CHIẢNG KÀI SHEK'S TROUPS ACTIVE.
THE MARSHAL TAKES PERSONAL COMMAND.
WUHAN FORCES OUT-NUMBERED.
BRISK FIGHTING IN CHEFOO ÁREA.
No defnite news of further bostilities along the Yangtze are to hand but Marshal Chiang Kai Shek is reported to have arrived. at the front in person.
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His ariny is estimated as 150,000, and it is thought that the Wuhan party will not be able to withstand a really determined attack, owing to interior numbers.
Chang Tsung Chang has taken the offensive in Shantung, but after minor initial victories. has been repulsed, with 600 casual- fiest
The Kuomintang Conference are busy electing Commmittees, and have issued various "punitive manifestos," against the Wu- han malcontents and their allies.
FIGHTING AT CHEFOO.
LIU CHEN NIEN ON THE DEFENSIVE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
ELECTIONS AT THE'. CONFERENCE.
COMMITTEE PERSONNEL.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] CHEoo, March 90. Enemy forces last night attacked
NANKING, March 20 Liu Chen Nien from three diree Kuomintang Congress Chiang Kai At this afterncon's session of the tions, first, ca the main front at Shek, who presided, officially an- Kangy second, at Menlouchi,nounced the names of those who about three miles south of Fushan; had been elected to the Central and third, by means of junks coo-Executive Committee. taining 200 plain clothes men, who
were landed halfway between Che-obtained the required number of As only twenty five candidates foo and Maping. They destroyed a small village in this latter place, half the delegates attending, eleven votes, ., the votes of, more than and have not yet beca ejected by more will be voted for to-morrow. Liu's forces, Liu Chen Nien has instructed the gunboat Kiang Lee
to proceed there.
The village of Laishandji, fve miles south of Chefoe was also
attacked, and houses burnt.
It is not yet known whether Liu Chen, Nien is, holding his ground on the main front, hut the strictest martial law was enforced in the Chinese City from noon to-day..
Lia Turns the Tables. The previous messige regarding junks landing 200 men halfway between Chefoo and Muping is in
correct.
It should read that 2,000 of Chang Tsung Chang's men secretly en flanked Li Chen. Nien's position with the intention of attacking Chefoo from the east, but Liu's secret service discovered the plot.
A brigade of troops was sent to ineet the attackers defeating them with enemy casualties of 500 to 800
The enemy fled to the east of Mupicg, but prior to flight destroy ed five of Liu's motor lorries, and kidnapped the chauffeurs.
Apparently Liu Chen Nien is holding his position in the west.
CHIANG KAI. SHEK'S FORCES:
150,000 MEN IN THE FIELD.
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Chiang Kai Shek, Eu Han Min, Those 'elected are as follows:- Tan Yen Kai, Sun Fo, Wang Ching Wei, Madame Sun Yat Sen, Dr. T. V. Soong, Chen Kuo Fu, Ying Ching. Yen Hsi Shan, Feng Tai Chi Tao, Chu: Pei Teh, Ho Yu Hsiang, Chang Chen, Yu Yu Jen, Yeh. Tsu Chang. Chen Ming Shu, Chu Chia Kua, Wu Te Chen, Wang Feb Lin, Ho Chen Ching, Shao Yuan Chu, Lui Chi Wen, C. C. Wu, and Li Wen Fan,
The following were elected to the Central Control Committee: Shih Tseng, Tsai Yuan Pei, Wang Tse Hui, Chan Ching Kiang. Li Chung Liu, Ku Ying Feng, Teng Chai Jui, Haia Fu Chen, Shao Li Tse, Lin Seng, and Chang Chi, and one more will voted for to-morrow.
