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SHANTUNG TROOPS ARRIVE.

MARSHAL SUN ILL?:

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

NANKING SCENES.

MAJOR GENERAL JOHN DUNCAN.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2. 1927.

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A report which rendlind Shang- hai on Friday last from Nanking was to the effect that Marshal Sun, whose whereabouts during the period of his reverses have been a matter for some aurmise, is at the present time ill of influenza in Nanking. This cannot of course be definitely ascertained; and is to be taken as another one of those "logical conclusions reached when a general goes inta, temporary eclipse.

Chang Chung-chung Arrives..

On Wednesday afternoon at about 3.30 o'clock Marshal Chang Chung-chang arrived in Nanking and immediately took up his head- quarters at the Naval College in- side the city wall on the Siakuan side, according to reliable reports from that place. The Naval Col- lege, 1a, incidentally, about 100 yards from the A. P. C. office, the Post Office and the Consulates. Troops are reported to be still arriving in Nanking down "the Tientsin-Pukow Line and 200 mounted Russians put in an ap- pearance on Thursday.

Preparations are said to have been made in Pakow to run a line down to the water's edge for the transport of a Russian manned armoured train to the Shanghai Nankling Railway, as was done in the Kiangsu Clekiang war of 1924.

Coolie Impressment.

The arrival of the Shantung troops provides Nunking with scenes of coolie impressment, comi. mandeering of carriagea, motor- buses and ears, and the civilian population is believed to look upon the northern fortes with fear and loathing.

Above is Major General John Duncan, C.B., C.M.G., C.V.O.. D.S.O.. Commander of the Shanghai Defence Force, at Euston just before his.departure for the East. (Photo-engraving by

"S. C. M. Post.") ·

JAPANESE SOCIALIST

ARRESTED.

INFLAMMATORY LEAFLETS

DISTRIBUTED.

A SHANGHAI INCIDENT.

CHINESE CABLES

TO U. S. A..

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South Carolina for a fortnight's rest. He informed the Foreign Af-. fairs Committee of the House of Representatives that America bud

A party of four men was found jentered into no secret treaty with

last. As French

On Thursday afternoon n meet-distributing leallets to pedestrians tereign Powers regarding the ing took place between the mer-

on Rue du Consulat in the French joint use of the military forces in chants of Nanking and General Concession, "yesterday afternoon. China--Reuter's American. Se.. Chang for the purpose, of making says the Shanghai Mergo ice. some kind of an arrangensent with Friday regard to the military, note ques-suit, the

police pat- tion. It was definitely establish rolling there Fan after them ed at that time that should no and arrested one of them, the re- agreement be reached, the next pinder making good their escape shops would be closed.

Uncertain Feeling.

Strong Cantonese elements are said to exist in the city and in the event of northern reverses the

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U. S. MARINES.

Two Thousand in Shanghai.

The U. S. S. Chaumont arrived

in the direction of the native city.in Shanghai with a strong Ameri Upon Inquiry, it was found that

lean detachment of marines last

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the man arrested was not a Thursday, after making a record Chinese, but a Japanese dressed trip across the Pacific of nineteen in Chinese garments.

jsteaming, days. The unit consista Books such as "Labour Move-of two battalions of American ma- natural fear is that the undercurement," and "Peoples" and other rines, many of whom saw service rems will become mort active. inlinmmatory leaflets were found in the Great War. The comman 1- Foreigners and Chinese in Nanking in his possession. When he ading, officer is Col. Charles S. Hill, alike are feeling a considerable mitted that he was a Japanese by a veteran of the Grent War, and amount of uncertainty, the chief the name of Tatsuo Shimada and one of the highest ranking officers: fear being of what would happen if that his comrades who disappear in the Corps. Second in command Shantung troops suffered

cd were all Japanese, he wasis Lieut. Col: F. D. Kilgore. Ma- handed over to the Japanese ator T. A. Secor has charge of the

reverse and were driven back on

Nanking.

thorities.

first battalion and Major Van de The forbign gunboats now in When examined, Shimada is Grift the second. Nanking Include II. M. S. Emerald, said to have stated that he was

U. S. S. Simpson and three Japan-a graduate of the Oriental Uni- The detachment is from San ese destroyers of the 24th Flotilla.versity, Tokyo, and is a Socialist. Diego and in addition to their ex- Three Chinese gunboats are also in He came down to Shanghai recent-cellent fighting record, have a first the river,

ly, together with comrades, to class football aggregation. They During the past week it is said take netive part among the Chi-also have several fine baseball that between 20,000 and 30,000 nese labourers for the, propaga players, boxers and basketball Shantung troops have arrived in tion of communistic principles, teams. Shore leave was granted Nanking, one division, the 8th communicating with the Chinese on arrival to several hundreds, Shantung having been sent direct extremists here.

