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WHO KILLED
the most popular star in Hollywood?
Rupert Borka was jealous of his wife's attentions to the star. Didas kilebim?
Tad MacDonald, brother of Halen, kad sworn to defend his sister's good name.
Mrs. Blancha Hardell, wife of the dead actor was furiously jealous. Was it that
D. H. MacDonald, father of Helsa, ́resanted the star's attentions to his
daughter. Is be guilty?
Halan MacDonald hated the dead man. He had promised to marry her.
Vengeance stalked that night on the shadowy stages of Holly. wood's largest all-talking picture studio. The world's most popu- lar actor is found dead! "Hollywood alive with police, investigators, detectives i Who killed Richard Hardeil, screendom's most
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"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
DECISIVE FIGHT" EXPECTED.
RIVAL ARMIES NOW:
IN POSITION.
SHANSI REBELS FEELING THE PRESSURE.
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930.
CHINESE FIRM'S LIABILITIES.
VARYING ESTIMATES SHOWN
WIN COURT TO-DAY.
DOUBTFUL ASSETS.
TRACKING DOWN IRONSIDES.
SAID TO BE NEAR KWEILIN.
YUNNANESE MAY RENDER
ASSISTANCE.
The Official Receiver (Mr. E. P. H. Lang) expressed T doubt whether, assets would amount to ten per cent, in the Bankruptes SHORTAGE OF MEN.
Court this morning, before Mr. PLANES FOR NORTH. Justice Wood, when considering Shanghal, July 16.
the case of the Yue Wo Hing for The 2nd Air Squadron, which The final stages of the North-
a Receiving Order.. Mr. F. X. returned, recently from Chang. ern war have been reached with: the Commanders of both the D'Almada, senior, was for the sha via Shiukwan to Canton, Nationalist and Shansi factions petitioning creditor, the Castle after carrying out a number of concentrating the best of their Peak Ceramic Company, Limited, I raids on the Kwangsi and Iron- troops along the Tientsin-Pukow while Mr. E. S. C. Brooks was side troops in Hunan, has been Railway. Japanese opinion is for two judgment creditors and ordered to proceed to the North that the decisive battle between Mr. F. H. Loseby represented to re-inforce the Nationalist Air Force in operations against the the opponent parties will be another creditor, fought somewhere between Yen- chow and Tsinanfu.
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has drawn large forces from the vari- ous training regiments at Nanking and Greater Shanghai, massing them at Hsuchow in anticipation of fighting at Yenchow, with a de- termination to hold the last of the Nationalist defensive lines on the railway.
Military Crisis.
From the point of view of the Kuominchun Commanders, the war situation has reached a serious crisis, as the Shansi leaders have exhausted their financial resources and are in great need of men as well.
Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang has in- structed another Kueminchun Division from Lung-Hai Railway to proceed to Tainanfu, this sacri. fice being made in the hope of final victory at Tsinanfu. Japan- ese reports state that the Northern allies have utilised all their troops concentrating them along the Tainanfu-Kiachow and Tientsin- Pukow Railways.
Cessation of War? Marshal Yen Hsi-shan is under- stood to have dispatched all the village gendarmes mobilished from the Shansi districts to the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, and it it is thought that the Northern allics are likely to give up the struggle in the event of their not being able to repulse the converg- ing Nationalist onslaught on Tsinanfu.
Lau Kit-nin, managing director Kuominchun-Shansi Allies, of the petitioning creditor, saidiander of the 2nd Air Squadron,
Major Tang Yuet-ming, Com he had obtained judgment against is making preparations to leave debtor for $3,089.66. Debtor's almost immediately, and the assets comprised the goodwill, squadron is expected to fly North furniture, and sums of $6,500 and via Hankow within the next few $4,150 due from two firms.
He days. stated that he had seen the books and estimated the liabilities to be about $30,000.
The Official Receiver polated out in cross-examination that another petitioner had put the liabilities at nearly $45,000 while in a letter, a member of debtor firm (who, petitioner said, was a partner) had stated the liabilities! were nearly $80.000.
The Official Receiver said he was rather doubtful if the assets would make ten per cent., but it was pointed out that according to Sir Henry Gollan's ruling, an order for a Receiving Order could be made and the Official Receiver given leave to apply for it to be rescinded if he wished,
His Lordship made an order in that form.
Applications for adjudication with regard to the Kwong Fook Wo Hop Kee and the Sun Kee Com pany were granted,
.
COLONIAL TRADE COMMISSIONER,
FAVOURABLE REPLIES FROM FIVE CENTRES.
London, July 16. The North China newspapers Questioned as to what progress are paying the greatest attention had been made with the proposal towards the coming big battle for the stablishment of a Trade along the Tientsin-Pukow Rail- Commissioner in London for the way, and expect significant de British Colonies in the Caribbean, | velopments to occur at Tsinanfu. Dr. Shiels; Under-Secretary for the It is problematical if the Northern Colonies, said Lord Passfield had allies can hold against the joint received favourable replies from attacks from the Kinochow- the Governor of Bahamas, Lec- Tainanfu and Tientsin-Pukow ward Islands, Bermuda, Trinidad Railways.
and Windward Islands. He was still in correspondence with the Governments of Jamaica, Bar-
Nanking Advantage,
As has been pointed out before badas and British Guiana, as their
a prolonged "war is to the attitude was not yet finally decid- advantage of the Nanking Govern-ed.-British Wireless.
ment, which has under its com- mand financial supplies from the Shanghai and Canton Govern- ments with their respective | Customs and other revenues.
MORE RAIN.
