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TSINAN SITUATION EASIER.

CHINESE INDIGNATION AT INVASION.

PROTESTS TO THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

CALL FOR UNITED ACTION.

There is but little news of activity at Tainan, which may be taken as a good omen. Fighting appears to have died down, and though the situation is still serious, the crisis is now passed, Reports in the vernacular papers insist that Marshal Chiang Kai Shek is setting out for the freat with almost all his men, and is. leaving. Feng Yu Hsiang at Teinan with a small force. This, if it is true, at least shows Marshal Chiang's confidence in the situation, but at the same time seems rather a dangerous move. for he alone has managed to keep in personal touch with the Japanese throughout the trouble.

Indignation with Japan is rampant throughout Chins, and there has even been an attempt to unite North and South against 'the common enemy.

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The Home Press has given the recent trouble great prominence. Editorial comment sides with Japan on the whole, though several papere consider that Japan has got herself into such a position that she will now find it extremely difficult, to extricate herself.

The correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, who has just reached Tsingtao from Tsinan, confirms the statement iuvred earlier that, English and American residents in Tainan are safe. He believes that all foreigners will evacuate Trinan "as soon as the railway is restored to working order. :.

AT TSINAN,

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

TSINGTAO, May 7th. 2,000 "Japaneão troops from Dairen disembarked here yester. day, but were held up on their way to Teinanfu through lack of rolling stock. The Nationalists con- tinue to cut the Shantung Railway in various placés.

Toro, May 7th.

PEKING, May 7th. Mr. Timperley, the Manchester Guardian Correspondent, arrived at Tsingtao this morning from Tainan by Japanese military train. Ho gives additional confrmustion to The 'plane-carrier Fötdra, which the report that English and Ameri- has a capacity of forty 'planes, has Cass in Txinantu

are safe, but been ordered to prepare to go to states that Stein's Hotel, where he Tsingtao. - was staying. was looted.

He expects the foreigners to evacuate Tsinanfu shortly as the line from Tsiaanfu to Tsingtao bas been repaired.

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Japanese Troops For China.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 8th, 1928.

RUBBER PRICES IN

וי.

STRAITS.

NO OFFICIAL ACTION.

WHITE RUSSIAN TERRORISTS.

THE LIZAREF OUTRAGE.

FURTHER CONSIDERATION SOVIET NOTE TO POLAND.

NEEDED.

(THROUGH RIUTER'S AGENCY,Î

(TAXOVON LEUTER'S AGENCY.}

WHO SHALL RULE RUMANIA?

GIGANTIC PEASANT MEETING,

PRINCE CAROL NOT MENTIONED.

【THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

Moscow, May "th. Soviet Russia has sent Poland a SINGAPORE, May 7th.

LONDON, May sch note in connection with the attempt The Legislative Council has re-

While Prince Carol is staying in The plied unofficially to members who on the life of M. Lizaret.

Surrey with his son, the ex-Premier urged the reduction of the rubber Note protests against the passivity Jonescu awaits with baggage pack

GOVERNMENT TAC AMERICAN SHIPPING

TICS SUCCEED.

MINISTERS PLAY OUT

"TIME,"

TANAKA STILL IN POWER.

[TILOUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

*BILL..

AUTHORISATION OF SALE.

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE

OPPOSED.

-[REUTER'S AMERICAN, BERVICE.]

TOKYO, May 7th.

WASHINGTON, May 6th. Owing to the long-drawn-out One of the provisions of the debate," the motion of non-con-Jones-White Shipping Bill, which sidence in yesterday's Session of the Diet. the House of Representatives, ia- the Government, atas announced has already passed

export duty, The Colonial Secre of the Polish authorities as regardsed for a call from the Peasantseaded shortly before midnight be

ganisations.

King.

tary, Sir Hayes Marriott, stated the White Emigrant Terrorist or Party to return to Rumanin as that he proposed to take no action until the matter had been further considered.

