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MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1928. At+A+ BIBOLE COPE 10 DRNTE
BETTER CANTON ATMOSPHERE JAPAN WARNED.
HONGKONG'S FRIENDSHIP,
THE KEYNOTE,
RUMOURED LOAN FROM HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANK.
"CHINESE CHAMBERS'
PROTEST.
·COMMUNISM · DENOUNCED.
RED UNION PROSCRIBED. Japanese troops are dispatched to
A much brighter atmosphere is prevailing in Canton, consequent on the return of General Li Chal-sum, reports our correspondent there. One particularly noticeable feature is that the majority of the people are extremely pleased at the prospect of friendly relations with Hongkong.
Everyone, says our correspondent, are discussing the benefits of friendship with Hongkong, in which connexion the loan of British engines to the Chinese section of the Canton-Kowloon" Railway is cited. A rumour prevails that General Li Chai-sum has negotiated a big lean, with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for the stabilisation of Canton currency.
According to Chinese reports, General Li Chai-sum has ordered the Revolutionary Workers General Association and all Labour Guilds connected therewith to be proscribed; also that many other Guilds are to be reorganised...
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Shantung, it would likely have a bad effect upon the Sino-Japanese relations."
GALLANT RESCUE OF JUNK CREW.
THIRTY MEN CLING TO SINKING CRAFT.
West
FLOOD DISASTER.
WORST FOR SEVEN CENTURIES.
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BRITAIN'S FOREIGN YANGTSZE MOVES,
· POLICY.
'PRIME MINISTER REVIEWS ITS COURSE.
THE CHINA PROBLEM.
London, Jan, 8. Speaking at Worcester yester-
GENERALS STRUGGLE FOR POWER.
THE LATEST GROUPINGS.
Shanghal, Jan. 9. While news from: Nanking la sparse, merely indicating that the
Fourth
TATE GALLERY CALAMITY. ELEVEN HOURS' ADRIFT.
Landon, Jan. 8. Shanghai, Dec. 30.
On the arrival of the The Chinese Chambers of Com-
The flooding of the Indon merce which have been holding a Nomantum from the north during riverside districts on Saturday national conference here to-day the week-end, it was learned that morning was due to a combination day, the Prime Minister expressed new Government officials are dispatched a telegram to the Jap- the passing of a derelict junk; of three factors, namely, high tide, the view that more progress had taking up offléo without waiting anese Government and the Jap- previously reported in a wireless the swollen state of the river duo been made throughout Europe in for the confirmation of their anese commercial bodies offering message and forming the subject to floods and to a gale which had the last three years than in any appointments by the
of a notice to mariners was of piled up tide water.
equal" period since the war. It Plenary Session of the Kuomin- "friendly warning that in the event
more than ordinary interest, the full account forming is graphic Actually the tide rose six feet was in October, 1925, that the tang Conference, as, for example, story of a gallant escue scene. one inch above the predicted greatest step was taken in thor. T. V. Soong took over the
Finance Ministry on Saturday The Weat Nomentum sighted the height, and no record exists of conference at Locarno, which the situation in the Middle Yang- junk four miles Enst of Ookseu auch conditions having occurred Island light at 9 am on Thursday before in the River Thames. The brought together France, Belgium, toze is developing along the lines, military leaders The telegram states that while last, the weather being extremely final death-roll reached fourteen, Germany, Italy and Great Britain usual
as general guarantors of the exist manoeuvring to gain control of the Japanese are planning to land rough at the time, The junk was nearly all the victims having been
ing wastern frontier between the wealthy trading contres. their troops under the guise of pro-foundering and those on board drowned in basement bedrooms.
Thus, it is understood that the tecting Japanese interests, the were in dire need of assistance. The damage done to house pro- Germany and Belgium and France.
Commander of Hankow, Chinese think that the real motiva
Under extremely difficult condi- party was very considerable, while The latter country for the first time late
war had a feeling of General Hu Tsung-tu, is proceed is their interference to the Natio- tions, a lifeboat was launched in the public building which suffered since the
was fag up river to Ichang, which has charge of Chief Officer most was the Tate Gallery, where security without which It nalist advance to Peking. Taxation Burden.