The congress will probably end on Thursday."
yesterday for Chengchow stating Feng Yu Hsiang left Paochuan he was going to Fuashan in Shensi to recuperate, and that he is taking no part in the present Wuhan- Shek's delegate Shao Li Tee has Nanking trouble. Chiang Kai
left for Honan. Chiang Kai Shek's temporary Field Headquarters are fixed at Hukou,
LI TSAI HSIN'S ARREST,
SHANGHAI COMMENT. Referring to Li Tsai Hain's quest the North China Daily News of March 23 anys
SHANGHAI, March 28. It is estimated that Marsha Chiang Kai Shek has at least
We only published under reserve 150,000 troops in Anhui and Kiang. yesterday the report that General si, of which five divisions on the Li Tsai Hsin of Canton had been North Bank of the Yangtze under arrested by General Chiang Kai Generals Lia Chi Kuo Cho Tung. Shek It seemed altogether too Chu Chno Liang Chiang Ting Wen monstrous to be believed, consider and Hsia To Yin are advancing ing that General Li went to Nen through Susung and Yingshanking at the invitation of the Nan- to Hupeh.
king Government, not only to at Two divisions under the command tend the Third Party Congress, of of Fang Ting Ying and Chao Wan which he is a member, but also to Shen are advancing through Skin assist in straightening out the Chang and Yiming on the South trouble in Bunan. As a member Bank of the Yangtare, while four of the Third Party Congress, he others under. Generals Mino Pai was immune from arrest, detention Nan, Fang Chah, Wang Chun and or the loss of civil rights during Chin Had Ting Lave been ordered the period of the Congress. Ás to march south-east of Nanchang Chief of the General Staff of the through Wantsai and Yuanchowfu toward Pinghsiang.
The Wuhan forces are said to have Hsia Wel's division at Latien- hsien and Hwangmeitsien north east of Hupeh; Tab Chun's division on the North Bank of the Yangtaze
National Army, the ranking mili tary position in the country next to the Commander-in-Chief, he is entitled to be consulted with regard to the dislocation of troops,
Sooner Detention Than a Farce. From yesterday's news however, true that
it few miles west of Wuruch: Cheat appears but too
Yu Huai's division on the South General Li, if not actually arrest
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY MARCH 27. 1929.
GIANT LINER GUTTED
GERMANY'S BLUE RIBAND " HOPE.
£2,000,000 DAMAGE. {THROUGH REUTER'S 'AGENCY.)
HAMBURG, March 28..
A fire, the cause of which is un- knowh, broke out in the forepart of the new. 46,000-ton liner Europa at the Blohmvoss Shipyard..
ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE.
DELEGATION LEAVES FOR
MOSCOW,
A LARGE PARTY.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
ROBY, March 25 The British Industrial Mission
THE IM ALONE" SINKING.
SCATHING NEWSPAPER
COMMENT.
MR. MELLON'S REPLY.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE)
WASHINGTON, March 26.
A memorandum from Mr. Mellon,
THE BURIAL OF MARSHAL FOCH.
DENSE CROWDS IN PARIS PAY TRIBUTE.
WORLD-WIDE SYMPATHY,"
POPULAR PRINCE OF WALES.
As the cortege passed the Jeanne D'Arc Statue, the bond for the first time played the Marsoil- laine. This was repented at the
(THROUGH AIUTER'S AGENCY.}
PARIS, March 20. The Europa was launched in
to Russia organised by the Anglo-Secretary of the Treasury, declares
The funeral kell for Marshal August last year and should have Russian Committee in London re- that the I'm Alone was a notorious Foch was already tolling in the Strasbourg statue, and a squbaron sailed for New York on August 21 on her maiden voyage, with the ex-cently, has left for Moscow. The de- muggler and law-breaker and not Borth tower of the Cathedral of of army aeroplanes "circled over. pectation of regaining for Ger- legation numbers 88, representing phly was a thorn in the side of the Notre Dame at midnight, when head. mpay the "Blue Riband" of the Atlantic.
more than a hundred and fifty firms United States, but actually get crowds started to assemble in the and trading organisations, and into trouble with
The Commander of the in- British Cathedral square and to take up valides and two Franco-Prussian covering nearly every important suthorities over false clearances positions on the route.
from British ports. branch of British manufacture and
war, veterans met the coffin it. Les The ship was within twelve miles
Crowds were already dense at 8 Invalides steps which were lined of the Louisiana coast when first o'clock this morning, and every-with War veterans and disabled hailed continuous pursuit where expressions of satisfaction soldiers, some in invalid chairs precisely according to known doctrine of International were heard at the attendance of
the well-
commerce.
it is claimed bribet organisers that the delegation is the most comprehensive and influential com-
The fames spread very rapidly, and enveloped the whole of the vessel in a few minutes. The efforts of all the fre brigades in Hamburg were fruitless Fire foats pump- ing water had to withdraw for fear of being crushed by the liner which listed as it was burning.
