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PROMOTION FOR U.S. WUHAN. REDS ON INDIAN AGITATORS
CONSUL.
MR. DOUGLAS JENKINS RAISED TO FIRST-CLASS RANK.
DOYEN AT CANTON.
Canton, May 15. News has been received here by telegram from the State Depart-i ment at Washington of the promo- tion to First Class Consul-General | of Mr., Douglas Jenkins, Consul General for the United States of America in Canton and Doyen of the Consular Body.
WARPATH.
AIM AT CAPTURING
HANKOW.
PLAN TO SET UP A SOVIET GOVERNMENT. ·
PLUNDER & PILLÁGE.
SURROUNDED.
"SPEND_DAY SQUATTING ON
THE ROAD.
A POLICE CORDON,
Dharasana, May 15.
The police are apparently deter- mined to practice satyagraha (elvil disobedience) against the Katyagrakis headed by Mrs. Naidu, who are marching nither to raid the salt depot.
When Mrs. Naidu and her com- Hunkow, May 15. panions started out this morning, Mr. Jenkins
a cordon round was appointed
Taking advantage of the the police' made Consul-General in Canton on the absence of the Nationalist troops them, whereupon Mrs. Naidu re- 30th March, 1923, and has been from Hankow and Wuchang,fused to turn back and directed her Doyen of the Consular Body here for the past three years.
Mrs. Naidu and her volunteers He has consequent on the war against followers to squat on the road. enjoyed a long and varied career the Shansi-Kuominchun allies, sat all day long near the salt-pans, Chinese Com-inside the police cordon, not eating Born in South Carolina in 1880, he thousands of graduated from the Porter Mili-munists are conducting orgies of or drinking. They passed the time tary Academy, Charleston S.C., in plunder and pillage and are in spinning and chatting.--Reuter, 1897. At Charleston he was a openly organising a big move-
member of the Sumter Guards.
he
is
Sholapur Arrest.
Sholapur, May 15. Mr. Maneckchand; the President of the Municipality, has been ar rested in connexion with the re- cent riots. Reuter.
Press Call Hartal,
From 1897 to 1901 Mr. Jenkinsment to capture Hankow so as was a law student and was called to establish a Soviet Government to the Bar in May, 1901. From in the capital of Hupch Province. While simultaneous Communist 1901 to 1903 he was practising as
In 1981, Mr. Jenkins outbreaks are reported at Hanch- attorney. took up journalism and became wan and Simakow, two thousand a reporter of the staff of the Communist followers are concen-
Bombay, May 15. Greenville Netes. later becoming trating at Tsaitien, which
from An All-India Conference of jour- City Editor of that paper.
situated about fifty miles
nalists and owners of printing Sitting for Consular examina- Hankow.
presses, mostly representing Na- tion April 7th 1908, he was
Red Army Organised.
tionalist newspapers, has passed a appointed Consul at St. Pierre et
At Tsaitien, the Communist resolution authorising the furnish Miquelon on June 22nd of the same year.
On March 8th, 1912, leaders are persuading farmers ing of security under the Press the riff-riff among the Ordinance, provided the first secur- was appointed Consul at and
and Sweeden, Goteborg.
villagers to enlist in a Red Armyity has not been forfeited.
The Conference has called a Press November 24th, 1913, Consul at which threatens to invade Hankow
their hartal for May 20th and 31st as a Riga.
and Wuchang as soon as From August, 1916. to nefarious plans are matured. protest against the Press Ordinance.
-Reuter, February, 1917. Mr. Jenkins, as Hundreds of youths have been at- Consul for the United States of tracted by the Communist orators America in Riga, was also in and have enlisted under the Red charge of British and Freach banner. interests there, the British Consternation prevails among the and French Consuts having wealthy residents at Traition in been obliged to withdraw owing view of the activities of the "Reds" to the advance of the German and fifty thousand refugees have armies on Riga.
flocked into Hankow, hundreds of whom arrived during the past few daya.
On the entry of the Unitel States into the war in February, 1917, Mr. Jenkins was himself obliged to leave Riga; he was for a short time in Kieff, then making his way gradually aeross Russia and Siberia, still watching American interests in those parts, to Vladivostock. he finally came From Vladivostock he was appointed to Harbin (Manchuria) on August 16th, 1918.
On September 10th, 1921, Mr. Jenkins was promoted Consul- General Fourth Class, and on; December 23rd of that year was detailed to the State Department at Washington. On March 30th, 1923, he was assigned to Canton as Consul-General.
The only other Consul-Generals of First Class in the United States Consular Service in China: are the Consul-Generals in Shanghai and Tientsin-Our Own Correspondent.
Bombay Procession.
Bombay, May 15. "Long Live the Revolution!" cried the marchers in a procession a mile long through over business quarter of the elty to- day.
the
The event was organised by the Youth League, and those taking part carried red flags. They in- cluded a number of Congress volunteers wearing white "Gand- caps and red scarves-Reuter.
Peshawar Quiet.
Regarding the war situation, it be- is reported that encounters tween the Nationalist and anti-hi Nationalist troops are still in pro- gess at various points along the Lung-Hai Railway, whilst the Shansi Commanders are beginning to relise the importance of holding
Chengchow.
