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CHANG FAT FUI TO ATTACK
KWANGTUNG.
SPECIAL TASK FOR " IRONSIDES" AND SEMI-RED GENERAL.
WAR PREPARATIONS IN FULL SWING.
INVITATION TO HSU CHUNG CHI.
Nothing is more likely to make the Kwangtung forces. fight' hard and the whole province stand solid bohind them than the news that the semi-red Chang Fat Fai has been appointed to a “ command in South Kiangsi and it is with his troops that the first clash is expected.
Our Chinese correspondent describes below the situation, and movements of troops and leaders, which hose interested in the crisis can follow for themselves on the map. [TROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT]
CARTON, March 27. Extensive war preparations ia Canton continue unabated, in spite of appeals for peace by General Chen Ming Sha, the civit, head of the Kwangtung Provincial Govern ment, who is still in Hospital in Hong Kong.
General Tang Shik Tsang, the "Canton Garrison Commander, has stated that war-like preparations will cease if Chiang Kai Shek re leases Marshal Li Tani Hsin and withdraws his troops from the troubled areas in Central China.
Empty talk will lead us no- where,' he added. "Have not Messrs. Wu Tze Hui, Chang Ching the Kuomintang pleaded and plead Kiang and other old members of ed with Chiang Kai Shek for the release of Marshal Li Tani Hsin What have they accomplished Nothing."!
ANOTHER CONFERENCE
HELD.
A HATED, GENERAL.
Canton and the whole of South China are particularly alarmed at the report that Chang Fat Fui, the hated "Ironside" leader who let the "Reds" capture Canton is again on
the scene
AS one of Chiang's trusted lieutenants. He has again taken, it is said, com- mand of the Ironsides" and is at Kanchow in Southern Kiangsi, with the invasion of Kwangtung as his objective. ・・
ON THE BORDER. More troops are being rushed to General Heung Hen Piag's First the border. Three regiments from Kwangtung Division arrived Canton from Chungshan district last night en route for Shiukwan,
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These troops came in several large junks commandeered for the pur- pose and are proceeding to the front by the Canton-Hankow Rail way.
Another conference was held yes
General Heung Han Ping is still terday afternoon at the Military in Kongmoon but will proceed to Headquarters, the proceedings Shiukwas to direct operations in being secret and no statement the course of the next few days. A made. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek detachment of Canton gendarmes still has not replied to Canton's have also been sent to Shiukwan to ultimatem and the local Govern- keep up discipline among the troops meat are taking the necessary steps."
The Canton Naval Department also called a meeting of its senior officers to discuss war plans. All forts and warships in the province have been ordered to keep a sharp lookout for pirates and the two new gunboats, Chung. Yuen and Chung Kai, have been ordered to patrol between Macao Fort and Whampoa night and day.
1 Chiang Kai Shek has, an re- Terted, despatched Admiral Yang Shu Chwang, of the Northern Fleet, to take over the Canton Navy a stiff fight will result.
there.
Brigadier-General Yu Hon Mow of the First Kwangtung Division is reported to be in Nan Hung, a strategic point on the extreme north of Ewangtung. The "Iron- sides " as stated are reported to have arrived in Kanchow, not so very far from Nan Hung, and the first clash between Canton and Nan king is expected to be not far off, and it is hoped that Chang Fat Fu will get a heating like he had after he bolted from Canton.
WIRELESS COMMUNICA
Wireless
TIONS.
communicationa
are
POLITICAL COUNCIL TO REMAIN.
being re-established between Naa Hung and Canton. There are alte Following the severance of rela-gether four military wireless tions with Nanking the Canton stations at the present time.
to the authoriies are going to add two But Government has decided not abolish the Political Council. It more as condíticas require, Hend- will be remembered that Nanking quarters having sent a group of ordered the dissolution of all Poli engineers to Shiukwan and cther tical Councils before the 13th of outlying posts for the purpose, who March. The local authorities hold will be under the control of Mr.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1929.
YAUMATI STREET SHOOTING AFFAIR.
MORTGAGING AN ARMED LAUNCH.
CHARGES AGAINST HONG KONG AGENT.
SMART NEPHEW OF HONEST
OLD CAPTAIN.
An odd story of alleged fraud by the brisk young" nephew of Jan; honest looking old captain of a sea-going junk was unfolded yester.} day at the Central Magistracy before Mr. E. W. Hamilton when, Mak Chan Loong was charged with fraudulently mortgaging an armed launch to Dr. R. A Basto, a local medical practitioner, and obtaining a large sum of money thereby, sk is alleged also to have forged the name of a dead man.
