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THE

ANTI-JAPANESE DEMONSTRATIONS.

HOSTILITIES BETWEEN SHANSI AND

CHIHLI IMMINENT.

CHANG TSO LIN DEFIES THE SOUTHERNERS. KUOMINTANG DOCTRINE AND FLAG

UNACCEPTABLE.

PEKING DEMANDS WITHDRAWAL OF U.S. TROOPS FROM TIENTSIN.

There have been anti-Japanese demonstrations at Nanking and at Shanghai Native City.

The Chinese Foreign Offer protests against the presence of Amerion reinforcements in Tientsin, and demands thein with dawal.

Chang Tso Lin has declined le areept the. "Three Peoples" Doctrine" or to fly the Kuomintang flag. Consequently, the Shansi troops are mobilising for immediate attack upon Chili. The ubiquitous Chiang Kai Shek has secretly appeared in Hangchow, hekiang's capital.

NAVAL WIRELESS NEWS.

THE RETURN OF WIVES TO HANKOW AND KITKIANCE

SHANGHAL, Jube ilth. No change. Situation quiet

CHENGLIS, June 11th

They are about 2 or 4 thousand.

THE TRIPARTITE ALLIANCE.

(Wah Tsz Yot Pav.)

SHANGHAI. June 12th.

The Fengtienese authorities de ve that th Tripartite Alliance Change Tso Lộn, Chiang Kai Shek

of the Aux in the place Guns and You Shil Shan-is possible

on the bluff have been removed and, only on condition that the three

the Commissioner of Customs compartes contribute an equal number

is being use

drill of troops to suppress banditry and

pound grand

IN

Hassow, June 11th. The city continues quiet Isao Taa Vin's troops have been about To miles below

reported Hankow.

Chiang Kai Shek is repurled 16

“be going to "Nanchang want har gent! troops above Kiuking with a view to theveluping an anti Red outbreak in Hankow,

CHENGCHow, June 11th

It is understood that the question of withdrawing Tang Seng Chit Bankow with the 8th Army, as a defensive measure, is being dis

russed.

Wre, June 13th.

A minor disturbanes vecurved in Thursday among coolies unloading A guard was British stater. sent but was not required to inter

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rahente the "Reds" throughout

Me whole country. After this, the | Fenutionese Party would be willing to consider the question of their accepting the Three People's

dontene.

SHANGHAI June 12th.

F

a

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, JUNE 13th, 1927.

IRISH FREE STATE

ELECTIONS.

U.S.A. AND FRANCE. GOVERNMENT PARTY RECEIVE

POURPARLERS AS TO TREATY

OF PERPETUAL PEACE.

[REUTRA'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

WASHINGTON, June 14th. The State Department has not Ged the Frevel) Governmend that the United States is prepared to engage in diplomatic potrparlers as regards a possible agreement for a Franco-American Treaty of

SEVERE SET-BACK.

HAL

[THROUGH-RECTER'S AURNOY.]

LONDON, June 12th.

The first returns of the Free State elretions, which weee con ducted on the Proportional Itepre- sentation System, show that the Liovernment party have done worse than was expected. They will prob ably lose one-third of their former PRINCESS JULIANA.trength in the Dail to the Fianna

peace.

ADMITTED

TO ILLUSTRIOUS MEMBERSHIP.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY, ]

AMSTERDAM, June 12th.

In the presence of the Queen, Prince Consort and a few church ellers. Princess Juliana, at the Royal Palace, in the age, was adinitted by the Court Chaplain to membership in the Hervormde Kerk of Princes and confirmed to-day.

DE PINEDO ARRIVES AT LISBON.

A SPLENDID FLIGHT.

(THROUGH RESTER'S AGENCY.]

LISBON, June 11th. De Tinedo has arrived.

·Later.

De Pinedo flow 1,400 kilometres from Pontadelgado. to Lisbon

hours.

Wounded At Hankow.

