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NORTHERN TROOPS IN TRENCHES.
FENG YU-HSIANG. TO MOVE AGAINST THEM?
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TRAGIC AFFRAY AT METHODIST UNION
SEA.
CAPTAIN TREATS WOUNDED COOK BY RADIO.
FIGHTING EXPECTED. "CHANGTE TO PERLAK.”
British naval wireless messages A murder committed on the high received in the Colony this morn-acas last month, on board the ing give an interesting summary A.P.C. tanker Porlak, then an a of the disposition of the various voyage between Shanghal and bodies of troops In China.
Balikpapan, Javn; was the subject It is states that the 3rd and 4th of a Police Court case this morn Fengtion armies are now station-ing. ed on the Lan River' and are se cupying the area in trenches, The force is variously estimate), but it is between 52,000 and 80,000 strong,
There are approximately 17,000 Shantung-Chihli troops in the Tongshan mining urea.
Feng to Fight. An unconfirmed report states that a large body of Southern troops are now advancing east- wards, and the 17th and 16th
Armies were said to-be about 20 miles north-west of Tongshun on July 17th.
Reports anticipate that there ill be an outbreak shortly, it he- ing suggested that Marshuf Fung Yu-hudang contemplates an attac on Jehol, and proposes to force the Northern evacuation of both Jahol and the Lan River district.
Plenary Session Postponed?
Shanghai, July 19. The Nanking Government has dispatched telegrams to Kuoniin-
then to return immediately
The
PROPOSAL.
WESLEYANS NOW IN
FAVOUR.
SCHEME FOR MERGING OF THREE CHURCHES.
CONFERENCE VOTE.
a
Au altercation occurred in the
London, July 19. cook's galley, with the result that
The Wesleyan Gonference, at the cook was mortally stabbed, it is alleged, by his assistant. cook died after being taken ashore representative session held in ། ་ Liverpool, passed a resolution In at Maulla.
The assistant cook was brought favour of an Enabling Bill to to Hongkong under an escort, and
the union of the was charged with the crime before secure Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Methodist Churches. Police Court to-day.
Mr. Somerset Fitzroy appeared for the Grown.
In outlining the Crown case, Mr. Fitzroy revealed that Captain Norman Nesbitt, the muster of the Perlak, had to send out wireless messages for specific directions in his treatment of the injured man.
The call was taken up by the British steamer Changte, whose surgeon was thereafter in com. unication with Captain Nesbitt as to the method of treating the wound, a deep one in the chest.
In spite of all efforts, the man died after being taken to Hospital at Manila.
Blow Witnessed.
tang Commissioners over-seas, Mr. Fitzroy said that accused, including Wa Han-min, Sun Fo Wang Ching-wei, C. C. Wu, urging Chan Tse-chung, was signed on toas cook's mate at Singapore at the Nanking to attend the Plenary end of last year. He worked in Conference, which has been post-the galley with Yoh Ah-chang, the poned to the middle of August. ship's cink,
On June 16, when the ship was some distance from Manila, the two me exchanged words
Likin Abolition
FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1928.
MOVE TO OUST CHRISTIANS.
FROM NANKING FOREIGN- SERVICE.
DR. WANG ATTACKED.
ARMS SEIZURE ON “BENMOHR.”
FIREMAN GETS SENTENCE OF THREE YEARS.
CLEVER RUSE FAILS:
Shanghai, July 18. The maiden voyage of the 8.8. Dr. G. T. Wang, Nationalist Benmohr" to the Far East was Minister of Foreign Affairs, re-marked by 'an untoward feature, turned to Shanghai from Nanking when a large quantity of arma and yesterday morning to find himself ammunition was seized on board la target of a violent aħtl-Christian last night. Quick action follow.
attack.
ed and a fireman who was arrested
IIis attackera are members of was sentenced to three years' im- the party affairs committee of the prisonment who was charged this Shanghat branch of the Kuomin- morning
left Kowloon tang who, at a meeting on Wednes- The Benmohr day, decided to petition the Nan- Wharf at 5 p.m. yesterday and king Government to refrain from went to a buoy, eventually sailing
Christiana in
When employing
the for Takao at midnight. three foreign service. The attack is the vessel reached Lvemoon Pass, Officer particularly directed at Dr. Wang, at 12.30 a.m., the Chief who is a Christian and was former and the European boatswain dis- The matter now goes to the pusly an official of the Y.M.C.A. covered fireman in the upt.of
toral session next week.-Reuter,
The three Churches concerned in! the proposed unien, with the Intest statistics available, are as follows:
Members
Churches.
