DEVELOPMENT OF THE WAR IN NORTH CHINA.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27th, 1927.
THE STRUGGLE FOR SHANTUNG STILL PROCEEDING.
MARSHAL CHIANG KAI SHEK AWAITING ORDERS FROM THE KUOMINTANG CÔNFERÊNCE..
OFFICIAL NANKING
REPORT.
(Fah T Tat Pap.)
SHANGHAI, Dec. 26th. The Nankang Military Council reports the latest war, developments in North China as follows:
The Shansi troops operating in North Shansi succeeded in captur- ing Tatung on the ind dost., the Fengtienese being pushed back on the Shan's border.
On the same day Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang's troops captured Tai ming. in Southern Chihli.
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After the occupation of Hmuchow further attacks on the Northerners did not take place on a large scale by the Southerners but it seems that Marshal Fong's troops playing a very active part in their Southern Shantung campaign. The latest report says that their van- guard reached a point some 10 miles auth of Yenchow. In view of the fact that they established their posi tion very near to the enemy enp severe fighting is imminent.
SOVIET CONSULÄR STAFF:
LEAVE FOR VLADIVOSTOCK.
(NAVAL WIRELESS.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 23rd. It is reported that the Soviet Consular-Staff-re-learing Shang hai on December 24th.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 24th The Soviet Consul General with his stad and their families sailed for Vladivostock to-day (Saturday) by the Soviet Mercantile steamer Nishan
Bandits Executed...
CHENCHIU, Dec. 93th.
A number of bandits who were captured by H.M.S. Cricket on December 21st were handed over to the Chinese military authorities for trial. They were shot to-day.
Anhui's Capital Qufet.
ANKING, Dec. 24th
A number of Spanish priests paid visit to H. M.S. Scarab. It is re ported that the town is quiet and
that no British or American sub-
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There are 10,000 troops, under Chen. Tai Yuen present, and ban- dits have been reported to be present in the vicinity.
On accepting the Wanking ap:jects are there. pointment as Chief Commander of the Third Route Kuomintang Army, General Pei Chung Hsi, a Kwangsi general co-operating with General Li Tsai Hain, will lead his main forces to Honan in order that he may temporarily establish him- self there to attack Northern Kwangtung
Marshal Chiang Kai Shek will not assume office as Commander-in- Chief of the Kuomintang Army until receiving formal orders from the coming Kuomintang Confer- ence, which is expected to be inaugurated in the first week of January.
Marshal Feng's troops, under General Sun Liang Cheung, are advancing in the direction of Tai nan, the capital of Shantung.
In view of the Shantung situa tion, Marshal Chang Tso Lin hasi decided to assume the defensive along the Peking-Suiyeng Railway towards General Yes Shih Shan, so that the may detach a number of Fengtienese reinforcements to the Shantung front..
SHANGHAI TRAMS.
FULL RESUMPTION FOLLOWS
SOVIET DEPARTURE.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Dec. 25th.
The full tram service was résum- ed this morning.
Former strikers are now assisting the Police to arrest agitators, realising that risks of reprisals have passed off with the departure of Soviet members, seventeen of whom, including Kovlovski, sailed on the Siskan this morning for Vladivostock.
DOOMED "S.4." LAST MINUTE EFFORTS.
AMERICAN LEGION'S
T: CRITICISM,
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24th. Unwilling to give up hope that some of the crew of the 5.4 are still alive, Mr. Wilbur has decided to go to Provincetown to confer with officers of the Salvage Fleet
Mr. Wilbur declared "as long a we can carry on above the spot
· [NAVAL WIRELESS.] General Pei.
..
HANKOW, Dec. 23rd General Pai Chung Chi has re- turned to Hankow from Shanghai.
Shanghal's Armed Robberies.
SHANGHAI, Dec. 24th. There has been a marked reduc bion in the number of armed robberies in the last few days. -A HANKOW OUTBURST, KUOMINTANG TIRADE
AGAINST CHRISTIANITY,,
ANOTHER PIRACY ON
THE YANGTSZE.
THE FRENCH S.S. "SHUHENG" THOROUGHLY LOOTED."
MANY PASSENGERS KILLED
AND WOUNDED. ·
"[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, Dec. 28th.
