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CANTON OUTLOOK IMPROVES. YANGTSE UNREST.
FIRMS AND NATIVE BANKS RE-OPENING,
ATTITUDE OF
GEN. LI
COMMUNISTS ACTIVE AT WANHSIEN.
BANDITS AT SHASI.
Wanhsion. Dec. 30. For one or two days serious dis- turbances have occurred in
STORM ABATES.
CHANNEL SERVICES
RESUMED.
WINTER SPORTS AT HOME.
London, Dec. 30. Raway vices are now nor mal and, with
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A guid New Year to yin an' a'. The Week's Great Thought:- "There can be no doubt that noise Some of these motor prosecu- is a prolific source of irritability. tions appear to be a signal -Chino Mail success.
In Hongkong, there are two MacWhirter says first-footing..s classes-the righteous and the un- The classifying is usually done by the former.
CHIANG KAI-SHEK inden han, oresult, it is the the sale, ste the subsidence of made their recent raid on the Rus- all right as long as you can con- righteous.
UNCERTAIN.
STILL ABSENT.
Further detachments of Kwangsi troops have arrived in Canton, Military where conditions are reported to be rapidly improving. patrols are in the streets, and business houses and native banks are re-opening, but the railway services are still suspended.
There have been military conferences regarding the question of taking action against the fleeing "Ironsides," who are now in the East River district, and one report says that fighting has already commenced.
General Li Chai-sum is still absent from the city, but it is reported that he may be arriving by gunboat some time during the course of the day.
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There are doubts as to how the Left Wing of the Kuomintang will react to the latest Canton developments, in which connexion the attitude of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is not quite clear. If he yeers to the Left, his troops on the Yangtsze may clash with the Kwangsi armies there, but at present it is unlikely that South China will become involved in any hostilities.
HOSTILITIES IN SOUTH UNLIKELY.
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lieved, of Communist activity. the Channel have been resumed
General Yang Sen has, left in full.
The cross-Channel air services ichang with a large number of troops and is on his way to Wan-are not only normal but have had Esten with the object of restoring to be, augmented owing to the de- In addition to order in the neighbourhood-mand for seats.
their usual silver wing service at Naval Wireless.
noon, the Imperial Airways had to put on a special service of Hand- ley-Page-Napier air liners.
Bandits at Shast.
Now he
MacWhirter is turning over a new leaf this New Year-in the Club chit-book.
Changing China, It used to be war on queues; now bobbed-hair gets short skrift.
sian Consulate, following the oust-trol your legs. ing of the Communists. A com- MacWhirter thanks someone før plete wireless set was also found
kens-it-as a gift. \ in the building, the possession of cigarettes at Christmas.
ΠΟ such a set being in contravention of international usage.
These Guy's Hospital specialists Ever since the raid was effected, apparently do not believe that two the work of translating the various heads are better than one. documents has been proceeding
If a and is, according to reports, now To Canton militariste, 1928 will
local store advertising Shasi, Dec. 30.
almost complete. No official re-probably be known as "Look- Kitchen Needs included in their "Benighted Villages.
stock a rellable cook boy, they'd The Chinese authorities are still
lease of these translations has Before-You-Leap Year" Road traffic, however, is little been made, but we have been
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get a lot of custom. giving a free rein to bandits in
getting the Shast area, and their depreda- easier and small towns and vil-supplied with the following, which
burglars are One of them robbed a The latest statement by the Aero is stated to be a translation of one holder. The situation is lages remain snowbound. tions continue. not rendered less serious by a re-planes "have been used in some of the numerous documents found: Boxer in Kowloon the other night. Nationalist Minister of Foreign
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Affairs in relation to the Soviet, newed outbreak of Communist ac- localities to bring badly-needed
The weather at Home must have is a Wu's woo. tivity, which is causing consider supplies to isolated places. able trouble.-Naval Wirelesa. instance, an aeroplane piloted by Captain Hope, winter of the
made some of the season's events,
00 Kin's Cup, was leaving. London
a frost.
Aerodrome this evening to fly low over five anowed-up"villages near London and drop parecis contain ing tins of condensed milk.
Better Feeling at Hankow.
Hankow, Dec, 30. A meeting of the Municipal Council, the body responsible for the administration of the ex-Bri- tish Concession, was held on the 28th, and passed off very satis. factory, the attitude of the Chinese members proving much more reas suring.
The Superintendent of Police resigned a few days ago, and an officer of the Seventh Army, named Wang Li-yan has been appointed in his stead.-Naval Wireless,
Little Fighting.
Nanking's Finances.
Shanghai, Dec. 30. ·
Winter. Sports,
For
A. To preparo immediately in Canton a general strike, protesting against the murders and arrests of labourers and seizures of the Com- munlat Party and professional Unions.