Johannsen and after two trips, he the basements stored with pic-naturally impossible for her to been apportioned to him by succeeded in, bringing off 30 Chin-tures, including portfolios contain-co-operate as we should all desire arrangement with Generals Pei Li Tsung-jen. Following this action the com- esc seafaring folk, who were takening hundreds of Turner drawings, in the necessary work of reconsti- Chung-hsi and
tuting and pacifying Europe. This has forced back General merce delegates, numbering more on board and given-every atten- were flooded. The injury "done
the other hand, Yang Sen to Wanhsien, where he Then, on cannot yet be estimated.
brought Germany into the League recently called a conference of than a hundred representatives tion. from the various parts of China
Hundreds of families, many of Nations and marked the definito Szechuanese Generals to consider including both north and South
Rammed During Night. poor, have suffered serious loss end of the post-war period. Hfuture policy. China, criticised their own officiale,
The tale told by the survivors and prompt measures were taken enabled the Inter-Allied Military
The Wuhan faction'a troops are by demanding the cessation of ex-
to organise relief. Shelter in Comnrission in Germany to be advancing towards. Hunan, as was to the effect that the junk, churches, hospitals, schools and withdrawn two months ago. Ger- negotiations with General Ho the people with an unbearable financial burden, making it impos- chow and Chluchow, had been provided for all ir need, and faith in carrying out the terms of latter tending to make an alliance compete with the foreign mar- previous night, by a vessel which, funds were started by London have the great co-operation of Yang Son against Wuhan. Both sible for the Chinese merchants to rammed astern at 10pm on the appeals for subscriptions to relief the Versailles Treaty, and we now with Generals Wel Peta and chants who are untaxed, due to it is believed, was Japanese, the
municipalities affected. their extraterritoriality,
Germany, and while our relations these parties and Canton seem vessel proceeding on her way with- The conference is also strongly out rendering assistance.
essential to progress in Europe likely to oppose Marshal Chiang resolute against the Chinese mili-
have so greatly improved with Ger- Kai-shek if he attempts to extend tarista practice
many it has been possible also to his own bailiwick in Klangsu and of quartering
increase co-operation with France Chakiang, where General Ho troops on Chinese private property
and with Italy. Now the great Ying-chin is an important factor. and against the commandeering of the transportation of the troops without the payment of their ser vices.
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Operations on the East River continue, and it is stated that orbitant taxation which is loading which was trading between. Foo-private dwellings was immediate many, on her part, has shown good Chich have broken down, the
General Pei Chung-hai has sent strong reinforcements to Swatow in reply to a request for assistance from troops loyal to Li Chai-sum.
“IRONSIDES” GREATLY OUTNUMBERED.
Two members of the crew were
killed or drowned, the remainder of the crew clinging to the gradually sinking craft for eleven Nomentum.
The Telegraph's Canton corres- are of little value for purchasing Chinese coastal river steamers for hours, until sighted by the West further storms are forecast and progessive nations of the West are This is exemplified, by the fact
pondent, under date of yesterday, things in Canton. No other book- writes as follows:"Canton has been ing clerks in the world could have a brighter place since the return stood it, but these Chinese clerks
→ of General Li Chal-sum. The man carried on as usual. "
on the street is smiling once more, the jaded looks of women and children have disappeared.
A few shops are still closed, but the Tai San Stores have re- opened this morning and Sincere's will re-open this week. The Tai San Company has made a new agreement with ita staff on a "inutual baals." The
CHINESE REPORTS.
Proscribing a "Red" Union.
Labour Troubles,
MARINE COURT.
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revise its
Bandits Fire on Ships.
Ichong, Jan. 8. Bandits, who are causing z good
Further Danger. "A warning was issued yesterday by Port of London Authorities that as the tides would normally be in- creasing until Tuesday, and as
united in their endeavour to create that the former Fakienese bandit. flood conditions still prevail in the a peaceful and prosperous Europe. Ho Ying-chin in his invasion of Chang Chun, who assisted General On arrival here, the rescued sea- Thames Valley, danger will exist men were taken to the Water until after, Tuesday when tides.