A telegram from Echong states that the French steamer Shuheng, while proceeding to Shasi, was pirated below Ichang on the 22nd
instant.
The pirates thoroughly looted the vessel, killing and wounding many of the passengers.
“MEXICAN METHODS"
IN POLAND.
POLITICAL WRITER ROUGHLY HANDLED.
AN OUTRAGEOUS AFFAIR.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
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WARSAW, December 25th. The playwright, M. Nowaczynaki, who is also a leader writer for the Conservative Press against the present régime, was visited yester day evening by two civiliana and another man in uniform, a senior police officer, who produced a war.. rapt showing that Nommezynski was required at the State Attorney's office.
Nowaczynski entered a taxi and was driven to the outskirts of the city, where he was brutally set on and beaten with rubber clubs and the butts of revolvers.
His assailants apparently intend HANKOW, Dec. 20th
ed to throw him into the lake According to a message from Ichang, the Ichang branch of the whither they were dragging him Political Connell of the Kuomin. | bút, frightened by "the attentions tang has recently organised a com- mittee entitled "the committer to of passers-by, they made off in oppose. foreigners cultural agran-taxis disemen."
Handbills against Christianity were placarded in the city by the committee last, evening.
The handbill reads:---
1. "Christianity is the worst de
mon of Imperialism." "Christianity is the funda- mental material to narcotise man's life."
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5.
missdonarien.
JAPANESE NAVAL DISASTER.
A TRAGIC SEQUEL.
· CRUISER COMMANDER COM MITS SUICIDE.
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(THROUGH AKUTKE'S AGENOT.)
Toxre, Dec. 28th.
THE “DAWN.”
FEARS FOR HER SAFETY:
WIRELESS MESSAGË THEN
SILENCE.
#THROUGH KRUTEX'S AGENOT,] "
CHRISTMAS AT HOME.
LORD MAYOR OF LONDON'S
MESSAGE.
STATIONS CROWDED WITH TRAVELLERS.
(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]
LONDON, December 25th: Anxiety is growing in America
Ruoay, Dec. ord. Captain Mizuki, ex-commander of with regard to the fate of the
The Christmas holidays began the cruiser Jintu, halding himself amphibian seaplane Dawn which responsible for the naval disaster of left Roosevelt Field yesterday even-to-day in earnest. Shopping reach August 21th, when the intru. Banking for Harbour Grace with a viewed its climax, and all the London stations were crowded with travell to making a Trans-Atlantic flight. the destroyer Karabi, has com
The occupants were Mrs Grayers A feature was the heavy book. son, Oscar Oxdal, pilot, Brice ings for the Continent. All air nitted suicide.
Goldsborough,
And services to the Continent had to be navigator,
cancelled owing to a gale raging in the Channel.
The very mild weather, which in
The Court Martial, which bad been trying Mizuki and others in connection with the disaster, was expected to declare its final verdict
tommorrow.
"RED" TREACHERY-
IN POLAND.
POLICE ROUND-UP IN WARSAW.
CORRESPONDENCE WITH MOSCOW.
[TEROCOH REUTER'S AGENCY.].
WARSAW, December 25th. Political police have rounded-up Communists in various centres here. They include Soviet ring leaders and emissaries, one being ex-Commimary Wadzicki. Several secret printing presses were dis- covered and tofs of seditious litera ture were confiscated and copies of correspondence with Moscow sei ed.
BRITAIN'S TRADE UNIONS.
MEMBERSHIP AND FINANCES.
Fred Ochler, mechanic.
There has been no news of the plane since she passed- Cape Cod yesterday night. The sea has been rough with strong wind
· [REUTER'S AMERICAN. SERVICE.] Search Expedition Leaves.
NEW YORK; December 25th. The aeroplane Dawn has not yet been located and it is now 48 hours
since she left Roosevelt Field.
A search expedition left Curtias Field this afternoon. -
GLASGOW FIRE FATALITIES.
FOUR FIREMEN KILLED.
A CHILD'S WARNING:
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENOT.]
LONDON, December 25th. Four Aremen were killed in Glasgow during a fire which des troyed a five-storey warehouse in Graham Square in the Gallowgate, District on Christmas Eve.
