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EMD VITA^XUF WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1928. B-MAŁ
BRANCH POLITICAL NEW LOEWENSTEIN
COUNCILS.
ABOLISHED BY FIFTH PLENARY SESSION.
LI CHAI-SUM DECLINES TO COMMENT.
A LEFTIST TRIUMPH.
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With Marahil LI Chal-sum adamant in his refusal to attend
SENSATION.
PARIS ANALYIST DISCOVERS POISON IN BODY.
JUDICIAL DILEMMA.
Boulogne, Aug, 14.
A fresh, and startling develop; ment has arisen in connexion with the tragic death of Captain Alfred Loewenstein, the Belgian ml- lionaire, financler, adding further confusion to the mystery.
The body was found practically unde, denting in the English Channel about a month ago, many days after he was reported to have further meetings of the Kuomin-fallen from his neroplane from a tang. Fifth Plenary Sessions, and height of 4,000 feet.
in the continued · absence of
I will be remembered that experiments proved the extreme Monars, Chang Ching-klank, Liety of opening the door Shih-cheng and Thai Yuan-pel, through which he was supposed to nursing their grievances in Shuig-have fallen ncridentally. hai, the business of the Executive It is now revealed that acting on the request. of Captain Committee proceeded smoothly Loewenstein's iwo brothers-in- Yesterday, the powerful Leftist | law, a well-known Paris analyst "group carrying through their pro-examined the remains and has re- posal for the abolition of the Pro-ported that he has found traces of vinelai Branch Political Councils.
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toxic, mutter in the, intestines.
The authorities are antished, A Reuter's message from Nan that à judicial enquiry must be king this morning states that the held to determine how the poison Fifth Plenary Session passed a
was administered, but the ques resolution deciding that the Pro- tion has arisen as to whether the vincial Political Councils shall be enquiry should be held by the -closed up at the end of the year.authorities at Boulogne, where the The question of convening body was brought in. by the took up the case, or by the authori Brussela nuthorities, who fest!
ties in Eugland, from which Cap- thin Loewenstein embarked on his last tragle flight.
National Assembly was postponed until 1929, adds Reuter. The Fifth Plenary Session has HOS chand.
The question will probably be settled through diplomatle chan- nels. Reuter
Far-Reaching In Effect.
Chinese sources confirmi the above report, and comment that the decision is the only nótable Possible Explanation, decision reached by the Executive Committee, und that it is likely to
Boulogne, Aug. 15. be far-reaching in its effect.
The Magistrate-of-Parquet, who There are five Branch Political ordered the examination of Loe wenstein'a remains, hus given a Colinells, at Canton, Hankow, Tal-possible explanation of the dia- Juan, Kaifeng, and Peking, the covery of traces of poison in the first two being the only important body. He points out that Capt. ohes, and offering the principal Loewenstein habitually took fre object of the Leftist attack.
Marshal L1 Chal-sum, interview-quent purgatives, often over-doses, od, declined to comment on the which produce abnormal toxic
matter in the organs. Reuter, decision. He explained his ab- sence by saying that he would not attend while the complications in- troduced by the Leftists interfered with the real purpose of the Ses- alon.
It is reported that Marshaf LI Chai-sum may return to Canton in i the very near future, though he is likely to consult with Messrs. Chang Ching-kiang and Li Shih- cheng before so doing.
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Other Resolutions.
shall be given work as labourers and (f) the Army, Navy and Air Force shall be reorganised under a National Defence Bureau,“
The New C.E.C.
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CONSIDERABLE REDUCTIONS
ANNOUNCED,
NEW PHILIPPINES CABINET.
STARTLING ACCUSATIONS.
JAPANESE
ASSASSINATION OF
CHANG TSO-LIN HINTED.
Mr. Putnam Weale Attributes Crime
To Dread Secret Society.
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RECORDS.
NUER TRIBE AGAIN COUNTY CRICKET
IN REBELLION.
NOTORIOUS WITCH-DOCTOR.
ON WARPATH.
POLICE POST HEROISM.
Khartoum, Aug. 14.
The notorious Kurjur witch- doctor Chief, Gwok, who has been a fugitive from Justice ainee the murder of Captain Ferguson, the British District Commissioner last
TEST WICKET KEEPER'S FINE FEAT.
