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NOVEMBER 17, 1925. BIMAT
MR. JUSTICE GOMPERTZ.
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SOVIET ARMY'S POLITICAL TRAINING.
GEN. SUN PING REPORTS,
Moscow October 31.-General'
to Moscow,
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RED SUCCESS.
FURTHER ADVANCE IN SOUTH.
THIS MORNING'S GATHERING.
CHINA OBJECTS.
SZECHUAN DEFEAT. Both branches of the legal pro- We are informed that a mission Mr. Lau Tung-ping, who is
A report from Canton states that fession were fully represented at
Peking, Nov. 3.On the ground
Following the report that the composed of seven members of the presenting the commercial unions the Strike Union is greatly incensed the Supreme Court this morning, that it interferes with Chinese: da- Sun Ping, head of Marshal Feng cities of Yeung Kong and Young House of Peers of Japan which is of Canton in connection with the regarding the terms of an adver when a large gathering, including mestle administration, Dr. C. T. Yu-hsiang's mission
accompanied by General Shao Pao, Chun have fallen into the hands of to investigate the present political re-opening of negotiations for a tisement inserted in the newspapers several ladies, asserted to bid Wang opposed. America's proposal Co Lu Taung-, Ho Tsi-kun, the Canton Army, compelling Tang situation in South China has arrived settlement of the strike and boycott, there in relation to the payment of farewell to Mr. Justics Gompertz, for Chinese tarif autonomy, as in Yu. Ming-gin and Lao Shi-yush Poon-yan to shorten the battle front from Kaochow to Shim Yee, at Swatow, having first visited a returning here this afternoon fire Insurance claims.
prior to his departure to take up troduced by Mr. John V. A. Mac- visited the Military Academy of the Red Army while in Moscow, Formosa and Amoy. It is stated from Canton, in company with a The advertisement was issued the position of Chief Jistics of the Murray, American delegate, at to- and made a detailed study of the a report comes to hand stating that this mission will arrive at Hong-| number of other delegates. by a local insurance company and Federated Malay States.
The day's session of the first sub-com- methods of instruction applied, the Kwange unit, under Ya Chork- particularly in the Orientali Ipak, and Lul Chun-wing, has ad- kong from Swatow on the 18th Inst., Although officials and Chinese it stated that owing to inability to Chief Justice Sir Hory Gollanmittee. and in the course of its investiga- residents in close touch with the inspect damage caused by recent presided. On his left at Mr. Jus
The American delegate proposed Faculty.
The delegation showed keen in-vanced from Pok Pak in Kwangsi tions, the mission intends to include proceedings are not disposed to res, which has resulted in delar tice Wood, and Mr. Gompertz that the 2.5 per cent. ad valorem terest in the organisation of the to the different points near Ll a visit to Canton. It will later go speak on the subject for fear of in paying out the claims to insured was on his right..
Mrs Gampertz surtax should go into effect from Soviet Navy and the artillery and Kong, Shek Kwok and Hop Kung, to Shanghai and. Hangchow and complicating may part of the parties, the latter would be able to was among those presat.
February 1, 1926 and that an addi- cavalry of the Red Army.
At an informal luncheon that where engagements have taken thence back to Tokyo.
negotiations, it is believed that facilitate the repair of damages, or
Sir Henry Pollock, K.C., said it tional 5 per cent. ad valorem surtax was given in honour of the visitors, place in which Tang Foon-yan's' The mission is composed of the matters have gone far enough to rebuilding of destroyed houses, by was his pleasing privilege, on be should be imposed on curtain arti- General Sun Ping expressed his forces are said to have been defeats following distinguished personages permit of a conference being held
applying to the agents of the Com-half of the members of both cles of luxury from July 1 of the admiration for the excellent order Viscount M. Hoshina, Viscount K. some time this week. It is suggest.
Red Army they had seen, and also point, Lim Kong, has been captured the Canton forces, This Mimuroto, Baron D. Obata, Baroned that although the Canton dele-pany for verification of the extent branches of the legali profession, same year. The American dele- that prevailed in the units of the ed, and that the Important strategic
of the damage, so that claims could to tender to Mr. Gompertz their gate, at the same time, proposed, in the Military Academy. "Study by Y. Seki, Mr. S. Tomura and Mr. K. gation has not been given a political
be forwarded to the head office in kindly congratulations upon the substantially, the following plans: Ing the Internal life of the Red
Into Army," said General Sun, "we threatens Fa Chow and the rear of Oshiro, with Mr. J. Kobayashi, as status, but that its efforts will be
high past of Chief Justice of the 1. Until the treaty goes were deeply impressed by the Kaochow. It is also reported that Hongkong and thus be met. Secretary.
exerted in the direction of discpver-
Federated Malay States, to which effect. China may levy from 5 to thorough political training which Tang's forces all along the line
receive in Following the appearance of this ing a basis for the commencement
His Majesty the King had been 12.5 per cent. ad valorem duties the Red Army men
MILITARY OPERATIONS.
