COMMUNIST OUTBREAKS IN YANGTSZE VALLEY.
YEN HSI SHAN AND THE LABOUR UNIONS.
CHIANG KẢI SHEK RECALLED TO DUTY.
CHANG HSUEH LIANG RETURNS
ROLLING STOCK.
According to the vernacular Press, Communiste are active in- the Yangtze Valley, and Nanking is tranferring more troops to that district to deal with, the outbreak. The position is also serious on the Kiangsi, and Hupeh borders, and the Hankow "Government has assigned to General Pei Chung Hai's troops the tsek of dealing with the Communists. Martial law is being enforced in Hankow and Wuchang,
Matshal Chiang Kai Shek is said to be completely recovered from the trouble which he has been suffering from his teeth, and which has kept him confined to hospital for several, says past. He has however applied to Nanking, for further sick-leave, in order that he may complete his rest cure. Tan Yen Kai however is eager that he should return to Nanking immediately, and it is even said that he made the journey to Shanghai in order in person to persuade Chiang Kai Shek to return to duty. Rumours of fresh military campaigns are rife" in Shanghai.
One of the first steps of General Yen Hsi Shan on 'recovering from his illness was to give orders for the suppression of all labour unions in Peking which appeared to him likely to be troublesome. There orders have now been countermanded from. Nanking, which has instructed, him to allow to reopen all the unions which have been dissolved.
Marshal Feng Yu Heiang has arrived at Kaifeng, and shows signs of sending a military expedition westward from Honan.
Chang Hsuch Liang has returned some portion of the rolling stock carried off from the Peking railways at the time of the Northern retreat to Manchuria. The material now returned has not yet reached its destination as it is delayed by Chang Tsung Chang, and the greater part still remains to be returned. COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES.
(Wah Tez Tat Pac).
CHIANG'S. RETURN.
Trun Wan Tat Pao.)
Sasam, Aug. 28th. SHANGHAI, Aug. 26th.. Although he has completely re According to the Hong Kong covered, Marshal Chiang Kai-Shek Brening News, a radical develop is still in hospital, and has" tele- ment in the military situation in graphed to Nanking requesting the the Yangtze Valley is reported to extension of his eick leave in order have followed immediately on the to seek a further rest cure. How- récent order issued by the Nanking ever, General Tan Yen Kai urgent- Government to transfer Generally requests him to return to Nan- Liu Chi's army to Kiangs from king. It is even reported that be Hauchow on the pretext that they went to Shanghai yesterday to are going to reinforce General Chu persuade Marshal Chiang to cancel Fui Teh's troops and suppress the his sick leave. Communists subversive activities province. The vanguard of in tho General Liu Chi's troops has ar rived at Kiukiang, Kiangs.
All the above mentioned reports seem to point to the fact that Marshal Chiang Kai Shek ha already mobilised in readiness to engage in open conflict with the "Kwangsi" militarists on a fairly large scale. Rumours of evers sort
BOXER INDEMNITY.
Meanwhile the Hankow military authorities announce that informa tion has been obtained to the effect that Communist activities are again fare. rife in Shanghai. rife on the Kiangsi-Hupeh border and the situation in west Anhui is also extremely precarious. With such a critical condition in view the Hankow Government has en- forced martial law over Hankow and Wuchang.
(Wah Te Tai Pao);
SHANGHAI, Aug. 26th.
A decision has been reached by
General Pei Chung Hsi's troops, diplomatic representatives of the according to an announcement of Powers concerned in the Boxer the Hankow Government, will be
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, AUGUST 27th, 1928.
SOVIET PLANS FOR SIR AUSTEN'S
PEACE.
DISARMAMENT PROPOSALS
RENEWED.
UNNECESSARY DELAY.
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HOLIDAY.
"MANY CALLS EN ROUTE.
ACROSS CANADA BY RAIL.
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Moscow, Aug. 26th..
