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No. 25,777

HONG KONG,

BURNS' MEMORY.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 26,

1928.

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

CANTON OFFICIALS.

Honoured By Local Scots.

STRAINED RELATIONS.

CANTON AND NANKING GOVERNMENT.

CHIANG'S ATTITUDE.

Said To Be Against Present Regime in South.

BIG DEVELOPMENTS IN HUNAN AND KIANGSI PROVINCES.

That relations between the Canton Government and the Na- tionalist Government of Nanking are becoming more strained is evident from a message which proves Chiang Kai-shek to be against the present regime in the South.

Developments in Hunan and Kiangai provinces have occurred, which may have bearing on Canton progress in the near future. The south of Kiangel is believed to be in danger and fighting in the centre of Hunan is mentioned,

The Nanking administration does not seem to be working smoothly if reports of financial stringency be true.

YANGTSZE TROUBLES.

"TROOPS NOT PAID.”

LAST NIGHT'S DINNER.

One Able To Secure Release.

EXTRADITION HITCH.

MONEY LENDING.

.

Question of Public Servants.

HOW FAR PROTECTED?

Impressive Address By "Grand Old Sum Of $1,343,794 Concerned In Interesting Argument In Summary

Man" Of Scottish Community,

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Embezzlement Case,

Court This Morning.

Wong Chong-chi and Chiu Pok- A moneylending case before shan, the two Canton officials, Mr. Justice Wood, Puisne Judge,

Are Safe With Us."-

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NEAR THE FRONTIER.

BANDITS ON KOWLOON BORDER.

TOWNSHIP PILLAGED.

Heavy Fighting On East River.

Freebooters have just pillaged a railway township near the frontier of the New Territories but order was restored by the joint action of the militia and a small garrison of regular troops.

Heavy casualties have been suffered by both sides in a two- days' battle along the upper stretch of the East River, about 200

Who says that Robbie Burns is deid?... Deil blast the loons, but they hae lee'd-for Robin's against whom extradition pro- in the Summary Court this morn- IRONSIDES SUFFER SEVERE LOSSES AND HAVE TO RETREAT. here!

ceedings are being instituted on ing occasioned considerable argu- Last night, in spirit, he was eleven counts of alleged embezzlement between his Lordship and very much here. Local Scots, per- ment between December 27 and Mr. Horace Lo, who appeared for haps with the assistance of 28, 1927 of $1,348,794, the pro- the plaintiff, an Indian named friends of other nations who were perty of the Central Bank of Kantar Singh, a watchman em- present, seemed to put life into Canton, of which they were offi-ployed at Watson's Dispensary; the picture of the Poet which cials, were again before Mr. Kowloon.

Defendant was Mr. T. J. Fallo, hung in the big hall at Volunteer Roger Edward Lindsell at the Headquarters.

Central Magistracy this morning, a warder of the Prison Depart The occasion was the annual Mr. H. G. Sheldon (instructed ment.

The Indian claimed the sum of Burns' Nicht Dinner, arranged by by Mr. W. E. L. Shenton) appear- the Hong Kong St. Andrew's So-ed for the Crown, whilst the alleg. $877.80, allegedly due on three ciety, and the function was full ofed fugitives were represented by promissory notes signed by Falla. all the ceremony and heartfelt en- Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C., and Mr. Interest, according to plaintiff, thusiasm for a man of genius and F. C. Jenkin (instructed by Mr. was at the rate of two per cent. a Brither Scot that characterises M. K. Lo).

per month. Two of the notes the eve of every twenty-fifth of At the opening of the proceed- were signed on November 10, January.

inga, Mr. Sheldon told his Worship 1926 and the other on April 1, that the Crown was not going to, 1927. Plaintiff said he was a re- gistered moneylender and that his address was 44, Nathan Road,

a sermon.

"SOME RAIN."

North-east winds, moderate, generally cloudy, some rain, is the official weather forecast until noon to-morrow."'

Mr. Falla, in the witness box, said he was a prison warder, and

miles from Canton, The net result is that danger of Swatow being invaded has eased and the Ironsides have been forced to retreat.

