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Hongkong Telegraph.
-AM Wata=+ MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1927. M
· 634 PER
MUCH TENSION IN
FOUNDED 188
NO. 23,363
IN CANTON.
HUNDREDS OF EXECUTIONS
REPORTED.
ANOTHER STEAMER IN SHANGHAI NOW.
FIRED AT.
"TAI MING'S" UNHAPPY EXPERIENCE.
WEST RIVER INCIDENT. Another instance of a steamier having been fired upon in the West.
SOVIET VICE-CONSUL AMONGST THE ver is reported.
NUMBER.
CITY MAY BE ATTACKED.
BRITISH CORPORAL'S
TRIAL.
»
POLICE GALLANTRY PRAISED.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
Shanghai, Dec. 10.
has been Public attention diverted, for the time being. from the industrial strife and wave of crime sweeping
U. S. SUBMARINE DISASTER,
SIX MEN FOUND STILL ALIVE.
PUMPING IN AIR..
Province Town, Dec. 18,
THE
BUICK
··1928...
Power the mighty force of limitless power-Buick for. 1928-now on display,
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35, Wong Hei Chung Road.'
ANTI-SOVIET
Happy Valley.
DRIVE
HANKOW RUSSIANS ON WAY
DOWN RIVER.
The United States submarine SHANGHAI FRENCH AUTHORITIES'
the
has been rammed and sunk by
Paulding, off constguard destroyer Woodend.
Later,
An eyewitness, reparte that on the morning of Fridný last, about 3 o'clock, the s. Tai Ming was
over the Settle- The Navy Department "announces approaching Dosing when it was met with a volley of rifle fire from ment to the police court trial, on that none of the crew of forty was the river bank. Taking this for a charge of murder, of Corporalescued
Hector M. Roberton, of the Scuts American Service.
notification that the place was un-
de
der martin law, the master cided to turn the vessel about and ucher for the time being, while waiting daylight."
Later, when the ship again ap-
Guards, whe has been committed for trial in the higher court for housebuy in the China United the alleged murder of a Chinese Assurance Suelety's Apartment There is an element of mystery.
from the S4Router's
Unavoidable Accident.
DECISION.
NEW NORTHERN THRUST.
The country-wide, drive against the Soviet continues to bo the feature of the China news to-day, and a report from Shanghai tells how the staff of the Soviet Consulate at Hankow is now on its way down river.
At Shanghai, the 'nuthorities in the French "Concession have stated that they cannot give residence to ejected Russians, but they
Pricetown, Dec. 18. The S4 carried four officers and 35 It is becoming increasingly clear that much uneasiness still
men attached to the New London) prevails in Canton due to the prevariousaiositiori of the present regime
submarine base,,
Eye-witnesses say the Paulding and the threat of military attack up' the, lly by troops opposed | Froached the port, about 7 o'clock. Building on Bubbling Well Rand. to the "Ironsides." The pesition is so unsettled that it has been in bad daylight, she was againrrounding the use, as the public was entering harbour about sunset abrad of the deemed wise to call in to the Sharon all Britishers in the outlying fired men by Chinese soldiers, are using it diffealt, in their own when the submarine suddenly came to
wing aimed at the navigating mind," to establish any possibly the
surface deat
The vessels sichuchs.
thon ng killing these an duty there. have led the Guardstaan to commit change her course.
She Several ballet marks on the bridge the crime of which he is accused, erashed and the satmarine disappear-
employed with her lower hold fouled." Guards, who prive the deliberate fire to which Captain Duncan Harves, of theed. The Paulding reached harbour This art of the wessel was sub-Seat
probably beached to preventi Corporal Robertson as his batman.her sirking. jerted,
testified to the excellent character The 51 was of the same class as the of the prisoner and made it pers51, which was sunk off Block Island feetly clear that for the period of in September 1925-Reuter's Ameri 18 months during which thecin Service. Corporal was in his service he had had no trouble whatever with him. The most unfortunate fealtre af
Farther details of the randine up of "Red" suspects show bridge, apparently with the inten-motive which conceivably ecull destroyer, which had no time are guarding the houses at which Russians are staying pending the
that there have been wholesale executione, & Chinese estimate placing On Friday large number of hobbel-hair girls the numine at 700. were shut out of hand.
