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No. 25,671 HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1927. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month,

DANGER TO SHANGHAI.

A Grab For the Richest Plum in China?

DIE HARD” GENERAL,

Chiang Kai-shek Supporter on War Path.

AN INDEPENDENT GOVERNMENT.

Complications within the Nationalist Party portend serious de- velopments around Shanghai. Either of two courses may follow. General Ho. Ying-ching, who is a staunch supporter of Chiang Kai- shek, may make & grab for Shanghai and environs—the richest plum in China-or he may go away from the Yangtze River, southwards to Chekiang province to establish a separate government which may or may not include Chiang Kai-shek.

Other issues may have an important bearing on these events. The Wu-Han politicians are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with not accomplishing all they had hoped for at the Nanking conference and the Nationalist Party is in greater danger of disruption than at

generals are quarrelling among themselves, General Tang Seng-chi is breaking away, and leaders with influence are returning to private

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GOVERNMENT STAY

CANTON STRIKERS.

Registration Suggested By Police.

Free State Election Regult.

MAJORITY OF SIX.

Labour Party Only Captures 13 Seats.

The final state of the parties in the Irish Free State election is:

Government Republicans Labour

61

67

19

6

12

Farmers Independents National League Workers League

2

The Government thus have majority of six.--Reuter.

SEEKING BAD CHARACTERS."!

SHOT IN RUSSIA.

General's Daughter As Male Fighter

MODERN JOAN OF ARC.

N. LAZARUS

"Hong Kong's: Only European Optician-

** Established Over Forty Years mikr Manager-Ralph A, Cooper, M.A.0.A.

Registered Optometrist (Canada).

CONFUCIUS DAY

Hong Kong Observances Tomorrow.

CHINESE TO TAKE DAY OFF.

Out of Works To Be Housed In Old Girl's Long and Bitter Opposition To Memory Of Sage Whe Was Born

Fantan Saloons.

Communism.

12.551 B.C

POLICE BRIBES.

Taking Money From Hawkers.

CSP. IN RAID:

Interested Street Sellers Crowd Magistracy.

Registration of "Cantoll-Hong The shooting of Lieut. Recent years have seen a mark-

In connection with the police Kong striker remaining in Can-Sachartchenteo by the Bolsheviks ed tendency towards observing raid made at No. 8 Station ton city has been suggested by has brought to light a remark Confucius Day, which falls on the Street (reported yesterday) in the Police...

Efable romance of the war. 27th day of the 8th moon (to- the course of which a Chinese The proposal is revealed in a The dashing young Tsarist morrow), as a general holiday. It constable jumped from a third communication from the Public officer was none other than Miss seems as if the time is not far floor window and was badly in- Safety Bureau (which includes Elizabeth Ivanowna Schultz, the distant when the anniversary of jured, having to go to the the Police Department) to the daughter of a Russian General the birth of China's most famous Government Civil Hospital for four Chambers of Commerce of: When war broke out Elizabeth sage although not ranking as treatment, Mr. T. H. King, the city,

was 20 years old, and became a one of the four big festivals will Director of Criminal Investiga- The sponsors of the scheme Red Cross nurse.

take second place to New Year's tion, this morning Issued a state- Day in the round of Chinese festiment to the Fress. vities in Hong Kong.

The statement was to the It is estimated that more than effect that in previous years the half the shops in the colony will police had bnd occasion to deal

will hold meetings with speeches hawkers of the Colony, in con- be closed to-morrow.

with certain Chinese constables The local Confucian Societies employed to deal with the

the customary dramatic show. bribes. Some weeks ago it be Chinese students will have a day atables were again committing off and some of the schools have the offence of receiving money arranged their own celebration.

from hawkers and dividing it amongst the members of the -circle.

a think that a commission should One day she disappeared. To, be appointed to take a census of wards the end of the war a all those who have not gone back young heutenant of Hussars was to work since the anti-Hong Kong seriously wounded in the breast. comprise representatives from covered to their amazement that strike of 1925, the commission to In the hospital the surgeons die the Canton branch of the Kuo- the lieutenant" was a

Cosgrave Confident, Vice-President Blythe announces

Dublin, Yesterday. that President Cosgrave intends to carry on and does not anticipate

girl.

any time before. Canton is indirectly involved, some of the Nanking any major lasue. He thinks the quarters of the commander-in-1 from her chest the young Joan Nearly all the schools attended by came known that certain.con-

the defeat of the Government on mintang Political Council, head- After the bullet had been taken from the society's officials, and nection with the receiving of

life.

ment.

CANTON CRITICISED.

ter.

