. it continues, Bir Oliver draw this picture.nl was widely mourned in Shanghai,
the dual existence of the mind and both the foreign residents and the natives paying respect to his body of man in a lecture to the memory. Many stories ara told of
JointParliamentary his prophecies, which were made with the aid of a crystal ball and Council in the Governor's House at A few coloured beads.
the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. His subject was the uses to which the ether is put by ordinary people;
"
* Examples Of His Power,' "Master, the crystal has turned a deep crimson," said Li one day to a Settlement officiat. “Trouble will come to the foreigner on the 25th day. I have spoken." Two
Man's Two Bodies.
Advisory
He spoke only as a man of
tion would improve towards the end of the year. There appeared little prospect of a decrease in tyre prices until the stocks of raw material bought at higher prices were used up. If the prices of crude rubber held at their present level there would probably be a re vision of tyre prices in midsummer. There was bound to be a reduction In reclaimed rubber though fairly
zer Lampson, had not broken down. The entire Havans Fire Brigade, days later, May 25th, 1925, occur science," and first described the her. large quantities were likely still tr
The fire was barely under control when another fire broke out in aa- other large Standard Oil tank asristed by the Police Force and a hundred and fifty American blue-
are at present fighting the flames
Jad TEE. The second fire has been got under control. The total loan is estimated at 2,000,000.
be used with prices at attractive red the riots in the Nanking Road. ter known uses of the ether-as a levels. Manufacturers have every
Three hours before a horde of
at Tsining this morning. He :s/ Ported to be going on from Nan. SUN CHUAN FANG'S PLAN jackets from ships in the harbour Northern soldiery stormed the Set. medium for light, that an electri inducement to seek, new uses for
expected to order 41 uffessive king to Pukow. against the Kuominchun in the region of Tsaochow this week-end.
General Offensive Against Nationalista.
"
(Wah Tez Tat Pao.) Marshal Sun Chuán Fang has given the order for a general attack en the Nationalists on the 8th :nat.
Fighting On All Fronta. Troca of General, Chu Ya Pu
MARSHAL LI'S MOVEMENTS.
(Wah. Tez Tat Pao.)
OF ATTACK.
SHANSI SEEKING' PEACE WITH PEKING.
·PEKING, April 2nd. Although individual diplomats - have been assured by the highest personages in the Government that SHANGHAI, April 8th.
the campaign against Marshal Feng Marshal Tsai Hsin accom Yu Hsiang has actually been start- anied by General Chen Ming Shued, no news is yet available of any proceeded to Hangchow from Nau serious fighting. A few wounded
IMPOTENCE OF CIVIL OFFICIALS.
THE MILITARY INCUBUS,
that
tlement barricades in North Ho-vity, he then put forward the theory rubber and there is every likelihood nan Road Li prophesied to one of that the other is the home of the that they will succeed in finding the foreign commanders trouble was coming. Not entirely minds of living men as well as of them. because Li was believed, hut because the legions of the dead. trouble was expected by the com.... mander himself, the guard was doubled. The attack came, and was repulsed with a loss of nine killed to the attackera.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.) "When we apply the uses of the
LONDON, April 6th. ether to life we are getting beyond A heavy relapse has occurred in certain knowledge," he said the price of rubber since Mr. Stan "But my view-it has to be either ley Baldwin's announcement, due discarded or proved in the future-partly to the lower closing prices is that mind has its real habitain Now York and partly to the
ter at all. We are using the ether whenever we move, speak, or think, ments. for it is the medium by which the
brain."
near 1ing are a' conflict with long on the morning. of the who have been arriving by the CHIHLI'S NEW CIVIL GOVER. | blue. The policé inspector laughed. tion in the ether and not in matliquidation of speculative commit
the Kuominchua, but the resut is unknown. The Fengtaen offensiva in the region of Tzechow awaits the
inst. According to some comp ent observers' it is most likely that
Peking-Hankow Railway describe a number of unimportant clashes at the front.
tutilment of the Niangtsekwen Marshal Li and General Chen will crudes a south-western drive into remedy, the existing chaotic situa. Chinese. The alarm was mind communicates its will to the
pien mentioned above.
Au carlier mossage from Peking states; General Chu Yu Pu has wared to the Cabinet announcing
return to Canton after completing their journey to Hangchow.
..
The plan of general attack | in-
Honna by Marshal Sun Chuan Fang who will thereby be exposing his fank to the Nanking anti-North expedition, while Yang Fu Ting's
the Yellow River as the immediate objective exposes a long line of communications to the attacks of the supposedly hostile Shaasi troops
at he has ordered general SHANTUNG ON THE VERGE push slong the Kinhan "Line with
OD
fensive against the Kuomischun forces the Tamingfu front. Marshal Sun Chuan Fang is pró ceeding from Tananfu to Taining to direct operations,
It is generally believed here thut Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang's influence as Nanking has been creasing rapidly of late, and that the operations against the North are que thereto, as he feared that the Fengtian troops would concen- trate and crush him single-handed.3 NORTHERNERS CONTINUED
ATTACKS.