Newa from the city is that the influential Nationalist Party organ- isation has been made to bend to the will of the Government. Trade difficulties are reported. Following the official campaign against Communism, a number of Red peasants have vanished.

NEWS FROM SWATOW.

Pingwoo, a town on the Canton- | lost their lives in the battle which in reply to His Lordship said that Kowloon Railway (Chinese sec- lasted two days, and also that at the time he signed the first two notes his salary was about $210 tion), not far from the British other high officers have been.

frontier, is reported to have been wounded, per month. When he signed the raided by bandits who were ultim- third note he was getting about ately driven off by the people's $220. In addition he received militia and regular troops (only free quarters, light fuel and

$2,000,000 LOST.

Canton.

End-of-the-year failures in Canton city have been revealed, states the "Wah Keung Po," showing labour union tyranny and the recent Government banknote crisis as the main causes.

Firms which are unlikely to re- open after the holiday include na How Ironsides Were Defeated in tive banks and factories, con-

Interior.

SWATOW SAVED:

There was a memorable address by Mr. R .G. Shewan, "the Grand Old Man of our Scottish Com- munity" As the Rev. Kirk Which way the wind is blowing cable reporting the return to Kiu-Maconachie called him; there was in the atmosphere of Nationalist kiang from Nanking of General very humorous and characteris- politics is evident from a Chinese Chu Pei-teh, a Nationalist army tic toast on behalf of the lassies cable reporting the appointment commander who controls Kiangai. by Wullie Kay; there was an by Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Chu Pei-teh supports himself in shek of two new Generals to com- preference to any clique in the equally humorous reply by Profes- mand of the 46th and 47th Nationalist fold. His return may ber of stories told by the Pastor sor Simpson; there were a num- Armies, respectively. Fang Ting-only be to protect his own pre-of Union Church, and there were ying, who suddenly turned serves, but it is significant that numerous pleasing musical inter-proceed against the second man uniform. There were no other handful in the garrison) from Reported New Year Fallures in

Canton; but not before the rob- against General Li Chai-sum and trouble to the north of Kwang-ludes. Altogether Burns' Nicht (Chiu), as they were satisfied allowances. He had no desire, he bers had got away some loot and the Canton Government a few tung is expected. The Ironsides

that he is not a national of China. said, to raise the Public Servanta cattle. Pingwoo is best known to was fittingly celebrated, weeks ago, and incidentally left and General. Fang Ting-ying's

Chiu was accordingly discharg-Liability Ordinance as a defence Hong Kong as the home town of Kwangtung with his following of ecmmand, both opposed to Can-subject-theme should gang

Good fellowship determined the:

ed by his Worship.

and did not wish to dispute the the late Hon. Mr. Lau Chu-pak, troops, is one of those appointed. ton, are likely to enter the south and, to paraphrase the Poet, it

Dealing with the case against liability in any way.

C.M.G. It is apparent that Chiang Kai- | of Kiangsi at any moment.

Question of Protection. shek is trying to rally around him

turned out more of a sang than Wong, Mr. Sheldon said in reply

to his Worship that the extradi-i His Lordship then asked Mr. those unfavourable to Canton,

The Loyal Toast was given by tion requisition from Canton had Lo to show whether defendant thereby further widening the

Mr. D. Templeton, President of not yet arrived, but with his Wor-was not protected by the Ordin- breach.

the Hong Kong St. Andrew's So-ship's consent and that of Counsel ance in question.

