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IS SHANSI'S MILITARÝ GOVERNOR SUING FOR PEACE?

GENERAL LI TSAI HSIN LEAVES SHANGHAL FOR CANTON.

NANKING GOVERNMENT DESPATCHING AN EXPEDITION AGAINST HUNAN.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3rd, 1928.

MARSHAL CHIANG KAI SHEK'S ATTITUDE. SHARPLY CRITICISED.

According to the native Press, Shansi's Military Governor is Reference N willing to negotiate peace with Bietator Chang, made to the endless civil wars entailing siffering upon the people."

General 1 Tsai sin is reported to have left Shanghai for *Cantor.

It is quite refreshing, in the light of recent events, to observe "Arvere that Marshal Chiang Kai Shek is now the subject of eriticism because of his attitude towards Wang Ching Wei and Chanx Fat Fui, both of whom are generally believed to have been. actively concerned in the initial stages of Canton's recent troubles, Yet sumosher little way has sprang up, oris about to spring"up. prefething: this time in Human, to which province the Nanking Government proposes tu send a punitive, expédition.

PEACE OVERTURES FROM SHANSI.

(Was Te Tut Pau.)

SHANGHAI, Jan. 2nd.

Cinema! Yan Shih Shan bus des

NEWS FROM YANGTSZE PORT'S.

BRINGING IN THE THE SINGAPORE FRANCO-AMERICAN

NEW YEAR.

POLITICAL, ECCLESIASTICAL AND INDUSTRIAL

MESSAGES.".

HOW LONDON AND NEW YORK CELEBRATED.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY:']

Lognos, Dec. 31st. Mr. Baldwin's New Year message to the nation, addressed to the Primrose League, of which the Premier is Grand Master, notes the considerable progress in 10 ta- wards restoring industrial pros perity, also the increasing desire of capital and lubair to co-operate and solve their problems,

1998 will be a year of great

FLOATING DOCK.

TRANSPORTING THE SECTIONS.

TREATY.

BRITAIN'S WINTRY

WEATHER.

NEGOTIATIONS PROGRESSING RAILWAY SERVICES NORMAL..

SATISFACTORILY,

A HAZARDOUS TASK.

* OUTLAWRY OF WAR

PACT.

{THROCUM REUTER'S AGENCY.]

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

→

'PLANES DELIVER FOOD,

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how

Rreay, Dec. 30th.

Los os, January 2nd.

The railway services re The hazardous task of transport-

PARIS, January 2nd.

normal" and with the subeidance of Well-informed quarters have re

the gak sigauer services actas the ing the 30,000 ton Singapore Aoat-

Channel have been resumed in tull. ing dock in two sections to the grived information, it is stated, Far East, will, according to the which shows that negotiations with Cross-channel air services are not Washington are progressing favourenly normal hut haw had to be Cherepre, be awarded to the Smitably for the renewal of the Francouznunted owing to the demand Company, the wellknown Rotter dam towage éxperts.

It will necessitate at least eight tugs and the most critical stage will be the Suez Canal in which all other traffic, will be suspended to enable, the gigantic structure to

political activity. "Te is essential crawi at barely a mile an hour, with the sides of the glock almost touching the banks.

the next

The journey is expected to be undertaker in May..

LATER.

The principal fear associated with the Cairo-Bagdad airliner that prorive short Passengers

would

shrift at the hands of the nomadic

BRITISH REVENUE.

RETURNS.

SATISFACTORY FIGURES.

DEATH DUTIES "UP."

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Brear, Dec. 31st

The revenue returns show that for three fourths of the financial year to December 31st there bas been a net increase of £13,300,000 -

over the corresponding period of last year.

The chief increase is in death duties, which are up by £5,300,000, of which over £2,000,000 came to hand in the last three months.