With regard to the military of pourparlers, the mission of the advertisement, the Strike Union pleased to appoint him. As they on imports and from 5 to 7.5 per addition to their military train-from Kao Chow to Shun Fu are
Union.
sent to allow the remnants of Chani merchants in Hongkong to all course with Hongkong, although in/years, and that he had so conducting from the raise of the tarllf rates
territory of Fukien. Chang Kai- shek is said to have remarked that nothing short of unconditional surrender on the part of Chan King-; ming will be accepted by the
Honam this afternoon.
BANQUE INDUSTRIELLE.
4.
WOUNDED MAN CHARGED.
funded to the taxpayers.
Agency.
biles.Tasa.”
SZECHUAN FORCES BEATEN.. Some time back, it was reported
tion, now states that the Kwangsi forces pursued them to the north- eastern part of Kwangsi near the
vicinity of Ma-Tau Pu, where à battle was fought with the result that twenty officers and over 500 men of the Szechuan forces were made prisoners, and over 800 rifles and much ammunition were cap- tured, whilst over 100 were killed.
COMMUNISTS' TRIAL. boundary of Kwangtung, in the
rapidly retiring to Fa Chow, with ing."
The delegation also attended the the object of concentrating at Liu operations being directed from delegation has at least the sympathy ordered the various newspapers to
remove it, which was done, and it were such old friends, he trusted cent. ad valorem on exports.
2. Maritime cusoms duties and manoeuvres and firing practice of Chow for the final stand, as the Swatow, the pressure that is being of official Canton.
that Mr. Gompertz would excuse
In conversation
is well defended brought to bear on the Fukien! From another source we learn is further reported that the person)
him from going through the continental frontier customa rutes heavy artillery,
with a Press correspondent, Gen. latter city authorities by the Canton Army, on that on his return to Canton during who caused the advertisement to be***
3. The increased Income, vis the Sun said that all they had seen in and should be able to stand. the week-end, Mr. Lan Tung-ping inserted has been arrested by the stereotyped form of recounting his shall be the same. the border line, has resulted in presented his report of the result
Besides, in the a long siege. past services in the Civil Service. higher customa rates, shall be dis- Moscow was new and instructive. Chang Ngai, the Garrison Comman-of his mission in Hongkong, On
It would be sufficient on the pre-posed of, as provided elsewhere in What impressed him most, he said,
was the wide scope of the construc-event. of being forced to evacuate dant at Cheung Chow, sending a enquiring from Hon. Mr. R. H.
No reason is given for this sent occasion to recall that Mr.this treaty. representative to Swatow to inter/Kotewall this morning, a Telegraph action on the part of the Union Gompertz had sat on Bench,
4. The likin and other sillar tive efforts of the Soviet Govern the city, Tang could easily cross
ment, which, he added, was the the strait over to Hainan Island, representative was informed that
to view Chang Kai-shek for the pur- Mr. Lau niso took with him a but it is said that the Union offlein's Acting Chief Justice and Puiane systems shall be abolished.
5. The increased revenue result- best friend the people of China
return had. "When we pose of obtaining the latter's con- cordial invitation from the Chinese object to any kind of business inter- Judge, for the past seventeen
shall be distributed in the districts Kalgan," concluded the General, ed himself in the discharge of and delegates King-ming's troops to be stationed Canton merchants
who would like to come here in this instance the parties who suffer those duties as to secure for him- where the likin system is abolished. "we shall make a detailed report that Pak Shung-hee, under Li 6. If China fails to abolish the of our studies.to Marshal Feng Chung-yan, Tupan of Kwangsi, was in the Ting Chow and Lien Sing connection with the negotiations. by the Union's action are Chinese self the respect of every member
of the profession, not only for hisikin system, the taxes shati be re- Yu-halang"-"Tass" (Soviet) News ordered to pursue and round up-
the remnants of the Szechuan doing business in invariable patience and courtesy
Moscow, November districts. It is reported that Chang As a result, Mr. Lau will be accom-residing or
2. An a number of persons
7. The increased custom's revenue Kai-shek has rejected the proposal paied by
to those who came before him, but representative of the business in- Canton.
their, way to Kwangtung. A be- and absolutely, refused to talk of terests of Canton when he returns]
also for the essentia: sense of the shall go partially to make up the official send-off was given to Mar- forces, which were still marching
Delegation At Verkneadinsk, They are
judgments he had delivered. The losses resulting from the abolition shai. Feng Yu-halang's Military at that time through Kwangsi on any negotiations other than those to Hongkong to-day..
