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No. 25,869

TIENTSIN TO

"NATIONALISTS" DUE.

NORTHERNERS DROP BACK.

A UNIFIED CHINA?

BST

(SHBD

145

HONG KONG, MONDAY, MAY 14, 1928.

FALL

Southern Flag Already Hoisted in Peking.

FOREIGN POWERS DECIDE TO HOLD AREA.

The beginning of the end of dual government in China! Optimists go as far as to predict that startling developments during the week-end will pave the way to the union of China Proper under one administration..

TSINAN EVENTS.

An English Eyewitness's Account.

SAW MUTILATED BODIES.

Japanese Praised For Masterly Disposition.

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Shanghai, To-day. An English eyewitness Tsinan praises the efficiency of the Japanese Expeditionary Force, firstly, for maintaining the Shantung Railway (from Tainan to Tsingtao on the coast) which, at one time, had been cut in no With dramatic rapidity, the allies of the Nationalist fèder-less than eighteen places, second-l ation have moved forward and secured an almost bloodless vic-ly, for the Expedition's military tory. In fact, the vanguard is expected to arrive at Tientsin dispositions, notably in cleaning to-morrow, the Treaty port 70 miles from Peking.

To maintain access to the sea for the Legations at Peking fin accordance with Treaties), it is imperative that Tientsin should be kept clear. Military representatives of America, Bri- tain, France, Italy and Japan have been in conference. The ultimate decision, after some disagreement, was to hold an area with a radius of seven miles from Tientsin, including points of importance.

up the Nationalists from Tainan;! also the enthusiasm with which 6.000 Japanese troops who con.. fronted 100,000 Nationalists and boldly took the initiative, attacked and drove back the Nationalists wherever they were found within Ja zone of seven miles; and caus-:

ing about 2,000 casualties.

HIS FIRST WIFE.

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

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PROTEST TO LEAGUE.

Mrs. Dempsey Appears in New York.

"AS IF FROM DEAD.”

Dramatic Return After Believed

... Đình là A Firs

New York, May 2.

A sensation has been caused, especially in pugilistic circles, as a result of the re-appearance in

Jack Dempsey.

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YANGṬSZE WAR.

Nationalists Cause A Upper River Attack On

Flutter.

PEKING ACTION.

Not Felt That League Can Do Mach; Who Was Aggressor?

Yang Sen.

60 JUNK-LOADS OF TROOPS.

Old Rivals May Clash In Top

Reaches.

DEVISING MEANS.

Prevention of Infectious Diseases.

DR. KOCH'S RESOLUTION.

"To Be Undertaken By Local

"Medical Men."

War along the upper reaches of At to-morrow's meeting of the the Yangtze River is indicated in Sanitary Board, Dr. W. V. M. Koch, British Naval wireless despatch pursuant to notice, will move:— sent yesterday.

Geneva, Yesterday, The Chinese Nationalist Gov. ernment's protest to the League in regard to Japanese occupation in Shantung caused something of a flutter in Lengue circles, The report comes from Chung- largely owing to the fact that the king, which is 1,400 miles from the Nanking Government is not a sea. Former rivals are believed to member of the League. Conse-be the belligerents. General Liu quently. from the juridical view-Hsiang and General Ko Yu-tung, point, the Nationalist appeal has who are in power in Szechuan, aro hardly any standing.

said to be attacking General Yang

It is believed that Japan will Sen; who holds the east of Sze- also submit her сабе to the chuan and the west of Hapeh. League.

It is learned in private source that Mr. Cheng, Chinese Minister at. Paris, who is a member of the League Council, has applied to Peking for instructions in regard to the attitude he should adopt at the forthcoming meeting of the Council if the matter is dis- cussed.

It is stated that Yang Sen's op ponents have fitted out an expedi- tion of sixty junk-loads of troops to move down the Yangtaze.

So far, there has been no con firmation of any actual fighting.

STOLE PULLEY.

COALING COOLIES ON S.S. "DEVIKIN.”

JAIL AND FINE.

