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BRUTAL ASSASSINATIONS IN CHEFOO.

NATIONALIST ENVOYS HORRIBLY MUTILATED.

FENG YU HSIANG'S DELEGATES ARRESTED AND SHOT.

THE SHANGHAI POSTAL STRIKE.

A terrible situation has arisen at Cheloo. Liu Chen Nien; a late supporter of General Chang Tsung Chang has hoisted the Nationalist dag over the city, but this action appears to have no significance. The Nanking Government has made attempts to place its own representatives in the leading political positions there and has sent eraissaries to Chefoo: Recently seven then have been found murdered in the city with their faces terribly amutilated, and, these are believed to be the unfortunate Nanking envdys. Following these crimes there have been further assassina- tions and many executions.

Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang has also dispatched a delegation to Interview Liu Chen Nien, but they were immediately arrested and shot. A second delegation from the same source met with little better fate, for the whole sixteen' members comprising the party were arrested, and seven of them were subsequently shot.. It is reliably reported that General Feng Yu Hsiang intends to take very stern mensures against Liu Chen Nien.

There are strong threats of a renewal of the postal strike in Shanghai, and the workers are threatening to bring out in sym-" pathy all labour on the riverside and in the power station. A Irading postal official ridicules the rumour, saying that the strike will peter cut as the diaaffected' members are well aware that the Government is prepared to take strong action to suppress it.

BRUTAL ASSASSINATIONS.

(THROUGH NEUTER'S AGENCY.)

Cx, Oct. 15th.

MACAO BOUNDARY,

(lah Tu Tu Pao),

SHANGHAI, Oct. 15th. While on the surface the situa- Regarding the problem of treaty on is quiet, there is a consider-revision with the Chinese Govern able undercurrent aturessiness ment, the Portuguese Minister ex-

presses his opinion that the revi

bore.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16th, 1928.

GERMAN AVIATOR'S

THE WANDERINGS

OF ALICE.

FLIGHT.

ARRIVAL IN SHANGHAI,

LEWIS CARROLL'S MANU. SCRIPT.

„A LUCKY LANDING.

[TEROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

CANTON, Oct. 13th. Baron von Huenefeld, the famous Gernian. Atlantic flier, hopped off

LITER

AMERICAN'S PURCHASE.

{NYUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]

N&W YORK, Oct. 15th.

It is announced that Mr. Eldred

AERODROME IN DARKNESS.

LIGHTED BY MOTOR HEAD LAMPS.

END OF A GREAT FLIGHT.

(TBROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]

SYDNEY, Oct 15th.

At the conclusion of a terrifying

NAVAL DOCUMENT DISCLOSURES.

DUE TO MISUNDERSTANDING,

PURCHASE DENIED.

(TARUUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.}

Pasts, Oct. 15th..

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ZEPPELIN'S STRANGE

RETICENCE

AMERICAN OFFICIALS

FIQUED.

THRILLING REPAIR WORK.

[RETTER'S AMERICAN 'SERVICE}

NEW YORK, Oct. 14th. The huge crowds that iövaded Lakehurst Field at an early hour this morning, coming by thousands

Service in 1991, and is now at the Zeppelin, have been waiting all tached to the Press Bureau at the day and are still determined to Quai d'Orsay, was the source of walt in spite of the bulletins, supply of the Anglo-French naval hoping that the great air-liner will document by an accident

`appear at any momcot.

It now transpires, in further elucidation of the Horan mystery from Canton for Shanghai at dawn Johnson, founder and ex-President twenty-three-hour flight from New that M. de Noblet, aged thirty, this morning. He is due in Shang. of the Victor Talking Machine Zealand to Australia, in which he who joined the French Diplomatic in motor-cars to see the arrival of hai in the early afternoon.

Company, who lives at Morristown, was buffeted by gales and harassed New Jersey has purchased Lewis by fog, Capt. Kingsford Smith ar- Baron von Huenefeld arrived at Carroll's original nanuscript of rived to find the nerodrome in com- Alice in Wonderland with two plete darkness owing to the failure Shanghai at 3.93 p.m. 7

The Europ made a safe landing copies of the first edition of Alics of the electric current.

for $150,000.. on the Lunghus parade ground, ten miles from the Settlement. After examination of their papers by the Chinese military authoritice, Baron

He circled the aerodrome while

Mr. Johnson intends" to keep his hundreds of motor curs, hastily treasure at Morristown and de-drirea to the enclosure, lit up, the clares that he will never dispose

of it.

