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HEALING OF THE NANKING- HANKOW SPLIT.
(Our Own Correspondent:)
TUESDAY.
JUNE
28.
1927.
NO TICKET.
PASSENGER FINED. FOR REFUSING TO PAY.
Having taken out a ticket in the name of his grand-father, A. Gub- bay refused to pay his fare when requested while travelling on one of the Kowloon Motor Bus Comi- pany's vehicles on June 18. As a result, he was summoned by the Company before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistrity yea terday afternoon.
Shanghai, June 22. The military position at last promises to clarify itself and per- mit the observer to calculate pos- sibilities with h little more as- Burance. The healing of the split between Hankow and Nanking ap-
The defendant made a long pears more than ever a feasible thing and may even be accomplish-statement in answer to a charge ed within a very short time.." Fong of unlawfully travelling on a motor bus without paying his faro. Yu-hsinng secnis definitely to have linked himself with Chiang Kai-He said that he was in possession shek. At the time of writing they of a monthly ticket and had been A holder for some time. On are together at Suchowfu discuss several occasions ho had travelled ing the many things appertaining without the ticket and was some- to an alliance and a resulting times made to pay the fare de concerted action against themanded.
North. Fang's relations with "He was constantly abused by the Hankow still appear to be doubt-conductors and accused of attempt- ful but if Nanking absorbs Han-ing to defraud the Company. kow in the political sense then He reported to the Police the use what has long been expected in of obscene language by some of some quarters will come. about the Company's employees and was fan alliance between the three and advised to make a complaint to a unified drive against the Ankuo- the Company itself. When he in- chun forces. If this does happen formed the management of the then there can be no doubt that Kowloon Motor Bus Company of Chang Tao-lin will have to make the behaviour of their conductors ready for yet another trip to Muk- he was merely laughed at and no den and there devise schemes for notice whatsoever, was taken of keeping the Southernors out of his complaints. Manchuria. With the Nationlists in Peking and holding Shanghai, Hankow, Foochow and Canton they will control all the great centres in China proper and will be in a position to make China a more unfied country and nation
He had been in hospital for than it has been for a very long time, if ever. Nationalism divor- some time and made use of the ticket for the first time on June ced of communism will have tremendous opportunity, it re- 13. He was still in possession of mains to be seen what the move the ticket bearing the name of J. ment will do with what the gods H. Elina. offer. Perhaps the greatest need of the movement is a mental giant
A
At the end of May the Company cancelled his ticket, informing him that he had given them too much trouble and on June the de- fendant obtained another ticket In the name J. H. Elias, his grandfather.
A representative from, the bus company pointed out to his Wor-
to arlac within its ranks, a man ship that in May the Company is capable of using his personality sued a ticket to a Mr. J. II. Elias to draw all men unto him. Sun as well as one in the name of A. Yat-sen was the last of. the type Gubbay. It was the belief of the In China. Where is his successor? complainants that J. H. Ellas was the brother-in-law of the defer- dant.
U.S. Senators,
The defendant interposed and The American Senate seems to said that there were several per- be over in China studying condi-sons bearing the name of Elias tions first hand. When are we and there was a possibility that to have a party of Members of two were known by the same ini- Parliament coming over to learn a tials.
little about the country instead of) In reply to the Bench, Sub- relying for information upon what Inspector Smith said that there is acknowledged to be a die-hard was no traffic regulation regarding type of consular official in China? the issuing of monthly tickets,
His Worship said that the de- Already Sunator Hiram Bingham is up the river. He has seen the fendant had a ticket of sorts and North and its armies and econo- the charge could therefore not mic conditions and is now investi- stand unless evidence was produc gating the Yangtse. At Hankowed to prove that there was another he saw Eugene Chen and soon person by the name of J. H. Elias, after left for Ichang to see what is happening to that unhappy city under the iron heel of Yang Sen.
The Company's representative pointed out that there was a Com- pany regulation to the effect that passengers not carrying their Senator Burton K. Wheeler of tickets were liable to be charged Montana is now in Shanghai, hav- ing arrived by the s.s. Kalyan.
the ordinary fare.
On the defendant admitting that Senator Guy Goff of Clarkburg, he did not carry his ticket on June West Virginia is also here while 13, his Worship imposed a fine of Congress is represented by Mr. $5.
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for the reception of the Southern around In the areas troops..
