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CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED

THROUGHOUT CHINA.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1927.

MEXICAN BANDITS. SOLIDARITY AMONG

CANTON AND SWATOW SERIOUSLY PERTURBED, POLITICAL PARTIES MORE PERPLEXING.

GENERAL TANG HOLDS A CONFERENCE AT HANKOW. MR. WANG CHING WEI PRESENT.

KUOMINTANG GRADUALLY BECOMING DISINTEGRATED AND POWERLESS.

There can be little doubt that the political situation throughout China is at the present moment more than ever unsatisfactory, and the prediction made some little time ago as to the probable short-lived character of Nanking's "Nationalist " Government, seems about to be realised even sooner than the most observant could possibly have conjectured. The new Government appears sud- denly to have become extraordinarily inactive, doubtless owing to the unexpectedly powerful opposition that has taken shape in tha Wuhan cities. General Tang Seng Chi, with his disgruntled but evidently extremely able colleague, Mr. Wang Ching Wei, has been able to put up a stronger opposition than could possibly have been anticipated by the victorious Nanking members of the Kuomintang. The immediate results are to be seen in the inactivity of the so- called Nationalist Government and in the state of affairs now prevailing in Swatow, Canton and Hankow. Happily, in several of the Yangtze ports there seems to be a genuine desire for a resumption of trade with the foreigner. This would appear to be,' at present, the one bright little flicker in an otherwise very sombre

China.

PEKING'S "RADICAL

STUDENTS.

(Wah Te Tat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, September 26th. Many kinds of circulars and pamphlets, aiming at

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GENERAL TANG CALLS A CONFERENCE.

(a Ti Yai Pao).

U.S. PROHIBITION

AGENT.

CHARGED WITH PIRACY" ON

HIGH SEAS,

THE BAHAMAS GOVERN- MENT TAKE ACTION.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]

ATTACK TRAIN,

REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSS,

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

MEXICO CITY, Sept. reth. A telegram from Mazatlan states that 30 bandits-were killed out of NEW YORK, Sept. 26th."

a band of 100 which attacked the A telegram from Miami states Southern Pacise train, guarded by that the Bahamas Government Federal soldiers, between Barrancas authorities have arrestexi Charles and Laquieemada.

The escort's 'Neale, ad United States Pro-lasses were 10 wounded. bibition Agent, on a charge of piracy on the high seas. He is alleged to have participated as av unauthorised member of a const- gaard crew in the seizure of a rum- running

waters.

vessel within British

SIR ROBERT HO TUNG IN SHANGHAI.

INTERVIEWS, MARSHAL

CHIANG.

APPROACHED BY LEADING CHINESE.

THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SHANGHAI, Sept. 28th.

ECUADOR'S DECREE.

NO FOREIGN CHURCHMEN

WANTED.

IRSUTEN'S AMÉRICAN SERVICE]

THE NATIONS.

BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE LEAGUE

"OUTLAWING OF WAR ” ADOPTED.

Innovon BECKER'S AGENCY.)

SCHNEIDER CUP RESULT.

THE BRITISH WIN THE FIRST THREE POSITIONS.

A SUPER-MARINE NAPIER COMES IN FIRST.

THE ITALIAN COMPETITORS RETIRE.

[THROUGE REUTER'S AGENCY.1

VINICE, Sept. 90th. Weather was har, visibility good,

was calm.

GENEVA, Sopt 95th. Ready-recognition of the Em-light winds prevailed and the ses pire's labours in the cause of soli, darity among the nations forthcoming in a speech by M. De Broukere, the Belgian delegatë, in the League Assembly,

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He said, "When Sir Austen Chamberlain told us that a great effort had been made for the League of Nations by the Empire of Great Britain, we listened with deep gratitude and a sincere desire to understand the Empire's situa "tion."

He added that there was no in- tention to manoeuvre Britain or the Empire into a course they might

Qrro, Sept 96th The Government have issued a decree forbidding foreign church-not desire to follow. men, irrespective of their religion, to enter the country save in excep. tional cases, when a special permi may be issued for a stay not ex- ceeding 40 days.

