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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1928.
LI CHAI-SUM.
MARSHAL RETURNS TO CANTON.
BATTALION OF GUARDS.
A battalion of guards aċ- companied Marshal Li Chal-aum's
of the
"BREMEN” FLIERS.
́"RACIAL ISSUE" CREEPING INTO U.S.A.
ELABORATE PROGRAMME.
.New York, Yesterday, The elaborate programme for the
"The Usual Welcome."
down
of
There will be the usual welcome in New York harbour, accompanied
pears anxious to make a whole- enle clearance of radical profes- sors and students and to curtail the study of social science," and we are not surprised to read fur- ther that "opposition against these drastic measures is voiced in certain sections of the Press, while many educationists are equally opposed." The heads of Kyoto University appear to be passage yesterday along the Chinese reception of the "Bremen" fiera in- taking a decided stand in the mat-section
Canton-Kowloon cludes a formal welcome at the ter and are not only opposing the Railway on the final stage of his City Hall. Forty radio stations have been linked up to broadcast Government's proposal to dismiss return from Nanking to Canton. Professor Kawakami, who seems Vigilance was exercised by the the speeches. After this there will to be notoriously “radical" in his Hong Kong police and detectives be a triumphal procession views and their expression, but when Marahnl Li and his multe em-Fifth Avenue, In the course they also oppose "the expulsion of barked at Queen's. Pier, from which the airmen will lay a wreath radical students and the dissolu- Government House, ол the
on the War Memorial in Madison tion of social science groups till "Victoria" and crossed to Kowloon. Square. thorough investigations have Two special coaches were attached been made." Other sents of | to the afternoon express for use of learning are reported to be tak- Marshal Li. ing a similar stand. All of which Among those who bade goodbye to is not at all surprising, for ob- Marshal Li were Captain A, J. Ly shrieking of ships' siren and viously unless the Government Whyte, aide-de-camp to H, E. the aeroplane manoeuvres.
The racial issue threatens to are absolutely certain that in Governor, the Hon. Dr. R. II. Kote-
with the acting as they are acting inwall C.M.G.. LI.D... Sir Robert Ho develop in connection curbing Communistic tendencies Tung, Mr. Li Yau-taun (chairman great civic welcome to the fliers. then they must not be surprised of the Hong Kong Chinese General The news that Commandant Fitz- that men of progressive or liberal Chamber of Commerce).
maurice has left Greenly' Island outlook must regard their atti- tude as intolerable. If, however, With Marshal Li were General and there are many rumours about the Government are sure that Chen Min-chu (commanding the it. they are striking at those infect- 11th Army), Mr. Chen Min-chu Whereas Quebec reported that ed by that insidious doctrine and her companion, Mr. Lai Man Fitzmaurice, whom bad weather emanating from the fanatics of yam (private secrotary). General had compelled to land at Natosh Moscow then they cannot strike Tang Ka-yin (Chief of Staff) and quan, would await Huhnefeld aud too strongly. But they must be Mr. Leung Sau-mi (member of the Koehl at Quebec, à despatch from certain, as they might easily be Council), who had returned, from Washington avers that Fitzmaurice as tyrannical. as those fantastic Shanghai on the "Sarpedon," Ad-is going there to deliver to Presi- people who prescribe, as &miral Chan Chak, General Chui dent Coolidge a letter from Presi- panacea for all ills, the absurd King-tong (5th Army), Mr. Chudent Cosgrave. doctrine of "equality" and de- Chao-hsin (Foreign Commissioner), rounce.the possession of property General Cheung Wai-cheung as though it were a plague in- (Aeronautical Bureau), Generaled by the wording of the message stead of being, as it most fre- Chan Hing-wan (Principal A.D.C) from Mayor Walker (who is quently is, the indication of a and Mr. Fung Chuk-man (Finance Irish American) to Fitzmaurice: well-ordered, thrifty, serious Commissioner), the latter having "All citizens of New York, minded outlook on life. A tele- come to welcome Marshal Li.
irrespective of race, colour or gram to hand from Japan an- nounces that Prof. Kawakami has
creed, are waiting patiently the arrival of all three of the resigned. An awkward situation
''Bremen' creW." has therefore been avoided; but it does not alter the fact that the Government's policy is by no means as sound as it might be.
9-MONTHS' HARD.
FOR THEFT OF STEAM GAUGE.
CRIMINAL SESSIONS CASE.
Make an ad
Gunboat Not Used.
the
At Samchun, the train went on to the Chinese section where guards boarded.
