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EXIT OF CHIANG KAI-SHEK.

FAREWELL MESSAGE GIVES

HIS REASONS.

· A CIGAR FÁCTORY'S. ECONOMY.

DISMISSED WORKERS CAUSE TROUBLE.

POLICEMEN ON GUARD..

Consequent on the dismissal of

IMPORTANT: CONFERENCE

MEETS forty

AT SHANGHAI,

NORTH STILL ADVANCES.

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The sensational elimination of Marshal Chiang Kai-shek from the Nationalist leadership continues to be the feature of to-day's China news, Chinese, advices from Shanghai stating that the Marshal has reached Ningpo and is destined for Hangchow where he expects to find loyalists in control.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1927. 日八十月七:

A GERMAN "HOP.”

TWO PLANES LEAVE TOGETHER.

TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT.

Dessnu, Aug. 14, Two Junker aeroplanes, the

A BAILED SUSPECT' MISSING.

MAN ON $10,000 BÖND DOES NOT REPORT.

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QUESTION OF TYING

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KNOTS.

ACCUSED IN MURDER CASE IS CROSS-EXAMINED.

men and women workers Bremen and the Europa, have left in their custody a Chinese who is A JOURNEY TO CANADA.

Some time back we reported that the Hongkong police authorities had believed to be a notorious pirate) from the mainland, and a man who has been long sought by the Canton Government in view of his alleged connexion with many atrocities committed on the Delta.

The Castle Peak murder case, which has aroused so much interest locally, and has been occupying the 'Court for a number of days, was continued this morning before another large atten- dance of spectators.

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The prisoner was cross-examined at some length as to whether or not he was able to tie intricate knots. He stated that he had made a trip to Canada in his young days, and had worked there in a' laundry, but had not learned knot-tying from members of the crews of the ships he had travelled on.

He gave his version of how he found his wife hanging, and cut the rope by which she was suspended by hor neck, with a chopper. There is a likelihood of the case continuing until Wednesday,

from the Mai Tai Cigar Factory, here simultaneously for America. at No. 3 Gage Street, last week, Each Junker carries three men. the factory has been closely The Bremen's chief pilot is Loose, guarded by officers detailed from and the pilot of the Europa is the Police and Secretariat for Risticz. Chinese Affairs.

As the resulf of meteorological The scene outside the premises reports, the route was changed at

It transpires that the man, Lau on Saturday morning was some- the igst minute, the machines fly- what unusual, as women workers,ing via Holland, the north coast Lung-shan, was arrested a month who appeared to have all along of Scotland, and Acrosy the age in a house at Yaumati as a result of Information received, and taken a leading part in demonstra-Orkneys to Capo Race,

A few hours before the start of while being held by the local police tions against the decision of the

proceedings were started with the employers, attempted to break the trans-Atlantic attempt; an into the building, but were pre-aeroplane skimmed over the town view to his banishment from the vented from doing any damage by as a pre-arranged signal, where Colony and possibly his transfer- In a farewell message Marshal Chiang says that his presence the prompt arrival of a large upon the entire population flocked ment to the custody of the police

force of police from Headquarto the aerodrome and gave the at Canton, in the party appeared to be preventing a Hankow-Nanking agree ters.

Junker machines an enthusiastic A week ago, an application for bail was considered by the depart- ment, and it was because of this that he decided to make way for. A number of workers still re-send-off.'

The equally famous pilot Edzardments of the Secretary for Chinese tained by the management were, others.. He still intends to remain a private member of the however, interfered with, and accompanies Ristics in the Euro- Affairs and the Police, and last Wednesday this was granted, in the Kuomintang.

picketing by the workers' guild, pa-Reuter,

[An earlier message, on Aug. 6, large sum of $10,000 in cash, i

Question of Knots. Prominent Nanking officials are arriving at Shanghai, where the Yin Yip Kan Shi, of No. %

Shanghai Street, appeared to stated:

morning the side benches were Mr. Fitzroy banded up a knot an important conference, aiming at the unification of the have had some effect, for of the Hurried preparations are being

crowded, and the body of the Court to the defendant and asked if that Nationalists, is due to take place.

forty men and women still retain-made in Berlin, Dessau and Trave-

well filled with spectators, many of was the knot which he had used It is now learned that he has them women.

to tie around the waist of his ed in employment, only three remuend for the carrying out of a

Throughout the morning the wife's body. not done so, and the authorities are turned to work when the factory trans-Atlantic flight. opened its doors this morning. The most promising experiment considering the question, of confis-prisoner was in the box under Defendant untied the knot bo- On enquiring into the case, a was completed at Dessau with a cating this bail while issuing a war cross-examination by counsel for fore answering, and proceeded to Telegraph representative this Junker 'plane piloted by Herr Ed-rant for his re-arrest.

the Crown, Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, demonstrate the exact nature of morning learned that bad times ward Ristica, which remained in In Hongkong the missing man is It is expected that the final the knot he had used. He pro- have forced the proprietor of the the air for F hrs. 11 mins. 8 seca, known to be a man of great wealth, speeches will be made by counsel duced a different knot.. factory to cut down half the numbeating Chamberlin's duration re- He owns real-estate property Lordship will sum up in the after Lordship that defendant had pro-

to-morrow morning, and that his

Mr. Fitzroy pointed out to His ber in his employment. Those who cord of 51 hrs.

Hongkong, besides being interested were dismissed were assured that The Junker firm now hope to in a number of other businesses. they would be taken back as soon start the fight about the middle The bail of $10,000 was paid. as market conditions justified this of this month.]

within a few hours of the applica- step, but no. binding agreement

tion bei granted. was entered into.