Ministry is safe at least for a year. chief, the Provincial Government, of Arc admitted her identity. It is noteworthy that President the Strlic. Executive, the Public

"Don't Betray Me." Cosgrave's probable majority is Safety Bureau and the four "Yes, I am Elizabeth Ivanowna approximately half-a-dozen.-Reu-Chambers of Commerce.

Schultz," she said. "My father, Reason for Decision. That bed characters" are fight with the rest of the boys, the general, refused to let me finding their way into the so I took the papers of a peasant, strikers quarters in the city is the reason given for the decision. and enlisted under his name. No The Police view is that misunder and fought with the men through one knew my secret. I lived standing will arise should raids 50 battles, Yes, and I won my of Kung Fu Tzu, meaning the be made on these quarters and it lieutenancy in the front ranka. "philosopher Kung." is not fair to thern that a person Please don't betray me." under suspicion should find sane- tuary among the strikers.

"EXAGGERATED.”

NO TRUTH, IN PIRACY RUMOURS.

The surgeons promised to

SHORT BIOGRAPHY,

Sage as Official & Student of History. Confucius is the Latinized form

China's greatest sage was born

Six Present, Following investigation, the

of detectives raided the third Hon. Captain Superintendent of Police, accompanied by a party

floor of No. 3 Station Street be tween 7 and 8 am, on Monday last. In one room which was occupied by a Chinese constable and his wife, the raiders dia- stables. As the raiders entered covered five other Chinese con-

Shanghai, Yesterday.

Fraught With Danger, General Ho Ying-ching (the Such a course may be fraught commander) is concentrating his with danger or the objective: Like the report of Mark Twain's 1st (Nationalist) Army at Hang- may be gained without a shot death, the story in a contemporary chow (capital of Chekiang pro- being fired. The latter would this morning, anent the sis: "Ko-

As the Whampoa barracks guard her secret. Soon the war in Shantung province. in North vince), at which place General occur if the opponents to General chow" being pirated is "grossly scheme has been sheived, the Can- was ended, but Elizabeth refused China, in 551 B.C., the son of a Chiang Kai-shek is reported to be. Ho Ying-ching did not feel strong exaggerated."

ton police suggest that the system to lay down her aword. Anti- military official and a concubine. It is reported that General Ho enough to resist and, accordingly, Although the vessel has not yet of strikers billets in the city fought in the White Guard of Confucius occupied official posi- Bolshevik to the heart, she In the earlier part of his life Ying-ching is in reconciliation retired.

arrived in Hong Kong from should be reorganised. Such with the Wu-Han faction of the Light is thrown on a rather Wuchow, it is definitely establish-quarters should be close together General Wrangel in the Crimea, tions but history took up a great the premises, the constable who Nationalist Party and that he may startling incident at the Shang-led from Naval; Police and Har and a daily register be kept of the and then with the last heroes deal of his time. His "Spring and was the tenant of the room in establish an independent govern-hai-Nanking Railway station last bour sources that there is no truth inmates. Firtan saloons and under Ungern-Sternberg in Cen- Autumn Annals" was written to which the men were found im

week when a full general was ar- in the rumour.

opium dens which have been tral Asia. Then came her flight show the necessity of a strong mediately jumped out of the There has been more labour rested by a handful of privates The report originated from Can- closed by the authorities should through Communistic Russia to central government, China then widow in an attempt to escape trouble at Pootung.

from the 1st Army. The prisoner ton and it is believed that it is be used, in the fat instance, for wards Foland and thence to being divided into a number of arrest. Bet Troops of General Ho Ying- is General Lai Hath-huang, the Inst piracy.

merely a repetition of the facts of housing the strikers and private Paris.

states bufet

He was seriously injured by ching's lat Army attempted to who commands the 14th Army

Escape From Pirates.

property restored to owners as far. In the French capital Eliza- disarm 1,500

When Confucius died in 470 his fall and had to be removed to men of the 31st which won signal honours at Fourteen more of the passengers:

as possible.N

beth might have found a calm B.C., he had 3,000 disciples, 76 of the Government Civil Hospital. Army at Lunghwa this afternoon. Lungtan in beating back wave and crew of the ss. "Kochow" have:

Distinguished Visitor. The result of the fighting la un after wave of Sun Chuan-fang's escaped from the pirates who at

retreat. Someone offered her a whom became his life-long adher- The other five constables were Mr. Chao-hsin Chu, till recently position in the movies; an Amer ents

taken into custody and removed. known.-British Naval Wireless. Northern shock troops who had tacked the ship on the West River the Chinese delegate to the ican packing-house millionaire Unlimited Honours.

to the Central Police Station crossed the Yangtaze in attempt some time ago and took away over

even offered her a nice home

where, when they were searched,:: ing to secure a foothold.

near the Chicago stockyards; but Confucius and both his ancestors joint possession of over $100.

