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No. 25,974 · HONG KONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1928. PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.

"AT

SOVIET COMMITTEE IN BRITISH IMPORTS & BRITISH NAVAL RAID SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN'S TWO “QUEENS"

HONG KONG.

MR. RUSS'S ATTACKS.

HIS TALK ON TECHNICALITIES OF LAWYERS' BILL.

"NAPOLEONS OF FINANCE."

Alarm need not be felt over the "disclosure" by Mr. C. A. S. Russ

EXPORTS.

AUGUST RETURNS.

FIGURES SHOW SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE.

ON BANDITS.

SHOTS & PURSUIT.

CO-OPERATION WITH CHINESE MILITARY,

DESPITE UNEMPLOYMENT. H.M.S. "BEE'S" EXPEDITION.

London, Yesterday, The Board of Trade returns |

Hankow, Yesterday. Acting upon reliable informa-

when

HEALTH.

LE BOURGET.

LEVINE'S LAPSE.

MACHINE SEIZED BY CUSTOMS OFFICIALS.

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A BIG SPANISH ·

PLOT.

FURTHER DETAILS.

WHAT THE PLOTTERS INTENDED TO DO.

MANY ARRESTS.

Paris, Yesterday

According to a delayed mess-

US. MARINES IN SHANGHAI.

A PROTEST.

ALLEGE BARRED FROM

Y.M.C.A. MEMBERSHIP..

OVERCROWDED BUILDING.

Shanghai, Sept. 6. Colonel Henry C. Davis, com-.

MUCH IMPROVED.

DENIES RESIGNATION FROM FOREIGN OFFICE.

RETURNING IN NOVEMBER.

Le Bourget, Yesterday. Bermuda, Yesterday.

The Customs authorities have To Reuter's representative, on in the Summary Court this morn-amounted to £62,216,000 and im-

show that exports in August tion that certain huts in the his arrival here, Sir Austen seized Mr. C. Levine's aeroplane age from Madrid, published in mander, and Lieutenant Colonel "Queen of the Air" which was Le Journal" the Spanish plot Fred D. Kilgore, acting commander ing that a Soviet Committee had ports to £97,700,000, increases of, vicinity of Shang-chu-wan, a Chamberlain said that he had being dismantled in readiness for (mentioned yesterday) was or- of the United States Marine Corps ganised on a vast scale to coin-at Shanghai, have sent an official been officiating in Hong Kong. £1,331,000 and £2,232,000, res small town on the left (north) derived wonderful benefit from shipment to New York.

the bank of the Middle Yangtsze the voyage. He declared that He was merely referring to four pectively, compared with

It is stated the seizure is cide with King Alfonso's absence report to the Navy Department at July figures-Reuter.

Washington, D.C., protesting in Chinese business, men whom JA

A British Wireless message

River, about 200 miles above Han- there is not the slightest founda- owing to certain Customs and from Madrid,

being unsettled. The plotters, planned to over-strong language against action of client of his was suing.

states:--

kow (or 40 miles above Chenglin), tion for the rumour that he had flying dues One of Mr. Russ's remarks in Figures for August show that had been occupied by bandits, resigned. He expected to resume Meanwhile, Miss Mable Boll, the throw the Judge and summarily the local foreign Young Men's commenting on these four so-call- British exports have again in- H.M.S. "Bee" embarked a Colonel his work at the Foreign Office young American. "Queen of Dia- deport the members of the Direc-Christian Association in tarring en- he returned home in monds," who at one time intended tory while a general strike was to listed members of the Marine Corps ed business "Bolsheviks" was: creased for the fifth month in sue- and 30 men of the 57th division

November. Reuter

to accompany Levine to America be declared on the 14th inst. wearing United States uniforms in the "Queen of the Air" has throughout the country.

} from membership. "They believed themselves to cession. They amounted in value of the Chinese Nationalist Army, to £62,217,000, showing an in- and proceeded to the position in-

The movement, however, was be Napoleons of finance."

left Paris for Cherbourg en route crease of £1,331,000 over those dicated.

to New York-Reuter.

promptly suppressed and the Another, was: "As untried of August of last year.

The bandits were located.

Government are masters of the allege that the YM.C.A. action was taken because a few British Army- people, their attempt in taking The figures are remarkable in They were fired at. Then the

officers reside in the Y.M.C.A.' dor- over the business proved a total view of the fact that unemploy- Chinese soldiers were landed and IGNORE ARBITRATION AWARD. VALUE OF A LORRY. situation.