LATER. ""Santa Claus scratchin' matches, a phrase uttered by a four-year old boy while climbing the staircase of & tenement building in Graham Square, which commands à view of the district, was the first warning the South of England followed the of fire received by a policeman. recent severe cold, is hardly likely He immediately summoned the fire to last, according to weather ex-brigade, who were holding a Christ- perta. The wintry conditions mas party. which have continued in the North are not unlikely to extend to the South, so that there is, after all, the prospect of a white Christmas
for London.
The blaze was so menacing that the fire master ordered. 30 families to vacate their homes. Tone of valu- able machinery fell through the
upper floore of the destroyed build- ing.
Sir Charles Batho, Lord Mayor
The firemen were temporarily of London, issued the following message to Londoners: In offer called off in view of the dangerous" ing Christmas greetings to the situation; and it was only when a citizens of London, I think we roll call" was taken that it was A wireless message from Sable may congratulate ourselves upon discovered that four Bremen were
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}, In Wireless Communication.
Haarax, December 20th
Island states that they were in com- munication with the aeroplane Dawn to the effect that something was wrong but had been interrupt ed by the storm.
Nothing Since Been Heard; It now appears that Sable Island received the communication from the Dawn on Friday evening, since when nothing had beep heard,
MEDITERRANEAN FLEET COMMAND.
"NEW C.-L.-C.
[TH200GH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Dec. 24th.
The Conservative Press, which EFFECT OF GENERAL STRIKE The Admiralty announces that
stigmatised the incident as being "Mexican methods of fighting up- ponents," and threatened reprisals have had their issues confiscated by the Government. - "
It is announced that the affair will be investigated and that the criminals will be severely punish
"Oppose the YM.C.A." "Dwen with the schools under the management of Christian "Destroy Chrisianity which ed. is a medium for foreigners' cultural aggrandisgment." Toho.
LANCASHIRE'S COTTON
"INDUSTRY.
AN IMPORTANT REPORT.
ATTEMPT TO AVERT A CRISIS.
[THEOUCH BEUTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, Dec. 24th The Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations have drawn up a scheme to reduce the produc ton and costs of
increase and out- !ppt
THE
MUSLIM LEAGUE.
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A DEFINITE SPLIT.
LAHORE OR CALCUTTA?
[THROUGH LETTER'S AGENCY.]
LARORZ, December 24th.
A definite split has occurred in the Muslim ranks fundamentally as to the attitude which the All-Indis
where they went down we will do revision of the hours and wake Muslim League should adopt to-
20,
Salvage Work.
New Yox, Dec. 24th.
All hope of rescuing any of the
crew of the aubmarine S.4" is vir-
ia foreshadowed in the report,
which has been submitted to the wards the Statutory Commission Cotton Spinners' and Manufactur-
and the communal electorates. The ers' Associations but whereon non joint decisions haze as yet been trouble began as to who should taken.
tually abandoned. The rescue. fleet An unconfirmed report states that preside at the League's next session.
OD the
At present the machinery is un: productive for four or five hours weekly for cleaning and oiling.
AND COAL STOPPAGE."
(THROUGH BLOTER'S AGENCY.]
LONDON, December 25th. Figures indicating the effect of the General Strike and the coal mining stoppage on the member ship and finances of the Trade Unions are given in the return of the Registrar of Friendly Societies
for 1920.
The statistics show that there were 577 registered Trade Unions with a total membership of 4,190,147 in Great Britain at the end of 1920 compared with 8,981,750 in 1920, when the membership reached its peak.
The funds of the Unions feel from £12,747,000 at the beginning of, the yeur to £8,650,000,
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the happy gestures which have been made by some leading employers as indicative of the establishment of peace and goodwill in our indus tries. I sincerely hope that this | augura the dawn in the New Year of an era of prosperity based upo a better understanding as between master and man."
[THROUGH BEUTER'S AGENCY.} The Pope's Reply To Christmas Greetings.
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buried in the ruins..
OBITUARY.
EX-RUSSIAN STATESMAN,
THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}
NICE, December 5th.
The death is announced of M. Sazonoff, who was Russian Foreign. Minister in 1914, and who subse» quently represented Koltchak in Paris.
الله
TROTSKY ON MISERY OF RUSSIA.
SCARCELY EQUALLED
UNDER REGIME OF THE TSARS."
