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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, JANUARY 31st, 1928.

ROUTING OUT CHIHLI'S "BIG SWORD" THE ENGLISH-SPEAK AMERICA'S LOVE OF IRISH FREE STATE'S

BANDITS.

HUNAN TROOPS CONTINUING SOUTHWARD MATCH.

SKIRMISHES NEAR HSUCHOW.

SHANTUNG AND CHIHLI FAMINE

DAILY.

WORSENING

The "big sword bandits, who have been giving much trouble of late, are being sucessfully roped with by the Peking Gove

ment troops.

Ichang is again dreading attacks by bandits now that General Yang Sen's troops have left that city.

He is re

Marshal Chiang Kai Shek has evidently, not abandoned all hope of holding the Fourth Kuomintang Conference. ported to be stili tackling the problem.

The news regarding the famine in Shantung and Chihli is that it is daily getting worse. The peasants are in a deplorable state and emigration to Manchuria is increasing. Efforts by Chinese'. and foreigners to ameliorate the suffering are being continued. THE FAMINE IN THE "HUNAN TROOPS FOLLOW

ING UP VICTORIES:

NORTH.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

After

(Wah Tas Fat Pao.)

-

SHANGHAI, January 30th. PIXING, January 30th.

the taking. Changsha, The International Famine Com-capital of Hunan, the Hunan troops mission. announce that conditions in are continuing to march south. Shantung and South Chihli are wards. Their vanguard has rench- worsening daily. This was indicated ed Henngshan. General Li Ren by the fact that villagers are Hain is reported to be offering terms pulling down their houses to sell | of surrender. the material for food and fuel. A telegram from Nanking reports Many villages have only bare walls that General Wong Shiu Hung, of standing.

Canton, will proceed to Nanking for the purpose of attending the coming 4th Kuomintang Confru

Emigration to Manchurin con- tinues on a large scale. In some districts 60 per cent. had left and 30 per cent. of those remaining were

sick. Many farms were unplanted and farm animals were disappear

ing.

Local officials were feeding many. $120,000 worth of grain had been received from Manchuria.

The military authorities were set- ting aside one train to be used ex- clusively to bring grain to Shantung, and Government agencies had also distributed 10,000 suits of clothing.

The American Committee of the China Fainine Fund had voted #72,848 and the Japanese Red Cross had sent 2,000 yen to the stricken

P

area.

SKIRMISHES NEAR HSUCHOW.

Mah Fuz Pat Pao.)

SHANGHAI, January 30th, Skirmishes occurred in the last

few days at a point north of Hsichow between Boutherners and Northerners.

DISLOYAL NORTHERN

DIVISION?

(Wah Tiz Xat Pao.)

SHANOKA, January 30th.

It is reported that one division

ence.

ING NATIONS.

MR. HEARST'S CALL FOR CO-OPERATION.

USA'S PAN-AMERICAN POLICY CRITICISED.

[RÜTZ'S "AMERICAN BELVICE:]

NEW YORK, Jan. 30th. Strong criticism of the policy of the United States Government and no appeal for the co-operation of the English-speaking nations of the world is contained in a signed article published by Mr. W. R. Hearst, the leading United States

newspaper

SHAKESPEARE.

BRILLIANT PUNCTION IN NEW YORK.

FOR SHAKESPEARE MEM- ORIAL FUND,

(REUTER'S AMERICAN-KERVIC®.)....

NEW Fox, Jan. 30th. One of the most brilliant func- tions in the history of the American stage was held in the Metropolitan Opera House when hundreds of prominent people a acial, business and financial circles gathered to witzen an impres proprietor, in hissive symposium of Shakespeare's chain of newspapers, condemning famous garden scenes aged for the Government's policy in par- the benefit of the morfogo Shakes- ticipating in the Pan-Americanpeare Memorial Fund"

One hundred and fly leading Conference, which he declares is a American actresses and a number losing venture for the United,

of prominent British actors par States.

Mr. Hearst says it is

ticipated. natural for the weak Latin-Ameri can nations to combine against the powerful Anglo-Saxon Republic of the North, and the conference only emphasises the fundametal differ- ences which those of race suggests."

The United States, be

the Northern should turn to boundary rather, than to the Southern as a great opportunity for the welfare of the world es in the co-operation of the English- speaking nations."

The article is significant as it follows a similar appeal published According to a telegram from! Hankow Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang's by Mr. Hearst a year ago, which troops have captured the railway created great interest throughout station at Shihchiachueng, Southern Chibli. Heavy firing near that city the world. is proceeding.

