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STALEMATE.

China" Mail

No. 25,880

CHIANG AND JAPANESE.

HIS ANSWER?

Southern Allies Hesitating Before Peking.

QUESTION OF THE DEMANDS.

[By Li Chung-yin"]

TABLISHN

1845

SATURDAY, HONG KONG,

"FEMINA.”

Hong Kong Public Hoaxed.

A PLOT?

No Such Person Staying at the Peak Hotel

MAY 26, 1928,

NOT TO PAY TAXES.

Japanese Notification at Tsingtao.

15,000 TROOPS IN SHANTUNG. Peking Government Explains its Prote.

According to a Chinese report,

The presumption that public in- terest in Hong Kong had at last the Japanese Consul at Tsingtao

PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

STRUCK OIL!

Two More Wells in Iraq.

BOTH UNDER CONTROL.

Further 200,000 to 300,000 Gallons Per Day.

GENUINE SIR WILLIAM CROOKES

(English Made)

LENSES

Are the ONLY PROTECTION against the tropic they absorb the ultra violet and infra red rays so dangerous to the

eyes.

Many imitations--the genuine from

LAZARUS

Hong Kong's Only European Opilelan.-

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IS THAT SOP

Thoughts Terse, Perverse-and Worse.

BY THE MAIL MEN.

The threatened pollution of the Harbour has not, we observe, yet

Then Mr. Arter looks through his "two years' long telescope" and Teheran, Yesterday,

Jes some disgruntled rubber-brok- Another big addition in oil out-eventuated.

ers, triad. speculators, unappeased been aroused over something led has notified the local Chinese put is reported from Iraq in a

Still more people went on Homs consumers, and sadder, if not wis- to a representative of the "China authorities that as from May 28,sector of the Naftkhanch Fields

planters were still alive!............... Mail" this morning calling upon the Japanese will not pay the fol where two further wells, produc- leave yesterday.... In mi-grater er, Dutch planting friends, but the

ing respectively 200,000 and numbers than usual?

There's no guaranteeing the num "Femina" with the intention of lowing levies:-

300,000 gallons per day have been

ber of stars one also sees on com- paying his respects and gleaning

brought in by the Khanoqin Oil

Major Fitzmaurice is so charming out of an ordos like that. further refreshing "copy" from

Company, Limited, which is a sub- sidiary company of the Anglo-ed with the "benents of this won-

derful country" that he has decid- A factor of local parties is that Persian Oil Company.

Both wells are under control-ed to become an American, says, when a guest gets wound

Must be a greater does not go. Reuter prohibitionist than airman.

was of course aurmised that any person who could have prompted ed in our evening contemporary all those "letterg" which appear- yesterday and the two morning Ipapers to-day would, once she lat herself go, have much of interest

Conditions akin to those of stalemate have set in along the North China front and are likely to prevail for some time owing to the hitch in Sino-Japanese relations. Feng Yu-hsiang, the "Chris-the lady, on things in general. It tian General," has been carrying on with the drive against the Northerners, but he is unlikely to invite danger to his army and to his prestige by running foul of the foreign garrisons at Tientsin and Peking.

Events hinge on the policy to be taken by the Nationalists of Nanking towards the Nipponese demands. Until an agreement is reachel, Chiang Kai-shek will find it difficult to advance. And until he docs move forward, the "Christian General" will mark time by himself, much as he covets Peking for himself.

ALL MARKING TIME.

to say.

The so-called "Washington" Customs surtaxes, 24 per cent. on imports and 6 per cent. on luxúries,

Goods tax on the Shantung Railway,

River work tax, Express surcharge, Tobacco and wine tax, Cigarette tax

Other Questions as Well. Another message says that a Giving "Femina" time to partake of her breakfast, our representa-military (field) postal organisa- tive, around nine o'clock this morn- tion has been started by the ing duly presented himself at the Japanese Expeditionary Force at Peak Hotel, the address given in Tsingtao.

"RAIN AT FIRST.”

Moderate to light winds, over- cast with rain at first, improv ing later, is the forecast until noon to-morrow.

Reuter.

NOVELIST DEAD.

A POPULAR AUSTRALIAN

WRITER

REV. W. H. FITCHETT.

