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VERNACULAR PRESS DESCRIBES HANKOW AS IN A FRIGHTFUL STÅTE.”

OFFICIALS TRANSFERRING THEIR FAMILIES TO FOREIGN CONCESSIONS.

NATIONAL ARMY GRADUALLY MAKING HEADWAY IN HUPEH.

GENERAL YANG SEN OF SZECHUAN JOINS THE

NATIONALISTS.

POLITICAL RE-SHUFFLE IN PEKING:

FENGTIENESE DISSATISFIED WITH PREMIER.

Quite apart, from the deplorable state of affairs left as a legacy of the Reds' madness in Hankow, that city is now in a worst plight by the approach of the Nanking Army, against whom, it appears, the troops of General Tang Seng Chi are no match. The vernaculara Press "states that Hankow is in a "frightful state" and that high local officials are sending their families into the adjoining concessions, for safety.

The Nanking Army is now all the more formidable by the addition of General Yang Sen, whose troops are coming down from the-Upper Yangtze to assist in the attack upon General Tang, Seng Chi in his defence of Hankow..

Marshal Feag's troops claim to have recaptured Lanfung in Honao.

It appears that all is by no menos well politically with Peking, "and that soon there will be a considerable re-shuffle of the Cabinet, The Premier, Mr. Pan Fu, is reported to have failed to the coffers of his military masters, with the result that he will probably soon baye to give way to Gene al Yang Yu Ting, who has for some time past been Dictator Chang Tso Lin's Chief of Staff. TROUBLE FEARED AT

HANKOW.

[NAVAL WIRELE95.]

HANKOW," Nov. 4th. ""Internal trouble is feared in ad- dition to the threats from outside. Labour unions have already been responsible for a number of distur- -bances, and financial difficulties may very shortly cause still further complications.

... The authorities here are short of funds and complications may ensue. Labour unions are restless and causing some trouble...

(Wah Te Fat Pav.) "In A Frightful State." Hankow is now in a frightful state, and a number of Bigh officials in Hankow are transferring their families to the foreign concessions.

The 8th and 11th Divisions of Genera. Yung" Sen's Army have arrived at Ichang for the purpose of participating in the expedition against Tang Seng Chi.

The Military Council to direct the Hupeh expedition in western against Hankow includes Lu Tex Ping Fang Chin Wu, Yang Sen and Chen Ku Jea.

| NANKING'S' NEW MILITARY

HEADQUARTERS.

(Wah Tu Fat Pau.)

SHANGHAI, Nov. 6th. The Nanking Military Council has established temporary headquartere at Auking to accelerate their plans, According to the latest report from Jankow, General Tang Seng Chi has ordered the detention of General Ho Chica, his subordinate, owing to his suspicion of General

Ho's nititude towards him.

PEKING'S POLITICS."

(Wah Tez Yat Pap.)

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY,

SEVERE WARNING TO GERMANY.

HER FINANCIAL CONDITION FIRMLY CRITICIZED.

AGENT-GENERAL OF REPARA- TIONS EXPRESSES HIS VIEW'S.

(THROUGH KRUTER'S AGENCY.]

BERLIN, November 6th.

A severe warning to Germany is contained in a Memorandum, by Sir Gilbert Parker, Agent-General of Reparations, the text of which is now published.

The Memorandum declares that if the prosent tendencies are nn- checked, the consequences are almost certain to be serious economic renction and depressing and Betere shock to German credit at home and aboard.

The remedy consists primarily of reversing the tendencies toward over-spending and over-borrowing and applying strict economy in ordered public finance,"

A RIGHT REGAL PROCESSION.

NOVEMBER 7th, 1927.

U.S. BALLOONIST'S THE FLOODS IN NEW

TRAGIC FATE."

GALAXY OF ROYAL PERSON REACHES AN ALTITUDE OF

·AGES AT ITALIAN,

43,000 FEET.

WEDDING.

DUKE'S

1,000 GUESTS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:1

Cabinet

FOUND DEAD.

[REUTER'S AMERİCAN SERVICE.]

SPARTA, Tennessee, Nov. 3th. Captain Hawthorne Gray bas | been found dead while attempting to break the world's height record in free balloons.

His death is believed to be due to suffocation as his oxygen tube was found to be severed, apparently accidentally cut by a knife found in Gray's hand.

ENGLAND.

