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HOW WUCHOW FELL.

FIGHT FOR LION HILL

FORTS.

BEATEN RABBLE PLUNDERS THE TOWN.

NO FURTHER STAND LIKELY,

PROPAGANDA!

AFTERMATH OF SUN YAT

SEN'S FUNDRAL.

CINEMA, RADIO AND CORPS OF WORKERS.

[United Press,]

Peping. High pressure props [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] ganda, at least equal to similar efforts in the west, "has been vigor CANTON, June 3. ously applied to the Chinese Reports have come to hand giving people in the days preceding and following the funeral services for the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen. The Kuomintang publicity men parently hope to make Dr. Sun, "the father of the Republic," en- shrined in the hearts of his countrymen in a few weeks

years at most.

ap-

or

details of the taking of Wuchaw Pei Chung Hai's forces, entrusted with the defence of the Kwangsi stronghold, collapsed before the combined attacks of pro-Naaking infantry, a squadron of aeroplanes and a flotilla of gunboats and are a full retreat towards Hangheien.

There was heavy fighting for two

Every known means of impress- days along the banks of the Westing ideas upon the minds of the River, Dosing and Fung Chun being people, high and low, has been defended with some stubbornness, used by the shock troops of the The Nanking and Canton troops Nanking' propaganda corps. Mo detailed for the attack bad" been tion pictures, phonographs, the concentrated at Shishing, which the radio, still pictures, music, drama, aircraft had also made their head flag ceremonies, as well as ancient quarters, and from there the attack Chinese decorations and proces was launched.

rious have been drawn upon to im- press the people with the im- portance of Dr. Sun's principles.

THE GUNBOATS.

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The Canton gunboats appear to have played an important part by covering the infantry advance with a heavy bombardment. The rives have risen considerably during the last few days and the squadron was

"Shock Troops."

The shock troops of the props ganda corps preceded Dr. Sun's

funeral, brain by several days, pre- paring the towns along the route ior honouring the Kuomintang The corps used a special train of ten cars, fitted but Admiral Chan Chak showed with radio sets, motion pictures,

able to force their way almost as far as Wuchow. The channel had been mined by the Kwangsi forces

saint's memory.

and all other mechanical devices to express human ideas, system of minesweeping

The corps itself numbered sixty fluent most of them persons, speakers, who discussed Dr. Sun's ideas.

commendable resource in organis ing 'n which cleared the way for his ships. The forts on Mount Lion at the entrunca to Wuchow opened heavy fire on the gunboats, to which the ships replied and a long artil.

This corps is at work most of the lery dual followed. Finally the time, but concentrated its efforts aquadron of aeroplanes, flying low for the funeral. It is planned now over the mountain, hailed down to send this special train through- bombs which soon silenced resist out the country from time to time srce, The gunners, or each of to propagate further the ideas of them who remained, abandoned the the late leader of the party. forts and fled in confusion. The whole line then collapsed, men left

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THE HONG KONG `DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1929.

HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.

FORCES MARCH THROUGH

CITY.

THE HONG KONG PARADE. -

Hong Kong participated in the general celebrations throughout the Empire yesterday on the occasion of the celebration of the King's th Birthday. In the brilliant sun- shine, the glittering arms and a coutrements of the massed troops created an impressive spectacle.

Crowde of people began to gather at sa early hour near the Cenotaph and along the line of route of the march through the city. All veran

PEPING'S MAYOR.

SEEKS MORE COSY CLIME.

CORRESPONDED WITH FENG.

[United Press.]

Peping!--Ho Chi Kung, the dynamic mayor of Peping for the past year, has abruptly abandoned his office. The Fortunes of politics are even more uncertain in China than in the west, and Mayor Ho didn't bother to send in a resigna tion, but turned up "missing" one morning, to quote an Irishism!

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BROKEN PLEDGES."

ATTACK UPON NANKING GOVERNMENT.

A STINGING EDITORIAL.

[United Press.)

Peping. Under the caption, "Broken Pledges," Mr. Grover Clark, the American editor and publisher of the Peking Leader, features on the front page of his newspaper a spirited attack upon the military and civilian leaders of the Nanking Government for pre- cipitating the country in another civil war.

The editorial has caused much

The trouble was that Mayor Ho is a subordinate of Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang, the erstwhile Christian dahs in the vicinity were packed General. Marshal Feng's standing surprised in Peping, because Mr. with the Nanking Government aud-Clark is known to be unumially with spectators and cameras were continually at work during the pro-denly became less than nothing, and sympathetic with the National Gov

Mayor Ho decided that "prompt ernment. ceedings.

flight would be discreet.

The Guard of Honour.

A combined guard of honour of nearly 200 officers and men from the Royal Navy, 1st Batta, Somer set Light Infantry, and Batta. K.Ö.S.B., and 3/15 Punjab Regt. were posted near the Cenotaph.

Read the Sigas.