The Government's present 'intea tion was to re-enact tht Rubber Assessment Ordinance when restric

The Note recalls the murder of

: Btcrurist, May 6th. M. Voikoff fast year and Voitack-

As the climax to the campaign It of the National Peasant Party to hevosky's participation in it. declares that Vozékhovorky's name overthrow the Liberal Government, is among the list of active members a demand was made for new elec tion disappeared. Members of the of White Russian Terrorist ortions at a gigantic gathering of ganisations. This was cocomunicat 250,000 peasants from all over the Legislative Council would be can sulted as regards the rate of assessed to the Polish Legation with the country held yesterday ment to be imposed when the price remark that their farther sojourn bajulia, Transylvania.

of rubber dropped, below 35 cents,

JAPANESE CHALLENGE.

UNITE AGAINST THE FOREIGNER.

(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

in' Poland would jeopardise the re- lations of the two countries, yet the Polish Government took no mea- aures for the liquidation of terrorist organisations.

The attitude of the Polish press towards terrorístic attempts amounted to a direct encourage.

ment.

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HOSTILE ANTI-JAPANESE

DEMONSTRATION.

BRITISH SUBJECTS SAFE.

FROM ICHANG.

[NAVAL WIRELESS.]

NANKING, May 7th. Marshal Chiang Kai Shek, in a telegram from Tsinanfu, filed on Friday morning to the Government FIRST B. & S. STEAMER SAILS Council, Nanking, states that the British and American Copsuls are mediating in the conflict between The Japanese Gaverament has the Nationalists and the Japanese decided to despatch all Japanesa troops stationed at Nagoya to and that negotiations are proceed- Tsingtao for the purpose of pre- ing. paring to take over the control_of the Tainan-Tringtao Railway. Be. sides five bodies of infantry will be assigned to take a supervisory posi- tion at Pakos, terminus Tientsin-Pakow Railway.

of the

SHANGHAI, May 7th. Reports from Tsinanfu say that the situation is quiet, but die coveries of the horribly mutilated corpses of victims resulted in high- feeling, and a tense atmosphere.

The Northerners have been bomb- ANTI-JAPANESE FEELING.

since

in Tainanfu spasmodically ser

the evacuation. One 'planes crashed yesterday, the oc- eupants being Filled:

HORRIBLE BRUTALITIES

REPORTED.

(ah Tiz Fat Pao.)

A mass meeting, at which all classes at Nanking were represent- ed, was held yesterday in the pre- mises of the Chin Ling" Univer eity, Nanking, to discuss measured to be taken to deal with Japan regarding the incident at Tainan. It was unanimously resolved that an anti-Japanese League, represent- OSAKA, May 7th. ing the whole Chinese" people, be The atrocities committed by the organised for the purpose of start- Chinese soldiers at Tainan are reing a national campaign to ever

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.] ·

ported in great detail by the cor- respondent of the Japanese news paper Araki, who has just succeed- ed in getting through to Tsingtao

from Tainan.

economic relatione with Japan. throughout the whole country. Meanwhile a petition standing la the name of the people should be presented to Marshal Chiang Kai Shek demanding the immediate declaration of war with Japan.

He declares that in one case five Japanese including, two women, Yesterday the C.E.C. (Central were stripped stark naked and Executive Committee of the Kuo- taken around the streets, exposed mintang) held an extraordinary to every mockery and insult.

meeting which devoted five hours The correspondent points out to the decussion of the Tsinan in- that the dead bodies of the cident. General Tan Yen Kai, Japanese victims of the outrages | chairman the Nationalist Goy bear unmistakable signs that they ernment, presided over the meet were tortured and burned to deathing. It culminated in the, pascing -in-the-cruellest possible manner, of the following resolutions Sin

For instance in some cases the

The Resolutions.

stones inserted picked out and

The corpses of Japanese-women murdered by the uncontrolled soldiers show evidences of unspeak

able brutalities,

Reliance On Rationalists.

