JAPAN'S WISH FOR EARLY
SETTLEMENT.
PEACE AGAIN ESTABLISHED IN TSINAN,
:
NAVAL ATTACK EXPECTED ON AMOY.
RAPID
ADVANCE ON
SOUTHERN
TIENTSIN.
The condition in Tainan appears to be rauch improved and peace and order is restored. The Chinese Chamber of Commerce, working apparently to some extent under the advice of the Japanese »Consul, has appointed General Tien, a late commander of géndar. merie, to be responsible for the maintenance of order and to search out all Southern soldiers who may still be hiding in the city.
The Japancio are eager for an early settlement of the affair, and are even prepared to withdraw a certain' number of their of their troops, should conditions warrant this action, before the settlement has been effected. In this connection they consider tho dismissal of General Ho Yao Tsu, who was in part responsible for the outrages, will greatly facilitate settlement.
Though an earlier message from Geneva stated that Japan was expected to submit her case to the League of Nations, the spokesman, of the Japanese Foreign Office states that at present there is no intention of so doing, though later the Premier may consider the question.
I
In the Civil War, the Southerners are advancing northwards with great rapidity. Yen Hai Shan, the Shansi Tupan, has cat across country at a surprising speed and captured Tsangchow, while Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang's troops are linking up with the Shanai army, and they are moving towards Tientsin. Firing can already be heard in the city. The foreign commanders, (after some discussion, have decided to throw out a ling of pickets at a radius of seven miles from the city.
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The authorities at Amoy fully expect to be attacked by the Norther cruiser Haichi and other smaller vessels, and have made all possible preparations to reaist. The Northerners are making use of the island of Quemoy as's 'base, SETTLE TSINAN AFFAIRS.
JAPAN'S EAGERNESS,
(THROUGH EKUTER'S AGENCY.]
TOTO, May 14th.
The Foreign Office is anxious to open negotiations and to settle the Tainan affair as soon as possible, but does not contemplate combining this with the settlement of the Nanking affair.
The spokesman of the Foreign Office intimated that, if the situa tion warrants, the Government may start withdrawing portions of the
RE ORGANISATION OF TSINAN.
JAPANESE CASUALTIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
Toxyo, May 14th.
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that the latest investigations show A message from Tainan states a total of Japanese military caenal ties of 46 killed and 195 wounded Among civiliane 14 have been mur- dered, and more than 20 are still niesing, while the goods of 114 others have been looted..
Peace and quiet is now restored,
Japanese troops even before the not only in the city where shops settlement has been completed aro re-opening, but also through Everything, however, must depend out an area within twenty Chinese miles along the whole Shantung railway.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MAY 15th, 1928.
NAVAL ATTACK ON AMOY. MILLIONAIRE'S LONG SOVIET WORKING IN
AUTHORITIES PREPARED TO
RESIST.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Amoy, May 14th. Semi-official reporta state that the cruiser Haichi and two smaller warahipe have been joined by two transports outside.
The Island of Quemoy outside the harbour, with an area of about 60 equare miles, has been occupied as a base of operations against Amoy. An attack is expected by the authorities, who will contest the entrance and have declared strict martial law. A naval engagement outside the barbour N possible.
The steamer Fale is still in port, unloading her arms cargo, and a small Southern gunboat is lying in shallow water at the back of the harbour.
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Trade is 'normal,, and the Japan- ese situation is unchanged,
ADVANCE ON TIENTSIN.
FOREIGN PREPARATIONS.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, May 14th. While the capture of Tehchow on Friday by Marshal Feng Yu Heiang'a troops was not entirely unexpected in view of the North erners policy of falling back on Peking without offering resist. ance, the announcement by the Governor of Shansi, Yen Hai Shan, that his troops." bave captured Teangchow, midway between Teh chow and Tientsin, and that bis men occupied the city on May 8th, is most surprising.
The fall of Tiangchow could only be accounted for by a specta cularly rapid advance from Shanti along the valley of the Futo-ho River.
