NORTHERN MUTINY DARING HOLD-UPS
AT LUNGKOW.
41
CHANG TSUNG CHANG'S PLOT,
SECRET LEAGUE AGAINST KUOMINTANG.
[Fa Ta Yat Pao).
SHANGRAI, Jan. 29th. Considerable light is thrown on the mutiny of Northern troops com
BY BANDITS.
PERILS OF PEKING-TIENTSIN
ROAD.
TWO AMERICANS FIRED ON,
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
PIXING, Jan. 27th.
Two well-known American resi- dents, Mr. and Mrs. Eastham, were
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 29th, 1929.
PREMIER'S POWERS KING'S CONTINUED WIDE SUPPORT FOR
IN JUGOSLAVIA.
AMANULLAH.
PROGRESS.
MINISTERIAL COUNCIL NOT NEW YEARS HONOURS LIST. BEGGED TO RESUME POWER.
NEEDED.
WIDER RESPONSIBILITIES.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
BELGRADE, Jan. 23th. The Ministerial Council practic. ally ceases to exist as an executive organ under the new act regulating Minister may make a decision after
POSSIBLE ISSUE IN
FEBRUARY.`
THXOCOR REUTER'S AGENCY.)
LONDON, Jan. 98th. The King passed a quiet night and slow progress in big condition continues, Sir Hugh Rigby was
this morning.
INDIA'S POLICY.
(THROUGH REOTER'S AGENCY.]
BOMBAY, Jan. 28th. The Afghan Consulate at Bombay Announces that Amanullah, at the earnest request of the people of Kandahar, Farah, Hirat, Mizari
UNPOPULARITY OF COALITIONS.
LIBERALS AND LABOUR IN
AGREEMENT
SIR HERBERT SAMUEL'S
: STATEMENT.
[BRITISH WIRELESS BËRVICE]
ANGLO-AMERICAN GOODWILL.
FUNDAMENTALLY UNIM. PAIRED,
DIFFICULT PROBLEMS TO BE SETTLED.
[BAITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}
**** Roosy, Jan. 28th.
Ruday, January 27th... A possible Coalition between
Much happier references to Labour and the Liberals if the made at an important dinner at Anglo-American relations word
manded by General Liu. Kai Tal at involved in a nasty experience with its functions. Now a responsible the only doctor to visit the Palace Sharif, Waimena and Kataghan has Conservatives are not returned. to Birmingham last night when Sir "Lungkow, Shantung, according to a
report received by the Central News Agency at Nanking.
moter-bandits yesterday afternoon, their car. being held up after the
ing.
consultation with the Premier, and
It is understood that as soon a
again accepted the reins of Govern. Power at the next General Election was repudiated yesterday by lead Great national activities
ment.
Non-Intervention. At New Delhi in his address at the re-opening of the assembly the Viceroy emphasised that the policy
Austen Chamberlain, the British
firing of shots, and then left strand the latter, on the recommendation the King is well enough, the post-have started in those centres withing members of both the Liberal Foreign Secretary, and Mr. A. B...
sultation with two senior Ministers, be submitted to him. Official quar of the Finance Minister and in con- poned New Year's Honours hat will Kandahar as headquarters. may make a decision which former.ters consider that possibly the list ly required the unanimous assent of may be issued in February,
A Sign Of Confidence, the Parliamentary, finance control committee.
No bulletin
issued from Buckingham Palace on Monday Although it was stated authorita tively that there was little change in the King's condition.
It was the culmination of a series of daring, hold-ups carried out by bandits on the Tiantsin- Peking Rond during the afternoon,
It appears that General Liu hased on the road between Peking and been prevailed upon to desert the Tientsin, the outlaws smashing the Nationalist regime by General
engine of their car before depart Chang Tang Chang, who is now busily planning with other ex-war-` lords to exert the traditionall Northern influence" On their former subordinates with the object of overthrowing the Kuomintang, Others generals at Jehehao and Luiyuen in Shantung are also secretly in league with them against the Kuomintang
A Few Flag. General Chang Tsung Chang is not this time an advocate of the five-barred flag as the national dag, but has invented a new one which retains the originai, five colòura, but
is quite different in appearance. Among those who have received high appointments from him are
• Liu Chi Luk, Chin Wen Ping, and Huang Feng Chi
Dairen is now the centre of their movement, where there are residing many well-known retired warlords, including Chen Chiung Ming, Chu Yo Fu, Sun Chuan Fang, Tang Sheng Chi and a personal repre, sentative of Wu Pei Fu.
GENERAL MISSING.