It is now definitely established that M. Hassis, the Soviet Vice- Consul, was imongst five Raestans shot during the past week.
was captured' diverting the resolutionaries at the Police Hloudīquar,ers", when the city was retaken, The Consul and staff are still unler ariest, whilst the huge quantity of documents sized at the Con sulate are being examined.
over 2,000 The influx of refugees into Hongkong contimes. arriving last night, whilst sinée September no fewer than 108000 have reached here from the region of Swatow, whare Conprannistic activity is most marked.
REFUGEES FLEEING TO HONGKONG.
GERMANY'S NAVY.
MINISTER OF DEFENCE'S PLEA.
Berlin, Dec. 18.
The Reichsrat has reduced by for military purposes, and the 6,000,000 Marks the expenditure Government now intends to submit two Budgets to the Reichstag-- one with the new battleship and the other without.
for the
Dr. Gessler, the Minister Defence, in' a speech in Reichsrut defending the proposal to build a new warship, said that the Government's view was that until progress in world disarma-
There has been some confusion University, under, the headship of as to the Russians reported ex- poisonous Communist leader, ecuted at Canton, This arose was another centre where strifement had been made it was its by disap-duty to carry out the modest naval programme allowed to Germany by from the fact that Russians be was being stirred up eurred in two connexions. There, pointed students.
These centres of learning, which the Treaty of Versailles. Ile were Russians actively leading the mob, some of whom were killed, ought to make for stability and pointed out that six cruisers were. There were also Rússians arrested calm judgment, were causing an-permitted but that only five were in the Consulate, and when reports xiety to the better-class citizens, came in that a Russian vice-Consul who might have expected sound had been executed, it was wrongly guidance from their educators. assumed that those arrested at the Consulate had een shot.
Many Girls Executed.
Things were getting worse in What actually happened was that a Vice-Consul named Hassis stead of better, and on Friday was captured. along with four those in charge of the city decided measures with others while directing the revoiu- to take drastic tionaries in the Polier Headquart those who could not keep their The tongues still, and a large number ers which they had seized. troops recaptured the headquart of babbed-hair girls were shot out ers and excented the ringleaders of hand: It is probable that they numillgred 70 in. any case they found there.
The Consul General and his staff made a goodly procession, and no- are still under arrest. Heaps of one protested. documents were seized and now being examined.
passed.
bad
being built, and that out of six
templated. The Government con- battleships only four were con- sidered that at all costa it must Lake steps to safeguard the sea route to East Prussin which it was impossible to do with the light naval forces passessed by Ger- many-Reuter.
NEW MOTORING RECORD.
ZERO P
SHANGHAI STRIKE.
;
Resumption of Tramcar Service Expected.
Shanghai, Dee, 19. Owners of automo! iles here are responding to the sugges- tion to offer lifts to tramless, residents in order to break the -backbone of the tramway
strike.
It is believed that the re- sources of the striking tram- waymen are reaching an end and that a resumption of the tramway service will even- tuate soon-Our Own Corre- spondent.
will
A Hopeful Report.
Later.
A message from Province Town
departure of the unwanted nationals..
In spite of the worsening weather conditiona, a new Northern, offensive. is reported on the Tientsin-Pukow line, a small northern gain being claimed.
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of Mr. Wang, Chiny- wei would seem to be dispelled by a Reuter:message from Shanghai which states that he embarked on the 8.s. Paul Lecat on Saturday · and is on his way to Paris.
says that divers are already ex-WANG CHING-WEI ON WAY TO PARIS.
ploring the spot where the S4 was sunk. One of the divers reports that he heard rappings inside the
if ay
somebody Bubmarine, was signalling-Reuter's American Service,
Submarine Signals.