Troops in China.
Fukien early last year, will short- The final session of the confer Police Station and subsequently to should begin to fall. No fresh ence voted to call a National Re the S. C. R. for repatriation to foods, however, were caused by said that the British Government sung-Reuter.
ly be appointed as Defence Com Referring to China, Mr. Baldwin missioner of Shanghai and Woo habilitation Conference · for the their homes, which it is understood the high tides of yesterday after. purpose of making plans for find; is Amoy. ing means of meeting the national
noon, this morning, or this after- was still prepared to indebtedness, unifying the industum is Captain G. J. Linnander three occasions
The master of the West Nomen-noon, although the stream on all treaty with China providing China UPPER YANGTSZE TROUBLE.
was abnormally was in the position to make a bar- trial development, solving the and the vessel is operated through high. Tides labour and capital conflicts, and
were watched by gain. As to the Shanghai Defence Force, it was admitted by the whole tion of General. Li Chai-sum ad-lishment of exhibitions of Chinese
A long and important declara also of making plans for the stabs for the U. S. Shipping thousands of people on banks.
Board:
world that it had probably saved Sand Bag Rarriers.
the lives of thousands of white dressing the Canton people is in products abroad, especially in the course of preparation for pub- Chile, Argentine, and other places
Extraordinary precautions were people. He hoped in time it deal of trouble; have started to fire lication in the Canton newspapers. In South America.
taken by the authorities to pre-might be possible, to withdraw this on ships in the locality. There General Lá Chai-sum has ordered
vent a repetition of Saturday force and that they might see a are distinct signs that uneasiness old agree the Canton Police to proscribe the
morning's disaster. Various areas united government in China. Bu is increasing.-Naval Wireicas. ment was one which the staff had Revolutionary Workers' General
British Steamera Suspended. drawn up, and upon the acceptance Association and all other labour of which they insisted. They guilds which are under the super
were defended by walls of bags so long as its withdrawal might filled with sand and cement while imperil the lives of British people. broke the contract themselves, vision or in any way connected
one thousand extra police were however, and the new terms with the Union.
be responsible for the recent lab- At the Marine. Court this morn-drafted to these places and to amount to a capitulation on the The edict ordered the Police to
our uprisings under Communist in-ing, Commdr. G. F. Hole made others where there was reason for The Premier suid he did not part of the staff and is another see to it that some of the doubtful spiration. The latter resolution exere comments on the risks run anxiety. Salvage work was still think there was any country which proof that the employer is not labour guilds at least are re-or-alleges that Communist influence by junkmasters who, in disobedi-proceeding to-day in places where had shown moro practically how always the tyrant he is made out ganised under the supervision of is responsible for encouraging lab-ence of Harbour Regulations, water had not drained off..
deeply and earnestly it felt in the The running of British steamers our organizations under Govern- carried dangerous goods. and
matter of disarmament than had has been suspended owing to the The Canten cruiser Faiying willment auspicas which have caused moored in areas other than those
Worst for Seven Centuries. Britnin. He declared that the Bri-fact that vessels are likely to be soon he despatched to Swatow the recent class conflicts.
set apart for craft of this nature,
Historians state that the last tish proposals at the Geneva Naval commandeered. There have been from Canton.
The appointed committee. com- The occasion was the appear Thames flood comparable with that Conference would have precluded extensive troops movements on the paced mostly of about 30 prominent ance before him of Chau Tam, Sit of Saturday occurred nearly seven armament competition. He did upper river. Natal Wireleas. businessmen and bankers, drafted Nane and Lam Hing, masters of centuries ago in A.D. 1235.