Heavy Northern Losses. This manoeuvre has resulted in cutting off the retreat of the Shan- tung-Chibli forces, and it is re ported that the move has already been followed by a large quantity of arms and ammunition falling
prisoners, and to into the hands of the Shansi Army
They claim to have taken 7,000
havo large quantities of Northern war seized
material,
The Southerners are now rapidly
are expected to arrive to-morrow. advancing on Tientsin where they
#Foreign Troops At Tientsin.
The foreign troops at Tientsin include 4,000. Americans, with
FLIGHT.
40,000-MILE TRIP.
VALET IN ATTENDANCE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON," May 14th. .. The Dutch-American millionaire, Mr. Van Learblack, left. Croydon this morning in a hired Dutch Fokker monoplane. He took with him two pilots, a mechanie and a valet. He has set out on a 40,000 mile flight to Capetown, then to Tokyo, and back.
Dressed in an ordinary lounge auit and a trilby hat,--Mr. Van Learblack strolled fo the aero- drome, and mounted the machine casually as though taking's moter trip.
LATVIA.
*
SECRETS GAINED FROM OFFICERS..
AIDE-DE-CAMP ARRESTED.
THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.}
Rias, May 14th. The Latvian police have arrested Capt. Lange, Aide-de-Camp to the Soviet Military. Attaché, од charge of inducing Latvian officers to reveal military secrets,
A Latvian captain and a staff lieutenant have also been arrested.
"FINEST TENOR SINCE
CARUSO."
HIS TERMS TOO HIGH FOR COVENT GARDEN.
"The moet the world has ever heard," accord
wonderful Othello
AUSTRALIA TO SINGAPORE.
1,900-MILE FLIGHT ABAN- DONED.
PETROL TOO HEAVY.
(THROUGH BROTERʼS`AGENƐY. ]
CANBERRA, May 13th. Wing Commander Wackett, who arrived at Port Darwin recently in on amphibian Widgeong seroplane on a fight to Singapore, and dif- culty in rising owing to the weight of fuel necessary for the 1000-mile hop to Singapore.
He has therefore, been ordered to abandon the attempt and to join the four Royal Air Force flying- boats, which recently flow from Southampton to Singapore,
Wing-Commander Wackett is now proceeding to Broome to meet the Royal Air Force squadron there as the representative of the Austra
His plans are to visit the centrès of industries in which he is in- terested. He travels viá Cairo both way, bracching off from there on the return journey to China anding to Captain Ingram, who mar- lian Air Force. Japan.
ried Caruso's widow, is waiting to Covent be brought to England Garden have invited him, but not at a price that he will accept.
י'
·TSINAN FIGHTING.
PRAISE FOR JAPANESE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
His name is Antonio Traatoul, and he is Frenchman. He i famous all over the Continent, yet
CABINET MINISTERS AS JOURNALISTS.
JAPANESE NAVAL
VISITORS.
ENTERTAINED AT GOVERN- MENT HOUSE.
VICE-ADMIRAL'S OFFICIAL
LANDING.
Vice-Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, commanding the two Japanese training cruisers now visiting Hang Kong made any official landing yet- terday at Queen's Pier. A guard of honour was provided by the Scots Guards and Capt. A. J. L. Whyte, representing H.E. the Officer Ad- ministering the Government and Mr. Y. Murakami, Consul-General for Japan, were at the Pier.
Vice-Admiral-Kobayashi after in- specting the guard of honour paid nn official call at Government House accompanied by his staff. Later in the day H.E. the Officer Adminis- tering the Government returned the visit on board the flagship' Idzumo.
The visitors were guests at a dinner given at Government House last night and Vice Admiral. Kobayashi is giving a dinner an
few people in England have ever LORD BIRKENHEAD AND MR board the Bagship to-night.
heard of him. Captain Ingram claims that he is the finest tenor since Caruso.
of them all
SHANGHAI, May 14th.