Later.
Shanghai, Dec. 18, Fa-chin, Wang Loh-ping, Yan Events have moved swiftly since Yung-chao, Chen Shu-jen and Ho the announcement by the Nation- Hsiang-yen, having been charged alist Government cancelling re- with conspiracy against the Gov- cognition of Soviet Consuls. Fol- ernment, will be placed under sür- on Soviet pre-veillance, and an investigation will lowing the raids A diver tapped on the side of the senken submarine with a hammer mises in Hankow, when hundreds be conducted regarding their al- and heard..answering taps. of arrests were made, all connect leged criminal activities, the in
Another indication that life still
ment for the same in accordance exists in the S4 comes from the ed officially with the Russian Gov. vestigators to recommend punish- is in the ernment have been ordered to with the discipline of the party submarine..58 neighbourhood of the entombed leave, and fourteen members of and the law of the nation, grew and which believes she got replies to her submarine signals, -Reuter.
which
The evening papers state that Wang Ching-wel left for the the Consulate staff, including M. Plitsche, the Consul-General, have United States this afternoon.-
Reuter.
left for Shanghai, passing through Kickjang to-day on board the Chinese steamer, Fu Lung.
mean-
NORTHERN OFFENSIVE.
Six Men Alive. ¡
Washington, Dec. 18.
Capture of Ku Chek. The Navy Department announce
Russians employed in Soviet that six men have been found alive.
Nanking, Dec. 18. of $4, in establishments and residing in the the case is that in the native mind, in the Torpedo Room
The Northerners under Marshal Corporal Robertson is already con- which air is being pumped by French Concession have been in-
Sun Chuan-fang have opened an victed, in view of the loose manner diyers. The entombed men es- structed to make preparations for
offensive above Pukow, and in which vernacular papers are tablished communication by means an early departure, and
It is
knocks Reuter's while the French Police have post have captured Ku Chek on the commenting on the case.
of hammer
edguards at their residences.
railway. It is reported. At the also significant that one of the American Service.
The French police will maintain moment they are said to be con- Chinese apartment boys in the wit-
guard over the premises until the solidating their position at Ku occupants have left in accordance Chick which is about 100 miles with orders-Naval Wireless..
north of Pukow on the Pukow- Tientsin Railway. Navál Wireless. Japanese Comment.
A SOVIET NOTE.
Warning to Chinese,
Shanghai, Dec. 18.
The one remark 15,000 MILES AT 68 MILES PER s box referred to the accused are the Chinese made was., "They all
have bobbed hair."
but all were
HOUR.
Paris, Dec. 18.
Captain the Hon. Victor Bruce and his wife, driving an A.C. ear and taking alternative turns at the wheel, completed 15.000 miles on
SNOW AT HOME.
as
he soldier who had killed the deceased houseboy," though he did not witness the event, showing the, native predilection for jumping to conclusions.
Compulsory Registration of Chinese Banks.
BIRTHS ABOARD JUNKS.
UNUSUAL MARINE COURT PLEAS.
At the Marine Court this morn-'
Tokyo, Dec. 17. The newspapers are very inter- ested in the Chinese Nationalists rupture with the Soviet.
#1
Saturday saw further executions, any many motor lorries piled"up" THE SITUATION TO-DAY.
with corpses were taken out of the city along the Sha-hop road. Wholesale Executions.
For burial. (Our Own Correspondent.)
