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SHANGHAI DIARY.
INTEREST IN THE NATION- ALIST ADVANCE.
Shanghai, May 31.- That the authorities in Shang- hal take a serious view of the Southern drive into Northern terri- tory is shown by the fact of Im- pending troop movements. Japan is sending 2,000 troops to Sunn tung and 2000 to Paking and Tientsin. Britain, la getting ready to send a battalion, while America will be sending two battalions of Marines and some artillery, I am given to understand. It sectas to
“TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
CHAMBERLAIN AND LEVINE
SET OUT.
The Start
New York, June 4. Equipped with six oranges and chicken sandwiches, the ton aviator Chamberlin started to-day on his light to Europe-Reuters American Service.
A Passenger.
OBITUARY.
1927.
THE FIFTH MARQUIS OF AN OLD FRIEND!
LANSDOWNE.
Landon, May 4 The death is announced of the Marquis of Lansdowne.-Reuter.
Houry Charles Keith Potty. Fitzmaurice, Bth Marquis of Lans- downo was born in Jan. 1845.His
great-grandfather it was who oppo- red England's policy towards her American Colonies and when., this., 'an ho foresaw, resulted in the brosk ing away of what aro pow the United States, it was he who concluded poses with these former Colonics.
New York, later. Chamberlin is accompanied by a be realised that Britain is doing passenger, Charles Lovine. more than her fair share of the: protection of Shanghai and theLevine, is his financial backer. Educated at Eton and Oxford, other, Powers are therefore offer Even Levine's wife had no know- Lord Lansdowne entered politics as ing more assistance in the North, ledge of his intention to jaina Liberal Secretary according to Chamberlin, and she fainted when the family tradition. In 1872 Glad-
I hear there is a probability that her husband stepped into the stone made him Under Secretary for America will provide the neces-machine-Router's American Ser-War at the early age of 17-and in Gladstone's second Cabinet ho sary transport to take the troops vice.
became Under Secretary for northwards. I also hear that in
India
broke A Fales Biart.
He acop
with the event of trouble Tientsin will
Gladstone and the Liberals, be. the place to bo de-
New York, June 5,
on the question however,
iof fended. Peking, would prove, ia
Chamberlin's menoplano "Co- Home Rule for Ireland, Then from difficult place to evacuato from lumbia" was carrying about one 1883 to 1888 he was Governor Gen- Present arrangements, it seems, hundred letters addressed to par oral of Canada and from 1888 to were made after the hurried resona in Europe.
1804 Viceroy of Indin, but his rulo turn to Shanghal of General' Smedley Butler, who had an inter- The start of the machine was was not marked by any great view with Major General Duncan. preceded by a false start, the ma-achievements. When the Conserva- tivos came into power in 1805, he General Duncan is understood to chine being unable to rise. be going north shortly to size up plane itself weighs 1,850 pounds was made Secretary for War in the position for himself,
and the total weight including fael Lord Salisbury's Cabinet, but the flaws in the army organisation dis- was 5,650 pounds.
closed by the Boer War led to his resignation in 1900.
The
The airmen declared that the petrol would be sufficient to last them for four thousand miles,
Mr. Charles Levine was confident of success. He declared that ho was considering turning over the "Columbia" after the voyage to Alan Cobham for a fight from London to India.
The "Columbia" started on her trans-Atlantic flight with a favour able twenty mille an hour wind,
All this indicates that the Southerners are making great headway in Honan. Some time ago I wrote that they were fight ing for their very lives there and could be depended upon to put up a healthy opposition. No news from Fengtien headquarters and the arrival in Hankow of prodigious numbers of wounded led to the be. lief that the Southerners were faring badly but the truth seems to be that they are fighting their way through at tremendous cost. Feng Yu-hsiung also is advancing.
It now appears that it was ori- and when he joins up with Teng ginally intended that Mrs. Levine Seng-chi the allied force will be should accompany her husband a strong force and stronger still if across the Atlantic but that she Yen Hai-san of Honan decides to was prevented by the sudden ill throw in his hand with them.ness of her mother.-Reuter's Yen Hai-san mast be the most in-American Service. terested watcher of events in Honan just now. He is a notorious sitter on the fence and must be now watching his next move carefully but there seems little doubt that as usual he will go to the side with the best It is reported he will try to prospects, and if Feng and Teng reach Leningrad or Constantinople. join up then he will doubtless ally-Reuter's American Service.. himself with them.