(Fak Ts: Tat Pas).
SHANGHAI. Jan, 29th.
A message from Kiungsi states that there was a Communist out- break in the Ningwa district on the 26th inst. It is reported that General Li Lieh Chun, who since his retirement has returned to his birthplace in this district, is miss ing.
On hearing this General Chu Pai Teh immediately telegraphed to verify the report.
ADMIRALS WITHDRAW
RESIGNATIONS.
THROUGH REUTER'S ASKMOY.]
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25th. Chinese newspapers state that Chiang Kai Shok has prevailed upen Admiral Chen Shao Kwan and Admiral Chen Chi Liang to with draw their resignations.
MME. SUN YAT SEN.
(THRONGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Jan. 28th. It is reported that Madame Sun Yat Sen arrived at Changchan on January 26th en route for Peping BELGIAN CONCESSION AT TIENTSIN.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
SHANGHAI, Jan. 28th.
They first stopped, two motor- buses and plundered the passengers, aad then beld up a motorcar in which were several Chinese and rob- bed them of money and valuables. All these vehicles were allowed to proceed without damage.
1.
VOTES FOR WOMEN.
BALDWIN UNVEILS STATUE
TO MRS. PANKHURST,
[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE. ]
Rroay, Jan. 28th.
The Prime Minister has consent
The last victims were Mr. and Mrs. Eastham They wete traveled to unveil a statue to be erected Eng in a Ford ear."
Was
As an indication of the
con-
fidence that the King's progress unlikely to receive a set back, the afternoon visits of the medical advisers have now been abandoned, and the doctors are seeing him singly and in turns in the morn
at Westminster of Mrs, Pankhurst.ings and evenings. Challenged by the bandits Mr. The fact that the Premier will un-
Lord Dawson's visit last night Eastham, who is a well-known law-veil her memorial marks a remark-asted less than a quarter "of an yer, did not stop the car as promptable reversal of public opinion re-
as the bandits desired, and they opened fire, shattering the wind- screen, but fortunately not wound- ing either Mr. Easthamn or his wife robbers stripped M78. Eastham of her rings and bracelets and a wrist-watch, and then rifled the suitcases
The
Before making off, several of: them fired their pistols into the engine of the car, kaving it, a derelicit.
UNIFICATION OF U.S.
RAILWAYS.
GIGANTIC SCHEME
APPROVED.
THE NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
garding women's suffrage,
hour.
in
of the Government was one of scrapulous non-intervention Afghanistan,
and Labour Parties. Sir Herbert Houghton, the American Ambas Samuel Chairman of the Liberalador in London, were among those Party, speaking at Newcastle, said present,
Mr. Houghton, who first express 1994 would not be repeated. The Liberal Party are putting forwarded the deep thankfulness felt in the 430 çandidates next election, while United States that His Majesty," two years ago there were only 180 King George, was now apparently Liberal candidates,
on the high road to recovery, went friendship between Britain and the an to refer to the ancient ties of United States.
"
"He also announced the appoint-
Mr. Arthur Headerson, a mem ment of a Royal Commission to in-ber of the late Labour Government, vestigate the Indian labour prob. speaking yesterday said that be was lem, with the late Speaker, the Rt. not enthusiastic about any possible Han, J., H., Whitley, as chairman. The Government has also decided to re-introduce proposals to deal
with Communist agents from abroad.
Issue Of Passports Suspended. The Indian Government has sus- pended the issue of passports of permits to visit Afghanistan to all except Afghans.
The announcemeat arose as the
Women now have votes at the LONDON TO PARIS result of applications for passports
age of 21 on the same terms aa men.
LONDON'S TELEPHONE
CALLS.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Ruday, Jan 28th.
The number of local telephone calls originated in the London ser. vice during 1928 was $82,000,000, and increase of 7 per cent. over the figures for the previous year.
"PRINCE'S VISIT TO TO COALFIELDS.
PERSONAL INVESTIGATION.
NO ADVANCE PLANS.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
Ruany, Jan. 7th.
RAILWAY.
AUTHOR EXPLAINS HIS SCHEME.
£190,000,000 DREAM.
by deputationa from the Central Khilafat Committee.
The Foreign Secretary, in the course of a telegram to the chair man of the Committee, bases the Government's action on the civil Will ninety miles an hour non-bility of the roads, and the dangers war in Afghanistan, the impassi- stop trains be running direct from to life and property which may London to Päris a few years hence oblige the Government
Mr. William Collard, of Savile- row, who has been thirty years per- fecting the details of a Channel tunnel scheme, says yes,
at
future coalition.