ICHANG AGAIN FEARS BANDIT ATTACKS,

[NAVAL WIRELESS.]*

ICHANG, Jan. 29th. General Yang Sen's 20th Anny is reported to have embarked and proceeded up river to-day (Sun day)

There is much apprehensionat Iehaag now that the troops have left, attacks by bandits being feared.

NATIONALISTS AND THE

CUSTOMS.

AN OFFICIAL'S VIEWS.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.}

SHANGHAI, Jan. 29th.

SMALL

"I WILL."

PLANE SETS OUT ON BIG JOURNEY. ·

COMMERCIAL AVIATION

-PROJECT:--

[REUTZE'S AMERICAN SERVICE)..

"CHICADO, JIN. 30th. Captain Joseph Donnellan, ex- Royal Air Force, set out in a

NEW GOVERNOR.

ALLEGED PLOT AGAINST HIS LIFE.

SCOTLAND YARD ON THE -ALERT-

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

*30th. LONDON, Jan News of an alleged plot against James McNeill, the new Governor-i General of the Irish Free State, who is to be installed at the Viceregal Lodge on February 1st, is stated to have been received by Scotland Yard from the police

of Dublin.

Armed detectives have been im mediately entra ́rd with the task of protecting Mr. McNeill, who is at present in London and special precautions are taking place for his safety when he crosses the Channel to take up residence.

Striot watch was kept by the.

FIELD MARSHAL EARL HAIG DEAD.

PASSES AWAY UNEXPECTEDLY IN LONDON.

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE BRITISH FORCES DURING THE WAR."

A GREAT SOLDIER AND PATRIOT

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY,}

LATER.

LONDON, Jan 30th: Earl Haig is dead.

Earl Haig "died at midnight. His death was most unexpectedl, as

there had been to hint of illnes

LATER.

"Stand Up For England," Earl Haig died in London. His last public utterance showed

D.A.A.G: for Cavalry, Natal; C.8.0. to General French during the Coles berg operations A.AG. Cavalry Division, 1000; Commanded group ot columns, 1901-2 (despatches, A.D.C. to King, Brevet-Colonel, C.B., Queen's medal with seven clasp, King's medal); Lt.-Col. Com! Photographs in this morning's 17th Lancers, 1901-3; Inspector.... papers depict, the Field Marsha! Gen. Cavalry, India, 1003-6; Major- inspecting at Cardigan House | General, 1904; Lieut-General, 1910; Richmond, on Saturday, the 20th General, 1914. for distinguished ser- Richmond (Earl Haig's Own) Boy vice; Field Marshal, 1017, for dis- Scouts. The Field Marshal appear tinguished service; Director of Mib. tary Training, 1908-7; Director of ed very cheerful.

Staff Duties at Army Headquarters. 1907-9; Chief of Staff, India, 1908-19; General Officer Commanding Alder- shot, 1919-14 Commanding 1st Army, 1014-15 Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Forces in Speaking on Saturday at Kensington all night, long. Several motor cars arrived at the house enrolment ceremony of the Twen France and Flanders, 1913-1919; at 8 o'clock this mining. Three tieth (Ear! Haig's Own) Troops of Field-Marshal Commander-in-Chief contained 'detectives and the othern

Boy Scouts, consisting of sona of of Forces in Great Britain, 1918- luggage guarded by detectives disabled ex-Service men employed 20; Lord Rector, St. Andrew's When Mr. McNeill reached Easton at the British Legion factory in Univ., 1916-19; Chancellor of St. - Station detectives decorted him to Richmond. Earl Haig said: Andrew's Univ., 1999; a special couch in front of the "Stand up for England when peo-throughout the European War, 1914- train where the platform was ple speak disrespectfully of her. 18 (despatches, five times, promoted barricaded and only bearers of Try to realiee what citizenship and General, G.C.B., G.O.V.O., K.T.); Grand Cordon Legion of Honour; Scotland Yard permits were allow-public epirit really mean."

Medaille Militaire; Grand Cross Order of Leopold; Grand Cross St. Maurice and St. Lazarus; Obolitch Gold Medal (Montenegro) and ist Class Order of Danilo, 1917; 4th Class of St. George (Russia).

LONDON'S NEW AIR police at Mr. McNeill's house in his deep love of his country....

