1927-07-12 — Page 12

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Hotel launch meets all steamers.

Dining Room and Lounge now open to the Public.

PROF. C. THERESES

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Printed and Published for tho Proprictor by. FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN, at 1 and 3, Wyndham Street, in the City of Victoria, Hongkong..

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1927.

NANKING'S STARTLING

MOVE.

"{Continued from Paga 1)-

been sent to Tsingtao and Tsinan. The Kinchow-Tainan railway line is filled with Japanese troops.

Marshal Chang

the asks Peking Government strong- ly to protest against this, so that the withdrawal of the Japanese troops can be immediate- ly effected. Otherwise, misunder- standings with the people may re-" sult in armed clashes, and Shantung will not be responsible for auch consequences-Nom Chung Pao,

CANTON. FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Dr. Chen Chang-lol's Appointment.

Canton, July 12. The Ministry for "Foreign' Afairs has notied the Provin cial Government of Kwangtung to the affect that the Nationalist Government has appointed Dr. Chen Chang-lok as Commissioner for Foreign Affairs of Kwang-| tung, vice Mr. Luk King-fo-who recently tendered his resignation..

Dr. Chen, the new Commissioner, returned to Canton from Hong- kong yesterday, and is preparing Ito take up his new office." .Dr. Chen was formerly secretary to Mr. C. C. Wu, and a founder of the Canton Guzette. He is a re- turned student from America. Recently Dr. Chen was Comunis- sioner for Foreign Affairs in Hoihow and Pakhoi, and Superin- tendent of the Klungchow Cus- toms, besides being Director of the Kiungchow-Yechow Revenue Office-Nam Chung Peo.

TSINGTAO THREAT.

Expected to Fall.

Peking, July 6.

Mme. Raiskey, who is appearing to-night at the.

Queen's Theatre.

WHAT OF CHANG?

(Continued from Page j.)

SHANGHAI RATES.

COLLECTION STARTED IN

SETTLEMENT.

people who could not possibly be| classed as such, paid the supreme Paying no heed to the propa- penalty, Chiang Kai-shek, these ganda of the Political Department obsarvers argue, is against cer of the Shanghai Special District | tain communist individuals but Kuomintang Party and the Settle- not anti-Russia. This argument ment Chinese Ratepayers', Asso- was borne out in part when ciation, which has repeatedly Chiang allied himself with Feng urged Chinese ratepayers not to Foreign telegrams from Yu-halang who, it is well-known, pay the 2 per cent, increase in Tuinanfu indicate that the fall ofis in the hands of Russia com- municipal rates, Settlement au- Tsingtao is momentarily expected. pletely. Now comes Dr. Wu, in a thorities are going ahead with the The Chinese Chamber of Com talk with the departing Soviet business of collecting the new in- merce is negotiating with the Consul from Shanghai, Mr. F. W. crease in rates, which was effec- delegate of General Chen Kuo-hua, Linde, saying that the purification tive July 1, and are meeting with formerly one of Sun Chuan-fang's of the Kuomintang was necessitat little opposition, says the Shang- commanders, for R peaceful ed by the fact that the Chinese hai Times. surrender. It is reported that communist party was hindering The entire amount involves but General Chen is still at Kaomi. the progress and threatening the Tls. 400,000, of which foreign rate- All communications between existence of the Nationalist re- payers of the Settlement will pay Tsingtao and Tsinanfu are cut,volution. They therefore, had to nearly 50 per cent,, despite the the railway having been torn up be suppressed. He went on to say assertions of the Chinese propa at Kaomi by General Chen's that he considered the position gandists that the Chinese of the troops. This has prevented the of Russia and China on a par in Settlement pay 70 per cent. of the movement of 1,000 Japanese tho family of nations and that municipal rates. troops, now at Kinochow Railway there was always the possibility

Although the actual collecting Station, to Tainunfu.

of a Sino-Soviet entente. The of the rates has begun, the Chin-. Chang Tsung-chang is report-anti-communist movement he adds Ratepayers' Association, back- ed to have decided to send a puni-ed was not anti-Russia. It may be ed by the Political Department of tive fores to Kuomi. The Tain that this is an attempt to placate the Kuomintang, is proceeding p front, however, remains quiet. Eussia for what is going on or it with its plan to influence Chinese The movement of Mukden forces may be the truth. Once again we ratepayers not to meet the new in- across the Peking-Hankow line must wait and see. continues, and it looks as of the concentration point will be Teh- chow. Chang Shuer-liang has

crease.

Posters urging the Chinese to. take a firm stand in the matter

gone to Mukden, ostensibly to CHICAGO'S LABYRINTH. and not to pay the increase are to

open a new building there, but really to supervise the prepara- tion of a last line of defence on the Luanho, some 30 miles west, of the Great Wall.

U.S. CHINA POLICY.

"WORSE THAN MANILA."

Chicago, July 5. Chicago has a more labyrinthine) Chinn town than even Manila, de- cleared Major Joseph A. Manning, head of the local unit of the Federal anti-narcotic agents, to-day.

be found daily in shops in all parts of the Settlement.