Sir Robert Ho Tung, who is on INDIA'S RACIAL TROUBLES. holiday in Shanghai, in an inter- view by Reuter, concerning an interview he had; with Marshal Chiang Kai Shek yesterday, declin-

SHANORAI, September 26th." General Tang Seng Chi called a the overconference with his subordinates at throw of the Peking Government, Hankow, to which Mr. Wang Chinged to make any premature state- have appeared in Peking of dato, Wei also attended. General Tangment, other than that the interview ind the police have discovered | declared that the Nacking Govern was satisfactory, and that he was that these have emanated from some ment, though it had no legal favourably impressed by Chiang's af the radical studenta îm the basis, was still, a de facto govern-personality... educational institutes there. Codiment supported by a number of It is believed, however, that the sequently, the Peking University militarists. The Hankow Govern discussion turned on the possibili. was throughly raided, with the remeat might not openly sever all tics of a peace movement, regarding ault that about 20 students were official relations with Nanking but which Sir Robert Ho Tung has been arrested and taken to the Police it should act independently, des requested by numerous leading Chi- pite what Nanking ordered it to do. Headquarters.

nose and by Chinese business men, to revive his previous endeavours THE SITUATION AT

to call a round table conferensc. SWATOW.

MARSHAL CHIANG'S MOVEMENTS.

Wah Tu Fat Fao.)

SHANGHAI, September 28th. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek is re- ported to have sailed for Japan to

day.

General Yen Shih Shan's repre- sentative to Peking, when inter- viewed, said that General Yen, who faveurs Kuomintang doctrines, has worked politically, in accordance

(NAVAL. WIRELES

Bir Robert Ho Tung, however, considers the time for such a con- ference at present not yet ripe.

INDIAN TROOPS IN THE WAR.

PAMPHLETEER STABBED.

(THROUGH REUTĖS AGENCY.]

LAHORE, Sept. 26th.. Rajpal, the author of the Hangila rasul pamphlet; has been stabbed by an assailant dressed as a Hindu Sadhu. The victim was taken to hospital. His condition is not serious.

LANCASHIRE'S "COTTON "

INDUSTRY.

LACK OF CO-OPERATION.

(THROUGH REUTER AGENCY.]

LONDON, Sept. 20th.

A Distinct Step Forward."

ReaBY, Sept. 23th.

The Polish resolution outlawing war was manimously adopted at League of Nations. Assembly at: Geneva yesterday,

Lord Onslow, the British dele- gate, expressed the view that the resolution defined clearly the main object of the League, and marked a distinct step forward.

Flight-Lieutenant Webster (Great Britain) won in a Super Marine Napier machine.

ΕΑΤΕΣ.

Wobster few his monoplane st an average speed of 235.1 miles per hour.

place at Venice to-day, was post-, poned until Monday afternoon, owing to rough weather.

A strong south-westerly gale, with heavy scan, made the condi- tions impossible.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] Spectators From All Over The World.

LATER. Over a quarter of a million would-be spectators from all over. the world were disappointed by the postponement of the Schneider Cup contest.

Flight-Lieutenant Worsley (Great Britain) flying a Super Marino Napier monoplane wae second.

The Lido presented a most antaz-“ Flight-Lieutenans Kinneaid (Greating scene, Royal Princes and mil- Britain) dying a Gloster-Napier Honaires jostling with workmen and biplane was third.

tzippers. Thousands, unable to get accommodation, slept out on the

Italian Competitors Retire,

The three Italian competitors previous night. The weather has retired,

been the worst for thirty years.

Mr. Levine Changes Els Mind.

VIENNA, Sept. 25th..

All alighted safely.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS. [DXITAR WIRELESS KERVICE]

RUGBY, Sept. ath. The seaplane race for the Schnei- der Cup, which was to have taken

WHITE ANTS.

INCREDIBLE POWERS OF

DESTRUCTION.

"We recommend three things," he said, namely, action by the League, systematic preparation of League machinery, and action by WONDERFUL AND RUTHLESS individual states" The League must use its influence in promoting co-ordinate agreements regarding arbitration and security. This

REPUBLIC.

"The Life of the White Aat"

(George Allen and Unwin 6) by

The American millionaire. fier, Mr. Levine, and Captain Hinchliffe, his pilot, have gone to Venice to withem the Schneider Cup race.

"WORK OF AMBULANCE

SOCIETIES.

INCREASING ROAD ACCI- DENTS IN ENGLAND.