FURTHER DETAILS OF THE

AWFUL HAVOC,

WATER 30 FEET #DEEP IN STREETS.

ITAKOUGH ALUTED'E AGENCY.]

MR. RONALD MCNEILL ON THE LEAGUE.

HAS AVERTED AT LEAST ONE CONFLICT:"

·· CONFIDENT OF ITS SUCCESS.

[DRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE)

ALRAST, Nov. eth. Montpelier is still cut off and no

Beary, Novembör 3th assistance is possible until the Mr. Ronald McNeill (now Lord floods subside, but a journalist who Cushendan) made, at Canterbury flew there reports that three lives last night, his first speech since his were lost when the reservoir burst promotion to the Cabinet. He said and that an indescribable scene of that the most important duties of desolation everywhere meets the

Naples, Nov. "8th, Three Kings, a Queen, 40 Princes and Princesses and 20 Ministers, Ambassadors and their wives attended the wedding of the Duke of Apulia, elder son of the Duke of Aosta to Princess Anne of France, third daughter of the Duke de Guise Basilica and St. Francie.

A thousand guests were at the wedding breakfast at the Royal Palace, and 100,000 persons were

A wireless message from Barling- if it should enable him to contri- aston (Vermont) states that 25 were buto even in fractional degree to accommodated in stands along the streets to witness the cavalcade, altitude of 43,000 feet. A similar drowned of whom 17 were State the banishing of the menace of

employees. They were entrapped

which was of surpassing splendour.

[The bridegroom is the nephew of the King of Italy]

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V.C. TO AMERICA'S

Sir Gilbert Parker stresses the UNKNOWN SOLDIER.

paint that the Finance Ainister's actions contravene the policy laid down in his speeches. If the Ger- man Government, acts pomptly, it has the power to prevent aerisis.

"The Agent-General is al opinion that the Reich, by failing to re- strain expenditure, is endangering the stability of the Budget, which is the corner-stone of the experts plan for the reconstruction of Germany. Should these tendencies continue unchecked it will encour nge the impression that Germany is not acting with due regard to her Ileparations' obligations,

The Reply.

The Finance Minister, in reply, agrees as to the necessity for strict economy, but points out the ex treme difficulty when vital matters of the national life are viewed only from the financial standpoint. He declares that payment of the Re- parations obligations is covered by the yield of pledged accurities, and that the German Government de sires to do their" utmost to help to solve the Reparations' problems.

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According to the last entry in his log, Gray had reached aa alti tude of 40,000 feet.

The Postmaster of Sparta states that the baragraph registers climb of over 42,000 feet on May

4th was disallowed because the air

man was forced to descend in parachute.

THE REVOLT IN -MEXICO.

eye. Seven thousand persons are his new office would be in connec homeless. Some have encamped tion with the League of Nations. on the hillsides while others have That would involve very heavy res- sheltered in the public buildingsponsibility but, on the other hand, that are still standing.

the waters.

in a boarding-house in the path of future war and making peace more dirable and secure that would be work, more useful, honourable and blessed than any other he could imagine.

The residents of Montpes are suffering from the cold weather, as the authorities have commandeered the coal.

The water is 30 feet deep in some of the streets. The city hall is a Uruin and a number of "hatek and shops have been destroyed. The houses were ripped apart, trees

Maintenance Of Peace, That was the purpose of the League of Nations.

The League had already done a great deal to

THE KING'S ORIGINAL GENERAL GOMEZ CAPTURED were torn down, 7 railway bridge provide for the maintenance of

MESSAGE PRESENTED TO ARLINGTON MUSEUM.

4༔

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

The

WASHINGTON, Nov. 6th. British · Ambassador ~ (Sir

AND EXECUTED.

SHORT AND SHARP WORK.

(REUTER'S AMELICAN BIÊVICE.]":

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 6th. captured with four other revela General Arnulfa Gomez has been tionary officers, after a short battle at Teocelo,

Esine Howard) has presented to the Historical Museum at Arlington the original message of King George, sent to President Harding, in connection with the presentation hours. of the Victorin Cross to the America's unknown soldier,

BRAZIL'S GOLD STANDARD.

U.S.A. HELPING IN ITS RESTORATION.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN-SEXVICE.)

New Yous, Nov. 8th. Sixty-seven tons of gold in twenty-dollar pieces will shortly be SHANGHAI DISASTER transferred from the Treasury to Brazil to assist in the restoration of Brazil's gold standard.