Mr. Lo said his contention was ciety, who presided at the dinner, for the fugitive, he proposed to and a splendid meal, provided by open the case pending the arrival that defendant was not entitled Troops in several Nationalist the Hong Kong Hotel, followed.of the requisition. He said that to be protected by the Cram Armies have not been paid · for

The haggis was brought in ac- there was nothing to suggest that! His Lordship: I have asked you of desperate actions fought be Bringing Pressure to Bear, Rome time, states a cable to hand cording to custom, Mr. A. McLeod the procedure was irregular in, to do it.

fore China New Year in the in- General Li Chaï-sum's adminis- from the North.

bearing the steaming dish, Piper law. However, he would open his Mr. Lo: If defendant had had terior of Kwangtung province, tration has apparently brought Difficulties in the Nationalist Nesbit of the Volunteers supply case only on the understanding counsel it would be for me to re- paucity of news at the time hav-pressure to bear on a political in- Treasury are mentioned. Mr. ing appropriate music and Mr. B. that the fugitive's Counsel would ply to this point if it was raised. Ing led to rumours of a march by stitution in Canton which has not T. V. Soong, the Minister of Wylie holding aloft the Barley not take exception afterwards

His Lordship: I am raising it. the Ironsides on the port of been sympathetic." The city Finance and brother-in-law of Bree.

Every man at the Presi- with regard to irregular pro-I have asked you.

Swatow.

branch of the Kuomintang is the Mr. Lo: My contention is that It now seems fairly definitely organisation referred to. A num- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, is dent's table took his sup and kiss-cedure.

A telegram, Mr. Sheldon, added, it is up to defendant to show he is established that the Ironsides' ber of radicals hold office and they reported to have been ordered to ed the qualch 'midst the applause raise another $12,000,000 by loans of the company.

had been received from the Bri- protected by the Ordinance.

force has been spent and imme- I have opposed General · LI Chai- tish Consul-General in Canton to] His Lordship: It doesn't mat-diate danger to the Kwangsi sum's policy. It is now announced the effect that the extradition ter now whether he is or not. $8,000,000 will be immediately. The excellent Bill o' Fare was as the hands of the Hong Kong Gov-long as your Lordship will bear in Government at Canton has been shortly and a drastic change made warrant may be expected to be in, Mr. Lo: Well, I am willing so faction and General Li Chai-sum's that new officers will be elected

In the policy of the city branch.

Red Peasants Fise. Further news about the Bed

HALF WAY DOWN.

Hankow Nationalists Going Southward.

Shanghai, Yesterday. Japanese reports state that the Nationalist armies of Wu-Han defeated the Hunanese army at Pinghsiang on Jan. 23, forcing back General Ho Chien and Liu Hsiang (of Hunan) towards Changteh.

The 6th and 18th Nationalist armies are expected to enter Changsha to-day. Reuter,

[Note: Changsha is a port on the Siang River, a tributary of the Yangtsze. As the crow flies, it is just about half of the 500 miles between the northern boun- dary of Canton's domains and Hankow Changsha was the first important capture for Chiang Kai-shek when he first set out to conquer the North. Now the Na- tionalists are fighting back in the southward direction, with Hunanese army opposing them.]

KIÁNGSI TROUBLE?

Nationalist General Back to

Investigate.

Difficulties in Nationalist Treasury.

in Shanghai but, the message

continues, it is expected that only

Available.

TREATY MISSION.

"Unofficial" Nationalist's Now Abroad.

Shanghai, Yesterday.

follows:

The Bill O' Fare.

Ellisland Broth Nithside Salmon Steak Mauchline Chicken Haggis Warm-Reekin'-Rich

"Ab Ilaggia”—(Suddenly) "Eh, I'll be bad the morn" Ayrshire Roast Beef Cottar's Grena and Potatoes Greenock Dumplings Edinburgh Dessert Coffee The Barley Bree

WI merry sangs an' friendly cracks,

m.nd that the onus is on the de- fendant.

His Lordship: That point le not material now.

tinues the report. Amounts in- sevolved are stated to total Light is how thrown on a series | $2,000,000.

removed,

The scene of the fighting was the upper reach of the East River, about 200 miles or so east of Can-plot which was nipped in the bud ton city.

prior to China New Year is that, in addition to the forty men cap- Heavy Casualties. Hemmed in on both sides, the tured in the environs of. Canton

ernment by to-morrow.

