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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1927, PRICE, $3,00 Per Month.

ON THE YANGTSZE.

The Coming Together of Wu-Han and Nanking. Many Troop Movements

SETTLEMENT PROSPECTS.

Nanking Faction May Have To Fall Into Line.

EFFECT OF PERSONAL NEGOTIATION.

[By "Li Chung-yin."]

Since then the Nationalists have gone on to further successes and they have also met with a serious reverse.

Now that General Chiang Kai-shek has resigned his post as commander-in-chief of the armies, the way is presumed to be clear for reconciliation between the two opposing factions of the Kuomin-

tang.

Reported.

CHINKIANG LANDING?

Inquiry Promised Into Firing On Ships.

to -day.

ed his office.

Kiukiang, Yesterday. More troops passed down-river

Wuhu, Yesterday. The 6th Army is expected from up-river. Americans have been ordered to evacuate as it is thought that trouble may possibly

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BORODIN TRAVELS.PRIDE OF DETROIT." GERMANY & PEACE.

Crossing Mongolia By

Caravan,

میش

REACHES SIANFU.

Lady Journaliste Included In Entourage.

Remarkable Statement At Geneva.

World Aviators Leave Hong Kong.

TO ABOLISH WARS,

BOUND FOR SHANGHAI.

AT LAST?

Canton and Anti-Piracy Measures.

INTERESTING REPORT.

Early Morning Departure From Herr Stresseman Supports Britain Special Prevention Bureau To Be

Aerodrome.

And France.

Geneva, Yesterday.

on

Established.

Ichang, Yesterday. How M. Borduln, the Soviet

On enquiry at the Kai Tack aero-

Anti-piracy work the Chang Hu-tean, Vice-Comman-high adviser to the Kuomintang, drome this morning, the "China der of the 2nd Army, and the act-Is travelling back to Russia is Mail" was informed by an observer

A warm advocacy of peace Kwangtung coastline (including ing Commissioner for Foreign described in a Chinese report to that Messrs. Brock and Schlee, the was made by Herr Stresemann Bias Bay) is to be placed by the Affairs, returned the call of the band from North China.

two American world fliers; took off in the Assembly, which was Canton Government under a Squabbles for power led to the disintegration some months ago British Commercial counsellor on Borodin is believed to have from the aerodrome at 6.25 a.m. much applauded. He described special bureau,

This bureau will have attached board H.M.S. "Bee" to-day.

to-day. Our informant states that a League to prevent war as the of the Chinese Nationalist Party.

left Hankow by the Peking they expressed complete satisfac- biggest evolutionary event for to it, according to a report from Changsha, Yesterday. Hankow Railway, turning off by tion with the running of the engine. centuries. The Commissioner for Foreign a caravan route into the interior After circling the porodrome they agreed with Sir A. Chamberlain gunboats owned by the provin

Germany completely Canton, two or three of the best Affairs has returned and re-open-of north-west China, to cross the turned on their course and went

Mongolian desert into Siberia out over Lyemun Pass.

and M. Briand that Lacorno had cial administration and the Na- and thence to Russia."

The flying distance between Hong a bearing on the East as well as tionalist Navy Department office On August 9,. Borodin was Kong and Shanghai is less than the West. The league was not at Canton will be asked to co- said to have reached Sianfu, eight hundred miles, but it is un- only a synthesis. of ideas but a operate...

Like Chinese institutions of capital of Shensi province and ceed further to-day, From Shang: force of a declaration that the similar nature, the bureau will likely that the aviators will pro- reality. He believed the moral hal to Tokyo is about a thousand great powers were determined to have an imposing name which route, abolish violence would be in indicates that the scope will ex- From Tokyo, the alrmen's lies back to America. via Sand estimable, and solemnly affirmed tend from the Po-on district Island, or Midway Island and Hono- that Germany subscribed to these (which immediately adjoins the ideas and was ready to sign New Territories) to the Waichow forthwith a compulsory abritra- prefecture. Bias Bay and ad- tion clause to the Hague Conven- Jacent pirate strongholds are in- tion.

therefore included:

Stations of the bureau are to M. Sokal, Poland, then moved be established, saya the an- at Shanghai as there is a bigger the Polish proposals with the nouncement, at various points, run there than on the race-course. They anticipate arriving in Shang- elimination of the passage invit-on the lines of coastguard depots. An official has been appointed ing members to conclude non- It was nt 3.10 p.m. yes-aggression pacts. A notable dif- and he has been ordered to in- terday that the aviators were ference is that all wars would be vestigate and map out the zone Arst sighted by D group

will have to be undertaken by the bureau.