NEED FOR (FIRST AID KNOWLEDGE.

The time may not be for off

would always have the support and Maurice Maeterlinck is a book of when an air ambulance will carry

goodwill of Great Britain.

extraordinary fascination and with so appeal to the imaginstion that. is genuinely fearful.

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the stricken. patient from New Zealand for treatment by specialist in London.

A know- edge of First Aid may become as

It was shown by discussions that all ware imbued with the same idea,

It provokes man to ponder on and be hoped that preparatory com- mission would pbress forward with powers after which he is still grop- vigour, and that by next year great ing, and presents to hima develop necessary a part of the education a knowledge at of every child 'na strides would have been taken in ment of natural forces which seems the geography of Asia,” -

Swarow, September 24th. There has been no anti-foreign trouble up to the present, although the situation remains extremely IMMORTALISING THEIR GAL tion "Master Spinners' Association peace, as the most important pro- perfect in its environment; the unsettled.

the process of disarmament, so that unlike those which are centred a really important contribution in himself to have reached its The Manchester Guardian te ports, apparently on good author-would be made to the League's first ideal. ity, that the conferenen of Federa- duty, which was the maintenance of

Members of the Farmers' and Peasants' Union have taken advan=" tage of the situation to lost a number of Chinese houses, the Police Headquarters together with a quantity of arms having been with their principles in Shansi, seized by the looters. A number of especially with regard to equality troops under Ho Lung have ar- in land-ownership and the limita-rived.

The Looters, tion of capital. General Yen con-

SWATOW, September 25th. sidered such a courze was an effec-

The peasant force entered Swatow tive antidote against Communismen September 23rd loeting and He had no intention, however, his taking charge of the city. The police force has disappeared and spokesman asserted, to carry any the armed mob is in control of the military campaign against any city. H.M. Ship Sirdar Seraph, outside warring group for such a Serapis and Bluebell are here. revolutionary cause. In fact Gen-

erul Yen's evolutionary work was merely political within Shansi pro- vince, and Shansi and Peking, al- though there was still no sign of co-operation, could get along with cut trouble.

-General Chang Heach Liang, son of Marshal Chang Tso Lin, has sent his personal representative to Shanai with a special mission pro- posing terms of peace to General Yen Shih Shan. If he succeeds in obtaining General Yen's consent, the Peking Government will send another plenipotentiary to conclude à peace pact.

THE SOUTHERN CAMPAIGN TO BE RESUMED.

SHANGHAI DOCKERS'

STRIKE,

STILL CONTINUES.

[NAVAL WIRELESS.)

SHANGHAI, September 25th.

It is confirmed that Marshal Chiang Kai Shek is now in Shang hai. The strike is continuing.

The employees of the Shanghai Dock, and Engineering Co., who struck work on September 19th, have presented a series of zitue de ands, the more important being a general incense of pay, Sunday as holidays, 81,000 compensation in case of death by accident whilst working, no apprentices under 16 Lyears of age, mo deductions. for the period of the strike, the dismissal of a foreign employee, and the SHANGHAI, September 26th. "The Southern campaign against company to make a donation of $150 the Northerners in Anhui is expect to the men's unica.].

(Wah Tu Tat. Pao.

ed to be resumed. A portion of

the Southern troops belonging to AGITATORS AT CHUNGKING. the 33rd Army Corps has moved towards Pengou, while another Southern force, under General 'Ho Yin Chu, has received orders to move northwards from Chuchow.

FOREIGN PROPERTY AT WUHU.

[NAVAL WIRELESE. ]

`LANTRY AT NEUVE

CHAPELLE.

and the Yarn Association, in view of the agreement of a common policy, has failed. The official re- port states that each section has decided to report the proceedings to its executive.

·EARL BİRKENHEAD TO UNVEIL MEMORIAL.

(BEITIAN WIRKIERS. SERVICE,]·

The Guardian says that the Yarn RUGBY," Sept. 95th.

Association rejected as insde Lord Birkenhead, the Secretary of State for India, will unveil on quate the Federation's proposals of October 7th a memorial at Neuve closer co-operation regarding a Chapelle to the memory of the In-organised curtailment of produc dian soldiers who fell in the war. tion of yarn from American cotton and in honour of the Army of India and the firing of minimum, yarn which fought in France.