stated, Tientsin and Peking, he even the farmers and peasants, the This is the time of the year when illiterates, are aware of the whole the foreign population of Shanghai Nationalist programme. The fami- moves up the coast to Tsingtao liar "boring within methods in but at the moment many are won troduced into China' by Russia are dering to go or not." The Na working well for Nationalism... tionalists are rapidly advancing in These peasants, who hitherto have that direction, in fact the Chinese been outside the noise of politics. newspapers report that a party of and war, unless their lands were Nationalists have already arrived overrun by soldiers, are fully in- there by boat from Halehow and formed of nationalist movements have quietly occupied the city but and after years-under the heel of far no confirmation is to Northern militarists are ready to hand. However, there are 2,500 receive the conquering heroes. In Japanese troops in that neighbour-parts he said these ignorant hood and so the foreigner may masses
looking for Chiang consider it reasonably safe. Any-Kai-shek as
a miracle worker. ling on Chiang's own special train, of a fellow and goes on to talk members of the Hankow Govern-:
His would be acceptable In Nanking way the abominably wet and muistThe farmers believe he can bring tells me some astonishing stories. about his industriousness. There ment who are not Communists weather Shanghai is having now their lands rain and generally re- At Hsuchowfu he said Chiang is no busler man in China:
He spoke in his travel with him on his train there for Eugene Chen." may be enough to drive even the lieve all their ills. His name for addressed a huge crowd of about staff of clerks and secretaries who although "there would be no place most nervous to the cooler, more them has an immense significance. 20,000 people. bracing air of the
ex-German In view of that who shall say that usual bad mandarin and perhaps number almost 20 and what is ever it is thought in some quartera grown too terrifically in his own colony.
the Southern victory in the North only a fraction of the crowd more the Southern leader keeps that if Eugene Chen has not estimation, there would be a Mr. Borodin. is not already half won? General understood what he said but they them all exceedingly busy.
niche for him under Dr. C. C. Wu, Butler added that in the North cheered and cheered him to the It was the same coming Occasionally the sun does shine the Southerners are expected in echo.
From Nanking I hear that the foreign minister. It will be and the rain cease here and one Peking by the middle of July, down the line. At every place day recently the weather cleared General Butler proposes to return where a few houses were clustered changes which I forcahadowed, test of Mr. Chen's character who up and enabled the British nir to North China within a few there was a crowd of the entire where the Nanking and Hankow ther he can accept such a position
population waiting for the great Governments were concerned, are should it be offered. General. In some cases, hearing likely to come to pass. Follow his train was to pass that day, ing his conference with Chlang they had been waiting for hours in Hauchowfu Feng Yu-hsiang
Aeroplanes.
men from the race course aero-days. drcme to ascend and give the lie
to the report that on account of the Chinese threat to shoot they would not fly again. They were up bright and early and giving great show of loops, aideslips and other antics which are the air man'a expressions of that Krus- chen feeling.
are
War Progress,
How-
.con-
Mr. Hu Han-mín. Hu Han-min also has had some- News reaching Shanghai from and cheered in most un-Chinese sent a telegram to Hankow de- thing to say about Chang Tso-lin. Hsuehowfu where Chiang Kai-fashion is he swept by. Chiang manding the immediate departure He indicated recently in a shek and Feng Yu-halang have is to-day the conquering hero and of Borodin for Hussin and demand- versation with a newspaperman been in conference serves to show has touched the imaginations of ing that other ministers in the that should Chang Tso-lin desire that the Nationalists have been
a most phlegmatic people, Luck Government "who need a rest to withdraw to Manchuria he
For successful in Anhwel, Shantung favours him too. three jabroad" be allowed to go, while could do so and remain there as ar and Kiangau in every particular months before his arrival in Hau- the remaining members of the Governor of this area under the Militarily they have pushed back choyfu there had been no rain. Government wore requested to Nationalists. This would be pos the Northerners with persistence Crops looked like having a thin proceed to Nanking and there add sible so long as he obeyed the Shanghai; June 24. while behind the Northern lines time in the parched earth. Joss their energies to those of the behests of the Nationallat Govern- General Smedley Butler has their propagandists have been ex-houses and temples had been fill- Nanking Government in the fight ment without question and sup recently
returned from North ceptionally busy. The net resulted with farmers and peasants an- against the North. On every ported the People's Three Prin China after a very thorough fu- is that Chiang Kai-shek is being xious to placate the gods and in-hand it is reported that Borodin la ciples of the late Dr. Sun Yat-aan. spaction of the district. As a re-hailed as the saviour of the fluence Jupiter Pluvius, but with going and with him persons of That is significant. Whether it. His out result. The day that Chiang. the typo of George Hsu Chien, would be acceptable to Chang Teo- sult of developments in Shantung country wherever be goes.
North China.
it is stated that another 1,000 personal magnetism, born of an Kal-slick arrived the benefcont mishamed the Minister of Justice. in is difficult to say. Such a American marines will leave for outstanding character, has work-rain fell in sheets. Before that Hu Han-min, who is probably the lowering of his immense dignity Tientsin shortly. They are aboarded wonders among the usually Chiang was a conquering hero but biggest individual force in the would require some very blg
country folk.
The after it he was a very god in the Nanking Government after Chiang scheme whereby to "save his face" the transport Chaumont randy to Impassive
superstitious Kai-shek, has been delivering him and allow him to retain sufficient sail as I write and probably before masses to a man are pro-Chiang midst of these tonight they will have left. Intor Kai-shek. A friend who has Just people. My informant speaks of solf of thoughts about the situn- dignity to carry out the duties of viewed by Pressmen, Geberal But returner from Hauchowiu, travel the Nationalist leader as "a prince tion I learn. He states that most Governor in his own provinces.