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NO. 23128
HIGHER POSTAL
RATES.
NOT TO COME INTO FORCE TO-MORROW.
POSSIBLY IN AUGUST.
Postal rates will not be increased to-morrow but a general rise in the price of stamps will probably be eft- fected as from August 1st.
The Postmaster General stated to a Telegraph representative this moraing that it was obvious that on increase was imminent as the Colony could not continue sendin
letter to England for the equiva
reached Hongkong. This
FURTHER SHANSI VICTORIES.
CONTINUED PROGRESS
REPORTED.
PLAN TO CAPTURE NANKING HEADQUARTERS.
REBELS JUBILANT.
PEACE IN CHINA POSSIBLE.
CHANG HSUEH-LIANG WANTS AN ARMISTICE.
MUKDEN CONFERENCE.
Shanghai, June 29. The Shansi forces, after scor- fighting in "
severe
at-is near at hand."
HMA 30 PER ANNUM
· BANK TRAGEDY RECALLED.
CHARGE OF MURDER PREFERRED.
STORY OF THE KILLING OF FIVE CHILDREN.
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NOVEL TAXATION KING'S BROADCAST.
RESENTED.
SHANGHAI SING-SONG GIRLS UP IN ARMS.
ཚེ་
KEEN OPPOSITION.
Shanghai, June 80. The Nanking Government is im- posing a luxury tax, and more op- position is being raised regarding the imposition of the hwa sui,."the flower tax," than any other tax yet
imposed by the Government.
TO INDIA.
NOTABLE EVENT FOR NEXT WEEK.
TO OPEN NEW INDIA OFFICE IN ALDWYCH.
Shadyini, June 30. A Japanese report from Nan- king states that Chang Hsueh- liang has telegraphed to Chiang Kai-shek requesting the latter's NO MOTIVE KNOWN.
HISTORIC OCCASION. agreement to a peace conferènce Shanghai, June 30.
London, June 29. at Mukden and a suspension of Ther ghastly affair enacted at
The order for the payment of ten Sixty Sikh and Mohammedan
the meantime the Hung Tak Bank at 65. per cent, of all sing-song girls' earn- On Tuesday, July 8, His warders at the Ward Road gaol let of three farthings. The new ing a decisive victory at Tain- Accordingly it is generally re- Queen's Road Central on May 24 ings, the enforcement of which is Majesty the King will open have beedismissed and an
rates were being fixed by the Home anfu along the Tientsin-Pukow garded that a restoration of peace last, when five boys, the children being attempted to-day in the In-India House, the new offices of of executive officials of the com- ternational Settlement and the the High Commissioner of India' agitator arrested in the grounds postal authorites, but no announce Railway, launched
While the report cannot be con-pany, were killed in their sleep French Concession, is being met in Aldwych. On this occasion of the British Consulate as a ment of their decisions, has yet tacks against the Nationalist result of dissatisfaction which however, expected to arrive was defenders at Feicheng and Taian firmed, the time is opportune, for with a chopper, was related by with the strongest opposition on it is hoped that His Majotason
the Crown to-day at the Central the part of the girls and patrons,
The girls demand that patrons King will be able to speak to his severe fighting in 'north Honan is Вл on Friday in connexion month and as the Post Office would during the week-end in
exhausting the Nationalists and Magistracy, in opening its case should add the additional amount subjects in India by means of with the promotion of a havil-not bring about an a theatre nt attempt to make a rapid march Northerners both physically and charged with the capital offence. ment, whereas the customers insist Something in the nature of a
against Man-poon, who is of the tax to the price of entertain-wireless. the middle of a month, the present charges would remain in force and to capture Hauchowfu, the faancially, the only, outcome at
"There does not seem to be any that the girls should pay from their test transmission of "this kind was would not differ until August 1st Nationalist Headquarters. present being the probability of motive," said the Public Prosecu earnings, no matter who the even made to-day by Sir John Simon at the earliest. :*
Feicheng was the scene of a big Shantung becoming an appanage tor, who, however, commented on tual payer may be.
from the studio of the.. British; battle on Thursday and it is de-of. Chang Hsueh-liang, whose the extraordinary feature present. The stamp tax authorities are de- BroadcastingTM Corporation. The finitely known by the latest dis-marines already control Tsingtao. Led by the fact that all the people termined that either the girls or experiment was eminently success- their friends must contribute to the ful and Sir John's speech was patches from Tsinanfu that the while a bosom friend (nominally killed were children
fought out officially,-Our Own Cor- Sir John epoke from the studio at respondent.
eight thirty in the evening, that time corresponding with about two. o'clock in the morning in India. Conditions at that time are entire- ly different from atmospherics of mid-day in London in their rela- tion to India.
dar.
