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RETURN OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF JAPAN. ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION IN.
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PRECEDENTS SWEPT BY THE BOARD
SOUTHERNERS IN FLIGHT.
A RACE THROUGH OHANOSHA. CHANGSHA, August 26th:
- Once more we are witnessing the col- lapse of the South. By the time this appears in "print it seems hardly likely
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Chi. officials left in this city. When a TOKIO, September 3rd. will be any Southern soldiers The Autori, with the Crown Prince se army starts on the rotrent, it does
fot know how to stop. of Japan on board, and the escorting squadrons, anchored at Fokobanis last night. This morning" the representatives of the Emperor and Empress, the l perial; Princes, including Prince Hire hito's two brothers, Princes Yasuhito and Nobuhite, members of the Cabinet, Admirals of the Fleet, including Admiral Count Togo, and Field Marshals pro ceeded on board the Katori and formally welcomed the Crown Prince. The Premier proposing his Imperial Highness's health called for three Banzais for the hair to the Throne. There was a deafening accompaniment of warships saluting and marchaatiren whistling, while aeroplanes circled overhead. The weather was par feet.
For
After very severe fighting at Tingshih- chiao, in which the tale of killed and wounded was disproportionately large for On the the number of men engaged. the South retired to this side of Puchi. right
the retirement has been as far On the left wing (the Tangcheng. river front) although there has been no actual retirement, it is evident there is no holding the position taken up. a fourth time we shall see the Northerners, in-and in due course we shall see them go out again for a fourth time. Any idea that China can be unified by such force as Wei Pei-fu is capable of exerting is a delusion. His force is quite strong enough Thanks to division to crush Hunaa. within Hunan, the Hunanese are alone in 66 bearing the brunt, The Beighbouring provinces may arrive, but it will be too late to save Hunan.
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A HIGH-POWERED MODERN-DAY DRAMA BASSED ON THE ABSORBING TOPIC OF THE "DOUBLE STANDARD OF MORALITY.”
Proceeding by train to Tokyo, the Crown Prince was the recepient of a second official welcome at Tokyo railway station, where some three thousand per sons had gathered, including Prince Of course, General Chao Hengti will Fushimi, the Imperial Princesses, the be the "goat" He has never been able Genre, members of the Dijlomatic Corps, to persuade Wu Pei-fu that he did his Baron Gate, Mayor of Tokyo, and duty when Tan. Yen-kai left Hanan. He host of officials.
has tried to keep up his end of the made when Wu was last friendship" in Eunan, but he has met with no real response from Wu. On the extreme radi en side the Sun Wen faction-Chao Friday to Monday-Vanishing Trail; 8 & 9 Episodes. Heng-ti is in no better case than he is with Wa Pei-in. Possibly. hardly prob
On alighting. the Prince first greeted the members of the Imperial family, and then shools hands and contially caver sed with Sir Charles Eliot, the British Ambassador, and other representatives of the European l'owers.
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Wuchang. Chao might have saved his After inspecting the guard of honour, lace with defeat, his downfall is certain, the Prince drove through the gully de Wu Fei-fu himself is hated even more The Hunanese in corated streets to the Palace. The thou-than he is feared. sands of towns-people and country folk general regard him as having betrayed the cause to which they considered he was who, lined the route, discarded the custo mary attitude of silence in the presence committed. of members of the Imperial inmily and Vociferously banzuted as the proces- sion passed, the Prince repeatedly salut ing and bowing his acknowledgments Another precedent was broken by the press photographers and cinema-men, who were ubiquitous in their efforts to take the Prince,
The change in the Crown Prince's ap- pearance since he left Japan-his alert, self-possessed, democratic demeanour, was much commented upon.
The vernacular newapapers this morn
"GNAT INCIDENT CLEARED UP.
