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No. 25,595

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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1927.

CHIANG ORDERS GENERAL ATTACK. · OATH AND DAIL.

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Big Offensive Against North To Begin To-Morrow.

FENG THROWS IN HIS LOT WITH NANKING.

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STOLEN PETROL.

Unwanted Russians Sent Soviet's Shady Business

Home.

Tricks.

SIFTING THE REMAINDER.

London, June 23. In the House of Commons,

ROYAL DUTCH CO. ROBBED.

Amsterdam, June 28. At the annual meeting of the

In view of the elected De Marshal Wu Pei-fu Again Reported To Be In Flight valera supporters intention to replying to questions with regard Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, appear in Dublin in strength to to Russians connected with the the Chairman, Sir Henri Deter claim their seats without taking Soviet Legation Trade Delegation ding, replying to a question, de- the oath, the city has been fever and Arcos House still remaining precated apprehension with re- ishly excited in anticipation of the in England, Sir William Joyrison gard to the German dye industry's opening of the D-

Hicks, Home Secretary, said that experiments in the manufacture The streets aronged. Civic all 31 members of the Legation of synthetic fuel.

He pointed out that saree Great Britain's Exports To Hong Kong And China Now Reviving. Guards have been bosted in the had gone except one who had been

synthetic spirit in Germany was vicinity of Parliament and the warned to leave. neighbouring streets have been

only a very small parcentage of the whole production. closed to traffic.

According to a Reuter message from Shanghai to-day, General Chiang Kai-shek is reported to have ordered a general offensive against the North to begin to-morrow.

Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang has definitely thrown in his lot with the Nanking party and it is believed he has undertaken to clear all anti-Nationalists out of Honan and then to attack the North.

One outcome of the alliance between Chiang Kai-shek and Feng Yu-hsiang is to be seen in the reported flight of Wu Pei-fu, who is rumoured, states a Shanghai message, to have fled into Szechuen,

Meanwhile the general lull in the situation has not been broken, and the demonstrations organised to commemorate the Shakee affair appear everywhere to have passed off quietly.

Figures quoted in the House of Commons yesterday show that Britain's trade with Hong Kong and China is reviving, but any big improvement will depend on the re-establishment of order in China.

FIRM ALLIES.

Chiang and Feng To Attack North.

Shanghai, June 23. Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, after conferring with General Chiang Kai-shek at Hsuchowfu, has re- turned to Chengchow. ·

It is understood that Feng arranged with Chiang Kai-shek to clear Honan Province of all anti- Nationalists, then to attack the Northerners along the Peking- Hankow Railway.. Before leaving, Feng made a speech eulogising

GENERAL ATTACK.

Chiang Said To Have Issued The Order.

Shanghai, June 23.

It is reported that General Chiang Kai-shek has ordered a general offensive against the

-Reuter.

Reginald Tyrwhitt returned the official call of General Chang, the Nationalist Commissioner of De- fence, Shanghai, yesterday and was cordially received.-British Naval Wireless.

TRADE WITH CHINA..

Exports to Hong Kong Show

Increase..

The De Valera members arrived in motor cara inscribed "abblish the oath."

Out of 58 members of the Trade Delegation 41 had gone, six had received final notice to go and six had not yet been finally disposed of.

Replying to a question with re- gard to overproduction of oil, to which the recent annual report of Up to the present there has Out of 350 Russians employed the Standard Oil Company of New been no disorder. On the con- by Arcos House and other trade Jersey referred, Sir Henri Deter-. trary the crowds cheered the organisations with whose legitim-ding said that compulsory limita- spectacle of the leaders of the op-ate business activity the Govern- tion of production in America was posing political forces proceeding ment aimed to interfere as little impossible owing to the anti- to attend votive mass in the as possible, 48 had left or were trust legislation. Catholic church where Archi- leaving. bishop O'Brien officiated before a vast congregation:-Reuter.

Excluded.

Later.

The cases of the remainder were being examined individually as rapidly as possible.

Any of them attempting to The De Valera, members were engage in political activity would not allowed to enter the Dail be immediately deported. Chamber. They vigorously pro-Reuter.

“EAMONN „PE (VALERA.