The first trouble atarted at about six o'clock on Friday morning when alxty warders at the prison an- nounced their refusal to go on duty. They gave as the reason for their action the dissatisfaction they felt
The Fostmaster General would make no estimate of what the new postage rates would be.
The question of increasing the sideration for some time, and at.
Shansi victors have taken this city.
of
persons
G
at the promotion of a certain havi- postal rates has been under cou-which is about thirty miles to the the subordinate of Feng Yuhaving to do with the manageGovernment. The matter is being heard with perfect distinctness.
dar to the rank of hayildar major. The warders also expressed the opinion that another man should have received the promotion.
The Superintendent of Gaols was informed of the situation and he self. Together with the Assistant promptly paraded the warders him- Commissioner and the Sikh Com- missioner he talked to the men with
out effect. The warders present ed their alleged grievances which indicated that they did not like the havildar who had been promoted,
Visit to Consulate. They were given every chance to Jesting with their routine duties and were told that they could return to duty up to six o'clock in the even- ing. If they failed to. go on duty by that time, however, their ser- vices would be automatically end- ed.
At six o'clock the sixty warders paid a visit to the Consulate where they were addressed by Mr. Blunt They spent the night away from the gaol at the Gurwara and is tened to agitators, again appearing at the Consulate in the morning to get their grievances redressed.
Agitators, however, had taken ad- vantage of the opportunity to join the crowd. One is said to have told the crowd to rush the Consulate and burn it down.
The result was that a warrant was sworn out shortly after eleven o'clock on Saturday morning. Bur Singh being arrested on a charge of inciting some forty men to burn down the Consulate.
Betrayal of Trust.
a recent meeting of the Legisla-south of Tsinanfo and only tive Council, at which it was miles or so from Taisn. decided to give effect.to a modified form of the Salaries Commission Report, the Colonial Secretary increased, as they were far below announced that the rates would be those current elsewhere.
It was originally intended that the new rates should come into force as from July 1st, and the Government expected to obtain from them $100,000 during and $228,000 in a full year,
SEGRAVE'S BOAT RAISED.
TO BE EXAMINED BY EXPERTS,
ment of the Bank.
Mr. Hin-shing Lo, instructed by Mr. J. M. Hall, held a watching brief on behalf of the Bank and the relatives of the victims."
Crown Case.
in
"RED" FIASCO IN. NEW YORK.
On Short Wave.
has ten haiang)
been
appointed Governor of Shantung,.
Neither the Nationalists nor the Nationalists Besieged.
Northerners can afford to quarrel General Ma Hung-kwal, of the with Chang Hauch-liang while!
is erecting there is contention for possession fortifications around Taian, fol- of Shantung, which latterly has Nationalist Army,
In opening his case, Mr. Somer- lowing instructions by Marshal increased the jealousies of Feng set Fitzroy said the affair occurred DEMONSTRATORS FIGHT Chiang Kai-shek ordering the Yu-hsiang, whose forces suffered at about 6 o'clock in the morning.
EACH OTHER.
All that can be stated at present Nationalist forces to make a stand severely in the recent fighting, and The man charged had been there against the insurgents. of Yen Hai-shan, whose armies are Hongkong on various dates, being
in connexion with the King's broad- New York, June 29. cast is that the transmission will be 1980munication with the Nationalist
General Ma Hung-Kwai's compractically intact.
at one time employed at the Wing What was intended as an im-through the Chelsinford station and Chiang Kai-shek is pressing On Company, and, at a later date,pressive denunciation of British will be effected on a short wave H.Q at Hauchowfu has been cut Chinese bankers in Shanghai to for two or three years at the Hung "tyranny" in India by two thou- length. Tests are now being car- off by the destruction of the rail-supply $10,000,000 for four months Tak" Bank.