Melbourne, Yesterday,

up he

Saya a Police Court report of an We can at least be thankful that assault case, Because the complain- the pleasures denied us do not inant and witnesses for the prosecu- clude selections by the bann-ed in tion gave three different versions, the various regiments,

the Magistrate discharged the de fondant

We know of one man who gave ten different ver- a recent Waxing eloquent on a descrip-sions immediately after

affair. The death is announced of the tion of a young lady's spirited de- Rev. William Henly Fitchett, the fence against armed robbers in the western suburb, Tuesday's "Can- [Rev. W. H. Fitchett was born in fton Gazette" sald:-Saikwan has as the quar-

Wesleyan minister (ex-President...If we are going to be rich,

It is alleged that the Bengal Lincolnshire, England, and educat always been known

of the Wesleyan Conference of we'd prefer the $, £, or even the

Jute Merchants and Brokers As- ed in Melbourne. He became a ters of the % rich and the elite.

Victoria and Tasmania). He was cts.

sociation induced people to specul ate ......and fixing rates accord- principal of the Methodist Ladies' College Hawthorn; Melbourne, "The young damsel cleared for ing. to this fictitious supply and de- editor of "Life" (a monthly maga- action and engaged the attackers mand, says Reuter

novelist-Reuter.

Water restrictions will be lifted when our weather becomes Irrigat- ing fastead of irritating.

...Brokers

zine) and of a weekly paper named.......", the writer says`******* in Hong Kong do, better; they in- "The Southern Cross." At one What, in the street?

time he edited the "Melbourne

Daily Telegraph." He wrote mis- cellaneously, as will be seen from

duce people to speculate in fiction!

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"The surmise is that the two

Whiteaway's, during their dollar counter-

her letter, and asked for the lady From Peking, it is reported that by the name typewritten on her it is the intention of Baron Tanaka, the Premier of Japan, to letter.

But there was 'no sich person!" settle simultaneously with the latest incidents, tertain minor Now that the hoax is revealed we' That halt of the Southern allies latter had begun to make con- may state that the name given on outstanding problems between all this last week may have wider siderable headway. Coming in on the copy of the letter received in China and Japan, in relation to

Had there been such a person as significance than appears on the the floed tide, he has made some this office was "Mrs. R. Reynolds.” name, of course, Japanese intervention progress but not by conquest. -surface.

All that part of Honan pro- "Femina" the and the note of warning Bound-

Powers vince south of the Yellow River would have never been divulged. A careful examination of the ed by other Foreign about Tientsin and Peking may was chained by a political ruse be the primary causes. But when from the Wu-Han Nationalists register at the Peak Hotel discloses it is remembered that the Na- (of that time). With this terri- the fact that nobody of that name tionalist army persisted in ad-tory as a jumping-off ground, he has stayed there for some consider-

With strategic able time. vancing both last year and this launched out. year in spite of the presence of bridgeheads across the Yellow

The hoax is interesting in that it

the following among his works evil minded ones cherished strong sale, caped with many the Japanese Expeditionary River, he fought slowly until his

the Nationalist points to a well-organised plot, a

"Deeds That Won the Empire," desires of possession of the gold attacks. Force in Shantung, it seems that colleagues in

Showed North Fights for the Flag," "The Tale bracelets, not the wearer," the side of the matter this journal, in Japanese interests in

The inclusion of the British the basic influence must be Army were in alignment.

Once Bit-Twice Shy.

conjunction with the

Dominions and India in an anti- Sunday China, Manchuria. Mongolia, and of the Great Mutiny," "How Eng-Gazette" adda Bought elsewhere.

As long as Chiang Kai-shek re- Herald," now Investigating the purchase age southern sec-land Saved Europe (1899), "Well- bad taste, we think.

war pact by immediate invitations First of all, the Southerners mains in the field, the "Christian What can be definitely stated now tion of the Chinese Eastern Rail- ington's Men," "Nelson and His

which are being sent direct to a waiting General" will continue to do his is that "Femina's" letter was ob- way.

