THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20th, 1927.
MR. WANG CHING WEI'S VALEDICTORY EPISTLE TO KUOMINTANG LEADERS.
EXPRESSES A DESIRE TO RETIRE FROM POLITICAL LIFE.
MARSHAL FENG PROGRESSING IN SHANTUNG. HSUCHOWFU AGAIN RECAPTURED BY THE
KUOMINCHUN.
MARSHAL CHIANG KAI SHEK ENTER.
TAINS FOREIGN OFFICIALS AT SHANGHAI.
Mr. Wang Ching Wei, who has for long been regarded as one of the most 'extreme of the. Kuomintang leaders, has now. definitely withdrawn from the political arena, and is stated to be at the present moment aboard the Paul Lecat bound fur France. His has been a checkered career ever since his active participation in Kuomintangpolities, when he identified himself with the "Ret" element of the Kuomintang at Hankow, and was hand in glare with Comrade Eugene Chen and other notorious sympathisers of the Soviet's disintegrating doctrines, Chi- nese who know Mr. Wang well say that though he is an extremist in his political theories, he is temperamentally scholarly, of a mild disposition, and very reluctant to expose himself to personal danger. Hence his extraordinary vacillation during the past few months, and lis abrupt departure now that danger once again confronts him. He was and obviously not without cause-believed to be largely responsible for the recent coup that occurred in Cantoh and, indirectly, responsible for the more recent horrors in that unhappy city.
Marshal Fengla troops have been able once again to dislodge the Northerners from that much-distressed city Hauchowfu, and the population of Tsinantu and elsewhere in Shantung are report- ed to be again gravely concerned regarding probable hostilities in "their vicinity,
TENSE FEELING IN SHAN- TUNG'S CAPITAL.
(Wah Tu Tet Pao.)
SHWCHAI, Dec. 19th.
A tense situation has been created in Tsinan, the capital of Shantung, according to A military report received by the Nanking Military Council. The capture of Hsuchow by the Southemers has "consider ably weakened the Northern hold on the Tientsin-Pakow Railway. Taking advantage of this, the plain- clothed, Shansi troops are again very active along the northern section of this milway.
Marsha Feng Yu. Hsiang's main forces will be responsible for the coining "attack on the Shantung troops and the push towards Tai. пап Marshal Feng's reinforce ments for the Lunghai Railway' front are increming.`.
The 9th Southern Army Corps
has advanced to a point north of Hsuchow with a view to inter cepting the Norther enemy.
MR, WANG CHING WEI'S FAREWELL.
(Fah Tez Tat Pro)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 19th..
HANKOW RED LEADERS
BRITAIN'S WINTRY
WEATHER.
44 DEGREES OF FROST IN SCOTLAND,
FROM PARIS
HANOI.
TO A 15,000 MILE THE BRITISH
FRENCH AVIATORS START. ON LONG FLIGHT.
COLDEST WEEK-END IN SEVEN ATHENS THE FIRST STOP.
YEARS.
A "WHITE CHRISTMAS"
PREDICTED.
BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)
Rroay, December 15th.
There is cold weather of unusual severity throughout the British Isles.
Nineteen degrees of frost were registered in London last even- ing. There have been falls of snow in
many districts. A continuation of the conditions is forecasted, prob- ably extending over Christmas.
ROBY, Dec. 19th.
The past week-end was the coldest experienced in Britain for beven years and the temperature through- out yesterday remained consider- ably below freezing point, 34 de- grees Fahrenheit of frost being re gistered at Balmoral, Scotland, where the cold was most severe.
It was, however, warmer in the British Isles than in any other part of Europe in the same latitude, for the cold wave has now spread all over the continent and snowfalls are reported from as far south na was freezing at Rome, and it midday yesterday on the French Riviera.
(THROUGH HAVAN AGENCY.]
PARIS, Dec. 19th. The Le
Bourget aeroplane, Georges Guynemer, piloted by Colonel Antsinat with four .com- panions, hopped off at ses for
Athens, its first stop on the Bight
from Paris to Hanoi.
WORLD-WIDE TIME SIGNAL.
CONTACT WITH MOST
DISTANT PARTS."
RUGBY TRANSMITS TWICE EVERY DAY,
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.]
MOTORING RECORD.
GREAT BRITISH ACHIEVE. MENT.
PLUCKY WOMAN DRIVER.
i
[BITION WIRELESS BEEVICE.]
