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JAPAN SUFFERS.

TROOPS INJURED IN THE NORTH.

OVER 30 CASUALTIES.

Southern Forces Reported To Have Run Amok.

NORTHERNERS DISARMED AT TSINGTAO.

More than thirty of the Japanese expedition at. Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, including four officers, have become casualties in what appears to be desultory fighting with Southern Chinese troops who also suffered numerous casualties. Reuter indicates that hostile activities are becoming more serious and another report states that the Southern troops' had "run amok and were firing and looting indiscriminately."

Trouble caused by Northern troops is spreading eastward from·| Tsinan and 2,000 of these men are said to have been disarmed by the Japanese at Tsingtao.

Nothing untoward has been reported from Chefoo, which is to the north of Tsingtao. The "China Mail" learns that H.M.S. "Foxglove" is proceeding to Wei-hai-wei, which is close to Chefoo, but her departure from Hong Kong may only be a part of the annual Flect migration to the North during the

summer.

"FOXGLOVE"

Tokyo, Yesterday.

Despatches from Tientsin and

GOES. NORTH,

TSINGTAO TROUBLE.

from Tsingtao state that fighting Japanese Expedition Establishes between Chinese and Japanese at Tsinan is growing more serious.

+

A Cordon.

BSTABLISHE

1846

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928.

AERIAL TOLL.

Disasters In Ú.S.A.

Last Year.

PILOTS' BLUNDERS.

164 Fatalities And Accidents Recorded.

"CAPPY RICKS.”

Robert Dollar Coming To Hong Kong.

DUE IN A WEEK,

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

THE "BIG NOISE."

Feng Yu-Hsiang Dis- places Chiang.

HIS DIRECTING MIND.

"Your Eyes Are Safe With Us,”.

N. LAZARUS

Hong Kong's Only European Optician. (Established Over Forty Years). Manager:-RALPH A... COOPER, 'M.A.0. Registered Optometrist by Canadian Govt. Exam. (Personal Attention).

PEAT FIRES.

Dutch Disaster Reported.

ENORMOUS DAMAGE.

HOTEL TRAGEDY.

Sensational Affair In Canada,

ATTEMPT TO ARREST.

named

Accompanied By Wife And Two Foreign Opinion In Peking Said To Several Million Florins' Worth Of Constable Shot: Another Injured:

...Nieces.

Favour "Christian General,”

Peat Destroyed.

Escape Foiled. Washington, Yesterday. "Cappy Ricks," the hero creat- | It is officially stated that 164 ed by Peter Kyne is due to arrive suppressed Chiang Kai-shek as the districts of the province of man Maker and a man

Peking. Feng Yu-halang has

Amsterdam, Yesterday. Extensive peat firea in the fen A police constable named Nor-

Toronto, Yesterday. fatalities and aviation accidents in Hong Kong a week from to- "big man" in the Nanking Govern Drenthe have caused

day.

ment, in the opinion of many for-

several David Montgomery, whom Maker eign observers in Peking. Recent million florins' worth of peat to was arresting, were both killed He is, as many know, the developments are cited to show be already destroyed, Dwellings after an exchange of shots in an veteran shipowner, lumber-miller that Marshal Feng is now the chief in the affected area have had to hotel at Peterborough, Ontario. and merchant, the millionaire directing force of the "Northern be evacuated. There have been Police officer Stewart was wound.. Captain Robert Dollar, the head Expedition" and of the military no fatalities-Reuter. of the Dollar shipping and other group. interests. According to the latest has greater influence than Chiang,

It is reported here that Feng now JAPANESE CABINET. NEW YORK BANKER DIES advice, Captain Dollar is to ar

AT DESK.

RESIGNATION OF THE HOME

occurred in the United States in 1927, of which 48 per cent, were owing to blunders by pilots.—| Reuter's American Service.

SUDDEN CALL.

MR. ALVIN KRECH,

New York, Yesterday. Mr. Alvin Krech, the well- known international banker and Chairman of the Equitable Trust Company has died suddenly at his office.-Reuter's American Ser- vice.

[Mr. Krech who was born in Hannibal, Missouri, in May, 1858, was originally engaged in flour milling, contracting and railroads. He had been associated with the Equitable Trust Co. since 1903. He was also identified with a large number of other commercial con- cerns.]

