MONDAY, APRIL & 1929.
WU-HAN CHANGES play of bannerettes and welcome
NANKING ADMINISTRATION NOW IN FORCE
·CHIANG RAI-SHEK THERE
posters, matters present an every- day appearance,
The change of government is being carried out in a most ami- cable manner, the Nanking repre- sentatives 'intimating that as few changes as possible will be made in the civil governing capacities. -Reuter.
Nanking Garrison
Hankow, Saturday. I is revealed that General Hu Taung-tu (who was in charge of the Kwangsi, defence in the ab-
Hankow, Yesterday.. sence of two of the big four of
Thirty thousand Nanking troops the Kwangsi group) obtained $500,000 from the local banks and have arrived and are garrisoning
Wahan, their the Chinese Chambers of Com-
coming causing merce before departing from Han- at relief to the merchants, and kow in the hour of defeat. Simi- it is felt that all danger and trou
ble have now passed-Reuter. larly, other Kwangsi commanders received leaser sums, the payments being made on the condition that the retreating, troops must not molest Hankow.
Now there are eight Chinese gunboats here, the largest number
seen for a considerable time.
the gunboat "Tɛu Yu."
the
The Nanking gunboats were in action against the Kwangsi troops on the river banks two or three *times when advancing up
Yangtszo but suffered TO casualties. In addition, a Kwang- si aeroplane tried to bomb the warships but the bombs dropped wide. Reuter.
Rabble Disarmed
Hankow, Yesterday. Thousands of leaderless (pro- Kwangsi) Hupch troops who strayed from the main retreat, appeared at on the evening of April 6.
the rear of the city They ware inclined to be troublesome but were disarmed by the Public Safatty Corps without resistance- Reuter.
Plane v. Warships Rear-Admiral Chen Shao-kwan (commander of the Nationalist Navy in the Yangisze), who took
Appointments Pro Tem park in the campaign against the
Hankow, Yesterday, Kwangsi faction, is accompanying
It is unofficially stated that the Marshal Chiang Kai-shek aboard following temporary appointments will be made by Marshal Chiang Kai-shcl:-
General Lu. Ti-ping to be acting Garrison Commissioner of Wa-han. Liu Wen-tao to be acting Mayor. Li Fong to be acting Foreign Commissioner and concurrently Superintendent of Customs. Fong Tse-chiao to be Civil Commissioner.
Chiu Hang-chun to be Hankow, Saturday,
Finance Commissioner. Owing to the unexpected turn in
Ho Kuo-twang to be acting affairs (the collapse of the Kwang-Chairman of the Hupeh Provincial si defence owing to treachery on Government. one or more sectors), the situation is rapidly returning to normal. No further disturbances are anti- cipated unless unforeseen circum- stances intervene.
Unexpected Turn
General satisfaction is felt at the arrival of the Nanking troops.
-Reuter.
Heroes Arrive
acting
acting
Li Yi-tse to be acting Managing of the Peking-Hankow
Director Railway.
It is emphasised that the ap pointments are and will be subject
purely temporary. to. revision later.
Business Outlook On the afternoon of April 6,
Hankow, Friday. Chiang Kai-shek made a public denouncing the Kwangsi
Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and the speech
leader of one of his columns, Genclique for increasing
the sorrow3
eral Hsia Tao-rin, have arrived but and burdens of the people, and for the present are staying on
assuring his hearers that per- board a gunboat, prior to landing manent peace would come
on April 6.
A transport full of Nanking troeps_has_nleg arrived; but the mala body is coming in on April 6. marching along the banks of the Yangtze River.
Small numbers of Kwangsi troops
who were passing through Hankow were disarmed by the Police and they did not resist.
The bulk of the Kwangsi armies, however, is at present west of Hankow and retiring to their vetine provinces according to nu agree
to
at
He has taken up quarters the Jardine estate. Yang Sen's former residence in
It is stated that he will remain here for at least a week.
has completely abated, and business
The atmosphere of uneasiness
Den seem In
more assured of mind than for months frame past. Reuter.
Boycott Lifted
Hankow, Yesterday.
connection with governments plete lifting
in the change of has been the com- of the anti-Japanese
ment reached on April 5 with he An interesting 'development commozaders of the Nanking armies. The situation here continues to be quiet and matters have almost returned to normal-Reuter.
Victor Saluted
Hankow, Friday.. The panic in Hankow on the night of April 4 subsided early the next morning.
boycott
With the first rumours of the retreating troops and crowds seck- ing entrance to the Japanese con- cession: the pickets promptly dis appeared and to-day, for the first Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, pre-time since January, the Japanese ceded by four gunboats, arrived barricades have been removed and at Hankow at 6 p.m. on April 5, Japanese police have taken and the gunboats fired a salute of control of the concession from the
naval authorities. 21 guns on his arrival.
