PRELIMINARY MEETING TO PLENARY SESSION.
SUSPENSION OF CHENG CHIEN.
URGENT MESSAGE TO LEFT WING MEMBERS.
CHIANG KAI SHEK IN SHANGHAI,
The preliminary meeting of the Fifth Plenary Session, held at Nanking under the chairmanship of Chiang' Kai Shek, has" con- firmed the decision of the standing committee of the Central Exe- cutive Council to suspend Cheng Chien, a former member of the C.EC Cheng Chien, who was in control of Hunan province, was suspended at the request of Li Chung Jen.
The resolution to invite the extremist members to attend the Session was also confirmed, and telegrms have been sent to them. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek unexpectedly arrived in Shanghai or Saturday and it is surmised that his visit was made at least partly with the intention of persuading some of these members to attend. The Fifth Plenary Session is unable to sit at present as there in not a quorum, and it is thought in some quarters that the fate of the Session depends upon reconciliation with the Left Wing
Feng Yu Hsiang and Yen Shi Shan, who are not members of the Central Executive Council, have been invited to attend the second preliminary meeting. General Yen Shi Shan, however, is presumably still' at Taiyuan, suffering from appendicitis,
A special commission has been appointed by the preliminary meeting which will examine, all proposals put forward by mem- bers before they are put before the. Filth Plenary Session for dis- cussion.
CHIẢNG KAI SHEK IN SHANGHAI.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
SHANGHAI, Aug. 5th. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek arrived here unexpectedly from Nanking yesterday evening. His visit is believed to be in connection with the fact that the Fifth Elenary Session is unable to sit owing to the fact that there is not a quorum,' The Shanghai Timer asserts that the iste of the Fifth Plenary
Session depends upon the reces ciliation with the so-called Kwang tung iaction, consisting of Oben Shu Jen, Wang Lo Ping, Wang Fat Chin and Mrs Liao Chung Kai
SUSPENSION OF CHENG CHIEN.
(TAKOCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
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NANKING, Aug. 5th.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 6th, 1928.
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SACRILEGE BY NORTHERNERS.
IMPERIAL TOMBS. LOOTED.
OFFICER ARRESTED IN
BATH HOUSE. "
(THROUGH REUTER'S: LOKICY.[
PEXING, August 4th.
SOVIET CRITIC OF PEACE PACT.
BARDOLI DISPUTE
SETTLED...
ENQUIRY TO BE HELD.
WAR AGAINST RUSSIA,
PREPARED TO NEGOTIATE GOVERNMENT'S, CLEMENCY,
(THROUGH REUTER'S
AGENCY.
Moscow, Aug. 5th. "The Kellogg treaty in obviously.
fTHROUGH REUTER'S AGEİCY.]
POONA, Aug. 3th,
The vernacular papers claim tha: designed to isolate Russia," de-
THRILLS OF GREEK ELECTIONS.
DEPUTIES HELD TO RANSOM.
BRIGANDS' BOLD SCOOP.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ATHENS, Aug. 3th.
**
POLISH ATLANTIC ÄTTEMPT.
FEARS FOR AVIATORS,
ABSENCE OF NEWS.
(LRXOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Aug. 4th. The wireless-station at Valencia
a hundred miles north east of the Azores at 2,40 this morning appareatly all was well.
`{REUTER'I AMERICAN SKRVICE.]
It is understood that a settlement/An exciting interlude bas accur has received a signal from a British · the Peking Police have unearthedclared 3, Chicherin in an inter. has been reached of the Bardotted in the election campaign now steamer that she sighted a biplane;, extraordinary instance of view. He cited passages in the nego-question. It is practically certain in full swing. Milonas, the expresumably the Polish Atlantio sacrilege on the part of some de tiations like the inclusion of the that an enquiry into the revised Under-Secretary of Finance, and fiers, roughly
Molae, an ex-Deputy, both Calan. Covenant, the Locarno land revenue assessment will be feated Northern troops belonging to League
darists, have been kidnapped by General Chu Yu Po.
Agreement and the French treaties conducted by a judicial officer within the scope of the pact in assisted by a revenue officer, and
brigands near Tahina, where M.
