JAPANESE OFFICIAL STATEMENT
CANCELLED.
CHANG HSUEH "LIANG: TO RESIGN?
WITHDRAWAL OF JAPANESE TROOPS.
YEN HSI SHAN'S RETURN TO PEKING.
At the time of Baron Hayashi's conversations with General Chang Hauch Liang, the Japanese Premier, Baron Tanaka, promis- ed to issue a statement-upon-Japan's policy towards. China. However, the Premier has now announced as a Cabinet meeting. that the proposed statement will not be issued, as peace in Man- churia is ensured for the time being at any rate, owing to the postponement of the Mukden-Nanking compromise.
Chang Hauch Liang is reported to have told Baron Hayashi that he is considering the question of resigning from the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Manchurian army, and entrusting his duties to the Committee of Public Safety. This body has notified the Japanese Consul-General that the Nationalist fag will be flown. in Mazehuria at the expiry of a period of three months.
Mr. C. Wang, the Nationalist Foreign Minister, has issued a reply to the last Japanese note on the treaty question. It is under- stood, however, that Japan refuses to consider any proposal for treaty revision until the Nationalists have recognised the validity of the existing treaty.
General Yen Hai Shan has been advised that he will have re- covered from his attack of appendicitis in another three weeks. He has announced his attention of returning to Peking to resumo bis duties.
STATEMENT ABANDONED."
(TRROUGH UTEX'S AGENCY.]
Toro, Aug. 15th. Speaking at a Cabinet meeting, the Premier formally announced his decision to give up his contem- plated plan of issuing a statement on China policy, es, owing to the postponement of the Mukden- Nanking compromise, peace in Manchuria
CHINA'S REPLY.
(Wah Tr Fat Pao.)
SHANGHAI, Aug. 13th. As expected Dr. C. T. Wang has ieaued a note in reply to Japan's recent note to the Nationalist Government
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY,
LAST MINUTE REPRIEVE.
BRIGHTON FRONT MURDER.
DRAMATIC ANNOUNCE “MENT, IN PRISON.
ĮIKROUGH MESTER'S AGENCE.).
Loxbow, Aug. 15th. Only fourteen hours before three men, convicted of the murder of an elderly druggist "named Smith on the Brighton front, were due to be executed, they were reprieved: and their sentences commuted to ponal servitude for life.
This dramatic announcement
AIR MINISTRY 'BOMBED."
GREATER SUCCESS OF DEFENDERS.
MANY CASUALTIES.
{THOUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Aug. 13th. TheAir Ministry, the nerve centre of London's air defence, was theoretically wrecked" by
the air raiders. --
The Eastland" bombers have attacked the building on four octa- sions within the last thirty six hours, and at least one "bomb"
AUGUST 16th, 1928.
REBELS ATTACK
POLICE.
GALLANT DEFENCE OF POST.
OUTLAW CHIEF ACTIVE.
(THROUGH KNOTER'S AGENCY.
Rutas August 4th The notorious Kurjur witch- doctor Chief, Gwek, who has been a fugitive from justice since the murder of Captain Ferguson, the British District Commissioner last year, has allied himself with an other witch-doctor named Kur and a Chieftain named Dualdin, and at the head of approximately 1,500
TRACES OF POISON ASSASSINATION OF
CHANG TSO LIN
DISCOVERED.
LOEWENSTEIN'S BODY EXAMINED.
WHO WILL HOLD THE
INQUIRY?
(THROUGH RESTER'S "AORNGYA
MR. FUTNAM WEALE'S VIEW.
JAPANESE SECRET
SOCIETY.
THROUGH REUTER'S" JUENCTA)
Mr. Putnam Weale, the well known "authority on Far Eastern" politice, who has been in Mukden attending the late Marshal Chang Tso Lin's funeral ceremonies, gave a startling version of the latter's assassination, when interviewed by Reuter to-day
BOULOGNE," August 14th. A fresh and startling development has arisen in connection with the tragic death of Captain Alfred Loewenstein, the Belgian million aire financier, adding further con- fusion to the mystery.
After making close investigations The body was found practically on the spot, Mr. Putnam Weale nel about a month ago, many days after he was reported to have fallen from his aeroplane from a height of 1,000 fest.
created greater public ekect in crashed on the roof before the in- Nier tribesmen has raided & num- aude; Abating in the English. Chap asserted his belief that the murder
view of an official intimation a few hours earlier that the Home Secre-
tary, declined to interfere with the
vaders were repelled. ╗་
The great air attack on the metropolis continued a night when bundreds of tons of "bomba" death sentences.