Then the advance guard of Nanking troops, despatched to take over control, was landed from two steamers belonging to the China
Merchants S.N. Co.
The crowds in the streets to wel- come the victor were not big and the demonstration was feeble; but this may have been due to the heavy rains which, however, help- ed to preserve order.
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1. Ratification of the Kel- logg Pact.
2-Signature of the agree- ment with China settling the Tsinan Incident, without hav ing first referred the terms to the Council
3. Signature of the Com- mercial Treaty with Abyssinia without being able to translate the original which is written in Abyssinian!
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RACE owing to inclusion of the phrase ington, is now Secretary of State MEETING will be held (wea that HLJ.M. the Emperor signs of the United States, and he is ther permitting) at Happy Valley very favourable to our cause,* on SATURDAY, April 13, 1929, Imperial Dignity
slated the noted man from the commencing at 2.15 p.m. This phrase is considered deroga- Philippines who some day may tory to His Imperial Majesty and become the first Filipino Gov- also contrary to the Japanese Con-ernor-General of the archipelago The charge for admission to the stitution which recognises the En-of the southern sens, although he Public Enclosure will be $1 peror as supreme and he, therefore, makes no such admission.
for all persons including Ladies. must sign in his own name.
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Soldiers and Sailors in uniform "Hong Kong has always inter- half price. To foreigners the difficulty may appear merely a technical quibble ested Manila business men be- Members are advised that they! and easily rectifiable, but the Privy canse of its climate conditions and must show their Badges to obtain Council and other constitutional well regulated jurisdiction. Per-admission to the Members' Enclo- authorities taking a serious sonally, I consider this port one aure. view, maintaining that the matter of the best in the Orient.
Each member has the right to "Manila business leaders are introduce 2 non-members to considering the advisability Members Enclosure, tickets for The seriousness of the situation of opening. an air line whom can be is indicated by the seemingly re-from
metropolis of Messrs. Linstead & Davis at $5 liable rumour that Count Uchida, the Philippines to Hong Kong. each, up to Friday, April 12, 1929. who signed the Kellogg Pact in Passengers, mail and cargo are to Paris, intends to resign from the be included in the service if it Privy Council if ratification is re- materialises soon, as it is expect
ed to but not yet definitely known. fused. Reuter.
Each member can obtain, upon This service will enable both ports application to the Secretary, to become better acquainted with Badges for admission of 2 Ladies' each other and build an even free of charge. stronger feeling of friendship.. Bookmakers, Tie Tac Мев
"Shortly a Filipino aviator, etc., will not be permitted to: perhaps Captain Leoncio Malinao, operate within the precincts of the private air pilot of the National Hong Kong Jockey Club, during News Service, a cable news Asso-the Race Meetings. ciation belonging to one of my companies and covering the Philippines at all news sources, may hop off from Manila accom- panied by Jimmy "Triple Threat" Van Shyke, one of the star American reporters of my chain of newspapers and the youngest. newspaper, correspondent in the Orient.
Dulares Del Rio and Walter Pidgeon in "The Gateway of the Moon" at the Queen's on April 9 and 10.
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Buyer of Shops
While in Hong Kong Don.. Ramon may purchase one or two ships for his Compania Maritima, the largest and leading shipping concern of the Islands. When it became known that this company. was on the market for new ships, of a certain type, to improve the "Unreality" was the subject of already finely equipped inter- nece business men alike are very the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches island service of the Philippines. pleased that the annoying boycott of Christ. Scientist, on Sunday, cable offers from all over the restrictions have been removed and April 7. cordial relations have established.-Reuter.
It appears the present Govern-
disapproves ment
anti-Japanese activities, and Chinese
and Japa-
been ré.
War Movements
Nanking, Saturday.
and many
The Golden Text was: "The Lord
knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shail perish" (Psalms 1:6).
It is estimated that about 8,000 Among the citations which com- troops have arrived at Pukow prised the Lesson-Sermon was the No further trouble is expected. The greater part of the Kwangsi since April 4, by the Tientsin- following from the Bible: "O Lord, armies of Wu-Han, other than the Pukow Railway.
more thou hast searched me, and known A consider me. Whither shall go from thy men who have already gone over to continue to arrive. the winning side, is clear of the
able number are billeted in go- spirit? or whither shall I flee from city of Hankow by
and is downs and tents while six Chinese thy presence? If I ascend up into
steamers are going west into Hunan. Reuter.
loaded with heaven, thou art there: if I make. Chiang Kai-shek Lands
troups at Nanking. British Naval my bed in hell, behold, thou art Wireless.
now
now
there. If I take the wings of the [The concentration of troops on morning, and dwell in the uttermost the bank of the Yangtaze opposite parts of the sea: even there shall Nanking is due to the military move thy hand lead me, and thy right| ments becessitated by and quent to the war against Hankow. hand shall hold me. If I say,
Retreat Cut Off?