PORT:

RESULT OF NINE YEARS' WORK AT CROYDON;

COST £260,000.

(BRITISH WIRAČIUS” KERVICE.] ·

Ruoay, Jan. 99th. The great new air port at Crop-ed to enter. don, which comes into use on Mon day, embodies the result of nine rears' experience in the working of the regular high-speed passenger air morvices.

As the big Handley-Page Napier and Silver Wing air lines of the Imperial Airways arrived from the were continent yesterday they taken to sheds of the new station to be ready for their start from the new ground on Monday.

Built at ost of 1980, (Ke, the new terminds has huge domed en- tracce and booking hall, customs and immigration inspection halle, and a fifty feet high control tower.

.

REVOLT IN MOSCOW?

Mr. McNall, who was very cheer- ful, declined to receive pressmen. Detectives accompanied him in the train to Holyhead.

GERMAN MILITARY

WIRELESS.

"INDISCREET AND CARE. LESS."

(THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY.)

BERLIN, Jan. 29th. An investigation of the Reichs wehr xircies affair_has_resulted in the release of all the men ar rested, with the exception of the small monoplane named "I will" REPORTED ATTACK ON THE ve originally arrested at Giessen. upon a flight to Santiago de Chile and back rid Atlanta, Havana and

In a statement to a Reuter repre- sentative regarding the Nationalist Panama, with the object of open- statuđe viz-a-vis the Customs, Mr. Que Tai Chi, the acting Ministering up commercial Aviation be or Foreign Affairs in Nanking, tween North and South América. emphasised that there was no idea

of interfering with the funds which went to the service of foreign loans. La respect of domestic loans, Mr. Quo Tai Chi said that it did not seen just that the ausplua of the Customa revenue raised in Nation- aliet territory should continua to

of Northerners has gone over to these largely used by Peking (which Southerners.

ITALO-YUGO-SLAV RELATIONS.

•

THE DISTURBING NOTE.

KREMLIN.

{THROUGH KENTİH'S AGENCY.Ţ

RIGA, Jan. 20th.

A revolt in Moscow, forms the subject of numerous unofficial and unconfirmed reports, to the effect that four Soviet Begiments, sup- porters of Trotsky, are bombarding the Kremlin with artillery.

Oficial Denial,

Moscow, Jan. 30th. The rumours oba revolt are

16 now regarded as a purely region- HOME PAPERS INTERESTED. officially denied. al government on the rame footing

MARSHAL CHIANG AND THE| Nanking) to finance campaigns

CONFERENCE.

(Wah Te Fat-Pao.).

ence to a success.

against the Nationalists.

The subject of the Inspector- Generalship was, Mr. Quo Tai Chi declared, a purely domestic issue.

The Acting LG."

Up to the present, he pointed

сай the Nationaust Government,

(THROUGH HEUTER'S AGENCY.]

LONDON, Jan. 30th. The newspapers give prominence

to the disturbing Note, published

nas not recognised even the act in the Fascist organ, in which is

SHANGHAI, January 30th. Mersbal Chiang Kai Shck con- ferred with Chang Ching Kiang, Tan Yan. Kan. Tsai, Yuen Pul and other, Kuomintang leaders in con-

ing appointment of Mr. A. H. F. mentioned the postponement of the nection with the problem how to

"Luwarucs, now, officiating. bring the 4th Kuomintang Confer Until the new appointment was denunciation of the Italo-Yugo-Slay

The main dif-

anally made, he continued, the Treaty, which had just been extend- 37 culty is that the Kwangsi clique Nationalists would only agree to ed for six months. refuse to meet half-way Mr. Waug future Customs appointments in Ching Wei's party, and even de their territory if they were made mand that Mr. Wang's colleagues on the recommendation of Mr. F. be excluded from the Conference.

It was unanimously decided that W. Maro, the Commissioner of another preliminary meeting should Custos, Shanghai, who

senior oficiat an the Custoris: Ser-

1s the

be called in order to overcome this vice and who is persona grata difficulty, before fixing a defnite date for the inauguration of the with the Nationalist Government. plenary session,^.

THE BIG SWORD" "BANDITS.

PEKING GOVERNMENT. TROOPS IN ACTION. [THROUGH XEUTER'S AGENCY.]

Mr. Quo Tai Chi added that contrary to reports emanating from Peking, the forthcoming visit to Shanghai of Mr. A. H. F. Edwardes was self-invited, but it has been agreed to by the Nationalist Gov ernment, because the latter desires that tariff revision should be based on terms mutually acceptable to North and South China.

