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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1928.

No. 25,864

SOLO FLIGHT.

FIGHT RESTARTS.

SOUTHERNERS ATTACK JAPANESE,

CHINESE AGGRESSORS.

Severe Engagement Follows Breaking of Truce.

NORTHERNERS CONTEMPLATE ACTION AT TSINAN,

After a brief interval, fighting has again broken out at Tsinan, the captial of Shantung province, between the few thousands of troops in the Japanese Expeditionary Force there, and the Southern soldiers who captured the city from the Northerners last week.

The fighting, states, Reuter, is severe. An arrangement had been made between the respective commanders but the Chinese are alleged. in spite of this, to have attacked Japanese on guard duty.

To complicate matters, the Northern units contemplate a : on Tsinan. A Northern acroplane which had been apanese Settlement has been brought down.

counter-at' bombing Ul.

A Tokyn War Office report gives details of the number murder- The ed, wounded and missing and, the number of houses looted. estimate tends to show that first reports were exaggerated.

Anti-Japanese propagandu is spreading all over China, and Japanese are evacuating Wuhu, on the Yangtze River.

NEW CASUALTY REPORT.

Manning Crashes

En Route.

FLIER. UNHURT,

Not So Lucky As Hinkler In Australian Attempt.

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Homs is in Syria, and is an im- portant point on the trade route.] RUSSIA & POLAND.

OUR UNIVERSITY.

Varied Activities In 1927.

PRICE,-$3.00 Per Month.

NEARLY AWAY!

An Incident In Victoria Jail.

CONVICT RE-CAUGHT.

Loses His Way And Wanders About Prison Precincts.

N. LAZARUS

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

RUMANIAN RUMBLINGS.

WİLL THERE BE A COUP D'ETAT?

EX-PRINCE CAROL'S ATTITUDE.

To Be Asked To Leave England.

PRINCES, PEASANTS AND AN EX-PREMIER.

Rumania seems again to be in a political ferment, and there appears to have been quite a lot of talk of what the Peasants' Party may or may not do. So far, they have done nothing revolutionary. Ex-Crown Prince Carol, who promised to remain away from Rumania for a decade on renouncing the succession, seems at present some-

CAROL TO GO!

MR. HORNELL'S REPORT.

Popularity Of Faculty Of Medicine; Chinese Studies.

Comprehensive accounts of the It was not London, Yesterday,

until this morning made public that a News has been received in Lon-activities of the various faculties that it was don that Wing-Commander Man-and departments of the Hongtempt to escape from the Victoria Chinese prisoner had made an at- ning has crashed at Homs but is j

Kong University during 1927 are Jall on April 25 last. not hurt.-Reuter.

[A Reuter telegram, dated Lon-contained in the annual report,

The man was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magis- don April 28, stated:-Wing just issued, Commander E. R. Manning has In regard to Chinese studies it tracy, the case being the first taken

is learned that the curriculum of in the big Court this morning. departed from Lympne in

Mr. J. W. Franke, Superintendent thirty-five horsepower monoplane the Faculty of Arts comprises five on a solo flight to Australia, fol-groups of studies: (i) Letters of Prisons, prosecuted and told the lowing Captain Hinkler's routes, and hilosophy, (ii) Experimen- the Magistrate that at the time thing like a cat's paw of the agitators. He has been staying in

Wing Commander

Rolles tal Science, (iii) Social Science, the prisoneer made his attempt he Surrey, England, "for rest and sport," but as the British evidently Manning, D.S.O., is a native of (iv) The Training of Teachers, was serving a term of six weeks' believe that he is engaged in something more stirring, he is to be Sydney, N.S.W., the son of the (v) Commerce. For a number of hard labour which was due to ex- late Mr. William Alexander Man-years prior to 1927 Chinese Lan- pire on June 6 next, and he asked asked to leave the country. ning, a solicitor of that city. He guage and Literature only figured Mr. Lindsell, in passing sentence served during the war as second in this curriculum as an alterna- to date the fresh term after June lieutenant in the 15th Hussars in tive subject in the first and 8.