Ruoay, August 25th. M. Litvino has sent a letter to The Secretary for," Foreign the Chairman of the Preparatory | Affairs, Bir Austen Chamberlain, in Disarmament Commission recalling due to leave Liverpool on Thurs- the Soviet's proposals for full, and day in the liner Ocoma, on a health eubsequently partial, 'disarmament. voyage to the western coast of M. Litvino complains that the North Americs vid the Panama Commission is delaying the resump Canal. He will be absent from tion of its labours, and contendi England about ten weeks. Lady that the signing of the Kellogg Chamberlain and their two younger Pact cannot solve the problem of children will accompany him disarmament, which alone is the Calli will be made en route at real guarantee of peace and La Rochelle, Santander, Corunna, security.
Vigo, Bermuda, Havana, and Cristobal at the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal.
He asks what prevente another speedy convocation of the Disarma ment Conference Dow that the differences between the Powers, which caused the closing of the Fifth Session of the Conference. are composed.
STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
NEW COLONIAL SECRETARY.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENUT.]
LONDON, Aug. 26th.
Mr. John Scott, Chief Secretary of Tanganyika Territory, has been selected for appointment as Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settle- ments in succession to Sir Hayes Marriott on his retirement.
ALBANIA'S WISH FOR. MONARCHY.
PROCLAMATION DELAYED.
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The
TIRANA, Aug. 26th. proclamation announcing President Ahmed Zogu as King, which was fully expected to-day, has not occurred.
The National Assembly reassem- bled and elected its president, which it adjourned until
after Monday.
H.M.S.
KENT" ARRIVES.
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The voyage from Balbos on the Pacific to San Francisco will be continued in the steamer President Adams. After a brief holiday in California, the party will proceed to Vancouver and will return over-
and across Canada to Montreal
THE "L.55" DISASTER.
CRUISER TO BRING BACK
BODIES,
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LONDON, Aug. 26th. Negotiations with the Soviet Government with regard, to the removal of the bodies of the crew of the L.55 are still proceeding. It is intended that the light cruiser Champion meet the merchantman. which will take over the bodies from the Soviet officials, in the Baltic, where the remains will be transferred to the cruiser.
WAR ON DRUNKEN
MOTORISTS.
CONGRESS' DETERMINATION.
FRENCH FINANCIAL
SETTLEMENT.
ESTIMATED EXPEDITURE FOR 1929.
MINISTERS' SALARIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PARIS, Aug. 18th.. France's expenditure for 1929 in estimated at Fes. 45,295,278,701, divided into:-
79,600,000
21,050,219,518
Publie Debt Fes. 23,157,080,173 Public Au- thorities... Government
Depts. Collecting
Revenues Repayments
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THANKSGIVING IN THE CHURCHES.
SERVICES THROUGHOUT
BRITAIN.
SIGNIFICANCE OF PEACE PACT,
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NEW EMPLOYMENT SCHEME.
YOUTHS TRANSFERRED FROM COALFIELDS.
EMPLOYERS' SATISFAC-
TION.
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RUGBY, August 25th.
Bugsy, August 93th. General thanksgiving for the The Government scheme, adminis- peace pact, which will be signed at tered by the Ministry of Labour, to Paris on Monday, will be held transfer boys of sixteen or seven- to-morrow in all churches through teen years of age from the distress- out Britain, and in many parished areas and particularly from the churches special services will also be coalfields has been in operation only held on Monday. The significance a few months, but already nearly 1,331,644,410 of the o
of the occasion is fully recognised one thousand boys have been given by the press, and all newspapers work and have settled in their new. publish articles on the subject, surroundings. Employers express while the text of the multilateral much satisfaction with excellent treaty for the renunciation of war type of youth which they have en- as an instrument of national policy gaged under this scheme. A is in some reproduced in full
9,300 boys are now in training for Regret is expressed in afficial transference, and the Ministry quarters that the United States hopes soon to have placed 4,000 boys Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogg, in work away from their homes.. has been unable to accept the in- They express the belief that the im- vitation to visit London before re-mediate problem of unemployed turning to America.
boya and youths in areas mainly auffering from industrial depression- will be on the way to solution when
and sundries,, 307,754,600 It is proposed that Ministers salaries be increased by Fcs, 180.000.
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SENTENCE ON A BOGUS DUKE.
RAILWAYMAN. TURNS SWINDLER.
VIENNA. The dashing "Duke of Merano," as he called himself, also represent MOOSE MEN'S GREETING. 5,000 have been transferred. ing himself to be a member of the Council of the League of Nations, has been sent to prison for 'twa years here for stealing the luggage- of a married woman whom he per- | suaded to go to Venice with him."