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A survey of Canton politica suggests that some of the officials The ideals of a newly instituted were in the Right while others. duration and demonstrative charac-perpetuated In-stone.
The strike must be of short Banking Corporation should be got badly Left.
ter. It is the only political answer
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A heading we may yet live to see:"Leap Year at the
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which..it is possible to organise at The Hongkong and Macao yacht One result of the wintery condi- present.
race was won by U. and I. We C-The real aim of the Commun-are quite pleased. tions is that many people who had arranged visits to Switzerland for ist Party in Kwangtung Province winter sports have cancelled then. is to collect and organise the labour as they can get all the "winter and peasant forces to suppress the The Right Wing of the Kuomintang. sports they want at home. frozen state of ponds and water-And so the preparation of an armed
rising is the aim of the immediate Helena May ways has Indeed brought about a revival of ice skating which hos future. languished for many yeara. owing to unsuitable conditions, and to bogganing and sledging are pro- cecding rerrily--Bitish Wire- less.
Shanghai, Dec. 30. Latest reports from Canton state Marshal Chiang Kai-shek resumes"
Little fighting appears to be in that more troops led by General as the Commander-in-Chief of all operation in any of the war zones,
Est Checks Flood Wang Shae-hung arrived on the Kuomintang armies, for it is
London, Dec. 30. Thursday night, and, pending the an open secret that the idea of though a report has come through
The countryside in Southern returning to to the Tect that Marshal Feng arrival of General Li Chal-sum, Chiang Kai-shek Wang Shao-hung will be the ad. power will be resented by the Non-Yu-hsinng's forces have cccupied England remains snowbound and although a gradual improvement ministrator in chief of the military king politicians and the Kwangsi Tsiling-Naval Wireless.
is reported in some of the main affairs of the city. Yesterday at Clique, hended by Generals Li Chai-
roads, many are still impassable noon there was a big meeting of sum. Wang Shao-hurg, Pei Chung- In fact,
and the work of clearing is hami- the Kwangsi militarists at the hai, and Li Chung-yen.
The financial atringency at Nan-pered by the continuance of a Pai Kee Wai Komm and the discus- when Chiang Kai-shek tendered his
resignation to the Kuomintangking is likely to considerably affect sharp frost. The high winds have sion concerned military opera some time ago; reports declared that the new government which is en dropped, however, and the Eng- tlons un the East River against this, was solely due to the unyield-deavouring to raise a loan of lish Channel is calmer. Sailings the Tronside" remnants. Onging attitude of the two latter Cen-$15,000,000 on the security of the are being resumed from Dover to report says minor fighting has erals towards him.
salt tax. Canton has long teased Calais to-day.. Air services to the already occurred,
General 14 Chai-sum and Wang its monthly contribution of two continent. from Croydon operated In a telegram addressed to the Shao-hung, the two undisputed war millions.
yesterday and usually a large Kuomintang and to all newspapers Idris of the South, may be able to
Chekiang's half million dollar's number of passengers was carried. in Canton and Shanghai, dated hold the two Kwangs and there may is now diverted to paying Ha Ying- The frost has checked the flood Thursday, General Li Fuk-lum, not be any fighting on a serious the Governor of Ionum, declared scale near Canton in the near fuching's troops while Chen Tiao- in the Thames valley and the situn- that he would resign his post. ture, but it would be wrong to view yutan is retaining all the revenues tion in Canterbury and Maidstone has improved, the floods due to the Li is now in Hongkong.
"the situation in the Yangtsze proof Kiangsu.
Chiang Kai-shok is expected to overflowing of the Stour and Upper Loads It is stated that General Livintes with the same optimism.
go to Nanking on January 3 bat Medway having subsided. "Chai-sum, the former Governor of Chiang Wang Alliance?
has postponed the resumption of which were flooded are now coat- Canton, will arrive in Canton by
Of course, much will depend the generalissimate till the consed with lea. * ̧. the gunboat Faiying to-day.
"Mr. Tang Yin-wah, the former upon whether Marshal Chiang Kai-clusion of the sessions of the Canton Police Chief, resumed his shek will unite with the Kuomin-fourth plenary meeting of, the post yesterday at noon. Besides, tang Left Wing or whether he will C.E.C., C.S.C. Kuomintang, when acting as Police Chief, Tang will resume his post of Commander-the new cabinet will be announ- also be appointed as leader of the in-Chief. Of late, there has been ced.
written regarding the 5th Army, following the resigna- much tion of General Li Fuk-hum from friendly attitude between the Nan-
Troops Held Up.