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"That this Board respectfully suggests to the Authorities the propriety of getting in action in- vestigations into the possibility of devising means for the pre- vention of the prevalent in- fectious diseases, .auch typhold, malaria, tuberculosis,, etc. It further suggests that: such investigations might be undertaken by local medical men under the direction of the Government, and that their reports be published for the guidance of the community."

CAR BURGLAR.

YOUNGSTER TO HAVE A HIDING,

A cat burglar gained access to the first floor of No. 223, Queen's- road Central last night by climbing

This morning at the Kowloon a drain pipe. He stole a coat and Mr. W was about to escape when an in-

It is thought not unlikely that the Peking Government will asso- ciate itself with the Nanking ap- peal, thus rendering it acceptable to the League Council but it is felt The eyewitness saw bodies of

that the whole thing will be very mutilated Japanese civilians. New York of Jack Dempsey's jembarrassing for the Council and

A General Dismissed.

first wife, formerly. Maxine Gate, unlikely to enhance its prestige. Magistracy, before The disposition of the British forces in Tientsin is given below...

He discredits Chinese official as though from the dead,

Even should the Council decide In well-informed sources in Hong Kong, the extent of the South-accounts of the mutilation after She married Dempsey. in 1916 to act its, means that the action Schofield, two Chinese coal coolles mate of the flat was awakened and erners' success is made out to be even greater than is indicated in death of Mr. Tsai Kung-shih (the and was reported to have been would be ineffectual as it would were charged with the theit of a blew a police whistle. The thief

Nationalist Commissioner

for burnt to death in a fire at a dance-be impossible to define the aggres coaling the s.s. "Devikin" on Sun-dah and then slid down a piping pulley block and shackle, while climbed over the next door veran- messages from the North.

Foreign Affairs at Tsinan) who is ball at Juarez, Mexico, in 1924. sor-Reuter. now believed to have been killed She now announces through her) by machine-gun fire when he was solicitors that she intends to with a detachment of Chinese bring an action immediately to set troops endeavouring to recapture the Foreign Affairs Bureau.

STARTLING MOVES.

It i suggested that the Na- tionalists are already in Peking- and Pelting is 70 miles beyond Tientsin. What may have occur red is that the Ankuochum Gov- ernment has decided to evaènate ' wal withdraw outside the Great Wall again, back into the fast- ness of Manchuria. Following rumours to this effect, the pro- Nationalist element in Peking may have raised the "clear sky white sun" standard of the South- erners for the first time in the Northern capital.]

There is no news from the It is noteworthy that the Na- North to-day owing to interrup-Įtionalist Government Council has lion in the cables beyond Chefoo, passed a resolution dismissing which muy last three day- General Ho Yao-tsu whose army Renier.

was implicated in the first clash with the Japanese at Tsinan- Reuter.

BRITISH FORCES.

Names of Regiments At Tientsin.

Noled: Coneral Ho has been succceded by General Fang Ting ying who led the ex-Whampoa

ton,

GOING TO RAIN?

South winds, moderate, qua

ly, cloudy; some join," cial weather forecast to-morrow.

Pressure is high over

the

the Conins and over S.W. China.

A FORMAL CALL.

TWO JAPANESE WARSHIPS HERE

SERING THE SIGHTS.

day.

the

34 CENTS.

THIEF'S STRUGGLE WITH WATCHMEN.

into the arms of a policeman who Mr. Solberg, chief officer of the had been attracted by the alarm vassel, appeared as complainant. and stood at the bottom waiting for

He said:

the thief. When produced before "Yesterday morning the coal Major C. Willson at the Central coolies arrived at the side of the Magistracy this morning, the thief, ship at about 6 a.m. for the pur-a youngster, was ordered to re- pose of coaling. The vessel was in celve 12-strokes of the rattan. mid stream, being mpared at buoy H. E the Offer Administering missed the pulley block and