егветь,

It appears from the report that the Japanese commanders had con fidence that the Southerners" were better disciplined than the North It was because of the fear that looting might be indulged in by the evacuating Northerners that the most careful precautions were taken, but when Marshal Chiang Kai Shek arrived, guaranteed the safety of foreigners and requested the Japanese commanders to with draw their forces from certain dis- tricts, they readily consented.

Thus they unknowingly left many helpless civilians at the mercy of

the looters

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WIDE JAPANESE PREPARA

TIONS.

(THROTCH REUTze'a aqesox.]

TOKYO, May 7th. The Navy has decided to despatch eight destroyers from Euri to the Yangtaze,

from Sasebo to Swatow and Canton, and four. others have been ordered to leave Maimuru at once for Shanghai.

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with fairness on the case.

The

"Marshal Chiang adds that the Japanese hostility is abating, though the results are uncertain.

Take Up The Challenge. In a second telegram to the Gov- ernment Council sent on Friday evening, Marshal Chiang Kai Shek

hays!

at Al-

The gathering passed a resolution demanding the resignation of the Cabinet and the formation of a Peasant Government. .....

There was no untoward incident

though the Government despatched troops as a precautionary measure,

There was talk of the Peasants marching on Bucharest, but while the tension is very great, the Government considera "the politi- cal situation is unchanged."

It is noteworthy that the ques- tion of Prince Carol was not men. tioned at the Albajulis meeting.

Carol Returning?

LONDON, May 7th; Prince Carol, the Remanian ex- Crown Prince, together with Madame Lupescu, has been staying in Surrey as the guest of" Rumanian business' man for the

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ICHANG, May 6th. Messages received by Naval Wire-paat week. less are to the effect that in Nan- It is now learned that the king there is a hostile anti-Japanese British authorities, learning on demonstration. Japanese civilians Saturday that two commercial aero- have already evacuated the city planes had been chartered, presam And have taken refuge aboard ably to fly with Prince Carol to Japanese steamers.

Rumania, took action to prevent From Tsinan comes the report the departure of the machines, na British residents there are the authorities were not satisfied that

af Mr. Hwang Fu, Nationalist that Prince Carol possessed the Minister for Foreign Affairs, has necessary papers to land in cabled to the British and American Rumania.

foreign have Consulates saying that

"The Japanese troops challenged us For no reason whatsoever they fired upon our soldiers and civilians yesterday and they have not ceased to fire yet.

The number of our officials, - soldiers and civilians killed ex- ceeded a thousand last night. "

"They destroyed our wireless station, and their malice and oppression are beyond descrip- tion.

In the true revolutionary spirit I cannot bow to such bullying and propose to expose the deliberate. Japanese brutality to the world so as to hasten our own awakening and to enlist moral support and then to pro- ceed with expedition."

Shanghai Mass Meeting.

SHANGHAI, May 7th.

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nationals are well protected.

It is reported through another channel that an agreement has been reached between the Japanese and Chinese, and that fighting has ceased:-There is, however, spora dic firing in the streets, which is reported to have been brought about by a house to house search made by the Japanese in order "to clear out the Chinese soldiers.

The casualties on the Japanest side are still not definitely known. The minimum is given as 12 killed, 22 wounded and ten civiliane killed. Aleo all unguarded property has been looted.

The first up-river steamer has sailed from Ichang. She is the B. & S., Kintang.

In Shanghai and Chefoo the eituation is quiet.

"

A one-day suspension of regular functions, all schools, shops and HOME NEWSPAPER VIEWS. factories, is to come into force to- inorrow as a protest against the Tsinanfu affair, according to a de- cision of a special meeting of the

(THRUGON REUTERʼS'AGENCY.]

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"NEVER PROPOSED."

AFGHAN MILITARY

ALLIANCE.

(THROUGH 'HEUTSE'S AGENCY.]