15,000 WELCOME U.S. CON- TINGENT.
DEATHS FROM LOCKJAW,
HOWDY HOWDY-PAPI SALUTE. THE KING'S PHYSICIAN, DE-
CARDIFY, July 30th. "Howdy-Howdy-Pap !" From shore to shore the Bristol Channel echoed to-night with this. It was shouted first from the decks of the
NOUNCES HOSPITAL
ANTI-SERUM 'CRANKS.
A remarkable attack on a hospital was made in the House of Lords by Lord Dawson of Penn, the King's physician."
His real name is Peter Herzog. and he became an international swindler only two years ago, hav ing previously been a country stationmaster near Vienna.
Convinced that his fertile im- agination had not sufficient scope in the service of the State rail- ways, he resigned at the age of liner, George Washington, of the 25 and opened a shop for radio sets United States Lines, and repeated and accessories, about which he by 10,000 people in a flotilla of knew almost nothing. He fitted paddle boats and motor-boats which
It was an unnamed anti-vivisection up his shop on credit, and obtain had come out to escort the Ameri hospital in London where three ed, also on credit, a large stock, can ship into Cardif which be sold so cheaply that he did a roaring business. But he paid nobody.
Having thus acquired capital, he made himself successively Baron, Count, and then Duke, and swindled hotels in Geneva, and many other places. Bellagio
His good looks made him popular with women, and Frau Dolores, whom he induced to leave Vienna for Venice with him on Christmas Eve, trusted him implicitly.
She left her trunks there with him when she returned to her hus band after a week of gaiety, in tending to go back to Venice a few days later, which she did. But Peter had left Venice, after selling the contents of the trunks
PERMANENT SUSPENSION OF 'piecemeal.
LICENCES,
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-1.
One of his tricks was to open a bank account at Graz with a de- posit of about 23, and later cheat hotel-keepers with cheques for £30 (1,000 schilling), writing upon them "For immediate payment " in German, to Inspire confidence.
WAS
sentenced
assigned to defend the Kiangai and Protocol at a meeting held in Harkins will leave for Hong Kong combat alcoholism has concluded.to one month's imprisonment,
Anhui borders as BOON as they Peking yesterday regarding the on August 30th.
arrive at Hankow from the North,
MILITARY AFFAIRS.
[TEROSON REUTER'S AGENCY.]
transfer Of the Inspectorate- General to Nanking and the chang- ing of the present Inspector- General. They are in favour" of the Nationalist Government doing PRIPING, Aug. 25th. Feng Yu Hsiang arrived at Kaito if Article VIII. of the Protocol fers yesterday evening. It is, re- is not infringed and if there is ported that he has ordered Han full recognition by the Nationalist Fu Chu, who became notorious in Government of all foreign loans connection" with the Pao Ya Lin contracted before the inauguration affair, to send his troops to Honan of the Nationalist régime
for an expedition westward.
It is unofficially reported that Fan Chung Hsiu and Wu Hain Tien have captured Hänchung and Feng- siang in western Shemsi and are attempting to link up with the Szechuanese General Liu Tseng Hao.
A foreign message from Kansu reports friction between Moham medans and the Nationaliste, and indicates that the former may join with other forces against Feng..
LABOUR UNIONS.
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PRIPING, Aug. 28th, The authorities here have recent ly been closing up the Labour Unions, but the Central Executive Committee has now wired from, Nanking instructing Yen Hei Shan not to close the unions, but to allow those which have been dis solved to reopen.
JAPAN'S NEGOTIATIONS.
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ROLLING STOCK
RETURNED.
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SHANGHAI, August 28th The Euo Min from Peiping_re ports that Chang Hsuch Liang has. returned a hundred passenger. coaches and five hundred freight
FENG'S NEW HEAD. QUARTERS.
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ANTWERP, Aug. 25th. "The International Congress to Switzerland
Geneva for complicity in his frauds When Peter has finished his two by the police of Germany, Switzer- years in prison here he is wanted land, and Italy.
It was decided vigorously to con tinue the fight against alcoholism, and especially, to press for severer penalties for drunken motorists, as, for example, the permanent Bus pension of driving licences..