GRIM SEARCH FOR VICTIMS.

CHARFIELD RAILWAY

von Huenefeld and his comrades arrived at the German Country Cub in the International Settle-

ment at 6:43 p.m. where a recep- tion was held. The aviator told Bruter representative that the journey from Canton was made without incident, but the landing BODIES BURNED TO ASHES. was a lucky one as there were only a few yards to spare. Future plans are uncertain for the time being.

CHINESE FEUDS IN

AMERICA..

ACCIDENT.

(BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE]

RUGBY, Oct. 14th..

alate ion of tariff rates should be based MRDERS IN THE STREETS Charfield, Gloucestershire, Was one

Since Lia Chen Nien, adherent of Chang Tsung, Chang, hoisted the Nationalist dag, at- tempts have been made by San- king to instal their own nominees in political positions, but Liu Chen Nien has retained his own men in the civil and injlitary posts.

on the principles of the new Sino- German Treaty. In regard to the problem of abolishing consular jurisdiction in China he suggests that the Portuguese Government will follow the general view of the Powers concerned.

(RECTOR'S "AMERICAN SERVICE]

New York, Oct. 18th.

Seven Chinese have been killed in various cities as a result of a recrudescence of Chinese tong war

On October 30th seven men "wese found murdered with their faces most horribly mutilated, and well- The boundary problem of Macão, informed people believe that the however, mast he discussed exclufare. Three were shot down in the victims were Nanking emissaries sively on the present treaty nego who were assassinated by the orders of Liu Chen Nien. Later tiation, he insiste, there have been more urbanita- tions and over thirty executions,

PERING.

It is reliably reported that Fenu Yu Hsiang intends to take strong measures against Liu Chen Nien.

A delegation from Feng called on Liu on October 10th and Linear- rested and shot" them. On the following day sixteen of Feng' delegates approached Liu, who arrested them and shot seven of them.

APPRECIATION OF CHANG

HSUEH LIANG.

THROUGH LEUTER'S AGENCY.)

NANKING, Oct... Path. According to information fron official sources, says the uo Min

News Agency. Feng Yu Hsiang will Assume the post of Vice President of the Executive Yuan.

CUSTOMS REFORMS.

uh To Fat Pao.)

SHINGBAL Oct. 13th.

streets of Chicago, while others were murdered" in New York, Philadelphia and Washington..

VERITABLE BATTLE IN

SOFIA.

REVOLVERS FREELY USED.

SEVERAL LEADERS

WOUNDED.

[THEOUGH REUTER'S AGEXOT.]

The railway disaster which occur red carly yesterday morning at

of the worst that has happened pa British railways within

years.

recent

From the examination of human remains recovered from the disas- trous train smash and fire, doctora are satisfied that at least fourteen persons were killed.

Nothing but the ashes of some of the victims remain, though it is thought that the majority were kill ed before the fire devoured the wrecked carriages.

The wreckage was searched con- tinuously throughout yesterday and last night by railway workers and volunteers, at great personal risk, owing to the flames which enveloped the telescaped coaches.

I has been reported frequently that Customs autonomy will be enforced at the beginning of ext year, but the Nanking Government now seems to have changed its atti-

The collision took place under a tode and modified its policy, and

bridge over the railway at Char- is inclined to institute. tariff schedule of seven grades, the high.

field station. The engine of a BELGRADE, Oct. 14th. est rate being 22.6 per cent. and

passenger train collided with the Details of the sanguinary encoun- the lowest. 2.3 per cent.

According to the Financial Minister in a crowded centre of Sofa, engine of a goods train which was tay, if the above tariff schedule is which occurred on Friday, are being shunted into a siding. The passenger train engine turned over. brought into forse the Chinese gradually filtering through to Customs revenue will be increased Belgrade, and show that averia its side on to the opposite line,

Feng Ya siang in an interview by $60,000,000 a year. declared that he approved of Chang Flauch Liang's appointment as a State Councillor.

We cannot ignore him, especial. ly at the present moment when our relations with Japan are

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critical condition.... There is no reason why he cannot be taken into our fold and he regarded as one of our faithful comrades if he is loyal to the Party."