sand Communists outside the Bri- ried out, but if some other as yet way, near Talan by the plain to enable.bine bring the cam-
He saved a little money, and tish Consulate was transformed untried method is found more clothes Kuominchun forces. The paign to a victorious conclusion. isolation of the Division under The bankers have demurred, how went back to the country. There into a private melee between left satisfactory, then this new plan
some and right wing Communists. will be utilised... General Ma has thrown Talan ever, stating that money is very he seemed to have been
The police made free use of and tight and that they are only able what unfortunate in a business into a precarious condition
At any rate, every attempt will the city is expected to fall at any to supply a total of $10,000,000 venture, and again came down truncheons, hose pipes and tear-be made to transmit the King's here. Having stayed for ten days gas bombs and dispersed the de-voice so that it can be heard direct at the Hung Tak Bank, he was to monstrators by these means by millions of people in India. have gone back again to the Reuter's American Service. country on May 23rd, but ap- parently did not go. "Unfortunate- ly for himself and for everybody else concerned, he stayed on until the 25th," said Mr. Fitzroy,
moment,
Railway Traffic.
London, June 29,
Taian was greatly perturbed yes- "Miss England the Second," the speed boat in which Sir Henry Se- terday upon the receipt of in- grave lost his life after breaking formation that a large contingent the world's record, was raised to of Shansi Insurgents had arrived the surface of Lake Windermere in the suburbs. Tsinanfu mes- yesterday and towed close to the sages, however, state that a whole
Reuter.
VANCOUVER MARU.
PAYS HER FIRST VISIT
TO HONGKONG.
RETURN TO NORMAL
IN BOLIVIA.
TWO HUNDRED KILLED IN THE REVOLUTION.
Buenos Aires, June 29. It is reported that about two were killed in the hundred
now returning.
General Kundt was not killed but took refuge in the German Legation at La Plaz. President Siles took refuge in the Brazilian Legation.Peuter's American Ser-
T
If this is successful, the occasion will not only be one of considerable historical interest but may reason- ably be expected to help in a 'prac- · tical way towards clearing the per- ception In India of the true motive of British policy-British Wireless.
Marble Entrance Hall. When the King and Queen arrive at the India Office on July 8 they will be received by the High Commissioner, Sir Atul Chatterjee, and formally open the
Bolivian revolution. Normality is great gates of Indian timber, which are heavily inset with bronze,
The Public Prosecutor then pro- ceeded, with the aid of a plan, to shore. It was lashed between two Shansi Division, under the com-
Sailing from Dunkirk on May 3, explain the lay-out of the build-i barges and taken in tow to dock at mand of General Fu Tao-yi, ar- the s.s. Vancouver Maru left ing, which, he said, consisted of Bowness Bay, here it will be ex-rived at Tsinanfu on Saturday Singapore for this port on June four storeys. Above the ground amined by experts.
morning and would join in the war 25 and arrived here at daylight floor, used as the banking office, When the water was pumped along the Tientsin-Pukow Rail-to-day, thus, registering her first were other floors used as sleeping from the boat, the first thing found way.
visit to Hongkong.
places for children of the officials by Mr. Wilcocks, the engineer who It is the intention of the Shansi. Capt. Kikuichi Abe is in com-and the employees of the Bank. survived
the the disaster, was Sir and Kuominchun forces to concen-mand of the vessel, which is now The kitchen, which was on
separated Henry Segrave's stop watch, which trate their whole attention along anchored at the dangerous goods topmost storey, was was lying at the bottom, apparent the Tientsin-Pukow Railway by anchorage with 868 tons of general from
the remainder of the ly where it had fallen when Se-withdrawing forces from the grave was flung down. The steer Lung-Hai
cargo for Hongkong and 5,454 premises by a sliding grili. and Peking-Hankow ing, column and propeller of the Railways. fully realising the inconsist of 40 Japanese seamen.
tons for through ports. The crew Attacked While Asleep. portance of Hsuchowfu and
On the morning in question, at Built in 1919 by the Kawasaki the boat has been resting on the Pukow, the fall of which might bottom of the lake.-British Wire-mean the conclusion of the war Dockyard Co. of Kobe, the Van-about 6 o'clock, Ching Chau-wui, a screw son. of the assistant manager of and the resignation of Marshal couver Maru is a steel Chiang Kai-shek. The Shansi steamer of 5,864 gross tonnage and the Bank, who was sleeping on a END OF OCCUPATION Commanders at Tsinanft have 4,259 nett tonnage, her owners dock-chair near the staircase, was announced that beginning from being the Kakusai Kisen Kaisha. attacked with a chopper which Tuesday all passenger and freight She has a length of 385 feet, a traffic between Tsinanfu and Pe- beam of 51 feet and a depth of 36 king will be resumed.
feet. Her engines are capable of developing 440 N.H.P.
boat were intact. Since June 13th
Leas..