The mayor apparently knew which way the wind was blowing, and took the precautions to send his wife and family ahead of him. His wife was in the German hospital here, but was aroused at daybreak one

out of town. decamped, and was sent burriedly

"Not even one full year has pass ed since China was' unified' by the Nationalist occupation of Peping,"

writes. Mr. Clark in his signed

articles. "Five months have not passed since the military leaders gathered in Nanking to pledges of the end of civil wars, and

renew

moving from China's heavy-laden shoulders the intolerable burden of swollen and mercenary armies.

The massed bands of these de-morning a week before Mayor Hoto prepare a plan for actually re- tachments, augmented by the band of the Volunteer Defetice Corps, were drawn up in front of the Hong Kong Club, while four companies from the Somersets were stationed on the Praya.

Members of the Executive and

Legislative Councils, the Consular Body, the British Legion, British Mercantile Marine. Ex-Service men's Association, Sea Scouts, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, and St. John Ambulance Brigade were gathered Around the Cenotaph.

At ten o'clock, the Motor Cycle Squad of the V.D.C. dashed into the square, being followed by a large car containing His Excellency the Governor (Sir Cecil Clementi, KC.M.C.) and his aide-de-camp, Capt. F. G. Sillitée, R.M.

The Royal Salute.

His Excellency took up a pesi. tion with Commodore R. A. S. Hill; R.N., H.E. Major-Generál J. W. Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., General Ouer Commanding the

their trenches and the retreat be- THE FIGHT FOR SWATOW-British Troops, China, their aidé,

came a rout, The pro-Nanking troops formally, took posscazion of the city at 6 pm, on Sunday.

THE SHOPS PLUNDERED.

The disorder of the beaten force

KWANGSI FORCES AT BAY.

:

Stormclends of War,

"Not five months-and what has happened to those pledges? Civil) war swept around Hankow March.

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Mayor Ho spent his last days in office gravitating between the Ger- mas hospital and his headquarters. The German hospital is located in the Legation Quarter, which is

That the fighting was of immune from search by Chinese police. In troubled political times, brief duration was fortunate: it was many prominent Chinese suddenly civil war none the less. Civil war become so ill they must stay in the now is going on in the extreme. doctors sometimes are puzzied to civil war, more serious in its im German hospital, although the south. Storm clouds of another

tell what is wrong with them. plications, are blowing up apace in

Honan.

officials here declare they found in After Mayor Ho's departure, the

Where is this everlasting peace his offices a military radio set, with China was promised! In the fact which he had carried on correspondet what has happened, what is the ence with Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang value of the promises of military in distant Honan.

leaders 1

GENERAL STOPFORD DEAD.

SUVLA BAY LANDING

RECALLED...

"Furthermore,

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what are the civilian leaders doing? They also pledged peace. They also told the

world in no uncertain terms that China had been united and that wars were a thing of the past. What have they to say about these Memories of the tragic failure outbreaks of civil war, and parti- de-camps, and. two honorary of the Suvia Bay enterprise durcularly of this new attempt to force A.D.C.'s from the Indian regiment. ing the Dardanelles campaign are awar in Honani The guards of honour, presented ¦ recalled by the death, at his house SWATOW, June 3.

"Tsai Yuan Pei, Ho Han Min, in Regent's Park, of Lieut. Tan Yen Kai-they look on them- Pro-Kwangsi troops; under Gen-arms and the National Anthem was

played by the massed bands, fol General the Hon. Sir F. W. Stop-selves and are looked on as the elder eral Llu Ming Ou, are still in con-

statesmen of the revolution. So far lowing which His Excellency and ford, K.C.B. the senior officers with him inspect. Sir Frederick was superseded they have said nothing publicly to ed the guard.

after the collapse of the attack, stem the tide of hysteria which and Sir Ian Hamilton, dealing seems to be sweeping over the mili- with his conduct of the operations, tarists. Have they done anything in referred to the failure, to make private ?

of the priceless daylight Lour." He added:-

trol at Swatow despite the reported threat of Fukienese invasion. There was severe fighting last week be- tween the Fukienese troops under

Ir

"The опе fatal error was

is suggested by the amount of hur ried looting that went on as they streamed through the town. Wu,

After the inspecting party had chow is partly a modern city with

General Chang Ching and the returned to the base of the Ceno well paved roads and ferro-concrete buildings of four or five stories. Kwangsi forces under General Liu taph, a Royal Salute was fired from Practionlly all the stores in the twofing Ou, along the Han River. Murray Parade Ground by the 1st use

The Young Leaders, The result is still in the balane Mountain Battery, Hong Kong main thoroughfares, Kau. Fong

"C. 1. Wang, Wang Chung H Street and Wu Fong Street, were

an the defence system of the Singapore Brigade," Royal Artillery.