.HUGE SCORES AT HASTINGS
AND BRADFORD..
year, has allied himself with SURREY'S BIG KNOCK, another witch-doctor named Kur and a Chieftain named Dualdin,
County cricket has been distin- and at the head of approximatelyguished by some remarkable In- 1,5000 Nuer tribesmen have raided
a number of villages in the dividual performances in the past Dakfadial District.
three days, though owing to con- The daring raiders drove off the Fatant rain showers, it was only cattle and mercilessly slaughtered numbers of the villagers.
Subsequently they attacked the Government Post at Dukfaywil, but were repulsed with heavy losses, leaving over 48 dead in front of the post.
That the assassination of Marshal Chang Tso-lin was the of the Sino-Japanese official! The Pollee were safely 011- work of a dread Japanese secret society, aided by certain people investigation of the Chang Tao-trenched and suffered no casual- in the Japanese Army in Manchuria, is the startling accusation in outrage which contains "onees, while the post was not
Reinforcements including Eastern polities, in an interview with Reuter's Peking repre- mand consented to Chinese gen-British officer and fifty men, have sentative yesterday..
darmes patrolling the Peking-been sent to the area.
made by Mr. Putnam Weale, the well-known authority on Far that the Japanese Military Com
strungo revelation. 'It stated damaged.
to-morrów.
been sent
Later.
The allegation of Japanese complicity in the, dastardly Mukden Railway at the bridge crime, which involved the total destruction of the train in where the tragedy occurred, but The Government Post at which the Manchurian war-lord was travelling, causing heavy in the following paragraph the Dukfaywil was gallantly defended casualties, has been made before, but Mr. Putnam Weale brings Chinese investigators, state thai by a small body of Police ander a much new evidence to bear on the murder.
the permission was vetoed by the native N.C.O. Mr. Putnam Weale has been conducted his own investiga. higher Japanese Command, the The raiders, who included at Lions for several weeks, he is satisfied that there is a case to Chinese gendarmes being kept 300 least 100 Nuers armed with rifles, retreated in disorder to the south- be answered, and is handing a statement similar to the one metres from the fatal bildge."
ward after suffering severe losses, 'given below to Mr. Yoshizawa, the Japanese Minister in Peking. Dynamite in Viaduct Supports. They are heading for Nasser, to which a British officer and fifty Independent foreign investigations, he declares, have Independent foreign Investiga-| established almost conclusively that that the train was destroy. tions by explosives experts have men of the Equatorial Corps have
established almost conclusively, measure.
as a precautionary éd by dynamite, probably twelve charges, each than eight pounds, which were pegged into the granite piers train was destroyed by dynamite, likely to be undertaken against anys Mr. Putnam Weale, that the No offensive operations are of the viaduct and exploded electrically,
probably numbering Figures were seen moving about on the bridge on the night charges, each of more than eight owing to the floods, Reuter,
twelve the raiders at the present moment before the tragedy, and the Japanese sentries must have pounds, which were, pegged into seen them. Mr. Weald also mentions that a prominent official the granite piers supporting the living two miles from the scene, rose at dawn, and spent his time transverse steel girders of the on the roof with binoculara fixed on the bridge until after the South Manchuria Ralfway,vladuct, explosion.
Mr. Putnam Weale points, out Mr. Weale expresses the opinion that the Japanese, that the tragedy occurred on the Government will ultimately feel called upon to defend itself 17th day of the lunar month, when against the charge of complicity by ordering the arrest of all night visibility was good. He suspected persons and placing them on trial.
tates that he Interviewed Chinese
more
STRUGGLE FOR RAILWAY POWER.
тел.
the
AMUSING SEQUEL TO IRAK MAIL RAID.
WHOLESOME RESPECT FOR
to
possible to bring two matches to
definité conclusion.
seen at Instings where Kont and Some spectacular cricket was. Sussex between them aggregated 1,207 runs for 26 wickets, five cen- turies being scored.
In the course of the game, Anies, the famous Kent wicket-keeper. who has been chosen to represent England in Australia next winter. performed wonderfully behind the sticks and brought his number of victima in cateling and stumping for the season to 103, which beats the previous highest record by any, wicket-keeper. for any Reason, although many matches still ro- man to be played.