Today, Sunday, at 1 pm, the the Monthery track in 200 hours, Not a little consternation hos
The Chugai considers that this central roads through the city 32 minutes and 54 seconds, whichbeen caused in the ranks of Chi
A Note from Chitherin, addressed Canton, Dec. 18.
gives an average speed of 68 miles nese bankers, exchanges, trusting, before Commdr. G. F. Hole, helps to confirm that the Soviet The following are roles com- were blocked by troops, and return
per hour.
companies, insurance societies and one caster and three mistresses of policy to redden the world has to the Commissioner for Foreign prising a general survey of the from Shameen to Tungshan could şircuitous
The previous, record Was ap-saving companies by the pro-trading junks were charged with falled, but fears, however, that the Affairs in Kinngsu was handed to situation as it is in Canton to-day, only be effected by
set of sweeping mooring their craft inside low Soviet-baulked in China-may Quo Tai-chi yesterday by the proximately 66 miles per hour-mulgation of a perion route,
seck more fertile soil. Therefore Soviet Consul General. It points hectic the following
out firstly that the Soviet Govern- Reuter.
regulations, of the most drastic water mark during dark hours, Ilundreds of Men Shot.
All pleaded guilty, but the third it warns Japan to be on guard. through which the city has just
order, by the Nationalist Govern-
The Press and public generally, ment never recognised the so More men were being rounded
ment which are generally en-and fourth defendants advanced The hope of the city was built
victims
visioned as a device for raising pleas of a domestic character. The consider it a serious blow to the called Nationalist Government at on Li Fak-lum at the beginning of up for execution. The
much needed revenue. If the re- third defendant stated that her Sovict. Opinion is that Moscow Nanking and that U. S. S. R. con- the week, after he had driven out were lined up along the Wing Hon
can only "ery herself to sleep," as sulates in China exist in con- Kulacions are enforced or submitted sister-in-law had given birth to a the gunmen of the Peasants and Meloo with their hands tied be
to by those against whom they are child and the sumpan had put in military action will serve no useful sequence of the 1924 treaty be Labourers Corps. (There was no hind them, some were men in
SEVERE COLD WEATHER. directed, they will spell a death for the purpose of calling a doctor; purpose, while a protest to Peking tween Russia and Pelting. All real battle fought). But it became grey-blue uniform and some were
dress,
"were made with the knowledge and blow to the principle of private the birth taking place at 10 p.m.
The fourth defendant stated that is impracticable as the Soviet is consular appointments in China evident that he could not unite in civillan
London, Dec. 18.
enterprise net unlike that admin-
consent of the Peking Government; the various groups of place-seek- bound.
Cold weather of unusual gever-
therefore the cancellation of the was almost impossible to
6 pm, and, after having visited
WHERE IS WANG? ers, and that no stable city govern-
Russia.
recognition of the Soviet Consuls ment could be established until count them, for one could only lookity prevails throughout the British istered to business in Soviet she had given birth to a child at not recognised there.-Reuter,
can only mean that the generals The sponsors of the brand new the doctor she had just returned to received along the line from the end, but it Isles. Nineteen degrees of Crost
registered to London last regulations.are Wong Ki-cheung
a body of men the boat when the police arrested. The child
Blamed for Canton Events.
who have seized power at Nanking his price, and his men were either is certain there were hundreds, were
are acting under Imperialist pres- The Chinese said they numbered evering. There have been falls styling themselves the Bureau of her at about midnight.
Shanghai, Dec. 18. disarmed or given another job.
the Currency Comptroller, and was produced in court.
Inspector Brown, of the Water The news that Li Chai-sum's 700, but that is probably an ex-of snow in many districts,
A continuance of these conditions even a cursory glance at the set of
The whereabouts of Mr. Wang Sure.
Secondly the Soviet energetically troops had gained the railhead at aggeration. Sullice it to say that ton) depressed the city, and the ing which was needed to despatch over Christmas.-British Wireless. one of the thoroughness which hand, in reply, to His Worship recent events in Canton, afe un- repudiates the statement contained Shiukwan (200 miles north of Can- there were hundreds, and the firs forecast, probably extending rules issued suffices to convince Police, did not press the charge, Ching-wei, who is blamed for the
been brought to bear on their pro stated that he was without know known. It is stated that he has in the Nanking Government Note people feared that while the them was consideable indeed, in
mulgation. Nothing is left to ledge of such developments.