The Europa and her sister ship, the Bremen (also launched last year) were being equipped, mostbination of commercial and indus- luxuriously. They were expected to trial interests that has ever left cross to Atlantic in less than five England on a similar mission. days.
Its object is to study conditions in Russia and to survey and in vestigate openings for British trade.
The Europa wns välued at £2,000,000, but the loss is fully in- sured
THE KING STILL WEAK. MAY GO TO WINDSOR IN MAY.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
RUGBY, March 25.
good day. His Majesty went out HM the King passed another for three-quarters of an hour into the grounds of Craigweil House, and, for the first time, did not use his bath chair.
It is understood that the King has made big strides since he has. been going out into the grounds, but it is emphasised that Ris Majesty is still weak and tires analy
It is considered likely that His Majesty may go to Windsor some time in Mayif he continces to will be near London at the time progress satisfactorily, so that he of the General Election.
JAPANESE DIET SCENES.
CABINET IN DANGER.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Tokyo, March' 25. After one of the stormiest sessions on record, in which the Government's life appeared serious- ly endangered more than once," the sixth session of the Diet ended shortly before midnight.
The question of credits and of Russian, financial resources will form an important part of the en- | quiry.
The delegates expect to remain in Russia for three or four weeks, during which time they will be the guests of the Soviet Government.
They will be met at Ostend by them on to Moscow. a special train which will take
FRESH TRANSATLANTIC ATTEMPT.
SPAIN TO S. AMERICA.
(THROUGH ÄLTER'S AGENCY.]
the
to
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law ensued until she was overtaken the Prince of Wales, who has still St. Louis Chapel, and whilst the Another service was held to the and again defied United States authority."
more endeared himself The Memorandum quotes the ap- French public by his spontaneous the school choir sang a funeral
the remains was lowered in the plication of the same doctrine who wish to pay homage to the great hymn.
grave, the British Columbia Admiralty Court in 1995 condeamed the Ameri
warrior. was upheld by the Supreme Court can ship North, and the decision of Canada.
Scathing Comment.
New Yoax, March 25. A scathing lender on the "I'm Alone' incident in the evening paper, the New York Telegram, Bays the United States is now in the midst of a dangerous armament race with Great Britain, largely owing to the issue of the freedom of the scas, and "yet we are the first to violate that principle which from the beginning America has tried to make the cornerstone of international law. We don't own the seas yet and can't dry them up under the Volstead Act."
The Evening Past, which is in no respect. Prohibitionist, describes the incident as the most cowardly thing since the German submarine
outrages.
night in the barracks of the Repub. The Britain Guardamen" spent the lean Guard, and marched into Notre Dame Square in good time to take their place in the procession Their red tunics add bearakias sur. that left the Cathedral at 10.15. a.. prised the Parisians who were ac customed to the khaki-clad British Tommy of wartime.
The weather was fine.
All Business Suspended.
fe of Paris was temporarily frozen The normal throbbing and busy into silence. Houses on the route from the Cathedral to Les Invalides were crowded with spectators, and places in the windows sold for £8 shut and barred. apiece. All shops and banks were
Even
than
Simple Service.
Daine was cleared of the pubhe The Square in front of Notre at seven this morning to permit of the massing of French and foreig troops and ex-soldiers for the pro- holders began to arrive at eight. cession. Five thousand ticket.
Drums, and bugles sounded the military, salute, and the band play- ed "God Save the King" as the Prince of Wales in Welsh Guards'
Archbishops of Paris, Rheims and Government, the Cardinal and uniform, arrived, Members of the
Rennes received the Prince Prince Charles of Belgium, and President Domergue on the threshold.