American Treaty of Arbitration, for seats In addition to their 1919, the provisions of which it is usual silver wing service at noon proposed to extend. The Irites the Imperial Airways had to pur

The total "revenue for mine States Government are also stated on a "sprial" servior of Hanley,

months is shown at £102,500,000 to be ready to negotiate with Page-Napier mir liners.

which Road traffic however, is little against

the expenditure France for the conclusion of a treaty for the outlawry of war be easier, and shalt towns and villages | chargeable is £642,500,000 which is Aeroplanes an increase of £17,500,000 over the tween the two countries provided remain snowbound." the part is open to all other Powers have been used in one localities to corresponding peried of last year, wishing to undertake the same obhing badly needs supplies to ligations.

isolated places. For instance, an aeroplane piloted by Captain Hope. the winner of the King's Cup, was leaving London Aerodrome this evening to fly low over five snowed | supply services af over £5,500,000,"

THE

FLIGHT TO HANOL.

THRILLING ADVENTURES.

MISSING LINER LOCATED.

(THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY.]

BEIRUT, Dr. 31st. A stirring Recount of the perila

"

up villages meg: London and droje pargel containing tins of condens- ed milk.

This increase, however, is imors

than acconated for by the increase

the sinking fund in £21,000,000,

of

over

There is an actual decrease in the

In his budget the Chancellor of the Exchequc estimated the year's revenue at £834.838,000, so that f the budget is to be realised a

still reinains to be large sum

One reads of the wintry con ditions is that many people who had arranged visits to Switzerland collected.

In the last thre monthe of last for wipier sports have cancelled

110 less than them as they can get all the win-year, however,

that we prepare for General Election and arouse en thusiasm to enbat any tendency to slackness among Conservatives, lor if the electors are told the truth NAVAL WIRELE38. ]

we have nothing to fear," he says. The Archbishop of Canterbury's SHANGHAI, Jan. 1st. Yan Churn Feng was executed New Year messugs on New Year

proved unfounded, a Patung on December 27th by Days in the past had a distinctive

Arain has patched a representative so Peking,der of Yang Sen because he was

sometimes political, some-

When the Air Force neropläng, land- for the purpose of approaching implicated in an alleged disloyal | note,

Wandsien. La conse times industrial, sometimes "inters Marshal Unang Two Lin regarding action

ed, they found the liner surround (kis (General Yan's wish for pence, queer of this timeral Fak, who

ed by Arabs offering water and is in control as Fowchow, revolted wational. This year he finds more This does mox nean (he says) that against Yang Sen and it is people than ever before Envieing with each other to render he surrenders to his enemy, but he reported that he has moved his such chagrined to

which, refuelled, reached Rutba în There is no power greater than | safety. 'Steps were taken to reward love and goodwill," says Mr. Ben the tribesmen and encourage a Turner, chairman of the T.U.C. in similar spirit in future. his New Year message; the job of all of rescue the nation from social de pression and the task of the trade union movement is to end les warfare which the social system has erested. There is a need for all people to poo! their mental, moral and spiritual resources to uplift the whole,"

Ber that, troopy down the river to Wauhsien, land's history thinking and talking assistance to the stranded liner, and hardships suffered by the crew frozen state of ponds and water generally

dess visil wars have entailed apon the people much suffering."a On the 31st ult. General Li Tsai Hsin, avompanied by a number of military" jersenago, delt Shanghai on board a French steamer for

whir Yang Sen has gone up the river from Ichang.

Tang Yang, 30 miles N. E. of Ichang, has been occupied by part of the 2nd Array under Loh Ping and the 43rd Army who, it is unterstood, are acting under the orders of the Nanking Govern

ment.

Cantor.

General Poi Chung Hai has tele

The Commissioner of Fursiga Irhang $119 en graphed to Geral Ho Ying Chien "Affairs at seriously

Marshal superseded by Yao Chinng Peng, critising Chiang Kai Shok's too nilda Nanking dominee who has also attitude towards, Wang Ching Wei became Superintendent of the Cus and Chang Fat Fui who were the tom alteress responsible for the resne friton Rest upris.ng. He fur ther urges that Marshal. Chiung should do all in dis power to a moitary-lead, and have no par cial attitude towards any side

Find:eg that compromise with the Hunde ilitary leaders, who were formerly under General Tang Seng Chi.. is impossible, the Nans king Government has decided to

Huma send

expedition to against them. The 7th and 9th are assigned Kuomintanz arxes for th 1 Rose,

Lil

SUBMARINE AIRCRAFT

L'ARRIERS.

A SURPRISE ANNOUNCE-

MEST.