London. June 23. In the House of Commons, re- plying to Comdr. Kenworthy Lister, President of the Board of (Labour), Sir Philip Cunliffe Trade, gave figures showing that tested against their exclusion and the imports into the United finally left Parliament House. Kingdom from China, excluding Hong Kong and Macao and the leased territories. in the first three months of 1927 £3,319,000, compared with $3,358,000 in the corresponding period of last year.

were

The exports from the United

Meanwhile the Dail by 68 to 22 votes re-elected Mr. Cosgrave President of the Dail, the Labour members alone opposing this choice-Reuter.

The Irish Free State House of

ORDER TO LEAVE.

Some Go Readily: Others Not So Keen.

Rugby, June 23.

With regard to Russian com- petition, the Chairman declared that the Soviets might sell cheap- er petrol but they had stolen it from the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company.-Reuter.

Patriotism First.

There is a strong and growing feeling among patriotic British motorists on the question of the sale in this country of Russian petrol, said a motoring correspon- dent of the "Daily Mail" in mail week.

Huge supplies are now arriving Of the Soviet Mission. all ex- from oil fields in Russia which cept one had left England, and he once belonged to British investors had been warned to go. Forty- but were confiscated by the one of the 53 Russians on the Soviet Government without com- staff of the Trade Delegation had pensation-in other words, stolen. gone, six had received notice to The average motorist has no go and the remaining six had not desire to fill his tank with stolen yet been finally disposed of. spirit. But there is this difficulty Distinct from those two classes-Russian petrol is now sold ander were Soviet citizens numbering so many different names that the 350 employed in Arcos and other motorist cannot be sure what is trading organisations, with whose and what is not stolen petrol. legitimate business activities it In addition to the petrol dis- was the aim of the British Gov-tributed by Russian Oil Pro- ernment to interfere as little as ducts, Ltd. sometimes merely; possible.

described in advertisements as; A Regard for Trade. R.O.P., which is generally known Forty-eight had left, or were to be a Soviet enterprise, there about to leave, some voluntarily, are numerous other firms distri- and others as a result of special buting petrol from the same taint- instructions.

ed source. Of the remainder many who

Motorists' Question. were residents here before the In some cases even the retailer First Since Election.

Trade Agreement was concluded is not certain if the brand of Rugby, June 23. were being examined individually. petrol he sells is of Russian This examination must take origin. Perhaps he is not always Kingdom to China were £3,549,- Representatives, the Dail Eirenna, time, as the risk of doing dam- too anxious to probe into the pro- North to commence on June 25.000 compared with £5.712,000 in met to-day for the first time since age to legitimate trade interests blem. Motorists are, however, the corresponding period of last the recent general election. Mr. by hasty action was to be avoid-beginning to inquire into matters year.

Congrave was re-elected. Pre-ed, but it would be pressed for-themselves, especially women, who are usually more careful in Exports to Hong Kong in thesident-Britiah Wireless Service. ward as rapidly as possible.

Back With Money,

Any attempt on the part of buying,than men. first three months of 1927 were

"Is this petrol Russian?" This with Writing in mall week, the Soviet citizens to engage in politi- compared £1,183,000

Sometimes 84,000 in the corresponding Dublin correspondent of a London cal activity under the guise of is a question which retailers are period of last year.

paper said: The political pro-trade would not be tolerated. De- often asked.

orders under the dealer selling an obscure brand Sir Philip Cunliffe Lister said phets in the Free State are great-portation any considerable improvement in intrigued by the rumours that Aliens Act would only be made if has to confess that he does not Sino-British trade must depend on Mr. De Valera has come back required to enforce departure in know. But the majority of filling! particular case. British stations refuse to handle petrol the re-establishment of order in from the United States. with any

from doubtful sources, in spite of China-Reuter.

large sums of money, which he Wireless Service.

Arrests in Athens.

the inducements of agents repre- will devote to his election câm-

Athens, June 23 senting the distributors of the Kavandas now says the plot stolen article. was intended against the Italian Legation, not the British.—{ Reuter.

Chiang Kai-shek's firmness and fearlessness which together with the three Principles had resulted in the Nationalists' success so far and which he averred could alone! Save China.

Concluding, Feng announced that his forces would fight to the termost for the success of the Nationalist revolution.--Reuter.

Raising the Wind,

Shanghai, June 23. General Chiang Kai-shek has returned to Nanking. There has been a conference with Ku Ying- tan over the question of the rais- ing of funds.

Reds.in a Panic.

BANKOW DEBENTURES.