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SHANGRAI, June koth. Reiter's special correspondent at lankow, describing the arrival of

one of the numerous trainloads of wounded, which continue to arrive daily from Honau, says it was the most appalling sight he ever saw

The military escurt Tade on the cowcateher on sandbags du front of the engine, hung on to the rain on the sides of the boiler, or Siti on the roofs of the cuaches,

The Wanhinopu-has-lodged protest with the American Minister in Peking to the effect that the landing of American troops at Tientsin Bagrantly violates the The rear of the train comprised Boxer Protocol, is derogatory to eattle-trucks, in which the neglect- ed wounded lay in dirt and squa- China's jurisdiction and is clear. Only a few were bandaged, trary to the Washington Treaty and these with fifty cotton-wool. spirit.

The protest also mentions that foreign residents in North China have never been exposed to any danger of civil war or anti-for eighism which might necessitate the American Government to act as They are doing.

I demands that the American The other Yangisze ports are traps in Tientsin withdraw im

mediately. quiet.

Although the Southerners still continue to advance in Shantung fighting has practically stopped ex- sept for a few skirmishes.

The question of the return of wives to Hankow and Kiukiang and Wuhu is under consideration, and Tay be permitted under restrie

Ligus

Squatting at the doors of the covered coaches were those who were not seriously wounded, while inside one caught glimpses of the blood-covered backs and limbs of the men who were seriously wound cd, lying unattended in their own. filth, on the fare floor.

Inadequate Relief.

The arrival at Hankow does not bring relief to the sufferers, for

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LINDBERGH IN AMERICA.

GREAT WELCOME HOME.

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S GLOWING EULOGY.

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

Fow

SOVIET'S REPLY TO POLISH NOTE,

臀

MOSCOW'S DEMANDS."

YOIKOY'S FUNERAL.

THROUGH REPTER'S AGENCY. I

Mostow, June 12th.

The Soviet, in reply to the Polish Note 4111 tire Assassinationa of Volkov, demands that the Polish Government take mensen thor oughly to investigate the crime atol, severely punish the guilty.

Secondly, the US. cruiser

that Poin al admit Soviet representatives to participa in the tion in the judiciary acts case.

THE SOVIET

ALLEGATIONS.

DETAILED DENIAL BY SIR ROBERT HODGSON.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY. |

LONIER, June 12th. A detailed tenial of the Soviet allegations of illicit practices by members of the British Mission Jus been issued by By Robert Hodgson, ex-British Charge d'Affaires, at

Moscow.

WASHINGTOS, June 11th. honte coming heroes have received such a welcome as Lind- bergh, when he stepped ashore this

Interviewed by Reuter, Sir Robert afternoon from Memphis,

Hudgson declared that nothing was known of the several persosia Wildly enthusiastie crowds surged

named, and he termed the charges Fail (De Valera's Party), Nation

that others had been engageal in al Lengite (Captain Redmond's against the police cordons, as the

Thirdly, that Poland immediately † espionage to the Mission as abso- cruiser came to herth at the Navy) Group) and to Labour.

that Vice-Conani, Mr. White, was Messra. Cosgrave and De Vatera Yaud, where the joyously-acclaimed | disperse terroristic bandit organisantely unfounded allegations; and and Captain Redmond are assured hero, upon whom the United States tions and persons in Poland, plot- I involved in plots to blow up the has showered unstinted honours, ting against the Soviet and deport was received by President Coolidge, the same. who welcomed the aviator as "an iBetrious vitizen of our Republic, enqueror of the air, strengthener of the ties binding our nations across the sea."

The President. then bestowed upon him the Distinguished Flying Cross as a symbol of appreciation "for what he is and what he has done,"

Mr.

of election: also the Vice-President, Kevino O'Higgins, but Mr. Peter Hughes (Minister of Defence) has been defented at Louth.

THE ATTEMPT ON MUSSOLINI'S LIFE.