The
previous outstanding wicket-keeping feats are:
.1018.
.1911. .1923.
102, Huish (Kent) 100, Hush (Kent)
97, Street (Sussex)..... '91, Strudwick (Surrey) 1903.---
also recorded, W. T. Greswell, the A fine bowling performance is Somerset amateur, having taken D Hampshire wickets for 62 rúng,
Holmes and Sandham both exceeded the 200 mark for their
respective counties.
RESULTS AT A GLANCE.
Yorkshire won on the first In-
nings v. Warwick.
Kent won on the first innings v.
Sussex. Somerset defeated Hampshire on-
the first innings.
Essex
v. Gloucester. drawn.
Match
Middlesex beat Notts on the first
innings.
Northants defeated Worcester by an innings and 54 runs, Derbyshire won by 242 runs v.
Leicester.
Surrey won on the first innings v.
Glamorgan,
HONOURS LIST.
The principal Individual per formances were na follows:
Batting.
Holmes (Yorkshire)
Parks II. (Sussex)
Woolley (Kent)
275
248*
168*
120.
107
107
107*
104
6 for 05
for 91
E for 39
BRITISH JUSTICE, It is suggested that Japan has been making a gigantic at a lumber yard situated less)
Baghdad, Aug. 14: effort to secure supreme control of the railways of North than a hundred yards from the
The somewhat amusing sequel of Manchuria as well as South Manchuria, and that the refusal bridge, who stated that on
the daring bandit raid on the Irak of Manchuria to ratify an agreement initialled at Peking had about the bridge: These, says Mrmal car was ambushed and cup fatal night they saw figures moving mail convoy on Saturday, when the widened the branch between Tokyo and Mukden and was in Putnam Weale, must have been tured ten miles on the Irak side of directly connected with the assassination..
seen by the Japanese sentries of the Syrian border, was the arrival the South Manchurią Railway.
of the mail at Damascus to-day. "The crime was the work of bad, Nothing was missing and the ex- Amsterdam, Aug. 14.
and certain people in the planation given by the driver of It is announced that the Rotter-
Japanese Army facilitated their the van is that the bandits, over- damische-Lloyd and the Netherland
work," says Mr. Putnam Weale, Henwed at the gravity of stealing the Steamship Companies will shortly
adds: "There have long been in British mail, and fearing the poa- Other resolutions passed at hiring into force a new scale of
Japan organisations similar to the sible consequences if they took this yesterday's meeting were as fol- tares, reducing the rates to Sipga-
Peking, Aug. 14. and their railways now tap the Serblan organisation which carried action, ordered the driver of the
his journey lowa: (a) the Third National pore and the Dutch East Indies,
Mr. Putnam Weale, the well- rich grain-bearing areas of North out the Serajevo crime; for in- to continue The decision has been taken as known authority on Far Eastern Manchuria and run to the seaboard, stance, the Black Dragon Society Syria, Reuter. Congress shall be held on January 1st, 1929; (b) the principles of the the result of severe foreign com-politics, who has been in Mukden Mr. Putrun Waale asserts that which specialises in Chinese late Dr. Sun Yat-sen shall be put petition, especially by the German attending the late Marshal Chang Japan's desire to obtain par- affairs, which originated the into practice at the earliest steamers.
Tso-lin's funeral ceremonies, gave amountcy in Northt as well as South Twenty-One Demands and which TROOP DISBANDMENT. Sandiam (Surrey) Zdru possible moment; (c) all super
The reduction which will be ef- a startling version of the latter's Manchuria is the explanation of the notoriously employs men of the ffluous troops are to be disbanded. | festive as from September lat, assassination, when interviewed constant statement that she is will-aoshi | (hooligan) class, such as
and the Army estimates must be varies between 1⁄2 per cent, and by Reuter to-day.
ing to give up extraterritoriality in were deported by the Japanese COMPLETED BY NINTH ARMY, J. L. Bryan (Kent) reduced to less than half the Cen- per cent to Batavia and ten guild- After making close Investiga- Manchuria as an experintent. "Ob- civil authorities from. Mukden
K. S. Duleepsinhji (Sussex) Shanghai, Aug. 15. Lee (Derby).. tral Government's revenue; (d) all fers to Singapore. The reduction tions on the spot, Mr. Putnam viously," he says, "if the entire after the murder."
