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A SHANGHAI DIARY.

NORTHERN THREAT TO HANKOW.

SATURDAY,

MAY 14, 1927.

INDIAN SQUABBLE.

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OIL PRODUCTION.

A MOVE MADE TO CURTAIL THE SUPPLY.

HEAD WATCHMAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS.

Washington, May 13.

anta.

There was a fairly large num- Shanghai, May 9. Nowa arriving hare from various. Following the oil producers' ap-ber of Indian watchmen at the yesterday, sources point to possible big deve-peal to the Federal Government Central Magistracy lopments in the military situation. for aid in restricting over-produc- when five Indians wore charged These developments appear likely tion, the nine ol companies con-with assault on the head watch- to take the form of a big concerted trolling 75 per cent of the produc: man of Messra, A. S. Watson &

tion of the Seminole olifield have Co., and his friend.. attack on all Nationalist forcos on the Yangtsze in an effort to drive agreed not to start or complete

There were two separato ns- wells in the greater Seminole area saults connected with the charge, thom hack whence they came.

for a period of two weeks. News from Hankow shows that General Feng Seng-ch!, comman- In the meantime field surveying one at Connaught Road on May 5, der-in-chief of the Hankow Na- will be carried out in order to cb-near the Tokyo Hotel, and the tionalist forces, is withdrawing tain data with a view to the fur-other in Gaine Road two days

ther restriction of drilling-later. his troops from Sinyangchow in

The case was heard by Mr. R. E. Honan to a point on the Peking-Reuter.

Eindsell, Mr. D. McCallum re- Hankow railway just inside

five defendants, he la Hupeb-Kwangshui Here concentrating all available forces frequently for a high post under presented the and all that can he spared from the man who put hiri in gasl. It while Mr. T. H. King prosecuted. was said that he would be given Mr. Leo d'Almada e Castro watch- Hankow are reinforcing him.

The Fengtien forces have also charge of the Nationalist forces ined the interests of the complain- an arm in western Honan, which Shanghai, but apparently he is Is causing anxiety among the Na-marked out for some other import- tionalist forces on the lan river. ant job in Nanking-if the Govern The Nationalist forces have been ment there does not have to flee forced back to points within 25 very rapidly. It is not too com and 50 miles of lanyang by Feng-fortable to have the enemy under tien troops who were responsible the walls of one's capital, which recently for seizing a vast quantity is the position of the Nationalists cf ammunition from Hankowat Nanking. The Northerners are entrenched in which was destined for Marshal pretty strongly Feng Yu-hsiang to enable him to Pukow.. cut into the Fengtien lank in the Northern drive against Hankow down the Peking-Hankow line.

Feng is now without the means of war and his army, admittedly the best-disciplined in China, is useless and his arrangement with the Nationalists must fall through, Hankow refused recently to send the war material because of Feng's and anti-communist utterances now when they are in dire straits they sent and sent too late.

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Mr.

Putnam

It appeared from the ovidence man of Watson's, that the assault of Kehr Singh, the head watch- arose out of revenge on the part of one of the defendants, who was dismissed from Watson's some time ago. There was some sug- gestion that the head watchman had tried to instal his own country- men into positions, and that the assault was premeditated.

An Indian policeman in his evidence stated that he found the head watchman on the night of

Home Truths. To-day Mr. Lenox Simpson, much better known Welle, addressed the American Women's Club at tiffin assembled. May 7 in an unconscious condi- Mr. Simpson recently arrived heretion in Connaught Road Central. from a trip up the Yangtze which He was bleeding from the head has given us the "Letters from the and was removed to the Govern

ment Civil Hospital. Yangtse Valley."