Discharge Asked For. Mr. Potter submitted that if ever there was a case which came

Material Point. under section 8 of the Extradition Ordinance, the case before the

Mr. Lo then dealt with sub- Court was it. He suggested that sections of Section Three of the in the absence of the requisition, Ordinance 10 of 1917, to the Ironsides battled so tenaciously by the Police Commissioner's Canton Government bodyguards, there were a number A party of fifteen Chinese,

his Worship should use his dis effect that no action shall be that the headed by Dr. C. C. Wu and

cretion and discharge the fugitive, maintained against public ser-forces, although victorious in the of armed Peasants' Corps, hover: Mr. Sun Fo, on December 30 sailed

who was arrested on January 6 vants upon certain conditions end, suffered very heavy casual-ing about in a village for the zero. hour to attack Canton. Troops by the "President Wilson” .on a'

for an ordinary offence committed being fulfilled and that certain ties. M

despatched Cook's tour round the world for

In the end, the Ironsides were and Police were. the purpose

in the Colony, but it was obvious provisions only applied to public unofficially to mediate on the revision of the so-

that his arrest was made at the servants receiving more than overcome and their losses are against the village but the Red Counsel pointed such that retreat is the only peasants, it is now learned, had I wat we will na weary, called unequal treaties and to

suggestion of Canton. Obviously $200 a month.

fied beforehand. Prior to the commencement of Canton was in the possession of out that defendant had admitted course possible now.

On the weat (i.o., between the open treaty negotiations with the repast, Grace was said by the sufficient information on January that at the material dates his countries that at present have no Rev. J. Kirk Maconachle.

Ironsides and Canton), General Li 5 to communicate with the local salary was over $200 a month. relations with China. The dele-

The whole point, continued Mr. Chal-sum had one army. On the AN APT REBUKE. police and put the law in motion down here, and yet there is no ex-Lo, was whether on the material cast of the Ironsides were planation offered for the delay dates defendant was receiving a column of Li Chai-sum's troops in sending down the requisition, salary of over $200 a month. from Swatow and other allied

Counsel suggested that it was This was all that His Lordship, units. for his Worship to bring it home was entitled to determine, because Wounded's Appalling. Conditions. According to a Chinese re- to Canton that if they would not beyond that, they did not know. It

port, 800 wounded have been Chieftain and Gentlemen, act expeditiously, the Court would would be most arbitrary that a

sent down to Swatow and con- We are

met to-night to cale- not wait for them. Mr. Patter certain portion should be deemed

ditions in field hospitals are brate the birthday of a great man inquired if there was any ground to be allowances. COMDR. HARTFORD. whom we are proud to claim as our for his Worship not to discharge

Non Suited.

appalling as the medical corps After further argument His is hopeless in the face of such countryman, a man who had miafor the fugitive. He pointed out that! tunes great and sma', but are a if the fugitive was discharged the Lordship, in summing up, said the abnormal casualties.

Reports reaching Hong Kong heart abune them a. As the spae prosecution have their own review which he had hitherto held, wife on that 25th January, 1769, medy by re-arresting him after and which he still held, was that make out that many field officers Readers of the Home magazines foretold, in very plain language, he the arrival of the requisition. It the additional payment to which and two or three general officers and hond of the Argentine dele-will be interested to hear that a certainly had a weakness for the was not an easy matter for any-a public servant became entitled gation to the Pan-American Con- well-known local resident, Commen- ference, has announced that the

of 24 hours, delegation will not sign any con-der G. E. Hartford, D.S.O., R.N. asses, but he was not the only one one to get out of the Colony in

and he points out himself that the the short space of

Trouble in the south of Kiangsigation booked to Colombo and is province, near the boundary with planning a month's tour of India the Canton Government's and is possibly visiting Afghanis domains, is hinted in an overnight tan, Irak and Persia, and thence to Turkey and Europe, after which they will go to America.— Reuter.

HIGH TARIFFS.

PROTEST BY ARGENTINE AMBASSADOR.

Havana, Yesterday.

Mr. Honarlo Pueyrredon, Argen-

tine Ambassador in Washington

not abolishing, the high tariffs be- tween American commerce.