Interest To Be Paid In Central Bank Notes.

The

Hunkow, June 23. It is reported that the fusion

Nationalist "People's between Chiang Kai-shek and General Feng Yu-hsiang has Tribune" states that the half- catised consternation in the Com-yearly interest on the debentures mmunist camp. According to an issued by the British Municipal other report one section of the Council will be paid on June 30 in Kuomintang is pressing Feng to Central Bank notes which at pre- HONGKONG DOLLAR DIRECTORY attack and annihilate the Com-sent stand at a discount of forty

munists.-"Hong Kong Evening per cent.

Full particulars for the

1928 DIRECTORY

can be sent in Now.

Post."

A BROKEN REED.

Wu Pei-fu Again Reported In.

Flight,'

Shanghai, June 23. Marshal Wu Pei-fu is rumoured

to have fled from Nanyang to

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A GENERAL LULL.

Shakoė. Demonstrations Pass Off Quietly,

Shanghai, June 23.

There is no change in the situa- tion here or at Yangtse porta gent erally, damonstrations organised to commemorate the Shakee DODWELL & CO. LTD. affair of 1925 up to the time of despatch having apparently pass ed off quietly.sk)

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A new issue of locally printed currency notes appeared in circu- lation yesterday.-Reuter.

"PREPOSTEROUS.”

AN EMBEZZLER'S LAME EXCUSE.

wood merchant, a Chinese, was this

WILLIAM

COSGRAVE

1

FRENCH BANK.

HEARING OF APPEAL IN PARIS.

the

[Yesterday's cables stated:-A| Communist plot to bomb the British Legation was told to the authorities by a Communist tailor named Kavandas, who gave the address of two Commun- ista alleged to have been involved. CREDITORS NOT AFFECTED. The police searched the house and found nothing, but five dynamite

Paris, June 23. cartridges were discovered in: The court of Cassation to-day Kavandas' lodging. The inform- began hearing the final appeal in er and the two men denounced the case of the Banque Indus- were arrested.]

trielle de Chine.

WEATHER FORECAST.

with

The court heard the report to the court by counsel and ad- journed examination of the ap- "South west or variable winds, peal until to-morrow-Reuter.

ig not con- The appeal light; fair" is the official weather

the directed forecast for the next 24 hours, for cerned paign. Mr. De Valera is still a Hong Kong, the Formosa Channel affairs of the Bank in so far as creditors are concern- factor in Irish politics, and the and the nearby coast.

Pressure has increased considered for the scheme of composition fact that he is putting forward at

by which Gold Bonds were Issued least 100. candidates at the comably at Nemuro, moderately from Convicted of embezzling $98.25 Ing election is a tribute to his Cheloo to N. Formosa and slightly was approved and put into effect

over Kwangtung "and the Visayas. the property of his employer, a Brodogged determination: anti It has decreased slightly over Sw some time ago. The appeal con-

His recent visit to the United Japan and at Oshime.

cerns the alleged negligence of morning sentenced by Mr. R. E. States was for the purpose of ap The Ishigaki depression has M. Berthelot and M. Fernottee, President of the Lindsell to six weeks jail. The pearing as a witness in the Dall moved rapidly eastward towards the respectively. embezzlement was said to have Bonds case, but he took the on- Bonins.

A

Board, and. General, Manager of covered a period from April 27 to portunity of making a political The Chefoo depression is moving the Bank who were held to be partly responsible for the failure June 20. Accused's excuse, was pilgrimage. In the course of his towards Vladivostoch.

of the Bank and were fined that his wages of $20 ware Insul tour he collected large sums of cient, and as his employer had pro- money for his political campaign,

86,000 Francs. They have twice mised him a commission on all but the statement that he has re- which has been occupied. Mr. appealed against this decision. goods, he took the percentage on his turned with £250,000 in greatly De Valera and his friends will not own without consulting the master exaggerated. A take the oath of allegiance to the the Magistrate remarked that it Hia new party, Flanna Fall (the King, but he has announced that was preposterous for the accused party of destiny) has fairly sub If his party gains a majority, a to auggest that although his wages stantial funds in its possession contingency that is by no means were $20 he should be entitled to even without the American sub so fantastic as it seems, he will commission amounting to nearly scriptions. The Republicans have insist on entering the Dail without

147 seats in the Dall, only one of taking any cath. $100 in two months.

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