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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, ⠀⠀ SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928.
JAPAN TO SEIZE MANCHURIA?
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Paolingfu captured.
Shanghai, May 18. The troops of General Yang Yu- ting and Chang Hsuch-liang at Pao- tingfu have launched a successful
POLICE SCANDAL ENQUIRY
HOME OFFICE SEEKING ENQUIRY
IMPORTANCE.
counter-attack on the joint army MATTER OF DEFINITE PUBLIC of Murahal Feng Yu-haiong and Yen Shi-shad, capturing 3,000 pri- Bonery. Paotingfu is now in the hands of the Northerners.
SIR LEO MONEY'S CASE
HISTORY OF BRITISH. PARLIAMENT.
PROPOSAL TO BALDWIN GOVERNMENT.
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London, May 18.
A memorial is to be presented to the Prime Minister asking. him to appoint a Committee. to consider the editing and publication of a full list of Members of Parliament' from, the year 1264 to 1861 with such particulars as to polls and party as may be discovered.
The object is to obtain a com- plete record of Parliament from its boginning.
What Japan Demande
Tokyo, May 14.
London, May 18. With reference to the report that
The memorial has already been The Home Secretary Sir William the Nanking Government has de- cided to diemias General Ho Yao-Joynson-Hicka, gave notice of a signed by a considerable number tzu as the responsible person for motion, to be moved in the House of of Members of Parliament of all the Tainan outrages, Japanese mill- Commons and the House of Lords parties. It is stated that the"as- on May 22nd, approving the Cssistance of two or three learned tary authorliles here state:
Unless the Nanking Government tablishment of a tribunal enquiry professors interested in historical) offer an apology for the outrage into a "matter of definite and ur-research is assured, provided that committed by Southern troops, by gent public importance, namely the the Government is prepared, to in, the maiter-British dealing severely with the whole of prosecution of Sir Leo Chlozza move the responsible persons and an Money and Mias Savage, the ovid Wireless. nouncing to the world that the ence given therein, and the action blame for the incident lies with the of the Police in connexion with the Southern troops,, the Japanese Interrogation of Miss Savage' on Army will never be satisfied with May 16," such a simple step as the dismissal of General Ho Yao-tzu alone."
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It is understood that when the Tribunal is finished, the Home Secretary will areent to a larger Investigation of the Police methods, in which connexion he is at pre- sent consulting with the Labour leaders and Sir John Simon,
First Class Sensation.
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HITCH IN COURT.
OVER ADMISSION OF SOLICITOR.
An unusual situation
arose In the Supreme Court this morning before the Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, when he adjourned an ap- A first class sensation has been iplication for the admission to the caused by the alleged police Court as a solicitor and proctor of Frank Xavier D'Almada o methods arising out of the recent Mr. acquittal of Sir Leo Chiozza Money Castro, son of Mr. F. X. D'Almada, Į and a girl friend of 22. Miss Irene of Messrs. D'Almada and Mason, Savage, who were charged with improper conduct in Hyde Park.
It was pointed out by the At Lorney General that the applicant had not received his certificate of admission to practice in London.
The question of prosecuting the plain clothes officers who arrested
The Chief Justice said he could them for perjury has been under
In the not made a conditional order and official consideration. meantime two Scotland Yard men he did hat see how he could make Chairman of the Chinese Chamber went to Miss Savage's place of exemption in the application as it| of Commerce to his yemen and In-employment, took her to Scotland went to the root of admission. He formed the latter that for the time Yard and, it is alleged, subjected would adjourn the application and directly the documents arrived the her to five hours' examination. being he will remain in Peking.
The matter was brought up in application could be renewed. "I Parliament when a Labour mem-am afraid I cannot do more than
dihat." ber, Mr. Johnston, read a sworn
Ila Lordship expressed his re- statement that she was cross- examined in a most indelicate gret to Mr. D'Almada, senior, adding that he could not very well The Houes was most indignant get over the difficulty. and the Home Secretary promised a searching inquiry by a High Court Judge Router,,
NANKING EMISSARIES
ABROAD.
Allotted to Various Capitals for Propaganda,
The disposition of travelling members of the Kuomintang is as fellows, says a Shanghai paper:
Dr. C. C. Wu, Washington; Dr. Wing Chung-hui, London and Geneva;
Messrs. Wu Han-min and Li Chi- sen, Paris;
Mr. Sun Fo, Berlin and the Hagae..
fashion.
Ridiculous Allegations.
Sir Leo Chiezza Money and Miss
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TWO ATTEMPTED SUICIDES.
Irene Suvage, aged 22, were charg-MAN AND WOMAN JUMP INTO ed on May 2nd at the Marl- borough Street Police Court, with having behaved in a manner likely
These former officials will con- duct propaganda on the Tainan Incident in the various places to Park. which they have been assigned.
Mr. Wang Ching-wel, leader of the Luft Wing of the Kuomintang, has called saying that he is pre- Pared to lay aalde his difference with the Nanking leaders in view of the Tsinan Incident.
"Clearing for Action."
Peking, May 18. "The Japanese appear to be "clearing the decks for action."
Ten Yokohama Specie Bank families, as well as other Japan- ese left Peking to-day, but the de- parture of the Legation women and children has been postponed until the 21et as the special ship does not arrive at Tongku until then.