I would not suggest that he is An English eyewitness at TrinaD
a second Carizo,' said Captain praises the efficiency of the Ingram to a Daily Express repre Japanese Expeditionary Force,sentative, because Caruso was a firstly, for maintaining the Shan- anether. But I have heard all the phenomenon. There will never be tang Railway (from Tsinan to world's greatest tenors, and I am Tsingtao on the const) which, at convinced Trantoul is the greatest one time, had been cut in no less than eighteen places, secondly, for the Expedition's military disposi- tions, notably, in cleaning up the Nationalists from Tainan; also the enthusiasm with which 6,000 Jap anese troops who confronted 100,000 Nationalists and boldly took the initiative, attacked and drove back
found within a zone of seven miles; and causing about 2,000 casualties.
the Nationalists wherever they were
The eyewituem saw bodies of mutilated Japanese civilians.
Hero Of A City.
T
#
CHURCHILL.
THE PREMIER AND A BAN.
A dinner was also given by the Japanese Consul General on Sun day night at the Hong Kong Hote in honour of the visit of the two
the Officer Administering the Gov- training cruisers, and among the prominent guests invited ware H.E.
ement, H.E. Major-General 0.0. Loard (G.0.0), Sir Henry Gollan, Commodoro J. L. Pearson, Sir Shou
Government, upon which s ruling Publio writing by members of the has already be given by the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, are again likely to be discussed in Parliament as a result of the literary activities of the Earl of Birkenhead, the Secretary for India, and Mr. Box Chow and other members Winston Churchill, the Chancellor of the Legislative and Executive of the Exchequer.
Coincila
"He was unknown four years ago. Then Toscanini heard him sing, and took him to Milan, where. he became the rage immediately, tensely critical that they once his contributed an The Neapolitans, who are so in Lord Birkenhead has recently article to Good ed Caruso off the stage, asked him Housekeeping on This Intrusion to go to Naples. He went there of Women." The article, it wh to sing. Othello twice, and they stated, it an extract from a forthr made him the hero of the city. coming volume of essays by Lord lous. No Italian has ever sung the he has at least one other article in "His Othello is simply marvel- Birkenhead. It is understood that Bart with such power, such abai- preparation for the July number, of
and such a magnificent voice. a magazine... don' am convinced that Londoners would go mad ever him if they could hear him, but Covent Gar den will not pay him as much as he thinks would be necessary to make it worth his while to come to England."
PEER'S HEIR MARRIES BARMAID.
A General Dismissed. He discredits Chinese official ac- twenty aeroplanes, five tanks, and counts of the mutilation and death 3,000 French, and five field-guar, 1,000 Britishers, of Mr. Tesi Küng Shih (the Japanese (most of the Japanese Foreign Affairs at Teinan) who is about 500 Nationalist Commissioner for on circumstances.
garrison having gone to Tainanfu). Though the report that General
The commanders of the foreign now believed to have been killed Ho Yao Tan, whose troops were The Chinese Chamber of Com.and there was some difference of with a detachment of Chinese SECRET WEDDING OF YEAR
troops held a conference on Friday by machine-gun fra when he was responsible for the outrages, haa
to the opinion na to the measures to be been dismissed is not yet confirmed)
merce, after listening
takan.
troops endeavouring to recapture.... Терапезе Consul's observations, officially, it is considered that it
Defence Of The Olly. the Foreign Affairs Bureau, empowered General Ties, an ex- will greatly facilitate negotiations Commander of Gendarmerie, to General Arai, held out against the tionalist Government Council has The Japanese commander, Lieut. It is noteworthy that the Na- take any steps necessary to main British, American, Franch
& and passed resolution diamissing
tracted to seek out and disarm picket points within a radius of with the Japanese at Tainan.
Italian commanders, but it was General Ho Yao Tsu whose army tain peace and order. He was in eventually decided to establish was implicated in the first clash any Southerners hiding in the city.
seven miles from Tientsin..