Rou, Dec. 25th. The. Pope, replying to the Christ
greetings of the Sacred College, sadd that he rejoiced in the appointment of the first Japanese bishop but sorrowed because of the savage episodes, crualties and atrocities in Mexico, Russia aad China. It seemed imposable that all the Governments should not rise up and put an end to them. Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick Field [REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
How New York Delebrated. has been appointed Commander-in-
New. Yox, Dec. 25th. Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet in
Christmas is being celebrated succession to Sir Roger Keyes, to most enthusiastically, holly tied to |
red ribbon, Christmas trees, and date from May 1st, 1928.
BERLIN. Alluminated multi-coloured lights [Vice Admiral Frederick being everywhere. It is estimated Leon Trotsky's official pronounce- Laurence Field, K.C.B., KCMG, that over 3,000,000 holiday makers ment in opposition to the present C.B., C.M.G., has been Deputy are flocking from New York. The Soviet Government in Russia has Chief of the Naval Sta since theatres, hotels and cabarets are been published here, and reveals 1925. He was with the Barfleur in Locked to
ful capacity, the creator of the Russian revolu the Boxer Rebellion in China in Turkeys are plentiful and plum tion as the severest critic of his 1900 and was wounded in taking puddings from England are great- own handwork.
Sir
their
patches and receiving the China hilation, they compare very favour
ROVING AIRMEN.
TO WORK FAR EASTWARD.
"THE WORKERS ARE TERRORISED."
י
"one of
The document, which was sup- pressed throughout Russia by Stalin, who ordered the arrest, im- prisonment, and exile of any per Bom in whose possession it was found, "declares that Stalin's re gime oppresses labour worse than capitalsm.
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Tientsin, being mentioned in des- is in demand as, owing to pro- Trotsky describes the position of, medal (Relief of Peking clasp) ably with the native variety. Boote Russian workers as He was promoted Rear-Admiral in leggers are very active rcularis-ery, scarcely equalled under the 1910 and Vice-Admiral in 1924. Ining their clients, announcing the regime of the Tears." "1918 he was in command of H.M.S. receipt of fresh merchandise."
King George V. at the Battle of Jutland. Subsequently he became Chief of Staff to the Admiral second-in-command of the Grand Fleet; then Director of Torpedoes and Mining at the Admiralty; 3rd Sea Lord and Controller of the
The Soviet Government is accus- Navy; Bear-Admiral commanding HOPES OF FLIGHT PROVING
A FINANCIAL SUCCESS.
ed af deliberately falsifying official the Battle Cruiser Squadron; and
commanding Vice Admiral
Two young
Englishmen, Mr. statistics for the purpose of de civing the workers at home and abroad into believing that all is Newall, intended to start early it well with the Communist work of November on a novel form of flight || the world. to the Far East. They will fly one machine each, and work their way from aerodrome, to aerodrome by surveying, crop-spraying, mail-carry ing, or any other jeb that offers, and expect to be away from Eng land for about a year.
the
BUENOS AIRES BANK Special Service Squadron during Neville, Vincent and Mr. John
OUTRAGE.
BOMB EXPLOSION,
COMMUNISTS BLAMED.
[REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
Bornos Aires, Dec. 24th Several bank employees were Khan intervened and suggested among the 15 injured in a bomb explosion at the local branch of the Delhi or Aligarh, but Mr. Jinnah, National City Bank premises, which President of the League's Council were badly damaged insisted on Calcutta. Consequant-
The outrage was similar to the
is now devoting its attention to sal- the Federation recommends a re The Aga Khan declined and Sir vage, but the raising of the vessel duction of 12) per cent, is unlikely until the Spring.
piece rates paid to operatives and Muhammad Shafi was then elected. Since the S. tragedy people have an extension of the working hours Lahore was first chosefi as the venue been too interested in the life from 48 to 52, the idea being not but on December 1st it was changed saving efforts to criticise the Navy to reduce the weekly wages packet
to Calcutta whereupon the Aga Department's management of the int to increase the output salvage operation. Now, however, the public Press is showing certain impatience. A resolution crystals ing the feelings of a considerable The report further takes the section of the public was passed question of the uneconomic position American Legion declaring that time. "the apparent incompetency of the Navy Department in handling the situation, whether due to lack of proper equipment, red tape, in- eficiency or other causes, can be viewed only with apprehension."" Meanwhile the Secretary of the Navy has issued numerous state mente giving the impression that he is on the defensive.
the world cruise.].