The decision not to use the gun- boat "Haifu" which came down from Canton yesterday.
alone has astonished New York,
Excilement. Further excitement is occasion-
an
It is believed that powerful Ger-
was made suddenly man-American pressure, in oppori- tion to the predominant Irish poli- ticians, has been brought to bear this
SOLDIER DETAINED. on Mayor Walker to send
message to Fitzmaurice, heading him off till all the fliers сад be welcomed together.
JEWELLER'S WINDOW
BROKEN.
Montreal, Yesterday.
A wireless message from Point Amour states that the "Bremen"
Private C. Hood of "B" Com- pany, King's Own Scottish Border- crs, who was arrested by Detective will resume her flight to New York to-morrow if the propeller is re Sergeant Rozeskwy soon after 10 One of three cases in the Crim- o'clock last night,
A Canadian pilot and paired. is at present inal Sessions calendar came
at Greenly be being detained at Police Head-mechanic remained fore Mr. Justice Wood this morn-quarters for alleged wilfully Island after Fitzmaurice had left, ing when Chan Ngau, who pleaded causing damage at Messrs. J. guilty to the theft of A steam Ullmann's jewellery store in gauge, the property of the Hong Chater-road by throwing stones; Kong Excavation, Pile Driving and and breaking two plate glass in the Construction Company, was aen- show window.
tenced te nine months* hard labour.
to-morrow
я
to assist ih repairs to the "Bremen."
Coates' Greatest Desire.
Paris, Yesterday. Castes in an interview, said that
for such a sentence. It means | that his naval career is absolutely finished, and if he receives half pay he will have but £456 5s. a year to draw. From a perusal of the evidence given at the in- quiries the impression has been gained that. Admiral Collard was a peppery individual and no doubt elderly. So far as the second surmise is concerned, nothing is further from the truth. He is, in fact, but fifty-two years of age. It is in this regard that the sever-
It is understood that Hood will his greatest desire is to attempt the flight from Paris to New York. appear before & Magistrate at the ity of the sentence reveals itself. Of the other two cases, only one Central
He is only waiting for a suitable Magistracy
pinne-Router. Ordinarily, he would have hd-the charge of murder against morning.
The Landing. another eight years' service be- Sudagar Singh (Laichikok murder When a "China Mail" man visit-
St. John's (New Brunswick), fore him, and if he had received case) is likely to necessitate the ed Messrs. Ullmann's premises this
To-day. attendance of a jury. This will morning to inspect the damage, he promotion to Admiral in the be heard on Monday next.
A firsthand account of the "Bre found that two thick plate glasser course of this period, he could At this morning's hearing, Chan were smashed,
men's" landing was given by Miss have stayed in active command Ngau pleaded guilty and Mr. H. S.
They were both situated to the Greta Ferris of the Grenfell Mis- Fitzroy, for the Crown, said pri- right of the entrance of the store the accounts already cabled.
sion. Her detalla correspond with for a further five years.
soner was seen at Yaumati trying The glass next to the entrance had The Board, we observe, confirm to sell something. He was taken a fairly large hole in the centre of respective languages were "Thank The airmen's first words in their Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 18, 1928.ed the sentences upon Captain charge of as a suspect and, in the top portion of the glass, which God!"
Dewar and Commander Daniel answer to questiona, said he had was cracked for some distance and Von Huenfeld, cold and exhaust- ad-in several directions from the sputed, had been toying with a revel- "In order to mark disapproval of got the instrument from an
dreas at Connaught-road where where the glass was broken: their action," as the cable puts work was proceeding. Enquiries
ver in the last stages, fearing that The second plate had two smaller land was unreachable, ready to If that august body, the Board it, and it is added that the sen-
about the centre and the other near last resort. tences do not preclude them from was missing from there.
Prisoner had previous convic- the right edge. This hole was bad- it may be taken for granted that further employment in due course tions, sald Mr. Fitzroy, in reply to ly "starred," whilst the other had
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clicked the fact that a steam gauge holes also near the top, one mishoot his companions and self as a
..
Quebec, To-day.
"Four hundred miles flown in and should suitable vacancies Mr. Justice Wood. They were not several long cracks leading from darkness" was the laconfe comment something tremendous has hap-
occur, This no doubt means of a very serious character.