Reports from colleges on the return fare within a year Weale asserted his belief that the region beyond the Great Wall is
Penpu state A. E. E. Gilligan (Sussex) military schools and shall be directed by the central will be increased to 25 per cumurder was committed by a under the effective control of one "Many Curious Things.” that the reorganisation" and die-
Bowling. bandment scheme has been com- "authority; (e) disbanded soldiers Router.
Japanese Secret Society, whose Chartered Company, the relinquish-
Mr. Putnam Weale went on to pletely carried out in the 5th Na-w. T. Greswell (Somerset) 9 for 02 work was facilliated by certain ment of so-called judicial rights
would be an illusory gain to Chinese 84:-"Many curious things tionalist Army under General KoA, K. Judd (Hanta) people in the Japanese Army.
territorial administration." are coming to light. It is alleged Chuk-tung.
II. J. Enthoven (Middlesex) 6 for 20 Cause of Quarrel.
that the Ford car which conveyed. General Ko has announced that he Lee (Derby).... Jupan's Warning. Chang Tso-lin from the wrecked has resigned from tile position of Worthington (Derby) Mr. Putnam Weale opened the Interview with a remark, that the Referring to the compromise be. express had been waiting three Commander of this Army and has R. W. V. Robine (Middlesex) 5 for 50
assumed the appoint- situation in Manchuria tween the Nationalist Government hundred yards from the scene, sinee
was The now Central Executive
und Manchuria, Mr. Putnam Weale while a Chinese servant testified ment of 2nd Divisionni General by.
HOLMES HITS 275 Committee was elected as follows:
fraught with many possibilities, states that it was named to holat to me that a prominent official instructions from Marshal Chiang Marshals Chiang Kai-shek, Yen
He said the conversations between the Nationalist fing at Mukden on living two miles from the scene Kai-shek.-Nam Chung Pao.. Hai-shan, Li Chai-sum, Feng Yu-
Huge Yorkshire Score at Baron Hayashi and General Chang the 10th instant,, but on the pre- rose at dawn on June 4th and re- Manila, Aug. 15. Hauch-liang had been, kent, secret, vious day General Chang Heuch- mained on the roof of his
Bradford. slang, Mesara Wang Ching-wel, Wu Han-min, Kam Nal-kwong. Governor-General Stimson has but there was reason to believe lung received a fresh definite warn residence, with binoculars fixed on
handing to Mr.. Yoshizawa, the Although Yorkshire compiled a Chen Kung-poh, C. C. Wu, Sun appointed a new Cabinet-the first that they were directed towards ing from Japan that such action the bridge until the explosion. Japanese Minister in Peking, a huge total in their first Innings Fo, Chang Ching-kiang, Ting Wei- complete Cabinet since the whole terminating the relations between would be construed as a highly un- "After the explosion, none of statement similar to the foregoing, against Warwick at Bradford, rain Feng, Wang Yu-chun. Wu Tse-sale resignations during the poll-Mukden and Nanking, and to the friendly act. He adds that "as the things expected occurred. Reuter,
prevented them from foreing home hut, Eugene Chen, Keo Men-yu, T. Lical crisis of 1923.
securing of a new railway scheme there were 7,000 Japanese troops at There was no revolt of Chinese The names of the Cabinet mem-which was projected early this the gates of Mukden, the Man- troops, no disorders and no col-
Fine Incident Settled? their advantage. V. Soong, Chen Ku-fu, Li Lich chun, Chen Kuyu, Koo Ying-fan, bera have been cabled to Mr. year, which was initialled in churlan authorities were forced to lapas, the Chinese meeting the
Mukden, Aur.' 14." In the absence of this usual part- Yu Yuch-jen, Yee Pei-che, Hwang Manuel Quezon, President of the Peking before Chang Too-lin's de- break their definite undertaking situation with caution.
The recent critical situationner, Holmes batted magnificently Fu, H. H. Hung, Wang Pei-chun, Philippines Senate, who has re-parture, but has an for not been with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek.
