1927-05-10 — Page 7

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MAY 10th, 1927.

FRENCH AVIATOR CROSSES ATLANTIC | AMERICANS AS TEA

FENG YU HSIANG CO-OPERATING WITH

CHIANG KAI SHEK.

NEW DISPOSITION OF HIS SIX ARMY CORPS.

JOINS WITH SHANSI'S "MODEL GOVERNOR" IN ATTACK ON NORTHERN TROOPS.

CHIANG GIVES ORDERS FOR GENERAL ATTACK ON NORTH.

Th ex-Christian-General, Feng Yu Hsiang, who until recently was hand in glove with the "Reds" of Hankow has now, it would appear, thrown in his lot with the Nanking Kuomintang, and is co-operating with Chiang Kai Shek. Feng, with his five generals and his warriors, is now working with. Shansi'e "Mode! Governor " (who is also a general) and jointly they are about to attuck Chang Tao Lin's. Feugtienese braves.

Chiang Kai Shek, who is still the undisputed generalissimo of the Kuomintang forces, has given orders for a general attack on the Northerners. It would, therefore, appear that before long the hill in the fighting will give place to something more exciting. Meanwhile, Southern and Northern troopa on the banks of the “Yangtsze semm“to be in much the same position or predicament

that they have been in for some time past.

WOMEN MISSIONARIES'

LONG TREK.

ENGLAND VIA GOBI, TUR- KESTAN, 8. SIBERIA AND MOSCOW.

TURKESTAN'S GOVERNOR IN A FUNK.

(THROUGH REUTER 6 AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 9th. Three British women,-the Misses Mildred Cable, Francesca French,

and Eva French, China Inland Missionaries, who have arrived in England on furlough vid the Gobi Desert, Turkestan, Southern Siberia and Moscow, in an interview stated that it took them four months to

reach Omsk from Suchow. They were held up by the military on

the borders of Turkestan because the Governor would not allow any. one to pass without his personal permission. He is terrified thatri travellers are agents for Bolshevists

FENG AND HIS GENERALS. SOUTHERN ATTACK ON THE and General Feng, and he has

FIVE OF THEM DIRECTING THEIR FORCES.

REPORTS TO CHIANG.

(Wah Taz lat Puo).

SHANGHAI, May 9th. Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang will reorganise his forces into six army corps so arranged as to move in different directions upon the Feng- tieneso in Honan. His generals!

NORTH.

CHIANG MAPS OUT NEW OBJECTIVES.

GENERALS OFF TO DIRECT OPERATIONS.

(Wah Tu Fat Pau).

SHANGHAI, May 9th. General Chiang Kai Shek has

directing their respective forces given orders for a general attack are: Liu Chin Wah, Yao Wei Chuen, Soong Cheh Yuan, Sun Lia on the Northerners from three directions, his objectives being Chung, Chu Wing Chang.

Hauchow, in the North of Kiangsu an important gateway leading to the interior of Shantung: Yueng-

Feng will direct his main fores at Shenchow,rom the Honan border near Tungkwan."

Feng has reported to Chiang Kaichow, north of the Yanglaze on the Shek his latest military movements Great Canal; and Ching Yueng and plan of co-operation with Yan Kwan, in the west of Anhui. Sib Saat, the model-governor.!! and military dictator in Shansi in order to present an united front against the Fengtianese in North-Western China.

INAVAL WIRELESS.7 Anti-*"Bad" Reinforcements For Swatow.

SWATOW, May 8th. Reinforcements are now on their way to Swatow to relieve the Con- munist threat, and yesterday the 8,8. luanier, seized a few days ago for service as a troopship, arrived from Amoy with at least six bun- dred troops on board.

Military operations will be car ried out against the Reds" short- ly, and meanwhile the tension at Swatow has eased considerably.

Anti-Communist Propaganda For

Hankow.

Generals Ho Ying Yam and t Chung Jan have gone to Chinkiang and Wuhu, respectively, to direct operations.

Quiet At Wanking.

NANKING, May 8th. The almost total cessation of hostilities in this region is reported to be due to the fact that the Southerners are running short of ammunition.

"Flowery

already ordered his casket, for he says that will be his only home if either party gaina entrance to his territory.

DRINKERS.

SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN.