ATTACKING YANG SEN..
(NAVAL WIRELESS, ]
if it is correct.
Commenting on the Geneva re- port that Japan was expected to explain her side of the story to the League, the spokesman stated that no such action was being consider- ed at present..
He intimated that the Premier may discuss the question of the advisability of so doing.
LEAGUE IN DIFFICULTIES.
[PNROVON" EZUTED'S ACENOT.]
GENEVA, May 13th.
The Chinese Nationalist Govern.
RAILWAY BRIDGE OVER
YELLOW RIVER.
(Wah Ti: Fat Poo.)
The Japanese troops are to be entrusted with the guarding of the most important points in the Tien- tain Concessions, including the im- portant East Railway Station, the junction of the Tientsin-Pakow Railway and the Peking-Mukden Railway.
JAPANESE TROOPS IN TIENTSIN.
(Wah Tai Yat Pao.)
May 13th.
A report from Chungking states that sixty junk loads of soldiers
have lelt for down river and that Liu Hsiang and Ko YuTing are attacking Yang Sen. There is, however, no confirmation of actual fighting taking place.
The situation in other Yangtaze ports remains unchanged.
SHANGHAI, May 14th. “. The Japanese Government has FRENCH FLIGHT TO TOKYO. communicated a Note to the Nan-
SHANGHAI, May 14th. Marshri Chiang Kai Shek pro- ceeded to Yechow from Taianfu ment protest to the League of on the 11th. inst." He has despatch- Nations in regard to the Japanese ed experts to investigate the con. occupation of Shantung, has caused something of a Butter in League ditior of the Railway bridge across circles, largely owing to the fact the Yellow River, which was recent that the Nanking Government isly destroyed by Japanese troops. reasons for sending the third ex-
king Government explaining her | D'OISY REACHES CALCUTTA not a Member of the League
According to their report the repeditionary fores to China. Consequently, from the juridica!
addition five companies of infantry point of view, the Nationalist pairs to the bridge will cost over
will be sent to Tientsin to secure appeal can have hardly any stand-| B4,000,000.
the safety of: Japanese nationals. there.
ing.
LEGATIONS' VIEWS.
It is believed that Japan will also submit her case to the League and it is learned from a private source that Mr. Chen, the Chinese Minister to Paris, who is China's representative on the League Coun- cil, has applied to Peking for instructions regarding the attitude Peking are of the opinion that
(Wah Tas Fat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, May 14th." The foreign diplomatic Comps in
In
NO NEWS FROM NORTH.
THROUGH REUTER'S ACKNOT.]
SHANGHAI, May 13th. There is no news from the North he should adopt at the forthcoming Japan's present action in continu- to-day owing to the interruption of meeting of the Council, if the mating to occupy Shantung has con- cables beyond Chefoo, which may ter is discussed.
stituted a flagrant violation of last for three days.
It is thought not unlikely that international law. They have re the Peking Government will asso: szived detailed reports from their ciate itself with the Nanking ap-respective consuls in Tainan in peal thus rendering it acceptable connection" with "the_real facts to the League Council, but it is about the Taiman Affair. They felt that the whole thing will prove are cabling to their respective Home most embarrassing for the Council, Governments for instructions. and not likely to enhance its prestige.
DISCUSSIONS IN PROGRESS.
.
CRITICAL POSITION OF TIENTSIN.
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[THEOUGH; REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CALCONIA, May 14th- Captain Pelletaler D'Oisy, who is fying from Paris to Tokyo, has arrived hereine Vid VAT
***POOH-BAH". RETIRES. MR. LEO SHEFFIELD TEEL
ING STALE."2
וי
AGO.
Thousands Of Pounds. Mr. Churchill has signed a con- tract to write twelve articles for a magazine under the title, Fer souages I Have Known." One
un-
The Two Cruibera.