When one of the accused pro-teft Shanghai, but the report lacks of the 15th that the Soviet con- sulates commercial agencies are various leaders' were trying to fact, to a person not versed in such compose their differences, the matters, it seemed incredible.
chance, and a degree of ingenuity is displayed designed to ferret oat duced a midwife's certificate, the confirmation.
The tramway strike situation responsible for "Red" propaganda "Reds" would return.
every detall concerning the de- two mistresses involved were dis-
The rehas not altered, but there has been and have been the asylum for com- It is estimated that more than Foolhardy Students,
EXPULSIONS AT MOSCOW.
posits, both of private individuals charged with a caution.
tion that the Consulate in Canton and corporations, with a delightful maining pair were fined $5, with less intimidation-Naval Wireless. munista, and especially the allega was guiding the revolutionary There were not a fow foolhardy 100 motor-cars have been wanton-
Moscow, Dec. 18. ly destroyed by the "Reds" in the
dieregard of the rights of private the alternative of five days impri-
sonment.
movement of peasants and. workers The Communist Congress has business. people of the student class who looting of the city, besides those
in Kwangtung. still stood up for Communism, and cars which have been rendered resolved upon expelling 75 per
It requires no seer to foretell the said that the dianster which had useless through reckless driving cent. of the active ringleaders of abuses to which such a system will overtaken the city was not real by inexperienced men."
the Trotzky-lst opposition from the
by the victims. There are in- of the party who had lost their cupled by the Soviet Russian Con- ing Kemenoff, Rakovsky, Smile, numerable possibilities, of which heads!
aul is the property of Mr. Hashim, Smirnoff and Radek, and also the
few suggest themselves int
HEAVY RADIO TRAFFIC. The Chung-Shan University, an American citizen, and to-day entire membership of the so-called random. It will provide bak which is the leading Chinese the United States flag flies over Saproniff Group, numbering 23.napectors with a heaven-sc it
London, Dec. 18,
Shanghai, Dec. 17. school in the South, was rent asun the building once again,, instead Reuter.
opportunity for extortion; it will It is announced that the Post
A Nanking message says the Na- der by the controversy, (several of the now hated Soviet flag, which
furnish the powers that be with are making provision for transmis- Russians have been on the staff, had, to the regret of residents.in
exact information concerning, the sion of no less than 60,000 radio tionalist Government has issued a first to feel the harm thereof. and possibly are still), and it is the neighbourhood, flown there.
resources of every individual me messages or Christmas greet mandate ordering that members
M. Kovlovsky and his staff bra reported that there was fighting. It is a fine residence between the
chant and investor who could beings through the medium of of the Central Committee from. with guns and other weapons In- Kung-Yee 'Hospital and the level
pounced upon for voluntary their wireless beam services. Canton, including Messrs. Wang preparing to leave on the 21st on side the University.
crossing over the railway lines at
Ching-wel, Koo Meng-yn, Chen & Russian steamer for Vladivos patriotic contributiona" to the war British Wireless.
(Continued on Page 7)
Kung po, Kan Nai-kwong, Wang tok-Reuter
Destruction of Motor-Cars.
COMMUNIST SPILT
..
Communism, but the work of those The building which had been oc-party, those to be expelled includ lend itself if meekly acquiesced in CHRISTMAS MESSAGES. Saturday morning aboard the s.s.
....
. The institution at Tungshan, Tungshan. known as the Kwok Man Tong
(Continued on Page 14.)
TO-DAY.
Dollar on demand Lighting-up
2/- 7/16. 5.43 p.m.
EL
Bound For Paris?
Shanghai, Dec, 18, Wang Ching-wei, who left on Paul Lecat, is believed bound for Paris.-Reuters:
An Earlier Report.
Thirdly the Soviet Government is convinced that the attitude of the Chinese authorities at Shang- hai will be harmful, firstly to the Chinese people and nationalist in- terests in China while the people. who so lightly start a hostile policy against the USSR, will be the