RANGOON RAILWAY

OUTRAGE.

CAUSE OF DISASTER.

FIFTY-TWO DEATHS. {THROUGH.REUTAR'S AGENCY:)

PD

BRITISH TRADE.

H.R.H.'S OPTIMISTIC

SPEECH

FURTHER DETAILS.

(BRITISH WIRZLÉSH SERVICE)

RCGBY, Jan. 29th H.R.H, the Prince of Wales, who was the principal guest last night at the important annual banquet of the Birmingham Jewellers' Associa tion, spoke optimistically of trade

prospects.

F

The Final Scene. Earl Haig died in his brother in-law's house, where he was day. ing. He was about to retâre at midnight when he collapsed while sitting on the edge of his bed Ee did not lose consciousness but death came very quickly.

The doctors are of opinion that the heart ailure, which was the in- "mediate cause of death, had been brought on by the strain of the war yehra

Borved

The Field Marshal published in. 1907," Cavalry Studies,"

Earl Haig (then Major-General Douglas Haig) married, in 1005, the. Hon. Dorothy Vivian, daughter of the 3rd Lord Vivian, and they have one son and three daughters. His heir is his son, Viscount Dawick (George Alexander Eugene Douglas Haig) born in 1818.

Biographical Details. Field Marshal Earl Haig was born in 1881 and was therefore in his 68th year. He was the youngest. Field Marokat Haig was created son of Mr. John Haig, J.P., Viscount Dawick and Baron Hig of Cameronbridge, Fifeshire, his of Bemersyde and awarded the mother being the daughter. of Mr. | Order of Merit in 1918. He was It is shown that the wireless Hugh Veitch of Stewartfield, Midlo- made a Knight of Thistle in 1017; operators were indiscreet and care- thian. Douglas Haig, who was edu G.C.B.; in 1915; K.C.B. in 1913, K.C.I.E., in 1911; G.C.V.O., in tess in sending out military mes cated at Clifton and Brascos 1918; R.C.V.O, in 1900; C.B. in sages intended only for the Army. They were apparently sent out in College, Oxford, joined the 7th 1900; A.D.C. Gen. to H. M. the such a manner that foreign stations Hussars in 1885, served in the from 1914-17; Colonel of the King's could decipher the code.

Sudan in 1698, including Athara and Own Scottish Borderers and Chaiz- Khartoum (despatches, Bt-Major, man of Council of the United Ser- British medal, Khedive's médal with vices Fund since 1921, of which he two clasps); South Africa, 1890; took very deep interest..

One result of the affair will prob- ably be a more frequent changing of the military telegraphic code.

CROOKS' CLUB-IN. A CRYPT. FOUNDED BY WOMAN AND EX-BURGLAR.

A

Club - the Run-Straight League of the Straight Road-has been founded the members of which arg men who have been in prison, and whose business it is to prevent their friends among the crooks from going back to crime.

They meet every Friday night at the Church of All Hallows, Mark- lane, E., and on other evenings, if they wish, in the crypt of St.

'Martia's Church.

Mise Marjorie Evan Thomas founded the club in company with ex-burglar who had been dis- abled in the war.

his eaid to a reporter:

The exburglar gave me the entrée into the distinguished set of crooks. It is more difficult to get into the "set" than into any of the most exclusive in Mayfair. Every member of the club has to be introduced and vouched for by a member who knows that he "wants to go straight. For four months he is on probation. We have 40 members, and soon will have 50. Reconviction is not al lowed; the member automatically drops out

PORTABLE X-RAY SET.

SCIENTIFIC NOVELTIES AT LONDON EXHIBITION.

A PAGEANT OF PROGRESS.

-WOMAN'S QUESTION

SPOILS A RECORD.

"WHERE DO YOU BUY YOUR STOCKINGS ?"!

woman

A casual question by was sufficient to ruin a gramophone A portable X-ray set is a feature during the Three Chairs Festival of the large collection of scientific instruments to be seen at the Poly-ord of Cesar Franck's øym- The work of reproducing the technic Pageant of Progress Ex-phony, bibition and Fête which opened at don, on January 3rd. It is means of the recording van which the Regent Street Polytechnic, Lon- festival music was carried out by chiefly useful in the hunting field," proved so effective with the Oxted explained a demonstrator. By nightingales, but, though some with exactitude where the injury César Franck is lost for ever. All using the set it is possible to tell good results were obtained, the is, and whether any ones have went well apparently fill the and of the firet movement of the sym- phony, when the music ended in an been broken."