And inertia prevailed. H. H. King, T. V. Soong, San Fo- looted, and many of the smaller Kwangsi troops extending" at Chao At the end of each seven guns, the inertia. shops were also despoiled. The On, the terminus of the Chao Oa-Somerset Regiment fired a feu-de-being missed opportunities were they are assumed to represent the best of the younger energy which General Stopford demanded an inquiry by the War Office into the is to make the new China What whole circumstances of the land have they done or said to head off

announced later this new food of destruction f.. that he had agreed that no further. ing, but it was action should be taken for

"The pledges of the militarists time being. He gave evidence be have proved worthless. The Nation- i fore the Dardanelles Commission. alist civilian leaders likewise pled- Sir Frederick, who was the songed themselves. So far, no sign has of the fourth Earl of Courtown appeared that they have made had served in Egypt, Athanti, and South Africa, where he was mili- vigorous efforts to redeem those tary secretary to General Buller. pledges.

He was born in 1854.

losses of the merchant class in Swatow Railroad, is intact and this incident, the culmination of traffic on the railroad is still insin. many other injuries, are extremely heavy.

The powerful Kwangsi forces have been beaten beyond hope of recovery and though Wa Ting Yang

ed.

According to an official report from military headquarters, Swatow, the Fukienese troops have been pushed back to San Ho Pa, in the

is said to be rallying a small force upper valley of the Han River, and. at Wai Teap the majority of the fighting is still going ou near Chao survivors are expected to disperse Oz.-Nou Chung Kup News Ser into the hill country' and take to vice.

banditry for their livelihood.

The Nanking troops are pressing!

on towards the important town of Liuchow, and its fall is expected in a few days..

CENTRAL BANK'S NEW MANAGER.

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"JAPAN AND MÁNILA.

FOSTERING TRADE.

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[United Prom.]

Mazila, P.I.-The volume of trade between Japan and the Philippine Islands will be doubled |{FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.] within a decade, in the belief of

Mr. Saichiro Koshida, newly ar ❘rived Japanese Consul General ̧in

Manila.

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When the last gun had fired, the National Anthem was again played by the massed bands and three rousing cheers were given for His

Majesty.

The March Fast."

Hended by the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, detachments from the following marched past the Cenotaph where His Excellency tonk the salute :-----

19th, 20th and 31st Heavy Bat- teries, Royal Artillery."

2nd, 4th and 5th Heavy Batteries, H.K.S.B., R.A."

Royal Engineers (including the Chinese detachment in the 40th For- tress Co.).

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Royal Corps of Signals, 2nd Bn. King's Own Scottish Bor- derers.

Royal Army Service Corps. 3rd/15th Punjab Regt.. Hong Kong Volunteer Defence

Corps.

Hong Kong Male Corps.

the

Shameen Celebrations. Shameen had a festive day. Fol- lowing a special service in Christ Church at ten o'clock, there was

"Are the other nations--and the people of China-to be convinced- by events that no reliance is to be placed on the effectiveness of the pledges of the leaders of the Nation alist movement ! I even here there is no solid ground of determination

HUGE ELECTRICAL PROJECT.

a combined parade of blucjackets, to keep faith, the foundations of the soldiers, and Municipal Police. New China are shaky indeed." The Conaul-General was 'at home”. to all British subjects, his Foreign friends, and their ladies at his residence, at 11 o'clock, and, ‘at noon, the entire British community were at-home-in-the-Canton Club to foreign friends and their ladies. A children's party was given dor.

-PROGRESSING MOVE IN

PHILIPPINES.

{United Press,]

Manila, P.I.-A hydro-electric plant with a 15,000 horse power capacity to cost P.4,000,000 is to be

CANTON, June, 3. Mr. Chow Min Cho, the newly- appointed Managing Director of the M. Koshida, who was Japanese Central Bank of China in Canton, Consul General in Buenos Aires was inducted into offies at noon before his assignment to the let Mountain Btery, H.K.S.B.,ing the afternoon on board H.M. to-day with impressive ceremonial. Philippines, apon his arrival here, R.A.

Ships at Shameen, and a cricket He said that he will do all he can declared it to be the height of Noroprenentatives from the match was played between Shameen to resuscitate the banknotes. stupidity for Oriental countries: R.A.F. were observed to be pre-residents and officers and men of

not to be on friendly terms with seat. The parade marched through the West River Patrol. each other."? Koshida pledged the City by way of the Prays to A thanksgiving service was held built by the Manila Electric com- himself to work for maintenance Hillier Street, Bonham Strand, and of friendly feeling between Japan into Queen's Road Central. and the Philippines.

Ships of all nationalities in the The new Japanese Consulharbour were gaily decked out with General praised the fair treat daga and the whole spectacle was ment accorded Japanese residents full of colour and brilliance. in the islands by the Filipinos." (Continued on nezt Column).

WUCHOW TO BE ACCESSIBLE FROM TO-DAY?

The hope was generally expressed on the waterfront yesterday that the West River would be open to "shipping as far as Wuchow to-day

or to-morrow.

by the Parsee community of Can-pany at Botocan Falls near Majay- tion. Throughout India similar ser- jay, Laguns. vices were held on the King's The plant will be the largest in birthday, and the Parsees in Can the Philippines and one of the

biggest in the - A New York engineers are to arrive shortly to hegin work on the project.

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