Captaisa," "Life of Wesley," "The may prefer to play

The article also said that the Canada, the Irish Free State and game, hoping that Marshal Chang part. Should there be inter-viously received in the office of our

Pawn in the Game," "The Beliefs

her vocal through the British Foreign Office young lady "mobilised Tso-lin will still clear out of Pek- national complications, why, Nan-evening contemporary in time for

of Unbelief," "The New World of chords into attack formation" to Australia, New Zealand, South ing without risking what has been king has to solve them and not publication on Thursday but

the South," "The Romance of Aus-end the robbers filed

We Africa and India is also viewed described as a forlorn hope.. the "Christian General's" capital not received in the office of the

tralian History."]

seem to have heard similar "gocal with satisfaction-the view of Bri- at Kalfeng. Is it worth his while "China Mail" until yesterday morn Myths Exploded.

chords" before. On the other hand, Nationalist to collide with the foreign gar- ing, after having been forwarded to

countries may be preserved.- discord the subject of yester-risons at Tientsin, doing so by the other three daily papers. This

Reuter, may have bean due to postal delays

Motive of Friendship. day's leading article in the "China himself? Mail"-may be keeping the

but we doubt it.

armies back.

Investigations.

was

JAPAN'S STRENGTH.

Now Has 15.000 Troops in Shantung.

An earlier cable on the subject by

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tiab people in Washington, vide Reuter..... The compositor must Shanghai, Yesterday.

have left Hong Kong out of the Practically the whole of the

The "Canton Gazette" concluded list by mistake. Japanese 3rd (Nagoys) division The "Christian General" has

saying: The female won, had-x foretaste of Japan's in- Having said so much it is hardly has arrived at Tsingtao and this

against odds of two to one ...... Short pants may be objection- The Peking Foreign Office has There are several females who tervention. He was in league necessary to add that none of those division will be stationed along read:- with Kuo Sung-ling two years touching "replies" which appear in the Shantung Railway, which ago when Kuo rebelled against contemporaries have been forward-runs from Tsingtao (on the coast) issued a reply to the Japanese have made up their mind to win! able but short skirts ought to to Tainan (on the Yellow River), memorandum of May 18 which, at any odds either to-day or on speed up Peak Tram traffic. Some Marshal Chang Tso-lin and. ed to this office.

The 6th Japanese division will after quoting the memorandum Monday, and they are prepared to People think would have taken Mukden had:

it not been for the sudden deci- «LAB." M.P.'S & INDIA remain on duty in Tsinan. sion of Japan to keep him out of the South Manchurian Rail- way zone..

One thing we do know. The re- port that the Nationalists had reached the environs of Tientsin The victories is unfounded, credited by Japanese sources to the Nationalists have been dis- credited. The Kuominchun cavalry was said to have passed Machang, 30 miles south of Tien- tsin, whereas subsequent in- "Once bit, twice shy," the old formation showed the front in saying goes. And that is why the that area to be at Tsangchow, 60, "Christian General" has been miles from Tientsin. The raiders marking time, waiting for Chiang: from Shansi province were sup- Kai-shek's Nationalist army to go posed to have penetrated to with-through or get round Tsinan to in 10 miles of Peking.

reach the firing line.

Action Hinges on the Note.

CHARACTERISTIC REPORT OF LABOUR CONDITIONS.

INTERESTING PREDICTION.

There are now 16,000 Japanese troops in Shantung province. British Naval Wireless.

Chinese Told to Go.

Tsingtao, Yesterday.

says:-

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rate.

them fast, at any

go to even greater risk. "Japan's desire to see an early

Shorter frocks is one of the main termination of civil atrife in this country is, in the opinion of the We notice that among the latest causes of the depression in the Chinese Government, exactly in American papers to hand gland wool textile trade, we are told.. Well, if skirts keep going up harmony with Marshal. Chang treatment is still advertised exten-

9 POWER TREATY.' Peking's Argument Against Тарап.

Peking, Yesterday,

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(film?

Our geographers: "Mr. Henritze took motion pictures of the Dead Sea-13,000 feet below the level of the Mediterranean."-A daily. ......And about 10,000 feet below the bottom of the Dead Sea.