Ministers.
Wesleyan Method
dista ......... 466,439 2,600 0,252 Primitive Method-
206,038 1,003 4,798 United Methodists 146,078 607 2,740 The Wesleyans,
ixta
increased,
cortain
The
The arms and amununition are understood to be of Belgian manu- facture and were probably em barked at Antwerp.
Arrested Man Charged.
At the Central Magistracy this morning, before two Magistrates, Mr. R. E. Lindsell and Major C. Willson, the fireman was charged in connexion with the seizure.
Immediately after their meeting buying certain packages, prépar on Wednesday, members of theory to throwing them overboard, local Kuomintang wired to Nan-when, it is presumed, they would king outlining their charges. In picked up by sampaas, their telegram they accused Chris-reman appeared to be working tinns of being "agents of foreign alone and was immediately seized.
A radio message was sent out. Imperialists," and that the Chris and the police signal holsted. tian church stands for Inter-Meanwhile the Bermehr went to national ideas and does not sup-anchor in Junk Bay. Sub-Inspec- port any individual racial idens.
tor Dorling and a police party reached the vessel at 1.30 alin. to Called "Pro-Monarchist.”
make investigations, with the re- Christians are also pro-monar-sult that a seizure was made con- chists and possessing these insisting of 47 automaties, 9 Luger elinations they cannot be entrust pistols, one Smith and Wesson re- fed with China's diplomatic affairs volver and 5,500 rounds of am- The Wesleyan Methodists are under the Nationalist Party, the munition. The fireman was placed the original boy of Methodists a telegram continued. The message under arrest and, with the cost- formed by John Wesley in 1739. concluded by attributing the past trabard, was brought ashore ut Wesley was originally a clergy-diplomatic failures of China to a.m. man in the Church of England, Christian diplomats employed in Behind the attack is perceived and he had hoped to reform the the militarist regime. Church from within on paints of doctrine. He was, how much personal animosity to Dr. ever, repudiated by the Church Wang who has appointed Christina and, not being able to preach in colleagues to high office in his Anglican Churohes, he adopted the Ministry. The attack crystalliz The Likin Abolition Committee the galley, and the accused plan of open-air preaching. As in the appointment of Dr. P. W. has resolved that each Province alleged to have taken a kitchen his followers
they Kuo, former president of the South must form Branch Elkin Aboll-knife and hinged at the cook, formed themselves into "Societies," Eastern Univeralty, as chief of the tion Council to make the movement who received a deep wound in the for whom Rules were later drawn Peking office of the Ministry of
witnessed possible.
chest. The blow' was
up and the Wesleyan Methodist Foreign Affairs, who is a Chris-
Mr. T. Murphy, Assistant Direc- Church established on a distinc-tian. Dr. Kun was prominent intor of Criminal Intelligence, stated educational elreles, heading a rival the defendant was seen when about live basis.
school of educational ideas and to lower the arms into the water The Primitive Methodists. this, according to Chinese in Lyemoun Pass.
Mr. Murphy then produced to The Primitive Methodists were porta, is the sole Inspiration for
the Court a coil of rope no arrang |ed as to form a suitable place for established by a seccession from the attack. the Wesleyans io 1807. They
lodging the arms before throwing in Peking to Chinese bankers of
One of the lenders of the attack them into the water. Huge air-tight The Piriak then deviated from were evangelicals who deemed Peking and Tientsin and Mr. T. V.her course and put into Manila zela higher virtue than disei- Soon, the Nanking Finance Mini-for the purpose of landing the line and decorum and put less recently published in the Chinese tins, to be used as floats, to indicate The authorities uphasis on church systems as newspapers of Shanghal a letter the location of the arms, were also ater, Marabul Chiang said that the wounded man.
with "conversions."objecting to. Dr. Kuo's appoint-produced.