The principal stumbling prices. Distinguished representatives of block has been the latter. The the British and French armies wil Federation contended that

prices be present, including, Marshal Foch suggested by the Yarn Association and a detachment of Indian troops were too high to enable the trade From all the India wite which

to meet foreign competition. There fought on the western front is to is also a marked difference of take part in the ceremony.

opinion with regard to the grading

The memorial, the cost of which is being borne by all parts of the Empire, is erected on a site appro- priately selected by the India Office on the Neuve Chapelle sector of the Festubert-Givenchy front. It was here that the Indian army per

formed gallant work, including the capture of the village of Neuve Chapelle,

BLOCKS OF STONE ON RIVIERA RAILROAD."

•

·ALSO "BOMB EXPLOSION.

SABOTAGE FEARED.

(THEODOR REITER'S AGENCY.] -

of yarn.

GERMAN "WAR GUILT' CONTENTION.

BELGIAN AND FRENCH REPLIES.

(THROUGH BRUTER'S. AGENCY.]

blem the League had to face.

Third "Committee's Resolution Adopted.

GENEVA, Sept. 20th. The Assembly, with acclamation, adopted the Third Committee's re- solution on Arbitration, Security and Disarmament..

In other words the white ant is

Creator has, in one direction, censed to create. One then begins to search for the destiny of the white ant, but one can find none is the scheme of things."

Wonderfil Republic. Man is still exprimenting where the white not has succeeded. He

This is one striking passage in the Report issued by the Joint Council of the St. John Ambulance and the British Red Cross Society,

which continues:

the country of an ambulance ser- vice, with

"The practice of First Aid has become one of the greatest male. guards of the country not only in Peace but also in war. For if war on a large scale should ever come. again, the possibility that it will be accompanied by conditions of peril for the civil population can- not be left out of the reckoning, and it may well be that the exis tence the towns and villages of The report provides for the invit

bodies of trained. ing of non-members of the League, is; for example, incapable of deter for example, the United States, toning beforehand the sex of his

offspring.

workers, both men and women, ac participate if they should so desire, in the Special Committee, mention that his scas shall be soldiers, poets, in circumstances of emergency, will Neither can be preordain at will castomed to the care of the injured ed in the resolution..

prove of vital importance to the Dr. Nansen On' Britain's Attitude.

steadiness eafety and

of the Both these faculties are common people." Dr. Nansen, speaking in the de-places of the white ant's existence, bate, appealed to Great Britain to and in a chapter called

" Apyalling Figures, recognize the effort made to find Occult Power. Mr. Maeterlink The Report emphasises the point Britain's special position and one a method consistent with Great aims at some central intellect which on which stress was laid months may possibly direct the most won which would diminish instead of derful and ruthless republic which increasing her responsibilities. He it is possible to conceive.

or engineers

Their Civilization.

The

ago by the Morning Post that rapid progrese was being made by

the societies concerned to render said, that everyone had been im-

this country safer for all road pressed by Sir Austen Chamber-

users, and points out how, it ie lain's speech, and since they had

Their civilisation is thus descrit only fitting that the ambulances of other evidence of Great Britain's ed, “By night and by day they the land should work with the life- reaction to the earlier Assembly is exhaust themselves, without ceas beats, "those ambulances of the cussions, be feared that British ing, various defined and complic- | ses."

public opinion somewhat misunder-ated labours. Isolated, vigilant, Arrangements have been made stood the attitude of the supporters and more or less useless in the for close co-operation with the fire of the 1924 Protocol.

humdrum of daily life, the mon- brigades Mr. Nagaoka said that Japan cordially supported the Committee's work and would co-operato towards its fulfilment.

FROM BRITAIN. TO AUS-

**TRALIA BY AIR.

[TabooGA RETTER'S AGENCY.),

strous soldiers wait resignedly in The Report states: "The num- their gloomy barracks for the hour ber of road and street accidents of danger and self-sacrifice.

has reached appalling figures, and. "The discipline is more ferocious is increasing every year. Last than that of the Carmelites or year 138,774 persons were killed or Trappiste; and the voluntary sub-injured by accidents caused by mission to laws or regulations pro-road vehicles, the number having ceeding one knows not whenco is increased by more than 40 per cent unparalleled in any human society." over that of two years ago. A pro- "There was in the beginning so portion of the accidents is due to creature so poorly equipped by causes that are avoidable and must. nature for the struggle for life. It be eliminated. There remains 15 large number which must be accept- has neither the sting of the bee ed as the price to be paid for in- nor the formidabie breastplate creased mobility, w covering the ant, its most relent But because it is accepted that lets for.