On Wednesday, the Siangtan was fired upon some ten miles below Yochow when she was accompanied by H.M.S. Gut. The Grat returned the firing und was ber. self then the centre of an hour's fighting in which the damage she did to the carth works, etc, of the southeruera was very great. General Chao Heng-ti received an account of the lighting before the arrival of the Siangtan. This telegraphed report was from certain officers, whose names nee happily known, in which they state most British. booth, The Chinese were
ing came out with special éditions in clearly the sing of the cried with:
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honour of the occasion They say that the tour has taught Japanese at home out any provocation, the officers recognis they the real personality of their Prince, and the British gunboat and therefore
carefully observed the Commander-in- has had the effect of breaking down the
the orders and meekly traditional barriers between the laiparia punishment inflicted upon them without family and the people, while the view is ring a shot, except that two of the expressed that the marks of courtesy and officers did disobey orders in their anger respect shown to the Prince abroad are and did fire some shots" bound to lead to a fuller understanding Japan and Bet people. Viscount Kato, leader of the Kenseikai, in a message to one journal writes, Prince Hirohito has done. what no other Japanese could do in furthering-friendly relations with the Powers."
THE PRINCE'S MESSAGE.
LATER. Thirty thousand persons carrying lan- terns and Bugs this evening paraded from the City Hall to the Palace where they cheered the Crown Prince, who, with his two brothers, appeared on the veran dah and saluted the crowds. That such a democratic demonstration should have. been allowed to enter the Palace grounds was a break with all precedent.
the
The Crown Prince, through Premier, has issued a message to the Japanese nation, in which he expresses
The foolish, follows had piled up on this bill all the guns they could get come ten miles below Chenglinchi, in the vain hope that they would be able to defend the approach to Hunan--and then they go and attack a gunboat with six inch guns! The explosions of the shells did enormous damage to the whole bluff. The Chinese telegram speaks of one man wounded," but private advices that came down put the number at over ton. It is probable that a smaller number is correct, for the passengers on the Siangtan all aver that the Gant did not attempt at killing much as a scuring the silly sheep who attacked them-Central China Post
THE NEW AMERICAN MINISTER.
the gratitude of himself and the nation MR. MA SOO DENIES CRITICISING
for the courtesies and hospitality ex- tended to him by the sovereigns and peoples of Europe, and his appreciation of the opportunities which he has been afforded of studying post-war conditions and of meeting distinguished people of all spheres. The Prince calls on the people to apply themselves to the promo- tion of national prosperity and to the adoption of the good example of other nations, reglecting no endeavours to make contributions to the advancement of world civilization.
To-morrow Prince Hirohito will visit the Emperor and Empress at Nikko," On September 8th he will attend the wel. come celebration in Tokyo and later will proceed to the Imperial shrines of Ise, Mocioyama, and Unebi, returning to the capital on September 15th.
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September 4th. After celebrating until a late hour Last night, Tokyo again demonstrated its joy at Crown Prince Hirohito's return and its pride in his achierements when His Imperial Highness left this morning for Nikko, where he will report to the Emperor and Empress, returning to Tokyo on Wednesday next-Reuter.
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A telegram has been received from Mr. Ma Soo, denying that he issued or was in any since responsible for the statement, protesting against the appointment of Dr. Jacob Gould Schürman as American. Minister to China, which appeared in the foreign press in Hongkong and elsewhere some weeks ago. In point of fact, Mr. Ma Soo has been on friendly terms with Dr. Schurman and they lunched together a few days before the latter's departure from Washington for Chinn
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CANTON, September 10th. Attention here has been drawn to a Reuter message from Peking, said to be based on a Canton telegram to the elect that President Sun Yat-sen would "not agres for Mr. C. C. Wu to go to the Wash ington Conference as a representative of the Central Government.
ent. As Mr. Wa is Vice-Minister for Foreign Aflaira of the legal Government of which President Three hundred pounds of opium, valued Sun is the Chief Executive, there would at Yen 60,000, was seized by the police and be no need for him to seck the President's customs officials at Kobo recently on board decision regarding an offer that would R.M.S. Empress of Russia, which arrived make him a "representative of an from Shanghai. A Chinese passenger who administration which lacked the constitu had tried to
the opium
iuto tional sanctions of a legal Government. Smuggle Japan made his escape and is still at large, reports the Japan Advertiser. This Chinese originally intended to land in Shanghai but he was prevented from doing so by the stormy weather that pre- vailed while the liner was at that port He boarded the vessel et Hongkong.
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