E.20 At clock precisely,

» the Government (the Hon. Mr W. T Southern, C.M.G.), accompanied by shackle, and told the foreman in Captain A. J. L. White, R.E., A.D.C. charge of the work, that if he did. called on Vice-Admiral Kobayashi, not produce the stalen articles in this morning, the latter having five minutes, I would call Cadets away from Kwangtung aside the divorce decree granted paid his respects at Government Police. It was not brought back On Saturday afternoon, a Chin. Hitherto, the British forces at owing to a difference of opinion to Dempsey at Salt Lake City' in House yesterday, on arrival within the time allowed, so I signalled ese picked the pocket of a com-. Tientsin formed a distinct com-, with Marshal Li Chai-sum of Can-1919, or the ground that she had the two cruisers "Idzumo" and the Police. Rather a long while patriot in Des Voeux-road Central mand, Le., the North China Corn-

not had sufficient notice of the "Yakumo."

elapsed before the latter arrived, and stole 34 cents. He was ob- mand. During the Great War,

ex-champion's The Nationalists accuse the divorce her.

intention to Foregone Conclusion.

The customary salutes were fired and before they did, the foreman served by a District Watchman there was only one Command for Expert observers consider the the whole of China, namely, that nese of mutilating Mr. Tsai's

yesterday.

The came forward with the missing who promptly seized him, news of the Nationalists being in at Hong Kong.

body. This the Japanese denied. been to Juarez, and says that she who is a Naval Lieutenant). Cap.

She denies that she has ever The Admiral, Prince Takamatsu articles.

thief struggled violently and struck J'eking as an exaggeration. A After the arrival of Major-Gen-Later on, however, they believed only emerged from her retirement tain Hirote of the "Idzumo" and scene, I informed the Sergeant that

"When the Police came on the the watchman who had difficulty in peaceful turnover is a foregone cral John (now Sir John) Duncan, that he had been shot down, as because she sought, after the Captain "Idemitsu" were guests of the foreman had recovered the ance arrived. In the meantime the holding his prisoner until assist- conclusion now, said cue to the the Tientsin area was incorporal-reported on Page 12 of this Dempsey-Slacker trial in 1921, to the Japanese Residents' Association goods. The Police then further in victim who did not know that he "China Mail," but Marshal Changed with the Shanghai Defence issue.]

vindicate her name against the at a Chinese tiffin in Tso-in will ensure the complete Force into the North China Com-

attacks made upon her in a series Chinn restaurant yesterday, when the help of the mistress of a sam-

the South vestigated the matter, and through had been robbed, was lost sight of. withdanval of the whole of his mand.

The pickpocket appeared before, of magazine articles dealing with Mr. Kinoshita (President) was in pan which had brought the coolies Major C. Willson army before he walks out,

at the Central Dempsey's life.

to the ship, they arrested the two Magistracy this morning and bis Japanese Papers Urge Govt. to wife, the film actress, Estelle (Japanese

Dempsey, accompanied by his! Last night, Mr.. Y. Murakami defendants."

Worship passed sentence of six Consul General) WES Further evidence was Taylor, is staying here in con-host to the distinguished visitors on the mistress of the sampan, and by

given by wecks' hard labour, nection with litigation with his the Hong Kong Hotel roof garden. the foreman. Roth clearly said 2nd Batt. Border Regiment.

Tokyo, To-day. ex-manager, Jack Hearns.

The officers and men have come that defendant's actions were MIDWIFE ROBBED. There are also detachments

Dempsey's only comment when ashore on sight-seeing trips, visit- rather suspicious. Japanese newspapers from the Royal Engineers and unanimously urge the withdrawal Reuter told him of the woman's ing Taikoo Dockyard and the Defendants said that they found the Royal Corps of Signals at of Japanese troops as

claim was "Well, I'm real glad Orient Tobacco Factory, Kowloon. the pulley and shackle in the Tientsin.

possible, pointing out the gradual to know she is still alive."