As oppressive silence inside was broken only by the low murmur- homage in the Capital are the of the acolyte. The customary
more significant
ing of the priest and the responses sheaves of telegram still pouring solemn Requiem and High Mass, in from the provincial cities and the with choir accompaniment was not Official British Report.
Colonies, as for instance Inde celebrated because of its being WASHINGTON, March 25.
China and Morocco, showing univer. Holy Week, and so a simple Low SEVILLE, March 95,
The British Consulate at New sal participation in the mourning. Mass was recited by the priest Orleans has submitted to the Em- The first Transatlantic Bight at bisay a full report of the incident condolence include one from the Saint Clotilde, which seemed more The innumerable telegrams of of Marshal Foch's old parish of tempt of 1029 began from Seville and Mr. F. B. Kellogg is await- Emperor of Abyssinia. The towp in keeping with the simplicity of to-day when the well-known Spanish airmen, Captain Jiminez.
ing a report from the Treasury. of Doullens, where the supreme his life. and Captain. Inglesina took off for
It is stated that it has not yet Allied Command was conferred, on been, & Ron-stop fight to South America.
established whether theMarshal Foch on March 28, 1918, The airmen are Bying in the schooner was within the prescribed sent b delegation consisting of the "Jesus delGranpoder the hailed.
bour's run from the coast when Mayor, municipal councillors and machine in which they flew to
ex-soldiers. Basra last year.
Canada's Interests.
Arrival in Brazil.
BUENOS AIRES, March 28. ed over Natal, Brazil, heading Jiminez and Inglesias have pasa southwarda."
NEW YORK EXCHANGE SLUMP:
HIGHER RATE SPEELS DISASTER.
Though the Government weather- ed the storm à number of its most important Bills was shelved, in- cluding the Tax Transfer Bill, which was severely attacked on the grounds, inter alia, that ita passage would entail the removal of an im- portant source of revenue- 199,000,000 Yen annually at the
(LEUTEE'S AMERICAN, BERVICE.] time when the country faces the prospect of a huge naval replace,
NEW YORK, March 28. ment programme, both capital ships and auxiliaries, on the ex-rate-to 14 per cent. has marked the The elevation of the call money piration of the Washington Agree beginning of one of the most dis astrous of heavy declines in many months.
ment.
Though many observers predict that the Government, owing to the shelving of the Bills, will quit office before the summer, this Cabinet, it is reported, has decided to remain in power, in which case it will probably carry out reor ganization, before long.
TO INDIA BY AIR...
SERVICE MAY START THIS
MONTH...
Bank of the Yangtare in the vicinity ed, is living under detention. ment, Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary
Chang I Chun's and Yeh Chi's While in Nanking, General Li has
of Tungcheng and Tungahan.
to thirteen points, and even first- Many active stocks have lost five class rails sales are stamping con siderably.
THE CRISIS IN MONACO. [THECÚDË RZUTKR'S AGENOT.)...
MONTE CARLO, Mar. 25. The issue of a proclamation can celling the manifesto announcing the elections in June has led to the recrudescence of the agitation 'in Monte Czilo,
VICÁR HATES BELLS.
OTTAWA, March £5. The Canadian Government is in- volved in the sinking of the "I'm registry. Alone which is on the Canadian
Captain Randall was an officer in the British naval reserve during wartime and won the D.8.0. and the Croix de Guerre with two palma
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Two Million People.
The bells in all the churches in Paris began simultaneously to toil at the conclusion of Mass, and the mourners headed by President Daumergue, the Prince of Wales and Prince Charles of Belgium
The coffin was borne to the Cathe-led past the collik. dral Square, where a cortege haa
A conspicuous and a pathetic formed., General Pershing led the figure was Marshal Joffre, limpiak United States. delegation, and the result of a sprained ankle, Prince of Wales the British, Be and supported by two Stag hind him came Admiral of the Officers. The Prince of Wales. Fleet. Wester Wemyss and Field-greeted the old warrior, and spoke Marshals Methuen, Plumer, Allen a few words to him. by, Cland Jacob, Mime, Air. Marshal Hugh Trenchard and the Dominions representatives.