NANKING AND THE PROVISIONAL COURT.
LIFE SENTENCE TOO.
LENIENT.
BANDITS SENT FOR
RE-TRIAL..
Shanghai, January 23rd-For the first time in the history of the Pro- has been sent back from Nanking visional Court a case completed here on the plea that the sentences pass ed by the court of Erst instance here have been found insufficient,
has been ordered. to the crime by the Kiangsu Pro vincial Government, and a retrial
And oddly enough the case is one involving four Chinese in armed kid- any napping and the sentences passed at the Provisional Court, include three for life terms and one for 16 hearing was composed of Judge years. The Court at the original Wong and Senior Consul's Deputy, Mr. Burdett.
moment to evacuate even males."
Attention is also drawn to the Recessity for scrupulous observance of the principle of non-intervention in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
SIAM'S SATISFACTORY BUDGET.
A BIG BALANCE. The Budget report for 1928-29 dated December 12th, is an extra- The total revenue collected during ordinarily interesting document. the year was Ticais 14,250,000 over
Say
The Ambassador declared that the needed no discussion and remained goodwill that had always existed fundamentally unimpaired.
Fundamental Desire.
Sir Austen Chamberlain referred to the great extent to which Anglo- American relations were discussed in Britain, and said he thought that the reason was not to be found. in the fact that these relations were" impaired, but in the fact that we are peculiarly sensitive as a people to anything which even seemed to deviate from the close and warm friendship which is the traditional policy of every British Government and the fundamental desire of our people to maintain with the United States.
There was, he said, only one dif had encountered and that was how ference which the two Governments they should apply limitation of to their different circumstances and naval armaments fairly and justly conditions.
Applying The Principle.
But it is important to observe," Sir Austen went on, "that the dif ference between us then was not a difference of principle.
We admit freely and willingly, parity between the United States. and Great Britain regarding naval forces.
have never made to any other It is an admission which we nation, which we should have made to no other nation, and such dif The Government's Order,
ferences as have occurred, have not, therefore, been differences of prin-. In the order for the retrial, the ciple, but mere differencs arising Kiangsu Provincial Government out of difficulties of applying that "At the time of the commis-principle to the very different cir- sion of the kidnapping, the defend. cunstances and needs of our two ant, Tsang Yoong Sung served as countries. a chauffeur of the motor car in which the kidnapped person was taken. The other defendant, Wang joined the car. They all had fire Zau Ching subsequently met and arms in their possession. The de
His dream has been brought a step nearer realisation by the pub lication of his book, "Proposed London and Paris Railway," and by the recent formation of a private The Prince of Wales leaves Lon-promoting company to deal with don to-morrow night for Newcastle, the preliminary finance." WASINGTON, Jan. 27th
to begin his three days' tour of the distressed areas in the Northumber the largest railway land and Durham coalfields. unification programmes brought be Lord Mayor's Relief Fund, will be
The Prince, who is Patron of the fence, has accepted a detailed copy the estimate, the principal increases tendant, Tseu Kyang Sung let bis fore the Inter-State Commerce Com-accompanied by its organising mission has been favourably con- secretary.
His visit is to be largely personal, sidered.
and no plana have been made in advance, since his daily movements cumstances which may arise. will be determined by different cir- His purpose is to see for himself
One of
The Commission has declared that the acquisition under lease, by the
The Prime Minister, as president of the Committee of Imperial De- of the proposals.
Every aspect of the scheme has been worked out to a fine point and Collard said to a Daily Express re- paased by engineering experts," Mr. presentative.
Peculiar situation. of this proposed railway. For sheer "Now take the peculiar situation
",
patience, and at the proper and "It is inconceivable that with opportune moment, friends should difficulties which have hitherto pre- not be able to resolve the technical vented them reaching an agreement,
New York Central Railroad, of the the general and domestic conditions į masses of population on which to ments bad, been made there was a Court found all of them guilty of independent.
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and in the coalfields. St. Louis Railway, the Michigan. Central Railway and other lines subsidiary to the present New York Central system, is in the public
interest.
An order approving the acquisi tion will be entered if the New York Central Railway offers to purchase
application.
The Six Ton Pao states that Dr. the six short-line railways sub- C. T. Wang and the Belgian Minis.sidiary to the trunk system which ter having reached an agreement were not included in the original for the rendition of the Belgian Concession át Tientsin, the Foreiga, Minister has appointed two. Com missioners to take over the Conces Bior
EXCHANGE OF VIEWS.
(Wah Tez Tat Pao)."
SHANGHAI, Jann, 28th.