The only hope of the Shansi The Royal Observatory reports their ability to launch an imme-miles E. S.E. of Shanghai, moving allies at the present crisis lies in that the typhoon is about 350 diate attack against the. Nation- N.W. A depression remains to alist troops along the Tainanfu- the N.W. of Hongkong. The local Kiaochow Railway, giving a final forecast is; South winds, fresh blow to. General Han Fu-chu's squally; overcast; rain- followers, and then to meet the Nationalist troops coming up from the Tientsin-Puok Line.
In this connexion, the Shans! troops have been engaged in severe battles with the Nanking forces near Tsinanfu during the past few days...
Numerous Wounded. Over 5,000 wounded Shansi troops arrived at Tientsin yester-I day. This indicates that the Shanel forces are fighting against great odds in Tsinanfu, having to meet the enemy on both railway
cent, in expressing opinions con.. cerning the anti-Nanking politi clans and militarists who are attempting to form a new Chinese Government there.
The Legation Quarter regards the formation of an independent Government at Peking as a purely domestic matter.
Kuominehan Defeat.
Shanghai, July 16.
The 1st Air Squadron is at present at Wuchow where it is continuing raids from its new base on the Kwangsl rebels and Ironsides, who are now reported to be in the neighbourhood of Kwellin.
Operations Against Rebels, General Chan Chal-tong, Com. mander-in-Chief of the Nationalist forces in the South, Is maintaining his Headquarters at Wuchow for the present. From here, opera- tions against the rebels are being maintained in two directions, to the
north-west, where the remnants of the Ironsides under
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General Chang Fat-kwei advancing from Kweilin along the Kwel Klang (Cassia River) tò- wards the Kwangtung frontier, and to the south-west along the West River towards Nanning, where a large number of Kwangsi rebels are keeping up uninterrupt- ed guerrilla warfare.
Yunnanese troops have crossed the Kwangai Yunnan frontier to- wards Nanning and the Kwangsi rebels are expected to be caught between the two armies.
Yunnanese Doubtful.
However, the loyalty of the Yunnanese troops has yet to be proved; they have at present no reason to like the Cantonese and they have probably not forgotten the treatment they received here In 1925. The possibility that they may not carry out operations according to the Cantonese plan, to attack the Kwangsi rebela from the rear, but may rather unite with the rebels attack Kwangtung, must not be lost sight of..
General Lau Pui-chuen, Chief of the Aviation Bureau of Yunnan, has left Canton for Nanking.
Conference in' North.
A number of other Generals have gone North, where an impor tant Military Conference will be held shortly by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek either at Nanking or on the battle front.
General Ho Ying-ching has left
who reached Hankow a few days Hankow to attend the Conference; and General Chiang Kwong-nei, ago with a part of the 8th Route Army which proceeded overland from Canton vía Shiukwan and Changsha, together with General Tsol Ting-kai, are also attending the Conference.
Hero's Funeral. Elaborate arrangements are being made in Canton to receive the body of the late General Cheung Sai-tak, Commander of the 61st Division, the hero of the battle of Heng Yang, who died from wounds received during-the battle. The coffin is expected to arrive by rail from Shiu Kwan to-morrow and the Provincial. It is officially announced from Government have made arrange- Hsuchowie that the Governmentments for a big funeral. Grants gained a decisive victory over the have been made to the dependents Four Nationalist deroplanes left Kuominchun forces in the vicinity of the late General and a bronze Yenchow yesterday to assist the of Houcheng, northward of the statue of the General has been Napking troops fighting at Chow-Lunghai railway, on July 13, after ordered for the city of Canton.-- taup, along the Tainanfu-Klaochowa battle lasting twelve hours, Our Own Correspondent. Line, and later in the day they when the Northerners retreated in dropped several bombs on Chow-disorder. Casualties were heavy tsun and Ming Shui, causing heavy on both sides. casualties among the Shans Chiang Kai-shek troops; Incidentally, the Nation- directed the operations of the allst bombardment destroyed part Government troops.
zones.:
personally.
RADIO FOR THE COLONIES.
SPECIAL B.B.C. SERVICE APPROVED.
of the railway near Ming Shul... Another communique from The morale of the Shansi forces Hauchowfu states that Govern- is bad and they seem to have been mont forces along the Kiaotsf greatly shaken by the presence of railway have reached a point ten
London, July 16. the Nationalist planes.
miles eastward of Tainan. Their
All aspects of Colonial adhiinil« | swift advance Is due to the defeat Railway Damaged
and retreat of the Shansi main stration are handled in the report of the Colonial Conference which Plain clothes Kaominchun have units. Government forces are now
approves of the institution of a succeeded alto in damaging the rushing from Chowtsun to re-special broadcast service through- railway) near Yenchow, along the force the vanguards preparatory out the Empire to be conducted by Tientsin-Pukow Line, intending to
to a slege of Tsinan.
the British Broadcasting Corpora Ho Yao-tau, the Government tion. sever the Nationalist communica Commander-in-Chief on the Tien- tion between Yenchow and
The report urges that Colonial Telnangu. Nationalist railway to Hauchowfu from the front complete unit of travelling cinema isin-Pukow railway front, returned Governments should purchase a engineers are working day and yesterday with Yang Chi-eh who apparatus for educational pur night to repair the destroyed Chiang Kai-shek's Chief of poses and favours a unified agri- | truck.
Staff, and declared that the rail cultural service, and fmprovements Peking cables any that the way region southward of Talan is in Colonial Health and forestry foreign Legation officials are reti- now clear of the enemy-Reuter. Reuter.
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