Moscow, May 7th

It is officially stated that the reports published abroad that King Amanullah refused to enter into a military alliance with Russia are

untrue.

**King Amanullah neither accepted nor rejected any such pro- ject, seeing that it was never pro- posed."

MOVE TO THE FRONT.

(Wah Tez Tat Pac.)

SHANGHAI, May, 7th..

SHANGHAI, May 7th.

Mr. Hwang Fu has arrived" at LONDON, May 7th. The Nationalist Government Directors of Party Affairs for possibilities of a definite Uhinese bringing a letter from Marahal The new critis in China and the Nanking from Tsinan this morning should keep the League of Nations Great Shanghai," which also de-apanese clash has been a feature Chiang Kai Shek to the Nanking at Geneva fully informed regarding cided to call a monster mass meet-ot the newspapers. It has been leaders. The letter states that it is the caure and result of the Sino- ing for to-morrow under police splashed across the news page, and unfortunate that conflicts occurred Japanese conflict at Tsinan and supervision so as to prevent Com- exhaustively discussed in leaders. between Chinese and Japanese also request the latter to judge munists and other trouble-makers Significance is especially attached troops in Tainan.

from creating disturbances.

to the Northerners joining with the Nationalist Government

The meeting also decided the fol- Southerners in protesting against will also issue a detailed state-lowing:

Japanese intervention. ment to "countrymen both at home The Mass Meeting will be asked and abroad, relating how Japanee to organise a committee for the soldiers carried out an organised severance of economic relations attack on our people, both civilian with Japan, the task of the Com- and in uniform.

mittee being, firstly, to see that no The foreign Powers regard the Chinese buy Japanese goods or sell Tainan incident as being purely the native goods, including food pro- concern of Japan and Chins, and ducts to Japanese, and that all therefore they have decided to keep transactions with Japanese banks a strictly independent attitude. are stopped at once.

Secondly, the committee will see that all Chinese employees SHANGHAI, May 7th The Nationalist Government at Japanese firms resign their posi Nanking contemplates eubmitting tion. the Tsinanfu affair to the League of Nations,

ĮTAROVON ZEUTER'S AGESUX.] *

A'Common Enemy..

of

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creases the".

construction fand from tore the Opposition were able to $195,000,000 to $250,000,000. put the motion to the vote.

It is reported that President Thus the Tanaka Government Coolidge is opposed to the feature remains in power.

of the Bill which enables the The Proletarians had earlier on Shipping Board to authorise the.. proposed that the motion ahealdanie of any Government vessel on be put to the vote, but this was rejected by 240 votes to 959.

ROSSBACH TRẠI TOR'S DEATH.

DONE FOR LOVE OF THE FATHERLAND.

COMRADE MURDERED IN 1920.

[THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

sin afrinative vote of five or seven members, whereas the origmal Bill carried through the Senate by Mr. Jones, required unanimity.

The Congressmen who were re- sponsible for the safe piloting_of the Bill through the House of Re- presentatives, doubt, whether the Bill will be vetoed as the cost to the Government for the operation of the steamers would not exceed $10,000,000 yearly.

VANISHED BUST OF FAMOUS K.C..

LADY MARSHALL-HALL ON MYSTERY LOSSES.

"SO FREQUENT,"

GODALMING.

BERLIN, May 6th. After a trial occupying three weeks, three ex-members of the

At her home at Thursley, five illegal military organization, the

miles from here, Lady Marshall- "Rosbach. Corps" were convicted Hall, writea press correspondent, at the Stettin Court, of shooting told me the circumstances of the their comrade, Willie Schmidt in loss of a bust of the late Sir Ed- ward Marshall-Hall; and her 1920 because the latter was suspect efforts to trace it by means of a ed of informing the Inter-Allied newspaper advertisement.

"The bust was in terracotta, and Military Commission, where the

nearly a foot high," she said. Rosbachers hid their arms.

