MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1927.
CHINA NEWS.
(Continued from Page 1
Kiangsi has definitely turned against the Hankow Government, Posters outside the Hankow Gen- eral Labour Union building de- nounce the Nationalist generals commanding the forces Changsha, Kiukiang and Nan-
cities.
nt
chang, for massaering" large numbers of communists in those General Tang Seng-chi, Mr. Sun Fo and Mr. Teng Yen-ta re- turned to Hankow yesterday evening.
Mr. Hsu Chien and Mr. Kou Meng-yu left Chengehow for Kaifeng, not returning to Han- To-morrow there will be a local mass meeting to welcome the
kow.
Reuter.
WARSAW TRIAL.
POLISH TRIBUNAL DEFENDS SENTENCE.
EXTENUATING FACTS.
Warsaw, June 19.
FOREIGN PROPERTY.
NANKING GOVERNMENT
PROCLAMATIONS.
NO MORE FIRING ON SHIPS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
C.L.D.'S CARS.
FIRE BELLS UNDER THE BONNET.
SPEED OF 80 MILES, AN HOUR.
BRITISH PLUCK.
CORONER ON AMAZING EXAMPLE.
AN EX-SOLDIER'S DEATH.
The following has renched the Twenty of the fast British "This case reveals an amazing "North China Daily Newa" in an motor-cars which have been example of British pluck," said Mr. Justifying Kowerda's sentence envelope bearing the legend "Kuo specially built to the order of Ingleby Oddie, the Lambeth coroner, of fifteen years only the Warsaw Min News Agency, Ministry of Scotland Yard to help the inten- at an inquest on Joseph Alexander tribunal declares in a statement Foreign Affairs." The implied ad-
Pikeman, aged 48, an attendant at that death is only proper where missions contained in the proclama-sive warfare planned against the Central Cinema, Hackney, E. crime threatens to become epi- tions are not without intercet as motor bandits will shortly be who died at his lodgings at Stan-
from.. an official tested on the Brooklands race gate Street, Lambeth, S.E. demic, Kowerda averred that he emanating
track before higher officials of Although sullering from double was avenging Russia's millions source:-
of Scotland Yard.
preumonia, Pikeman continued at Dr. C. C. Wu, the Minister Therefore epidemi- of victims,
The cars
are stated to be his work till the last. It was stat city is unlikely. Moreover there Foreign Affairs of the Nationalist
Government at Nanking has issued capable of a speed of 80 miles an ed that he had been a distinguished soldier and had the 1914 Star, the are extenuating circumstances, such as youth and high moral an order to all provincial govern- hour, and each can seat six men. D.C.M., the M.M. with bar, as well ments instructing the Provincial They are to be used solely by the character, and after serving his Authorities to prohibit troops with- Criminal Investigation Depart-reat War, and he also had the as other decorations gained in the South African medal with Ave bars. sentence Kowerda may become a in their territories from occupying m
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Two devices are carried on all: Mr. Oddie Bald it was evident useful member of society.-Reu-and
and to evacuate and return for- ter,
the owners.
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bravery into his private life, and a verdict of, Death from Natural
Causes was returned.
BLOOD OF A SAINT.
CEREMONY.
victorious Nationalist soldiers. [Kowerda is the Russian Mon-eign houses such as have been and the cars. One is an aluminium that Pikeman carried his military All workers will take a holiday archist youth who assassinated are still occupied by others than fire ball fixed under the bonnet and attend, except the light, M. Voikov, the Russian Minister
and operated by a disc from the Order to Restore Property. steering wheel. The other is s power and waterworks employees,
A translation of the order reads sign bearing the words "Metro. who will stop work for two hours. to Poland as the latter was leav-
as follows:-
politan Police," which can be The Nationalist Governmenting Warsaw for Moscow in the
comany of M. Rosengolz, former Wherens. As the general rules of illuminated at night. here reports that a conference of Soviet Charge d'Affaires in Lon- International Law provide for the Nationalist leaders was held with don. An extraordinary tribunal protection of foreign life and pro-j,
This device is fixed under the canopy of the car and by a switch Marshal Feng Yu-hsinng at
in Warsaw sentenced Kowerda toperty, and Chengchow, at which General life servitude, with the loss of Northern Expedition, remnants of position in which it can be seen
As since the beginning of the can be made to shoot into a CROWD'S EMOTION at Naples Feng is stated to have agreed to
civic rights. The court at the
the defeated respect the authority of the Name time decided to recommend militarists armies of the as the car speeds along. Ordin. in Various pro- arily this sign will not be visible. tionalist Government at Hankow the President of the Republic to vinces, as well as rebels within! It has often happened that!