...

APPOINTMENTS REFUSED.

(a Tuz Yat Pao).

SHANGHAI, Oct. 15th. General Yang Yu Ting. General "Chang Hsueh Liang's representa tive sent to conduct negotiations with General Pei Chung Hei, bos returned to Mukden. In an official statement he said that he would decline to take any official port in Manchuria and would not accept

any appointment from the Nanking

Government.

PROPERTY OF FORMER OFFICIALS.

(Wah Te Fat Pao).

SHANGHAI, Oct. 15th.

table battle" broke out between the SHANGHAI POSTAL STRIKE. Macedonians and their opponents.

Revolvers were freely used and were wounded including

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

SHANGHAI, Oct. 15th. While there are persistent re- ports of a postal strike to-morrow and the strikers are threatening to bring out the workers on the river- side and in the power station in sympathy, a leading postal official aims that the strike will fizzle out as the employees are aware that the Government wil adopt a firm attitude.

* NANKING INCIDENT.

SINO-BRITISH COMMISSION,

(THROUGH BEUTER'S, AGENCY.]

SHANCUAL, Oct. 13th. on set up in accord with the The Sino-British Joint Commis.

recent agreement to determine the British damages suffered during Nanking Incident last year, will consist of:-

many several prominent leaders.

The opposing factions were sup- porters of the Macedonian Revolu- tionary Committee, the backers of

van Mihailoff, and supporters of General Protogueroff. A Turkish military attache and Major Traikoff, one of the heads, of the Protogueroff Party in Albania were among those wounded.

EX-KAISER'S 13TH CEN- TURY CASTLE. NEAR THE DUTCH FRONTIER. THROUGH REUTER'S, AGENCY.]

COLOGNE, Oct. 15th.

near the

It is reported that the ex-Kaiser, now at Doorn, has purchased the Castle of Heerenberg, German-Dutch frontier and within a short distance of Emmerich and

the Bhine

Mr. George Alexander Combe, connected with the British Diplo matic Service in China since 1901; Mr. A. G. Mossop, the Crown The Nanking Government has in- | Advocate in Shanghai;

The castle was recently in the structed the Tientsin Chinese Mr. Clarence Kuangson Young, a authorities to investigate all per-well-known Chinese diplomat, who possession of a textile manufac manent properties owned by the has been a director of political turer. It was built in the hit retired officials "of the former science in Peking since 1997, and teenth Century as a stronghold for Peking Government in Tientsin, Mr. Wu Chin, who was chief of the Counts of Berg,

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It appears that he communicated the document to his friend. M. Roger de la Planque, a French the Intransigeant, journalist on

arena by means of their headlights which, aided by a big are lamp, who, alse worked for the Universal enabled the exhausted airmen to News Agency. De Noblet, who was land safely

only temporarily in charge of the Their arrival was boisterously Press Bureau, was not aware of his applauded by 25,000 people who connection with the American had been waiting for hours in agency. drenching rain.

· AUSTRALIAN LABOUR

TROUBLE.

"A LOT OF COWARDS."

Many have announced their pre- paredness to camp at Lakehurst Field overnight, while officials at the aerodrome are keeping' an al night vigil, while powerful search- fghts to guide the Zeppelin are turned on at full power.

A First Message.

The Navy Department picked up message shortly before abon which. placed her position at that time 23 eighty miles north-east of Bermuda,

The message added: “We are running south-west in order to reach favourable winds. This is desirable in view of the necessary reduction of speed due to damage. All is well on board. We have sufficient fuel."

Between noon and six o'clock, the

M. de la Planque states that he later dined with Mr. Haran and allowed him to peruse the docu- ment, stipulating that he did not Fablish it in extens. He denies MODERATES HOWLED DOWN. that he received money from Horan

apart from his usual £6 a week.

There is no question of M. de Noblet having received any money for the disclosure of the document. It is semi-oficially explained that the document was normally

If the message picked up by the circulated to the Press Bureau, Navy Department is accurate, whose business

receive however, it is evident that the air- ship made scarcely any progress 'n journalists.

the twelve hours between midnight- and noon, presumably owing to adverse winds.

(THROUGH REUTER'S, ADENCY.]

MELrorasz, Oct. 14th. There was a

great uproar, and demonstration at Yarrabank when the saner leaders of the Australian Trades Union Congress were "en- deavouring to reason with the men, the speakers being shouted down.