Mr. H. G. Sheldon, instructed by" Bass & Co., appeared for the com plainants, and Mr. Lap d'Almada'o Castro, Sar, for the defendant. of the prevalence of piracies in 1997, seven porcelain firms of Can ton formed an association, the Fe purchasing and equipping an arm. On Company, for the purpose of ed launch to convoy junks between
Mr. Sheldon said that on account
Swatow and Canton,
Chiu On and appointed one of They bought a launch, the Sag their number, named Ng Shing, a partner in the Yuen Hop firm, as managing partner.
INQUEST ON CHILD WHO WAS KILLED.
ONLY FOUR SHOTS FIRED BY THE POLICE.
LANCE SERGT. HENDERSON'S EVIDENCE.
-,
An inquest was opened at the Kowloon Magiatrday yesterday afternoon into the circumstances of the death of a Chinese girl.. anmed Wong Mui Tsai, who was shoc in Yaumati on the morning of March 8. Mr. T. B. Whyte Smith acted as Coroner, with a special jury consisting of Messrs. J. A. Plummer (forsman), Wong Kam Fuk, and Cheng Shou Yan.
At the outset the Coroner romarked that the object of the in- quiry was to investigate the circuinstances of the death of a young Chinese girl. This was not à prosecution. The object was to get all information available on the subject. It will be remembered that shots were fired during a police pursuit of an alleged offender, and that three children were hit, eng with fatal results.
There was an entrancë
the Lane towards Mongkok. While in Canton Road witness fired a a other two shots at the man but still, without efect. The fugitive was thon 40 to 50 yards ahead." He turn-
Street, where witness lost sight of. him.
out of Canton Road into Sai
Nobody About.
When he fired his first two shots in the scavenging lame no one else was in the place. Nor was there anyone about when witness fired his next two shots in Canton Road. People had all scattered on bearing the hue and cry
Medical Evidence. Dr. D. J. Valentine, Med'cal Officer in charge of the Kowloon Hospital, said that the girl was brought to the hospital at 11.15 am For March 8 suffering from bullet wound and an exit wound. The wounds.
entrance wound was just below the jaw on the left side, while the exit An old and trusted skipper of wound was behind the neck on the one of their junks, Mak Kut right side. The child was admitted Cheung, was given the command of to the hospital and treatment car
bour regulations, etc., he get his chord. She was paralysed from the shooting, a small girl named Wong the launch. As he was not con- ried out at once. It would seem versant with the Hong Kong Har that there was injury to the spinal
Returning to the scene of the first employers to appoint his nephew, neck downwards, and remained in Mai Tsai, about 10 years of age the defendant, as their Hong Kong critical condition until the early was found lying against a street in March, 1997, on a salary of $30 ber breathing got worse. She died having been shot through the right agent. The defendant was engaged hours of the next morning when water hydrant in Dundas Street at 4 km, on March 9, The post cheek. A Chinese girl named Leung mortem revealed that the bullet bad Thai Mai, about 17 years of age, passed through the spinal chord. had been shot through the right This was the cause of death as it arm, and a boy, named Chan Kam. used a paralysis of respiration shot through the right leg. The The deceased was identified by her injured children were immediately father and Inspector Lane who
sent to hospitak. brought her to the Hospital the On January 3 of this year, a jet-previous day. The Coroner ques ter was received by Mr. Chan Wan tioned the doctor as to whether the Po from the defendant telling a wound gave any indication as to fellow," Lau Ng, and asking for fired. Witness replied that the fact story about trouble with a "rough the distance at which the shot was
short, defendant asked for lean of the neck indicated that the money to smooth matters In that it went right through the bones of $125.
shot, assuming that it was a re volver shot, was fired moderately close.
a month.
Ng Shing died on February 6, of last year, in Canton, and Chan War. Po was appointed managing partner of the Po On in Ng Shing's place.
Monetary Difficulties."
The money was not sent because paly 12 days before defendant had been given a three months' advance Year. on his wages to tide over the New
Kong about January 26, and all the The launch, arrived in Hong crew were given New Year shore leave, They left the ship, and stay ed here, but the master returned to Canton where he reported on cer tain matters to the partners, and stayed for some days,
1
re-
In consequence of certain ports reaching them, the master and some of the partners came down to Hong Kong this year. To deserted except for two Indian their surprise, they found the ship
watchmen.
Asked "to give his idea of the distance, witness replied that in his opinion it was not greater than 50 yards.