SHANGHAI, Aug. 25th. Marshal. Feng Yu Hsiang, Com- DE HAVILLAND SUCCESS. mander-in-Chief of the Koomin
chun, has arrived at suchowfu which, it is believed, will be his headquarters for the time being.
RECONSTRUCTION OF CHINA.
care belonging to the Peiping GIANT SYNDICATE FORMED. Mukden Railway, which were com- mandeered during the Fengtien withdrawal to Mukden.
The rolling stock has already been despatched to Peiping, but owing to the refusal of Chang Trung Chang to permit them to. pass through Tangshan, the cars are held up at Luanchow.
CHINA AND I
---KELLOGG.
(Taun Wan Fat Poo,)
SHANGHAI, Ang. 28th,
Mr. Kellogg has consented to Dr. C. T. Wang's request that China should be allowed to join in the Pact for the Outlawry of War. «
MARSHAL LI'S RETURN.
(Taun Wan Fat Poo.)
ITHROUGH XEUTER'S AGENCY.]
Pap" had become a general catch-fasal to use anti-tetanus seruitu
In a few hours Howdy-Howdy deaths from lockjaw followed re-.- word throughout this part of Lord Banbury, chairman of the Wales, and people were hailing E.S.P.C.A., had moved an amend- each other with it in the streets. ment to the Dogs Bill, and Lord
Howdy-Howdy-Pap 1 is the salute of the members of the Royal ganisation now a million strong Order of Moose, a benevolent or It had its origin in Canada, spread through the United States, and now has 60 lodges in Britain.
Dawson said that the amendment dogs for vivisection. He went on to was a flank attack on the use of
say that as a result of such experi- ments an anti-tetanus serum was Secret Signs And Symbols,
discovered, the application of which had resulted in the mortality from The word means-How do you terrible disease of lockjaw coming do, How do you do, purity-aid-down to a small proportion, and progress, The adherents of the movement are admitted with a secret ritual, and they can iden- tify each other by secret signs and symbols and a pass word which is changed every three months.
It was a contingent of Moose from the United States that hailed the British Moose mes from the George Washington.
The International Conference of Moose will be held in the city this week, and Moose men and women of many countries have arrived in such numbers that hotel
Hospitals' Exle.
"Since the war," added Lord Dawson, it has been a rule for all well-ordered hospitals to have accident cases treated with this serum: Yet in this city there is a hospital where they would not use the serum: A street accident was brought in and they refused to give it to the injured man, and the patient died of lockjaw;
**What is more. two...other patients subsequently died of lock- One girl who shared his travels indation is at a premium com-aw, and they call that hospital a charity. I call it a place for pro- The Hon. James J. Davies, the paganda and nothing more. I hope United States Secretary for La King Edward's Fund will take bour, and director-general of notice of the fact, and not give that. Moose, is at the head of the Ameri-hospital a certificate that it is a can delegation..
charity where the maimed and The George Washington's dis-wounded are treated by the best placement of 37,400 tons is more methods obtainable. than double that of the previous largest vessel that has ever enter ed Cardiff.
As the liner was maneuvred into the Queen Alex andra Dock her 78ft, beam have a clearance of only eft. from the walls of the sea lock, and it was two hours before she could be swung round in the dock and berthed.
GROCERS' HALL DOOMED?
CRACKS IN SPLENDID CITY
BUILDING,
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Grocers' Hall, one of the most magnificent City buildings, is in PLANES FOR DANISH AIR danger, and part of it will almost
FORCE,
certainly have to be pulled down and rebuilt
Cracks have appeared in the west wing of the ball, and supports are being set up, but probably the whole wing will have to be demolish- ed.
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Tens of thousands of spectators watched the delicate operations.
HOUSEKEEPER'S JEWEL DEAL.
£96,000 STOCK SOLD FOR
£12,800.
RUGBY, August 26th. Grocers' Hall,, despite its size and The De Havilland Aircraft Com splendour, is hidden from the street. It stands on a large site pany, Limited, have been awarded opposite the Bank of England, in the contract for the supply of eight | Prince -street. The approach is a jewellery establishment in Fifth Gipsy Moths for the training of a
through an unnoticed gateway, squadron of the Danish Royal Air opening on a splendid stone en trance, and a delightful green lawn, which not long ago was part of the company's bowling green.