Even before the "peace conference" is to open, the respective leaders are again at loggerheads over the same question. Who is to be chief and who is to wield the power?

PERTINENT FACTS.

Logic leads one to assume that the Wu-Han administrators were not comfortable at Hankow, in the interior of the country and several hundreds of miles from the sex. Otherwise they would not have gone voluntarily to Nan- king-and gone so readily. The inducement was the probability of being at the bend of a united Na- tionalist Government and the fact tha General Chiang Kai-shek, whom they accused of being an autocrat, is out of the picture at the moment.

With the acknowledged object of assisting their colleagues against the Northern army, the Wa-Han generals sent their forces down the Yangtze River, there-

by encroaching on territory held

by Nanking generals. Danger to

Nanking and to Shanghai has

eventuate.

Dr. Hai Tsu-chai has arrived from Anking and in the course of a call on the Senior Naval Officer has given an assurance that an investigation is being made into cases of recent firing on ships. True, danger to the cause may unite the various generals and

Nanking, Yesterday. politicians again. But once pro-to Shanghai as representative of Wang Ching-wai has proceeded gress is being made, internal the Ministry to interview Mr. strife will break out anew.

C. C. Wu.

History Repeated

The Commissioner for Foreign History has already been re-Affairs has called on the chief peated. About seventy years ago, Naval officer with regard to recent a Southern rebel led a movement firing on ships and indicated that against the Manchu dynasty and the authorities are anxious to pre- established himself as emperor vent recurrence. with a court at Nanking. Accord-

Chinkiang, Yesterday,

ing to tradition, a soothsayer pre- There are distinct signs of a dicted hundreds of years ago that threatened landing on the North!

the Southerners would never bank and steps have been taken to stronghold of the reach beyond the Yellow River, meet it-British Naval Wireless.general," Ma shal which is roughly two-thirds of the

way from the Yangtsze to Peking.

General Chiang Kai-shek ad-

rebel emperor of the last century [Admiral Mark

"Christian

miles.

lulu,

Shanghai By 5 p.m. On enquiry at the American con- sulate, the "China Mail" was formed that the aviators had decid- ed to land at the Chinesa aerodrome

hai about 5 p.m. to-day.

Polish Proposals. •

of officers on the Reclamation fore made illegal and not merely over which plracy prevention

wars of aggression,

Text of Proposal. The text of M. Sokal's pro- that

shore. For the few hours prior to the welcome shout it had been the concensus of opinion that either they had decided to omit Hong posals runs :-"Realising Kong and proceed to Manila or else solidarity, the uniting of the that they had been delayed in leav-international community will ing Hanol.

maintain peace, and recognising

H.K. GOVT. BILL.

To Amend Suppression

Laws..

As a result of the recommenda-

law relating to the suppression of

been averted but still the Wu- fell because he appointed too Brisbl was born in 1868 and grad.of attendants and much travel/sent out to act as pilot was not with ment, the League Assembly de Prevention Ordinance, 1914, and

Han soldiers keep moving down the Yangtsze. Their proximity to Nanking a matter of less than a hundred miles-is not desired. They have been told so by the Nanking chieftains but the Wu- Han hordes have not called a halt.

who resented General Chiang Kai- shek's monopoly of command) were demanding the portfolios of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Communications in the new pro- jected government.

As Reuter says, the assignment of those offices to nominees of

Han militarists practical control. What then of the portfolio of War Minister?

Lack of Central Command. Experience will have taught

many princes who quarrelled uated at U.S. Naval Academy in ling among themselves. General 1887; was ensign in 1889 and ad- Chiang Kai-shek's defest, when vanced through so close to his goal, is also attri- buted to his having appointed so many generals who became jeal ous of each other.

Can It Be Done Now? Will the Southerners, as the Nationalists are called, be able to cross the Yellow River this time, and without a recognised leader

There appear to be two main

corps,

missed the visitors.

..

No Grilles.

