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THE
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AND
SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL; PALACE HOTEL; MAJESTIC HOTEL
Telegraphic Address: "CENTRAL, SHANGHAI
HOTELS.
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel Das Wagons Lits, Peking.
KING EDWARD HOTEL.
Most Modern and Contral Hotel in the Colony, all Bed Rooms newly renovated and installed with Box Spring Beds, Hot and Cold Water, also Telephone.
Hotot launch meets all stormors.
($25 for thirty Tiffin Tickets can be had at the Office of the shove Histol.)
Telephone C. 873- Tel. Add Victoria,"
J. H. WITCHELL
Manager.
POTEL
HOTELS OF
The
DISTINCTION
Kowloon Hotel
Kowloon.
The Premier Hotel in Kowloon with all modern conveniences. High Class Cusing and Table Appointments. Wonderful view of the Barbour and Peak, and five minutes from the Ferry, Wharves and Railway Station. Representative meets all steamers.
Daily Rates from
Monthly Rates from
0.00, $130.00.
Under the Personal Supervision and attention of
Tel. No. K.608 & K.600.
Tel. Kowloon No, 8
MR. & MRS. I. J. WHITE
Cables. "Kowlotel," Kowloon,
Tel Address "PALAGE."
PALACE HOTEL. Three minutes from Kowloon Wharf, Ferry and Railway Station. Entirely, under English Management. Electric Light and Fan throughout. Erary Room with Private Bath. Lounge, Bar and Billiard-Rooms, Unrivalled Cuisine under the personal supervision of the proprietress. Terms moderate. Special terms to families on application to:
Mrs. J. B. OXBERRY, Proprietress,
EUROPE
After-dinner dancing every
Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday.
-Cables:-
"EUROPE
Singapore.
HOTEL
SINGAPORE.
Grill
The Europe Hotel Ltd..
Arthur E. Odoll, Managing Director.
THE HOTEL RIVIERA
MACAO
Cable Address:-"RIVIERA, MACAO".
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,_____THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1928.
SWATOW FEAR OF VISCOUNT CAVE'S
RISING.
"REDS” MOVING ON
THE CITY.
TROOPS AND POLICE SAID TO
BE UNRELIABLE.
"TOUCH AND GO”
Swabow, Mar, 20. Swatow is threatened with seri ous Communist trouble, and is ex- credingly apprehensive."
RETIREMENT.
THREE NEW APPOINTMENTS. MADE.
TITLES CONFERRED.
London, Mar. 28. The Attorney General, Sir Douglas Hogg, has been appointed to succeed Viscount Caye as Lord, Chancellor, on the latter's retiro- ment owing to Ill-health.
Sir Thomas Inskip, Solicitor Goneral, succeeds Sir Douglas Hegg
Mr. F. B. Marriman, K.C., be-
ARMS EMBARGO
ON CHINA.
IMPAIRED BY STATES NON-ADHERENT,
DIPLOMATIC BODY ANXIOUS FOR ACTION.
COMMONS QUESTIONS.
London, Mar. 28. Sir Austen Chamberlain de
comes the now Solicitor General.clared that he had not yet Later.' abandoned hope that the Nanking An Earldom has been conferred negotiations would lead to a set- on Viscount Cave, a Peerage ontlement, In answer to a question in Sir Douglas Hogg and a knight the Commons to-day. hood on Mr. Merriman.-Reuter.
Carcera in Brief. -
Sir Robert Thomas asked that in view of the fact that the con- tinuance of strife in China was
Reports are pouring in from all directions of peasant Communist risings, which, coinciding as they do with the failure of the Govern ment troops to close the circle round Earl Cave, aged 71 years, who prolonged by the osse with which the Hai-Luk Fung Communists, has boun Lord Chancellor since the contestants could obtain arms office from October, 1922, to Jaa-ther there was any prospect that gives the appearance of a concerted November, 1924, after holding that and ammunition in Europe, whe movement,
The withdrawal of the troops uary, 1924, has had a distinguish League Convention, 1925, on the for. the second ed career. He was Home Score-control of the traffe of arms from Hui-lai time is confirmed, but with the more tary from 1916 to 1918, after be- would soon be ratified by members Ho has in addition to the two who had· unfortunato feature this time ofing Solicitor.. General,' the seceding of some of the troops been very active in the public life already done so.
of Surrey, being Recorder to the Communist cause.
Two Battalions Seccdc. Two battalions were entrusted with the defence of the city, and of these one has gone over to the "Reds" after the death of the com- mander. It is not yet clear whether:
died in fighting or he treacherously put to death by his own men. The Communists, thus strengthened, have advanced Into Chaoyang and P'houleng.
WAS
It is reported that the fishing vil- lage of Tat-hau-pau, only ten miles to the south of Swatow, is in "Red" hands. Meanwhile, Phau-thai and
MI-ou, in the Kit-yang district, are enid to have been attacked and partially burnt by local passant Communists, and there is specula- tion as to the likelihood of Kit- yang escaping.
If Kit-yang falls, and the main body of the Communist force from Hai-luk Fung advances to it, the road to Choochowfu would be open, and Swatow would be in danger.
Swałow Unprepared.
The point of danger, however, is the unpreparedness of Swatow it self. With troops in the field un reliable, and the Police Force honeycombed with Communist "cells," there is little to oppose the advance.