SENTENCES ON LUCETTI AND ACCOMPLICES.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

ROME, June 12th.

Rinter

"Dark Forces."

The reply declines the Polish offer to compensate, the widow, as

it deems it its own duly to pro teet her and refutes the contention that the assassination was the met of an insane individual, On the contrary, it was the manifestation of a systematic and regular strup gle against the Soviet by the dark President Coolidge praised Lind- forces of the world of reaction and

the enemies

It stresses pence. bergh's conduct abroad and de

Hat these dark forces

were In accordance with the public clared that the absence of #lf.

loosened by the rupture in the prosecutor's request the Special

acelayu and the refusal to herome | Anglo-Soviet diplomatic relations, Tribunal trying Lacetti, fur themercialised, which had marked which the British Government-pre- attempted murder of Mussolini, his conduct, had endeared him to pared according to reguler plan.

sentenced him to 30 years' im- prisonment and the acomplices, Sorio and Vatteroni to 20 and 19 years, respectively.

All are permanently debarred from holding publie office.

INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS OF EUROPE.

CONVER-

ANGLO-GERMAN

SATIONS RESUMED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LEVERKUSEN, June 12th.

The conversations between the Anglo-German Industrial nag- ater, begun in England, with the object of bettering the indus- trial conditions of Europe, have been resumed here under the Pre- sidency of Dr. Duisberg, head of the German Dyestuffs Corporation.

The English representatives in clude the Minister of Transport, Colonel Ashley while that of the

include Germans

ex-Chancellor

EAST INDIAN STUDENTS AND COMMUNISM.

they are compelled to lie in the train, still unattended, until ac- commodation can be found in the Cund. already over crowded foreign hos General Yen Shil Shan has pitals, or in the pestilentral wards

the hurriedly improved in decided to remodel all the military healthy native city. All the and civil services in Shansi after

are septic, and many All other ports remain auchange manner of the Kuomintang. General Yen orders the abolition

is dreadful lack of governorship and military guardianships. All civil and mili- medical men and medical supplies. fary services will be placed direct-ost of the American and British ly under the Commander-in-Chief doctors, whose help wound have been invaluable, have now left (General Yen).

China, driven out by the frenzied anti-foreign mobs.

.

THE HONAN FRONT.

(Wah Tu Ya! Pas).

Marshal Chiang, hiang Kai Shek has arrived steretiy at Hangchow (Chekiang) with a large bodyguard.

by

(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.] YANG SEN AT CHANG.

Waundis rotting.

There

U.S. Units Leave Manila,

af

MANILA. June 10th. The third China expeditionary force, consisting of 1,130 Marines, 50 trucks, 25 tanks, and an aviation unit, sailed for Shanghai this evening with Colonel 3. C. Davis

remations

Britain And U.S.

with

PEKING, June 10th. General Dunean, speaking at a the Anglo-American Association, referred to his close

General Smedley. Butler, and declared that if trouble securred here, he had no doubt the Anglo-American co-operation would be as close in Feking and Tientsin as it had been recently in Shanghai.

SHANGHAI, June 12th. According to

sources, foreign although the Ankaochum authorities have ordered the general with-i

SHANGHAI, June 14th. drawal of the Fengtienese, from the

Foreign reports from Jehaug show Honae front. Marshal Chang Tso

that conditions in the Upper Yangit command. brm attitudes are deplorable, whether the Lin has adopted a towards General Yen Shih Shan areas are under the control of the Hankowites or General Yang ben and the Southerners.

Marshal Chung declarce that he Before being driven from Tchange

Yang Sen the Nationalists took will not unconditionally accept the 820,000 from the Chamber of Com "Three People's" dextring or fly serve and had drawn up a list of He niso people for execution, including a the Kuomintang flag.

British subject. They also states that he will continue to hold | jused a tax of 85 monthly on for Peking as the Central Government: eigners for the privilege of drawing

Mr. Nan Kei Chin, General Yen water from the river.