Paotingfa. From Hokienfu the projected defence line will run due south, across the provincial boundary into the north of Shan- There have been numerous

tung, to Tehchow, which is about casualties on both sides. The The Shantung railway region 75 miles from Hokienfu. From Japanese already have four offi- has been greatly disordered by Tehchow, the line down to the cers and thirty men wounded. the routed Northern troops, parti-Yellow River (due south) is about Reuter.

Troops "Run Amok.”

A report quoted in the British Naval wireless said that the Southern troops in Tsinan had run amok and were firing and loot- ing indiscriminately, also that there was danger of a clash with Japanese troops.

Disturbances Continue..

Shanghai, Yesterday,

175 Miles Long.

In other words, the Northern-

cularly at Weihsien where looting 50 miles. has broken out. The Japanese authorities are considering mea- sures for the protection of Japan-ers propose to hold a line running ese residents.

from north-west to south-east,

rive from Shanghai by the "Pre-with fully 70 per cent of the im- sident Grant" on May 11.

portant leaders at Nanking, and that he can gain greater co-opera- Captain Dollar's stay in Hong tion from Hankow and from Gov-

The fact that the Japanese about 175 miles long as the crow Kong will be too brief, but it is expedition established a cordon 12 flies. miles around Tsingtao with 2.000, troops resulted in the mainten-Pukow Railway and the Grand for Manila by the "President As Tehchow is on the Tientsin-not the first time that he has. come here. He will probably sail ance of order and in subduing Canal goes north near Tehchow, Grant" at 6 pm. on May 12. Tokyo, Yesterday. 2,000 troublesome Northerners, the Northerners will have inside According to a Japanese War who after, demanding $250,000 or the territory which they indicate Office despatch, Japanese troops otherwise they would loot the they will attempt to hold, the at Tainan have collided with city, have been disarmed and most northerly portions of the Dollar and his two charming Southern troops who are looting shipped to North China. It is re-king-Hankow Railway, the nicces, the Misses Dickson, who the Japanese stores. The dis- ported that the Japanese are con- Tientsin-Pukow Railway and the turbances are continuing-Reu-sidering the taking over of the Grand Canal, in addition, of

ter.

Earlier Hopes.

JAPAN CASUALTIES.

control of Tsingtao for three course, to the lines running out of months pending the return to a Peking to Manchuria and else- Inormal situation.-Reuter. where, which are not in the war

zone

Trouble at Weihsien.

Chiang Kai-shek.

Shanghai, Yesterday, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek

Tokyo, Yesterday. Though details are lacking, it Is believed the disturbarices at [Note: Weihsien is east of Tai- Tsinan are of a minor character, nan, on the railway to Tsingtao, as earlier official and unofficial on the coast. From Weihsien, a despatches report occasional loot-road of sorts branches off the has arrived at Tsinan with 20,000 railway to the northern coast of Nationalist troops and is prepar- Shantung peninsula, down to Che-ing to advance northward to foo, etc.]

Tehchow-Reuter. Tsingtao, Yesterday. Canton Man's Surrender. Welhsien has been plunged into

Tsingtao, Yesterday. confusion by the entry of dis- The Cantonese General Liu organised Northern troops. The Chih-liu of the Northern Army in Japanese are considering mea-Shantung, who has fallen back to sures to protect the 41 Japanese Fangtze with 10,000 Northern residents there.--Reuter.

troops, has gone over to the Na Naval wireless says that the

A report quoted in the British tionalists.-Reuter. 2,000 Northern troops at Tsingtao in Hong Kong as Lau Chee-luk. [Note: Liu Chih-liu is known were disarmed.

He was Governor of Swatow some years ago.]

Five Killed And 20 Wounded.

CIVILIANS TOO.

Shanghai, To-day. Japanese reports from Tsinan state that the fighting at Tsinan was quelled by the joint efforts of the Japanese and Chiang Kai-shek after hours, in which the Japanese military casualties were âve kill- ed and 20 wounded.

In addition

seven

many Japanese

Munitions' For The South.

Manila, Yesterday.

Two Charming Nieces.

ernor Yen of Shansi, the chief al- Hes of Nanking in their fight against Peking.

Honan Gatherings.

MINISTER.