"My husband always had it on the mantelpiece in his chambers in Temple Gardens, and was very fond of it. After his death it just disappeared.

Ex-Lieutenant Heines was

ren

tenced to fifteen years' penal ser vitude.

Ex-Sergeant Ottow was sentenc ed to four years', a workman named Froebel to three years' and five others were acquitted.

The jury returning a verdict of guilty, recommended the prisoners to.mercy, giving it as their opinion that the prisoners had acted from love of the Fatherland.

It

was extraordinarily well done, and my daughter and I are

most anxious to have it.

"As a pair to his own, my ́hus- band had a bust of Mr. J. Hodges Ambassador to Great Britain from Choate, who was the United States

1809 to 1905, Mr. Choate was a grent friend of my husband's they were both Benchers of the Inner their Temple-and

busts were modelled by the same sculptor.

After my husbarid's death some RUMOURS OF SIR ALFRED went to a London sale room, and of his things from Temple Gardens

MOND.

THE BIRTHDAY HONOURS!

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(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}

RUGBY, May 6th.

Sir Alfred Mond yesterday an: nounced that he will not again con- test the Carmarthen Division, for

which he now sits in the House of Commons.

the bust of Mr. Choate was amongst them, but not the companion one of my husband.

"Inquiries at the sale room re- veal no trace of that.

Sculptor's Name Forgotten. "An unfortunate thing is that neither my daughter ner I can re- member the name of the sculptor, and although Mr. Choate's bust would help us to find whose work they were, that was sold in the zale room to a dealer, and we do not know where it is now."

Rumours have been current that When I suggested to Lady Mar- Sir Alfred Mond will be elevated shall-Hall that her husband's bust to the Peerage in the King's Birth had been removed from his cham- day Honours List, and this an bers by an admirer who had reason nouncement is regarded as confirm-to be grateful for Sir Edward's · ing_this report.

work, she said :— If Sir Alfred becomes Peer

"I do not know. The extra-

there will be bye-election in Car ordinary thing is that these losses marthen.

ALSACE LORRAINE,

PARIS, May 8th,

are so frequent, and the trustees who were appointed at his death cannot find out anything about them. That is why we advertised this morning and offered a reward. "My daughter advertised one of our losses last year, and was ecssful.

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Marshal Chiang announces that FRANCE WILL NOT YIELD AN

INCH.. be is leaving Teman with all his forces for the front. He will leave The Morning Post thinks that only a small number of troops (THROUGH HAYAS, AGENCY..)..

“It was my husband's portrait . Japan je involved in a struggle behind.

that time—these disappearances are from which it will be difficult to

all personal to him and it had extricate herself without thilitary Marshal Feng Yu Haiarg will M. Poincare, speaking at Metz been in the Academy three or four precautions and expenst

stay at Teinan in order to take to-day stated that France would years ago.

It had vanished in a mysterious The Daily Mail considers that the full responsibility for the con- never give up an inch of Alasce result of a dangerous anti-foreign with Japan, while Marshal Chiang creation of a neutral or autonomous the outrager at Tsinanfu are the duct of diplomatic negotiations Lorraine, nor would she accept the way, but at last was traced by the

advertisement in America. movement. British sympathy, it Kai Shek will continue the anti territory which would merely gen-cessful with the bust. It is such "I hope we shall be equally suc- says, is with Japan, and therefore Northern campaign.

erate new conflicts. strong general satisfaction will bo felt that the Japanese are acting with each vigour and decision,

The Hunchester Guardian states that after the British experiences in China it is difficult to be very censorious over the decision of the Japanese Government to defend the lives and property of their

The headquarters of the Bhang "The Students' Union at Shanghai hai-Woosung Gendarmerie and the has been giving open air lectures Special Municipality of Greater just outside the Settlement boun Shanghal have issued a joint de daries They have been inflaming claration that they are one with the nationals by the despatch of troops, nati-Japanese sentiment preaching people in their righteous indig- but it is conceivable that events at a. boycott and the severance of nation in connection with the in- Teinsafa «will develop in auch "a economic relations. Meanwhile Chi- cidents at Tainanfu and likewise,way as to involve Japan in further bese merchante, at the Chamber they are determined to protest by and very undesirable inroads upon of Commerce meeting this after concrete measures against the de- the sovereign territorial rights of. moon, will-disones the advisability liberate action of the Japanese Chias. of declaring & general etrike.

woldiers at Triban."