Treasury View,
The tunics of the Coldstream Mr..A. Mellon, Secretary to the detachment with the band, the Lon Treasury, has received a report des Scottish pipers, and a detach- from the coastguard on the in- cident and declares that
ment of the Royal Air Force at coastguard seem to have been tracted considerable attention; then within the law and justified in
came the Italian Alpinists and Ber- saglieri. what they have done.”
the
PROBLEM OF A LOCKED
ROOM.
LONELY MAN'S DEATH FROM HEART DISEASE.
가
The extraordinary tragedy of 24
Тебоде.
a verdict of "Death from natural alon enid that his father had
causes.**
It is officially estimated there were two million people on the pro-
cession route."
MERCHANT-FLEET-IN WAR,
DEPENDENCE ON. NAVY TO MAINTAIN TRADE,
French Premier's Oration,
M Poincare in a short funeral oration in front of Les. Invaliden said that Foch had no other ambi tion, than to serve. He desired no recompense but a sentiment of duty accomplished.
"Let as bow before the sacred remains of him who, in serving France served humanity, and who will continue to live for pros perity."
amer
the Great War to handle
the chant vessels, in war-time,
Baiders such as the Emden, the lecturer stated, were more, of nuisance that a menace, Sir Nor
man who was found dead in the dent on
How much this country it depen-man told of a case where a ship the Mercantile Marine was safely, escorted by the Navy back pariour of his shop at during war time was emphasized by to Falmouth, but on the voyage up Eamont-atrect, St. John's Wood, Sir Norman Leslie, who wai con- chanel was sunk by an enemy sub- with the door locked on the inside nected with the Transport Depart and barricaded with a chair, wasi
marine,
The Admiralty could, not be nient of the Admiralty during the the subject of an inquest at Mary Great War, in a lecture at the blamed in a case like that, because Royal United Services Institution it was impossible to unload the ship He was Mr. Henry John Benin London on "The Mercantile at Falmouth and even if it had ford, aged sixty-seven, »i mater Marine.in a Future War."..."
been the railway bridges in Corá confectioner. The coroner recorded Sir Norman pointed out that the wall, would have been unable to programme to be adopted in time carry th weight of this particular our opponents would risk the com-destroying merchant shipping the of war would depend on whether go.
If the enemy adopt the system of. international law, in destroying merchant shipping...
in the last war, must be užė dependent on the Navy for pro-warming of danger and assist in r
The Mercantile Marine is entirely Convoys must have aircraft to Eive I have had such bad nights, due tection to enable it to maintain pelling bombing attacks. no doubt to my being so solitary trade, said Sir Norman, It was I did miss mother so much and comna knowledge that if the im- fretted so much, but I could not porte of this country were to cease hop it. I hope if I do anything entirely, starvation would raah you will all forgive me.. evitably follow within a week or It seems hard when I ought to be
i two. enjoying a little rest, but that is Enter
divisions are holding Liling to the found himself surrounded and standing points betweed the British AS BAD AS CATS AND THE been depressed since the death of plications, involved by violating conroy system, such as was used
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
RUGBY, March 25... Replying to a question in Parlia
for Air, said, the few minor out-
westward of. Pingatang, while Hu shadowed by General Chiang Kai Government and the Italian Gar- trnment in connection with the Taung Tao's division are garrision-bek's adjutants all the time. ing the Wahan towns."
Even when he attended sessions of projected air service to India had the Third Party Congress, he was been satisfactorily settled, and he never alone. He could hold no hoped the service would be inau- private conversations or even read gurated before the end of this
friends, The result was that he contemplated. went to the Hot Springs and re mained there, as it was preferable
The Wahan available forces are estimated at 60,000, which is deemed insufficient to hold the Nanking
forces should the latter take the his correspondence, according to month over the route originally
offensive.
Hostilities Reported.
•
SHANGHAI March 26. It is reliably reported that severe to be under detention there than fighting has broken out in the to keep up the masquerade of free vicinity of the boundary between dom in Nanking, where there was the north of Hupeh province (the no freedom.