COLLAPSE OF CINEMA BUILD. ING IN CHAPEI DISTRICT,

SHANGHAI, Nov. 6th. Political re-shuffling in Peking 'is expected. Mr. Pan Fu, the present Fremier of the Peking Cabinet, is 135 WOMEN AND CHILDREN charged with the failure of raising sufficient funds for military ex- General Yang Yu Ting penses. hopes to succeed Mr. Pan as Pre- mier should he resign

General Lu Tek Ping's vanguard has come in conflict with Tung Seng Chi's troops at a point near Shasi.

Fengtienese Headquarters claim thal the Fengtienese have captured Tatung. In view of the danger of launching an immediate campaign towards the interior of Shansi, the are confining their Fengtienese activities in rounding-up the Shansi remnants in Northern Shansi.

KILLED.

(THROUGH RECTER'S AGENCY.}

SHANGHAI, Nov. 5th. A meeting of 300 "Chinese flature workers, who had congregated in a cinema in Chapei this afternoon for the purpose of inaugurating a new Labour Union, ad A disastrous termination when the building col- lapsed as the audience stood up to applaud the election of officers.

The fatalities number 135 wonen

and children, whilst about 200 are seriously injured.

[NAVAL WIRELESS.] Desperate Fighting In Honan. PERING, Nov. 5th. In spite of official reports that the (pro-Fengtien), Shantung troups

The entire third floor, on which the meeting was being held, col- have been uniformly successful in Honan province, it is persistently

lapsed and dropped to the second floor, which gave way; followed by stated in Chinese circles that the

the walls, burying the entire crowd The Nanking Military Council has in the debris of brick, plasters. picture has been overdrawn. Ver- nacular papers and other Chinese ordered the Southern forces partities, and splintered timbers.

Chinese military surrounded the sources report that General Chang cipating in the Northern Expedition area and assisted the Police in Tsung Chang's main (Shantung) to advance northwards immediately extricating the bodies of those army, after weeks of desperate with a view to joining Feng Yu killed and the people injured.

First aid was brought to the fighting, has been thrown back, and Haiang's troops at Hsuchow, whose scene, the injured being rushed to that Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang's troops, the Nanking Government Hospitals where doctors operated

Kuominchun bas recaptured Kai- feng, to the east of which heavy fighting is now going on.

Nationalists Troops Mutiny At Tungchow.

SHANGHAI, NOV. 5th. Nationalist troops have mutinied at Tungchow,, but the Nationalists have now taken the situation in hand.

WANUBIEN, Nov. sth. Yang Sen received the Command- ing Officer of H.M.8 Teal in a friendly manner, General Yang stated that he was raving for "Ichang shortly. He has definitely allied himself with 2nd Nationalist Army.

More Troop Movements.

NANKING, Nov. 5th.

18 carriages full of troops have arrived from the south.

The British Consulate, is now unoccupied.

CHINXIANG, Nov. 5th. Junks are being commandeered, indicating the possibility of a re- tirement by Southern forces who are reported to have suffered heavy losses in Shantung.

The Concession here is almost en- tirely evacuated by soldiers.

Large numbers of junks stili con- tinue to proceed to the Grund Canal..

处

CYCLONE IN NELLORE.

309 PERSONS PERISH IN THE FLOODS.

COMMUNICATIONS CUT OFF.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

All were executed within a few

MOSUL'S OIL DEVELOPMENT.

U.S.A., BRITAIN, FRANCE AND HOLLAND INTERESTED.

A 500-MILE PIPELINE.

[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]'

NEW YORK, Nov. 6th Five leading American oil com- panies have acquired an important interest in a scheme for developing oil in the Mosul region, with the co-operation of groups "representing Britain, France and Holland and under the direction of the Turkish Petroleum Company, each company to hold a 25 per cent interest. -

It is planned to construct a 500 mile pipeline to the Mediterranean.

FIFTY-FOUR CHINESE

STOWAWAYS.

*

CAPTAIN FINED £5,000.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

PERTH, W. Australia, November 5th. MADRID, November 8th. The captain of the Dutch steamer Three hundred persons are re.Almakerk has been fined £3,000 for ported to have perished in the having prohibited immigrants on foods following a severe cyclone in board his vessel.

Nellore.

Communications are cat off and no details, so far, are"available.