His Worship passed sentence of France and Belgium; and was second year courses of the Letters

No other six months' hard labour to begin transferred to the flying corps in and Philosophy group. 1915 and later saw service in Iraq, provision for the study of Chinese after the expiry of the prisoner's

The attitude of the Rumanian. Last night his department from was either made or contemplated. present term of confinement. and Kurdistan.

authorities towards Carol is au-hia Surrey home in the early even- In the latter part of 1926 Vice-

Hole In the Wall.

thorised in an outline in Londoning gave rise to wild rumours, until The prisoner, according to in-that they, follow Carol's actions as it was discovered that he, Madame Chancellor and Dr. Lai Chi-hsi paid a visit to Malaya and sue formation a "China Mail" reporter, those of a private individual in Lupescu and their host, M. Jonescu, ceeded in enlisting the practical was able to gather, made a hole in view of his renunciation of the had only proceeded to a London sympathy of certain wealthy the wall of his cell with the aid of succession and his undertaking not cinema (where the programme in- Chinese in Kuala Lumpur and a piece of iron which he had smag- to return to Rumania for a decade cluded the film. "We are all Gambl- Penang. Thanks to the generos-gled from the workshop where he without the consent of the Govern-ers") Jonescu, interviewed at one ity of Mr. Chan Wing and Mr. worked. The hole was made in a ment. There is no support in in the morning said that they had Lai Wing-chee of Kuala Lumpur part where a ventilator once stood, Rumania for the aspirations attri- been in touch telephonically with session,which enables the shelving

and the Executors of the Estate the aperture being only recently buted to Carol. ^

friends in Rumania and other of domestic politics temporarily.

of Mr. Tye Kee-yoon of Penang, filled in with bricks. The whole attention of the

places on the continent and that a sum of $40,000 was collected. country is concentrated on the Soviet Russia has aent Poland a Further contributions

Squeezing through the hole, the

Bukharest, Yesterday. the Prince was ready to return. were reprisoner actually succeeded in get- Chinese situation, the seriousness Note in connection with the at-ceived from Mr. Ng Wah and Mr. ting out of his cell, but his ignor- bajulla passed off quietly. There if necessary, he would strike.

The Peasants' Congress at Al-when the country called him and, of which necessitates the showing tompt on the life of M: Lizaref. Kwok Chung-yeung.

ance of the plan of the jail proved were no incidents and the Govern- The Surrey house is being strong- of a united front.

The Note protests against the paa- It was decided to do some his undoing. Once free, he did not ment provided special trains home-ly guarded by police. It appears The "Japan Times," typifying įsivity of the Polish authorities as thing at once. Accordingly these know how to obtafà a final exit. ward for several delegations. At that Scotland Yard detectives the pre ailing sentiment, em-regards the White Emigrant Ter-collections were not put by as capi- He wandered aimlessly about the their request, Maniu, the Peasants' searched Gedatone, in phasises that China's reply to rorist organisations. Japan's efforts at moderation and It recalls the murder of M. tal but spent on the improvement jail compound and strayed in the leader, is going to Bukharest to bourhood of Surrey, as the result It is learned from Tainan that conciliation is to loot Japanese Voikoff last year and Voitzek and re-equipment of the Chinese direction of the female section of interview the. Regency.

of information as to an 'aeroplane M. Inca, the Minister of the In-being concealed there.-Reuter. the Japanese brought down a homes and barbarously to murder hevosky's participation in it. The Library and on making available the prison, where he was observed

facilities for teaching Chinese by a warder and promptly reterior, in a statement with refer- Northern neroplane which was Japanese.

Note declares that Votzehovosky's Language and Literature up to captured.

Carol To Be Asked To Leave bombing the foreign Settlement. Pointing out that the Chinese name is among the list of active the degree stage. Chinese lan

ence to the Peasants' Congress,

England. (scouted the idea of revolutionary A message from Tsinan to the will flood the world with anti-members of White Russian Terror-

London, Later. War Office gives the total murder-Japanese lies, and propaganda ist organisations. This was com-

jagitation,

Following a conference between “Not Always Masters of Events.”|| ed at 13 while 28 are missing. with the object of gaining symmunicated to the Polish Legation

Home Office and Foreign Office offi- wo persons are believed to have pathy, the "Japan Times" re-with the remark that their farther

Carol alio-denfed that he had cials it was decided to ask Prince chartered aeroplanes to take him to Carol to leave England. Reuter, been murdered, nine injured and marks that the world's faith in sojourn in Poland would jeopardise 21 Japanese houses looted.

