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FOREIGN OFFICE BANQUET.
Rugby, June S.
POWERS' POLICY. DASH TO PEKING.
LIGHT ON THE NANKING NOTES.
JAPAN AND' AMERICA.
(Continued from Page 1.)
The newspaper says that France is not Inclined to follow suit since the Powers already The diplomatic situation as con-have representatives in Shanghai cerning the Powers interested, and enjoy privileges in Peking prior to the decision to drop the which they would not possess Nanking outrage protest, is summed elsewhere.-Reuter. up thus by a correspondent to the London "Daily Telegraph":-
Japanese Troops.
Peking, June 2,
The King has addressed the following reply to the message of good wishes sent by the Lord Mayor of London on the occasion of Ilis Majesty's birthday:
The character of the instructions - It is unoffcially but reliably re- "Another anniversary of my issued to its Minister at Peking by ported that the Japanese are birthday has been gladdened by the new Japanese Government under shortly sending a brigade to Tien- the message of loyal and affec-General Baron Tanaka s not then
tionate greetings which you have definitely known in London., But tsin, and one battalion each to the conveyed from the citizens of of Washington's reluctance to co-following places: Peking, Ching- London.
operate in any fresh demurche by wantao, and Shanghaikuan.- the Powers in respect of the Nan-Reuter,
king outrages there would appear
"As life goes on I more than ever appreciate these proofs of
to be very little doubt."adj sympathy and goodwill, especial-
Communists' Sneers.
French Forces.
Peking, June 22.
It is understood that two more French companies from Tientsin
y when coming from the great city which is the head of the Bri- I have even heard It argued, in tish race. With feelings of sin-defence of the strange policy of al-are coming to Peking shortly, cere gratitude I thank you, my punished the sneers of the French about 500 men.
lowing such outrages to pass un-bringing the French force to Lord Mayor,
The first battalion of French re. Communist organ, "L'Humanite," This evening Sir Austen Cham- at the inaction of the Powers, inforcements from France are berlain, Foreign Secretary, en- should be carefully noted that, due at Shanghai on June 8, and at tertained the Diplomatic Corps to supposing, for instance, the Powers Tientsin on June 14. The second a banquet at the Foreign Office in destroyed the great military or battalion is following a fortnight honour of the King's birthday.senal near Hankow, as a punitive later, while two further battalions Before the war this banquet was measure, when General Chiang Kai- given every year. Now for the shek occupied that city he might first time since the war it has resent the disappearance of the taken place with its former arsenal. brilliance.--British Wireless Ser-
vice.
READY TO START.
ANOTHER TRANS-ATLANTIC
FLIGHT.
PLAN TO REACH, BERLIN..
are expected to leave France in the near future.-Reuter.
More Reinforcements:
Peking, June 2. Confidence Misplaced.
Fifty French troops arrived Judging by the free use which last night from Tientsin to re- General Chiang Kai-shek's
own inforce the garrison here. troops continue to make of such The second company of Yorks munitions as they already possess are coming from Tientsin this against foreign warships-not ex- evening or to-morrow to reinforce cluding American, warships, by any the company now in Peking.— means—the above argument is hard-
Reuter. ly convincing.
It is at least gratifying to ob-
The Tide of War.
Shanghai, June 2. serve that in British circles there is no tendency to place in General The Fengtien withdrawal ap- Chiang Kai-shek any of that bind pears to be proceeding smoothly. New York, June 3. confidence which has once so An official communique states The Bellanca monoplane "Columpathetically reposed in the suppos that the evacuation of the Feng- bin" with tanks filled, is lying at ed good will of Mr. Eugene Chen to-tien troops across the Yellow Curtiss Field, ready to start, weawards Britain and foreigners in River has been completed. Hsu- ther permitting, for an unnanied general. point in Europe. The newspapers state that Berlin in the destination [of the aviators.-Reuter.
Ber-
Words and Deeds.
chowfu was evacuated yesterday. General Chang Tsung-chang reports that he is making a stand with 60.000 troops at Hanchuang (on the north bank of the Grand Canal).
It is true that Chlung Kai-shek | A New York cable dated May 22 has now purged Nanking, by arrest stated: His friends persuaded expulsion, and yet more drastic mea Chamberlain to postpone indefinite-sures, of all known Communists. ly the flight of the monoplane kiang, his lieutenants would seem But, except on one ocension at Chin-.
It is not known to what extent "Columbia." Bertaud has been) dropped as pilot, following the to pay little, if any, attention to the the Southerners are following up judge's cancelling Levine,
orders which he claims to have the withdrawal, but it is expected! taud's successor has been chosen issued forbidding the looting of that progress will be slow owing but his name has not been revealed. foreign property and the molestato a shortage of rolling stock.--
Captain Lindbergh.
tion of foreigners..
Two Changs London, June 3.
In the case of the International Flying in a British airforce fight- Export Co.'s depots at Nanking,
Shanghai, June 3. ing plane and escorted by two other upon the complaint of the foreign The Kuomintang 40th and 44th airforce planes Captain Lindbergh Consuls that his soldiers were in- Army Corps have completely ascended at Kenley at 6.30 this dulging in loot, he sent a strong taken Heuchow, which the Shan- morning. Returning to Paria he gitard to stop the looting. But the
Reuter.
descended at Lympne on account of guard fired on foreign warships in tung and Chihli soldiers evacuat- for and resumed his journey at 8.16. atead of attending to its specified ed three days ago. General He was later sighted in the north task..
Chang Tsung-chang left that city of France proceeding to the capital. ---Reuter,
REGENCY INTRIGUES.
RUMANIA'S PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS.
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·PUBLIC IN THE DARK.
Bucharest June 3. Ambition to proclaim himself Dictator when the King is dead was attributed to the Prime Minister, | M. Averescu. He denied it and the Cabinet has now resigned. A censorship adds to the public mystification of what is happening behind the scensa, but the steady collapse of King Ferdinand's health and anxiety as to who will compose the Council of the Regency when the King is dead, has led the Opposi tion, with the King's support, to demand a coalition government,
· Νούτι whence a representative council for
the regency could emerge.
This 18.90 a.m. M. Averescu evidently opposed and 10.80 a.m. met the demand for. it by his re-
Noon
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PRE-WAR GERMAN, CABLES”,
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Washington, June 3. Britain, Japan and Italy have notified the State Department 8.30 am. of their willingness to resume the conference interrupted in Fooksany ANMARZO 201922 to decide the final appor- JUNE
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ference owing to disagreement with the United States", scheme for an equal division among the five Powers, contending that the cables should be divided in the same ratio as reparations, and she is at preacht operatling more than one fifth of the confiscated cables-Reater's American Ser-
DOARZAM
GRITZOIT MIA Kashdit mo
Bahring, vansei's name only
Playing Double Game.
on May 31 for Tsinan, where he Hence the inference drawn in stayed about two days and then London is that either- General went on to Peking to see Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has no real control, Chang Tao-lin-Reuter. Eugene Chen before him, he is play- over his army or that, like Mr.
ing a double game, which his previ him by the Hankow Government. It ous and violent anti-foreign utter-was on account of Feng Yu-hsiang's ances would certainly suggest. refusal rather than of Chiang Kai-
A point of interest, is the refusal shek's revolt that the Hankow Gov-
decided to place, thei of Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Christian" ernment general, to accept the supreme com- supreme command of the Cantonsse mand of the Southern Army offered l'forces in commission.
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