General Yasumitsu, chief of the Tso-lin's circular telegram of May sively....The gland of hope something had to come down. Japanese 3rd (Nagoya) division, 9, advocating the cessation of hos- and glory? London, Yesterday. has requested the Northern Chin-tilities, and inasmuch as such a

le an optimist a bald man who The urgency of taking a "mighty ese troops stationed at Tsingtao desire is caused by the motive of step" to link up the British and to withdraw seven miles from friendly sentiments, it is deeply seeks diversion in a bair-raising Indian Trade Union movements is Tsingtao. No time limit has been appreciated by the Chinese Gov- Chary of Neutral Zones.

If, as it has been made out, he stressed in a report by the Labour fixed for the evacuation. Reuter. ernment.

"On the other hand the Chinese Messrs. Purcell and While Generalissimo Chiang is so anxious to re-enter Peking, M.P.'s,

Government can never agree to Mr. J. S. Arter, speaking from Kai-shek is dullying and the Na- it can be argued, he may run the Hallsworth, who recently returned

the proposition that should dis- his considerable knowledge of

"Veteran Venizelos Again on tionalist Government at Nanking risk and march on by himself from a tour in India on behalf of

turbances develop further in the planters and estates in Malaya and is maintaining reticence, General without, waiting for Chiang Kai- the Trade Union Congress.

direction of Peking, and Tientsin Ceylon, said he was certain that Warpath," says a heading in the Very zealous Feng Yu-hsiang (the "Christian hek

They paint a melancholy picture

as to affect Manchuria, the.....their successful course now "China Mail." General") and General Yen Hai-1

The answer to this is that it of the "disgustingly bad housing|

Japanese Government may be lay in a good, exhilarating profes to keep going at his time of life."

Sounds more shan are undeckled as to whether suits his book to weigh up the conditions" and state that the vast

A spokesman of the Peking constrained to adopt appropriate afonal battle.. they should bear the brunt of the conséquences first. And, in any majority of the workers do not re- battle themselves.

case, possession of Peking with ceive more than a shilling per day. Government has made a state-and effective measures to cope like a boxing promoter than a rub-

ber expert. Against the Northerners they the Northern armies intact in are "half-starved, badly clothed and ment to the Press with a fuller with the situation."

explanation of the Peking Govern- may have no qualms; but it does close proximity in Manchuria is horribly housed."

The estimates givě a total ment's Note (referred to below). look as if they are chary of com- not tempting without the addi-} ing up against the neutral zones tions! possibility of entanglement strength of the Trade Unions as

to Flee. which have been marked out by with the Powers or with Japan 200,000 compared with 28,000,000, plated by the Japanese Govern His Arrest Causes Son-in-Law

ment is obviously at variance capable of organisation. the Protocol Powers.

by herself.

tea with the two fold principles enun- The report describes the For the moment, General Yen Events now hinge on the Japan- Hai-shan of Shansi can be left out ese Nate to Chiang Kai-shek. plantations of Assam as "virtually ciated by the Nine Powers Treaty of consideration. He has had his Reuter has told us that the Na- slave plantation" where the signed at Washington on Feb. 6,

He said: "The action contem-

province ever since the Revolu- tionalists had not accepted. "human trinity of husband, wife 1922, namely, that the Powers stated

On

CHENG CHIEN.

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""Golf Professor (giving a les- Bon): You know, sir, you lift your elbow too much to play golf pro- Nothing seems to be wrong with perly.

"New Member: How dare you? what a lot of cranks have gone off I'm a lifelong teetotaller."-Humor- the Peak Tram mechanism but

ous column..........It would be. -the deep end?

interesting to know which Univer- Hankow, Yesterday. General Cheng Chien is now

Chambers should have alowed up and whether its Professor alts on to be a prisoner in W. Major Wilken said that Mr. sity has established a Chair of Golf

Kiukiang, Yesterday.

or passed the dog on the left. He it to play. tion. His ambition goes no fur- Later on, there was that report and child brings in no more than should respect Chinese indepen- chang.-British Naval Wireless.

Melchoir, who made the attempt, dence, sovereignty, as well as ter- the fifteen pence a day. ther. Two or three years ago, he about "negotiation."