..

that

The Arrival: The news of the monoplane hav- that a war of aggression must Feng Yu-ing been sighted quickly spread never serve as a means of settl U.S. Command.

among the officers and men and the ing differences, and believing tilons on the "Sunning" Piracy Shanghai, Yesterday.

hsiang, who has shown pro-A.F.C. employees, Press men and the solemn renunciation of all Commission; a Bill will be intro- duced in the Legislative Council nounced Eed" tendencies of late, others who had been waiting for war is of a nature to create an vanced perilously close to Peking Admiral Williams of the command shan park (named in honour of hension was expressed as to whe- and one favourable to the pro- piraty. It repeals the Piracy Admiral Bristol has relieved Borodin stayed at the Chunghours for its arrival. Some appre atmosphere of general confidence on September 15, amending the but his star waned when he ap of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet. the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen) with, ther the aviators would pick out the proached the Yellow River. The Reuter,

Lambert Bays the report, a big following ground as the plane which had been ress of the work of disarma-

the "Fride of Detroit" (this plane clares firstly that all war is and all the regulations in force there- paraphernalia.

returned half an hour later, having remains prohibited; secondly, all under. It inserts in the Suppres Interesting Company.

pacific means must be employed sion of Piracy Ordinance, 1868, power to make regulations. for Accompanying Borodin were: The "Pride of Detroit," which for the settlement of interna- searches of vessels and persons, the various grades to rank of Captain in

An American lady journal-approached from the South West tional disputes of whatsoever 1918; was temporary Rear-Ad-

ist,

circled the serodrome twice and miral in 1918, and has served in

A German lady journalist, made perfect landing into the nature and that League members and any other regulations which may appear desirable for the pur- wind, pulling up well within the are under an obligation to con pose of preventing piracy. These A Russian lady, all classes of ships in U.S. Navy.]

regulations will all relate to things Terms Named First.

Agitation Against Japan.

A Russian staff adviser at-limits and circling back on the form to these principles."

Security Problem. ground in the direction of the mat- tached to a Nationalist army shed "hangars." Officers and me While some of the Wu-Han poli-

In the Assembly M. Vander- to be done or suffered within the Peking, Yesterday. ticians are trying to arrive at a

The agitation in Manchuria

chanics alike rushed to give asala- velde, Belgium, continuing the territorial limits of the Colony, basis of understanding with the

against Japan continues.

and the present scheme of bonds Three Chinese students,

tance in the holding of the tall debate on the problem of securi- for the observance of various re- The Nanking principals, the Wu-Han

Kirin and Fengtien Chambers of

Eight soldiers provided by and wings and the "Pride of De- generals make certain stipula in the field?

bly's duty to consider the Dutch Colony will thus disappear, Commerce and other public bodies

the Wu-Han Nationalist Gov-treit" which come to rest at 8.15 y, declared it was the Assem-gulations outside the limits of the tions. Reuter cabled yesterday Wu-Han has more influential are wiring protests and sending

ernment,

p.m. was soon surrounded,

The Welcome.

and other proposals based on the that these generals (probably in-personages than Nanking. Mr. delegates to Peking.

Each of the bodyguards was

The two aviators as they stepped 1924 protocol and to record the

A draft of the proposed regula- dicating Tang Seng-chi; Ching Wang Ching-wai is chairman of Chinese and Japanese officials armed with a pistol and the from the cockpit bore evidence of opinion that war is banished and tions to be made under Ordinance Chien, Chu Pei-teh and others the Kuomintang Party and his express surprise at the agitation, travellers also had thirty apare the strain through which they have disarmament indispensable to No. 1 of 1868, will be published

admirers hope to see him at the declaring it to be due to mis pistols. Included in the equip- been passing in the last three the nations, who not merely shortly. It will be seen head of a united Nationalist ad- understanding and emphatically ment were:

weeks. They were both dressed in wanted guarantees. but a real they contain nothing to require ministration. General Tan Yen- reiterate that the reports that

Three sporting rifles,

light summer clothing with no hats, consciousness of security. He the provision of grilles or any kai and Mr. Sun Fo are practical Japan has developed a new ag-

One machine gun,

goggles or even coats.

After the first few words of wel-spoke regretfully of the appar other structural arrangement in ly assured of posts in whatever gressive policy, in any way com-

One light machine gun, ministry that is formed.

parable with the Twenty-One De-]

and eight motor cars handled come from Mr. Shantz, the U.S. ent division of the victors and any ship.