... RUGBY, Dec. 19th. The achievement of Mr. and Mr Victor Bruce, in breaking the pre- held by the Englishwoman, Violet
viour 15,000 miles motoring record,
Cordery, by forty-eight hourH WAS made more remarkable by the 21 hours delay caused by, the skidding and over-turning of the car on the frozen Monthey, track and by the intensity of the cold weather, in which the run, was made..
PARLIAMENT.
TO BE PROROGUED.
.NEW SESSION" OPENS
FEBRUARY - 7th,
[BRITISH WIRELESS BERVICE.]
RUGBY, December 19th.
PERU'S EXTERNAL DEBT.
BEING RE-FUNDED.
NEW YORK BANKERS AS 'UNDERWRITERS.
[REUTER'S AMERICAS SERVICE]
NEW YORK. Dec, 19th. The bankers, Mesars. Doremus & It is expected that Parliament will be prorogued on Thursday and Company, announce that the Per that the new session will open on van Lower House has already February 7th. Efforts will be made passed à Bill to re-fund the Repub- during the week to secure the pas lig's entire external debt and the sage of a number of minor bills Senate is expected to "ratify the but time has to be found in the measure to-day, in which Commons this week for debates on Messrs. Doremus have agreed to of the unemployment initiated by Labour purchase the securities
agriculture at the instance Peruvian National Loan to the offer extent of G.$50,000,000, and them in the United States and Europe within a few days,
ami on of Liberals.
A MANILAN MURDERER.
C350
Mrs. Bruce bore the briirt of the effort during the last two days and nights and her hands were frost ASKS PRESSMAN TO WRITE ARE BISHOPS ILLITERATE? bitten and her left arm almost frozen when, finally, the course was accomplished.
The windscreen had been smashed in the accident and the inotorists would not wait for it to be repair- eù before resuming the run. They were thus further exposed to the weather.
RUGBY, December 18th Commencing on Monday, Decen- ber 19th, the British time signal will be transmitted from the wire- less station at Rugby twice daily during the five minutes terminating at ten in the morning and six in the evening Greenwich Mean Time. Each transmission, which will be controlled from the standard clock Mrs. Bruce was carried from the at Greenwich Observatory, will be car shoulder-high by enthusiastic of the type proposed by the Inter-spectators.. national Time "Commission, 1925, The car, petrol and oil used were and known as "International system all of British manufacture. of rhythmic wireless time" signals." [Earlier telegrams on the above Forecasts indicate a continuance It will consist of a series of three are printed en page &] (Wah Tst Fat Pao.)
of severe frost and skating has hundred and six signals transmitted General Hu Chung Tu, the prebegun in many disticts. So-called in three hundred seconds of mean white Christianes те Tare in time. Each minute will be clearly gent dictator of Hankow, has issued
England, but there seems Some marked by a dash of two-fifths of a likelihood that frosty weather may duration beginning on the exact continue over next week's holiday..
minute. The dashes at the 55th, 58th, 57th, 58th and 59th minutes will be followed by a succession of sikty dots spaced at the equal in- tervals following the commencement of the dashes at these minutes. The
EXECUTED.
circular telegram giving an a
measures he has count of the taken to eradicate the Communistic venom from Hankow. He declares that as a result of many raida made on Communistic haugts both in Wuchang and the French Cances- sion many notorious Chinese Com- manistic leaders, including Chin Tai Bei and Li Han Chun, were arrested and summarily executed.
· CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S RECEPTION.
(Wah T Tat Pan.)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 19th. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek will
DUTCH POLITICS.
NEW PRESIDENT OF SOCIAL
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 19th
hour will be indicated by a dash of similar duration to the others com- mencing on the exact honr (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] This arrangement provides an extremely accurate time check for geographers and surveyors. At the Hier Ján, Oudegeest "har" been same time it is suitable for the use elected President of the Dutch of ships at sea and is sufficiently Social Democratic Party in succes-simple for more general application sion to Hier Polak, who has re-since for ordinary purposes the signed owing to deafness.
dashes which give clear indication of the minutes are all that need be
hold a dinner reception in honour CHRISTMAS GREETINGS BY noted. Times of transmission have
of the American, French, British and other Consuls-General and
| foreign military and naval officers at Shanghai this afternoon. Mar- shal Chiang will deliver a specch painting out what steps have been taken by the Nationalist Govern- ment to sever diplomatic and com Before leaving Shanghai, Mr.mercial relations with the Soviet Wang Ching Wei presented a letter Government, and will also express to the executive members of the his opinions regarding the matter. Kuomintang including Marehal Chiang Rai Sack, expressing his devision to retire from political life. In his letter he insists on the point that General Chang Fat Fui has really no Communistic inclina- tions and that it is evident the Canton Communistic uprising had
UNDESIRABLE RUSSIANS IN
SHANGHAI SETTLEMENT.
(THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY!]
SHANGHAI, Dec. 18th, On the request of the Bureau of
no connection with him although Foreign Affairs the Municipal Police the fault of not being able to prevhave notified approximately 100 ent its outbreak may implicate him. Mr. Wang hoped that the 4th: Kue Russians connected with the Soviet Consulate or Soviet concerna and
mintang Conference would be sue cezatul and that the
"illegal Special Commission now set up in Nanking would be abolished.
[NAVAL WINKLES. ]'
SANGBAI, Dec. 18th. A rumour is current that Wang Ching Wei ha left, but this - ze ws requires confirmation
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:3 Per Paris?
SHANGHAI, Dec. 18th. Wang Ching Wei, who left on Saturday morning aboard the a.. Paul Lecat, is believed bound for
Paris.
MARSHAL FENG'S LATEST VICTORIES.
Wah In Tot Pao)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 19th. A telographie report from Cheng- chow, Honan, states that Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang's army, in co- operation with General Ho Ying Ching's troops definitely occupied Hauchowfu on the night of the 18th inst. They claim to have in- flicted on the Northern enemy con siderable losses including the cap-1 ture of more than forty machine guns and a number of troops.
Besides gaining the upper-hand on the Lunghai Railway, Marshal Feng's operations in Northern Hanan are ported to have been successful largely owing to substan tial aid rendered by rural armed согра
living in the International Settle- ment, that their presence Shanghai is undesirable.
HSUCHOWFU AGAIN RECAPTURED.
FENG PREPARING A NEW OFFENSIVE.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
SHANGHAI, Dec. 19th.
in
WIRELESS.
MANY MESSAGES
EXPECTED.
[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}.
RUGBY, December 18th It is unnounced that the Post Office are making provision for the transmission of no less than 60,000 radio messages or Christmas greet ing by the medium of their wireless beam services. · ·
""
THE "RED ROSE.""
NOW AT CALCUTTA.
[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
CALCUTTA, Dec. 19th. The aeroplane Red Rose hung arrived and will leave for Hangoon on the 21st inst.”
ONE OF FENG'S GENERALS KILLED?
CAPTOR OF PEKING IN 1920.
It appears that Ho Ying Ching's General Lu Chung Lin, former troops, during the week-end, at commander of the 1st Kilominchun, tacked San Chuan Fang's troops who ranked with Chang Chih. and drove them back, eventually Chang as Feng Yu Hsiang's prin cipal Beutenant, is reported to have entering Hauchowiu.
Chihli-Shantung
troops been killed by chance bullet during The front line has now its base at the recent retreat from Kweitch Haachwang, against which Feng Reports of this kind are often cou- Yu Hsiang's troops are preparing tradicted, but this one is said to be to take the offensive.
accurate. It is added that the late general's body lies at Kaifeng, in a house confiscated by the Nationalists.
SHANGHAI TRAMWAY
STRIKE:
(NATAL WIRELEIS.)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 18th. There is
no alteration in the Shanghai strike situation.
NORTHERN VICTORY.
[NAVAL WIZELMSS.]
SHANGHAI, Dec. 18th. The Northerners are reported to bave captured Kuchek, which is situated on the railway 100 miles North-West of Pukow.
been selected with a view to reach- ing the largest possible portion of the globe at suitable periods of the day.
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THE "S.4" DISASTER.
ANSWER TO DIVER'S TAPS.
ANOTHER SUBMARINE RECEIVES SIGNALS.
[REUTZE'S "AMERICAN SERVICE]
PROVINCETOWN, December 18th. Divers are already exploring the place where the S.4'bank. One ro ports that he heard rappings inside the submarine as if somebody were signalling..
December 10th.
The divers tapped with a hammer on the side of the sunken submarine and heard answering taps. An- other indication that life still exists in the S.4 comes from the submarine 5.8 which is in the neighbourhood of the entombed crew, and believes she got replies to her submarine
signals.
Six Men Found Alive.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18th.