"General -Chang Hsuch-liang brought about by the firm stand throughout the Yorkshire Innings, Tse Tu-pel, Dr. C. T. Wang, Mrs.plled stating that they are satis ratified by the Government of Mr. Putnam Weale asserts that Liao Chung-kai, Generals Chu Pel-factory.
after the outburst of General Yang entered Mukden disguised as a of the Japanese against reconcilia- and contributed over half the teh, L Chung-yon, Tel Chung- The Senate has therefore imme- It is the belief of Mr. Putnam Yu-ting, Chief of Staff of the inte, common soldier in a troop train, Ubn between Mukden and Nanking aggregate score. The declaration. hal, To Yoo-tano, Admiral Yang diately confirmed the nominations.Weale that the quarrels between Marshal Chang Teo-lin, against the and although he is almost over-and the equally firm decision of was delayed until his wicket was Shu-chwang, Mesars Tai Cho-tau,Renter,
Makden and Japan have centred proposed Morgan Loan and the re- come by the task confronting him, the Chinese to carry it through, taken, after which rain interrupt
seems on a fair way to being ed progress. The scores were: on this railway question and a fusal of Manchuria to ratify the he is not faltering. masked strula concerning new railway scheme agreement, the "Chang Tso-lin's younger sons amicably settled by a compromise. It a reliable reported that railways which the Chinese have breach between Mukden and Tokyo are going from one foreign_Friend built or are building in Man- widened.
to another, asking "Who killed our through the mediation of the churla.
"Therefore," and Mr. Putnam father?' but they receive no reply, former Education Minister, Mr. Waalo, "Chang Too-lin made a peace "That the Japanese Govern Liu Che, who is now a member offer on May 9th which Japan ment, as in 1895 in Korea, will of the Three Eastern Provinces Mr. Putnam Weale remarked countered with her advice to ultimately feel called upon to de- People's Council and an old that if, ne the Japanese desired, evacuate Peking before it is too fend itself against the charge of acquaintance, ne a Consul, with with the ball and took & Warwick Holmes found his best form when these railways were consolidated late Mr. Putnam Weale added: complicity by ordering all sus-Baron Hayashi, an understanding wickets at a cost of 87 runs, with the South Manchuria railway"Chang Tso-lin's assassination on pected persons to be arrested and was reached on the 11th instant, Geneva, Aug. 14.
it would establish June 4th was not an unfortuitous tried, is the belief of those who whereby the Provinces undertake he went in to opan, Yorkshire's ro Japanese has ratified the Inter-system, The students were motoring to national Opiuth Convention of 1925, Japanese paramountcy in North event, but it followed a logical 60- have seen how strong is "the not to hoist the Nationalist flag ply and scored rapidly. After he
As securely as in quence,"
evidence in the very stones of the for a period of three months, at had reached the century, the rate the railway station to catch a train which will shortly come into force, Manchuria
agree not to interfere in any way hanced, and he made 275 before he for Shanghai when they
were the requisite number of ratifications South Manchuria, but the Chinese Mr. Putnam Weale asserts that South Manchuria Iailway con- the end of which the Japanese of scoring was considerably on-
whatever.-Reuler;
(Continued on Page 8.) (Continued on Page 8.) .: having now been obtained-Reuter, have not ratified the agreement he has seen an unpublished report cluded Mr. Putnam, Weale.
Pei Yuan-hul, Li Shih-teens, Tsai
Yuan-pel, Tang Tauk-yu, Madame
Sun Yat-sen and Mr. Kuo Chung-
teo, etc.
Fracas in Nanking.
Shanghai, Aug. 14.
FIRST COMPLETE BODY FOR FIVE YEARS.
3
JAPAN SIGNS OPIUM CONVENTION.
A fracas, occurred in one of REQUISITE RATIFICATIONS
the main Nanking-atrceta "yester-
day, between a party of returned students and demonstrators out- side the C.E.C. Headquarters.
NOW OBTAINED.
Manchuria,
Control of North.
Mr. Putnam Weale is to-morrow
Warwick: 244. Yorkshire: 540 for 7 wkta.
(decd.)
Warwick: 21 for 2. Robinson was in excellent form