He it.
of Von Huenfeld in describing, La pened or is about to happen. In
October 27,
The Indian watchman who was a wireless man at Point Amour how the old days nothing less than the that before long both officers will had left prison on
on duty at the time the glass was the fallure of the lighting system imminence of warlike activities be back at similar posts to the 1926.
the Asked if he had anything to say, broken, said that the stones were lon
"Bremen's" instrument was likely to occasion the gather-ones they held aboard
prisoner said that after his dis- thrown with great force from the board on Thursday night pearly.re- "Royal Oak.". If they are not, we charge from prison he was out of opposite side of the road. He saw sulted in disaster. ing together of that imposing.
can foresee a number of questions work for a time and was eventual- two soldiers run immediately after Then dawn brought a blizzard collection of high officials Com-
imme and the machine was blown off He prising the "First Lord," the four being asked both in Parliament ly taken on in connection with the the glass was broken, and Sea Lords, the Civil Lord, the and the Presa at Home. What work of pile driving. The reason diately gave chase, blowing his proper course and brought down dangerously low. "Only with the why he left this work was that the
police whistle. The men the Board has done in a construc-man who employed him "WES |Judge-Advocate and the secre-
ro far as Ice House-street before they greatest difficulty were we able to tive capacity comes at the end of ther excited and rather expedited were stopped by the police.
keep her up." taries, permanent and parliamen-
Clark City, To-day. Fitzmaurice has arrived. tary, The cause of the meeting the message announcing its decimy movements.”
Flight Abandoned.
Montreal, To-day.
ran ns
An old woman, a clansman of JAPAN'S “RADICALS.” | of the Board during the week, sions. We are told that it is care-foner, made an appeal for however, was not such a serious fully reviewing the regulations in leniency and asked His Honour PROF. KAWAKAMI RESIGNS
one, but as to-day's cables inforin connection with the manner in not to send prisoner to prison. us, the results of its deliberations which officers and men have to
will have at least one drastic art when making a complaint
A COAL COOLIE.
UNIVERSITY POST.
It appears that the idea of fly- ing the "Bremen" to New York has abandoned and the three aviators Tokyo, Yesterday. are going to New York by the Professor Kawakami, the radi-quickest route possible.--Reuter's
dismissal was demanded by the Government, has resigned. Reuter.
effect and further far-reaching against anyone of superior rank. CORRESPONDENCE. Cal professor (at Tokyo) whose American Service. effects involving the whole sys-Some such facilities are obvious- tem of naval discipline. Arisingly needed, and the public at large out of what is known as the will await with interest the out- "Royal Oak" affair, the Board come of the Board's deliberations has found that Rear-Admiral in this direction. Bernard St. G. Collard, B.,
D.S.O., was initially to blame for
what happened upon the battle-Radicalism in Japan, - ship in that he dealt with trivial
eauses
To the Editor of the "China, Mail.") Sir, With reference to the con- viction of a coal coolie, at the Kowloon · Magistracy on the 16th inst.,
for larceny of twenty fathoms of Manila rope from the
8.8. "Hakusan Maru," I beg to in
THE GARTER.
'APPOINTMENT OF NEW
KNIGHTS..
London, Yesterday: H.M. the King has approved that
the following be appointed Knights
DO YOU KNOW?
To-day's List of
Little Posers.
From day to day in the "China
The Japanese Government have of dissatisfaction in & evidently received quite a "shake-
form you that the man was not of the Most Noble Order of the manner unbecoming his position, up" as the result of the recent employed by this Company or on Garter:-Earl of Athlone, Govern- Mail" appear half a dozen questions thus showing himself unfitted for wholesale arrests of Communist the Company's premises aa the ar-General of South Africa, Duke of a general nature, for which The sentence sympathisers throughout Japan. report in your paper of yesterday of Abercorn and Lord Desborough, acknowledgment is due to the
They have in consequence adopt fafers.
Yours, etc,
F. H. CRAPNELL,
Secretary.
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LUCRATIVE POST.
NEW YORK BANKER SUCCEEDS JUDGE GARY.
Hoboken, Yesterday.
"Daily Sketch,'” Answers will be found on page 9 of this issue,
1. What shoddy is?
2. When the first. Post Ofice Directory was published?
& Why, the shamrock is the einblem of Ireland?
a high command. of the Board-for that is what ited a policy towards those of amounts to--is that Admirai |“radical” tendencies that might Collard is to be relieved of his very easily do more harm than command and placed on the Re-most recent dictum seems to us, j
good. At least, that is how their
tired List.
looking at it from a purely un- The severity of this decision blased point of view and from
this part of the world. The Japan! Mrs. W. B. Carraby, a member of Mr. Thomas Lamont, partner does not at first meet the eye. It ese Government are, of course, was generally anticipated, after best able to understand what is the Committee of the Philharmonic in J. F. Morgans, has been elect country and class"? the revelations of the courts mar- the best policy to adopt towards Society and an active helper in the ed director of the United States 5 Distinguish between
PAVALARI
their own pantrymmWe read Cantren of the YMCA left to Steel. Corporation replacing the area, however, with no little stquish day when her tmiorer for Hent yo to the Rear Admiral, but we do ment that "the Government ap the Blue Funnel .. "Barpedon." American Service.
4. Which great Public School was founded for boys of every nation,
Into England?
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