New Yokx, Aug. 5th. Venizelos delivered & campaigning
The abecate of news of the support of his contention that it is the former's opinion will prevail in
Polish Airmen Major Idzikowski speech yesterday. an integral part of preparations of
and Major Kubala : is consing war against the Soviets
Their captors demand a ransom anxiety. It seems that it is de- of ten million
drachmae aad finitely established that they aban.
It appears that some weeks ago,
after retesting from Tientsia, General Tang Shoo Ching, who is a divisional commander under General Chu Yu Pu, was ordered by Chu Tụ Pu to break open the Imperial eastern tombs at Chihsien, 140 miles east of Peking, in order to take away jewels and precions
works of art in the tombs.
Thirteen coffins were taken out, including those of the Emperor Chien Lang and of Princes and other Chinese royalties.
all vital matters.
The Government will exercise the freest elemency in reinstating vil age revenue officers who resigned
He suggested that if the Powers desire to prove otherwise," there is till time to invite the participa. tion of Russia. The latter e pre- or the issue, and aleo in giving pared to negotiate provided that relief to extreme cases of suffering she is acquainted with all corre- among the cultivators. spondence exchanged in the course
of negotiations by other Powers,
but the pact at present is weaken. H.M.S. "DAUNTLESS."
Among the valuables taken wased by the fact that it does not A full-size water-melon carried out in precious stone.
The total booty taken is es timated between $30,000,000 and 840,000,000.
dis
Police Suspicions. The Police became suspicious when some special valuables came
The first preliminary meeting of the Fifth Plenary Session was held under the chairmanship of Chiang on the Peking market. It is claim- Kai Shek yesterday morning.
ed that the Folice seized one of the passed a resolution.confirming the decision of the standing committee of the Central Executive Commit- tec to cuspend Cheng Chien,
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The second preliminary meeting will be held to-morrow morning.
and Feng Yu Hsiang, Yen Hai Shan and Yang Shu Chwang will be invited to attend. It was also determined to telegraph to the
curio dealers' shops in which some of the booty was found.
The Police are reticent but it ap- pears that the dealer in qutation de- camped, and the Police are very basy tracking General Chu Yu Pu's
involve any obligations regarding FINDING OF COURT MARTIAL. disarmament.
*
SEARCH
OF WAFD HEADQUARTERS.-
REVOLUTIONARY CIRCULARS.
NAVIGATING OFFICER DİSMISSED.
(THROUGH ABUTER'S AGENCY.}
LONDON, Aug. 4th.
and turned back at dawn on August threaten to kill the captives if they doned their transatlantic attempt
4th, since when they should easily are pursued by the military.
1. Venizelos is personally direct have been. able to cover the 800- ing operations for their release. miles to Europe. The 'plane ought to have been sighted by at least one of the twelve liners which are on the course they are believed to be following.
A STATUE TO FOCH.
HOW HE SAVED DISASTER AT At 9 p.m. local time on August
YPRES.
4th no news had been received of them at the wireless station at
·M. POINCARE'S VIVIÐ STORY, St. John's, Newfoundland.
CASSEL, July 7th.
MARSEILLES, July 4th. Pierre Rey, the "Marseilles Landru," charged with the murder
Although this is the last day of THIRD DEGREE FOR NEW the Parliamentary session, M. Poin
LANDRU. caré made a point of presiding per sonally at the unveiling of the CROSS-EXAMINATION AT SEA. A Naval court martial has open- | equestrian statue to Marshal Foch
**AT, LAST ÏT IS FINISHED,” ed at Portsmouth in connection in Handess, which was his head- quarters in the first months of the FRUITLESS POLICE RAID. with the grounding of H.M.S.
war. A host of generals attended, Dauntless on the Tribune Shoal at and Field. Marshal Lord Allenby (THROUGH BRITER'S AGENCY.)
Halifax, Nova Scotia The Navi- represented the British Army. gating Officer, Lieut.-Commander
The Prime Minister's speech at of three women and suspected of CAIRO, Aug. 4th.
the unveiling ceremony
having fleeced 500 women by matri- T. E. Beatty, is charged with The police have searched the
magnificent tribute to the great monial advertisements, landed `af It also appears that after the Wald headquarters, apparently in negligently or by default suffering soldier. Always, he declared, he Marseilles to-day from Algiers, Police suspicions had been aroused, connection with some seditious the Dauntless to be stranded.
had been the fittest man for the where he was arrested last week.