In Communication.
The Navy Department announces The institution of the time signal that six men have been found alive from Rugby marks an addition in the Torpedo Room of S.4, in to the services by which this Station | which sir is being pumped by divera. maintains contact with the most The entombed men established com- distant parts of the world. To ships munication by means of hammer on every sea many of which are in knocks. the habit of receiving private and. press telegrams direct from Rugby the new time signal will provide a means of checking their chrono meters and should consequently prove an additional aid to naviga Wireless « transmissions will be effected by means of continuous WLYCs on a wavelength of 18,740
tion.
metres. •
THE PROPOSED GERMAN BATTLESHIP.
FURTHER CONTROVERSY IN
REICHSRAT
SAFEGUARDING THE SEA
ROUTES.
(THROUGH REUTEE'S AGENCY.]--
BERLIN, December 18th. The Reichsrat also reduced by 6,000,000 marks the expenditure for military purposes. The Government now intends to submit two Budgets to the Reichstag, one with the new battleship and the others without..
Herr Gessler, the Minister of a speech to the Defence, in Reichsrat defending the proposal to build a new warship, said that it was the Government's view that until progress in world disarmament was made it was its duty to carry out the modest naval programme allowed Germany by the Treaty of Veranilles.
It was Lu Chung Lin whe captur od Peking when Tsao Kun was "deposed," in the spring of 1928, when he was made "Governor " of Peking, and afterwards came Tientsin as Commander-in-Chief of the Northwestern Armies in the
"He pointed out that of the six field. He evacuated Tientsin on cruisers-permitted, only five were. retreat of the Kuominthun being built, and out of six battle. March, 1926.
ships only four were contemplated.
The Government considered that it must at all costs take steps to safeguard the ses route to East Prussin which was impossible with the light, naval forces possessed by Germany.
His colleague, General Chang Chih Chiang, the "real"? Christian general of the Kuominchun, was also reported killed but is now stated to be in the flealat Nanking...
PROVINCE TOWN, Dec. 19th. The diver (Eady) who established communication with the survivors
UP HIS LIFE.
TO SEE HIS SWEETHEART AND DIE..
MANILA, Dec. 14th. The death penalty was meted out this morning by Judge Eulogio P. Revilla to Macario Sera Josef, sell confessed murderer of Zacarias Lapuz y Nerit, an employs of the Reyes Brothers Optical Company 15 $24 Calle Avenida Rizal.
"I do not want to appeal to the supreme court. I am ready to dis. But before I am executed, give me time to see somebody (referring to his sweetheart)," Macario appeal ingly asked the court. He fainted when he was taken out of the court. At the detention room, Macario had been weeping. He soon re- covered himself and began to talk
to newsmen.
Sweetheart In Paranaque.
He confessed that be has a sweet beart named Inocencia Hernandez at Parañaque, Rizal. It was his wish to have her brought to him.
As to why he murdered his friend, Zacarina Lapuz, Macario told several stories furnishing the motive to the commission of the
crime.
"He had been in the babit of humiliating me before girls (refer- ring to the deceased). He told other persons that I was only his muchacho.' I could Eave killed him long ago, but, I only refrained from doing so, for fear of harming other people who might come to defend him," Josef explained.
I wish you would (addressing to the newsmen) write about my life from childhood until my execu
in very much like that of a novel so that the people will know that
I am not so bad. After you have I'll be content to meet done this, my fate," Macario added
The court found the accused guilty of robbery with homicide with the aggravating circumstances of treachery, notturnity and abuse
of confidence.
LADY ASTOR." KNOWS BETTER NOW."
THE NAVY WAY TO PEACE.
Ordnance Artificer J. G. R. Veal presided.
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LORD HUGH CECIL'S TILT.
MASTERPIECES MADE-
"INTELLIGIBLE.”
The eloquence of the Archbishop of York (Dr. Lang) and the polish- ed. witticisms of Lord Hugh Cecil were features of a discnesion `at the Church Assembly at Church House, Westminster, on the report of the Cathedrals Commission pub- lished recently.
The Archbishop of York said: Those sto find their own legiance to the Church somewhat perplexed and difficult still and in the cathedrals a most welcome link between themselves and all they most deeply believe."