Kwangsi faction's side) and the
north of Anhui province (the Nan-
king faction's side); also to the ment) is expected to leave Nanking south of the Yangtze River, in the for Kiukiang to-day. vicinity of the boundary between
The whereabouts of General Pei
Hunan province, (the Kwangai fac Chung Hai are uncertain.`
tion's side) and Kinagai province (the Nanking faction's side)...
The fighting on the Hunan- Kiangai frontier, was near Wantsai and Tungkubsjen.
Japan Alärmed..
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Tokyo, March 25. Owing to the anticipated out- break of disturbances along the Yangtze River between Naaking and Hankow (a. stretch of nearly 400 miles), the Japanese Naval nauthorities have decided to des
"
FIGHTING BEGINS.
BAGPIPES.
Church, Derby (the Rev. C.. A.
The Vicar of St. Michael's Page) has made what he describes the ringing of church bells, which na rebellious" outburst against he classes with Scottish bagpipes and cats at night.
The vicar's church stands a few hundred yards from Derby Cathe dral, where what is regarded as a According to a telegram received very fine peal of bells is hung in by the Industrial and Commercial | the lofty tower. These, bells are Daily Prese, the Wuhan forcer at pealed every Sunday, and frequent-
and wired Marthal Chiang as to tacked Nanking troops at Ying-y during the week.“ ahan. General Heia who was in com-
No Music at All, Referring to the bells the vicar what he should do. Chiang replied of St. Michael's says: "I, personal
attack the enemy.” Another telegram states that the loathe them. They are like a red ly loathe, church bells-absolutely Wuhan troops are attacking Wao-rag to a bull to me: a mere row; tsai and Tungku.
no music at all."
ether-church beds, Scottish bag. "I always class three things to pipes, and cats at night,
"I do not know which is the
The gunboat Chu Chien proceeded to Nanking from Shanghat on Monday by order of Admiral Yang Shu Chwang.
his wife in November.
Letter Found,
which was found:
Mr. Benford wrote in a note
in-
Oil and Fulverized. Fuel, I wish all who have been good maintained to pay for the imports Exports, however, must also be to me all the best, but others who and prevent the loss of markets. have acted unkind to me I don't after war is over. This was illus know what for I hope they will trated by the cotton trade with the be paid back in some bad way. Sudanese, who before the war used My nerves are all confused cotton goods made in Lancashire, The coroner remarked that it was but during the war the Japanese deace negatived any idea of poison-trade." a pocáliar case. The medical em set up mills and captured this
ing, but the doctor found serious. The growth of oil as a fuel added surrounding the death created a ing war, by increasing our depen heart disease. The circumstances to the perils of Great Britain dar vertais, amount of suspicion that dence on outside sources, and the Mr. Benford was about to commit promtime of paiverized coni as a fuel gave hope that this dependence would be considerably decreased shipping the Navy must be assisted For the protection of merchant by an expert body, corresponding to the Ministry of Shipping during
Forty of Marshal Chiang Kai Shek's military staff left Nanking for Kiukiang (the, port of Kiangm,
It is reported from Nanking that worst. There is as much music in suicide, although he did not actual on the Yangtze) this afternoon,
the 52nd Division marched via any of them, or none in any at all.ly state so in the letters he left Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, the patch the minelayer Tokiwa and Lotien, the 18th Division is in head of the Nanking faction (and, three destroyers to Shanghai Huangme and the 16th Division were made to camp on Salisbury Death, no doubt way from heart
I often wish the campanologists behind th therefore, of the National Govern These warships will probably be has passed Wusuch. Fighting in Plain or somewhere else and stay disease after he locked and blocked (Continued at foot of next column.) sailing for China on March 27. imminent.
there,"
the parlour door
a
The merchant navy now fully re- cognized that the menacé of gun shell fire is much greater thair that of the torpedo or. serial bomb. The Great War can have left no one in doubt, and in any future. wär the enemy is certain to concentrate on the destruction of our mercom- power, he concluded. tile flest by every means, in his.
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