All Fell Flat.
. Experts consider that the Southern forces will either make Peking by September or leave It over until next spring. It is doubtful whether.. Chiang Kai- shak, advancing through Anhwel, Kiangsu and Shantung, can reach
Sighted.
New York, June 5. At 7.10 last evening Chamberlin was reported ninety miles off Cape Race, flying eastwards.
FRENCH AGES.
Start on Long Distance Flight.
CHITA THE OBJECTIVE.
Paria, June 4. The airmen Costes and. Rignot the capital by then as he will have started on their long dis- have to meet some fierce oppositance flight--Router.
tion at the Yellow river but it is [A cable of May 28 stated:
He was transferred to the Foreign . Office and during bis term there, following the failure of the attempt to bring about an Anglo-German 1. alliance, camo.the decisive movement in British policy towards a rappro- chement with France and later with Russia. The alliance with Japan bears Lansdowne's signature, as docs the Morocco trenty with
France of 1004. Next year his party went out of power and he handed over the conduct of foreign policy to Sir Edward Groy, who carried it on in the spirit of Lansdowne and King Edward VII Lansdowne be- came leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords, but was un- able to check the innovations of Asquith and Lloyd George, and notably the abolition of the Lords' veto on legislation,
During the war he entered the Coalition Ministry in May, 1915, without portfolio and assisted Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Minister, but resigned in August owing to disagreement with the Cabinet'n Irish policy. At the beginning of 1918 he wrote his famous latter to the Times in which he asked whether it would not be best to negotiate with Germany, but although the let ter created a sensation, it had no actual resulta, This was his last public act
Father Daniel L. McShane.
more than likely that the forces Atmospheric. conditions permit-patients at the Orphanage at Lo advancing from the south-west will be able to make Peking by the
autumn.
While ministering to small-pox
Ting, Kwangtung Province, ting, the airmen Coste and Rignot, the recent holders of the long-dis-Father Daniel L. McShane, of the tance flying record from Paris to American Maryknoll Mission, con- Chang Tso-lin must be a sad Jask, will set out to-morrow, flying tracted the disease, and news is to hand that he died on Saturday man to-day. His rule in Man-in the direction of Tokyo.
morning. churia has reduced that country hope to establish a new, long-dis- terribly and he has lost the con- tance record in the first stage and fidence of Japan, failed to gain to reach Tokyo in the second.]
the car of Europe (Britain in particular) and his troops are
being defeated all along the line.
I understand that the backing he
To Chita.
They
Paris, June 4 The nirmen, Costes and Rignot,
is receiving from Japan is negli-departed at 9.01 a.m. this morning
The advice. was received in a telegram from Dr. J. "M. J. Dick- son, of the American Presbyterian Mission, at the Headquarters of the Maryknoll Mission in Hong- Previous to this, two kong. priests and five Sisters of the Mia-
gible, in fact their assistance is on a non-stop flight to Chita.alon had left to render assistance
baing given in another quarter entirely. Apparently they have decided to back another horse, realising that there is a movement in China which can no longer be ignored or repressed.
Reuter.
Lindbergh Goes Home.
Cherburg, June 5. " Lindbergh has sailed for home aboard the United States cruiser Memphis Reuter.
to the sufferers, but it.is probable that they arrived too late to be of service to Father McShane.
About 39 years of age, Father McShane was the first priest of the Maryknoll Foreign Mission to be crdained. He had been fully eight years in China, and his death at the post of duty will be greatly
BELGIAN AMBASSADOR,
The famous anniversary of May 30 passed off very quietly, despite the efforts of the China Courier to farts which were to have announc-regretted by all. raise a storm of hatred. This ed the silence, were unheard in the elevating periodical printed the greater part of Shanghai and ghastly photographs of a dozen of practically nobody complied. the unfortunate victims of 1925 Shops had their shutters up but
Was inside business and generally did all that
proceeded" 38 possible to fan the dying embere usual. These things, combined
Brussels, May 5. but unsuccessfully. The main with the fact that it was an ideal
The King bas confirmed the observances wore to have been a day, speak for themselves. In
Prince De complete holiday and a three rainy weather, of course, these appointment of
Ambassa Belgian minutes silence at the fatal hour. things always fall flat but that Ligne.
to Washington.Reuter's 2.30 p.m. However, it was all half they do so on an ideal day carries dor hearted. The guns on the Chinese
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