The Commissioner of Foreign remarked that it was better to kill sided against the "Christian Gen- other hand, there have been

The opinion is expressed that the ritorial and administrative in-

Melchoir himself was net injured. eral." Now they are friends. In!rumours, mostly via Canton, that aub-continent is in the presence of tegrity, and should refrain from Affairs, Mr. Liu Tsu-lin, abscond-; dog than to endanger the lives his position of buffer between, Chiang Kai-shek did accept.

tremendous forces which sooner or taking advantage of the conditions red to Shanghal on reading of the of people on the road...!...Isn't reports that the "plane (Bremen) Reuter's American Service; ... Stalemate to Continue. Peking and other Northern fac-

....We have recollections of feel- tions, Yen Hal-shan has always In view of the allegations made later will be applied to a great ex-in China in order to seek special arrest at. Hankow of his father there a BEST in such circum is "forty per cent.

Not Executed Yet,

In spite of what Mr. Claxon caning demolished but not injured on been out to secure his own posi- by the Nationalists agamat, the pansion of manufacturing activity, rights and privileges and, as such, in-law, General, Cheng Chien, stances?

Chinese people,

Shanghai, Yesterday.

say, our mean temperature must the morning after, but the percent tion rather than attempt exten-Japanese--that the Japanese were when the working class of Britain, it can only be deplored by the British Naval Wireless.

General Tan Yen-kal has cabled be generous. It seems to be try age seemed much higher. the aggressors, that Mr. Tani Europe and America will feel a A Clever Opportunist. Kung-shik, the commissioner of severe shock and a very great

by emphatically declares that in-to General Li Tsung-jen asking ing to exceed the maximum from Not so the wily "Christian Foreign Affairs, had been mur- change. Reuter.

asmuch as Manchuria, and Peking whether General Cheng Chien has General." He is on opportunist dered and mutihted-it is only

and Tientsin are Chinese territory been executed. General Lf replied day to day. and a clever one at that. First of reasonable to expect the Nation-

and any violation of the integrity in the negative. “Wah Keung of such would involve China's Po banner yesterday afternoon, sovereignty, it cannot maintain to Inscribed with seditious matter an attitude of indifference.

"Whether the localities in ques-

sion.

all he embraced Christianity be-alists to make a counter-claim, no cause it was aseful to his cause. matter the extent of their faith in Then he sought Soviet assistance the accusations. · because it helped his purpose to The motive attributed

SEAMAN'S BANNER...

A seaman found carrying

"We Will Be Responsible." The Chinese Government here

demolished."

Sir John Gilmour said that the Government had no responsibility Three headings in the "China for the proposed merger of Mar- And Mail"Our Forefathers; Lived in coni-Eastern services Trees But the Trees Left Them; nobody seems to have any respon- The Kuo Min news agency re- Tails, Beards & Hairy Costability for the occasional multile-

The present generation retions the public gets.

Admiral Intervenes,

Shanghai, Yesterday..

do so. While he entered into an Chiang Kai-shek in his alleged against the Japanese Government, alliance with Russia, the Nation-"acceptance" of the Japanese and two other Chinese caught tion are peaceful or otherwise, the ports, that as a result of Admiral allata then hemmed in at Can- terms is his anxiety to push on at in the act of delivering propa- Chinese Government will be res- Yang Shu-chwang's plea for vorees the procedure by leaving ton-were doing likewise. The all cont. When he does, it will be ganda lectures, one in Hollywood-ponsible for foreign nationals re- clemency for General Cheng home instead of being left. But "Christian General" and the Na- time for the "Christian General road and the other on the Yau sident in those localities, Chien, Vice Admiral Chen Shno- there is a striking resemblance in tionalists met on common ground-represented by hia Mongolian mati Ferry Wharf in Hong Kong, "Tis earnestly hoped that the kwan has gone to Hankow with the falls, beers and hoari coats, When the former held Feking, he cavalry in the Kuominchun to were brought before Lleut. Col. Japanese, Government will. In the a request from Nanking to Gen- Eaves, DSO at the Central feat of regrettable incidents at eral Li Tsung-jen to permit Cheng Inther Chien to go to Nanking to lay hie iolation of national case; Defora being expelled by the Man- Till then, the present condition *** churians, he joined the Partyakin to stalemate is likely to Worship ordered the cases

Bo that traditional ItlesReut But he did not begin to fight for prevall, as it has prevailed all this remanded for further hear

selations between the two the Nationalist Party until the week.

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