Chinese veracity has been great-the relations of the two countries,

Rumania. He added: "I came to Looting is continuing there only shaken by the events of the yet the Polish Government took no

|England for rest and sport, but wej last few years.-Reuter.

are not always masters of events, "Not Like Nanking.”

Following the recommendation of which sometimes move faster than Shanghai, Yesterday. The attitude of the Poljah press)

the jury to mercy, the sentence of we expect,"

Carol'a Latest Movement. The "North China Daily News," towards terroristic attempta guage and literature is therefore death on Saudager Singh has been commenting on the Tainan situa-amounted to

London, Later. в direct encourage- now a degree subject in the curri- commuted. a counter-attack on the Southern tion, points out that unlike the ment. --Reuter.

culum of the Faculty of Arts. troops are nearing completion. Nanking outrage Chiang Kai-shek

But the money will be all spent by Accordingly, a movement by the is present and also the Nationalist

the end of this year. Northern forces toward Tsinan is Minister of Foreign Affairs. Yet anticipated.

the troops are uncontrollable.

Tokyo, To-day.

A report from Tsinan says that severe fighting broke out again yesterday (Monday) evening.

The Southern troops, in spite of the previous arrangement, are at- tacking Japanese troops who are guarding the foreign commercial area. Reuter.

Looting Continues.

Tokyo, Yesterday.

a small scale.-Reuter.

Japanese Warning.

Shanghai, Yesterday.

It is reported that the North-

ern Army leaders' prepartions for

The Japanese commander's have, The moral is that there is no pro- warned the Northern Army to tection of life and property in any avoid fighting until at settlement city under Nationalist control ex- is arrived at Tsinan.-British cept by foreign troops.

Naval Wireless.

All Consuls Safe.

Tsinan, Yesterday.

All Consuls are reported to be

safe.

Fighting between the Japanese and the Southern troopa has stop-

CANTON'S PROTEST.

Tsinan Incident Mass Meeting Heid.

the

Because yesterday was ped but sporadic shooting outside (twelfth) anniversary of China's the area lines continues."

"National Humiliation Day"

OTHER PLACES.

SOVIET SEND A NOTE OF PROTEST.

POLISH "PASSIVITY,”

Moscow, Yesterday.

measures for the liquidation of ter- rorist organisations.

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'REDS" IN CAIRO.

THE POLICE EFFECT A **ROUND-UP."

18 ARRESTS.

STILL FINE

N.E.. or variable winds, light, fine, is the official weather fore cast until noon to-morrow.

Vernacular School.

PRISON FOR LIFE.

INDIAN'S DEATH SENTENCE COMMUTED.

LAI-CHI-KOK MURDER.

Quiet Peasants' Congress,

The Executive Council recom- Carol's movements are being fol- mended that the clemency of the lowing with close attention by in- Crown should be exercised. H.E.terested British quarters, the Governor (Sir Cecil Clement()

STRAITS & RUBBER.

URGED.

THE OFFICIAL REPLY."

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the neigh-

London, May 6. While Prince Carol is staying in Surrey with his son, the ex-Pre- mier Jonescu awaits with baggage packed for a call from the Pen- sants' Party to return to Rumania as King.

Campaign Climax.

Bukharest, May 6. As the climax to the campaign of the National Peasant Party to overthrow the Liberal Government, a demand was made for new elec-

tiene at a gigantle gathering of 250,000 peasants from all over the country held yesterday at Albajulia Transylvania.

The gathering passed a resolu- tion demanding the resignation of the Cabinet and the formation of a Peasant Government.

In 1926 the Government of accepted the advice and commuted Hong Kong opened a special Chin-the sentence of death to one of ese Vernacular Middle School, the imprisonment for life. students of which are trying to Saudager Singh, one of the Sikh combine a practical study of Eng-watchmen at the Standard Oil Co.'s REDUCTION, OF EXPORT DUTY lish, as a medium of expression, installation at Laf-chi-kok, was Cairo, Yesterday. The police last night had a with an intensive study of Chin- sentenced on April 24, at the round-up of Communists. lese. The course was designed to Criminal Sessions, for the murder There were eighteen arrests, lead on to a higher course at the of a colleague, Jetta Singh on Feb. mostly of Italians and Greeks, University-a course which would 18. who, it is understood, will be de-involve a wider and more detailed It appeared that both he and

study of Chinese than could be deceased had been drunk at the plied unofficially to members who though the Government despatch- ported. Reuter.