Twice Boy was transhipped after they arrested an officer among the {document."
given task. His strength lay in LATER.
the fact that without ever losing his the steamet from Algiers had arriv·· for a single instant let himself be he was lowered from the steamer's serenity and confidence, he never ed off the port of Marseilles. First misled by illusions or blinded by deck to the deck of a tug, where
agent.
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ing to Chu Yu Pu, who confessed to the whole story, stating that Chu Yu Pu's men drove away the guards who had all along been maintained
who refused to go to Nanking in various members of the Committee reorganised troops formerly belang- consequence of Chen Kung Pao now in Shanghai, namely, Wang and Kam Nai Kwong having been at Chun, Wang Loh Ping, Chen Shu Jen, Cheng Kang Po, Roo deprived of membership of the
Meng Ya. Pan Yung Chao and Mrs Central Executive Committee.
Liao Chung Kai, urging their to attend immediately.
It is believed that Chiang Kai Shek's visit is for the purpose of inducing the four former to pro ceed to Nanking.
Chiang Kai Shok was very busy this morning calling on variou Kuomintang leaders.
LEFT WING MEMBERS.
(Fah Tez Tai Pao).
MODERATE VIEWS.
(Wah Taz Tat Pao).
H
at the tombs. *
Fortnight's Excavation.
reprimanded.
LATEST BULLETIN.
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN.
The search of the Wald head- The Navigating Officer wae sen- quarters was the sequel to an teased by the Court Martial to be earlier raid on a small printing dismissed his ship and severely office, which was supposedly print. ing revolutionary circulars, .... The proprietor and two students were arrested, and orders were then Then it took a fortnight's ex-given to starch the Wald head cavations before the coffins were quarters, which is the students' found. From Emperor Chien Lung's meeting place. The object was to tomb they took four melons made trace the original of the circular. of emeralds, while from the coffin It is understood however, that of a highly-placed court lady-nothing was discovered. reported to be the Empress Dowager full of hope. The members in-they took a huge diamond former- attendance put forward no extremely worn in the crown. Most of the opinions, but exchanged views of oat has been sold in Tientsin. a most restrained nature.
SHANGHAï, Aug. 5th. Yesterday'e preliminary meeting was described by an observer as
ABSENT MEMBERS.
1:
(Wah Taz fat Pão).
SHANGHAI, Aug. 5th..
SHANGHAI, Aug. 5th. Yesterday's discussions were mostly concerned with the prob lems of admitting the Leftist" C.E.C members to the Plenary Session. The majority of members who were in attendance were of the opinion that the Fourth Plenary Session called last year had, never decided upon the resolu tion to excommunicate them and therefore they still had the legal Eugene Chen, and Mrs. Sun Yat right to attend the present session.
Sen should be officially invited to For this reason it was determined attend the Plenary Session as they to telegraph to them to attend the are C.EC. members. Plenary Session.
OTHER RESOLUTIONS.
A
(Wah Paz Fat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, Aug. 5th. Other resolutions which pissed and adopted at yesterday's meeting are as follows:-
were
(1). The dismissal of Ching Chien
Mr. Sua Fo bas telegraphed to Nacking suggesting that Mesere. Hu Han Min, Wang Ching Wei,
· NANKING· INCIDENT.
TERMS SIMILAR TO U.S.
TARIFF AUTONOMY TREATY,
· [BRITISH WINKIERA' SERVICE. Į
RUGBY, August 3rd.
It was on the orders of General Yen Hai Shan that the Peking police began to prosecute enquiries. Az Arrest.
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LATER.
In connection with the deacration
of the Manchu tombs at Peking
WORLD ESPERANTO "CONGRESS.
15,000 DELEGATES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
ANTWERP, Aug 5th.
The twentieth Universal Con-
the police have arrested Tang-Sung, fing, brother of Tang Shoo Chingress of Esperanto was inaugurated whoee forces were responsible, for here in the presence of 15,000 dele- the excavations.
gates from thirty-two countries.
Tang Sung Ting, who is alleged to have sold large quantities of the loot in Tientsin and Feking on in behalf of his brother, was found by the police in a bath house.