Surely the darkness ahali cover me:) Changsha, Saturday. even the night shall be light about
conse-
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Ramon Incidentally Senorita Fernandez, wife of Don Ramon, is
a leader in Manila's social set and
at one time was the leading opera-
tie soprano of the Philippines, according to Manila reports.
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GRETA GARBO IN THRILLING SPY DRAMA
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A drowning accident occurred
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It is reported that General Home, Yea, the darkness hidath not the net of spy systems which fight at the Canton wharf last night, presentatives of various public bodies and by
Chien (hitherto cbeying the from thee; but the night shineth as silent, but, deadly battles in the soon after the s.s. "Fatshan's" enormous crowds and onlookers
Kwangsi faction, but who surren- carrying ban-
the day: the darkness and the light supposedly quiet times of peace arrival from Canton, at 11.30. nerettes with inscriptions of wel-dered to Nanking) has moved his are both alike to thee" (Ps. 139: form the back ground for atirring A young Chinese woman accom
troops out to prevent retreating 1, 7-12).
drama in the new picture comingpanied by her amah were board- After an exchange of formal- Kwangsi armies from Hankow The Lesson-Sermon also included
on Thursday to the Queen'sing the steamboat to welcome the ities, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek moving that way (ie, southward). the following passages from the Theatre, "The Mysterious Lady," young woman's grandmother, proceeded to the Chinese Mer-British Nayal Wireless. 417*. Christian Science textbook, "Science Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer starring when the granddaughter slipped chants Club where he is making [Latest developments reported and Health with Key to the Scrip vehicle for Greta Garbo.
on the gang-plank and fell into his headquarters temporarily. on page 1.]
tures by Mary Baker Eddy: The plot is laid in the rival conn the harbour between the ship "Since God is all, there is bo room tries, Russia and Austria, in the and the wharf aspect and confidence has been ACT OF TREACHERY for His untikeness. God, Spirit, days preceding the War, and-a The alarm was immediately completely restored. From the
come.
:
Matters have resumed a normal
present state of affairs, it is diffi- cult to realise that there was "such a colossal scary as existed two days ago Reuter.
[Chiang Kai-shek returns to Han- kow after an absence of about two years. He was there when the Na tionalists, first captured it from the Northerners. Then Tang Seng-chi turned on him, in his absence o conquest, and established a separate administration, Tang Bength elected by the Kwangsites who have, in turn, defied Chiang A thek to their disasters direkt
Amicable Change
Hankow Yesterday!
The situation continues věry quiet and except for a vivid dis
EPISODE AT SIEGE OF
MUPING
alone created all, and called it good. thrilling romance is woven into raised and several merk went Therefore evil, being contrary to the gripping drama of nations under the wharf to search for the good, is unreal, and cannot be the warring with the bloodless but young woman, but no trace of product of God. A sinner can re-deadly tools of espionage and her could be found. ceive no encouragement from the intrigue
When the aged grandmother
Chefoo Saturday. By arrangement with Chang Tsung-chang (who commands the Northerners in the cast of Shan tung province), General Liu Chen nien (the Nationalist defender) to day opened the gates of Muping, professedly to allow a number of civillans to leave the besieged town The civilians were accompanied by to the awful unreality by which he Fred Wiblo, who also directed Ludwing Wolff, a German novelist. Li Chen-nien's soldiers who at has been deceived. Only those who Miss Carbo in "The Temptress," His direction, following an adapta- tackad Chan Tsung-chang's forces, repent of sin and forsake the one of the Swedish star's first tion for the screen by Bess killing between three- and four unreal, can fully understand the screen successes, has made the most Meredyth, is virile and strong with
Souhreally of evil" (p. 239). 1 of this the story from hundred. Better.
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fact that! Solence demonstrates the Greta Garbo, as a beautiful heard of her grandchild's sad fate unreality of evil, for the sinner Russian spy who falls in love with he was overcome with grief and would make a reality of ainan Austrian officer whom she had to be helped off the whart:] would make that real which is undisgraced, has an extremely colour The young woman's name was real, add thus heap up wrathful role. In her support, Conrad Tong Chap (21), and the lived against the day of wrath." He is Nagel also has a large part to with her father at No 28 Des joining in a conspiracy against him- play and this is the first time he Voeux-road Central. solfakat blown awakening has appeared with Greta Garbo,
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