Witness was also questioned by Mr. Plummer, the foreman of the Jury who asked for an explanation of the upward direction of the bullet wound in the neck. Witness replied. that the entrance and exit wounds were practically level. There was no indication of ricochet.
How the Shot was Fired. Lance Serge. R. L. Henderson in pany with Sub-Inspector Murphy the witness box said that in com
and three Chinese detectives and a prisoner he went to King's Park, Kowloon at 9 a.m. on the morning March S. The prisoner, a former boy" of No. Police Station,
The Corner asked whether the three wounded children were lying close together. Witness replied Taai was lying in the roadway. that only the deceased, Wong Mui
later with their parents to the The other two children came along water hydrant. They evidently ran. home, after being shut.
Coroner: Did anyone else ex- copt you fire shot" No, net. that I know of.”
The Fatal Skots. Coroner: "When you fired your frst two shots how far would you have been from the fountain 1 About 70 yards.
anyone
Cofoner: Did you ace lying on the ground when you ran past the street fountain?"—" I aw no one."
Further questioned, witness said that he led the pursuing party the whole time. The fugitive way
fugitive would have obstructed his gaining on with from the first especially in Canton Road. The
lane as it was only about 6 or 8 feet view of the end of the scavenging wide
that the continued functioning of Liu Tick Shing, the managing respect of the launch in the offices Wanchai had been arrested in con- the question it "you do not wish
the Council is still indispensible at director of the First Wireless "this critical period. The abolition Station in Wongsha
The Canton
hit the girl? You need not answer Coroner: Which shot do you think
to. Could the victims have been
second two shots???
8th Aviation Department has also been on" the one part and Robert Alex/roivers from the Station, One of hit by the first two shots or the !
of the Headquarters of the Military Route, which had also been ordered by Nanking some months ago, will of course not be carried .out.
"
Defendant Had Disappeared. On February 9, a deed of mort. gage for $3,000 was executed in
of Mr. J. M. d'Almada Remedios, between parties named as Ng Shing nection with the theft of three re-
ordered to prepare for war.
ander de Castro Basto, medical the revolvers was found in hit practitioner of Hong Kong, on the possession and he took the party to Kowloon where he volunteered to
Witness replied that, they could *RECRUITS WANTED. other part. Ng. Shing's numD WAS
nat have been hit by the second two signed to the document as the fund the other two. weapons. At shots, but remarked that he could. FURTHER PROTESTS. The Military Headquarters are
owner and mortgagor of the launch, Eing's Park he pointed to a crevice n't any as to the first two shots sending out officers to the outlying and was witnessed by one Tong boulder where the second re-
The fugitive-did not fire any shots, The Provincial and Municipal districts to recruit disbanded sol Yau, who, in fact, was the chief Veneered found. The prisoner and as far as he knew be a te then offered to take the police to only one who fired from the pur- Kuomintangs are solidly behind the diers. Recruiting stations are also engineer of the vessel: Canton Government in regard to being opened in many places. The Defendant, it was alleged, had and the third revolver and mention suing party. The mom the pur vities. At a meeting held yester men and raw hands will be, given the document, while it was further Tai Kok Tsui. He led the party.to his left hip was the only indica- | the latter's policy and military acti- military authorities are in need of forged the late Ne Saig's unme to Borsthing in Cantonese naming fagitive placed his right hand he alleged, that at the time of the sign. Reclamation Street and into Piit. tion he gave that he might be going
Street towards the waterfront." Ou to fire. defendant ing of the mortgage, had a launch licence, an arms the way back they saw a Chinese, Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P.. remark. licence, and the Chinese Maritime who was standing beside some stalls, ea to the Coroner that he would Customs permit which he pretend suddenly start to
towards bring evidence to prove that the ed were bis and which entitled him Reclaimation Street. The prisoner larceny was a felony, which justified to put through the transaction.
pointed to the man running and the police in the use of frearm. ance to the complainants in that the revolver."
The matter was of great import said "There is the man. He has In any case, possession of the complications arising from the case chase, with witness leading. The would be glad if Mr. Murphy
The police immediately gave,
revolver was a misdemeanour.
The Coroner remarked that he might compromise their chances of
with the Canton" authorities.
Street and turned down Pitt Street, governing the circumstances under theace into Hamilton Street and which the police might use firearms. down, senvenging lane. Whilst In answer to. Mr. Plummer who running down the scavenging lane, enquired as wife saw the man bring his right Mr. Murphy said that both the to the prisoner,
day these organizations decided to short training in Canton, sent sharp note to Chiang Kai
The Canton Police have been or Shek, demanding the release utdered to get, by peaceful means, once of Marshal Li Tani Hsia and
150 coolies to stating that they had learned with
carry baggage and the troops... Several the deepest regret that Marshal police sergeants were on the job
stores for Chiang Kai Shek had, without any this morning and as the wages offer- reason whatever, forcibly detained ed were $18 a month in addition Marshal Li Téai Hein, and Messrs. to food, plenty of likely men have Hu Han Min and. Chang Ching Kiang.