"HUSH HUSH" EXPERIMENTS.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Losos, January 1st. Naval circles are surprised by the -annouatennent of extra pay for air pilots and observers appointed to abroarti aircraft carriers, known that experiments are being made in Britain and elsewhere in this coun-etion but the tests are regarded ashush-hash.

There are rumours that the pay of the Nanking troops is in arreath.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Military Movements. The National Government has ordered Chen Chien froin Hankow Les advance against Changsha and Pei Chung Hai against Changth

The Nationalists clain the cap- ture of Yenchowfu...

about our common prazers,

**It is 1.

us to try to

In London.

LONDON. January 1st, New Year came in in London with. snow, sleet and rain, with the re- sult that a comparatively small crowd cheered the chimes at St. An anti-British boyent has been, Paul's at midnight, but thousands started at Withu.

of guests at the big botels danced in the New Year, while the stay. at-homes heard the all-embracing

Anti-British Boycott.

BRITAIN'S TRADE

DISPUTES.

WORKING DAYS LOST,

LOW RECORD FOR 1927.

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Rrany, January 2nd.

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THE MURDER OF .COL. FERGUSSON...

THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION

...ON. THE SCENE.

(THEOUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY, }

KHARTOUM, January 2nd. The quick concentration of troops in the area of Col. Fergusson's murder. has restored confidence among the loyal Nuers and confued the trouble to a small section.

The Nurr chieftain, Garluak, has

of the French aeroplane Georges Charmer, Aying from Paris to Hanoi, is given by Capt.Antoinnt, the commander...

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ter sports they want at home. The £345.300,000 was raised and there is of bigger intow revenue in the final quarter of the financial you.

anys has indeed brought about a revival of ice skating which has languished for many „Vicars owing to unsuitable conditions, „and' to- pozzaning and sledging are. pro

eding merrily.

Fears Of Flooding.

"

RUGBY, Jan. 2nd. Thaw, which set in on Saturdny of night. continues and Tears floods, as great accumulations "ul

He said that after leaving "Rome on the way to Athens, a storm them far out of their course, over the Mediterranean Sea.

The cold was no terrible that the pilot faiuwi and another, inam re placed him.

They intiled the storm and fug snow melt, are causing anxiety. Ip-to the present thaw bas bern for hours.

exhausted gradun! but sapid melting will Petrol

almost Hits when they reached Adalin where | mean a recurrence of serious Bood- the Turks arrest them on a false in the lower Thames.

Unlucky Motorists. only released Chargi, and after strong pe esis in the au

thorities.

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"Cursed And Bestos."

The emergency twenty-four hours telephone service, organised by the

THE BRITISH TRADE OUTLOOK.

ENCOURAGING OFFICIAL

NOTE.

DRITISH WICKLESS SERVICE]

RUGBY, D. 35th.

A more encouraging mote is struck in official quarters regarding the trade outlook for Great Britain. than has been the inse for some time past. Reports available for guid

The fight was resumed in the Automobile Association, Ens proved wace, indicate that following the

teeth of a raging storm.

They were horrified to s+4+ steamer and three sailing ships engulfed in the waves and the aero-

of great value to motorists in search of infromation regarding the state of roads, many of which

disastrous period in 1998, when prolonged industrial troubles caua- ed a serious setback to the trade

Yew Year greetings by the B.B.C.. } surrendered. Redeclares that he fine nezly shared the same fatears still blocked. A large number of the country and the few nonthy

"all

comprising the whole naiverse.

reprobated the murder, though some The broadcaster grected

of his followers are implicated in it. friendly pinnets circling with us o the everlasting ur

and asked Punitive operations are afoot and them whether our waves reached

troops are advancing against the them, but there was no answer.

Greetings from the Empire to stronghold of the hostile Gwek, foreign countries followed.

aerial operations,

Prior to the greetings at the mid-preceded by night service at York Minster, at which afficting casualties and which the Archbishop of York laid a stone to commemorate the com- pletion of the thirteenth century of

the Minster's, existence. The service was broadcast.

.