under present conditions the roads Transformation.

mast inevitably be more dangerous In spite of dll these disadvan- to life, and limb than they have tages, the termite (or white ant) been in the past, that is no reason

LONDON, September 23rd. Belgium and France have not delayed in replying to Von Hinden- burgh's speech at the naveiling of the Tannenberg memorial on Sept- ember 18th, when the President denied his country's war guilt, or that German soldiers had per- AIRSHIP SERVICE PROJECTED, petrated atrocities during the

any NICE, Sept. 25th.

warka. Huge blocks of stone were dis- The Belgian Premier, M. Jasper, covered on the permanent way, and unveiling a memorial at Ostend to are believed to have been laid by the Belgian statesman, A. Beer-

SYDNEY, Sept. 28th. persons intending to wreck a train naert, who died in 1912, said that

American Legionaries

Following reports by an air dele on Beerneart had not lived to ste the board.

violation of Belgian neutrality, gation from Britain with regard to Tiit Of U.S. Legionaries.

and az innocent country delivered airship mooring masts in Australia, up to Sire, murder, and the shoot Mr. B. M. Bruce, the Prime Minis children in their radies. He did decided immediately to proceed not know the supreme test of do with the preliminaries for the estabPossesses no more spantaneously quence of those risks. The ambu- than we possess our own; it has lances have played their part. A

with

!

LATE

has been able to transfer itself for emitting to do anything that

Two cases of sabotage, believedng of women, old people, and ter, announced that the Cabinet had and to invent weapons that it can be done to mitigate the conse

CHUNULING, Sept. 25th... *Propagandists are syitating to be not unconnected with the visit against the presence bere of British by American Legionaries, have ot

gunboats and citizens. These atcurred on the Paris-Nice main linsending his country, against per-lishment of an airship service be been able to organize; to make its great proportion of their work

tempts to stir up trouble are meet-shortly before the Legionaries were ing with little or no support from due to travel thereon. CHINESE TROOPS EVACUATE. the local inhabitants.

First, bomb exploded between Cannes and Goide de Juan, which destroyed part of the permanent way. Traffic was stopped and the damage was repaired.

[NAVAL WIRELE88.] -

WUHU, Septeber 95th. The majority of foreign proper ties recently occupied by Chinemi troops have been evacuated.

Troops are still concentrating At Taipingfu against the continuing advance from Nanking.

BRITISH TRADE COM MISSION.

{NAVAL WIRLLES).]

HANXOW, Sept. 25th The Trade Commission has re- turned.

The second instance was when plate-layers discovered large blocks of stone on the track between Cap Dail and Monaco.

The Legionaries daly arrived here, and have been enthusiastic ally welcomed.

sistent attempts to sully Belgian tween Britain and Australia heroism and suffering by lying and bad faith

The French Retort. M. Barthou, the French Minister of Justice, unveiling & memorial at Liveron to the heroes of the Moroccan campaign, said that France could not permit the truth which had been proved by facts and documents to be travestied, but abe was wiling to keep silent condi- tionally on silenos from the other side.

U.S. PROFESSIONAL LAWN LAWN TENNIS,

(REDILE'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

position impregnable to maintain during the past few years has been in its cities the temperature for its that of picking up the victims of existence; to ensure against the street and road accidents. Indeed, future; to multiply indefinitely and the hospitals find their resources to become little by Ettle the most strained to the utmost to find room tenacious, the most deeply rooted, for the additional cases that are the most formidable of all the occu- brought to them as a consequence pants and conquerors of this globe," of traffic accidents."

The white ant's destructiva In bis preliminary statement Sir NEW YORK, Sept. 26th

powers ere suport incredible. Arthur Stanley shows that assis Vincent Richards won the first Great trees that look most tance has been given to 17,888 05- American Professional title and Bourishing-for the bark is scrupul cera Many have been assisted to

touch G.$1,000 by defeating Howard Kinously respected-topple down at a undergo treatment for tuberculosis

abroad. Bey 11-9, 04, 02.