Before the arrest, Captain Ken- nedy paraded the warders on the lawn of the Consulate. Mr. Blunt then addressed the men through an Indian interpreter and informed them that they had been dismissed from. the prison service. He also informed the warders of their be trayal of the trust reposed in them by the Council and the community and that they had lost their pen- | SECOND HAUL IN A WEEK AT sions, together with whatever hon- ours they had possessed.
Left Peaceably.
The men were also informed that within two or three days passages
all the warders concerned must
to await for further orders before they left Shanghai for good. They were also told that the British Gov- ernment was tired of agitation and that the man responsible would be dealt with.
BIG SEIZURE OF DRUGS.
MARSEILLES.
Nanking Excited.
།
minute
Got Another Knife. Apparently, he recovered after
vice,
ON THE RHINE..
GERMANS TO CELEBRATE EMANCIPATION.
RAIN LATER.
Mr. Wedgwood Benn, Secretary for India, will represent the Indian Government, and the King's four Indian orderly officers will be in- attendance.
The spacious entrance hall is paved with marble, and the arme of the 14 Indian provinces are inlaid in rare coloured marbles.
The white vaulted roof and the carved balustrades and richly 'doorways make the new India House an Oriental palace in the heart of London.
?
Fine Library.
caused a cut across bis neck. He woke up and discovered the figure. of a man, alleged to be the accus: ed, holding a chopper and flitting
Cologne, June 29.
"Sir Herbert Baker, the arobi- from his bedside towards the
The last French Soldier leaves tect, has based all his designs on. staircase. There followed shouts
the Rhineland to-night after Indian styles, and some of the Nanking and Pukow were bee-
of "Save life!" and the accused twelve years of occupation. The carvings have been specially made Marseilles, June 29.
hives of military activity during troops are still holding out along when near the staircase was seen Rhinelanders have prepared a full in India by Indian craftsmen," Customs officers bere made the the week-end and large numbers the Lung-Hai Railway.
to draw the weapon across his programme of festivities to mark said an official of the High Com- second big drug seizure within a of Nationalist troops were seen week when they discovered two departing for strategic positions
New Government Possible. own throat.
their emancipation. President missioner's department. Just after this two cooks, rushing Hindenburg is to make a weeks' hundred kilos of heroin on board along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway. While the Shansi military com-down the stairs from the top tour of the Rhineland on July 17. for India would be secured and that the Italian steamer Bulgaria when
The management of the railwaymanders are rejoicing.at Peking floor, met the acoused going up.-Reuter
The hall of the library, where leave Shanghai within a few weeks. she arrived from Constantinople has had to announce the suspen- and Taiyuanfu over the great They followed him and a
the inaugural ceremony will take army fighting later found that he had collapsed The men were ordered to go back The other haul was made a week aion of all passenger and freight success of their
place, is to have the vaulted roof- to the gaol and surrender their ago when a ton of narcotics, valu-traffic for the whole of to-day in along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, on the ground, with the chopper
decorated with mural paintings by arms, kit and other property and ed at £30,000, was brought in on view of the departure of the Peking diplomatic circles are lying beside him. They took the
Indian artists, and the beautiful an Italian ship which arrived from thousands of Nationalist troops, known to be paying much attention weapon from him and left him
lamp hanging from the dome has withdrawn from Hankow and Wu- to the development of the war where he Turkey,
was lying, while The Royal Observatory reports been carefully copied from an This seizure was made on infor-chang, for suchowfu. This which is now reaching its final they went to fetch the police. that the western depression has fill-Indian model..
the Second Nanking stages."