The Naples correspondent of and to have given his assurance
commute the sentence to fifteen the Party, have opposed the Gov-
raiders have out-distanced police the London "Times" wires:-The of allegiance. For this reason,
ernment. thus causing many for-
ceremonies associated with the the Government claims, the Na. years' penal servitude.]
Alleged Polish Spies Shot. eigners to leave their homes to vans which have been chasing biennial liquefaction of the blood|
them. Under the new scheme tionalist troops returned to Han-
Moscow, June 18. javoid the clamaities of war; and kow, leaving the Northern cam-
As our troops and other govern- the chaser cars of the police will of Saint Januarius, the patron Knypinsky and Verjbovitch, mental organs have at various times, have the right of the road. The Saint of Naples, began at 10 paign to the Christian General-described as two Polish apies wha temporarily
such vacated clanging of the bell, and the show-o'clock on May 1 and concluded illegally entered Ukraine in 1920 premises as headquarters or meeting of the sign will warn police at 10 p.m. Preparing for Descent on a with the alleged object of muring places, thus easily giving rise and other people anxious to stop the Saint was carried in proces- In the morning a golden bust of Railway.
dering several members of the to a misunderstanding on the part the law-breakers, and will also Shanghai, June 15. Ukrainian Government were shot of foreigners as well as violating; be a warning that any car evad- sion along the streets of old According to an unconfirmed re- after an extraordinary session of the Government's
Naples under a rain protecting foreign life and pro- ing the signals is likely to con- from the Cathedral to the Church port that reaches us through the Kharkov Tribunal-Reuter.
tain the suspected persons. reliable Japanese observers, Wu [The relations between Poland Pei-fu is again moving and has and the Soviets have been furthered, that all such acts must cease, thought, most valuable in stop blood were similarly escorted.
Therefore, it is hereby proclaim- The cars will prove, it is Santa Chiara and in the after- noon the phials containing his shifted his headquarters eastward strained by the sentence of the and that hereafter no consulates, ping the repeated raids in the from Sungshan to Nanyang. He Polish Tribunal on Kowerda, the churches, foreign houses, schools, suburbs by men who return to
The prescribed prayers began is said to be preparing for a des- Russian Monarchist youth who hospitals, warehouses, and all other London at the end of each raid in the evening at 7 o'clock in the cent upon the Peking-Hankow assassinated Voikoy, the Russian movable articles shall be borrowed and who have been known to presence of Cardinal Ascalesi, Railway somewhere in the Minister to Poland. Whilst sen- upon any pretext or occupied by:
the Archbishop of Naples, vicinity of Chumaten or Sian- tencing Kowerda to life imprison- force. Those foreign houses which sweep through police cordons.
The expected liquefaction being yangchow, in an effort. to cut ment and loss of civic rights, the occupied shall be immediately eva- have been previously borrowed and
unusually delayed, the cries and Chengchow off from Hankow. Court recommended the President euated and returned, as must be all
entreaties of the faithful became With 30,000 men still in his of the Republic to communte the other attachments and articles be-]
more frantic till at 8.40 the dried following it would surprise no one sentence to fifteen years' penal longing thereto, in order that public
blood began to dissolve into to see Marshal Wu re-appear servitude.]
faith may be kept with the foreign
liquid. upon the stage with something of
countries. a reverberation and give the Hankow Reds a fright at least. The obstacle seems to be the Red Spear organisation in the country that he has to traverse.
EARLIER MESSAGES.
Borodin Reported To Have Been Dismissed.
Shanghai, June 19.
A Chinese report from Hankow
Spy Expelled.
!perty:
declaration of
-
WU CHAO-CHU. Minister of Foreign Affairs
Nationalist Government.
£7,000,000 CLAIM.
FORTUNE SAID TO BE IN THE BANK OF ENGLAND.
The romantic story of a dis- puted inheritance which, in
of flowers
The joy of the crowd was un- bounded, many weeping with emotion.