1 Kow-
D-To disorganise and weaken Institute: the victors of the 14th-16th. Young Ladies April and to cause as much trouble on the Jump." as possible to clear the way for the rising of the proletariat. It is We didn't necessary to very gently organise know Claing throughout the whole of loon couple Kwangtung Province against Li
were married Chai-sum and the present Govern
until we saw ment
E-This peasant rising must be him yawning at under the definite economic and the pictures the political aims often adopted but other night. 口口 never practised in real life.
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F. This peasant rising will Annoyed at force Li Chaf-sum to take part of the stupidity of his forces from Canton which will his office boy, a then give a better chance to the loca! architect Communistic Party and Left pro has christened fessional Unions against the Right Wing of the Kuomintang anti- revolutionalists.
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When the cook boy returned from shopping and said "Master
at Dairy Farm not got brains".he didn't really mean it.
“I can't understand why you want to divorce your husband. Everybody considers charming!"
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A Taipo cook boy dusted the piano on Xmas Day.
Other- wise grime in the district is Dormal.
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The height of mutual admiration: A reply paid tele. gram conveying Christmas' Greetings.
0.0 For folk who've lived in Hongkong for- any length of time there isn't much to see, but what one
hears makes up fer.it.
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About the only right of way
ambulance!
G-At the same time it is neces-
To-day's simile: "As hard to. sary to pay attention to the troops under the leadership of those op-do as a bow-legged Scotsman left for the pedestrian is in the - posed to Li Chal-sum.. These troops pulling a cork." might be made the principal sup-
A Shantung General is forming What this place needs is more. a battalion recruited exclusively non-stop naval pickets. porters of the rising against Li Chai-sum
Its regi- H-The principal aim at the from ricksha coolies. présent moment is the foundation mentál 'march will be. "Men" of and consolidation of cells in all the Garlic." > Railway Services.
different parts of the Canton Gar- Railway services are now, prae-rison and steady military prepara-
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"The Scotsman, reported to be sober on St. Andrew's Day, is de termined to live down the scandal during the New Year.
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This Week's Dewarism:.. "A motor car with one horn can toss a man further than a bull with two horns."
The man who saves money at this time of year Isn't a miser; he's a wizard.
Of many a man on Tuesday morning it could be said, "Ends what it feels like after Yuletide."
□ Physicians have this week
tically normal. Traffic on most tion for the forthcoming rising.
1.-The main aim in the military of the main railway lines has been but little affected and the London work at the present moment, after North Eastern Railway worked no the 6th. April, is to disorganise the fewer than two hundred additional Army of Li Chai-sum, to cause the "Western king politicians, the
Fifteen hundred of Pei Chung-trains during the holiday season, maximum amount of trouble and Yes, Letts. that same post.
The gentleman from, Aberdeen Armed groups of soldiers, con- Hill Clique," and the Kwangsi hai's Thirteenth Corps travelling despite snowdrifts and frozen disagreements and to weaken the sisting of about 20 men in each faction now ruling South China, from Kashing to Shanghai yester- points and carried about 275,000 different parts of the force.
J-All these aims of the Com-ho, acting under the influence of party, have been patrolling the whilst much has been said concern-day were surrounded to the west long-distance passengers and 400,-
munist Party and Left Unions can the festive season, gave a beggar city since yesterday morning, and ing a proposed alliance between of Sungkiang by a regiment of Ho 000 parcels.
The International telephone ser- most of the business shops and Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomin-Ying-ching's First Army, who want-
ធ ៦ dertake all the gigantic organisa
Snow having falling at Christ- The Post says that in Glasgow, native banks have opened their, tang Left Wing ho are bittered to disarm them, but eventually vices have now been resumed but only be fulfilled if they would un-twenty cents, is now out of danger. been listening to traffle doctorine. doors again.. Conditions in the antagonists of the Kwangst and allowed the train to proceed to communication with the Continent tion work of bringing the labour city are becoming normal, but the "Western Hill Cliques."
Lunghua after the headquarters is hampered owing to many of the railway services or the three Judging from recent reports had explained, that the Thirteenths lines to Paris and to Zurich anders, peasants, small bourgoisic mas, the present generation of girls are doing "havy" work. In principal lines, the Canton-Kow- from the North, it appears that the were en route to Hankow-Reuter Basle being down. Forecasts fr and military masses into the move. Londoners are expressing a belief. the evening they are. doubtless
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dicate a continaace of frost durment. On the other hand, it is in Santa Claus.
"After all, food is a pleasure" ing the weekend with the possi- necessary to be very cautious and to look carefully after the organi bility of further, snow falls.-
DO sation of every rising, because, the says a doctor. After all what? British Wirelosa,
further it goes,ro_ench_collision The Small Investors are buy rs will become more bloody in chor of Amusements. And so say all acter, and an unsuccessful rising of us.. can weaken for several years the city and village masses.