and, the men created a very favour- to Chinkiang en board the str. Asked as to the source of their able impression in their green" uni-i Kiang An, and the greater funds for doing so the man was forms. majority having gone down the silent. The authorities are strict- The U.S. Marine Corps sets a line towards Souchow and Changy examining the accused, who is higher standard of enlistment than now detained in the Consular gaol.cither of the other branches of the while they are tracing the whore Government service, and most of abouts of three others who are the latest arrivals are in the re- ut large,

chow.

SENTENCED.

General Estrada, ex-Mexican, Minister of War, who has been bontenced to 21 months in a penitentiary and fined $10,000 for violating the U. S. neutral- ity laws by engaging in revolu- tionary. activities against Mexico.

gion of six feet in height. They will remain on the transport Chau mont, and will not be billeted in

"ARMY" SENTENCED, town.

END OF MEXICAN "RAID."

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A "boot-lagging" play. That is the frank description of "12 Miles Out," one of the latest films to be seen in London.

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The rest of the play takes place on the high-sena. Brutal instincts rin amok. Horror is piled upon horror. Yet instead of "making one's "flesh creep" the piny is just good fun.

A Breazy Villain. The danger had seemed to be that Mr. Lyn Harding, looking about BLOW TO NORTH.

we were to see one of those pieces, seven feet high and broad in pro- burn of prohibition, in which every portion, with a beard much bigger General Deserts Marshal Sun.. dne talks about illicit drink and how than Bernard Shaw's, scowls and Los Angeles, Mar. 1.

to obtain illicit drink in a way that shouts and threatens and tortures Shanghai, March 1.

may be very amusing in New York with the greatest of gusto. Mr. members

General of

One of Sun's leading generals but which is apt to be tedious over lon Swinley, who can play any Estrada's staff have been senat Sunkiang, Meng Chao-yuch here, says a Home critic. traced to over one year each and (who has already given Sun a

manner of part with distinction,! 'fined from $1,000

Happily "12 Miles Out" is not, a] makes the captured boot-legger at $5,000. to

good deal of trouble) and his staff bit like that. The author, Mr. Wil-romantle creature in spite of his! Fifty-seven members 'of hij deserted this morning, refusing to fam Anthony McGuira, has written rough ways and his faulty prin "army" have been sentenced to six

instead a good, old-time pirate clples. Mr. Milton Rosmer is an months-Renter's American Serfight with the Shantung forces.

- ***** ---- Men Chao-yuch commanded a story. The booty is smuggled gin amusing figure as the lawyer who A message received yesterday division, What action his prob- and whisky instead of, 'Spanish] discovers to his never-ending' as-

General stated that

Estrada,ably now officerless

tonishment that laws are made to men are gold. former Mexican Minister of War, taking is not at present known but The tale begins in a prosaic home be broken. had been convicted of violating it is feared that this important in Long Island, where a strug New Miss Rhy Darby-one of the fow the United States neutrality laws defection. foreshadows further York lawyer has begun to get on Americans in a play essentially by engaging in revolutionary serious dissentions between the the nerves of his young wife. The American-is pretty in the Mar- activities against Mexico. He was allies at Sunklang whither the lawyer is one of those who live by garet Bannerman way as tho sentenced to twenty-one months in Shantung forces are proceeding irale. "Dreams of adventure beheroine who comes triumphantly a pentitentiary and fined $10,000.much larger numbers this after-long to the past," he says.

through a sea of trouble. But suddenly adventure enters Altogether a good specimen of with violence. A boot-legger and the thriller with a laugh always' Rev. Edward Lecs, M.A. vicar of

his gang hold up the household to up the sleeve of the author. Brentwood, Essex, died recently

But for some strange reason the During the absence on leave secure a refuge for their smuggled after

The boot-loggers are in'nathor..causes the action of his ilincs. severe

His of Mr. G. F. Haslam, Mr. E, Lalcohol. parishioners gave him £200 at Judd will be in charge of Brunner turn "held up" by a modern pirate third act to take place'ion minutes. There is murder before that of his second act. The Christman as a token of good-will. Mond's luterests in South China.and his crow, and abduction.

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