Consul and Squadron. Leader Mac- vanquished into two camps. The recommendations of the 'Difference in Position.

mands, is untrue.

by twelve drivers..

dougal (from the Kal Tack aero- Mandates Commission.

Sunning" Piracy Commission re- Competing with these, Nanking|

[Sianfu is the city which was drome), the question of accom-

Geneva, Yesterday. lating to guards are still under these generals will give the Wu- has Mr. Hu Hau-min who is out- causes of the friction, namely, recently besieged for months by modation and food was immediately At a private meeting of the consideration..

spokenly opposed to reconciliation that the Chinese object to the proPeking forces. A number introduced. To the surprise of the League Council Herr. Ludwig Clause 8 of the bill proposes to on the terms indicated.

establishment of a Japanese Con- of foreign missionaries, doctors spectators. Mr. Brock announced Kastl, Germany, a prominent repeal four sections in the Sup- Wu-Han has the armies of Gen-sulate at Linkiang and that the and nurses underwent great that they had a long task before industrialist was appointed addi-pression of Piracy Ordinance,

them in overhauling the engine and} eral Tang Seng-chi, General Ching Japanese oppose the opening of privations to tend the elck and they intended to carry on with the tional member of the Mandates 1888, which appear to be unneces Chien and General Chu Pei-teh, to railways competing with the wounded and some were not good work "right now."

Commission on the proposal ofsary. Section 7 is repealed be which must be added new armies South Manchuria Railway.

succoured till the siege was Both Brock and Schlee seemed the Netherlands delegate, cause there is no reformatory in dependent on the big three. Nan- Chang Tao-lin, it is understood, raised by reinforcements, from perfectly disinterested in any ar- Reuter.

Hong Kong. Section 8 is repeal- king has several corps of tried has promised Mr. Yoshizawa, the the "Christian general."]

rangements as to their accommoda-

Library Fund.

ed because the possession of arms warriors but these "veterana" Japanese Minister, to take the

tion, merely remarking that they The Council has passed a re- is sufficiently dealt with by the as possible as they would not finish funds up to $2,000,000 from an 1900, Ordinance No. 2 of 1900, wished to sleep as near the planes solution accepting the "offer of Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, the overhaul for some considerat time and would be starting at dawn American group for the estab- and stink pots are now obsolete. lishment of a library in the in- The regulations made under this terests of the League. The section which were published in Council requested the Assembly the "Gazette" of August 20, 1870, acceptance. ceased to be in force on April 12, 1915,, by virtue of the provisions. of section 5 (2) of the Regulations Ordinance, 1915, Ordinance No: 7 of 1915, and of the Order made- under section 5 (1) of that Ordin Compromise and Then-7 attack is causing Marshal Sun fang at this stage will pave the

ance which was gazetted on April. Compromise is the most likely Chuan-fang to retire rapidly way for another Nationalist on-

1, 1915. No regulations have outcome, with the Wu-Han politi-along the railway from Pukow to slaught on General Chang Tsung With not more than the exchange

subsequently been made under cians in preponderance and the Tientsin.

chang of Shantung who, recently, of a few words to say that they had

Bection 8 of the Suppression of Wu-Han generals in authority. The Nanking Nationalists are has withheld assistance from left Hanol at 7.26 a.m., having pro-

Piracy Ordinance, 1868.Section The Nanking politicians; not find not following up their advantage Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, Chin- ceeded there straight from Rangoon

9 of that Ordinance is repealed be ing what they want, will temat Pukow and the threat from the ese cables from Shanghai indicate and missed out Bangkok, and that

It is expected that some 800 cause it merely provides that all porarily retire. The Nanking flank is being made by the Wu that General Chang Tsung-chang between Hanol and Hong Kong highest command had given or generals, because they have little Han Nationalists who recently/1s now taking cognisance of the wind, which cut down their average members of the Services, will be enactments, etc., Inconsistent"