PREMIER'S ATTITUDE,

Tokyo, Yesterday." The Home Minister has formally

Tokyo, May 4.

ed.

Montgomery was shot while at- tempting to escape. - Reuter's American Service.

BUDGET SCENE.

HOW MR. SAMUEL'S LITTLE LAPSE OCCURRED.

London, Yesterday,

It is reliably learned that Mar-tendered his resignation to the MR. CHURCHILL'S ILLNESS. shal Feng has gathered in Honan Premier, who, it is understood, will perhaps the largest groups of re- take no action till the Diet Session turned students working for any is over lest it be considered that military leader in China

The trouble in the House of he regards the accusations against Commons yesterday evening was to-day. These men, educated in the Unit- the Minister as justified.

due' to Mr. Samuel's reluctant ac- ed States and Europe, are helping Premier Temporarily Assumes Feng to organise the civil govern-

ceptance of the reduction in ex- Portfolio. ment which the Marshal apparent-

cise duty on Home made lighters, ly expects to institute in the pro-j The Home Minister's resigna- touched. The Opposition, includ

while leaving the import duty un- vinces now controlled by Chang tion has been accepted by the ing the Liberals, characterised Tso-lin.

Premier (Baron Tanaka) who has this as a violation of Mr. Bald- It is obvious here that Chang temporarily assumed the portfolio win's "no backdoor 'protection" Tso-lin's generals regard Marshal in addition to that of minister for pledge. Feng as their most dangerous op- Foreign Affairs which he already ponent, and that they are eager to halda. It is expected that there for a Financial Secretary to alter It is an unprecedented action eliminate him.

The opinion is will be a general reorganisation of the Budget in the Chancellor's growing here that Feng may be the Cabinet after the diet of the absence, and it was this which able to succeed in driving Chang Session when separate Home and eventually led to the withdrawal back to Mukden and to regain con- Foreign ministers will probably of the amendment. trol of Peking. In such an event, be appointed,--Reuter.

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It is now believed that Feng and

Press.

not Chiang Kai-shek, would be the dominant figure in China-United EGYPT'S POLITICS.

RESIGNATION OF MINISTER OF FINANCE.

PUBLIC SPIRIT, HAKKA VILLAGER ARRESTS

THIEF.

THE VACANT PORTFOLIO.

Mr. Winston Churchill, Chan- cellor of the Exchequer, has been ordered a complete rest. He is forbidden to see anyone on busi-

nesa,

Versatile Mr. Churchill. [During the course of his long and varied career the Hon. Wins. ton Churchill has been singularly free of illness. He is merely 54 Cairo, Yesterday.

years old as statesmen's ages Mohamed CADI'S COMMENDATION,

Mahmoud Pasha, are regarded, quite a youngish Minister of Finance, has resigned man! A soldier as well as a For the theft of a long coil of Mahmoud Senior, Vice-President the Army as long ago as 1895. In on the ground of ill-health and statesman, Mr. Churchill entered With Captain Dollar is Mrs. wire and brass fittings from one of the Liberal Party, will there- that year he served with the of the houses under construction fore have a portfolio, which must Spanish forces in Cuba and was at Kowloon Tong, a Chinese was be offered to the Liberals if the awarded the 1st Class (Spanish) sentenced to three months' hard present Coalition Government is Order of Military Medal. Subse labour at the Kowloon Magistracy to be maintained-Reuter. this morning, before. Mr. Schofield. The accused was ar-j rested by a Hakka in old Kowloon Tong village.

YANGTSZE BOYCOTT

Chinese Soldiers And A Jardine Steamer.

Chinese from the

OUR PICTURES:

FEATURES IN SATURDAY'S

ISSUE.

ILLUSTRATED NEWS,

quently he served with the Bri- tish Army in India and South Africa, in the latter coun- try combining his military duties with that of cor- respondent for the London "Morning Post." It was while acting in the latter capacity that he was captured by the Boers, bat

Inspector, Phillips, giving evid- ence, said that at about 1 p.m. yesterday afternoon, the Hakka Chungking, Yesterday. villager met defendant in Kow- Aoldiers, under ordera loon Tong village, and seeing a local Boycott. Society, threatened to remove the cargo on rather large and suspicious-look- In addition to our usuni Satur-the resourceful "Winston" aoon the British 5.6. "Kingwo," which had ing parcel under defendant's arm, day features which include i escaped. At the outbreak of the been handled by the crew of the asked what it contained. ship. British Naval Wireless.