of the likin, partly for the redemp from where the delegation left for lated report, delayed owing to the profession was also indebted to on the of respect for the integrity of the expected to arrive here
PAWNSHOP ROBBERY. him as a recorder of a number of tion of unsecured loans and partly China, via Mongelin, in automo-restricted conditions of communica- for Central Governmental adminis- important judgments in chat
tration. Court, for he had been for many
8. On fulfilment of the foregoing years past editor of their local Law Reports which were now entering conditions provided in articles 4, 5. 6, and 7 of this treaty, the restric- After being confined in hospital into their twentieth volume:
Continuing. Sir Henry Pollock tions concerning the Chinese mari- for some three months, with three ballet wounds in his body, a Chin-said, Mr. and Mrs. Gompertz arrived time customa provided in the exist- BRITONS UNDER MOSCOW'S It is reported that Chang Ching,,
ese, who is alleged to have partici-in the Colony some twenty-eighting treaties shall be nullified on The Court of Appeal confirms the pated in an armed robbery at a years ago, and they were amongst January 1, 1929, and replaced by 9. Adequate measures shall be Forts, because of his intimate penalties and fines pronounced Pawnshop in Bulkely Street, Hung-the most popular peuple in the Chinese state tariff rates.
against the trustees of the Banque hom, was formally charged before Colony, and
on a charge of seditious conspiracy, 50 wounded. The defeated forces geographical knoweldge of Fukien, Industrielle de Chine for infri M. E. W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon esteem, and, if he might say so, taken to prevent delay in the en-nists who were recently arrested The victors had over 20 killed and
great many forcement of this treaty. | Magistracy this morning, with being the affection, of a
10. When proposed by more than opened at the Old Bailey this morn-retreated northward to join their friends, who had known them has been ordered to proceed to tions of the law. Havas.
concerned in the robbery, and, al-
half the number of Powers signa- ing. There are two women jurors. original unit, which was driven out for
Mrs: Gom- many years. Paris, Nov. 16. Swatow in order to take part in
also
missed tory to the treaty, prior to January All the defendants pleaded not of the North River sector, and it la pertz would
bu
now on the boundary line of Hunan. the forthcoming operations in the
The higher Court has reviewed ternatively, with receiving a por-
1, 1928, it shall be decided whe-guilty. regard to the valuable southern part of Fukien.
The Attorney General, in open- It is said that Hunan has refused the sentences of the Correctional tion of the stolen property. Having
The robbery was committed on the directors of the handed over his command to Young! Court on
June 30, by four men, three of work she had done on the com-ther the likin system was abolished It Fung-nien, he proceeds immediate Banque Industrielle de Chine.
prove was that coming roving bandita in that ly as ordered. Furthermore, order hos quashed the sentence of six whom were subsequently arrested mittees of various societies in the on May 1, 1928, or not, and a spe-ing the case, said that the nature their entrance into its territory and have been sent out to all command months' imprisonment on M. Per. in a raid carried out in the Sham- Colony, and no doubt she would be clal conference composed of repre- of the conspiracy which the pross-that these homeless soldiers are bes
called to deliberate on matters the defendants were heade in B-locality.
GENERAL LI'S FOST ing officers in the East River sector notte, but has confirmed his fine of shuipo district two weeks later and called upon to do a similar kind sentatives of the Powers shall be cution undertook
On the present occasion, said brought up by virtue of this treaty. tain of an illegal organization! At the beginning of to-day's sea- calling itself the Communists Party to suppress and disarm a.. military three thousand francs, and has also on their appearance at the Criminal of work in her new sphere.
It is reported that General LI units which style themselves the confirmed the fine of three thousand Sessions two of the men were non-Sir Henry, he would not say on be
It has tenced to seven years' hard labour half of the profession "farewell," aion, Sir Ronald Macleay, British of Great Britain, the supreme con- Fook-lum has been ordered to shift "Peoples Army" and very strict francs on M. Berthelot. ordera have also been given to round awarded damages, plus interest, to each while the third man was but he would simply say "au delegate, stated that Britain recog-trol of which was in Moscow. The
revoir," and that for two reasons. nized tariff autonomy, but consider-object was forcibly overthrowing by his command fram Honam, where he up all brigands and to destroy their the third party-Router..
The defendant in the present The first was because Mr. Domed that the fulfilment of the condi- arms the existing state of society has been stationed ever since the strongholds in such a manner that|
case is alleged to have returned
tions provided in the Washington and, as a means thereto, the sedu-Revolution, and where he is regard- pertz had accepted a post at a they shall never be able to use)
after the police had made a number place which was on the main line treaty regarding China would beeing of the armed forces of the ed as the "uncrowned King," to take up positions in the Shun Tack them again.
of arrests during the raid, and, between Singapors and Penang, the first step towards China's get-Crown from allegiance. after a struggle with a constable The second reason was because he ting it.