CONTROL OF WHALING. N. ZEALAND AND POLICING OF THE ANTARCTIC.
2.17
WELLINGTON, N.Z.
Both men are staking everything
The 10-Hour Day.
While Stalin recently, stated that the Soviets intended to reduce the present eight-hour working day to seven hours, Trotsky declares that ah Russians are now compelled to work on an average more than ten
It is probable that if and when
international agreement is in the hope of making the flight hours a day, while most toil with- reached regarding the Antarctic financial success. Mr. Vintcent is out limit.
Contrary to a Government states the obligations of New Zealand twenty-five and Mr. Newal twenty- will be extended in the Ross Sea six. They first met as midshipmen ment that wages are equal or Dependency. A hint to this effect in the Navy, but afterwards resign-superior to those of pre-war days. was given in the Legislative Coun-ed and qualified as pilote six years Trotsky discloses that agricultural cil by the Leader of the Council, ago. Mr. Vintcent on one occasion labourers receive but 03 per cent. Sir Francis Bell," "
The Hon. G. M. Thomson refer- red to Ross Bes, whaling opera tions, and said there should be an international agreement whereby round the Antarctic Ocean.
had a forced landing off the coast of pre-war wages, while the pur- of Siam, on the island Kab Bab. chasing power of all wages is far where he spent six days among below the prewar standard primitive nativos. He landed on Because of the lack of safety de
vices in the Sovint · factories, the coast of Martaban last Novem
by the Massachusetts Post of the of mills re-capitalised during wax-ly, Bir M. Shafi has now resignexplosion at the First National City Whaling should be controlled right ber, and for some days lived with Trotsky eshows that every tenth
Everything" points to the whole question of safety measures for sub marines being thrashed out in Con gress shortly. The strong feelings aroused by the disaster all over the country are hardly likely to be satisfied with less
PARIS, Dec. 24th. The French Chamber of Deputies passed the Budget by 383 votes to 125.
PARIS, Dec. 25th.
ed and there is a likelihood that
cutta."
MUST
RUBBER TRADING.
HAVE COUPONS IN
CEYLON.
Sir Francis Bell referred to the two rival sessions will be held Rank in Boston. Both explosions FRENCH BUDGET PASSED.simultaneously at Lahore and Cal-
are believed to be the work of Com-difficulty of controlling unlicensed whalers and the policing of the munists. They occurred simultane Antarctic seas. He had while in (THROUGH REUTER'S ADENCE.]
interna- ously at noch when the banks were England suggested an
tional convention for the contro! full of customers, mud
of, whaling in the southern seas The Casualties.
similar to that operating in re- LATZE.
spect of sealing in the Behring It now transpires that two per-Sea... ETHROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.
He mentioned that France had sons were killed and 20 injured inciaime in the Antarctic which had Corosso, Dec. 24th the bomb outrages.
to be considered, and thate certain Legislation became effective on
Mr. Little, manager of the international negotiations, which December 23rd, making it illegal to
going on. He was unable to say purchase or sell rubber in Ceylon National City Bank and five clerks were wholly confidential, had been without, coupons.
were injured.
anything regarding them
The Budget, after going back wards and forwards, between the Chamber and the Senate, has been definitely adopted by both Houses by substantial majorities.
Receipts total. Fr.42.490,000,000 expenditure Fr.42,441,000,000.
the native fishermen, who robbed worker suffers from a serious ac- him of everything, except his air-cident annually
The so-called Workers' Control!?" plane. He was rescued by a man named Wilson, who took him a two- days journey through the jungle to has become a farce, according to the nearest petrol station. Wilson Trotsky who asserts that Labour had been a trooper in a cavalry troubles are multiplying and that regiment, but deserted in India. the workers are terrorised into He made his way to Burma, where silence and univermally regard for seventeen years he lived by his their trade unions with hostile gun. He went native," but still suspicion, kept his sabre, spurs, and shoulder Whereas the Government main- chains brightly burnished. The two toms that Soviet industry is large airmen hope to spend some time in ly Socialistic, Trotsky claims that Sism and the Federated Malay privately manufactured articles. States, returning by way of China form more than one half of the and Siberia if things are suficiently whole supply-International. Newe
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