Nellore is a district of Madras with an area of 638 square miles.]

MISS

AMERICA'S PILOTS.

on the more serious cases ímmedi- | LEAVING CHERBOURG FOR ately.

claim, are gaining considerable ad. vance in the Lunghai Railway zone.

As far as is at present known the General Ho Ying Ching has only man killed was Yen Hein, arrived at Chuchow, where he will local Labour leader, who was assist.

ing in the ceremonies. confer with his subordinates in con- nection with military plans for attacking the North.,

FENG RECAPTURES LANFUNG.

Wah Te: Tat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, Nov. 6th,

UNITY OF SOUTH AFRICA.

POSITION AFTER THE FLAG SETTLEMENT.

Marshal Feng Yu Heiang's troops STATED TO BE EXCELLENT. have recaptured Lantung. A.P.C MEN ATTACKED AT CHINKIANG.

AN APOLOGY DEMANDED."

--

(NAVAL WIRELESS.]

CHINKIANO, Nov. 5th. When visiting the Asiatic Petre leum Co.'s building in the British Concession here to-day, two British merfibers of the AP.C. staff were assaulted by Chinese soldiers.

An immediate apology has been demanded from the Chinese autho rities.

{THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.:]

JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 6th.

U.S.A.

WARM FAREWELL IN PARIS,

[REUTERS AMERICAN SKEVICE]

PARIS, Nov. 6th.

GOLF

U.S. PROFESSIONAL, CHÂM PIONSHIP.

were wrecked and rail tracks to- wards the city were twisted.

penco. It bad, he believed, avert Barte, a miles distant, where ed at least one conflict which' but Lieut.-Governor Jackson was for League would almost certainly drowned, is still submerged.

[Earlier telegrams are printed on

have broken out, and it had made page 2.1

it more difficult and dangerous for any state to pursue a deliberately provocative or aggressive policy against its neighbours. Much more remained to be done in the same direction, but he firmly believed. that if the operations of the League were conducted with patience and prudence and in a practical spirit it would succeed as nothing else. in the history of the world had yet succeeded, he would not say in making war impossible but in plac jag peace on a surer foundation thau ever before. What unspork- In the semi-finals of the profes.able relief that would be to man- sional tournament Turtesa, of Ems. kind. ford, beat Golden, New Jersey, 7 Another war от a large scale

would wipe out civilization, and it. up and to play.

Hagen (holder) beat Epinosa, was, therefore, literal tenth to say Illinois, at the 37th bole. Hagen's that it was on the League of iron play was erratic. Espinosa

Nations that the faith and hope of was one up at the 94th hole, Hagen the future must be fixed for redue- squaring it at the 28th.

ing to a minimum the danger of such a catastrophe.

HAGEN WINS.

(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE}

DALLAS, Nov. "3th.

Hagen Retains The Title.

DALLAS, Nov. 6th.

retained Walter Hagen

the American Professional Golf Cham- pionship title by defeating Joe Turnesa. The latter was two up at the halfway mark but Hagen became one up at the 31st and the

remaining holes were halved,

EX-KAISER OPPOSES HIS SISTER'S WEDDING.

THREATENS TO SEVER RELATIONS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

BERLIN, Nov. 3th. It is stated that the ex-Kaiser informed his sister ex-Princess Victoria that if she marries Alex ander Zoubkoff he will break off all relations.

Reference To His Predecessor. He was conscious of difficulty of difficulty of following Lord Cecil, of whom there was no more sincere admirer than himself. He believed.. however, that English people of all parties will be quite as con- vinced as Lord Ceeil himself of the necessity of a limitation of armaments by international agree- ment. There was no nation to whom peace was of more, real con cern than to us and there was no nation more anxious than we were not to waste unnecessary shillings in unproductive expenditure. Wo should not, however, lose sight of fact that we had already, both by international agreement and of our own accord, made very large redon tions in our fighting equipment and we were ready to go as far along the same road as might be found compatible with the safety of our country and commerce,

A Delusion.

It is reported froia Bonn that the ecclesiasticala bave intimated that"

We should delude, ourselves it wo An earlier message (dated, Fre- they will not permit the marriage assumed that war would be im mantle, October 21st) stated that in the Church as they regard it as impossible even if armaments in the Almakerk bad arrived with 54 | “unethical" owing to the dis- Chinese stowaways who were found unconscious in a ballast tank. They are believed to have boarded the ship at Port Said.