provided in the Faculty of Arts time of the murder.

urged the reduction of the rubber ed troops as a precautionary mea- where, if Chinese be taken as á The case came before Mr. Justice export duty. The Colonial Secre-aure. subject for the degree, it must be J. R. Wood (Pulane Judge) and tary, Sir Hayes Marriott, stated There was talk of the Peasants combined with several other sub- the following jury: Mesars. F. that he proposed to take no action marching on Bukharest, but while jects. What is needed is to con- Goodwin (foreman), J. H. Raikes, until the matter had been further the tension is very great, the Gov- tinue the teaching of Chinese Lan- S. Juman, M. A. Xavier, S. E. considered.

ernment considers "the political

"FLAPPER" VOTE.

AT LAST A REALITY IN BRITAIN.

THIRD READING PASSED.

Singapore, Yesterday. The Legislative Council has re-

There was no untoward incident

The Japanese area has been originating from Japan's present- cleared of Chinese troops.-Bri-ation of the Twenty-One De- tish Nayal Wireless.

mands, the mass 'meeting of the east parade ground, Canton, met with considerable support.

gunge and Literature in the Sousa, C. C. Wong, R. Abraham. 'The Government's present inten-situation is uncharged." The estimate given is that

Faculty of Arts as a degree sub- Mr.. H. S. Fitzroy (acting Assist- tion was to re-enact the Rubber It is noteworthy that the ques Tsingtao Quiet: Japanese Leave there were more than 50,000 pre-

ject in that Faculty and to provide ant Attorney-General) prosecuted. Assessment Ordinance when restriction of Prince Carol was not mem- Wuhu.

sent, representative of almost all

London, Yesterday. The House of Commons read at the same time for a more in- Mr. W. N. Thomas Tam (instructed tion disappeared. Members of the toned at the Albajulia meeting. classes in the Southern capital.

tensive study of Chinese, combin- by Mr. A. E. Hall) defended. Legislative Council would be con- Tsingtao, Yesterday, Lines usually followed at such for a third time, the Equal Fran-ed with a practical study of Eng-Twenty-three Crown witness were sulted as regards the rate of assess- The situation here is quiet. affairs were 'adopted. An anti-chise Bill without a division.lish, in a special Chinese Depart-called.

ment to be imposed when the price Japanese troops are (reinforce Japanese boycott and a call for Reuter.

of rubber dropped below 35 cents.-- ments) are arriving in large the revocation of the Twenty-

Reuter, numbers. British Naval Wire-One Demands were the keynotes

The Advisory Committee. ', of the resolutions passed.

less..

capital.

i

against the Japanese action at

Tsinan was only partially success- ful outside the International Settlement.

Agitation.

BOON

Carol Returning?

London, Yesterday. Prince Carol, the Rumanian ex- Crown Prince,

with *ogether Madame Lupescu, has been staying In Surrey as the guest of

man for the

In the House of Commens at Rumanian business

Restriction

force.-Reuter.

JAPANESE DIET. GOVERNMENTS TACTICS TO

&

ment or School in a special course, which should not, to start with, term of study at the University lead to a University degree but Language School has so far failed He to some sort of diploma. Some to materialise. The great handi- The Shanghai Strike.

It was decided to warn Japan the Japanese military train. The Japanese are reported in a that "such unjust acts as those at gives additional confirmation of students who have passed suc cap of the class is the uncertainty question time, Mr. L.. Amery past week. Naval wireless message to have Tainan will do Japan no good."

the report that British and Ameri- cessfully through the Government of its future, which is bound up (Overseas Secretary), stated that It is now learned that the Bri- can residents of Tainan are safe, Vernacular Middle School course with the more general question the Rubber Advisory Committee tish authorities, learning on Satur- evacuated Wuhu, a port on the Lower Yangtze River, 55 miles Priest of Att mourning but states that Stein's Hotel, are still waiting in the school to of what the University is going last met on December 8. He had day that two commercial aeroplanes above Nanking, the Nationalist bands reading Oppose Japan's where he was staying, was looted. see whether such a course cannot to be able to undertake in the invited the members to continue had been chartered; presumably to despatch of troops to Shantung" He expected that the foreigners be developed in the University matter of Chinese studies general- to act as long as the Stevenson fly with Prince Carol, to Rumania, Another wireless despatch says and Illustrations purporting to be would evacuate Tainan shortly, as The financial position of the ly.