Large parties of Chinese work- men are actively engaged under Japanese direction in levelling the ends of the polo ground and the east glasis. It is believed they are preparing an aerodrome.-Router. Japan Exhibits Photographs,
Peking, May 18.
Sir Austen Chamberlain's hopes that later news would not confirm the account of the horrible out-
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and with his son's. "simple pledge of eternal comradeship. ringing in his ears, Capt. Stephen Sor- rell, M.C., went forth, with joy in his heart, to fight his greatest battle — to win from life, happi
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A Chinese attempted to take his Mystery-Suspense ! -- Intrigue I-
to offend public decency in Hyde life yesterday by jumping over- Both necused strenuously denied board from the .. Kwangtung, the allegations of two policemen, which was lying alongside the Yuun which Sir Leo Money's counsel, Sir On Wharf. The man was rescued Henry Curtis-Bennett, K.C. de- by sampan people and was subse- scribed as ridienlons, in view of the quently admitted to the Government A Chinese woman also attempted irreproachable character of bath Civil Hospital. defendants. Sir Leo Chlozza Money was acquainted with the to commit suicide in the same way, by jumping off the Pottinger Street girl through her family.
The Magistrate, Mr. H. L. Can-Wharf, yesterday, Two firemen cellor, stopped the case as Miss from the steam launch P.D. 1 went Savage was going into the witness into the water after her and man- against the police. box, and awarded ten guineas costs aged to keep her afloat until all three were picked up. The woman removed to the Government wid effects of the immersion. Civil Hospital suffering from the
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The Magistrate said that if the report of the affair had been sent to the Commissioner, the might never have been brought and much pain would have been spread the defendants.
YEN SPECULATORS' PROFITS.
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CHINESE IN SHANGHAI OUT TO DEPRESS MARKET.
CHINESE SOLDIERS
DESERT.
BELIEVED TO BE IN HONGKONG.
Two Chinese soldiers belonging to the 2nd Battalion of the Can-i tonese Army have deserted from their Regiment and are believed to have come down to Hongkong,
rages committed on Japanese in HUGE TRANSACTIONS. wearing the uniform of the Yun-
Tsinanfu unfortunately will not)* be fulfilled.
munese troops.
A report to this effect has been Shanghai, May 19.
made to the local police by Po who is Political reverberations in the Ming-on, a staff officer, The Japanese Legation has shown to Reuter and other corres- local exchange have this time staying at 43, Des
Voeux Road pondents the photographs of the yielded unexpected results. There Central. bodies of more than a dozen murare conflicting reports concerning dered Japanese civilians, all of the present state of the Chinese which were most barbarously speculators, rumours alleging that mutilated, sexually and otherwise. they highly over-bought the yen The corespondents are of the before the Tainan clash and then opinion that it is useless to send deliberately went out to depress the photograplis to the illustrated Japanese currency. papers as they are too horrible to print, but it is understood that
It is reported that they have
the Legation is forwarding copies been selling heavily since May
3rd. to foreign Governments---Reuter. Heavy Kuominchun Losses,
Peking, May 18. Apparently reliable French re- ports state that the Fenglien for- ecs have taken the offensive near Paotingfu and obtained an initial success, inflicting heavy losses of Banat the Kuominchun and armies.feuter.
Chang Chung-chang's Apology.).
Peking, May 18. Chang Chung-chang arrived at Peking yesterday afternoon and kowtowed to Chang Tso-lin, humb- ly apologising for the loss of Shan- tung.-Reuter,
Donations of 3500 each for the establishment of the Chinese Faculty in the Hongkong Univer sity were received yesterday from Messrs. Lap Kee, Sang Les and Co and Mr. Fung Chuk-dam
It is generally believed that the Chinese havo aggravated their oversold position, some asserting that this is as much as £0,000,000 in Japanese currency.
One speculator is likely to reap enormous profits, but others are cautious due to the steady buying by the Japan banks. Our Own Correspondent!
THE DAVIS CUP.
ITALY MAKES FURTHER PROGRESS,
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?
The following are the replies to to-day's questions:--
1. To send the telegram as a pictura no that
de revolver wote a facsimile of the sender's handwriting, 2. The United States and
France, 1. A vat necropolis, fifteen m south of Calm, an the edge of the Libyan dect. Intervaling discoveries the result of excavation have been made. 4. 200 mellem, 5. Somerset House. 6. Tenry Bamond. 7. () Hector: Pandarus: () Tantalus. 8, Bon min. D. Old Provencal dialect. 10, 140 per
mirule 11. A great entanter in the Arthurian legends. 12. Great Britain, France, Russis
Wm. Ernest Cordery, a young Slough motor cyclist, died in Wind- sor Hospital from injuries received. when thrown from his motor-cycle in a collision with a pedal cyclist.
:
There was a procession half a mile long at the funeral at Ham mersmith of the Rev. George Nel- Bon Walsh, Vicar of Hammersmith for 21 years."
Rome, May 18. A few hours before he was to In the second round of the Have been married John H: White, Davio Cup Competition, Italy 22, was found dead in machinery.
Gateshead works, eliminated Rumania by three at the Imperial Chemical Co.
matches to nond-Reuter.
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