Short of absolute deification, they were found to be in the the little Joan of Arc was look and descendants have been hon- ing for something more exciting oured in every conceivable way.

Disappeared Again. Again she disappeared from Sage and in 1233 A.D., the direct arrests large crowds of interest- He himself is the Most Perfect In view of the raid and the view. For yeare no one saw her, male representative of the family ed hawkers crowded both Courts either in London or Paris or was given the title of Widely at the Central Magistracy both Vienna or Berlin, but in all of Holy Duke

PRO-CHANG DIEHARD. ·

Trying To Keep Others From Shanghai?

Whereas the message above

Challenge to Colleagues.

a hundred men to be held to ran- soin, About a hundred have now

The arrested general is suspect-been accounted for. ed of being in alliance with the elique of Nanking commanders opposed to Chiang Kai-shek and

favourable to an alliance with Chinese officials, párd calls on

Wu-Han. His seizure by General

board H.M.S. "Widgeon", yester-

[Note: Kwelchow is on the upper Yangtaze, below Chung- king and Wanhsien but above Ichang, and in Szechuan pro- | vince.]

says that General Ho Ying-ching Ho Ying-ching is construed as a day. British Naval Wireless. has eyes on Hangchow, other re-direct challenge to the other Nan- ports point to his trying to pre-king 'generals. vent other troops reaching Shang- Another factor which leads one hai.

to surmise that Ho Ying-ching | General Ho, it will be recalled, has eyes on Shanghai, rather succeeded Chiang Kai-shek as than on Chekinng, is that he has commander of the 1st Army. troops at Lunghwa, a few miles From Swatow, he set out on a south of Shanghai, with

a big march northwards, through arsenal. The arrested general) Fukien and Chekiang provinces, was brought there for detention. till he joined hands with his chief

on the banks of the Yangtsze.

When Chiang Kai-shek retired, Ho Ying-ching gave the impres- sion that he was opposed to recon- ciliation with the Wu-Han fac- tion. He was dubbed a "diehard" and he refused to attend the Kuomintang peace conference at Nanking.

ON THE YANGTSZE. Nationalist Troops at Various Ports.

ANOTHER VERSION.

Third Batch Disarmed And Sequel.

Shan hai, Yesterday. General Ho Ying-ching's quar- rel is with General Li Lieh-chun (one of the Nanking politicians cians with considerable influence).

Mr. Chao-hain Chu, till recently. the Chiness delegate to the League. of Nations, now visiting Hong Kong.

these capitals, occasionally the

Crowded Court.

yesterday afternoon" and " this

name of Sachartchentso was Every city in China has a Con-morning in the hope of seeing murmured by mysterious men. fucian temple and the sage's name the constables charged. Mr. And always that name was is respected all over the civilised Lindsell's Court was so crowded connected with a small uprising world. Shortly after the Revolu- this morning that his Worship against Communism or the kill-tion in 1911 which made China a had to inquire from police offi ing of a Soviet Commisaar by republic, the annual ceremonies to cers if the constables were to be some infuriated peasants at perpetuate his memory were discharged that morning, an Moscow or Leningrad. But not continued and the study of his Detective Sergeant Baker hav-. one refugee, not one friend classical works discouraged in the ing replied in the negative, the wherever she was known, ever schools. The stoppage was only Magistrate asked the interpreter uttered the name, of Elizabeth short-lived but the recent "Red" to inform the spectatora in Ivanows

teachings all over China have aim-Court. This was done, but the Recently, for the first time ined to bring discredit on Con- Court was only partly emptied years, that name was whispered

fucius,

and most of those who left again in Paris. One of her com- Religion and Philosophy. lintered outside and gradually Wuhu, Yesterday.

The troops disarmed at Lung-

paniona, arriving from Russia, Confucianism is that body of trickled back into the Court. Some of the 6th Army are re-

hwa belong to the 31st Armv. League of Nations at Geneva, is brought the news: Lieutenant teachings culled by Confucius Even a second assurance by the ported to have disarmed some of

Later in the afternoon, 2.000 on a brief visit to Hong Kong Sachartchentso has been shot." from the more ancient sages of Magistrate that the case was not the 27th Army at Ningkwo-fu, men under Li Ming-yang arrived from Canton whence he will re-

China, which was commended and being heard that morning was of Strengthening His Hand.

and these were also disarmed by turn. He was appointed vice- While the politicians are trying Wuhu.

sorne distance to the south-east of the 1st Army The fighting was Minister for Foreign Affairs by

enforced by his teaching and ex-no avail, and the crowd remain- ample and subsequently handed ed until the Court rose at 1 p.m. to evolve a new government at The 27th, 37th and 44th Armies severe and the result is not the Nationalist Government and