TOWARDS PEACE IN INDUSTRY.
Jooh, Canton-Hankow and the much-talked of alliance between Canton-Samshui Railway, are still Chiang Kai-shek and the Left suspended..
Wing may be realised. It must be remembered that shortly after the "Wait and See."
"Red" reign of terror in Canton, With the good news that Canton Wang Ching-wei, the leader of the is again under the control of a Left Wing, publicly declared that moderate Government, headed by suspicions were strong against General Li Chal-sum) and Wang General Wang Ki-elfeung, second Shao-hung of the Kuomintang in command of the "Ironsides,"
London, Dec. 30, Right Wing, the hope is being ex- and Marshal Chiang Kai-shek al o pressed that there will be a cessa asserted that Wang Xi-cheung was.
Two half-pay Air Force pilots, tion from civil strife and an end to blame. Later, when for some
unknown reason Wang Ching-wei Newall and Vincent, were obliged of "Red" intrigue.
changed his tone and stated that to-day to postpone their Far East it will be wise to wait and see" after all Wang Ki-cheung was an lying venture owing to risk in tak- innocent man, Chiang Kai-shaking off from the snowbound Edg: The return of the "Kwangal also made a more or less similar
ware aerodrome. Clique" to power in Canton is cer- statement. Moreover, Chiung 4. tainly a victory for the Kuomin- Kai-shek strongly advised the They intend to fly as soon as pos- tung Right Wing, but there are other members of the Kuomintang sible across Europe to India and still other aspects of the question in the North not to despatch a Singapore, returning, if practic- to be considered. There is much punitive expedition to exterminate able, through China and Russia.lieve that it was better that the con- speculation, for instance, regard the "Ironside" troops at Canton. Reuter," ́ing the future plans of the dofent- It is significant also that not a
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According to the Craigengower match, married men live to fight
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A new Korean Governor has bren Chosen.
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A French girl is proceeding
against her fiance for kissing another woman. A case of.cool cheek...
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A Kowloon fire tender ran into lamp-post. Tender but not true..
២ . The great problem in Canton to-day appears to be to discover the proper Li of the land.
Although commended by the British Government, the American signalmen of the Nanking affair-local are still re-Morseful.
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London, Dec. 30.NEW BILL PASSED BY SENATE. again. Lord Londonderry, speaking at Seaham Harbour, referred to the impending joint meeting between captains of industry and represen- tatives of Labour."
He said he was inclined to be ference should have been called by a great leader of industry than by the Government. The fact re- mained that Sir Alfred Mond, with
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Mexico City, Dec. 30. The Senate has unanimously passed the Oil Law Bill, notwith standing the objection of one.Sena- tor that the measure granted more If you're dyspeptic, Yule be glad
A bachelor may feel lonely at: New Year but he at least knows than the oil companies demanded. when it is over.
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ista and politicians of the Left Chiang Kai-shek in favour of Kwangei clique is determined to great courage, had Issued LINDBERGH ON TOUR. He sees more for his money that wards.
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ed "Ironsides" and of the militar- single word has been uttered by.
Wing of the Kuomintang. To the General Li Chai-sum returning to control the acuth-eastern part of invitations to a conference. He
It looks as if the new Ford will latter, the change-over at Canton restore order and peace in Canton. China. However, not
Reference on one of the Kow be another rattling good invest. few, congratulated the leaders of the will be resented and the outcome Now that the Two Kwangs are Chinese observers hold the view Trades Union. Congress on the NOW IN BRITISH HONDURAS.loon, poster hoardings to the "nun ment may be further dissension among again in the hands of troops of that the day when Marshal Chlùng manner in which they had
alcoholic champagne" appears to the various political groups of the General Li Chal-sum and Wang Kai-shek returns to his forther responded to Sir. Alfred Mond's
be decidedly un-convent-lonal.
DO Party. From party splits, war- Shao-hung, while a récent report post as. Commander-in-Chief, his appeal. He felt that with so
A message from Belize, British fare may result.
stated that General, Pei Chung-list, troops on the Yangtze will clash hearty a response from all those Possible Trouble.
the strong ally of these two gen-with the Kwangat armies. But who were so closely connected Honduras, says that Landbergh Hey, move over. How's yer erals, has concentrated all his whether South China, and especial with industry, the labours of the has arrived there by air from held? According to the well-informed, available troops at Wuchang and ly Kwangtung, will become in conference must be crowned with Guatemala. Router's American
Service. the climax may be reached when Hankow, it appears that the volvod, remains to be seen." success. British Wireless,
New York, Dec. 90.
A number of New Year pró blema will be resolutions:
We don't know about Krish- namurti communing with Buddhn
in America. A but we know that he played golf
Now that Hankow has turned. White, ship comes within the pale