Two hundred arrests were mitory, acording to J. B. Powell, failure."

ment statistics show an increase. they gave pursuit to the outlaws.

made by yesterday morning and American newspaper reporter in Sotto voce, Mr. Russ had several During the eight months of this-British Naval Wireless.

arrests continue to be made at Shanghai and one-time editor of the duels with Mr. J. M. d'Almada year the exports have shown an [Note: The Chinese soldiers

Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and "China Press." Remedios, who appeared for the increase of £20,481,000 compared employed were tao-chuna (or na-

Saragossa. with the same period in 1927. Claim for Decorations.,

The imports during August tive troops), ie., natives of the

province, Hupeh. The Hung Fook firm of proces- amounted to value to £97,700,000,

H.M.S. "Bee" is a gunboat of sional decorators, No. 38, showing an increase of £2,280,000 Cochrane-street, sued Mr. Leung compared with July and £7,684,- 645 tons with 2,000 horse-power, Sik-pun of No. 137, Connaught 000 compared with August of 1 six inch gun, 1 three inch gun and 2 three pounders. She is the road West, Mr. Wan Man-tuen last year and Mr. Cheung Tang-ip of the For eight months this year im- flagship of Rear-Admiral H. J. Ming Yuen Gardens, North Point, ports show an increase of £2,253,- Tweedie C.B., R.N., Senior Naval and Mr. So Mun-ting of No. 203,000 compared with the corres Officer of the British Navy in the Queen's-road West, for $112 ponding period of last year-Reu-Yangtze River.]. which was alleged to be due by ter.

defence.

the Ming Yuen Wing Fat Co.,

Ltd. und undertaken to be paid by THREAT TO CANTON?

the defendants personally.

Mr. Remedios represented the first and fourth defendants. The other two defendants were ab sent.

Mr. Russ told how two manag-

NATIONALIST TROOPS FOR SOUTH KIANGSI.

WAR HEROES' MOVEMENTS.

Kiuklang, Yesterday.

KAIPING FALLS.

NATIONALISTS' GAIN AFTER TONGSHAN.

NORTHERNERS RETREAT.

Peking, Yesterday.

LABOUR TROUBLE.

.AUSTRALIAN WORKERS-

GOVT. TO TAKE ACTION.

.

ITS HISTORY RELATED IN THE SUMMARY COURT.

Col. Davis and Lieut.-Col. Kilgore

It is stated that the British army

Melbourne, Yesterday.

JUDGE AWARDS DAMAGES. Thousands of tons of cargo are

The arrested include the Repub-regulations prohibit officers resid- held up in ports throughout the

How a six-cylinder 1% tous lican leader, Lerroux, and several ing in a building which is frequent country by the strike of waterside

auction under an order of sale from ber of journalists and freemasons. workers, who are refusing to ac-motor lorry had been purchased at ex-Republican deputies, a num-ed by enlisted men,

the Court, for $100, and then stored-Reuter. with the defendant from whom it

FINE TO CLOUDY.

N.W. or variable winda, moder- ate, fine to cloudy, is the forecast till noon to-morrow.

Pressure is high to the

of Japan. The typhoon is less than 100 miles W.N.W. of Naha, moving W.N.W. or N.W.

had been seized, who in turn is al POINCARE'S RETORT. leged to have refused to hand it back to the successful bidder, was related in the Summary Court yes- terday.

SHARP EXCHANGE OF LETTERS.

George Fitch, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. stated to the “Tri- bune" correspondent to-day that the action in barring the Marines from membership was not dietatod, by the British but was due to the overcrowded condition of the building.

Shum Hing-nin of No. 588, "I AWAFT SECONDS."

Fitch declared that there is a northShanghai-street, 3rd floor, sued the

|Navy Y.M.C.A, located in Shang- Chun Yip Motor Co., No. 14, Hamil- Paris. A sharp exchange of hai which Marines should frequent ton-street, ground floor, for return letters has taken place between Minstead of the foreign Y.M.C.A. of the lorry or damages in Heu. Poincare and M. Bergery, a young which is designed for the foreign Mr. D. L. Strellett appeared for Radical Deputy, formerly Assist civilians of Shanghai. plaintiff. Defendant was neither ant Secretary to the Reparations

of once as hitherto, Many ships

....... Allegations. ⠀ According to a spokesman for cept the new arbitration award, present nor represented and the Commission and later "chef. de- The Nationalist forces have cap-which provided that labour might case was therefore heard ex parte. Cabinet" to M. Herriot.