(Wah Tes Yat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, April 8th. "General Yon Shih Shan has tele- graphed to Nanking stating that in the last few days the Fenglieneso army has made repeated attempts
2!!
(Wah Taz Yat Pac.)
SHANGHAI, April 8th. The outbreak of hostilities in It has been assumed here for a south-eastern Shantung is immin- long time paat that Yen Hai Shan ent. General Sun Chuan Fang basis virtually neutral and is only arrived at Timing, in southern awaiting the defeat of Marshal Shantung, where he has established Feng in order to make peace with his headquarters, acd
General Peking, and it is now widely Chang Tsung Chang has also ar rumoured, in view of Marshal rived at Yenchow in readiness to Sun's dispositions, the understand start operations against the South- ing is reached with Nanking, where General Chang hatap by the anti-North expedition will pointed six army commanders in be" delayed" depends on Peking's the Tientsin-Pukow Railway zone. ability or inability to eliminate
Feng. "MARSHAL CHIANG'S
EXHORTATION.
(Wah Tin Yat Pao.)
SHANGHAL, April 8th. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek has
to break through the defence faced a circular telegram from of the Shansi troops on the cast Hauchow to the 2nd and 3rd Army and north Shansi borders. They have made particular concentra-Groups pledging his allegiance to tions against the Shansi troops at the present Northern expedition. the Tingting-Taiyuen Railway line. He exhorte his colleagues not to! In northern and southern Shami pare life nor any materia? pleasure
for the came of the expedition. heavy firing still continues.
MARSHAL FENG,
(Wah Pa Yai Pao.)
The Legations partly concur in this view because the Dictator's closest advisers have been lately ex- plaining the campaign sa being against the last formidable Red Champion, Marshal Feng, at the same time describing Nanking as
reasonable.
"SILVER BULLETS.” NANKING'S FINANCIAL
PLANS.
From Wednesday's price of 1/0- 7/8d. per lb. rubber is now :vid. per lb., a figure which is the lowest since 1023, when it was'éd,
The market is nervous and a matter-body." body is animated-indirectly, as I some considerable time.
"Now we know that the matter settled condition. is not expected for Lower think," he went on, "but the prices are predicted. etheric body is continuous and not Bubject to wear or decay, for such are the properties of ether.
A police inspector was warned by Li to beware of a tall man with a limp, wearing a cotton gown dyed NOR MAKES ADMISSION, But three days later a tall man. wearing a blue cotton gown and walking with a limp, robbed s curio PEKING, March. 99th.. Impotency of civil officials to store with the aid of five other tión in Chins was admitted by the
and police dashed to the
scene. The
He described a living man as har man with a limp was cornered, buting two bodies similar in size and new Civil Governor of Chibli, Mr. five companions escaped. The shape the etheric body and the Sun Shih Wei, in the course of an cornered man shot and killed thres" interview with the Tientsin Ta Chinese police, wounded two others, Kung Pas. Discussing his own and also shot a woman pedestrian. appointment, Mr. Sum said:
He then escaped, and haa never Realizing the necessity of a been recaptured. separation of civil and military powers, both General Chang Trung Chang and General Chu Yu Pu requested me to take charge of the civil administration of Chihli. While my appointment no doubt marks & move in the right direc tion I feel that at the present mili tary period I have still to confer with the military authorities re garding many question which do SEARCH FOR SOUTHERN AND The view of great astronomers
pot strictly fall within the "civil administration. the popular conception of the It appears that orders of military and civil officials has considerably changed.
SECRET AGENTS IN MANCHURIA.
ARRESTS AT DAIREN.
SOVIET SPIES.
Ether All About Us "I think it is th etherio body which is really animated. I suspect we shall find that, the ether is the real home of life, mind, and spirit, and that only sporadically are life and mind associated with matter
that only once in many hundreds of centuries are the conditions ‘ä the universa such as to allow the formation of planets capable of supporting human life.
:
Shares Slump. Plantation shares slumped 1/6 to 2/ per share, but speculation has been reduced to a minimum. There is no reason to fear tinfavourable financial developments as the result of the present weakness.
Plantation interests hope that continued uneconomic prices will be avoided by combined action with the Dutch East Indies, growers to maintain a reasonable selling price. Anglo-Dutch Understanding,
AMSTERDAM, April 8th.
tion
...