Wifexico has a fed herself with

the Argentina proposals.-Reuter's American Service,

LOCAL RESIDENT AS AUTHOR.

G. B. Hartford, and I believe he is

SEX.

MR, R. G. SHEWAN,

Toast To Immortal Memory.

RUBBER COMBINE.

4

It PROSPECTUS OF ANGLO-JAVA

COMPANY.

London, Testerday.

COOLIDGE · AND THE WAR JINGOES.

BUCKET OF COLD WATER.

New York, Yesterday.. President Coolidge's statement is featured in the Press as a very apt rebuke to Vice-Admiral Plunkett's war warninga. AR

The "New York World," in an editorial, says: "There is very worldly horsesense about the re- buke, which is more devastating than indignation. President Coolidge pours the feiest bucket of cold water down the spine of Jingoism that has been poured for a long time."Reuter's American. Service.

AFGHAN ROYALTY.

BRILLIANT RECEPTION IN

WERPARISAESAT

in the nature of an allowance and ander general order No. 101 was

vention for the reorganisation of (Commander of the Hong Kong wisest man the world ever saw Time Not Long tive pay It was an allowance was not in the nature of substan- the Pan-American Union which Police Reserva) has a series of shared that weakness with him, so Mr. Sheldon binted out that that could only be drawn while the does not provide for the study of stories starting in the February in face of that we humber mortals the crime was alleged to have servant was in the Colony. ways and means of reducing, if number of the "Royal Magazine." must keep silence and leave these been committed on December 28. was quite distinct from any salary

In announcing the fact the Edi- greater men to their bonnes for To-day was only January 26 so quoted in the schedule as attach for of the publication says: "A tunes or misfortunes with the other that less than a month had elapsed to a permanent appointment. great discovery. He la Commander

ed. Besides, extradition proceed For these reasons he was of the

The prospectus of the Anglo- With men or women our hero's ings were started less than opinion that the substantive pay Java Rubber Company detalls the another W. W. Jacobs. For this heart always ruled his head, and fortnight ago, and in view of the at all material-times was less than reason I have secured his new wall, he knew it. For while he fact that the requisition docu- $200, exclusive of allowances, acquisition of a large group of series. The Adventures. ✨ of÷Mr.|

the issuing price of which Bart the Comments friend, he ends up by hoping that tic channels, the time which had protection provided under the is six shillings per share, are two Barton......Commander Hartford gives excellent advice to a young ments had to go through diploma that the defendant was within the properties in Malaya. The shares knowledge is first-hand, and, be he may better reck the rede than elapsed was not unduly long. In Public Servants Liability Ordin shillings, each The vendors have

fact, he asked his Worship if he ance, 1917, and that being so the the option to subscribe for these The King and Queen of cause he le a British safler, humour ever did the adviser.

knew of an extradition case in court was without jurisdiction to up to 600,000 shares at six still-Afghanistan have arrived in which the Crown had been ready entertain the action.

ings and have a similar option on | Paris, being solemnly received by to start in less then 14 days Plaintiff was non-suited with a further 400,000 shares as part M. Doumergue, the Ministers, and

In reply, Mr. Potter put the costar

i would present Issue, but the option given warmly cheered by the crowd question to his Worship in the

CHILEAN OILA"

CONCESSIONS ASKED TO BE SUSPENDED.

New York, Yesterday. adorns his stories. His first book A report from Santiago de Chile was published last year and the says that the Minister of Finance" "Observer" eritic wrote of it: Mr has asked Congress to enact a law Barton is worthy to rank with Kíp- suspending all petroleum concesing's immortal Fyecroft r

that the

Bions in Chile. A deputy has draft-Commander Hartford, as a mat- ed a Bill providing Chilean Government should study tor of fact, is now on the Retired

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PRESS TRIBUTES.

Paris, Yesterday!

consideration for underwriting the the local authorities. They were

to the public who subscribe for debentures is eight#shillings per share till March 1, 1985. The value of the propertys sy based on an average: selfing

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A series of brilliant ceremonies has been arranged,

The papers publish, a'enlogy Afghan friendship and-