Mr. Crofts, the secretary of the T.U.C. told the striker's plainly that it was hopeless for them to expect victory. He was howled down by a large section of the crowd, who described the T.U.C. is a lot of coward."

GERMAN CLAIRVOYANT'S

POWERS.

BERLIN POLICE CRITICISM.

Tras to

The Intransigeant announces that . de la langue has been dis missed..

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

PROFESSOR BRIGHAM ON

SOME CONTRASTS.

Speaking recently at the Summer School of Geography at Oxford, Professor A. P. Brigham, of Col gate University, New York, said that, in spite of the curious out- bursts of which they had beard, the American Spread-Eagle ers had passed and the period of self- scrutiny had

come. Americans

Zeppelia had declined to auswer enquiries as to her wherenhouts on the ground that she was too busy sending Press messages."

Serious Damage.

LATER. "The Graf Zeppelin has intimated by wireless that she intends chang- ing ber course, making direct for Lakehurst.

It is learned meanwhile at Lake- hurst that the damage to the air- ship is greater than was at first thought to be the case.

At last the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey has been in direct communication with the Grat Zeppelin.

Her commander states that the

noon.

The Sybil of Memelland," Frau Gunthers-Geffers, who had astound- ed Germany by her clairvoyant were not so sure they were always archip will probably not arrive at powers in discovering crime, who right, as they once were, though Lakehurst before Monday after- had been acquitted of fraud amid they might be more nearly · sane the congratulations of the apceta than, some of their European tors in a case brought by the Public Prosecutors, and who only at the critics thought they were. end of July tracked another mur-

were

They

not self-sufficient, even in

der, has now caused Dr. Weiss, the Nature's resources, nor which the goods train was

paasing.

A considerable- amount of wreckage piled up around the engine under the bridge became ignited, and four vehicles of the were completely burned before the fire could be extinguished.

passenger train

in that

of thoughts,

Details Refused." Officials at Lakehurst are some- what piqued by the persistent re- fusal of the Graf Zeppelin to give details of her position and pro- gress, and the first direct wireless message from the airship to Lake hurst was only prompted by a curt If they could not indiet a nation, neither could they fully describe a message sent out from Lakehurst nation environmentally er spiritu- that the officials had been on duty Ally, and he was not trying to do for many hours and required rest.

Some Americans, having

It is estimated that 70,000. people seen the cliffs of Dover, four days

manifold network taates, purposes, and experiences, that rast sphere of human in terents, which made up life.

that.

Berlin Vice Police President, to draw up a report of her activities.

In the Kriminalische Monatshefte (Criminal Monthly Review) he

experiments of second sight in deals fully with one of her noted He enumer- a double snurder case. ates her actions and evidence," and then proceeds to criticise thein. Dr. Weiss, in the case he des cribes, declares that the first action of the medium was to indicate that the murdered persons were driving along the road in the opposite direction that which they were

were sure about the United States awed by a message reporting how proved later to have taken.

Secondly, she went up to a bush when they had seen New York, the young son of Dr. Eckener and

Niagara, Chicago, and Washing in her tranice and asserted that the

ton. An eminent English writer five other volunteers risked their murderer had stood behind it.

not long ago. professed to have lives when they were swung into NEARLY READY FOR TESTS. Police evidence, Dr. Weiss declares; seen the great land on the west side núd-air to repair the port horizon- proved that this was impossible. It of the Atlantic, but his book was also indicated the correct place, painfully short on

the United tal. which was behind an alder tree.

States and distressingly revealing of himself.

THE GIANT BRITISH

AIRSHIPS..

TRIAL TRIP TO AMERICA,

[BRITISH WIRELESS SERVICE}

of London, four hours of Oxford, are awaiting at the aerodrome for and a dash of Stratford, Warwick, the airship's arrival. and Chester, thought that they knew England. Some Englishmen

America has been thrilled and

The plight of the passengers may Leimagined from a report that, the airship struck a squall and was

The clairvoyant then gave a description of the Worse and cur-

A hopefully large number of riage in which the murdered per Americans knew that bigness was sons were driving and of the site

not greatness and, fully apprecint- smashed. RUGBY, Oct. 14th.

of the murder. This was mostly ing their own country and its ad-

of North Carolina. It is stated that the British air correct, but the Police President vantages, still turned to Britain

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15th. ship, 10, now under construction declares that she could have rend to see what a small piece of ground

The fact that the Zeppelin spent at Howden, Yorkshire, will be com- all the details in the newspapers with large men could do in 1,000 pleted before Christmas. The tests and come to her conclusions by years of history. To make a com- the night cruising between Bermuda

posite photograph of a country or will probably include a demonstra-elever piece of deduction.

