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HONG KONG, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1930.

CIVIL WAR.

Nanking Troops Get a Surprise.

DIVISION ANNIHILATED.

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Peking, Saturday. Military headquarters Issued the following communique this afternoon.

"The Nanking forces, taking advantage of the partial concen. tration of the Second and Third Army Groups, which are compos- ed of Yen Hal-shan's and Feng Yu-hsiang's picked troops, num. bering each a hundred thousand, came out of their positions three days ago and advanced weat wards, under Chiang Kai-shek's orders.

Here they were surprised by the troops covering the concentra- tion and composed of the com- mands of Sun Tlen-ying and Wan Hsuan-tsaj. One Nanking divi- sion was annihilated, the ground being left covered with dead. Complete disorder now reigns on the Nanking front, quantities of prisoners being brought in.

THE "MASKEE.”

Departure in a Few Days.

LENA GOLDFIELDS.

Sitting of Court of Arbitration.

CONCESSION OPERATIVE.

FINAL STORES ABOARD.

It is expected that the junk

. Berlin, Saturday. Maskee will start upon her voyage The Arst sitting of the Court: again early next week. The of Arbitration in the dispute be intention way to try to get tween the Lena Goldfields and the away at the latest some time to- Soviet was held to-day, when the day, but there was considerable President, Professor Stutzer, an doubt whether this could be done.nounced that the arbitrator ap- Stores were all pinced aboard pointed by the Soviet had failed aver the week-end, but there still to appear. remain one or two matters to be set- tled before the junk can leave. It

is understood that the members of the crew have been made Honorary Members of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, and will fly the Club's burgee on their voyage. They are most appreciative of the help ren- dered them by the Club and other members of the local public, the only difficulty being that they have been regretfully obliged to refuse many gifts for use on board owing to the necessary rigid economy of

space.

Absolute essentials for the jour- ney fill up the hold space, and most careful packing and storing are required even to get all these The ori-in.

The vanguarda of the Second and Third Army Groups came into action yesterday. ginal plan was that As soon as the concentration had been 'com- pleted the two covering forces would

open up and go to the flanks, but the situation has deve- loped so rapidly that the advan- tage is being exploited and a gen- eral advance is occurring without | redistribution."!

Nanking Claims Victory,

Shanghai, Saturday. An official communique from Hsuchowfu states

that serious fighting between Wan Hauan taui's troops and the Government forces broke out on Thursday evening in the neighbourhood of Yucheng on the Honan-Shantung border.

ALIEN SEAMEN.

Mr. Kenworthy on the Warpath.

London, Saturday, At the request of the National Union for Seamen, Commander Kenworthy, M.P., is going to An- twerp, accompanied by officials of the National Union of Seamen, to investigate the successful system in force there for preventing abuses in the engagement of Arab, Asiatic and other alien sea- men,

The visit is largely the result A battle royal was still raging of the unrest among unemployed yesterday when the rebels were British seamen in connection with stendily retreating westwards the employment of Arabs and under heavy artillery fire from Lascars on British ships.-Reu- the Government forces.

, Government aeroplanes are be ing despatched daily to bomb the rebels' positions,

Szechuan Assistance.

Peking, Saturday,

ter.

Nanking, not only roped together but also roped to their guards,

It is reported that the Nanking The vernacular newspapers foreca ere doing their utmost to state that 47 civilians were kill-safeguard all foreign property in ed and 28 Injured during the Nanking.

bombing of Chengchow by the Nanking neroplance. A hundred

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Mukden's Оñer.

Peking. Saturday.

The Soviet had telegraphed, however, declaring that "the Leno Goldfields had in fact cancelled the concession agreement, there- by causing the Court of Arbitra- tion to cease to exist.”

A representative of the Lena Goldfields made u statement as- serting that the Company had not regarded the concession as being cancelled and submitted that neither party was entitled to can- cel it. The only authority em- powered to do no was the Court of Arbitration,

The Court found that the con- cession agreement Was still operative and that the jurisdic- tion of the Court was consequent- ly not impaired.

It was also decided that the future sittings of the Court should be in public. the next to be held on June 28-Reuter.

[The dispute concerns the Lena Goldfields concessions in West Siberia and has been the subject! of many actions. Only two days; ago the Supreme Court at Moscow sentenced to ten years' imprison- ment Kolianikov, chief metal- lurgist of the Lena Goldfields Company, and Muromtzev, the legal adviser of the concession- aires, on charges of destructive activities and of espionage. The Court, however, reduced the sen- tences to six years.

Bashkirtzer, who is alleged to have burned a Soviet zinc fac- tory, was sentenced to death, but the sentence was commuted ten years' imprisonment.]

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POET LAUREATE. Appointment of Mr. J. Masefield.

London, Saturday, The appointment of Mr. Johd Masefield as Poet Laureate has gives great pleasure in literary houses were destroyed and the Mr. Putnam Weale, in an ar- circles and especially among Mase- local merchants and gentry have ticle in the Peking Leader, states field's fellow poets. decided to lodge

He lives at a protest with that

Chang

has Boxhill, Oxford, and was Hauch-liang Chiang Kai-shek, accusing the agreed to furnish the Northern-bour and close friend of his pre- a neigh- Nanking forces of inhumanity in ers with

Д reinforcement killing non-combatants.

of decessor, the late Dr. Bridges. He 80,000 men if needed, together is of extremely shy temperament It is understood that the battle with all his heavy artillery and and is glad that the Laureateship front rung from near Tangshan the service of the Mukden arsenal. does not these days involve writing to Kuoyang, a distance of about-Reuter. seventy miles.

From Taiyuanfu it is reported that the delegates of the three leading Szechuan generals, Ten Hai-hou, Tien Sung-yao and Liu Taung-hoa bave arrived at Tal yuanfu and have exprossed their readiness to send troops to at- tack Hankow in co-operation with the other anti-Chiang forces.

Mystery of Foreigners.

Shanghai, Saturday. According to reporta circulat- ing in Shanghai the railways are busy rushing troops to the front.

It is stated that four Russians have been arrested by the Govern- meat at Lungtan Station, be- tween Chinkiang and Nanking. It is not known whether they are Communists, harmless citizens, or Shanel emissaries.

A subsequent account atatea that four foreigners were seen being led through the streets of

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