U.S.A. DRINK ONE-SIXTH OF WORLD'S SUPPLY.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, May 9th. Sir Charles Highảm, who has re- turned to London after a successful campaign to popularise tea drinking in the United States, in an interview said that in the first three months

many tea

of 1997 we sold 1000,000 lbs. more Indian tea to America than in any three months in the last 20 years. There were twice as drinkers in the United States to-day as there were four years ago. America now drank one-sixth of the world's supply of tea and there

were now 32,000 tea shops in the United States compared with 300 three years ago.

COLONIAL GOVERNORS'

CONFERENCE.

OPENS IN LONDON TO-DAY,

AN EXPERIMENT. The officials on the Soviet fron-

(THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY.] tier made the travellera leavo all literature behind, but were her-

LONDON, May 9th. wise friendly..

The Colonial Office Conference, which is to be opened on May 10th, TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT,will be attended by Governors and

NUNGESSER SEEN OVER

NOVA SCOTIA,

GERMANY'S "STEEL HELMETERS."

80,000 PROTEST AGAINST PEACE TREATIES.

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PRESIDENT HINDENBERG DECLINES INVITATION TO BE PRESENT.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY-}

BERLIN, May 8th. Eighty thousand members of the Steel

Helmet " organisation, mostly ex-soldiers and nationalists,

assembled in protest of the Peace Treaties and to demand the restora. tion of conscription; also to declare war on "all workness and cowar- dice, which desires to deprive Ger- mani of the right and will to defend."

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AUSTRALIA'S NEW COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENT.

FORMALLY OPENED BY THE DUKE OF YORK,

IMPRESSIVE SPEECHES DELIVERED.

THE DUKE HOLDS AN INVESTITURE.

[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]

Ruony, May 8th.

The Duke and Duchess of York have arrived at Canberra, the new

devotion in the cause of peace, for which the Empire and all its mem- bers stand. We turn to-day to a new page of history: may it be.a page glorious for Australia and for the whole Empire."

pital of the Australian Common wealth, to open the new Federal

Prime Minister's Speech. Parliament Buildings. This cere

Mr. S. M. Brice, the Prime mony will be the grand climax of Moister of Australia, in an ad- their Australian tour. They were dress to the Duke of York, en- met. at the station by Mr. S. M.phasised Australia's loyalty to the Bruco, the Federal Premier, and Throne, Australia Was now 1 The lice, who were present in Mrs. Bruce and motored to Gov-nation, which remembered with full force and armed to the teeth, ernment House, where Lord Stone barred to other organisations the haven, Governor-General, is in re sidence. Later, tho Duke un- officially visited Parliament House. The Duke and Duchess and Lord

gratitule the fostering power of the Mother Country and the protection areas and streets through which the

she enjoyed under the British Bag. Steel Helmeters"

were passing.

"Great though our progts has heen, Australia is hut on the three- in order to prevent clashes.

The President declined an invitad Lady Stonehaven will arrive at hold of achievement. In the future

Parliament House to-morrow morn-

millions of the British race will ing with a cavalry escort. Units

people this land, in numbers sur- of three arms of, the defence forces passing the Motherland and stand- will line the route. The approaching resolutely for those principles to Parliament House will be head of Freedom and Justice, upon

tion to attend the demonstration. Speeches, Hymns And Fireworks.

The general public took a very lukewarm Interest in the "Steel Hehnet" demonstration yesterday, which concentrated before the ex- Kaiser's Palace..

ed by a fanfare of trumpets blows which the Empire is, based. Who on silver bugles by Royal Marines.

can foretell how great may be the After inspecting the guards of

part our nation will play-in-year honour, who will give him a Royal to come?" Salute, the Duke will mount the steps to the door, of Parliament

Dame Nellie Melba will sing the national anthem.

The lender of the "Steel Hel mets," Franz Seldte, an ex-lieuten. ant, mounted the steps of the National Gallery and made a specch| House. to the dense make of medalled de monstrators from all parts of Ger- many. Helped by loud speakers, he denounced the Treaty of Ver- sailles and demanded the restora tion of the Monarchist colours, It is hoped to conclude the busi- Shouts of "bravo" greeted the ness by the 31st inst. There will be speech, which was followed by two meetings daily, four days a hymns and week.

other representatives of the major ity of the Colonies, Protectoratea and Mandated Territories.

The meetings will be confidential, but communiqués will be issued where practicable.

alles."

"Deutschland

uber

The Prime Minister concluded: Inspired by those who have gone before us, let us dedicate ourselves to Service and march forward to our destiny with firm purpose and

An Investitura.

At an investiture, held after the ceremony, the Duke of York con- ferred various honours, including a Companion of Honour upon "Mr. Bruce.