H.LJ.M.'s Idrumo and Fatumo were formerly in the Russian Navy, Both vessels have a personnel of 104. officers, 165 midshipmen who are der training, and 1,085 men. Shore leave was granted to the mention Sunday and yesterday and amn the many places the sailors bzve visited were the Orient Tobacco Factory, the Hong Kong University
The Officers.
Among the officers on board the” Yakumo is Prince Takamatsu, who
gathers that Mr. Churchill will re- and the Taikoo Dockyard ceive several thousands of pounds.
In the House of Commons on March 3rd, 1927, Mr. Baldwin: stated that the rules the Govern ment have adopted preclude the practice of journalism by Ministers is serving sa a lieutenant. Other He added that this inhibition did officers are:-Capt. R. Mitruck, not extend to authorship or to write Capt M. Takai, Capt. M. Shinjo, ings of a literary historical; scien-
Plunkett, son and heir of Lord numerous and respectable pre Capt. M. Idemitsu, Comdr. F. tific, philosophical, or romantic Comdr. H. Mito, L-Comdr. E. The marriage of the Hon. Otway character, for which there existed Kurase, L-Comdr. T. Mihara, Louth, to Miss Ethel Molly Galli- cedents. chan, of St. John's-road, Jersey, was revealed when the bride left the island to rejoin her husband. The Hon. Otway, Plunkett left Jersey a few days ago.
They were married on July 4th last year at St. Saviour's Church, Jersey.
The bride, who is in the early twenties, was for some time during the war employed as a telegraph
messenger at the Jersey. General Post Office and later as a barmaid at St. Helier.
The wedding ceremony was per- formed by the Rev. G. P. Balleine, rector of St. Saviour's, and the bride was given away by her father, who is employed as a docker by the Southern Railway, Jersey.
The Hon. Otway Plunkett was born on April 28th, 1893. He be longs to one of Ireland's most ani- cient families: The barony is more than 380 years old. His father, who is the 14th holder, was born in the yacht Pilgrim, all Dieppe, and Pilgrim is one of his Christian
DANCE.
A "NEW WEMBLEY.”:
CROWDS FLOCK TO SHOW :
THAT DID NOT OPEN.
I am informed, says a Daily Mail Shikuhara, Lt. Comdr. S. Tashiro, correspondent, that both Lord Lt. Comdr. S Marino, Lt. Comdr. Birkenhead and Mr. Churchill con- T. Hirai, L.-Comdr. Y. Okada, sider that the magazine articles for Lt-Comdr. H. Hamano, Lt-Comdr. which they will be responsible fall within the category of these refer S.. Izouge. Capt. Y. Hirota, Com- red to by the Prime Minister as mander K. Waki, L.-Comdr. B.. permissible. There is little doubt, Hamada, and L-Commander N. however, that certain active mem bers of Parliament will once again Kobayashi. raise the point in the House.
-NEW CONQUEST · OF
DISEASE.
CURE WITHOUT THE
SURGEON'S KNIFE.
A method of curing ulceration of the stomach and duodenum (that part of the intestine which comp immediately after the stomach) without recourse to the surgeon's knife in described in the British Medical Journal,1?
Leaving To-morrow,
The Idżumo and the Fakume are leaving the Colony to-morrow for Manila From there they will call at Singapore, Balavia, Sourabaya, Freemantle, Melbourne, Hobart, Sydney, Wellington, Uskland, Babe, Honolula, Jaluit, Trak, Palao, Tokuyama and return to Japan on November 3rd.
ESCAPED BEAR PANIC..
CAUGHT BY WOMAN TRAINER AT RAILWAY STATION.