Vienna, May 18. The secret police have expelled a Russian named Bakony,' who was employed by the Soviet Mission here. The expulsion,
Firing on Shipping to Stop. 1857, amounted to $7,000,000, which reveals the extensive Soviet
Simultaneous with the above and has greatly increased since, man that he must have his leg am- They had told the injured work- Government while lying at compound interest putated. He took it very calmly. espionage system throughout the proclamation the whole of Europe, has created a also issued an order to all armies in the Bank of England, is vouch- On the morning of the operation the considerable sensation in Austria. prohibiting them from firing upon ed for by the Vienna "Journal." hospital barber was sent to shave Bakony was working as cor- any foreign men-of-war or mer Herr Weisskopf, a Jewish mer-him. While strapping his razor the respondent of a Russian news- chantmen. A translation of the chant, who lived in the Bavarian barber asked: "Top lip off?"
township of Rotkirchen in 1800, "No," replied the patient, "it's paper but was in reality engaged order is given below:- states that the anticipated dis- in espionage. He tried to bribe Whereas, the aim of the Na-made a fortune by selling horses my leg; didn't they tell you?" missal of M. Borodin has actually two Government officials to hand tionalist Northern Expedition be- to the armies of German prince- taken place, but the Chinese do him over several important Stateling to uproot militarism and to lings. He fell into disfavour, was not attach much importance to documents.
release our northern brethren arrested, and behended, leaving the step believing that M. Borodin The plot
discovered, from their suffering so that the three sons and a daughter, writes will continue to direct Hankow Bakony protested that he was a Three People's Principles of Dr. a Vienna correspondent to the politics, without holding an off-member of the Soviet Legation Sun Yat-sen can be carried out in "Daily Express." cial position.-Reuter,
and therefore immune from ar-China, while at the same time, rest, but the authorities refused enemies are not made of the vari. to listen to him, and he was taken ous nations. to the frontier and expelled.— Central News.
was
Shadows Before.
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
IN THE "MAIL"
Entertainments.
June 20-Tea Dance, Cafe Res- tarrant Parisien. 4.80 p.m.
June 20-Isako's Circus, New Re-
The daughter married a cattle Chang Tso-lin as Dictator.
dealer named Levi, and the couple later went to London, where Frau Peking, June 19.
Levi inherited the fortune on the The installation of Marshal
Therefore, it is hereby ordered, death of her husband. She had no June 20-Queen's Theatre; Chang Tso-lin as dictator took
that our soldiers who love their place yesterday afternoon in the
country and the Party and are in children, and tried to persuade her "Seven Sinners."
June 20-World Theatre: Forbidden City in the Hall of DORIOT IN PARIS. sympathy with the aim of the Gov-brothers, then living in Hungary Ceremonies, in which all past
ernment, shall hereafter fire upon of their children to London in
and Roumania. to send over some "Clothes Make The Pirate."
June 20-Star Theatre; "Charlie's Presidents of China have been
Paris, June 18.
nu foreign men-of-war or foreign order that she might adopt them. Aunt." installed.
The decision to arrest Doriot merchantmen. As regards foreign
Parents Unwilling. Chang Tso-lin took the oath and has not been carried out owing life and property the army shall delivered a short address, after to an eleventh-hour appeal against at all time take extra precaution do so, and refused to answer Frau The parents were unwilling to which the military leaders bowed the sentence to the Court of in giving them protection wher. Levi's letters, finally leaving them to him three times, and a salute Cassation, thereby suspending ever they happen to be in order
unopened.
June 20-Grand Tea Dansant at of 108 guns was fired.
administrative action,
to show our respect for inter-
Letters came from her lawyers, Lee Garden, also exhibition dances A reception was afterward
The accused Deputy meanwhile national friendship.
but these were preserved unopen-by Prof. Thereses & Miss Mar- given by Chang Tao-lin at the reached Paris and sensationally By Order,
ed for 25 years, when children guerite Senour, 5.80-7.30 p.m. Waichiaopu. Many members of appeared at a large Communist
National Government. opened them to discover that one June 20 St. Peter's C.Y.M.C.'8 the Diplomatic Corps were pre-party meeting yesterday night.!
of the letters declared that Frau Social for Service Men. sent in a private capacity.
He advanced to the platform, Protection for Germans. Levi had died in 1857 leaving a
June 21-Chinese- Classical Mandate Issued.
took off his jacket, greeted the
Dances by Miss Taze Lo Lari, at omplying with the note ad- fortune of £7,000,000.
Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m.