CLOUDY WEATHER. down by his immediate disciples Long Service Men. Nanking, Ho Ying-ching has been are reported to be advancing not known yet.

wine returned from Europe to Canton.

to have been, ever since, the It is understood that the con- strengthening his hand in their from, down-river on Wuhu.-Bri-was proceeding to Shanghai under dustrial and Commercial Dally ate; cloudy, Is the official wea-is spoken of both as a religion and ed in Court to-morrow morning, "East winds, fresh to moder orthodoxy of the Chinese race. It stables would be formally charg- rear, namely, in that rich territish Naval Wireless.

orders from General: Bei, Haung- Press" ("Kung Shoung at other forecast until noon to In the Western sense of the are the solicitors for the defence. tory between Nanking and the

Wang Ching-wel for Hankow, chi General Bei will, therefore, Mr. Chu expressed views on morrow.

a philosophy.

and that Messrs. Hall and Hind Chiu Ham-ling in in command have to accept responsibility and China's relations with foreign The anticyclone is now central word, religion is hardly correct as The constables concerned, who

Kiukiang, Yesterday,

it is believed in Shanghai that he Powers, giving it as his opinion over North Korea. The typhoon Confucianism, discourages all be are all Cantonese plain clothes that 1,500 troops, involved in the Wang Ching-wei returned will be also embrolled-Hong that the present treaties will be is shown as a depression to the lief in a Personal God, does not men attached to the Hawkers trouble with the 1st Army belong here on Saturday, visiting Kuling Kong Evening Post substituted not revised, when north-west of Tourane, use prayer except to "luform the Department at Central Station, (the summer resort), and pro- Shanghal, Yesterday ment. Next month Mr. Chu pro received from the Manila Obser leaves personal immortality out of the Police Force and bold res Fight After Parley China is under one stable govern. The following telegram was spirits of important events, and are men of fairly long service in ceeded up-river yesterday.

This afternoon a regiment of poses, to leave Canton for Shang-vatory at 9.15 am September Ita scheme. ported to be retiring into Fukiened to disarm 1,600 troops of the fore proceeding to Nanking Long. E and 17 deg. Let No Whatever may have been Con- department.

General Chang Fah-hui is re- Ho Ying-ching's troops attempt hal where he will stay a while be 21-Typhoon in about 110 deg. Ethles and Government.

sonsible positions under Sergeant province and some of the 9th

Dickson, who is in charge of the Army to Kwangtung province 81st Army travelling from Back to Canton. ** moving West.

Further units of the 6th Army Hangchow to Langhus, when According to a Kuomintang they arrived at Hsinchwang, organ, Mr. Chen Kung-po has to

mouth of the Yangtze, south of the river.

From one source it is learned

to the 91st division under General

Bel Haung-chi, who favours re- conciliation between Nanking and Wu-Han. This general has a good many troops around Shanghai and his 91st division was found for Shanghai from Hangchow to which it is connected by railway.

at Kiukiang.

. It transpires that Li Ming-yang Interviewed yesterday by the “In-

are reported to be moving down miles from Lunghal turned to Canton from Shanghal.

Another Division Disarmed... to Wuhu, through Jaochow-Bri

At the same time, the 98rd divi-tish Naval Wireless sion was going along the Shang- Northerners to Fight? hal-Nanking Railway (away from

Nanking Yesterday Shanghai) from Wusth to Chang- The Nationalist peace, confer chow. This unit was also "sur-ence is nearly concluded and it is rounded by the 1st Army and dis- reported officially to be success armed, says the "Industrial and ful Commercial Daily Préss" (Kung The Northern Army is reported Sheung Yat Po.

to be stiffening. Its resistance

Both the incidents referred to with an armou Strain in the have more bearing on the Shang-vicin For San

haf defence than on the question The outbreak of cholera in sub, of holding Cheklang province, siding.

The inference is that General

welded to make

efinitely, de-

bid for the

and hold

self or för Chiang

fucius's view of the meaning of his teachings, he is very insistent on the importance of sacrificial

- After parleying for two hours, He was the first Nationalet Com- la nominally a subordinate of Gen- rites to the spirits of the dead."-- fighting broke out at 4 o'clock.missioner, for Foreign Affairs at eral Li Chai-sum.

For millions of people Con- Sto nd. No detaile

Hankow and subsequently; umë kostossaThe Big Loan.

fucianism has been a substitute leading

Less has been heard to-day for religion about the "Red" rising in the That Confucius did not have hinterland and vicinity of Blas Byst

losophy Bay The Lerry between Hong Kong and Shanmet (Swabue):s still not

Reuter

SUN TO BLAMED.

Troubles In the Nationalist.

of the WU port Bay Intervie

shortly

such Alla

"'be

strife. His zemedy for was education; not a education, but that of and even these were ited in the first place as

under