+
Defence of Chengchow.
Simla, May 15. Latest advices show that the On the North-West position
has considerably Frontier
im- proved.
All is quiet in Peshawar City, the only trouble in Peshawar dis- Thousands of Shansi troops have, trist being the activities of gangs, arrived at Shihchiachwang, mar- ching towards Tanfeng to rein-Wearing red shirts, who force the Kuominchun defenders, cutting telegraph wires.-Reuter. at Chengchqw.
Four Shansi neroplanes have arrived at Lanfeng and will remain Chengchow in there to defend view of the fact that the National. attack ist troops are bound to shortly.
The Nationalist troops, after capturing Kweiteh, are advancing slowly on Kaifeng. Meanwhile, the Nationalist Commanders have
I
are
alist Officer Commanding the Gov- ernment force defending Shantung, his willingness to surrender to the Central Government provided his troops be treated on an equal foot- ing with Marshal Chiang Kai- shek's own army.
General Han Fu-chu has wired to Marshal Chiang for instruc- tions, adding that the whole of
DRUG MANUFACTURE.telegraphed to the Hankow Na- Shih Yu-shan's Division is mass-
LIMITATION CONFERENCE
Lure
TO BE CALLED.
Geneva, May 15. The Council of the League bas adopted the Committee's report in favou: of convening a conferener for the limitation of manufa
of dangerous drugs, to composed of representatives of countries, including twenty-five Great Britain, Canada,
China Egy, the United States, India. Japan, Persia and Turkey.
The next Session of the Council has been fixed for September 5. Heute,
tionalist Army along the Peking- Hankow Railway, on the Hupeh Honan frontier, to move up to wards Chenkehow to assail this city on the Kin-Han Railway.
Chiang In Charge.
ing on the northern bank of the Yellow River in Shantung to await the Nanking decision.
Attack Possible. It is conjectured that the Kuominchun force under General Shih Yu-ahan will commence immediate attack against Tsinanfu and Tsining if their terms of sur- render are not accepted.
the
an
It is definitely stated that Mar- shal Chiang Kai-shek is still re- maining at the front directing his picked army along the Lung-Hai, Railway.
These two Kuominchun Gen- Nationalist aeroplanes have con- erals, Shih Ya-shan and Han Fu- tinued the bombardment of Cheng-chu, have been good friends for now. Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, many years, both nerving under They Vice-Commander-in-chief of the the Kuominchun Army.
rebellion of General Kuominchun allies, is said to be surrendered to Nanking during taking. shelter at a village seven
Tang Sang-chi against the miles from Chengchow.
Central Government. Later, both Warships on Lookout.
Divisions Merchants' Plight.
in were involved Geneva, May 15.
Chinese merchants of Chengchow the Pukow mutiny when they re- Enough opium to supply there in a plight because the Kuomin- fused to disembark for Canton to medicinal needs of the whole world for several years is aboard chun Commandera, under the in. take part in the war against the structions of Marshal Feng Yu- "Ironsides." Since, Han Fu-chu the mystery ship mentioned ear-hsiang, have demanded that the surrendered to Nanking for the lier, for which it is learned Bri- Chinese Chamber of Commerce take second time after the Pukow tain and other naval Powers the lead to collect $500,000 from have been requested to keep among Chinese firms for the main
lookout.
The ship is stated to have cleared from Bushire, destined for Vladivostok, and will probably attempt to discharge its cargo into junks in the open sea-Router.
UNITED STATES OF EUROPE.
4Continued from Page 1.j proposed, Mr. Graham said he would like to see an International, conference summoned imme diately to get to work on the matter.
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Marshal Feng threatens that if
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A message from Loyang states tial law to deal with the merchants, that Feng Yu-hsiang ordered who will be compelled to accept general offensive on May 10, order- bank notes issued by the Kuomin- ing three divisions to attack Sin- chun Government banks in North-yangehow, four to attack Siangyang, Western China at their face value, five Yencheng, three Chowchiakow
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Concerning the suggestion of the tai are to attack the enemy's left COSSACKS Tientsin Customs authorities lank southward of Hauchowfu, and that revenues be deposited at the Shanslites are to attack the foreign banka to prevent the money right flank northward of Hyuchow- from being utilised by militarists, fu. Marshal Yen Hei-shan has signified
Fu Tso-yi is to cross the Yellow his refusal to comply with such an River to take Tsinanfu. arrangement, indicating that he Five cavalry divisions are Dominions Attitude.
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their payments,
Surrender Offer
to
the
Sun Chuan-fangstationed Chumatien, with the Forty-seventh Division, has gone over to the northerners.
This, he said, was largely a European problem, but he hoped the British Empire would march Government propagandist organs While Nanking has appointed substantially in step though he at Nanking state that General Shih Chang Hsuch-liang to be Vice was unable to pledge any Yu-shan, one of the most influential Generalissimo, the Shansi faction Dominion or Colonial Govern- among the Kuominchun Com-claim that he has drafted a circular ment since these were separately mandera in Shantung Pro-telegram announcing his assump
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