Brass Chung-yin'a" "Review of things World War, he was First Lord of

the fittings and a coll of wire were Chinese" and "Is Presumably, the boycott agitators then produced, defendant admit- to-morrow's

Admiralty. He has attempted to prevent discharge, putting he had stolen them from a "China Mall" will the crew landed the cargo

however, occupied many Cabinet The

posts, being brilliant in them threat by the soldiers to "remove" house in Kowloon Tong. The first of

all. Also he is one of the first of notes biographers and historians of the

Chungking is a Treaty Port, over

Co.

The British ss. "Kingwo" is own ed by the Indo-China S.N. (Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co.,

Ltd.).

issuc

That So?"

of contain

the the

Д series

the

or "unload" (as the despatch saya) villager then arrested the thief, by a writer whose work has fre- day. His versatility may partly must be in the nature of a reprisal. and took him to Shamshaipo quently appeared in these columns be accounted for by the fact that 1,400 miles up the Yangtze River, Police.

Our Picture Page will show his mother, Lady Randolph Chur- the farthest from the sea.

When the Police inspected the the house in question, it was found teams first and second elevens New Yorker.]

University . Cricket Club chill, was born in America-a only $10 worth of material was beth stolen, but the damage sustained Fanling

League champions; THE NEW LINE.

Hunt "pack" in so doing is estimated at $100. breather in

Remaining Resolutions Passed, taking the course of His Worship commended the a recent meeting; various Chinese

London, Later. Northerners' Plans For

The Norwegian

The House of Commons have Defence.

steamer are not strangers to the Far East Hakka for his public spirit, add-personalities, including a new pic-confirmed the remaining Budget "Vale," formerly the "Gerisal," because they accompanied their ing that if there were more men ture of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-resolutions, and the Finance Bill has arrived here carrying a ship-uncle on a previous journey. Peking, Yesterday. load of munitions consigned to the!

like him, in the world there would shek, and a number of interesting has passed its first reading.— foreigners are reported to have A spokesman of the Ankuo-Chinese Nationalists, including that so far no function has been

The "China Mail" understands he hardly any crime. suffered, but no details are avail-chun Government, interviewed by 3,000 cases for Shanghai and arranged by his many friends in an employee of a contractor at The defendant was stated to be Reuter, stated that the loss of 2,000 cases for Amoy.-Reuter. Shantung province would not

the Colony. The intention is that Mongkok. he will spend the day or so here affect the Ankuochun plans,

without any hard and fast pro-1 | Reuter

[Note: "Ankuochun" is

įgramme. name adopted by the administra- tion functioning in Peking, Chihli province, a little of Shantung, and Manchuria. Marshal Chang. Tso-lin is the head.]

residents were killed and other

Rble:

Chinese casualties are estimat

ed at 800, while a thousand were disarmed by the Japanese troops. -Reuter,

Latest cables: From Dairen:

A mixed

brigade of 2,000 Japanese troops

has been ordered to Tsingtao.

From Tokyo: The Cabinet hos decided to despatch a brigade from Korea to Dairen in rendi-

ness for a dash to Tsingtao if

necessary.

Strenuous Endeavour.

Shanghai, Yesterday,

the

LUNGHWA BOMBED.

Rald By The Northern Airmen.

in the

Reuter.

MORE SHOCKS OCCURRING

local views.

During the Week, During the week the "China BALKANS' 'QUAKES. Mail" has maintained its up-to-date service of illustrated newa. respected by the Chinese. When Amongst the pictures used since

AT CORINTH." In Shanghai, addressing the the first announcement of his Monday have been those of Prince American Chamber of Commerce, latest tour was made, some of the Carol, reported to have mysterious-

STORM AND HAIL. Shanghai, Yesterday;

Captain Dollar spoke confidently vernacular papera referred to him ly disappeared from Paria; Lord

as "The Friend of China." on foreign trade in China.