Referring to the recommendation. tire at the age of 70, he said: that residentiary canons should rẻ-
Lord Hugh Cecil as a result of independent investigations in- to the psychology of old age thinks that it should be 75 There are many"men over seventy still vigorous in mind and body, and there is a notable illustra- tion of that fact not one hundred yards from where I am standing. This allusion to the chairman of the Assembly, the Archbishop of. Canterbury, who is in his eightiech year made the Primate smile, and the bishops led the applause.
Other points in Dr. Lang'r speech were:
The duty of our parish church choirs is not to sing for the people but to make the people sing.
Within the next five years, be yond.necessary repairs,
our.
Cathedra will be called upon to provide for their safety and pro servation a sum of little less thar- £500,000,
For The Working-Classes Lord Hugh Cecil began with an amusing tilt at the bishops. He observed:
With respect to literature I am sometimes inclined to wonder if the bishops and higher clergy are illiterate When I talk to then about literature I wonder how they got their degrees.
All I claim for literary pro- priety is that you should not spoil the most exquisite master- pieces in the language by intzud- ing into the midst of them acme- thing which is supposed to be in- telligible to the working classes.. I always wonder whether people would tolerate revising the may terpieces, of Bach and Handel to make them intelligible to the working-classCS.
Let us keep the masterpieces in all their beautiful integrity, and if we want something simple let us make it."
I am prepared to believe in any change or revolution .oś fashion. Music, that is to-day considered sugary and sentimen tal may fifty years hence become "those charming old melodies," Referring to Westminster Abbey, Lord Hugh said
Nearly two hundred sailors in of the S.4 descended as 2 o'clock unifarm, representing all lower. yesterday at noon. He located the deck naval ratings, attended a dio- submarine after 20 minutes and inner at Plymouth under the auspices of the Lower Deck Benevolent spected the wreck for an hour. He Associations" The event took said that a "bole is torn in the hull place, appropriately, on Trafalgar Larger than the hole in the S.51, Day. The guests included Lady Astor, M.P., Commander Str. E and under the conning tower. Hilton Young, M.P., Major Leslie Astor. and Lord Eady's tappings were answered Hore-Belisha, from the torpedo compartment and the following messages exchanged In the last seven years," said by knocks of a hammer. gus Lady Aster, wonderful progress: bad "No; but air. How long has been made in the lower-deck in the navy. The ma demanded re- will you be now?" How many are forme in an orderly way and they there "There are siz Please got them. We were very frighten- harry. Will you be long now 1"ed at one time that some of the more violent ones would get the "We are doing everything pos-upper hand, for their violence sible,"
would have made no progrees. The Another diver" descended and man or woman with a disordered mind has a disordered business and fixed an air valve, to the sub-they do not get very far. I used marine's hull and air tanks were to think that the only way to en lowered and hooked up fato which sure peace was by the British Navy. the rescue ships are pumping air.
I know better now. The only way to guarantee peace is to have peaceful men and women. We may have navies, armies, and air forces, 2,400 PER CENT, INTEREST. but all those who want peace have got to strive for peace within them- selves.!!
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SOVIET AFFAIRS.
TROTSKÝ OPPOSITION.
SEVENTY-FIVE LEADERS EX PELLED BY CONGRESS,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Moscow, December 18th.. The Communist Congress re- solved upon the expulsion of seven frye active ringleaders of the Trotzky opposition from the Party Tha number includes Kemenelf, Rakovsky, Smilga, Smirnoff, Dadek and the entire membership of the so-called Sapronoff group, number ing twenty-three.
said "Nelson nade the basis of Commander Sir E. Hilton Young
discipline trust. He transferred the reason that sailors obey ther officers from fear to trust. If he had done nothing else be would have performed an inestimable ser vice to the nation. For seven years we have been trying to and a way to make the nations feel more, safety.
It is very beautiful, but from a utilitarian point of view it as not good. You cannot hear, and it is unsuitable for the worship of a big congregation. But bêzi cause that is so I would not sug- gest that you should pull it down and build something else.
JUDGE'S TRONIC COMMENTS,
Working out a sum in arithmetic at the Westminster Court, when a money-lender sued for the payment of a promissory note, Judge Tobin remarked: The interest amounts to 2,400 per cent. It seems a trife excessive even for Westminster
The Judge tore up the promis Bo long as there is n sory notes and allowed 60 per cont. British Empire there must be a intarest. He ordered the women British Navy for the Navy has defendante to pay half a crown a bound together those communities week and refused the plaintiff's which are members of the great costs. It will take nearly four
years to pay off the debt... family we call the Empire"
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