A low record for recent years in

[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE] In New York. the number of working days lost by trade disputes was renched in

NEW Yonx, January 1st. 1927. During the eleven months to the end of November there were New Year was unprecedentedly IL 18

disputes affecting 109,000 workers welcomed. Yesterday night the the and the number of dispute was atres, hotels and night clubs were 250 but the number of working days filled to utmost capacity, hundreds fost reached appallingtotal of of thousands who congregated the streets whooped-out and rattand- rvedrd for six years, 159,000,000. In 1925, which was the

whistling and howling, the oul, hy lowest on 4,976,000 days were lost through hosts indoors.

Five hundred policemen, station trade disputes.

ed in Broadway's theatre district, were powerless to control the tre mendous crowds, particularly at midnight, when pandemonium was supreme.

Naval work experts are faced with difficult problems owing to the limited space in the submarine but It is stated that great progress lus been made. in some quarters there has been doubt as to the expedienes of thus revealing what may be, dpur | by the British Navy.

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ALTITUDE RECORD.

ITALIAN ARMAN USES BRITISH ENGINE. BEITINH WIRELESS SERVICE)

RUGBY, Dec. 31st. Commandater. Donati, the Italian airman who flew at a heigh: of 11,897

inobres in an officially observed world record fight on-

DARWIN'S KENT HOME.

TO BE TAKEN, OVER SHORTLY,

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dispersing concentrations of" men

and cattle and bombing the pyramid of Dangkur, which is the centre and symbol of Gwek's influence as a witch doctor.

U.S. MARINES IN NICARAGUA.

of stagnation which were experienc

Owing to stay breaking, but they of motorists, overtaken by snow, managed to land near Mersina, have not yet recovered their ma where the fliers were surrounded

chines, of which some are embeddeded this year, after an accumulation of old orders had ixen worked off, by a mob of armed peasants who

in drifts and a still larger number

signs of improvement breast apr erad and Leat them.

are stored in country garages, in

parent about at August. cities

Rescue In Nick Of Time, The French Consul induced the Turkish authorities to come to the rescue in the réck" of time as the mol were preparing to burn the neroplane and all the crew whe were now half-dead from thirst and hunger.

The arroplane restarted at daw on Christmas Day and arrived at Rayak from where it is expected to resume the flight in January after. repairs to the machine.

MISSING AIR LINER.

CAIRO, Dec. 31st.

At the conclusion of an all-day search an airforce plane has local- ed the missing Cairo-Baghdad air liner 60 miles south of the Air The air Force landing ground.

where blocked road's forord them to abandoni them near.

BRITISH NAVAL HONOURS.

CHINA STATION OFFICERS PROMOTED.

[THBOUCH RECTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Dec. 31st. The Gazette announces that Com- SEVERE ENGAGEMENT WITH Ener is called Lus. Apparent mander A. Maitland-Dougall has all aboard are well. Petrol is been promoted Captain for his INSURGENTS.

being tried to enable the services during the recent attack at

HEAVY CASUALTIES.

the demand for So great was

[ZEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.] seats at the leading theatres that places in the pit, urdinarily casting 0.85 sold at $15 at the box office

MANAGUA: January 2nd. and, as much as $30 by sprealators Five United States marines were while hotels thought nothing of killed and 2 wounded in a severe Recay, January 1st.

engagement with a large fore of charging $10 per plate for a meal. aking over by the. British As

Director of Promilation Enforce- Eociation, in trust as national museum, the old home in Kent of ment that two Federal agents would the great scientist Charles Darwin,be present at each Night Club which has been bought and endowed liquor flowed freely at most of the for 213,000 by the Londen aurgeon, night clubs and there were only

four raids. Dr. Buckston Browne..

liner to

A message from Bagdad stated?: An air iner with mails failed to arrive last right from. Cadro. A wireless was received from the pilat anying that he was forced to nad

miles from

Nanking.

Comdr. Miles of the sloop Hully- huck is also promuted Captain.

For services during the recent disturbances in China, the follow- ng have been promoted Corinan-

ders:

Lt. Comdr. Boulther of the gun- boat Frizb

Negotiations are complete for the Tespite previous warning of the well-trained, nuiformed insurgente ing was unable to find the missing furler..

C

December 21st, used in his lin The house is to be preserved not i deroplane British engine of the as a show place but to serve some Bristol Jupiter Series Four. This useful purpose, not yet decided. is an air-cooled high compression engine of 450 h. p. much used in the

ALPINE TRAGEDY IN Royal Air Force and other mir

JAPAN, the British and services and on foreign air lines.