Ho
The office of Mayor is just chang- ing hands, and the Commissioner of Defence is reported to be hurriedly leaving port, this afternoon. was rumoured to be resigning a few days ago, but this was denied, Now he has announced that the resign tion stands.
There remains, therefore, in office only the Chief of the Bureau of Public Safety, among the higher administrative officials.
Soldiers Executed.
Earl Cave, who has just re signed the Lord Chancellorship because of ill-heath.
of
Effectiveness Impaired.
Sir Austen Chamberlain replied that the effectiveness of the China ams embargo agreement of -1919 had been largely impaired by the fact that some of the principal arms-supplying States, notably Germany, Czecho-Slovakia and Rassia were not parties thereto.
Germany had declared her readiness to, accede, through their Minister, a meeting of the the Diplomatic Body at Peking.
A meeting on February 21st, decided to impress upon their Governments the necessity for of preventing the exportation war munitions to China, and expressed the convic- tion that non-adhering Powers ought to be induced to do so as soon as possible.
The Japaness Foreign Minister urged. the Soviet Government to- prohibit their nationals to engage In these exportations and repre- sentations had been made by the British Minister at Prague' to the | Czecho-Slovakian Government.
Really International.
M. Bones replied that he was unable to accede unless the agreo- mont was really international and binding on all States.
Guildford, and as M.P., for Kinga- ton he made a deep impression on Sir Austen added that Britain the House of Commons by his was prepared to ratify the Arms speeches on licensing law and the Traffice Convention of 1925 when- Budget, whilst the pioneered the ever the principal arms-producing new Franchise Act through Par-Powers were simultaneously pre- liament in 1917. He was Attor-pared to ratify
rey General do H.R.II. the Prince Replies to a British suggestion of Wales from 1914 to 1915, was from nine European Governments, appointed a Lord of Appeal, with Austria, Belgium, France, Ger- a Viacountey, in 1918 and was many, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, elected Chancellor of Oxford Uni- Italy and. Czecho-Slovakia, and vorsity in 1925.
also Japan and the United States, indicated that there was no imme- diate prospect of simultaneous ratification.
Viscount Inskip, the new Lord Chancellor, who was born in 1876, has been M.P. for Central Bristol
1918. Last night a very strict super since
He was Solici vision of the strecta was enforced. tor General from November, To-day there have been the execu- 1922, to January, 1924, and tions of several soldiers for misuse joined Mr. Baldwin's Cabinet in of ammunition and other military the same office in November of the belongings.
latter year. He was with the There is no doubt that Marshal Naval Intelligence Division of the If Chai-sum's departure for Nan-Admiralty from 1916 to 1918, head king has had an unfortunate psycho-of the Naval Law branch of the logical effect on the province, and Admiralty in 1918, Admiralty res It is inevitable that with his de- presentative on the War Crimes parture and that of General Chan Commission 1918-19, and is Chan- Ming-shiu, the direction of the Hal- cellor of the Truro Diocese. Luk Fung campaign, never con- Sir Frank Merriman, who was spicious for lia vigour, has been re-born in 1980, has been Recorder of Wigan since 1920, and has sat
laxed.
He asked for notice of questions whother any of the Powers had expressed their willingness to ratify-Reuter.
FROM SHANGHAI TO HANKOW.
NATIONALIST GENERALS”,
TRIP.
Shanghai, Mar. 28. General Chan" Ming-shiu, Chief It looks as if it were "touch as Member for the Rusholme of the 11th Nationalist Army, and go," whether the Government Division of Manchester since 1924. and General Li Taung-ien, one of is coherent enough to retain its hold He served in the War from 1914 the "big four" of the Kwangal of this part of the province at the to 1919, being D. A.A.G. from 1917, Clique, left Shanghaf yesterday: present moment.Our Own Cor-received the O.B.E. decoration and aboard a Chinese gunboat, bound respondent.
was three times mentioned, in des- for Hankow, where they will con patches. He is a member of the fer with other Nationalist military
fenders. | General Council of the Bar,
ROYAL OAK TRIAL PROLOGUE.
(Continued from Page 1.)
JAPANESE FLEET LEAVES.
BIG CONTINGENT FOR HONGKONG.
Tokyo, Mar. 29, The combined fleet, comprising more, than eighty warships sailed
This news follows the report that Marshal LI Chai-sum, Chair man of the Southern Government will loaye Shanghai soon to return to Cantoni General Chan Ming- shu, it will be recalled, accom~ panied Marshal Li to Nanking re-. cently, and it now appears that he will not be able to return to Can- ton, with Marshal Ll. S
It is said that Generals Chau Ming-shiu and Li Tsung jen may proceed to Changsha to meet Gen- orals Pei Chung-hal and Chen
Mr. Bridgeman's Outburst.
London, Mar. 28. Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, the First Lord of the Admiralty, in a speech at the annual dinner of the In- stitution of Naval Architects in London, said that he very strongly in four detachments for various Chien as the latter are not able to resented on behalf of the Royal ports in North and South China, go.to Hankow, Navy, that a not very important of which the battleships Mutsu, incident in the course of the dis- Nagato, Fuso. and sixteen. cipline of the floet had been reck destroyers are bound for Hong- lessly represented in the Press as "Mutiny" "Revolt" and "Refusal of Officers to Serve," without any | attempt to discover whether there was any authority for the state
ment.
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