H

In the course of his talk he said it was a delusion and a spare to suppose that the Chinese civil war would end by any other process than exhaustion (which might not Hankow's Position. Therefore, the threat to Hankow come far twenty or thirty years) through Hoban is very real, but unless the Powers intervened. He military experts believe that the suggested that the Powers should attack will not be pressed immie-play the part of policemen and diately. Rather they argue, a halt stop the dry-rot by special steps such as putting barriers between will be called about 100 miles from the contestants and holding them Hankow, while Fengtien reinforce until a compact had been made and ments are sent to the eastern.

safeguarded. Surrender of treaty fronts to support Chang Tsung- rights, would do nothing to help chang and Sun Chuan-fang to en-in the upheaval. able a big concerted offensive all

Three

..

The case was adjourned at this point to 18th instant.

THE LOST BALLOON.

MAY HAVE LANDED IN SIBERIA.

An earlier message stated that the balloon was released on April 30 in order to test its capacity. for a long light. It had two oc- cupants and nothing had been seen of it for some days.

Moscow, May 13. It is believed that the missing

Eastern Sovlet balloon has descended in the forest region of Referring to Nanking, he said Siberia and that it will be some dis-time before the airman reach any along the Yangtse to take place.. it was disconcerting and

Should this take pace, then the honouring that more than six human habitation-Reuter, importance of that incident of weeks after these outrages nothing seizing Feng's ammunition, will had been done by the nations con- prove to be enormous.

cerned. He pointed out that much months ago Nacionalists high had been made of Consulates being olicials in Hankow, explaining the destroyed and murders committed, future progress of their campaign,

but that no oficial, including Sir laughed at the threat through

Austen Chamberlain, had put to chief of the Honan, Feng, they explained, could the forefront the he relied upon to cut off any crimes committed there by the attempt to get through this pro- Nationalist soldiers the outrages There were vince the Soviet had. arranged on foreign women. that.

women: Had this happened na

authenticated cases of arranged, then the position would being raped which had been con- have been very different, und

cealed. It was plain that if this Chang Tso-lin might have been

sort of thing was allowed to go driven back behind the great wall.unpunished, no foreign women or However it didn't, by a strokegirl would be safe in China out- of luck, and the chances are nowy side the garrisoned towns that the Hankow faction of the Shanghai and Tientsin. Condigh Kuomintang will be driven out of punishment was absolutely neces- their stronghold and the Nanking sary and the Governments con- faction be driven back into Checerned should be shamed into ac kiang, Kiangsi and Hunan. Deve-tion by publication of the facts.. lopments of the situation will be unusually interesting, with Shang- hai possibly becoming a theatre of

war once more.

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of

A particular duty lay with the Club, for American Women's American women were the chief sufferers at Nanking. This crime women was ruth- against white

Cantonese at Nanking. 31any Cantonese figures well. known in Hongkong are gatheringlessly punished in the states of at. Nanking to reinforce the new the Union where a non-white popu Nationalist Government there. lation predominated. The Nan- They have left Shanghai at the re-Ring facts without names should quest of General Chiang Kai-shek. be obtained by the American Dr. C. C. Wu, well known as Com- Women's Club and every women's missioner for Foreign Affairs cith in America circularised with under Sun Yat-sen, has left for them, asking for their support. the Southern capital to take over women rad now got the franchise, the duties performed hitherto by and here was emphatically a case Mr. Eugene Chen for the Nation-where they should throw their alist Government. With him went whole weight into the scale and Dr. Wang Tsung-wei, who was demand justice. formerly Minister for Justice,' and

Regarding Hankow, he said the Messrs. Wu Ts-fei, Wu Te-chen, dominant impression be gained. Wang Weilung. Chen Tseh and Fu there was that the so-called Chin- Ping-shan. Apparently they dreese lenders had taken hold of pro- the nucleus of the new government,blems which they were quite un- together with the few generals able to cope with and that they whom Chiang has already given were buoying themselves up with sort or another. all sorts of catch phrases. What posts of one When Chiang first came to Shang- they now actually hoped for was hui, Wu Te-chen, not long ago re- that the foreign Powers would step leased from durance vile in the in to the rescue and give them Bocca Tigris forts, was mentioned their benediction.

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