Birkenhead and King Fund, in con- ! There was a commotion here

Chinese Decorations.

nection with According to a report from

the ultimatum to

London, Yesterday. at noon to-day when two

One of his lesser known gifts Egypt; Princess Victoria, sister of'

Disturbances still continue in Bero Manila, he will look into shipping was a substantial amount to the the ex-Kaiser, and her new hus- planes and one seaplane, believed conditions

the Balkans. A message from Philippine to be from the Northern cruiser Islands and take a trip to the Chinese, Y.M.C,A, in Wuchang, band, one time a Russion dancer; which were strong, from Corinth Athens reports six shocks, two of drawing from all fronts, including the International, Settlement in

The Northern armies are with- "Haichi," off Woosung, flew over Dollar Line branch office at Cebu. when the late Siao Yin-nan was Chief Justice, William Taft, of the yesterday. More houses collaps the Shansi province and the the direction of Kiangnan Arsen-1

tuchun there and a great friend U.S. Supreme Court; the late Mr. ed, and the Struma overflowed ex- Birth in Scotland. south-west of Chihli province. al and dropped four bombs, with

and admirer of Captain Dollar. He may stay in the Philippines Captain Dollar has taken part other day; Sir Rennell Rodd, when areas at Seres. At Demir Hissar Lee Hysan, who was murdered the tensively, inundating cultivated, ing but that friendly relations They are strenuously endeavour heavy explosions in the vicinity for a week and then sail on the in delegations to the Emperor of he captured the Marylebone have been established between tending from Faotingfu to Ho- tion, and another among the Wilson" to return to America China who, like the first Pre-Duce Mussolini, accompanied by At Constantinople there was a

ing to consolidate a new front ex- of Shanghai south railway sta-round-the-world liner: "President Japan and the last Emperor of stituency in the by-election; il dered homeless.

con- nearly 8,000 families were ren- the Japanese and the Southern Klenfu and then to Tehchow and Nationalist warships anchored off via Europe and the Atlantic, authoritics-Reuter.

Undisciplined Southerners.

down to the Yellow River. The the arsenal,

sident, Yuan Shih-kal, conferred Born in a little home above a a decoration on him.. President an interview by Viscount Rother violent earthquake shock lasting Tokyo. Yesterday. centre of this line is protected by The machines returned to their lumber firm's office in Falkirk, Li Yuan-hung, shortly after be mere; the hon. Elsie Mackay, who ten seconds at midnight, while a.. The latest War Office despatch extensive marshes. Reuter.

base scatheless.

Scotland, Captain Dollar was ing elected, sent Captain Dollar a lost her life in Capt. Hinchliffe's message from Bukharest states states that the situation in Tsinan

Position Explained.

Two women and two cows were taken from school when only cable expressing a desire for mystery flight; Governor Al Smith, that a hurricane swept Klausen- does not allow of optimism as This line is longer than the one injured.-Reuter..

twelve years of age. The family friendship.

of New York, accompanying, news burg during the May Day celebra- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is at first projected, which was only

Damage Unknown. moved to Canada a year later. At An outstanding figure of of the primary elections in tion. Hailstones the size of eggs unable to control the undisciplin- to extend down to Tehchow and

Shanghai, Yesterday. fourteen, Captain Dollar was energy, Captain Dollar goes down America; Sir Samuel Hoare, who killed six and injured ten others. ed Southerners, who are looting not down to the Yellow River. Northern seaplanes are report-cook'a boy in a camp 200 miles to the Dollar Line office in San opened the new air port at Croydon Reuter. i. and firing from houses in various Paotingfu (in Chihli), on the ed to have bombed the Lunghwa from civilisation. Since then Francisco on all working days, ex during the week; and Mr. Sun Fo, parts of the city. It is intimated Peking-Hankow Railway, is about (Arsenal) neighbourhood to-day, there have been many stages of cept when he la away, and in spite son of the late Sun Yat-sen, who that the firing is against both 90 miles south-west of Peking, but the extent of the damage la progress in a romantic career of all attempts to induce him to declares he is calling at Hong Kong kitchen range will soon be a thing. The wasteful open fire and Japanese and Chinese though this Roklenfu is also in Chihli -- and unknown British Naval Wire-Well-known and liked all over the serve the sword in his or not dumnitely suited. Keuter, Tuvour: "vu "mnes "Boutifcant or least

"Tworio, Captain Dollar in highly colleagues.

Horrocks,

Ana and Land Can

Nanking.