Vernacular Papers,

The vernacular paper have mostly been silent with regard to Tainan till to-day, but now they are strongly attacking Japan, and accusing Japan of provoking the

Chang Tsung Chang and Sun Chuan Fagg are reported to have decided to start another counter- attack on Teinan, taking advantage of the present Sino-Japanese trou bles in Shantung. Yesterday they despatched an aeroplane to in- yestigate the enemy's campe. It dropped severat bombs on the pre- mises of the Tainan Power Station..

NORTHERN DEFENCES.

PILGRIMS' TRAGIC END.

CHARABANC LOST IN

DESERT.

(THROUGE AMUTER'S AGENCY.]

JERUSALII, May 6th.

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wonderful likeness, and my daughter and I would very much like to have it”

£34,000,000 ART EXHIBI-

TION:

Mabarn, April 12th... A message from Beirut states

The ceremonies in connection with that a charabane, containing twenty the centenary of Francisco Goys,} pilgrims, lost its way in the desert the Spanish painter and etcher, in a journey from Bagdad to began in Madrid when King (Wah Tiz Ya! Pao.)

Beirut.

'Alfonso naisted by members of the A British acroplane was sent out Government and the administrators when it was discovered the car was of the Academy Bellas Artes and of The manifesto adds that as in the case of the military authori-

BEANGHAI, May 7th.long overdue, and succeeded in the Circulo Artisico presided at the

Works All the grest exhibition of artist's ties, the municipal authorities. will

The Fengtienese are strongly locating the vehicle. accord full protection to the life

defending Tehchow, on the Tica passengers were however dead when Piktures, tapestries," designs, and -It is expected that the despatch

and property of Japanese subjects

tsin-Pukow Railway. In the direc help arrived.

gravures executed by Gays have The Chinese General Chamber of

tion of the Kin-Han Railway, Poo-

been collected from all parts of the of the infantry of the Nagoya

forwarded Commerce has

a Affair in order to justify the des- tingfa and Chengsinten-are taken

the entire collection being Division to Tsingtao will be

country, Five hundred prominent leaders telegram to the Northern leaders patch Chinese also attack Japan. Feng, and Yen's joint attack. The

valued at 1,000,000,000 pesētas as their first defence line against authorised to-day.

(£34,000,000). A surprising number Most great General Ugaki, the ex-Minister of the Chinese Community have demanding that now a

of comparatively unknown works of War, has been appointed Com cabled to the League of Nations national dangor faces the country, though many of the better inform-Fenglienese in Northern Shane are to withdraw towards

had been lent by private collectors. mander-in-Chief of the whole of the asking for support against Japan, we must cesse fighting each other ed declare that the trouble has prepared

The "celebrations, which will lant Japanese forces in Bbantung, total while & cable of protest has also and unite against a common peril" been caused by Communists in Nankow Pass which is a very strong

a week, will include conferences, ling 13,000 inclusive of those been addressed to Baron Tanaka, and call a national conference to order to embarrass Marahel Chiang point from the military point of

* the Japanese Premier. already there

settle national questions, Kai Shik.

bells, and proccasions.

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PROTEST TO LEAGUE.

(THROUGH REUMA'N “AGENCY.),

MANILA, May 7th.

view.

“'ITALIA'S ". PROGRESS.

(THROUGH EEUTER Í AGENCJĄ

Ono, Mayath.

The airship Italia has arrived at.

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