LONDON, August 25th. The Daily Express says that a Force. powerful British syndicate has been formed to reconstruct parts of war ravaged China and that contracts of great value are about to be sign- ed with the Nationaliste.
The syndicate includes the follow- ing firme:-
Shipping: Mesara. Cammell, Laird'; Ellerman's; John Brown. Artiñeial Silks: Scottish Lus treen.
Cotton, Mesars, Stanley Coats and Seton.
Wool: Messrs. Wrigley and Parker.
BYRD'S ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.
FLAGSHIP SETS OUT.
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NEW YORK, Aug, 25th,- SHANGHAI, Aug. 20th.
The 180-foot barque, City of New The Auto-Min-states-that-the
York, the fagship of Commander Japanesa Government is despatch.
Another syndicate is negotiating By:d'e Antarctic expedition, with ing a special envoy to Nanking to
with the Nationalists to build roads negotiate for the eettlement of the
and railways in Chekiang and thirty-two men and 200 tons of Nanking incident, and also to deal In response to repeated requests | Kiangsu..
supplies, has sailed for Dunedin, with the question of treaty revi from Canton, Marchal Li Tsai Hain Mohn Nind Smith, whether he will be joined later sion-between-China and Japan, will book a passage at Shanghai largely instrumental in creating The choice-of-an
has not for Cantor
of this ↑ the syndiente, left for China a lew the two- vessels which are yet been decided.
month.
SHANGHAI, Aug.. 28th.
days ago.
.
participating in the expedition,
Fourth Building.
The present hall is the fourth built on the site. The interior, com- prising a noble dining-hall, drawing room, and many other rooms, is in the same style as the original Eliza bethan hall, beautifully panelled. The chief rooms are reached by a ataircase, copied from Hatfield
House
The building is scarcely forty years old. cxcely fort
The patients in these circum- stances have no choice, and yet il the governors of this hospital or their children were injured they would not go without the anti- tetanus serum. They would go to their private doctor, who would give it to them.'
Lord Banbury's amendment was rejected by thirty-three votes to five, and the Bill was read a third time.
SALE OF A TOWN.
ROMAN SPRINGS OF DROIT. WICH SPA
Almost all the town of Droitwich Spa, near Worcester, covering more than 1,000 acres, has been sold by the trustees of the late Mr. John Corbett, who was known as the Salt " King."
NEW YORK. A New York police chief seized in Avenue £90,000 worth of jewels, alleged to be the property of the John. Wanamaker Stores,
It is believed that the purchase. The jewels were bought at the price is about £50,000, store on the credit of a well-known The property includes three "Bromo Beltzer (health salts) botois, the St. Andrew's and Boyal King Captain Isaac E. Emerson, Brine Baths, a park, and a golf by his housekeeper, Mrs, Maria J. course. Leslie, who represented that she had The exclusive rights of using for authority from Mr. Emerson to make medicinal purposes the Droitwich the purchase. A
saline springs, which have existed Subsequently Mrs. Leslie sold the since Eoman times, ars also includ- jewels to the Fifth Avenue jeweller edhe dasha for £12,000, saying she needed money for Mrs. Emerson. Mrs. Leslie has now been placed by her relatives in an institute.
The purchasers, a local syndicate, intend actively to continue the de- velopment of the town and the baths
Captain Emerson, who is in Ger The springs are more densely many inspecting a yacht that he is saturated with salt than any others having built there, has telegraphed in Europe. So impregnated are the rity to pledge his credit. that his housekeeper had no autho-waters that in the swimming bath
it is impossible to sink,
Mr. Corbett was chiefly respon
The repairs will be expensive, but the Grocers' Company have an in 274 income of the Turners and the come of £38,000, compared with the
nominal income of the Paviors,
The Moscers Company, next to cover the 12.00 plus a £10,000 An action by the jeweller to re- whom the Grocera Company rank profit on what he claims was a legiti in civic precedence, have £11,000 a mate transaction, awaits the return "year"
of the "Bromo Beltzer King,"
N
sible for making known the proper ties of the Droitwich brine,... He built the St. Andrew's Baths and acquired the Royal Baths.