[N.B. This message is incom-high resolve." plete owing to doubtful reception due to bad atmospheric conditions.] HOW HE LEFT PARIS.

THE OPENING CEREMONY. ST. JOHNG, Newfoundland,

(THROUGH BBUTER'S-AGENOY.-}- May 8th.

CANBERRA, May 9th. Cape Race reports that at mid-

With impressive ceremony, the night, Greenwich time, nothing had

Duke of York opened the Common- been heard of Nungesser. The wind The Conference will be of an The demonstrators dispersed wan north-east with snow showers, experimental nature, the primary quietly, escorted by mounted foot wealth Parliament in the while the visibility was about two object being to explore the desir-police who, however, during the Federal Capital Senate Chamber,

course of the day arrested 200 which was crowded. ability of holding Colonial Confer-civilians for obstruction. Picturesque Details,

of & more comprehensive Forty thousand spectators at the nature at fixed intervals and to stadium last night watched a Dramatic thrills enlivened Nun consider the possibility of establish- Helmeters," followed by fireworks.

military display by the "Steel gesser's start at Le Bourget, accoming any other machinery to secure more effective co-operation between panied by Captain Coli,

miles.

LATER.

The huge aeroplane, named the "White Bird," was painted white

ences

Colonial Governments in matters of IS POLYGAMY NECESSARY? general administration, economie

new

Aeroplane Accident, An aeroplane, participating in the

afternoon's review before the Duke and Duchess of York, orashed, the The Duke of York, in his in pilot being seriously injured. augural speech, recalled His

The Duchess' Narrow Escape. Majesty's opening of the first

MELBOURNE, April 6th. Parliament of the Commonwealth

The Duchess of York had a 26 years ago and expressed heartiest

narrow escape from an accident at The Duke dwelt upon the advance policeman's horse, frightened by a thanks for Australia's welcome. Warwick, in Queensland, when a

of the British Empire during the

There was a certain amount of to facilitate its being spotted, in development, scientific and technical DOCTOR'S VIEW ON UNHAPPY past quarter of a century and to the children, plunged violently. The

gunfire from the North bank to-day the event of a forced descent on but it was directed mainly at four the sea, with a black heart near empty Chinese river steamers which arrived at Nanking yesterday.

Ai Chinking.

CHINKIANG, May 8th. The Silver Island guns engaged the shore batteries on the North bank for a considerable period yos- few rounds were It is planned, according to interday, and a

exchanged to-day.

The local situation is unchanged. Battle In Progress.

SHANGHAI, May 8th.

formation now available, to send agents from Shanghai to Hankow with the object of instigating an extensive anti-Communist propa- ganda campaign. The situation unchanged.

Exodus of Troops From Wuhu. WEHU, May 8th.

at Shanghai is

The remaining troops are leaving in batches for an unknown destina-

20.

HANKOW, May 8th The Northerners advancing down the Hun River have now reached Suicho, with little resistance,

A further threat to Hunkow is offered by the advance of Fengtien troops to the Hupch border. They have blown up a railway bridge.

It is reported that a sovere battle is now in progress between the Very few soldiers are now laft at Fengtienites. and the Nationalist forces under General Tang Seng

Wuhu.

(Continued on next column.)

ANOTHER OUTRAGE.

AMERICAN CATHOLIC MISSION LOOTED AND BURNED.

PRIESTS FORCED TO FLEE.

(THROUGH. RAUTER'S AGENCY.]

Chi.

SHANGHAI U.S. OFFICIAL

SENTENCED..

FORMER DISTRICT ATTORNEY BENT TO MONEILL'S ISLAND.

[IHROUGH REUTER'S AGENOY.]

SHANGHAI, May 9th. Leonard Goodwin Husar, former United States District Attorney, for Shanghai, was to-day sentenced in the U.S. Court for China, by Judge PEKING, May 9th. Milton D. Purdy, to two years in A telegram from Hankow, dated the Ponitentiary at McNeill's Island, the 7th inst., states that the Washington, and fined G.$3,000. American Catholic Mission #b Shengchow, in West Bunaa, has beon looted and burned and the priests forced to flee. Their where- abouts are unknown.

THE RUSSIAN PRISONERS IN PEKING.

HANDED OVER TO LOCAL PROCURATORATE.

PUBLIC TRIAL TO OPEN IN A FEW DAYS.

{THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]

PEKING, May 9th. An Ankuochun spokesmen states that all the Russian prisoners, in- oluding Madame Borodin, were to-day handed or to the local Procuratorate.