MUIDEN, March 26th. Some sensation has been caused
The Telegraaf publishes the sum in Dairen through the arrest of The exceptional thing in the maries of interviews with a num In my opinion there is no hope several Chinese residents for alleged for China to-day until those with propaganda activities, although so
universe is matter. The ather is all ber of prominent Dutch growera military powers have experienced far it is not said for whom. Their about us The real problem is, with regard to the British Govern a fundamental awakening. It is extremely difficult to get results if they are all said to be fairly well matter?
names have been suppressed, but "How did mind ever get into ment's decision to abolish restric- the country entirely depends upon to do. The homes of
"Material life is not only a very dozen Chi-
It says the decision has been s the exertion of evil officials. Inese residents were searched under unimportant episode in our existshock to the market and the Stock have little faith that the separa the supervision of Public Procurance, but also it is not the place Exchange because o' more gradual tion of military and civil powers tors Mitani and Ikeuchi and stacks where we are most at home. Our form of abolition was expected. can be achieved at once. However of documentary evidence were own senses have told us that we It is, however, realised that I will do my best to realise this found. A Chinese resident at Port have not only a matter-body, but speedy abolition will make. Anglo- goal"
Arthur was likewise 'arrested. All s spiritual body, and that is what Dutch producers get together very Referring to the unification of the prisoners were examined in I am now calling an etherie body." soon and reach an understanding provincial affairs the new Governor secret by the two Public Procura One of the uses of the ether, as both parties will be free from NANKING, March 27th. caid that at present many districts tors. The public is all agog to therefore, is to exist at allthat it Government interference. LIANG HU FINANCES.
The Nanking Government calen- in Chihli are under military ocen
Survival Of The Fittest lates the expenses for the northern pation, He discussed this question know what it is all about. It is is ourselves. It is our physical bo
SINGAPORE, April 6th." with leaders of the Third, and generally presumed that these Chi-ing, our pre-eminent mode of maul- (Wah Ter Yat Pao.)
punitive expedition will come
nese have been engaged in Bolshevik festation, our pre-eminent habita
Everyone is discussing the Gov roughly to 28 million dollars. The Fourth Makden army carpe while activities, but the authirities so far sign. When we live it does not go centient a decision and all the rub- SHANGHAI, April 8th. authorities declare that they can in Peking and found that they maintain strict secrecy
out of existence; it merely becomes In the meantime the Chinese imperceptible because of our animal ber interests are considering what General Chen Ming Shu has fe get the required amount. They were of the unanimous option that
action shall be taken to meet the the troops would be ready to leader, has arrived at Taming, ported to the Nanking Government figure that the sum of 12 million a
detecting Bouthern engaged in
Grandeur Of The Simple.
generally anticipated slump.
General surprise is expressed at Southern Chibli. It is reported that, as a result of his recentesp-month will be needed for the cam evacuate provided the Government authorities at Mukden are busily senses.
could provide funds for their up agents. Beveral suspicious Souther that he has fasted an order for a proach to the Hankow leaders, the paign, which they expect to be com
"There is too much tendency, the shortness of the interim period, general attack on Marshal Feng Yu Liang Hu provinces might not be pleted in three months. Of the keeps pas
keep. Sun further said that he did her have been arrested recently when dealing with life and men, to but there has been no panic on the Hsiang's troops.
able to despatch any large force of sum, they reckon to derive 5.5 mil-
not know anything about the oo and they are now under investig think of it as centred round the market which opened yesterday at In a battle between Forgtienese troops to participate in the Noth-lion from national taxes and re "forces and Marshal Feng YuLera Expedition owing to financ:amittances from various provinces lection of the itxury tax, as he hadtion. It is claimed that they earth. The more we learn of the fourteen centa below Wednesday's
difficulties. As soon as he returns In addition, they will issue trea- assumed office only a few days, but Malang's troops in Bouts Chihen to Shanghai, from Hangchow he will sury bonds to the extent of 15.54 perce the business license tax paganda, literature. There is no extraordinary in the realise how price of 43 cents, Straits, and closed book a passage for Canton. million dollars on the security of he felt that it was in the nature of "enemy" agents operating in South diced from very simple ingredients. The tone of the market is uncer the 2.5 per cent, surtax, and income tax and that as the mer and North Manchuria. Then there The simplicity and grandeur of it tain, but some authorities express
A regulation-for-cigarette taxenants at present did not pay way
smaller estates will be forced to was issued on the 23rd instant, by income tax, the imposition of the are also those working for and paid all are the revelations of science at the opinion that a number of the
by the Soviete. In Harbin there the present time
We shat and that all our close down or merge with the which a committee will be organiz- business license tax would not be has been a resumption of Red ac ed for the purpose of keeping the contrary to economic principles. He tivities of late but the Chinese doings, gropings, and imaginings larger companies, while many con
custody, and proceeds of the tax
Briefly, it is thought it will be a able to hear this burden-oable of tackling the situation whole, which we cannot in the least
case of the survival of the fittest." preventing indiscriminate ale hoped that the merchants would be anthorities claim they are fully cap: Are but a fraction of a tremendous corns will be hard hit.
degree imagine now. NG. Daily News,
SHANGHAI, April 8th.
General Chu Yu, Pu, the Chihli
aptured by the Northerners.
(NAVALKWIRELESS; } -------
HANKOW, April 7th..
A report has been received here
the Christian 'General,"
that
Feng Yu Hsiang, has suffered
ANTI-FRENCH FEELING. (NAVAL WIRELZEB.]
It is also reported that economic another defeat and he is now pressure may be used against the
French at Hankow.
retreating.
the bond. Toho.
Wen
brought here a good deal of pro
universe, the more we 48