ed up; the eastern depression has. "In the library are all moderni mation received in Paris to the morning
and large Artillery Regiment
Political agents of the various effect that an international or-
crossed Luzon, and is situated about books on Indian affairs, and the 500 miles south-east of Hongkong, map-room adjoining has trade and ganisation planned to send a cargo quantity of arms and ammunition prominent parties in China, ex- .. Finally they were told to leave of cocaine, heroin and morphine left for Hauchowfu together with Icept the Chiang Kai-shek Party,this, and went to the kitchen where forecast is:-N.E. winds, moderate likely to be of use to commerce. moving W. or W.N.W. The local shipping charts and everything several regiments of training at on Saturday troops, newly recruited in Kiang-names of Messrs. Wang Ching- rack of four and returned to the rain later.
wei (Kuomintang Leftist), Tang floor below with it. There ensued Chiang Confers,
Shao-yi (retired former Peking Government Premier and veteran some sort of struggle, which re- Marshal Chiang Kai-shek sum-diplomat) and Generals Hsu Sus possessed of the second weapon, having to do with the management sulted in his being again dis- others were children of those moned another bi Nationalist chi (Western Hill Political Party),
After going about, having another conference at Kwelteh this morn-Li Chung-yen (Kwangs Party), ing and decided to evacuate some Chang Hsueh-liang (Manchurian look for the choppers, he finally
No Motive, of the Nationalist forces from the Party), and Marshals Feng Yu- collapsed somewhere near his own BEATEN BY BROTHERS IN Peking-Hankow Railway for the hsiung (Kuominchun Army) and bed.
The Magistrate (Mr. Lindsell): AMERICA.
Lung-Hai Railway, while the pre- Yen Hel-shan (Shansi Army), have "The extraordinary thing about The Crown has discovered no sont Nationalist forces in the been mentioned as likely candi-it said the Public Prosecutor, motive? Chicago, June 29.
latter rallway zone will be sent to dates to be members of the new was that the people killed are re- Mr. Fitzroy-There seems to be Two brothers, John and Kenneth Hsuchowffu..
Peking Government in the event latives of the Manager and other no motive. Hunter, have already spent eigh Marshal Chiang is said to be of a complete Shansi victory people connected with the man- Mr. Lindsell: Have you dis teen days in the air pilotting the still confident of the ability of Although the name of Mr. Tangagement of the Bank. There covered any grudge against the "City of Chicago." They have al- his picked Divisions, the 1st and Shao-yi has been suggested it is were four other people killed in management? ready broken by a few hours the 2nd Nationalist Divisions, to re- not believed that he will become the cubicles Other people sleep- Mr. Fitzroy We have dis- Observatory at 9.45 am. to-day record for a continuous re-fuelling pulse the Shansi army once the involved in the political turmoil in ing there were not touched at all. covered one so far. There is fight, but hope to complete twenty latter arrives at Hanchowfu. North China in view of the fact He seems to have made certain nothing whatever discovered about days aloft Reuter's American Despite the precarious conditions that recently he denied his in selections, one of those filled being it, i Service
at Hsuchowfu, the Nationalist tention of returning to politics the son of the manager, while the
The case is proceeding,
in half an hour, otherwise action tranship it there for Saigon and would be taken. The men left Shanghai-Reuter. peaceably, the presence of a riot squad probably having a bearing on this attitude.
All the warders then returned to the gaol and turned in their kit. They left as private citzens. The whole affair was purely, domestic and had apparently no political significance. Our Own Correspon. dent.
TYPHOON WARNING.
A warning issued by the Manila
states that there is a typhoon west
of the Balintang Channel, moving
W.N.W.
REFUELLING FLIGHT
RECORD.
su districts.,
it.".
of the Bank.”
the use of accredited people,
"Outside the gates, two huge stone pillars are carved with ale at the top, and the arms of the phants at the bottom and tigers
provinces are emblazoned in colours on the outsidewalls.47 Snakes Carved in bronze are the handles of the gates.
"One of the finest rooms in they buliding is the great committee: room, which is pannelled in Indian laurel, the darkly-polished wooden oor being made of koko An ez- hibition room is also being equip ped with examples of Indian ar and crafts, a
"After the ceremony the King and Queen will inspect, the builde ing, and the King will be presented with a key of Indian bronze memento of the poenale” pu