A large in of oll was also Government Intended to issue, in of the port had been
communi- compared the near future, Government Trea-cated with, and when the Porlak William Clowes was the principalment. Dr. Wang's reply was con- sury bonds, to a large amount. put in, a mellen feial and police leader of the movement, and for a cine and reasonable. He denied seized by the police, and it was The proceeds will be devoted to were waiting ta reegive the wound, generation after the name Primi- the allegation made against his suggested that If the floats were the disbandment of troops,
man and his alleged assailantive Methodists was adopted the appointee and and that in select-carried away, the presence of oil followers were known as "Clowing Dr. Kuo he had been gulded on the surface of the water would The bankers expressed their On June 23, the injured
by one central belief-that he indicate where the contraband was willingness to aid Government to died in St. Paul's Hospital, în såles.".
would avail himself of the services dumped. make the disarmament scheme #31anila, and tile accused was then
of anybody who would benefit the success, but sincerely hoped that helt on a charge of murder. He
nation. the Government would not only was put aboard the Empress of to the disperse the troops Bat see that Russia and handed over the arms are disposed of for goods Water Police in Hongkong,
The financers emphasised that unless that is done, the militarists i can at any moment recrdit, andi enlist new forces.
It is reliably reported from Pey a steward, Chow Sing-sau king that Marshal Yen. Shi-san who would give evidences. has decided to disband 30,000 of
After the blow was struck. his troups..
accused ran out on deck, but hu vas seized on reaching the side On Wednesday at a banquet of the ship and was kept under given by Marshal Chlung Kai-shek
Bunkers Views,
VICTORIA BRITISH SCHOOL.
close arrest.
Called a "Savage,”
2
Inspector Dorling, in evidence this morning, stated that be tock
The United Methodists.
Letters in Newspapers.
Salvage by Syndicates. Continuing, Mr. Murphy told their Worships that in the past there had been reason to believo
The United Methodist Church
Dr. Wang concluded his letter has only been, in existence since 1907, when it was formed by ay advising the writer not to in union of the United Methodialect personal feelings into national
Jaffairs.
that it was not an uncommon Free Churches (founded in 1836),
The Foreign Minister arrived at practice for smugglers of arms of the Methodist New Connexion (founded in 1797) and the Bible Nanking by train early yesterday vessels to dump them overboard at morning, and will entertain the Lyemoon. These would be sal- the acensed over from the Master-(Christians (Founded in 1815). All foreign Consuls of Shanghai, as raged later by interested syndi. at-Arms of the "Russia" on the thes free Churches owed their! arrival of the liner here. He was creation to secession from the Wes-well as study the treaty situation. eates and untimately smuggled
into China. also handed 21 kitchen knife, leyan Methodists, but the separa-
The police, said Mr. Murphy, shouted in paper, with which the tion, as in the case of the Primitive!
Recently the graves in Grent have recently made several fatal assault was alleged to have Methodists also, was solely on mat-
ters of Church government and not Burstead churchyard, Essex, of seizures, including an exceedingly been earried out.
on points of duetrine,
the 22 German airmen who were large haul from Aberdeen, where, Chow Sing-san, said to be the The United Methodists and the killed in the Zeppelin L#2 when if it will be recalled, a sumpan lond only yewitness, degeribing the Primitive Melbolists have for some was brought down between Brentjof arms was captured. Mr. Mur- Pupils attending Victoria British affair, said he was standing out-time favoured reunion with the wood and Billericay, were coveralphy expressed the belief that the School gave an excellent accountside the door of the galley, when Wesleyans, and the latter now seem by a new gravestone brought from arms
The prepared to join in the movement., Germany.. of themselves this morning in sus-be heard the two men in taining an enjoyable programine for galley quarrel
ENJOYABLE "OPEN DAY"
PROGRAMME.