16 I understood that the public trial will open in a few days benos.

the cockpit, whereon were a skull,

crossbones and coffin, daubed white "to show that I am not afraid," as Nungcaser explains.

The mechanics-swung the air- Berew, following the pilot's curt "When you like," and the machine bounded from the aerodrome with a deafening roar of the engine.

The spectators beld their breath, as the machine continued to rush along the ground, aghast lest Fonck's crash at New York raight be repeated.

research.

BRITISH COLONIAL

GOVERNORS.

NEW APPOINTMENTS.

(THROUGH REUTEer's agenċy.]

LONDON, May 9th. Sir Malcolm Stevenson has been appointed Governor of the Soy- chelles, and Sir James Crawford Maxwell, Governor of North Rhodesia.

[Sir Malcolm Stevenson, K.C.. and M.G., has been Governor Commander-in-Chief of Cyprus since

full- 1995.

Nungesser applied the throttle, but seemed unable to drag the deadweight of 2 tons from the ground. Twice the tail rose and twice dropped, when the machine covered a thousand yards and was about a dozen yards from the hedge when the pilot yanked back the "joy-stick," tottered aloft, and sailed out of sight.

Mungesser Ŏrossa.

NEW YORK, May 9th. Nungessor has been sighted over Nova Scotia.

ITALIAN AVIATOR REACHES BOSTON.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVION)

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NEW YORK, May 8th. The Marquis de Pineda has re- sumed his flight in a machine sent

him from Italy.

to

· [THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Boston, May 9th.

י

Sir James Crawford Maxwell, K.B.E., who is Colonial Secretary of the Gold Coast, was formerly in the Colonial Service at Sierra Leone and Nigeria.]

SOVIETS AND CAPITALISM.

WHY THERE IS CO. OPERATION.

MARRIAGE.

NO BIOLOGICAL GROUND FOR MONOGAMY!

Remarkable arguments in favour of an adjustment of the present marriage laws are put forward by Dr. Norman Haire, in an article on "Marriage" in "The Prac titioner."

sea of Union Jacks waved by school-

new conception of autonomy and Duchess was obliged to sidestøp freedom, and said that it was the quickly to avoid the danger. King's earnest prayer, in which he

Members of the royal staff dashed (the Duke) fervently joined, that forward to interpose themselves under divine Providence future between the 'animo) and the years might see the same advance Duchess, and its head was seized in the development and prosperity just in time to prevent it becoming of the Empire in all its parts, the

unmanageable. same spirit, mutual understanding and sympathy and the same deter- A pleasant surprise awaited the Dr. Hairo doubts whether the mination to support one another to Duchess at Stanthorpe, where she present one-man-one-wife law is in the uttermost should the need arise.net. Mr. Perkis, the local golf pro- accordance with Nature's idea, and. "May this day's ceremony mark fessional, who taught her golf in suggests that it is frequently the the rededication of this Common Hampshire when she was sixteen. cause of unhappiness in marriage, wealth to those great ideals of She chatted with him for a long

He has become so convinced, he liberty, fair dealing, justice and time. saya, of the effect of married un- happiness in producing such ill- nessca e insomnia, indigestion, loss of appetite, and the manifold forms of "nerves" and debility that the question Is your marriage a happy one?" is now as much a part of his routine as "Do you eat well?"

FASCIST'S EIGHTH

ANNIVERSARY.

80,000 RECRUITS ENROLLED.

I have thus," he writes, "been MUSSOLINI'S PROCLAMATION.

ROME.

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defended by the whole of -- the Italian people.

Vanguards of the moveinent! At thie glorious Baniversary, with significant and solemn eelebration, the régime gives you your member- ship card and your rifle. The first |is the symbol of faith, the second. the instrument of our power. Regard it as the supremeTM honour

led to an examination of modern marriage. Modern marriage, na we know it, is conventionally held to

The eighth anniversary of the to wear the black shirt, as the mean the lifelong union of one man foundation of the first group of highest privilege to enter the ranks with one woman who are joined to Fascists by Mussolini in Milan, of the militia. Black shirts! Go gether by the State and generally and the famous private meeting in forward with banners unfurled to by the Church as well.

Natural Instincts.

the The Marques De Pinedo arrived, only methods of solving the profit impose restrictions on them which token of his promotion each young to the new juvenile recruits in

Husar was convicted of accepting a bribe (Taels 34,000) from A. M. Tracey Woodward, for handing over a bound volume of the hearing in which the Government of United States appeared as plain. tiffs against Woodward, in Bushire, Persia, where he was engaged in opium transactions.

escorted by eight naval aeroplanes, lem of raising the masses standard of living are merciless aloes War- which joined, him as he flow over the Squantum Air Base, near the fare and revolution; city.

member

"THE ONLY WAY."