the Marines, some 200 enlisted men" ing directors had been placed. In

The 4,000 Nationalist troops who 'tured Kalping. General Chang

Why Auction Was Held. On the evening of July 9, Juat charge when the venture was sailed up the Yangtaze from Nan- Tsung-chang

be "picked up" twice daily instead (commander-in-chief |

Plaintiff said that defendant was as the Chamber was about to rise desired to join foreign Y.M.C.A. on the same basis na civilians, due to launched.

king to Klukiang have now moved of the Northern Army) has left are already held up at Brisbane, sued by another party (believed to for the holidays, M. Bergery at the fact that the building is located The "Opposition."

overland, southward, to Ki-au-fu, Kuyeh and the Northern troops are Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne. be a partner in the defendant's com tempted to create an obstruction near their barracks, while the Navy A section of dissatisfied share-an important city in the south of retreating to Luanchow which the

Mr. S. M. Bruce, the Prime Pany). Defendant's lorry was seizon the question of the stabilisa-M.C.A. is already filled with holders, led by the four defen Kiangai province, only 200 miles Nationalists are reported to be ap-

ed and sold by auction. Defend- tion loan to Roumania, having Minister in * dants (said by Mr. Russ to "be- or ao from the boundary between proaching.-Reuter.

in speech

nearly two miles from the marine ant induced plaintiff to bid and he been primed by visitors belonging sailors and the building is located. Parliament foreshadowed dras- lieve themselves to be Napoleons Kinngai and Kwangtung-British

barracks, of finance"), called a meeting and Naval Wireless,

Rearguard Agilon.

tle steps to secure the enforce-bought the lorry for $100. The to the Roumanian opposition.

lorry was then stored with defend- M. Poincare, somewhat heat- displaced the two managing direc-

Shanghai, Yesterday. ment of the arbitration award,

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his behalf.

The foreign Y.M.C.A. was сод

(Note: It remains to be seen; tora. A draft agreement was whether these 4,000 war heroes The Northern forces continue to while employers are considoring the ant at $2 a month. Then defendantled by the sun, to which he had structed last year largely through drawn up in which the four de-will be employed in preserving retreat towards Lwanchow and question of employing free labour. refused to hand it back, maintain-been exposed while making a fendants undertook to pay the order in the disturbed south of are now fighting a delaying rear- It is understood that the Governing that plaintiff had bought it on speech the same day, replied tart donations of John D. Rockefeller, ly: "I know you, and I know Jr, Charles R. Crane, Capt. Robert company's debts. First defen-

Mr. Justice P. Jacks (Pulsne what are your motives. As al-Dollar and other contributors in dant's signature appeared on the Kinngsi province or whether they guard action in the vicinity of ment is considering recourse to the draft but not on the actual doen will constitute a threat to Canton.) Kuyeh, while Nationalist forces are Crimes Act, "involving a year's im Judge) made an order for the reways, you are distorting the the United States, the purpose be- reported to be advancing along the prisonment or deportation if the turn of the lorry, or damages to truth. You have worked with me lag to provide Y.M.C.A. facilities Tientsin-Shanhaikwan-road north offender was not born in Australia. the extent of $450 (it being alleged and I know you." of the Peking-Mukden Railway--Reuter. Reuter.

ment, but it was alleged by Mr.

Russ that first defendant's at

torney had been authorised to!

sign on his behalf.

COURTS MARTIAL.

"This sort of Soviet Com SEQUEL TO THE “STAR” FERRY

mittee," said Mr. Russ, led the "Opposition" and overthrew the management. "Their attempt, as untried people, in taking over, proved a failure.”

INCIDENT.

QUEEN'S MAN'S DESERTION.

Manchuria's Status,

Shanghai, Yesterday.

LIBERTY LOAN.

ENORMOUS OVER-SUBSCRIP.

PROF. HUBER.

for American young men in Shang- hai.

that defendant had removed the M. Bergery, losing all control

However, the local financial cam- dynamo, magneto, gear shaft and a of himself, cried out that he tyre), and awarded costs to plain-awaited the Prime Minister's paign among British residents pro- "I withdraw no-sided about twenty per cent. total withdrawal thing," rapped out M. Poincare, of the capital.

Marine spokesmen allege that "and I await your seconds."

tiff.

A BANISHEE.

MAKES AN EARLY RETURN TO THE COLONY.

ALLEGED MURDER. GRUESOME STORY OF BOY'S

DECAPITATION.

The Kuo Min news agency saya j

TION IN U.S.A.

the foreign Y.M.C.A. committees "According to the plan for the

"Nothing to Retract.”

are composed half "of British për- Gunner W. E. Shipley, 20th Heavy re-organisation of the Manchurian

Washington, Yesterday.