The two.cruisers will go on to middle of the coal in one of the! Troops of the allied National-

Colonel Commandant R. M. change in public opinion abroad

Manila as part of their itinery. bunkers of the lighter alongside the Chan Yuk-yee, a midwife living ist and Southern Armies are Heath, 'C.M.G., D.S.O., is in com- and therefore advising that mili- VOTING IN ITALY.

vessel, and as it was in the way, at No. 2, Morrison Hill-road, re- tary operations in China, by the

they removed it by throwing it on ported to the police that at about Japanese, be minimised.-Reuter. MUSSOLINI'S NEW

the sampan,

8 p.m., yesterday, whilst she was SYSTEM.

His Worship said he thought waiting for a tramcar at Kennedy- their acts extremely suspicious. town, two Chinese men approached First defendant was fined $50, with her from behind and snatched a the alternative of 6 weeks' impri- brown leather bag from her hand. sonment, while the second culprit The bag contained $200 in notes was sentenced to 2 months' hard and some jewellery worth $222. labour.

She raised дл alarm but the thiaves managed to get away before

There are Manchurian troops at Protingfa, on the Peking-Han-. kow Railway, 30 miles from Puk- ing. To prenerve the alignment- even though the Northerners will not fight--Chang Tso-tin is not.. likely to give up Tichtsin until his units. Protingfu and along the Peking-Rankow Railway are on trains bound for Mukden.

Two battalions of British in- fantry are at Tientsin,, as follows:-

Isi Batt, East Yorkshire Regiment,

advancing on Tientsin (which mand.

Ships in the Vicinity. In addition to the land forces,

Is only 70 miles from Peking) and they are expected to reach Tientsia by to-morrow, says a there are a number of British war-

Reuter cable from Shanghai.

FOREIGN TROOPS.

CHANGE IN OPINION.

The

Withdraw.

soon, as

'U.S. STANDPOINT.

Question.

Bill,

the chair.

SHARKS' FINS.

DELICACIES BENEATH

RUBBISH.

chips in North China, as fol-

Rome, Yesterday. lows:

The Senate by 161 votes to 40 H.M.S. "Hermes," aircraft car-Nationalist Government Asks A has adopted the Electoral Reform rier, at Chefoo,

Two Chinese were this morning charged before Mr. Lindsay at the Signor H.ALS. "Toxglove," sloop, at

Mussolini Some Difference of Opinion at the Wei-hai-wel,

explained Central Magistracy with the theft Conference.

Shanghai, Yesterday, that the choice of a member for of 15 cattles of sharks' fins from No. H.M.S.. "Bluebell," sloop, at A message from Nanking states the list of candidates would mean 34, New Market-street. Chin-wang-tao.

that the Nationalist Government his designation as a member of H.M.S. "Sirdar," destroyer, at has cabled President Coolidge Parliament, and the general vote the police withdrew the charge man admitted the theft, whereupon The foreign troops at Tientsin Tsingtao.

cailing attention to the "fact would merely approve this design against the second defendant who (totalling 8,500) include the fol- It is also to be noted that with that Japanese troops have invadation. lowing:-

Shanghai, To-day.

-4,000 Americans, and

aeroplanes, five

field guns,

1,000 British.‘.

3,000 French.

tanks,

about 500 Japanese (most of

the Japanese garrison having been sent to Tainan before trouble.broke out there). The foreign commanders held!

a conference on May 11.

SURPRISE CAPTURE,

TWO CHINESE STEAL BAG.

The first SENHOR BARBOSA, Beistance arrived.

was represented by Mr. Horace Lo.

man passed by a basket of rub-

RETURNS TO MACAO TO-DAY,

12 DAYS IN COLONY.

JUSTIFIED.

POLICE AND BOMBAY RIOTS..

Bombay, Yesterday." The jury, by 7 votes to one,

found the police superintendent bish without emptying Its contents. noon after spending 12 days in

who killed a mill worker justified This aroused the watchman's sus- Hong Kong.