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

the Hall of the Apostles in March, meet the new generation that offers 1919, when hardly 6ty of his perus certitude for the future. Balute 2104, May 9th, "As a matter of fact this con- sonal friends and followers attend with the old warrior songs the The Soviet Press gives promin- ventional picture of marriage is by ed and had the courage to face advance guards that come to us un- ence to the explanations of the

no means a true one. Divorce and what seemed then to be the over-tainted by any contagion fresh as Sovieta" participation in

the re-marriage are becoming ever more whelming force of Communism the dawn Against the efforts of Geneva Economic Conference, and frequent, and unfaithfulness on the throughout Italy by the inscription and dispersed, the youth of the and Bolshevism, was celebrated | the old order that we have derided says that it is necessary to co- part of husband or wife occurs in the ranks of the Fascist party lictorium, ardent and disciplined, operate with Capitaliam until the at least, a large minority of cases, Soviets economic system of con- The first question to be con-

of more than 80,000 new recruits / is eager to work and to fight for the atractive Socialism has developed, sidered is, is monogamous marriage Juvenile Fascist organisations into shirts, on guard!

who have been promoted from the power of Fascist Italy! Black The Soviet will, use the Economic

in accordance with the natural in- Conference as so object losson to

the more advanced ranks, of the magni Hundreda: of Meetings, prove to the Proletariat that the stincts of man and woman, or does adolescent advance guard, and in

This stirring address was read was presented with hundreds of meeting in every are insupportable."

"I can find no evidence that.

ride. militia

Signor Mussolini either man or woman is biologically issued a short but stirring appeal town and village of Italy in monogamous.

to the new army added to the the presence of the prefecte arany Monogamy really exists,” says Fascist legions and militis, as officers, and local authorities. Pro-- Bernard Bauer, when two persons follows:

cessions were formed, every public. remain absolutely faithful to each

building was decorated, flags were The Fighting Fascista, other, purely from a desire to do

flown and bands played in the so, and not only out of respect for Black Shirt Eight years have streets and public squares. The morali ethics, or the opinion of passed since the day when under occasion was made one of a te JAPANESE LAUNCHES

sp auspicious name the Fighting fold celebration the foundia ** CAPTURED. »

The perfect union must remain Fascists of Italy were founded. In the original Fasofo and the The Treasury, on May sch," will As the result of the passage of our ideal, but it would be idle to March, 1919, a handful of men trance of 50,000 new Proruit CREWS SENT TO PRISON. call in outstanding bonds of the the Relief Bill, all branches of the pretend that this ideal is, at prefaced the hostility of the Govern- the Fasdst party and militis

Second Liberty Loan, amounting to Bank of Taiwan were ordered to sant realized in more than ment and of the masses, who were Year by year, by (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] 1,700 million dollars. Payment will re-open to-day.

minority of marriages.

misguided and betrayed. In Coto-orders, the sme ossermony wi MANILA, May 9th.

be made on November 15th, the

***If we agree that many persons, bar, 1902, behold a multiinde vio continued, maximal to al Constabulary captiued two Japan- tenth anniversary of the issue, after The Upper House passed the | are still at much stage as to be torious through sacrifiom of blood; say boy besitates no baccata ere launches off the Calayan and which the bonds will not bear in Financial Relief Bille unanimously, incapable of realizing true mono- to-day form as die any bar of fact as Babuyanes Islands, near Formose, terest, but probably the Treasury after which the Special Session was gamy a distinct from formal identified with the whole pacele de yesterday. Twenty-five members of will offer an opportunity to ax adjourned..

monogamy.it bosomea necesary to the idea which animadas a mo the crew were sent to jail at chsage banda for other Government the formal closing ceremony will consider the questions of divorce, found the requietokone Aparri

ecurities.

because the polygay and free unions,"

Heath, who was also involved in the caso, was sentenced to 18 mouths' imprisonment and med G.$1,000.

RECALL OF SECOND LIBERTY LOAN BONDS.

ĮREUTER'A AMERICAN SERVICK.]

WASHINGTON, May 8th.

BANK OF TAIWAN, ALL BRANCHES RE-OPENED;

(THROUGH BEUTKR'S. AURBOY.)

Toro, May 8th.

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