These words lost to the Press sonnel and the institution has be Battery, Royal Artillery, after trial Army under General Chang Hsueh-

Galleries ip the hubbub, were came a British dominated private Too Technical.

by District Court Martial in Hongliang, the 200,000 soldiers will be re

There has been the unprecedent-

only known next day. According elub instead of the organisation Continuing, Mr. Russ said that Kong, has been sentenced to 28 duced to 12 divisions of about 13,000 ed over-subscription of $96,000,000

Banished from the Colony lesa to the recognised code of honour, originally intended. plaintiff had rendered a bill with days', detention. He

was

found men each. It is reported that Chang for the lesue of $525,000,000 for the

four hours to decide whether to full particulars. The copy of the guilty of absenting himself without Hsueh-liang will be provisionally ap- refunding of Liberty Loan certifi- than a month ago, a Chinese at the an aggrieved person has twenty- Kowloon Magistracy this morning, onate his honour in the tradi- bill before the Court was only a leave and realsting an escort out-pointed commander of the reorganis cates.Heuter's American Service.

pleaded that he had returned to see tional way. summary, Even then, when it side the "Star"" ferry' wharf Ded Manchurian armies."

his wife and child. was taken to the Court transla- Aug. 80.

The report adds that Hu Yoh-pu,

M. Bergery waited for two tor, it proved to be so full of tech-

According to the prosecution, how days and then wrote to M. Poin- Gunner B. Cotton, of the 31st the director of the office of the three!

ever, he was found to be in employ-care that he would not make him- nicalities "that it was like a law- Heavy Battery, who was charged in Eastern Provinces, which was re- RECEIVES ANOTHER AP.

ment. yer's bill to a layman." Hence, conjunction with Shipley, was cently established in Nanking, is POINTMENT AT THE HAGUE,

self ridiculous by offering a chal- EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS, Mr. Russ explained, it was com-found not guilty.

The magistrate, Mr. W. Schofield, lenge which it was, in fact, no now going to Nanking from Tientain plicated. However, the defence

The gruesome story of how a said that alx years ago prisoner had longer open to him to do. His Private J. C. W. O'Brien, 1st to submit his report on existing con-

The Hague, Yesterday.. did not dispute the items on the Batt. Queen's Royal Regiment, has ditions in Manchuria.-Reuter.

been sentenced to 2 months im- letter further attempts to draw schoolboy was kidnapped by ban- bill.

The Permanent Court of Inter-prisonment for the possession of . Poincare into a public discus-dits in an inland district of Kwang- been sentenced to 56 days' detention

Mongol Trouble.

national Justice has elected the Without calling evidence, Mr. and stoppages up to 28. 9444. for de-

a dangerous Implement. Less than sion, demanding that the Prime tung and how the victim was de Swiss Professor Max Huber vice- Remedios submitted that first desertion from the Service and losing

Peking, Yesterday.

president in succession to the late a month ago he was banished for 10 Minister should explain his in-capitated and his head stuck on to a stick outside the ill-fated village fendant had not signed the actual [part of his equipment by neglect.

Further. Mongol trouble occur- agreement. Further, the agree-

Professor Andre Weiss (France), years. Defendant admitted his past sinuations..

M. Poincare on July 12 replied which the robbers had raided, was ment only bound defendants to

In passeing sentence of 8 in the following terms: "I have told to Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the pay the company's debts, not per-

months with hard labour, the nothing to retract from what I Central Magistracy, this morning. sonally, but on behalf of the

Tsang Yu, the man who is "want- magistrate ordered defendant to said to you at the last sitting of receive 12 strokes of the the Chamber. If you think it deed" by the Canton Government for birch, and if unfit, to receive an sirable that I should add anything the alleged kidnapping of the boy' additional month's imprisonment.

Kwan Wel and, more you can have recourse when whose name was the Chamber meets again to a his murder on July 17, 1927, was

PEN-KNIFE STAB.

other shareholders (whom they INDIAN WATCHMAN RECEIVES represented) or the company.

with concurred

SIX MONTHS' "HARD."

red in northern Manchuria on Sept.

Prof. Huber is an ex-President 8 when from 60 to 70 Mongols at- tacked and destroyed the Chinese of the Court-Reuter. fishing stations" on the river, one

RUSSIANS ON BAIL, day's march from Manchull.

Peking, Yesterday.