SIERRA LEONE AND SLAVERY.

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE.)

FOUR WASEDA STUDENTS BURIED ALIVE.

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THROUGH BRUTER'S AGENCY. 1

Toxчo, Dre. 31st. Eleven Waseda University mem- Ruany, Dec. 31st. bere who are climbing the Japaness Law bolishing slavery in the Alre were caught in a snowslid Sierra Leone Protectorate become Seven escaped but the remainder effective to-day. Two hundred and are believed to have been buried fifteen thousand staves are due to alive. Rescuers are attempting to

be net free.

recover the bodies.

COSTES AND LE BRIX.

in the desert 200 Baglad

Another Imperial Airways ma thine from Bagdad early this morn commanded by the Nicaraguan aeroplane at the position indicated. Liberal General Augustino Sandino. The search was resumed in the on the outskirts of the town of afternoon by a machine piloted by Captain Warner whose wife is a The headquarters of the Marine passenger on the missing liner Quitali Corps states that the Nicaraguans which is believed to have descended suffered severe casualties but the in an area pupulated by a wi

Arab tribe.] exact number is unknown.

A BELGIAN DIS- .ASTER.

CONTEMPLATING NEW YORK.. PARIS FLIGHT.

EXPLOSIVES' FACTORY BLOWN TO PIECES. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.1

(THROUGH REUTER'B AGENCY.} LIMA, Jan. 2nd. The Transatlantic fliers Coster

BRUSSELY, Jún, 2nd and Le Brix, who are now lying

An explosives factory at Lanar- from Buenos Aires to New York by stages announce that they intend ken near Tougres bas been blown to attempt a New York-Paris fight to pieces and five men were alle

and four buried in the debri after reaching New York.

BRITISH FLIGHT TO CHINA.

DEPARTURE POSTPONED.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Loxtos, Dec. 20th. Two half-pay Air Force pilots, Newall and Vincent, were obliged to-day to postponed their Far East flying venture owing to the risk of taking off from the snow-bound Edgware Aerodrome.

They intend to fly as soon as pos- sible arces Europe to India and Singapore, returning, if practi- cable, through China and Russia

L-Comdr. Maund of the cruiser Lt.-Condr. Calderon of the des

Wivern,

troyer

GUN ELEVATION.

SENATOR KELLOGG'S

DENTAL

(REUTER'S AMERICAN BERVICE.].

WARRINGTON, Dec 31st. Senator Kellogg (Secretary of State) has authorised a denial of Press reports that the British Gov- ernment had elevated guns on its battleships after the Washington Treaty, and then objected to the United States doing the same.

The denial says The British Government informed the United States that it has not elevated iter guns and we are satisfied that this a correct. The British Govern elevation by the United States. ment is not now objecting to guo

The volume of exports of British- produce and manufactures in the year 1913 marked the culmination et one of the greatest periods of trade expansion in the economic history of the country. Yet this volume for the first nine months of 1927 was 77.4 per cent. of that period in 1913. The falling off in volume needs also to be qualified by the consideration that any given quantity of textile goods, new ex- changes for more of other goods than before the war, cotton,' wool, silk and fix having all advanced notably in price. us compared with raw materials in general..

LORD ASQUITH AND THE TELEPHONE.

NEVER USED IT.

Lord Oxford and Asquith has not learned to speak on the tele phone, though he is 78 and has been in politics for nearly 40 years ad- carding to Lady Violet Bonham- Carter, Lord Oxford's daughter.

Lord Dalziel, who, at the age of 73, is chairman of the Pullman Car Company, Ltd., and president of the board of directors of the Inter national Sleeping Car Co., said to a Daily Mail reporter:

I spend the greater part of my days and nights on the telephone, and I cot conceive how any mau in business or in politice, ean do without the telephone,

I don't see why any man should have difficulty in speaking on the phone. It is often easier to talk to some men over the telephone. than in actual conversation. Lady Bouthwark, who is 73, said:

Lord Southwark would not have the telephone fixed in the house until five or six years ago, because he hated it, but now he is devoted to it. I cannot under- stand how anybody can do with-

out.ite.

Lord Southwark is 84.