their parents and friends on the He heard the cook call his mate occasion of an "Open Day,” denota "sarage" whereupon the fatter Ing the end of the term prior to picked up a kitchen knife-the the closing of the school for the one exhibited in Court-and summer vacation. There was a lunged at the cook's chest. The large gathering of ladies, and weapon entered the lower left gentlemen.
side of the man's chest. The The main presentation was the necused then ran out of the 'Greek play, "Helen of Troy," in galley, He was chased by witness four parts, for which picturesque to the side of the ship, where, costumes and banners had been tackled by the Captain and Chlef provided. Those taking part and Engineer, he was finally over- their roles were:-Helen of Troy, come and handcuffed.
No other blows preceded the Mary Taylor; King Menchus, Ernie Fowler; Prince Paris, Ar-stabbing. thur Wood; the trumpeter, Harry Accused was remanded, ‹ Middleton: ladies in waiting,
Florry Fowler, Nancy Duckworth,
and Vivienne Hollidge; altar girl, Booker and Mary Parsons; gonga Betty Evans; the bird, Alison Me by Alice Dedear, Betty Long- Kay; dancing girl, Vera Mandy- bottom, Winhle Hartridge, Billy aide; Trojan captain, Walter Pryde and Erle Stone. Pryde; kings and heroes, Henry
Mr. E. M. Clark, headmistress, Bunje, Noel and Neville Booker, Frank Hughes, Mac Sayer, David with the help of the staff, arrang- Parsons, Eric Stone, and Reggle ed the programme generally while Mycock; Apple of Beauty, Juno, Miss M. J. Stuart, an assistant Winifred Raven; Minerva, Doro mistress, was responsible for the thy Moss; Venus, Joy Booker; play and costumes. She is to be Mercury, Noel Booker; Paris congratulated on the result of her efforts as are also the other mem- Arthur Wood.
The children took their parts in bers of the staff. The shields used a manner which reflected great were made by the boys in Clanos credit on the staff who trained 7 and 8.
Plano accompaniments wora them.
During short intervals between provided by Mra. I. C. Pryde and, the parts, various miscellaneous Mra, A. G. Jefford. items were rendered, including a Following the concert, parents song and dance, "Butterfly Wings," made a tour of some of the school dance by Class 10; song and dance rooms where samples of the puplls by Class 9; singing game entitled work during the term were dia "My Noah's Ark" by Classes 9 and played for inspection. Generally 10; recitations by Jean Ewing and speaking the exhibits wore very Shilla Bruce; senga entitled creditable and pointed to the care- "Little Flute" and "Fairy Queon;" for training pupils receive at the recitations by June and Morcon School.
CIAN 01890, MY HEA SERVICE, IND.
"I'll pertect yer car while yor gene Guvʼnor.”
found in the Aberdeen seizure were salvaged In the same way.
Defendant was xonienced to three years' hard labour.
WEEPING GIRL DANCERS.
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HYSTERICS AFTER ELEVEN DAYS ON THE FLOOR:
Some
New York, June 20. dancers who are parti- cipating in a Dance Marathon, which has been going on for eleven days, have found the strain too much for them, and have become the victimes of extraordinary hallucinations,
One girl imagined she was pick- ing flowers and has attempted to gather them from the air or off the floor. A man competitor began to scream that somebody hud stolen his trousers, and, knocking his. trainer down, he bolted from the
arena.
Some of the couples, who are al- moat on the, verge of collapso, be- gan fighting one another., Several girls cry perpetually, while others "upport themselves with smelling Balts,
In spite of the volume of protesis in the Press the Dunéo Marathon | វំង still going on. Seventeen couples remain in the contest, in which only 15 minutes's rest is al- lowed at the end of each hour.- Reuter.
Peking, July 19, The Italian Minister denies the reports that he is proceeding to' Nanking shortly-fr order-to-nego tiate a new treaty-Neuter.
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