In vernacular newspapers adver- tisementą appeared worded as fol.. lows!

"Let us all unanimously oppose the illegal increase of municipal taxes. If a collector calls pay- A Senator's Suggestions.

be refused. If any ment is to compulsory mensures are taken the Senator Hiram Bingham, Re- Major Manning served in Manila circumstances are to be reported Eublican, of Connecticut, has cabled during the Taft administration. to this. Association," the following suggestions on AmeriHe said that Chicago's Chinese sec- The advertisements bear the

can policy in China to Scoretary Kellogg-

tlon outrivalled Manila's as he re-name of the Chinese Ratepayers' membered it. The tunnels in the Association,

1-Protect American vested in torests in the coast and river ports, wherever Amorican war craft can go. Any treaty with China now is not worth the paper it is written on unless backed up by gunboats. 2-Send a consul general at once to Nanking. America now has a consul gouern at Hankow, the Major Manning was formerly a government of which was responcaptain in the Manila Police De-1 sible for the Nanking outrages, and partment and had charge of the has none at Nanking, which is the narcotic squad. He served in the seat of the moderato fuction.

Philippines during the Taft and 3.-Sond American diplomatic. Harrison administrations. He left ngents to all the de facto govern-Manila when the United States en ments in China. They can betered the World War in 1917 and furnished, by the Peking legation. saw service overseas as an officer Two Americans should be sent to in the Quartermaster Corps. each faction, as two Americans in a foreign land are better than one, The Japaneso keep elcsely in touch with all the parties in China. They

section bounded by La Salle, Twen- A special meeting of the Ass80- ty-first, Wentworth and Twenty-ciation was held in the offices of second Streets han underground the Shanghai Chinese Genera! passages and tunnels so complicated Chamber of Commerce In North that some of the agents actually lost Honan Road, at which was discuss- their way in the maze for hours, ed ways and means of furthering Major Manning declared.-Asso- the protest against the enforce- ciated Press.

ment of the increase in rates.

This morning's Harbour Office

get their information at first hand, repart gave 18 arrivals and 15 and nct accordingly. America departures, of which six and two should too.

respectively were British, leaving 78 vessels in harbour, British 36.

SACK OF HAICHOW.

Work of Southern Soldiers,

DAY BY DAY...

Owing to the death of Lord Abinger, his brother, Licut-Colonel the Hon. Hugh R. Scarlett, D.S.O., of the Royal Artillery, who was born in November, 1878, and is now with

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THE MAKING

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3rd PROMENADE CONCERT

the British Forces in China, succeeds (Under the Patronage of His Excellency The Governor,

him in the title, of which he is seventh holder.

Later confirmatory letters from Halchow re the loot thereof and telling how difficult it was to des patch a letter from there, repeat- ed the same sentences: that all mixalon property and buildings had been looted and destroyed by the inhabitants of" of Haichow. Langhai Railway, being Belgians The Rev. Francis Flyan, LL.D., The continued repetition of the and possibly 蟲 fow Russians.vicar of Portadown, Hants, died word "Inhabitants" always in They had succeeded in reaching Buddenly on June 7 at the age of quotation marks and doubly un- Hafchow from Chengchow, and derscored still failed to give its were half way up the coast when 73. A graduate of Trinity College, ordained to the Dublin, he was real meaning till interpreted by a small boat full of desertors euracy of Mariners' Church, King- an arrival from Hinichow who de- from the army pirated them stown. In 1884 he was appointed clares that the looting was en- Thoso ex-soldiers were armed, with a chaplain in the Royal Navy, anti tirely the work of the Southern Mausers and swords and resist was chaplain of the Tamar for soldiers. Our Informant goes ance was futile. The travellers Hongkong Dockyard and Hospital into details showing that it was lost all that they had...

The marriage of Mr. W. Parry de Winton, elder son of Mr. Farry de Winton and the Hon. Mrs. de. Winton, of Blwch House, Brecon, and Miss Vivienne Dennys, daughter floors, even attic boards, were rip-of Mrs. Dennys and the late Mr. ped out and carried away. Tsingtao, July 1

Henry Lardner Donnys, of The What furniture was not suit Elms, Thames Ditton, formerly of able for the use of the looters Hongkong, took place on June 11 Esher. Tho was smashed.

at Christ Church, The party, whose arrival was Bishop of Monmouth, uncle of the Dr. reported in this morning's issue bridegroom, and the Rev. of the Tsingtao Times consisted Floyer officinted. largely of the employees of the

Mrom 1808 to 1000 and received the

a case of Nanking over again, So liberty, fraternity and equal-China medal. In 1000 he became minus the opportunity to murder ity continue to permeate the chaplain of Devonport Dockyard, any foreigners. Not only were people long recognized as the and 1011 chaplain to the King. In all houses except the hospital mast polite on earth...

1012 he retired from the Navy. looted but all doors, windows and

Sir Cecil Clementi, E. C. M. G.)

BY THE BAND OF THE

The 1st BATTN. THE CAMERONIANS

AT THE

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SATURDAY, JULY 16th.

ADMISSION-$1.00.