Bandits have been most active Shih Shau's representative, has and on May 31st looted a ship an

chored off the Customs House, returned to Shansi.

General

Yev Shib Shan is taking $5.000. mobilising a large number of Shansi troops along the Chingting-Taiyuen Railway towards Chihli territory The Fengtienese are keeping atriet vigilance.

SHANGHAI, Junie 19th.

On the 11th inst. a mass meeting was called in Nanking for the pur- pose of stirring up all classes to boycott Japanese goods.

Thero were about 100,000 peoples present including a number of high Kuomin- tang officials.

Mr. Hu Han Min, addressing the audience. delivered an inflamma tory speech.

im.

Rada" Gathering At Chongchow,

HANKOW, June 10th, Messrs. San Fe, Tan Yen Kai and Despite the request of the Coin-Waug, Ching Wei have proceeded missioner of Foreign Affairs to the to Chengchow to hold a conference British to resume trade in Icheng, with Gen. Tang Seng Chi, Gen. anti-British posters were erected Teng Yen. Tak and Marshal Feug throughout the city within three Yu Hsiang. hours of the arrival of the British Kunboats.

Loen militarists are seizing for cign ships for the movement of troops. One steamer flying the French flag was seized in spite of the port of a the presence in French gunboat.

Hukuang Bonds.

PEKING, June 11th. The half-yearly interest on the lukuang Bonds has now been paid into the Bank.

A Protest. SHANGHAI, June 10th. Mr. C. C. Wu, the Foreign Minis. After the close of the meeting after of the Nanking Government, procession marched through many has protested to Sir Miles Lampson with regard to British acroplanes thoroughfares of Nanking.

flying over Canton on May 10th, and also against British planes dying over Shanghai.

(Continued on next column).

On the sante day anti-Japanese demonstrations wore hold in the Chinese native city at Shanghai,

WHAT SEARCHES REVEALED.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

examination.

everyone.

spoiled."

He had returned un-

NEW YORK'S ROWDY RADICALS.

DEMONSTRATE OUTSIDE OF BRITISH CONSULATE

{HEUTER'S AMRICAN SERVICE.]

"

France And Poland.

PARIS, June 12th. At the close of an interview with M. Poincare. the Polish Foreign Minister, 3. Zaleski, said that al though Poland repudiated the re- sponsibility of the assassination ef Vojkay, she was prepared finan cially to aid his family, but would not pay an indemnity to the Soviet. Volkov's Funeral.

Kremlin was grotesquely absurd.

Sir Robert Hodgson painted sut That the so-called confessions of persons arrested by the State Pch- tival Department mud be treated with the gravest mistrust, since the W political police habitually endeavour to wring admissions by means of

And է էր ը . threats and promises alonimble methods of compudrien to mince people to act as agents. He instanced the case of a maid- servant to the British Mission, who on the premises of the Foreign Commissariat, was threatened with life imprisonment unless she acted as an informer an Sir Robert Hodg son and with death if she revealed! the fart that she had been ap proached,

EX-GERMAN-CRUISER

** MOLTKE.”

RAISED FROM THE DEPTHS OF SCAPA FLOW.

GREAT SALVAGE FEAT.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

ROGBY, June 11th. One of greatest salvage feats ever undertaken was successfully accom- plished yesterday when the *x+ Moscow, June 19th.

German Pruiser-Holtake of 23,000. Voikoy's remains were crremani-

tons was raised after eight years NEW YORK, June 12th.

ously received, G arrival in L

immersion in seventy feet of water "British control of China ob- | special train from Warsaw, by in Scapa Flow. Throughout the tained by Opium War was one members of the Government, nad

previous might, air compressors of the slogans on inners borne by laid on a gun carriage, which was pumped 600 cubic feet of air per drawn to Red Square accompanied minute into the hull to float her by a military escurt.

and, ultimately, her keel stood Speeches were delivered, after thirty feet over the surface. When which the collin was lowered into the entanglements have been cut the grave within the walls of the Kremlin. Salutes were fired,

radiale and communists who de monstrated outside the British Consulate in Whitehall Street.