BUDAPEST.
at:
People rushed screaming and any fell and were trampled. shouting towards the barriere, and
The amount of pain and disability in. Great Britain dus to this com plaint is very great, and not only shows no sign of decreasing, but, on the contrary, seems to .be fostered and increased by modern Gilbert and Sullivan enthusiasta
modes of-life, urn the de There was a wild panic at the will mine Mr. Leo Sheffield when
John Clarkson, aged 52, other
That these troubles could be in Western › railway.terminus next the D'Oyly Carte Company wise Mark Eddy, was charged at many cases relieved by an abdo- Budapest when a large brown bear pays ons of its all-too-raze visits to Leeds with obtaining £100 by false, minal operation has been known suddenly appeared upon a crowded London. He is leaving comic opers pretences
and the knowledge acted on for platform and shambled along it, for flm work, on the somewhat un- A detective said that Clarkson | some years. The operation, how baring its teeth and · growling (HaA Tân La Pao). anal grounds that he felt himself took offices in Leeds and advertised ever, was no simple affair, and was fiercely.
getting a little stale." SHANGHAI, May 14th..
Mat extensively that there would be sometimes followed by troubles, of All lovers of Savoy operas trust opened at Leeds what was described its own. In view of the critical condition that when that feeling of staleness as "the Wembley, of Yorkshire." Marthal Chang Tso Lin is reported has worn off Mr. Sheffield will re The show was advertised to include fore when method is devised by
It is a great step forward there to have moved to Tientsin from turn to the parts with which he has a zoo, a circus, and native villages, which the use of the knife is ob Peking early in the morning of the been associated for so many years.
It seemed disposed to be really Gangs of workmen were engaged viated. The new method involves apiteful, when a young woman, 13th inst.."
His bland presence, rich voice, and erecting huts and Clarkson re about a week's confmement to bed holding aloft a short dog whip, ran SHANGHAI, May 14th. Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang's troops a certain unctuousness of delivery ceived numerous and substantial on a limited liquid diet and the boldly towards the bear, crying in- General Ho Bing Chum, who is are joining with Shansi forces in make him an ideal impersonator of sums of money from various people taking of certain simple alkali periously," Come here at once. representing Marshal Chiang Kai their advance northward along the such roles as Pooh-Bah, the Grand for stands in the show. Shek in negotiations with General Tientsin-Pukow Railway. Tientsin Inquisitor, the Judge in Trial by Many people
Pringga remedies in large quantities. The bear obeyed Toxyo, May 14th
Hundreds Fukuda for provisional, asttle-se, practically surrounded from Jury, and the reformed ricked in any toplo invested money, but trued tee of patients bare been rolling its head submissively. The The newspapers unanimously ment of the Taran affair, has held three directions, and firing can be baronet in "Buddigore," with that Clarkson disappeared.
animal belonged to a travelling irgo: the withdrawal of the toe. conferences with General heard in the city. In view of the decorous dust and pas de deur and when the show was advertised to tion become necessary, and so far brought to Budapest in two
In June, Hospital. In no case has an opera circus and with others had been Japanese troops as soon as possible. Fukuda but so far no agreement seriousness of the situation foreign the murmurs of "Basingstoke" He open, crowds of people went to the, the ulcers when cured bave shown attached to passenger tr pointing out the gradual change of has been reached. General Fukuda authorities have decided to run an public opinion abroad, and there sister on the Nanking Govern-international train between Peking cessor to Mr. Rutland Barrington, ed and artists who had come from patient observes certain plain and carusities, the woman trainer
has been a more than worthy suc place, but the show was never open- no tendency to come back if the There were fortunately no perion fore, advising that military-operament's full recognition of his and Tientsin in order to secure com- and Mr. Fred Billington; and, like all parts of the world to take part casily followed rules of diet. Both was travelling in a carriage slitheri tions in China be reduced to a demands in connection with the minication to the sea coast for the many Savoyards, was once a in it were stranded in Leeds the trouble and he cüre caly 60 front of the train, having bein
Incident
safety of foreigners....
choirboy
Clarkson was remanded.
demonstrated by Kray vistarel!; warned in time of the bear's escape.
Even thould the Council decide to set, it means of action, will; be -ineffectual-as-it will be impossible
to define the aggressor,
· Change Of Public Opinion,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
miniur
(Fah Tu Lut Pao
without demar,