After the informal conversation
MANCHURIAN MINE EXPLOSION.
(THROUGH BEUTKH'S AGENCY.}
SHANGHAI, Jan. 28th.
With reference to the Prince's behalf of the Distress Fund, this Christmas Eve wireless appeal on produced an immediate response. £600,000, and the Government is The Fund is now approaching contributing an amount equivalent to that publicly subscribed.
RICKSHAMEN, WITHOUT
RICE.
་་
draw nothing in the world can be compared, not even New York and Chicago.
being from the Railways (Ticals house be used as the kidnappers
Dinerent Circumstances.. Interest (Ticals 1,734,348), Land sons 2,480,928), Opium (Ticals 2,231,060), nest for hiding the kidnapped per
"Britain has widely scattered The defendant King Lob Empire connections which pass Revenue (Ticais 1,508,941), and Aung, accompanied the kidnapped acuss oceans. The United States is Customs (Ticals 1,210,840). On the person to the nest and subsequently compact nation upon a continent expenditure side, there was an es guarded him. All these facts have separated by an ocean from the timated surplus of Ticals 911,812, been definitely established and it troubles, passions, hatreds and pre- 17,758,374... whereas that realised was Ticals is not difficult to decide who are judiscs of the Old World, and is After various adjust the principal offenders. The Lower self-supporting, self-contained and balance left of Ticals 17,750,000 to rendering assistance to the kidnap swell the Treasury balance. In ping and mitigated their respective and oure there is an immense gulf "Between their circumstances brief, the actual cash balances at panishments. This is not correct. fixed by history and geography, home sad abroad increased during There was no reason given in the The problem is to find some on which Sir Edward Cook, the pond with the provision of Article which both nations desire may be an excellent showing indeed and one tion. Nor does the decision corres.. the year by over Ticale 28,000,000, original judgment for the mitiga conclusion by which we can measure naval. strength so that the parity. Financial Adviser, is to be very 2 Section 2 of the Bandit Law, there reached at a level which will pro heartily congratulated.
fore we return the case to be re-dece, not an increase in the arma- tried."
ments of the world, but a reduction.
The Trade Balance,
LA
population of eight millions, at an "At one terminal you have
tion of Western Europe, including other three millions. The popula Britain, amount to 240 millions.
"The potential travellers out of these vast numbers will all convergo on the two points. London and Paris, or possibly Boulogne for the the trade balance in favour of Siam
It is of importance to note that Plea Prezzed By Counsel northern countries for the railway during the past five years has in- Prosecutor, Mr. R. T. Bryan, plead- ROBBERY ON COAST-
At the original trial the Police will run direct from Dover to creased by 28 per cent. the averageed for the death sentence but was Calais, and then past Boulogne to being Ticals 33,788,608 a year. unsuccessful and when the case Pariz
Most of the increase was due to the export of rice, the area under which Judge Shen and Senior Consul's
ING SHIP. was brought up yesterday before
41
PETITION FOR PROTECTION.
"The actual distance is 233 miles, Yokohama, January 18th (U.P.) of which the tunnel will take up The Municipal-Assembly of Yoko forty-four. hama has been brought face to face The company would undertake with the economic problem of rick-the building of the tunnel, and in sha relief legislation. Seventy-one my estimates I have allotted a sum peliers of the two-wheeled taxis of £600,000 to the two companies, who have stations the Yokohama British and French, who have been Customs Compound cathe water-
now.
TAI PO SEK. PASSENGERS DETAINED.
high seas has been reported to the Another daring robbery on the local police by Lo Cho Yau, the Chinese Chief Officer of the French coastal steamer Tai Po Sex, the eum involved. being 84,000.
ia continually increasing. As Sir Deputy Mr. Shimizu he again ap- $4,000 STOLEN FROM THE Edward Cook points out, this rate plied for the execution of the four. of increase may not be maintained but in any casc Biam's credit he pointed out that under the abroad is not likely to diminish and bandit law the men could obtain a In a strong speech to the bench
during the year under review she mitigation of sentence only when was enabled to acquire no less than they were either below the age of 13 or above the age limit of 30 viz., Ticals 1,156,000 of rice, the bandit law provides for a lesser Ticala 0,947,218 of teak reale ing of sentence in cases wherein 2.538,803 of tin and Ticals 6,335,602 the accused turned the kidnapped of rubber, show how this comes person free of their own free will.
The report states that the vessel was carrying. a. consignment of He explained that despite the about $28,000 in Chinese bank opinion of the counsel for the accus notes and coins to the Kwong Wo ed the clause referred to could not Tai and
about-Straits Táncs.