The subsequent reprieve follow.were dropped by the attackers, ed a vieit Sir William Joynson- and in many cases they resched their objectives, which were Buckingham Palace, where he attended a meeting of Hackney, the Duke of York's
Hicks to
ber of villages in the Dakfadiat District.
The daring raiders drove off the cattle and mercilessly slaughtered numbers of the villagers.
Subsequently they attacked the Government Post at Duktaywil, but were repulsed with heavy losses,
WAS
committed by a Japanese Secret Society, whose work was facilitated by certain people in the
Japanese Army
It is now revealed that acting ou
Ballway Schemes. the request of Captain Loewen-
Mr. Putnam Weale opened the stein's two brothers-in-law, a well-interview with a remark that the known Paris analyst examined the situation in Manchuris was fraught hase found traces of toxic matter in the conversations between Baron the intestines.
the. Privy Council and was received Headquarters, Chelsea, Croydon | leaving over 45 dead in front of the remains and has reported that he with many possibilities. He eaid
in audience by His Majesty...
and. Wormwood Scrabs.
post.
One of the accused, was taking
It is officially stated that there
less fighting over
central
his farewell of his relatives at
$134
Pentonville Prison, and the latter London, as the defenders intercept-
were
"
· The authorities are" satisfied, that.
The Police were safely entrenched and suffered no casualties, while the post was not damaged.
Reinforcements including a Bria judicial enquiry must be held to
sent to the area.
on the point of departure ed the raiders earlier than on the tish officer and fifty men have been determine how the poison was ad- they were directed towards termin-
when the Governor appeared, bear ing the joyously received news.
In the crime for which the ac cused were convicted they were found guilty of attacking Smith so savagely that when he managed to on the etagger home his wife did not re- validity of the Sino-Japanese cognise him and shut the door in The agitation against Treaty, to the Japanese Consul his face,
General afternoon.
insisting
st Nanking yesterday the conviction was based on the
contention that at least two of the accused were not
present at the
was ensured for the FURTHER WITHDRAWALS. | time of the attack. time being. He considered the statement was for this reason no longer necessary..
Though the Government has not yet received Nanking's recond Dote,
authorities the Japanese reiterate their return to listen to any Chinese proposal for treaty revision until the Nationalists acknowledge the validity of the existing Chinese treaty with Japan.
CHANG TO RESIGN?
(Wah Taz Fat Peo).
SHANORA; Aug. 15th. In a conversation with Baron Hayashi, Japanese Consul-General in Manchuria, General Chang Hsueh Liang binted that he would
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. Į
Tokyo, Aug. 15th. The Cabinet has decided to re- quest the Imperial sanction for the withdrawal of the Sixth Division from Shantung, in the meantime leaving the Third Divizion of about 10.000 men to guard Tsinap, Tsingtao and the railway till the ultimate complete of the evacua
tion."
TROOPS FOR HANKOW.
THROUGH REUTZE'S AGENCY.)
PERING, Aug. 18th. As hostilities against the Chibli Shantung remnants have ceased, Pei Taung Hai is contemplating withdrawing a part of his forces from Chihli to Hankow, and rolling resign the post of Commander-in stock is waiting here. It is under Chief of the Manchurian Army, en-etood that four divisions are likely trusting his duties to the Com- to leave at any time. mittee for Public Safety of the Three Eastern Provinces.
YEN HSI SHAN'S RETURN.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
MANCHURIAN FLAG QUESTION.
(Wah Ter Yat Paa).
PEKING, Aug. 15th. Telegraphing to Ho Cheng Chun from Taiyuanfu, Yen Hsi Shan states that he is advised by medical experts that he may expect to have recovered in three weeks. of the Three Eastern Provinces He announces his intention to re-
SHANGHAI," Aug. 15th. The Committee, for Public Safety
turn to Feking as soon as he is
→ · has notified, the Japanese Consul-well in order to resume his duties.
General to the effect that the Manchurian authorities have deter- mined to fly the Nationalist fag after the lapse of three months. The Manchurian Government bas reached a de facto rapprochement
with the Nationalist Government.
A COMPROMISE.
ITALOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
MUXDEN, Aug. 14th.
Bituation
The recent critical
brought about by the firm stand
of the Japanese againet reconcilia-
PROVINCIAL COUNCILS.
{THROUGH REUTER'L'AGENCY.]
THE OVERSEAS
DEMAND.