The police were called out to quell the demonstration, which was held under the auspices of the Hands off China" Committee and the "Young Workers' League of

America. The Fur and Garment Workers and the 'Workers' Com-

America munist Party of among the participants.

were

OBITUARY.

FAMOUS JEWISH BANKER.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, June 10th. Karon Swaythling, who is seri- quely ill in London, passed a fairly good night, but his condition to-day is unchanged.

LONDON, June 11th. The death is announced of Lord Swaything.

SOVIET'S CHARGES.

DESCRIBED IN LONDON AS **AMAZING,"

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SOVIET SUSPICIONS.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, June 10th. "Amazing 15 the expression applied by responsible circles in London to the Soviet charges - tint certain Russians executed at Mos cow had carried on espionage on behalf of the British Diplomatic Mission.

uny

It is emphatically denied that the British representatives had such relations, and on the contrary, awing to the Soviet Government's suspicious, the members of the British mission at Moscow had been quite unable to have any relations with Russians outside the sphere of their official duties. Actually, they had born afraid to be seen in the This con- company of Russiane. strasted with the freedom enjoyed hy Rosengolz and the Soviet delega tion in British.

Frontier Incidents.

away the Moltke will be removed on her last journey to Cava Island, a quarter of a mile away, where she will be benched.

CALCUTTA STORM.

FOUR VESSELS SUNK IN THE HARBOUR.

CALCUTTA, May 12th. Culentia experienced a heavy storm yesterday afternoon, lasting more than an hour.

Two men were drowned, over 120 Government telephone lines broke down and considerable damage was done to motor ships and boats in the river.

The storm was preceded by three days' severe heat.

The damage done to the Bengal Telephone Company's plant is re ported to the slight. Officially, it is recorded that the velocity of the gale was 4 miles per hour, while at its height, the rainfall is stated

have exceeded an inch and a half in about half an hour, and the temperature felt about 20 degrees with remarkable rapidity.

THE HAGUE, June 11th. Following the recent discovery of a communist conspiracy, whose ramifications extend from the Dutch East Indies, the authorities carried out searches at the re-

The barony of Swaything was sidences of East Indian students at created in 1907, and the deceased the Hague aud Leyden, and con holder of the title, Louis Samuel fiscated numbers of documents in Montugu, was the second haron.

The Kidderpore section suffered Javanese and several pistols Alle was head of the bunking firm

very badly. Four steamers broke of Samuel Montagu & Co., London.

their moorings and two passenger those arrested were released after

fle was a brother of the late Hon.

WARSAW, June 10th.

hoats and two cargo boats were The Polish newspaper press is sunk near E. Montagu, Secretary of State

the Calcutta jellies. HOUSE OF COMMONS for India during the European War. drawing attention to unpleasant The City of Dunedin broke her The first baron, who inarried a incidents on the Soviet frontier, cable chains and was tossed about REASSEMBLES TO-DAY.

daughter of the late Louis Cohen including the arrest of Radoszko- by the gale, but was eventually of the Stock Exchange, assumed wice, the commander of the police secured. Minor damage to the In- THE TRADE the name OF

of Montagu by Royal inspecting the frontier posts, who dian boats was also caused. UNION BILL.

Licence. Deceased, in 1806, mar crossed a few yards into Soviet ried Gladys Ifenry Rachel, daugh. ter of the late Colonel A. E. Goldsmid, and had two sons and One daughter. His heir is Stuart: Albert Montagu.]

PROGRESS

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICK]

RuGry, June 11th. The House of Commons will reassemble on Monday after the Whitsuntide recees, when the clauses of the Trade Enions Bill will be committee. This considered in

BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]

RUGBY, June 11th. Lord Swaythling, head of the stage of the Bill will be completed banking firm of Montagu and Com- on Tuesday, when the new clauses pany, died this morning at his introduced into the measure will be London residence, aged fifty-seven examined.