A man who shouted "The trial and Heungshan districts with his who was on the premises, the man had two sons in this part of the
The British delegate went on to is a farce" was ejected from Court. entire forcee, and that the command The Attorney General stated of Honam is assigned to Wong Mow
kung. was shot in three places, and later world, and they felt confident that say that when China had fulfilled REPORTED AS BEING SHOT removed to hospital, from which he he and his wife, whom they hoped these conditions, Britain proposed that the Communists spent at least
Recently there have been many was recently dischargeğ.
to greet.ns Lady Gompertz, would to consider proposala which would twelve thousand pounds sterling an- nually on salaries and news- reports us to the fate of Gonoral The case was fixed for hearing he paying a visit to the Colony, meet the Chinese needs. PARLIAMENT AWAITS JUDGES' Leung Hung-kai, who was arrest-lat 2.30 pm, on Friday afternoon.
Canton Government.
Commandant of the Bocca Tigris
SHANGHAI AFFAIR.
REPORT.
London, Noy, 16.
APPEAL COURT'S FINDING. Paris, Nov. 16.
GEN. LEUNG HUNG- ΚΑΙ.
ad some considerable time ago and has since beon kept in custody at Canton for allegod complicity in the murder of Liao
In the House of Commons, reply-Chung-kai.
The latest roport to hand, said:
ing to Mr. T. D. Fenby, Mr. Austen to be from a reliable source, is
Chamberlain said he was unable to that the imprisoned general was
acquitted.
PARLIAMENT RESUMES.
in
had secured the
ORDERS.
↓
London, Nov. 16. The trial of the twelve, Comn.u-
and he could assure them that The Swedish delegate Mr. Ewer-papers propaganda.. Undoubtedly they would both receive a mostof, expressed his agreement with the money or the greater part of it hearty welcome from their friends the British-view-Osaka Mainichi come from Moscow; and Commu- nists were therefore bound by or- in Hongkong. In conclusion, he
ders from Moscow which were desired, on behalf of the membera
of the legal profession, to wish RHINELAND REGIME, legal and criminal in England. both of them health and prosperi-
ty in the new sphere to which they
add to the statement already made shot on the 10th instant, and that GOVERNMENT'S POLICY TO BE were going.
the money paid for his freedom
in the Houso with regard to the has boon ordered by Goneral facts of the Shanghai disturbancos Chang Kai-shok to be returned to
in May, until the report of the his family.
International Judicial Committee
had been received and been con- sidered, Reuter.
:
QUERIED.
Speaking under great emotion, Mr. Gompertz said in reply that he and his wife thanked: then from
EARLY WITHDRAWAL
PROMISED.
London, Nov. 16.
The Attorney General's speech lasted for over four hours.
The trial was adjourned until to-day (Tuesday).-Reuter.
AUSTRALIAN CRICKET.
Paris, Nov. 1G, the bottom of their hearts. They A Note to Germany, confirming Parliament reopened without had spent twenty-eight years in Saturday's oral communication re- ceremony to complele business Hongkong, and they thought there garding the Rhineland regime says NEW SOUTH WALES BIG WIN. Berlin, Nov. 16. begun in February. Questions as was not a better place in the the Council of Ambassadors hopes
SUBMARINE ABOLITION,
GREAT INTEREST IN U.S.
New York, Nov. 16. Lloyd's appeal to all nations to abolish submarines following the disaster to the M11 has aroused great Interest in the United States. Officials at Washington draw atten- tion to the fact that America signified her willingness at the Washington Conference to abolish submarines, provided France follow
Senator Boral has said that the
od suit Sydney, Nov. 16,
A Nationalist Conference, attend-regards the Government's polley world. Their address would be that the evacuation of Cologne will [Mr. Fenby is Liberal member for od by two thousand representatives will be more prominent than legis easy to And, and any of his be completed by January 81at orNow South Wales, who scored Bradford, East. He was returned of the Party from all over the lation during the five weeks sittings friends came to see him at any at the lateat by February 20th. It 689 (Rock 161, Macartney 114, and disaster to the MI would have some by the remarkably small majority country, has passed a resolution to to Christmas. There was a large hour of the day or night they holds out hope of early withdrawal Kippax 118) beat West Australia, compensation if it started an antis
of the Inter-Alijed Control Comwho made 198 and 211, by an submarine crusade, 66 over his Labour opponent, Mr. wage a ruthless Byht against the and animated gathering in the would be welcome.