POPULARITY OF BRITISH CARS,
SALES IN DOMINIONS.
(SRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)
RUGBY, August 14th. The extent to which British motor-car manufacturers are pené- trating the Dominion markets is shown in the aversens trade returns for July.
The number of touring cars ship-, ped during the month was 1,346.
Compared with the same month last year, New Zealand increased her orders from 25 to 151 cars, South Africa from 192 to 160 and
previous night,
Many raiders becsime, casualties, on the return journey.
PHILIPPINES CABINET
FORMED.
MANUEL QUEZON'S
APPROVAL:
[THROUGH AZUYER'S AGENCY.]
MANILA, August 15th. Governor-General Stimson har appointed a new Cabinet--the first complete Cabinet since the whole.
Gallant Defence.
The Government Post af Dukfay- wil was gallantly defended by a small body of Police under a native
N.C.O.
Hayashi and General Chang Hsueh Liang had been kept secret, but there was reason to believe that
ministered, but the questian has ating the relations between Muk- arisen as to whether the enquiry den and Nanking and to the should be held by the authorities at Boulogne, where the body was brought in, by the Brussels authori- ties, who first took up the case, or by the authorities in England, from which Captain Loewenstein embark
The raiders, who included at least 100 Nuers armed with rifles, retreat ed in disorder to the southward after suffering severe losses.
They are heading for Nasser, toed on his last tragic flight.”... › which a British officer and fifty men. of the Equatorial Corps have been sent as a precautionary measure.
No offensive operations are likely to be undertaken against the raiders at the present moment owing to the floods..
The question will probably be settled through diplomatic channels.
Explanation Suggested, The Magistrate of Parquet, who ordered the examination of Loew enstein's remains, has given a possible explanation of the dis- covery of traces of poison in the body. He points out that Capt. quent purgatives, often over-doses, which produce abnormal toxic matter in the organs.
sale resignations during the poli- FARMS FOR 6D. AN ACRE. Loewenstein habitually took fre
tical crisis of 1993.
The names of the Cabinet mem- bers have been cabled to Mr. Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippines Senate, who has re- plied stating that they are satis factory.
The Senate has therefore imme-. diately confirmed the nominations.
DUTCH STEAMSHIP CHARGES.
BIG REDUCTIONS ANNOUNCED.
ITHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.']
ཏྭཱ་
AMSTERDAM, August 14th.
It is announced that the Rotter- Gamsche-Lloyd and the Netherland
N.S. WALES MAKES A
COUNTRYSIDE,
WATER FROM 7011. HIGH RESERVOIR.
SYDNEY, N.S.W."
which were pegged into the granite piers supporting the transverse steel girders of the South Man eburia Railway viaduct.
Figures On The Bridge.
securing of a new railway scheme which was projected early, this year, and which was initialled in Peking before Chang Teo Lin's departure, but has so far not beer ratified by the
Manchuria.
Government of
It is the belief of Mr. Putnam Weale that the quarrels between Mukden and Japan have · centred- on this railway question and a masked struggle concerning new railways which the Chinese have built or are building in Manchuria.
Sphere Of Control
Mr. Putnam Weale - remarked
that if, as the Japanese desired, these railways were consolidated with the South Manchuria railway system, it would establish Japanese. paramountcy in North Manchuria as securely as in South Manchuria, but the Chinese have not ratified the agreement and their railways now tap the rich grain-bearing areas of North Manchuria and run to the seaboard.
Mr. Putnam Weale aseerts---that par-
In the south of New South Wales, near the border of Victoria, there are 267,500 acres of Crown land which has been pronounced by ex- perta as suitable for grazing and wheat growing.
The area was suffering from the at a lumber yard situated less than it in Mancharia as an experiment. Obviously," he says, "if the en hundred yards from the bridge, J fact that in spite of the vicinity who stated that on the fatal night tire region beyond the Great Wall of the River Murray it has been they saw Agures moving about the is under the effective control of one practically waterless. But the Gov bridge. These, says Mr. Putnam Chartered Company, the reliquish- ernment of New South Wales is in Weale, must have been seen by ment of so-called judicial rights, process of making it available for the Japanese sentries of the South would be an illusory gain to Chi- settlement, and to that end Manchuria Railway.