not know what would be the next plan of active co-operation with trading junks, who were respec-
Abnormal tides surpassing any practical attempt to be made, but the Chinese Commerce Chambers tively charged with warrying 1.000 within living memory were experi- there was nothing in the course including Chinese in the Philippi- tins, 1,200 tins and 1.000 tins of enced along the East Coast yester- pursued by the British Government nes, Straits Settlements, from the Governor of Hongkong General Chang Fat-kwai their America in order to assist the Na-kiwan Bay:
and kerosene, and mooring in Shau-day, and whole colonies of beach since the war which could lad
guiltý. admonished they huts used in summer by holiday people to think that when there is which is about sixty miles east of vanization following the..comple-drawing their attention to the fact Naze, and other resorts were wash-Great Britain will not be in the opened the gates of Chochow city
makers at Frenton, Walton-on- anything" practical to Canton, and Hoyun, both Importion of the military phase of the that by their action they endan-ed out to sea. Wharves in Ro-van of progress.-British Wireless, tant strategic points on the East revolution. River, have boon captured by the Kwangal
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the Police.
to be....
Some of the vernacular papers have rather amusing com ments. on the visit of General Li Chai-sum to His Excellency the East River Operations. Governor of Hongkong (Sir Cecil
Little fighting is taking place Clementi, Kreived such an on the East River along which the
K.C.M.G.). One report
headed by urgent and pressing invitation "Ironside" troops,
without being discourteous!"
A Loan Rumour..
Be that as it may, the vast Canton Government's majority of the people of Canton troops without the firing of even are pleased at the prospect of one shot, and popular opinion has friendly relations being establish it that the "Ironsides" scheme to ed with Hongkong and it is take Swatow and Chaochow will rumoured that Li Chap-sum has be abandoned.... negotiated a big loan with the
The East River district is now, Hongkong and Shanghai Banking, almost entirely under the control Corporation for the stabilisation of Canton currency. This rumour of Canton Government units.
is a popular one for many reasons, Brst because the people want to
The Retreat.
that the Nationalist Government
The Conference also demanded JUNKMASTERS WARNED AND in which victims had been trapped that force would not be withdrawn modify immediately the regula- tions which the chambers allege to
ANGLO-AMERICAN HISTORY.
LITERATURE BEING SOUGHT.
New York, Jan. 8.
FINED.
gered other craft. He did not chester and Chatham and railway caro, he added, whether they lines between Colchester and Clac- destroyed their own boats, so long
as they brought no danger to other ton were damaged.-British Wire-. people.
get something for their paper Having abandoned Walchow, the money, and next because, the "Ironsides," it appears, retreated Chinese say, it looks as if the north, heading ..for the Klangsi
a fund of $25,000, the income from The accused were each fined British may be prepared to recog- border. The main body of Tron- nise a local Canton Government. sides" are at present stationed at which is to be used for the collec- $50 with the alternative of six of literature bearing on weeks' imprisonment, with a pro Laolung, in north Kwangtung, tion, The benefits of being friendly near the Kianggi border, while the Anglo-American relations between mise that the next batch of
and years 1750
offenders would the moleted, in with Hongkong are being discuss remainder are said to have entered the
$100, with a commensurate alter- ed by all and sundry, and unless Lingping and Hoping, in the Reuters Americnu Service:
native: of imprisonment. ⠀ aome-one, blunders,
1816.
less.
PEACE PACT.
FRENCH NEWSPAPER. OPINION.
were
Peace Promotion.
be done
NICARAGUA WAR.
Wanhsien, Jan. 8. The decisions arrived at by "a conference of Szechuanese gen-. erals have not been made known, Wu Pel-fu was present at the con ference.
FALL OF CHOCHOW.
Starving Inhabitants.
Peking, Jan. 7. The Shansi General Fu Tsun-yi
troops taking over control of the on Friday afternoon, Fangtien
city and removing the defender [General to Paotingfa.
The burial of many dead has begun.
Food supplies for the starving inhabitants are being taken, in.-- Reuter
[A message of December 27 stated:
Negotiations are proceeding for the Shansi evacuation of Chochow, and it is believed that the Feng- tien faction will pay the Shansi- ites for their surrender and also. pay the townsfolk for the damage dono during the siege.]