A disastrous explosion in a coat.front assembled recently and elect engaged on the tunnel project up to Ticals 48,800,000 in foreign cur- mine in Manchuria is reported in s ed one of their number to visit the. You make no mention of road. renoy. Her exports for the year, years. Again he pointed out that which took place between Mr message received from Mukden this Municipal Offices and deposit a trafic." Yoshizawa and Dr. C. T. Wang last
orniag
petition with 71 signatures, askingThis would be out of the ques Saturday, it seems that there is like-red in the early hours of this morn- It states that the explosion occur.
that the city pass legislation making tion for motor vehicles. The drivers it possible for rickaha pullers to and passengers would be dead be ly to be little prospect that forinaling in the first pit of the South keep on pulling ricksha. negotiations will be resumed in the
Manchuria
The petition set forth that the fore they ever got through-irota immediate future. However, Mr.
Railway Company's"
petrol fumes. orine at Yentai.
new tram lines and the new 'bus Yoshizawa will entertain Dr. Wang
Problem Of The Fames. to dinner to-morrow, when it is Chinese winers are missing,
Three Japanese and a hundred routes recently opened by the city
"The shafta at each end would ung, has declared war on tobacco. tion be construed as reading that the Chief Officer's cabin, made up Peping's Reform Mayor, Ho Chi by the widest stretch of imagina-Hong Kong Chung Tai firms at expected that there will be a fur.
are taking rice from the mouths of
The money was in Yokohama's 1,500 ricksha men. be ventilated, of course, but nothing He has issued an order forbidding mitigation could come about in cases in eackcloth bundles ther exchange of views.
Cheap taxis also have done their has yet been devised which would any official employed in the Peping wherein the freedom of the victim MARSHAL LI TSAI HSIN.
part and now, said the petitioners, carry away these fumes effectively.
Just before the ship's arrival at the ricksha business is kept alive" "What we are waiting and hop-in or out of office hours. China such freedom in the course of their ported the theft of four bundles city government to smoke cigarettes, came through the police effecting Hong Kong the Chief Officer re- almost solely by incoming tourists ing for now is a reversal of the needs money for reconstruction," [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
duties, who cannot resist the old-fashioned Committee of Imperial Defence's says Mayor Ho H.M.S. Sirdar will leave Hong vehicle's novelty, and persons who decision of four years ago to reject waste millions each year in smok- little doubt of the guilt of the ne- thought to have occurred between But the Chinese He pointed out that there was from his cabin containing Chinese was 20-cent pieces. The larceny is SHANGHAI, Jan, 28th. Kong for Shanghai on February live in some of the subarbs whose the tunnel. proposals. Marshal Li Tani Hain arrived in 7th, and HLM.S. Thracian and streets are. so narrow that taxis We do not anticipate any dif- this, but public officials should have if the Bandit Law were to be taken morning.
ing. The ignorant people amy do used and stressed the point that 6 am and 8.30 am. yesterday Shanghai from Nanking to-day, and Sepoy on February 16th, will sail for Hong Kong en route
cannot enter them.
ficulties with regard to finance, better case. H.M.8. Foxglove leaves Shanghai No definite protective legislation although the cost will be enormous got his antipathy for tobacco from possible was death and it was for at West Point, and, we understand Mayor Ho probably at its face value the only sentence, The vessel is at present at anchor for Canton on Tuesday. Following on February 11th for Hong Kong, was suggested, and about the only (in the region of £100,000,003). his arrival in Canton ho will pay a calling at Nimrod Sound, Pagoda ordinance possible would be one earth, and will mean the excava-shal Feng to Moscow two years ago, much of the evidence that had pre-
Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang, who is this sentence that he pleaded The tunnel will be 100ft under his patres secompanied Meftere lang beasing on webzes un bored wife thorough search the passengers have been detained medzit do his native place in Bangkhochozegrand to route batring to
after which he will return to Nan and is due here on March 1st. king in time to take part in the H.M.S. Concord left. Singapore ever, that the Municipal Assembly.
Compound. It is improbable, how. tion of 300,000,000 cubic yardı. Marshal Feng still forbids soldiers viously been given was reviewed a "This should mean work for in his extensive armies from using remand was ordered-N-G. Daily Kuomintang Delegate Conference. yesterday for Colombo,
100,000 men.
tobacco.
New"
-MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL
VESSELS...
“táxis” from the Custom
will act at all;
of the ship is being made. Up to
had been reported and the money a late hour last night no arrests Thad not been recovered