nese territorial administration.", irrigation scheme is being carried
"The crime was the work of bad
Breach Widens, Already the allotment of 62 farmas, Japanese Army facilitated their tween the Nationalist Government
men, and certain people in the
Referring to the compromise be varying from 1,000 to 1,500 acres in work," says Mr. Putnam Weale. and Manchuria, Mr. Putnam Wea.e area-a matter of some 87,000 acres been in Japan organisations am the Nationalist flag at Mukden on
Mr. Putnam Weale points out Japan's desire to obtain that the tragedy occurred on the amountay in North as well ae South 17th day of the lunar month, when Manchuria is the explanation of He the "constant statement that she is night visibility was good. states that he interviewed Chinese willing to give up extraterritorial-
out
the Irish Free State from 239 to 444. Steamship Companies will shortly size, in the first sub-division of the He added: There have long states that it was arranged to hoist In addition, 649 complete light bring into force a new scale ofis approaching completion, and ist to the Serbian organisation the 10th instant, but on the pre- chasses were sent to Australia, com- | fares, reducing the rates to Singa- from more than 300 individual ap which carried out the Serajevo vious day. General Chang Hsueh
plicants a board is selecting what crime; for instance, the Black it regards as the most suitable man
pared with 268 in the corresponding pore and the. Dutch East Indies. month of 1927.
SIR THOMAS CATTO.
NEW DIRECTOR OF MERCAN- TILE BANK.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENUT.]
The decision has been taken as the result of severe foreign com- petition, especially by the German
steamera
The reduction which will be effec tive as From September 1st, varies between 2 per cent. and & per cent. to Batavia and ten guilder's to Singapore. The reduction on the return fare within a year will be increased to 25 per cent.
LONDON, Aug. 15th.. Sir Thomas Catto, managing director of Andrew Yole & Co. FAINT HEARTED BANDITS. Ltd., Calcutta, and Yule, Catto &
Co., Ltd., London, has been ap-CONSEQUENCES TOO. GREAT. pointed Director of the Mercantile Bank of India in the place of Sir
NANKING, Aug. 15th. The Fifth Plenary Session has passed a resolution deciding that the Provincial Political Councils David Yule. shall close up at the end of the year. The question of convening the National Assembly was post poned until 1829, alter which the Fifth Plenary Session closed.
BELGIAN TREATY.
(Wah Te Tai Pao).
SHANGHAL, Aug, 16th.
to make arrangemente
YANGTSZE RIVER DISASTER.
500 LIVES LOST:
ENGLISH MISSIONARY
ABOARD.
(THROUGH HEUTRE'S
De for.),
A naval wireless
received
tion between Mukden and Nanking The Belgian Chargé d'Affaires and the equally frm decision of arrived at Shanghai yesterday the Chinese to carry it through, morning. He will shortly go to seems in 'a' fair way to being Nanking amicably settled by a compromise. with Dr. C. T. Wang in connection in Hong Kong gives further details
s for treaty revi It is reliably reported that with negotiations
of the shipping disaster on the through the mediation of former Education: Minister, Mr. | A
Yangtze, in which the Chinese steamer Hain Heutung, whlist pro- ceeding from Chungking to Ichang, foundered after striking a rock in the Rapids.
thesion.
Liu Che, who is now a member of the Three-Eastern Provinces- People's Council and па
old
FRANCE AND NANKING INCIDENT
THROUGH EKUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, Aug. 15th.
acquaintance, as a Consul, with Baron Hayashi, an understanding wae reached on the 11th instant,
The message states that the vessel whereby the Provinces undertake In an article on the situation in is reported to be a total loss, whilst not to hoist the Nationalist flag Chinn, the latin declares that the the loss of life is said to be 500 formaperiod of three months at French Government will shortly people. the end of which the Japanese come to an agreement with the It is feared that at least one agree, not to interfere in any way Nationalist Government regarding English missionary, was aboard the
steamer when she sank. the Nanking incident,
whatever.
[THEOUGH REUTIK" admor.)
BAGHDAD, August 14th.
The somewhat amusing sequel of the daring bandit raid on the Irak mail convoy on Saturday, when the mail car was ambushed and capter- ed ten miles on the Irak side of the Syrian border, was the arrival of the mail at Damascus to-day."
Nothing was missing and the ex- planation given by the driver of the van is that the bandits, over- awed at the gravity of stealing the British mail, and fearing the pos sible consequences if they took this action,, ordered the driver of the van to continue his journey to Syria..
OPIUM CONVENTION.
RATIFICATION: BY JAPAN..
· [THROUGH REUTER'S „ADENCY.]
* Geneva, August Isth. Japanese has ratified the Inter- national Opium Convention af 1995 which will shortly come into force, the requisite number of ratifications having now been obtained.
for each block.