Feng Near Talan? -
Peking, Jan. 7. All Information received here
As such cases were of infre
Royal Sympathy: quent occurrence, he would treat
U. S. AEROPLANES FIRED ON. London, Jun. 3. the offenders lightly, he said, but should they, or others. appear in
Their Majesties the King and
Managua, Jan. 8. messages .of. future on d similar charge, the Queen huve sent
Aeroplanes from Quilali, entry- would be heavier. sympathy to the London, flooding Marine wounded in the recent penalty A message from Newhaven, Inspector Brown stated in renly victims,
The King has donated £100 to fighting, encountered a hot barrage Connecticut, announces that Mr. to his Worship that the penalty the relief fund and Her Majesty from the insurgents rifles and
forced to ly high haa given 250-Reuter.
Router's American Service. Florence Brooksaten, of New York, wa $250 for each day of the has presented Yale University with offence.
Mr. Coolidge Annoyed.
Washington, Jan. 7. Effortain some quarters to glorify Sandino into a Bort of Central American Garibaldi have incensed President Coolidge who indicates that Marshal Feng Yu- is preparing a statement setting haiang, the "Christian General," Paria, Jan. 8.
forth the reasons for the presence is now near Taian. Writing on the /kubiect of M. of American Marines in Nicaragua
On the other hand, it is report Briand's Reply to Mr. Kellogg, the and to counteract what the ed that he is withdrawing towards. Echo de Paris says that all administration considers to be Lanfeng-Router, Briand's amendments are actuated misguided newspaper comment. by intelligible and: even necessary -Major-General Lejeune, com- obiects."
mandant of the Marine Corps, is The Petit Parisien observes that sailing for Nicaragua on Monday Shanghai, Jan; 8.-M. Briand, in suggesting that the on a mission of inspection definite purpose in o'clock in the morning by a noise The 8.a. President Monroe, while Pact should, first be signed by Reuter's American Service. Tai Sha Tau-to-day. A number of mind. If their lenders should ever like a thunder clap when an ex- passing through the Inland Sea on France and United States, adopted way to Shanghal, we achieve the aim quicky. Otherwise went the only procedure which could workmen smployed by the railway change their mind and decide to plosion in the Dahlem suburb desher
have a final struggle with the troyed a villa occupied by two pro-aground." were inside and as soon as the book- Kwangsl troops then they, the fessors engaged on chemical ox Attempts to refloat her have been there would have been long delay ing clerk received silver over the
unsuccessful. The passengers are in communicating the proposed. counter for tickets sold, the work Ironsides" at Laolung, are in a periments.
The house was blown to pieces, all safe and further attempts at re formulae to the various other men took the coins and handed the favourable position to assall Wat clerk paper notes. The notes had chow by marching south-westward, two being killed and eight serious-floating are being made this even Powers for study and approval.
Reuter. (Continued. on Page 14:) ly Injured Reuter.
ing-Reuter. been given to them as wages, but
there are vicinity of Laolung. better times ahead. The loan According to information from of British engines to the Canton, the "Ironside" troops have Chinese Section of the Kowloon decided to make Laglung their Canton Railway is quoted as an fature headquarters, unless Li instance of one of the good results Chai-sum forces them into of friendship, and the dollar a mile Kiangsi. paid by Canton for the use of the
Another Chinese report, how-
engines is regarded as caution ever, puts a different construction money and good business,
on the situation, stating that the The good nature of the Chinese. "Ironsides" have concentrated at was seen at the booking office at the Laolung with
ANOTHER BERLIN
EXPLOSION.
LAITS ORIGIN EXPLAINED,
Berlin, Jan. 8.
The city was roused at nine
“PRÈSIDENT” BOAT AGROUND.
STRANDED IN INLAND SEA
TO-DAY
Dolar on deand Lighting-up
2/-11/16
6.58 p.m.
[VAGUE YANGTSZE SITUATION
Nanking-Hanków Split,
Naval wireless messages reach- ing Hongkong yesterday show that the district between Shaal and Chenglin has become an extensive. bandit centre, the number of arm ed bandits in the area, being given. as 10,000. At the moment there. Is an entire lack of either civil (Continued on Page 14.)