On Sept. 9 Chinese troops re occupied the river-port but there Mr. Said Wall, 'a watchman of the was a further clash on Bept. 11 in

Mr. Justice P. Jack (Puisne Judge) Remedios's view and gave judg-Asiatic Petroleum Co. waz sen-which a small body of Chinese troops

ment for defendants with costa.tenced to six weeks' hard labour, by was defeated. Reuter.

YANG SEN LOSING?

HIS TROOPS LEAVE FOWCHOW FOR WANHSIEN.

UPPER YANGTSZE WAR.

Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy yesterday, for assault, ing and wounding Karam Dad, also

employed as a watchman by, the same company.

YELLOW RIVER.

CHINESE ENGINEERS EXAMINE TSINAN BRIDGE.

record..

The vernacular reports con- cerning the 15 Russians, who STRUGGLE IN 'PLANE renewal of the interpellation in the dock.

were arrested in the Chinese raid on the Soviet Embassy in April, 1927, are declared to be inaccur atc. No verdict has been an nounced. The position is that the 15 Russians remain on bail and under a promise not to leave Peking before their trial Reuter.

POLA NEGRIA-S

Paris, Yesterday

PASSENGER INTERFERES WITH CONTROLS.

Belgrade, Aug. 21

which you withdrew Mean Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, assistant while, I judge it useless to enter attorney general, prosecuted for into a polemical correspondence the Crown, and stated that the with you by articles in the Canton Government requested the Press, extradition of the prisoner

It was alleged, that on July 17, M. Bergery is married to a

A Hungarion pressman who Inspector Shannon, officer in

was 8 passenger in an aeroplane daughter of Krassin, the Bolshe-1927, about 80 robbers headed by charge of the Indian guards, pro-

at Santa Viovodina became panic vik commissar, who is reputed to the prisoner, raided the Wei Yun secuted and Mr. Horace Lo appear-

Peking, Yesterday,

stricken and interfered with the have left a large fortune on his School in Fak Kong Village, Kau

death. ed for defendant..

Kong, |controls.DAMENT Wanhalen, Yesterday,

Chinese engineers have begun According to witness, the as- an investigation of the Yellow

The machine nose dived and ap

There were nine students, Includ Considerable movements of Aault arose over a card dispute, in River bridge of the Tientsin-

Ing Kwan Wel, who was murder- peared likely to crash into the troops down, the Upper Yanstaze which defondant stabbed complain- Pukow Railway, Tainanfu Pola Negri, the cinema star, the plot regained control, flat of the "Chios Digest," has been ap the other victims and in order to spectators, but at the last minute Mr. Carrol Lunt, one-time editor ed as a threat to the families of from Fowchow: towards Wanhsien ant on the back with a pen knife. They are accompanied, by agree- have been reported.--British Naval

a ment, by three Japanese Army who was thrown from her horse in tened out and landed: One of the pointed secretary of the American force them to pay ransom. Wireless.

A congress of Rotarians is to representatives and two repre- the Bois de Boulogne a few days wings decapitated a boy cyclist. Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai. Kwan Chan, (Note: Going up from Wan- take place in Tokyo during the first sentatives of the Japanese go, has recovered. Reuter hsten, General Yang Sen took Fow- four days of October, and it is ex- Consul-General, and are protect- chow and then marched on Chung pected that there will be delegates ed by thirty Japanese soldiers king, to be driven back. This lat from all the Bountries of the Far and twenty mounted Chinese est message indicates that fortunes Bast as well. Honolulu and the police-Reuters

in the Upper Yangtare War (which United States. The officials of their [Note: The bridgeheads come has paralysed shipping) are chang. Congress in Tokyo announce that within the zone under Japaness ing and that Yang Ben's men are a delegation of 20 from Shanghai military occupation following the falling back)

| Tsinantu imbroglio.]

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR.

CAP-Reuter,

16-year-old

boy, told the story of how It is understood that Major Stru

the robbers tied ropes around their bell, formerly manager of the Glas Letters from Home state that necks and dragged them along dur- gow Stadium, who has been engaged during August Co. WL Goring the kidnapping. Witness said as manager of the Champ de don, late Commandant of the Shang: that, the prisoner was among the Courses in Bhangha!," left Home hal Volunteer Corps, was residing gang.Se

| some time in August. He is bring at Edsell in Forfarshire, a part of Mr. F. H. Loseby appeated for

ng 180 greyhounds with him to the country with which his family the defence

-t'l Hak-long been, associatél.

Güthe came in proceeding?

The closing rate of the dollar on demand, -to-day was 2/01/16 Bhanghai,