Rent And Water is. A Year.
As they become available for use other sub-divisions will be allocated in the same way till the whole of 287,500 acres it put into use.
Manchurian authorities were forced
Dragon Society which specialises Liang received a freeh definite in Chinese affairs, which orginated warning from Japan that such the Twenty-One Demands and action would be construed as z which notoriously employs men of highly unfriendly act. He adds that as there were 7,000 Japanese the soaki (booligan) class, such as were deported by the Japanese troops at the gates of Murder, the civil authorities from. Mukden after to break their definite undertaking. The tenure is leasehold, terminat- the murder."
with Marahal Chiang Kai Shek." ing in 1943, but renewable, and the
Mr. Putnam Weale seserts that annual rentals will range from 5d.
Mr. Putnam Weale went on to after the outburst of General Yang to 6d, an acre. The lessee will be say Many curious things are Yu Ting, Chief of Staff of the late expected to fence his boundary coming to light. It is alleged that Marshal Chang Tee Lin, againet within a year and to construct a the Ford "car which conveyed the proposed Morgan Loan and the
tank or dam.”....
Suspicious Happenings..
Within two years he must have Chang Tso Lin from the wrecked refusal of Manchuria to ratify the express had been waiting three railway scheme agreement, the vation, and he must add at least while a Chinese servant testified widened. not less than 160 seres under culti hundred yards from the scene, breach between Mukden and Tokyo 80 acres to this every year antil to me that a prominent official
Hot Fortuitous, half the area has been cultivated, living two miles from the scene The rest of the land can be adapted rose at dawn on June 4th and Weale, "Chang Teo Lin mode, a "Therefore,” said Mr. Putnam. for grazing.ke
remained on the roof of his reai- peace offer on May 9th which Japan dence, with binoculate fixed on the countered with her advice to tridge until the explosion,
evacuate Peking, before it is too After the explosion, none of late." Mr. Putnam Weale add-
A water trust is to be created, and this will take over the whole of the works, operate them, and
make provision for upkeep and pos- the things expected occurred.ed:"Chang Tso Lin's assassina sible extensions. It will also levy There was no revolt of Chinese tion on June 4th was not a for- charges for water; but it is not ex troops, ac disorders and no col- tuitous event, but it followed & pected that any settler will be call-lapse, the Chinese meeting the logical sequence." ed on to pay more than is an situation with caution.
Mr. Putnam Weale asserts that acre a yean for rent and water. 'rate General Chang Hrueh Liang he has seen an unpublished repert combined.
entered Mukden disguised as of the Sino-Japanese ocial in- How Railway "Line.
common soldier in a troop train,vestigation of the Chang Tso Lin A lock has been constructed at and although he is almost over-outrage which contains Euston, on the Murray, and this come by the tax confronting him, strange revelation. It stated that will ensure a steady supply of water he is not faltering.
the Japanese Military Command at all seasons. An intake channel Who Killed Our Father?
consented to Chinese gendarmes has been ran from the river to a Chang Tso Lin'e younger sons patrolling the Peking Malden Bail- pumping station, from which the are going from one foreign friend way at the bridge where the water is lifted 30ft to a receiving to another, making Who killed our tragedy occurred, but in the fol basin, whence it will be distributed father but they receive no reply.lowing paragraph the Chinese in by gravity all over the area.
"That the Japanese Government, vestigators state that the permis
་་
The engineering difficulties are as in 1805 in Korea, will ultimate sien was vetoed by the higher few, and the cost, therefore, re- I feel called upon to defend itself Japanese Command, the Chinese latively small In consequence the against the charge of complicity by gendarmes being kept 300 metres settlers will not be burdened with ordering, all stepected persons to from the fatal bridge."
Independent foreign investigat heavy liabilities due to expensive be arrested and tried, is the belief constriction work.
of those who haya een how strong tions by explocives experts have.. A-feature of this very promising is the evidence in the very stones Testablished : almost conclusively, scheme is that the Government of of the South Manchuria Hailway," says Mr. Putnam Weale, that the Victoria has agreed to extend the concluded Mr. Putnam Weile. train was destroyed by dynamite, existing railway from Euston across Mr. Putnam Weale je to-morrow probably numbering twelve charges, the Marray and on through the new handing to Mr Toshizawa the ECASA Zore than eight-pounder Bettlement, and the necessary Japanese Minister in Peking. a: (Continued at foot of previous
statement similar to the foregoing.
Column.) bridge has already been built.