Sport.
military government. This pro
vides among other things that the Generalissimo shall control
lantion Ground, Praya East. Wanchal 9.16 p.m.
Peking, June 19. audience and with rolled-up dressed to the Nanking Govern- The lapse of 25 years complicat- In his new capacity as General-shirt-sleeves delivered a speech ment by the Consul-General for ed matters because the families issimo, Marshal Chang Teo-lin on the Chinese Revolution and Germany through Mr. Quo Tai-had increased, and five fresh June 20-Fifth extra race meet- issued a mandate last evening Syndicate movement. Reuter. outlining the functions of the
chi, Commissioner of Foreign branches, hearing the news, puting of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, [Doriot, the French Deputy Affairs of Kiangsu, the Ministry in their claims. Hopes of a set Happy Valley. who visited Canton with other of Foreign Affairs of the Nation-tlement ran high when the war Lammerts' Auctions. Communists and made inflama-nlist Government has duly in-upset the negotiations.
June 22-Office requisites at tory speeches to the Chinese Com-structed the Provincial Govern- Proceedings have now been re- York Bldgs., Chater Rd., 10.30 am.
June 22-A quantity of valuable Pan Fu, the new Premier will to three months' imprisonment Fukien, Szechuen, Kwangsi, Ho- number of claimants has increas- tioned by Messrs. Lammert Bros. at munists, was condemned in July ments of Kwangtung, Kiangsu, opened in Budapest, but the household furniture will be auc- take up his post on the 20th. The and to pay a 3,000 marks fine nan, Anhhwei,Chekiang, Shensi, ed to 251, all of whom have tem- Westbourne Villa (West) 86, Bon- Cabinet personnel has not yet for participating in the issue of Yunnan, Kiangse, Hunan, Kansu, porarily abandoned their differ- ham Rand, opposite King's College, been announced but it is under-a manifesto against the Moroccan Hupeh, and Kueichow to give full ences in order to approach a firm 2.30 p.m. stood that Wang Yung-pao, Minis- war. Orders for his arrest on protection to the life and property of London solicitors with a view ter of Tokyo, has been offered the arrival at the French frontier of German nationals residing in to obtaining the fortune..
the Republic.
portfolio of Foreign Affairs, while Ho Feng-lin, formerly military commissioner in Shanghai is re- garded as a likely candidate for the newly created Ministry of Military Affairs.--Reuter.
Premier Appointed. Late last night, Marshal Chang Tao-lin issued a mandate appoint- ing Pan Fu as the new Premier of China Reuter,
Gen. Duncan Returns.
Shanghai, June 19.
General Duncan has returned to
were given on the grounds of in the respective provinces to which
flagrante delicto."I
SOUTH AFRICA'S FLAG.
• Capetown, June 18.
Feeling on the flag issue has been intensified by a breakdown of
the committee which was seeking
as peaceful traders and citizens
of a friendly, government, they are rightfully entitled.
. Meetings. June 23-Legislative Meeting, 2.30 p.m.
Council
June 29-Sixth yearly meeting of shareholders of the Hong Kong
at Ltd., The new recrult was crossing the Amusements,
Queen's barrack square, when, catching Theatre, Queen's Road, Central, sight of the sergeant-major, he noon; extraordinary meeting at promptly saluted him.
12.15 p.m. "What the blazes are you salut-j
Miscellaneous.
Is trade improving through-ing me for?" bawled the sergeant- Government thereupon intimated out Britain? The figures for un- maior "I'm not an officer." their intention of producing a new employment published recently by "I know that," replied the re design, which will probably em- the Board of Trade in association cruit. "But any fool does to prac- body all the old flags of the various with the Ministry of Labour tell tise on." sections constituting the Union. in a much pleasanter tale than that cluding the Union "Jack, but the
Shanghai from north China. Vis-atter will occupy only one six-to which we have been accustomed count Gort remains in north teenth of the whole. Hence the de- for several years. Even in the sign will be no mere popular, with single exception to the general
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General Butler, commanding the British section than the presi- rule the signs are such as to in BOARD OF CONSERVANCY WORKS OF KWANGTUNG the United States forces will re- ous design and has already been spire a hope, if no more; that turn to Shanghai on the 21st dubbed the "coffin flag" because of there is a good time coming. The
from north China.
Admiral Basire, former French Commander-in-Chief in the Far East. left for France aboard the
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A Courtesy Call,
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