The Customs authorities have been ordered to prosecute the mar ter of the Almskerk for allowing prohibited immigrants to enter Australia. The Chinese are to be deported immediately.

INDIAN. STATUTORY COMMISSION.

BENGAL'S GOVERNOR CON- FERS WITH EDITORS."

CALCUTTA, Nov. 6th.

A delegation, which included the The Governor of Bengal confer- United States Air Attache, warmly red separately with the editors of bade farewell to Miss Ruth Elder four party newspapers with refer- and Captain Haldeman, who are ence to the appointment of an returning home on the Aquitania Indian Statutory Commission. from Cherbour

It is understood that the editore informed the Governor that the exclusion of Indians from the Com-i mission would be unacceptable to Indian opinion.

NEARLY 300 MILES

PER HOUR:

THE GERMAN FLIGHT. MEETS WITH ANOTHER MISHAP.

ALLAHABAD, Nov. 6th. The airman Koennecke, in making forced landing, damaged his machine

AN ITALIAN SCHNEIDER COM

PETITOR CLAIMS A Mr. Tielman Roos in a speech.

WORLD RECORD." on the occasion of the Afrikander Day celebrations, declared that the constitutional position following the. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] flag settlement was excellent and

IRAK'S KING VISITING HOME, Nov. 6th. was a chance for all well-meaning Afrikanders to co-operate for the

Major de Bernardi, the Italian

ENGLAND. economic prosperity and the re- Schneider competitor, flying

(BRITISH WIRELESS KRAVICZ1 South African Party and the French and American air attaches Kouping of Parties. He hoped the plane in the presence of British,

RUGBY, Nov. stb. Nationalists would combine to form over a three kilometres course at

The King to-day received in a South African National Party and Venice reached an average speed

loyal adherence of of 206.8 miles per hour, which is audience King Feisal, of Irak, who secure the

claimed to be a world record.is visiting England.

labour...

Bed-

parity in ages.

The registry ceremony is expect ed to take place at Bonn on Noven ber 24th.

every country were reduced to | vanishing point If there were no weapons in existence there would still remain skill and materials for. making them. Peace must rest on [A telegram of the 20th ultimo a moral as well as a material basis. reported :-Alexander Zoubkoff, the What was needed was not merely impecunious scion of a minor Rus a reduction of armaments but a re- sian noble family, whose marriage moval of distrust between nations. next week to Princess Schaum The cause of distrust was the sense. Burglippe will give him the ex- of insecurity. No single individual Kaiser as nbrother-in-law, has had done so much to remove that issued an indignast denial of the sense of insecurity as Sir Austen report that he once earned his Chamberlain. living as a dancing partner and The Treaty of Locarno bad given wishes the statement contradicted

a now feeling of security to two as it annoys the Princess." He great military nations and had insists also on a correction of his however, given a firmer foundation age" he is not twenty-three-but to peace in one of the chief danger twenty-eight. The bride, who is zones of Europe. Similar compacts sixty-two, bitterly complains of covering other areas might spread, Press attacks as regards the dis with the boundaries of treaty. parity in age and says that experi ence compensates him for what be lacks in age.].

- SOVIET CELEBRATION.

10TH ANNIVERSARY OF REVOLUTION.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.].

Moscow, Nov. 5th,

Value Of Arbitration. Another valuable provision against the danger of war was to increase "the rehance on arbitration as a means of settling international die " putes In this, Britain had always led the way. We had. signed many more arbitration" treaties than anv other country and we had submitted to arbitration numbers of questions. even where important national in terests were involved.

A Government anesty act issued

In conclusion, Mr. MeNeill sold to mark the tenth anniversary of he would make it his aim to the the Bolshevist revolution" com best of his ability to enhance the mutes the existing death sentences prestige of the League of Nations. to ten years' imprisonment and con- and promote its usefulness. At the fiscation of property. Those under same time he could not forget that going imprisonment have their for a British Minister the first duty terms substantially reduced or are of all was to maintain British in- immediately released. **Toilera terests but he did not believe that sentenced for counter-Revolutionary essential British interests, one of activities before January 14, 1972, the best of which was peace, ought are released or their sentences C: ever to be at variance with the duced Ex-officers of White armies League of Nations which interests are exempted from special legisla we supported in a reasonable and

conciliatory spirit.

tion.

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