The visit was absolutely unoff- in firing. Reuter. picion. He emptied the basket him- self and found the sharks fins in cial and Senhor Barbosa's stay was 23, describing the incident, says [An earlier cable, dated April the bottom of the basket, conceal in the nature of a rest. He has that thousands of strikers demon- ed underneath the rubbish.

been accompanied by his wife and strated in front of the mills, and Alde-de-camp. During his stay in started stone-throwing:

the beginning of summer,, the ed Shantung and are actually The raison d'etre of the new The Magistrate accordingly dis- 20 China Squadron moves north. waging war against China, etc. system was the recognition of five HM.S. "Berwick," the new cruis- We have throughout exercised the fact a trade union was led that the first defendant was a charged the man. The police stat- er, left to-day. H.M.S. "Titania." the utmost self-restraint trusting neither outside nor against the rubbish coolle. Because a District, HE the Governor of Maçao re- with the submarines and H.M.S. that the cause of international State, but was recognised by the Watchman was watching him, the turned to that Colony this after- "Marazion," are cruising up the peace and justice is a

State and consequently entitled common coast, bound for Wei-hai-wel. concern of civilised nation. Our to represent all categories.-

people all remember that the final | Reuter. settlement of the Shantung ques- tion was effected by the good offices of the friendly Powers, specially the United States and we desire to know the attitude of the American Government and tion created by Japan.Reuter charged before Major C. Willson at people towards this grave situa-

AMOY FEELİNG,

Boycott More Rigorous!: No Outbreak.

There was some difference of opinion between the Japanese Lt.-Gen. Arai (who, according

How Yen Hsi-shan Moved on Tsangchow,

Shanghai, To-day.

to information in Hong Kong. While the capture of Tehchow is the senior officer) and the American, British, French and by Feng Yu-halang's (ie., the

Italian commanders, ** "Christian General's") Kuomin-

The Powers Decision.

chun was not altogether un- Eventually, however, the con- expected in view of the Northern- ference decided to picket points ers' policy of falling back without within a radius of seven miles of offering resistance, the announce- Tientsin, and also that Japanese ment by General Yen Hai-shan, troops be entrusted with the the Nationalist governor of Shan-

Amoy Yesterday:9 guarding of important points in si province, that his troops have

Though the feeling against the the Tientsin Concessions includ captured - Tsangchow, situated Japanese le rising, no untoward Ing the important enst Fallway pornsonzentrates incluente have minerto, occurred. station, and the junction of the Tientsin on May 8 is very surpris-The anti-Japanese boycott, how- Tientsin-Pukow, and Peking-Muk-ing, ever, is becoming more rigorous. den Railways.

(Continued on Page 14;)

Reuter.

CAR TOUTS.

TWO. FINED FOR PESTERING.

Two motor car

touts

were

the Central Magistracy this morn- ing. One man who was arrested jo West Point had a previous convic tion and was fined $10. A fine of 35 was imposed on the second man for pesterieg pedestrians Connaught-road

DOLLAR.

in

THREE CASTLES.”

UNLAWFUL POSSESSION BY CHINESE.

The

the Colony his place of residence police were unable to control the has been the Repulse Bay Hotel. crowd and the Superintendent fired his revolver at the demon- strators, killing one and wound- ing one.]

- STOLE CLOTH.

A Chinese yesterday walked into Senior Revenue Officer George the On Kay plece goods shop, No.

Watt this morning charged a 143, Queen's-road Central and FOUR WEEKS ILL. Chinese before Major C. Willson at snatching up a roll of cloth worth the Central Magistracy with the $16, bolted out of the shop. Fokis For the theft of three bundles of unlawful possession on board the gave chase and the man was even clothing from the Tai Shing gold- Tungs, Onof 480 Three tually stopped by a policeman smith shop, No. 489 Queen's-road

hau nut been paid. A fine of $20 charged the thief before Major. C. by Corgt: O'Connor was this morn- or six weeks' fall was passed, and Willson at the Central Magistracy, ing sentenced by Major CWIlson rarettes were ordered to be and his Worship passed sentence of at the Central Magistracy to four

four weeks' hard labour,

weeks hard labour.

The clearing rate of the dollar, the on demand, to-day was 2/09/18: con