Police Resisted.
He is an officer in the Chibli- Shantung troops now reorganized under the Nationaliste, and hir bodyguard fired on the police, who however persisted and arrested
Tang and lodged him in the maili-
'tary jail.
Shansi forces have been sent to: form # proper guard for the violated tombs and also for the Western Tombe.
One vernacular
paper reports that a magnificent pearl, taken In a written reply to a Parlia from the coffin of the Empress mentary question, the Foreign Dowager, was sold in Tientsin for Secretary states that negotiations | $50,000. are now proceeding for a settlement of the Nanking Incident, when the British Consulate, was attacked,
An international university course
Esperanto has also been opened.
(THROUGH REUTKE'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Aug. 5th. The latest bulletin. reports no important change in Sir Austen Chamberlain's condition. strength is well maintained
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RESCUE OF CAPTAIN COURTNEY.
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pride. Simplicity and modesty have he was taken in charge by the chief always been his best counsellors. of the Marseilles police. He was He has earned immortality, but had handcuffed and his arms. were it depended upon him he would fastened behind bis back by a chain' certainly have prevented the erec- which linked his handcuffs. tion of this monument."
In one of those rapid word pie tures, of which he is a master, the Premier traced the history of Mar- shal Foch's achievements from 1814 to the Armistice. The following vivid passage describes his part in
Rey had a week's growth of heard and was wearing prison clothes, which
gave him a forbidding ap
pearance.
Under the blazing southern 300, M. Grisoni plied Rey with quee- tion after question, but the prisquer kept his lips clenched crept for an occasional ejaculation of
"Oh!
The tag had been steaming for
the terrible crisis of the first battle Oh!" of Ypres, October 30th and 31st, His 1914, when the Germans attacked more than half an hour when its engines were reversed and a fast motor-boat rushed out from. a little cove and came alongside. ...
in overwhelming mass and drove back the thin British lines till it seemed that there must be a disas
ter.
"On the evening of October 30th Foch suddenly learns at Cassel that the Germans have reat asunder the British cavalry screen and cnp ENGINE ROOM BURNT OUT. tared Ramstapelle and Hollebeke,
MACHINE ABANDONED,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, August 3rd.
When Rey saw the motor-bout, which was one of the fast craft be longing to the harbour police, he broke down and exclaimed: A last it is finished. Kill me, but for God's sake let me alone!"
He rushes to Sir John French. It The motor-bont made for the is past midnight. He wakes him shore, where a crowd of unsuspect up. Have you any reserves heing bathers were disporting them- nake. No, replies the British selves. Before they had time" to Commander. I will give them to realise what was taking place, Bey you; try and hold on till they ar rive. I will try,' answers Sir John French.
was bundled sabore and pushed into a light lorry, which drove of at top speed to the Marseilles. law A wireless message received here:
"Foch returns to Cassel, and at
courta. He was escorted by cyclist from Captain Courtney tells briefly two o'clock in the morning gives policemen, whose presence gave the of the ordeal which he and his orders to send reinforcements to the clue to the crowd waiting round the court that Rey bad actually ár- three companions anderwent before ed. A few hours later, st Dunkirk rived.
British army. A disaster is avert- their
rescue 500 miles from the I met Lord Kitchener, who had rusbed over to the Continent. Gen- Azores.
The police were compelled to link. Captain Courtney says:-"Pickerals Joffre (then the French Com arms and force back the crowd in STRENGTHEN THE BOND OFed up by Minnewaska siter terri- us. The latter was still full of the building and several violent scuffles mander-in-Chief) and Foch joined order to get the prisoner, into the EMPIRE.
SCHOOLBOYS TOUR CANADA
PRINCE'S GOOD WISHES,
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
us a3 FOOD
Violent Scuties,
ble experience. Machine caught are conversation he had had with Bir took place outside.