they had experienced a strong head, ders to army corps. Now each choice in the matter, will line up came down the Yangtze River new situation; need to eighty miles in hour, entertained at the Kowloon with Ordinance No. 1 of 1868 are army corps, while trying to co with the Wu-Han forces from Hankow. A cable received by the "Hong Brock and Schles set to on the over- Cricket Club to-night when they to be of no effect. Section 10 Is operate as far as possible with How long this patched up agree) Semi-Circular Line. Kong Evening Post credits the haul of the engine stopping oc- will be the guests of the Club at repealed, because it merely pro allied units, has to look to itself men-now merely a matter of The Wu-Han forces have cross- Nanking Nationalists with two cassionally to exchange a few a concert, with refreshments, vides that nothing in the Ordin- first. That is why the counter conjecture will be in force re-ed the north bank of the Yang-important captures on the north words and open various cables and provided out of the funds raised ance is to effect the jurisdiction offensive against Marshal Sun mains to be seen. With each tazo at Wuhu and occupied Wu- bank of the Yangtze River, viz., letters which awarded them here at the concert last Saturday.mreviously exercised by the to its utmost. On one sector, the must break out and the most like-spreading themselves out in a rect, the message shows that the Nanking Nationalists are crossingly conclusion will be the generale fairly big semi-circle facing Nanking Nationalists, on this operation of filling the tanks which

wers difficult of access. Every hins Song, Mr. Bates Mr. the Yangtaza only in battalions taking matters Into their own Pongpu, which is Marshal Sun sector, bave not advanced more available itch in the "Fride of Elphick as himself Song, Mr. where ... divisions are needed to hands, each carving out a plete Chuan-fang'a base,

than twenty miles northwards Detroit is taken up with storage Mossendew; the Bar Trio: press home the advantage gained of territory for himself (as Gen- According to to-day's reports, along the Grand Canal The dea tank, even the wings being called Charleston Dance Violet Capell, on the south bank of the River eral Bel Chung-hai has done at the line extends north-westwards patch adds that the Northerners into service. Some 200 gallons of E. Rose, P. Capell, T On another sector each division Shanghai) and with the politie to Bhowchow and Chengyang, have retired to saing

epirit and oll was taken on board and P Gitting tance of about kix-mi

Brock and Schlee meanwhile were Blower the Town's two toug seems to be waging war indepen | cians being, reduced to mere kwan,, both, on the Hwal dently:

figureheada.

and about 100 miles from the fgal (Continued.

est telepathlatz.

the Nationalist leaders that in

Anhui province...

the interest of their cause and for their own safety, the power to move troops about had best be veated in a council rather than in are busy fighting the Northerners necessary measures to prevent a Northern base of Pengpu. Wu- any one soldier of the hour, whereas the Wu-Han divisions are recurrence of the demonstrations. Han troops are stated to have

If the generals are squabbling not so busily engaged.

General Yang Yu-ting is seeing about communications, to men-Little depends on the fourth Mr. Yoshizawa to discuss the gone into action in this part of tion no other department, they pienary session of the Kuomin-situation this afternoon.Reuter. will surely be even more thrust mintang Central Executive Coun- ful on the matter of representa- cil to be held on September 15, tion on this supreme war council. This body is the supreme auth- There is discord even in the ority in the Nationalist Party Nanking military camp. Lack of but more will come from personal a central command has given one negotiation than from public dis- general the opportunity of with cussion. .. drawing from the battle lines along the banks of the Yangtaze and virtually seizing the rich ter ritory of Shanghai and environs.

Each For Himself.

..

Two other generals who have fought side by side are now in dis- agreement. Hitherto one in the

2

WAR SCENE SHIFTS.

Nationalists Advancing From Interior.

Impending danger from a flank

on the morrow.

It is obvious that the scene of

A Slight Defect, hostilities is shifting away from The aviators remarked that the the lower Yangtze and Kiangsu slight engine defect which rendered to confirm its provinec inland towards the north the overhaul necessary had only Reuter.

been observed immediately prior to of Anhui province.

Fresh Danger to North. their landing. As the engine was Defeat for Marshal Sun Chuan- cased and the revolutions reduced slight noise had been heard which led them to believe that the ignition, was at fault.

K.C.C. CONCERT.

800. SERVICE MEN AS GUESTS.

TO-NIGHT'S SHOW,

Chuan-fang is not being pushed clique striving for power, discord well Other detachments are of Taichow a Talhing. If cor- A.P.C. employees directed the the progreens, M. Haur

200 Gallons of PetroLBA The programme is as follows Supreme Court.

que comedians, Dick and Tod

me takes you up the Baten: Duet, bing to my, V. Capell and Lake; Humorous Song, Mr.

Trio and Songs

Mossen