"The Third National Congress of
responded.
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run
the Kuomintang is the highest INVITATION TO HSU CHUNG continuance of the launch licence, fugitive ran along Reclamation would produce a copy of the rules
י,
CHI.
authority of the Party. All the
Since the present proceedings wore started, said Mr. Sheldon, delegates have a right to attend it and to exercise their powers and Generals Li Tsung Jen and Wong defendant had been behaving in a zights. But contrary to the prin Shiu Hung are reported to have left curious way. He was secen in the ciples of the Party, you (Chiang Kai | Wuchow for Canton this morning, company of the former chief enzi. hand over to his left hip and at fugitive and the prisoner guiding Bhek) have controlled and exploit-and will arrive in Canton probably neer of the launch and eight other the same time glance back. Wit them at the time in question were ed the Congress by the use of mili. to-night. General Wong Shin Hung men, thought to be rowdies, follow, ness, who was then about 30 yards now in the custody of the police
where the master was staying
I intimidation of witnesses was being considered a warning from the Court might be useful.
The case was adjourned;
✨, ATTEMPTED ́ ́ARMED : ROBBERY,
STOUT RESISTANCE PREVAILS.
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behind, drew
two shots at the man but evidently The inquiry will be resumed this missed him. The man ran out of afternoon at 2:45 pm.
PUNISHED.
A DILAPIDATED FACTORY., measures had been taken to ensure the safety of the workers. The PROPRIETOR SEVERELY
place was a source of danger and the prosecution pressed for the im position of the maximum penalty.
The defendant said that he did not know it was necessary to pro vide fencing for the belts until he was told by Inspector Lockhart.
ment I You are
a leader of the and then proceed to the front to Party. Why did you do auch a direct operations. General Li Tsang thing" Maraba! Li has supported Jen will go to Hankow by airplane you loyally for years refuting every to take military charge there, kind of rumour. All these things General Hsu, Chung Chi, Com- are well known to every one. He mander of the Cantonese forces went to Nanking as the head of the that fought against Chen Chiung delegation of the Liang Kwanging in the East River some siz Provinces to the Third National years ago,, has been invited back Congress of the Kuomintang at to Canton. It will be remembered your own invitation. Moreover, he that he was driven out of Canton waa appointed by you as a member by Chiang Kai Shek and Michel of the commission for the investiga. Borodin, when the Communist in-
A plea of guilty was entered by tion of the Wuhan dispute.. Why fuence was at its height.
the proprietor of should you arrest him and other
a Felt Hat General Hsu King Tong, Com- An attempted armed robbery was Factory in Prince Edward Road, old and faithful members of the mander of the 6th Army, General reported to have occurred yester who was summoned before Mr. T. Party? There is absolutely no Chen Tsai Tong, Commander of the day morning at No. 60, Laichikok S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon justification for your act whatever; 4th Army, Mr. Kin Teang Ching, Road. The inmates were having Magistracy yesterday for failing to and you are asked to release Mar Chief Beeretary of the Canton Poli breakfast when three men entered provide a fence for the protection ahat Li at once. This is the only tical Council, and Messrs. Lam Chick the flat and one pointed a revolver of the machinery bolts. way to disperse the dark war clouds Min and Wu I Shang have safely as the chief tenant and said "be The factory is a series of Chinese gathering everywhere."
arrived in Canton from Shanghai. quiet." The man refused to be tenement houses converted for the The Kwangtung Merchants' They went to Nanking with Mar gagged and in the struggle he was purpose of making hats. Govern. Federation, the Provincial Labour shal Li but escaped. Admiral Chen stabbed in the head. Ories for helpment oficials paid a visit to the Federation and the Mechanics' Chak and Mr. Fung Cho Man are Union have sent similar messages also railing for Canton in a day or throwing their weapons on the stair- bad state, The entire building to Nanking.
two.
way.
was the defendant's business to The prosecution replied that it know the regulations.
The factory was described as a public nuisance and should be closed down but unfortunately the Ordinance, did not empower the proaccution to take such steps sor did it provide for his Worship to ] The Magistrate imposed the vibrated and no precautionary maximum" penalty of $250,
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