This year's fébo was designed as a pageant of progress showing depressive pause. velopments in various forms of activity from earliest human

known times.

"

Bilence Broken,

At that moment a whisper travel led from the cathedral via the miorophone and broke, the silence in the recording van: "Tell me, my dear, where do you buy your stockings 1

After pointing out that last year had realised some of the hopes with which it began af er the long industrial struggles of 1928, he con tinued: "Employees and employed have come to see that whatever differences there may be between them in matters of detail, their RANGOON, Jan 29th,

The Electric Hare-New Style. Four fishplates and four bolts fundamental interests in large pro-

Among scientific novelties have now been discovered lying duction and thriving trade were the Evidence of this can be alongside the railway lines at the same.

there were some old experiments of

It was a sample womanly ques scene of the train smash, thus in found in last year's trade. returne. These show, that despite black

the laboratory in new guise. These dicating deliberate tampering with spots still to be found on the busi

included, a new version of electric tion, but it had an exasperating the railway.

hare racing designed by an assis effect on the men who had spent The Agent specially mentions the nese horizon, and the handicap

tant in the electrical laboratory.: days preparing to record the per help given after the disaster hy under which work was re-started

Our members have been pick. A dog, and a hare, eternally seperformance, By an acoustic accident at the end of 1996, when many three passengers, including American named Case, but he com markets had been temporarily leat. pockets, house or shop breaker ate, are suspended by strings over the woman's voice-probably inan purely through destitution. We two crucibles of mercury. Doz dible to any one more than a few plains that the villagere were we have really wiped out all our

have had 19 Borstal boys, several and hare become galvanised into inches from the speaker-had been deficit and have started on the apathetic.

of whom had been reconvicted life when current is passed through picked up by the sensitive micro- RANGOON, Jan. 30th: road-again. Another encouraging

three or four times, and they the springs, but the dog never phone

There remained just a chance The number of deaths in the rail sign is that our imports of raw

have now settled into work and wine In the physics department which are producing nearly 70 per way disaster have now mounted to materials have been well maintalu

lecturers demonstrated how it is that the gramophone, wax had not are doing well, cent, of the Customs revenue, and fifty-two.

ed. The recent meeting of repro-

the The club finds employment for possible to light gas by the touch received the impression, but the Bentative employers and as the authorities in, control of

General Council of Trade Unions theinembers through the persistence of the hand. Lighting through the acid baths have shown that the do BO, to the modern electric lamp, produced the words. The "musto According to well-informed Chi-eking no longer represent the

hope that a new era of prosperity so well that tas employer takes on nese circles the replacement of legal suce-szor of the former re-

the ex-criminal's friends. In one was displayed in another section work-up-to one overwhelming is opening before uk da

The Prince added: that another firm there were four working tool the exhibition, and other depart climax Tell me, my deaf, where

monte included demonstrations of do you buy your stockings "'i happy sign was the tremendous gether.

Every

Sunday Miss Evan as automatic telephone exchange The work is now known to the PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 20th, demand for apace at the British

has left industrica Fair, due to opez in the Thomas watches the club play foot and the earLest known steam en gramophone officials

gine President Cosgrave.

Stocking Symphong.” neur future,” Philadelphia for Ottawa.

FEXING, Jan 30th.. The big sword" bandit nuisance in Tungwha is being disposed of as Government troups are scouring the area. On January 27th, the troops encountered and split up a body, of 300"big swords," killing 15.

Paking's Finance Minister.

Mr. Soong's Statement, Mr. T. V. Soong, the Nationalist Finance Minister, in a statement to Reuter recently, said: "As the Nationalist Government controls -16 out of the 21 provinces of China,

PRESIDENT COSGRAVE.

Yentarpu, Finance Minister, is cognised "Government, the Nation-LEAVES US.A. FOR CANADA • gives us the strongest reason to of the leader. Often one man doës" ages, from early dil vessels of 100 licate' apparatus had faithfully re

proving very difficult.

alist Government clearly cannot The post

recognise the right of any other has been offered successively Shih Hao and Wang Keh Nis, and authorities independently to exer ae both have refused, it has there ce control of the Customs Ad fore been decided that Tentzepinization, or to appoint an agent

to exercise such control," continue in the office temporarily.

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