Plan... continued in took action to prevent the depar- Students. that Shanghai is quiet. The gen- of alleged Japanese atrocities (from Tsinan to Tsingtao) is re- that unless further funds are The number of students on the

as the Shantung Railway University is unfortunately such,

ture of the machines, as the autho- eral strike called in protest were widely distributed.

rities were not satisfied that Prince forthcoming by the end of the rolls on December 31, 1927, was

Carol possessed the песедвагу The "China Mail" understands paired.-Reuter.

year, there will be no alternative 204 of whom 15 were external that the proposed boycott has

Feeling of Tension.

but to close down the Chinese students.

papers to land in Rumania. not yet reached beyond the ap-

Shanghai, Yesterday."

Carol's Denial. Reports from Tsinan state that work which is now being done in Forty-three students graduated.

London, Yesterday. A Reuter cable published in the

pointment of the Committee the situation is quiet but the dis. the third and fourth year classes at the end of 1927: 17 in the Medi- stage.

Ex-Prince Carol, to a represen- "China Mail" yesterday in con- However, the impression in coveries of the horribly mutilated of the Arts Faculty and to revert cal Faculty, 10 in the Engineering

tative of Reuter emphatically nection with the increase of the business circles is that dealers in corpses of victims has resulted in to the arrangements which were Faculty and 16 in the Arts Faculty.

denied that he had engaged. in poll Japanese Expeditionary Force to Japanese wares are anxious and a high feeling and a tense atmos- superseded at the beginning of The degree of Doctor of Medicine last year. This will be deplorable was conferred on Dr. D. K. Pillat

tical propaganda while in England 18,000 men, the despatch of war-chary of making commitments for phere. Reuter.

but the University's activities are and the degree of Master of Arts

or had chartered aaroplanes to dis limited by its Income: -

Owing to the long-drawn-out de tribute a manifesto throughout Shanghai, Yesterday. in February, 1927, & Cantonese on Mr. Won Yo Harry Hong Sling-bate, the motion of non-confidence Rumania announcing his readiness Mr. Harry Hong Sling has the die in the Government, at yesterday's to take the Throne. A manifesto, been bombing Tsinan spasmodi Claas, was opened with seven stud-tinction of being the first M.A of Session of the Diet, ended shortly he said, had been drafted in Monte In A Tsinan Hoel Which Was cally since their evacuation. One retired military officer and four the University. In his report on before midnight before the Oppos! Carle long ago. He dated it May

of their 'planes crashed yester-

tion were able to put the motion 15. in order to prevent bloodshed, as day, the occupants being killed missionarles. The Chinese teacher

to the vote, M

the learned that the Peasants' Party Reuter

Thas the Tanaka Government re- would meet on May 6, and the Gov- del mains in power.de ernment might endeavour to pre.... despatch re-- The Proletarians had earlier on vent the mesting. If he returned j was no change yes proposed that the motion should be to Rumania he would travel in a Dairen disembarked here Hote Home cometerday in the Uozer Yangiaza River out to the vote, but this was re-perfectly ordinary (Continued, on "Page: 9.) mand might be seconded for situation.

ships to the Yangtsze, the South even the near future. China coast and Canton, is con- firmed in British Naval circles at Tokyo.

FEELING OF RELIEF.

"Showing of “United Front'

Necessary.

Tokyo. Yesterday.

་་

EX-MAIL" MAN.

Northern Airmen Killed.`

The Northern Armies have

ents:-two Government cadeta, a

Looted.

?

Is Mr. Sung Hok-pang who has

Peking, Yesterday. Mr. J. Timperley, the cor- respond at of the "Manchester Guardian" (and formerly of the

been seconded from Queen's Col-

(Continued on Page 5.)'

YANGTSZE RIVER.

from

Two thousand Japanese troops

lege and the class is under the general control of the Rev. H. E. A Naval

general feeling of relief schisted aboarrived at Isinga exists at, the closing of the Dief two this morning from Tsinan By

Japanese Reinforcements./

Tsingtao, Yesterday.

EVADE DEFEAT.

MIDNIGHT DEBATE!

Tokyo, Yesterday.

Jjected by 240 voted to 22=Reuter, ĮYashion."