The Government hope to pass the Bill into law before Parliament rises for the summer holiday, and there is every prospect that the

General Yang Sen's forces are re- ported to have suffered a setback and to have withdrawn to Kienli. House of Lords will receive the Bill

A Japanese convoy of one gun-

in ample time for the Royal assent boat and four steamers proceeded up river this morning. The attito un given before the end of july. lude of the military at Chenglin is friendly and they have stated that they will not fire on foreign gunboato.

At other Yangteze ports, there is nothing to report.

Shanghai Quiet,

H.R.H. VISITS EXETER.

[DRITING WIRELESS SERVICE.]

RUGBY, June 11th. The Prince of Wales concluded SHANGHAI, June 10th.

a brief visit to the west of England There is no change in the situa-by a visil yesterday to the famous slato quarries near Exeter. His tion and nothing to report.

arrival was marked by the firing of a heavy charge which blasted hun- Walchisopu Protest Against U.S.A.

dreds of tons of slate from the The Peking correspondent of quarry walls. The Prince made a Reuter states that the Waichiaopu tour of inspection, travelling in (Chinese Foreign Ministry) intends trolley with a gradient of almost to protest against the despatch of forty-five degrees down the face of

the quarry. American forcos to Tiontein.

SHANGHAI, June 11th.

years,

THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY-]

Lord Abinger.

LONDON, June 10th. The death is announced of Lord Abinger, brather of Lieut. Col, tho Hon. Hugh Scarlett, at present eerving in Chian.

Lord Abinger, bort in 1876, was harrister of the Inner Temple and Assistant Paymaster, R.NR He succeeded his brother in the title in 1917, in which year he mar ried Jeanne Marquerite, daughter of the late Edouard Japy, and widow of M. Steinheil, Paris] :

Successor With The Shanghai Defence Force. Licut.-Col. the Hon. Hugh Scarlet, D.S.O., R.A., who succeeds to the title, is at present serving with the Shanghai Defence Force, He was born la 1876, and served in the South African and European Wars, distinguishing himself.)

territory,

The Executions Condemned,

LONDON, Jane fith. The executions in Russia are condemned by the whole of Europe, French, German, and Austrian newspapers alike speaking of the "Blood Bath and the "Incred ble They express the maasnere.' opinion that the Soviet has there- Kained since the cartier reign of by sacrificed whatever prestige they

terror.

The British newspapers comment in a similar strain.

France And Communists.

As a result of the storm, trafo

in Northern Calcutta was suspend ed for over an hour, as the streets were flooded.

.

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

SURVEY OF COASTAL WATERS.

Philippine Islands, an American In the north-east.. part of the

roast and geodetic survey, party is fighting its way through heavily timbered country and dense under- brush to establish triangulations for a survey of the coastal waters in the effort to locate port and 11 is part navigation possibilities.

-pro-

PARIS, June 11th. M. Sarraut's recent anti-Com- munist speech was reinforced in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday by of the Philippine survey M. Barthou, Minister of Justice. gramine for improvement of the who gave details of the Communist navigation facilities in the waters campaign to disrupt the Army. He of those islands. said that the life of the country depended on the outcome of the struggle between France and the Third International.

Captain R. L. Fairs, assistant director of the survey, in the courso of an interview with the United States Daily, stated that this part The Chamber, by 370 votes to of the islands is largely virgin ter- 148 adopted a resolution endorsing ritory and that until the survey is the Government's determination to made its possibilities for commerce, apply law against the Communiste including timber exportation, and for navigation, including coastal unswervingly..

M. Poincare said that if the aud general shipping, cannot be The Philippine Govern- question of prosecuting Communist known.

was rendering efficient co-

generally in the islands.

Deputies ever arose the Government

operation in the surveying work

amant would not shirk from its re sponsibilition,