Bey was rushed into the office of at midnight at 1,500 feet. Landed John French, and as Kitchener,
despite his admirable, sang froid, the examining "magistrate, and bu in flames on rough sea."
showed anxiety over the fate of the dramatic third-degree examination," little
re-which had continued practically the British Army, Foch assured him. But, he added, whole of the time since he left
Bend
as possible Algiers yesterday, was resumed. the divisions you are forming in Rey remained almost ne uncom England. You will have a million municative se every and declined men in eighteen months. I should first of all to make any statement. prefer fewer men arriving sooner, beyond giving the date and place replied Foch, “vlat va
of his birth and the period during Britain kept Kitchener's pro- which he served in the army,
Later he ventured the informa continued the French Pre-
Awireless message from the Minnewaska states that the Dornier
be Napier Bying-bost had to abandoned, but that Captain Courtney, and his companions are unhurt. at
Rugay, August 3rd.". Starting on a tour of Canada and Newfoundland, 34 boys from differ ent schoolt, who have been select ed by the Public School Empire
Tour
Committee, asembled
from the C.E.C., which had been with the result that two Britia TRANSIT OF SUEZ Euston Station, this morning.
authorised by the 148th ordinary executive meeting, must now be confirmed by the Plenary Session
(2) The preliminary session will continue in session on the 7th inst in order to examine all propomis mads by O.E.C. members.
nationals were killed and a third British national afterwards died.
Bir Austen Chamberlain adds:-- "As I stated, in the course of the debate on July 30th I am prepared to accept a settlement on the terr already reached with the United States Government."
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Replying to a farther question the Foreign Secretary says the Bri (3) Tap Ten Kai, Yu Yu Jen,tish Minister at Peking has report Ting Wei Fen, Tai Chuen Yan and ed that he has been sounded by the
Nationalist Government as to the
CANAL.
ARDUOUS TASK BEGINS.
£6,400 IN DUES.
OUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,},
PORT SAID, Aug. 5th. Chiang Kai Shek be appointed to possibility of the British Govern- Canal dues of £6,400 sterling are a commission which is specially or-ment entering into negotiations for payable on the Singapore floating the conclusion of a Treaty on the dock, which has now entered the ganned for the purpose of examin-subject of tariff autonomy, similar Suez Canal ing all proposals due for discussion to that signed by the Chinend The trandit will take four days Finance Minister and the. American and there will be three stops en in the Plenary Session,
Minister in Peking on July 25th route.
They were addressed by Mr. L
M. B. Amery, Dominions Secretary,
[BEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE) Tirod But Cheerful.
New York, August 4th.. mise,
Wales was read wishing the party has wirelessed a laconie account of she was well dhead of the distant colonel of his regiment and that hei and a letter from the Prince of The Captain of the Minnewark, mier, and more than kept it, for tion that he had been batman to tas
a thoroughly enjoyable visit.,
I used so many names that I cannot remember them all. "All I can say for the moment is that it is true that I garaged my car with Mile Foce [ons of the dead women] I refuse to say another word until I have my lawyer with me
The Prince wrote: What you the rescue of Courtney. He raced to date, which he had fixed for the had been sentenced for various will see in Canada and the friend- the spot in response to a 8.0.8 ships you will make there will, and searched fruitlessly for hours. hope, form a bond which will last. He calculated the plane had drifted a lifetime
eastward owing to the Gulf Stream and the west wind and eventually found the plane riding easily on a gentle awell in ideal weather.
The engine room was burnt out and wireless battery exhausted.
He shipped the tired but cheerful survivors and Courtney consented to the abandonment of his Bring
Every individual bond of that kind in of immenas value in strengthening the universal bond which holds the whole British Em pire together, and the earlier in life that we contract such bonds, the better it will be for the destiny of
raced The Prince of Wales has invited the school boys to visit his ranch, in Cannds.
our
boat.
The Minnewaska was diverted 341. miles from her track för the rescue,
arrival of the new armies."offences under different names. He
Marshal Foch, in full uniform, sat said: motionless, his eyes somewhat down cast and his arms crossed, while M. Poincaré was delivering his panegyric. M. Poincaré, on the conclusion of his speech, shook Marshal Pach warmly by the hand amid shouts of "Vive Foch, Vive Poincaré" The Foch monument is in bronze and represents the Mar Malissard is the sculptor. It is on shal" on a thoroughbred horse. M.
an eminence and can be seen from far and wide.-euter.
It was stated at the Palmis de said that he would go on hunger Justice this evening that Rey had
strike until he was able to choose & suitable lawyer.