Furthermore he said that she had its people was an unattainable art. and the American coast is indicat- tion Bight to America and it is pro- posed later to establish an England seen a police notice of the murder Nowhere was such an achievemented by a wireless mesange picked up

nere difficult than in the United America airship service or a com- before going into her trance. mercial basis.

Dr. Weiss's last point is the most States, with its vast size and limit by the Navy Department showing that her position at 3.50 am, local The 100, although her length is important. Frau Gunthers Geffers less varieties of man und nature.

gave the name of the murderer and Having drawn # less than that of the Graf Zeppelin, details of his past life. These state-tween the States of Massachusetts

contrast be time was still 300 miles south east is designed to carry 100 passengers, and her engines are more powerful.ments the police president declares and Virginia, Professor Brigham of Cape Hatteras, while she is 46 following a course on which the. The airship 101, which is under were carefully examined by the pointed out that there were construction by the Air Ministry at criminal police and found to be States besides. Who could under will encounter land dear Wilming

stand such a country He could Cardington, is also alhost ready entirely wrong.

Moreover, Dr. Weiss maintains not make his audience understand ton or Cape Hatteras. for shed tents.

that the clairvoyant, had most pro-it, and could only give them a bably read the details about the glimpse here and there. When they supposed murder in a paper and saw the United States as a whole, or even the long, narrow Atlantic described them later in her trance.

From the Police President's re- border, they were baffled by the port" clairvoyant " evidence, which variety of what they tried to put What was was becoming popular in Germany, in a single picture will doubtless be discredited; but true of one part was not true of and it remains to be seen whether another. Full knowledge -LONDON, Oct. 14th- similar-evidence may be given-from broad charity should underlie Lady Whyte on board, was fired on train stopped at a station and the. His Majesty the King has order such a high source to prove that serious judgment of his country while passing through the Yangtze Prince alighted, taking by surprise ed a week's full Court Mourning Frau Gunther's other clairvoyant or of any order. England should Gorges yesterday.

a group of people waiting to see and another week of half mourning feats, which were accepted in the send not her literary egoiste but The outrage as the work of a his train pass. He chatted with from to-morrow for the late ex law courts as genuine, were acher Lord Bryces if she wanted the pirate gang, but no damage was them for a few minutes before Empress Marie Feodorovna of complished by deduction or other story of his country from an Eng-William Flynn, late Chief of the

On a rough estimate ninety per the diplomatic bureau of the An

cent of land and building pro- kunchun, and Vice-Minister for PRINCE'S INFORMAL CHAT.

perties owned by them are in foreign settlements.

The Nanking Government bow ever intends to take steps to con-- fiscate them.

JEHOL TERRITORY.

(Wah Tas Yat Pao).

BEANGHAI, Oct. 15th. Upon instruction from the Nan king Government, General Fang Chin Wu is making military pre parations on the borders of Jehol and as soon as the time arrives he will-march into this territory,

Foreign Affairs of the Peking

Government from June, 1927, till HALT AT WAYSIDE STATION. its dissolution.

B. & S. BOAT FIRED ON.

{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)

[BRITISH WIRELESE SERVICE?!

RUGBY, Oct. 14th. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales left Nairobi; Kenya, to-day for SHANGHAI, Oct. 15th. Uganda. The leave-taking WAS

The Butterfeld & Swire 1.6.informal.

Montung, with Sir Frederick and. A few miles out of Nairobi, the

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done and no one was hurt,

COURT IN MOURNING. DEATH OF LATE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.

(THROUGH REUTER'E AGENCT.)

Treauining his journey to "Uganda.~~ | Russia."

means.

"lishmen

OBITUARY.

SECRET SERVICE CHIEF.

[REUTER'S AXERICAN SERVICE.]

LARCHMONT, New York,

October 15th.

The death is announced of Mr.

-Secret-Service-