As regards the military situation, Marshal Sun Chuan-Tang is reported to be advancing southward, apparently meeting with little opposition.

INVITATION TO MARSHAL FENG.

Canton, Aug. 15. Marshal Chiang's circular tele- gram of resignation was sent to the Shanghai newspapers for publica- tion immediately after his arrival in Ningno.

The telegram states that since many people considered himself to be the only block hindering the reconciliation of Nanking and Harkow he (Marshal Chiang),

resigning is

for

hene the fit of the Party. Then fe

ihrve wishes expresses

CHIANG'S DEFEAT.

A "Well-Known Precedent."

London, Aug. 14. Telegrams from China, state that General Chiang Kai-shek, arrived unexpectedly at Shanghai yester- day.

He was accompanied by General Chang Cheng-chiang and a tingent of guards,

Management Upheld.'

One Plane Turns Back.

Bremen, Aug. 14. The Europa landed at the aerodrome here, having turned The case was referred to the back when over the North Sea, Secretariat of Chinese Affairs for following

news of extremely arbitration, and the decision of stormy weather over the North the management, after full in Atlantic.-Renter.

Not-

London, Aug. 15. vestigation, was upheld con-withstanding this, there has been

The Bremen was seen passing certain amount of intimidation over Wakefield at 1.40 this morn- Recently, his Nationalist forces exercised against those who are ing.-Router. have received a severe handling still retained in employment, and from the Northerners, who, after the share which the workers' stenming their advance, have guild may

have

coercive driven them the new federation of Nanking and Yangle. The Northerners under remainder to go on strike is pe back upon the methods employed to induce the Hankow, which he hopes will co- General Sun Chan-fang are now ceiving official attention." operate with each other to carry on reported to have taken Ching the Northern Expedition and the giang pu, and to be nearing Nan-Guild, it is interesting to note, is Shi movement in purging the party. The retiring Generalissimo remarks

only a small organization, Hmited that though he has resigned, he is going to continue his service to the Kuomintang in his capacity as a member of the Party,

The Marshal arrived at Ningpo last night by the steamer Sinking- tien. He will probably go to Hang- chow, which is still controlled by his loyal followers.

The New Situation.

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SUN ADVANCING.

Southerners Reinforce.

Nanking, Aug. 14.

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The Tin Yip Yin Kau

ENEMY" PROPERTY

REPAYMENTS.

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This was paid over, and the sus pected man was ordered to, report himself once every two days.

ELECTRICITY FROM THE JORDAN.

A. BIG SCHEME IN HAND.

Interest on the part of the remove it as he realised his wife Chinese in the Cistle Peak murder was dead. trial, at the Criminal Sessions, continues to increase, and this.

nonc.'

Prisoner was closely questioned duced a different knot and reminded this morning with regard to his him that the knot which was. seafaring experience, and said handed up was the very one which that, when he was twenty years Dr. Dovey found, and bad pre- of age he travelled to Canada on Herved. It was a reef knot and the the 3.5. Empress of China. In defendant had tied a different knut answer to Mr. Somerset Fitzroy, in court.

he said neither when going to His Lordship, addressing the Canada nor on the return journey prisoner, said:-I want you to be did he mix with the crews, and he very careful how you answer a You say was never shown how to make few of my questions. knots. Further pressed, he said you tied a rope around the he had done some travelling by woman's body?

Defendant: I did. junks but had not assisted in the

His When he

the Lordship: When management of them. London, Aug. 14.

went to Canada he entered the woman's body was taken out of Work has been started on the laundry business, and visited a the ground it had this piece of Jordan-Yamuk section of a big number of places while he was rope still around the body. scheme for utilising the River there. Jordan for the generation of electrical energy.

Photographs Shown.

Defendant: Yes.

Hla Lordship: And the knot then on the body was the knot

The Jordan waters between Prisoner was also questioned which was handed to you a Lake Tiberias and Jis-el-Myami- with regard to the topography of moment ago. Now, if you did not jeh, where there are falls of 139 the Castle Peak district, and when the that knot, who did?

Defendant. I usually tie a knot feet, will be used, and the sup-shown photographs failed to pick plementary part of the scheme, out his fruit garden or house. He with two half hitches and if a which is estimated to produce was handed a pair of spectacles different knot was found I cannot 130,000,000 kilowatts, provides for by a Court interpreter, and then explain it, harnessing the waters of the said that a patch of foliage point- His Lordship: Could you s37 Yamuk, which flow into the Jored out to him was either a group how you came to the such a knot? dan five miles south of Lake of pine trees or his fruit garden.

Defendant: No, I do not know Therias.

When he found his wife hang- any other way of tying knots. The Jaffa, Haifa, and Tiberias ing, he stood on a stool, which was His Lordship remarked to Mr. sections are already complete, lying on its side, and then lifted Jenkin that it was clear that the It is anticipated the Palestine the body slightly with his left arm, defendant did not understand the Government will be a big consum- and cut through the rope with a knot which was handed to him by er, that the railways will be even chopper. He felt the knot on the Mr. Fitzroy,

The case is proceeding. tric power will be extensively used for irrigational pumping-British Wireless.

Southern troops have been des KO KUI OR KUI KO? Great Britain, which was seized tually. electrified, and that elec- rope round the neck, but did not

CHIANG'S ECLIPSE.

Arrival At Shanghai.

Shanghai, Aug. 14. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has

arrived here.

There is nothing to report from the Yangtsze ports.-Naval Wire

$5.

A COINCIDENCE AT THE MAGISTRACY.

BOMB OUTRAGE IN AUSTRALIA.

C. L. D. OFFICES WRECKED.

BRUTAL ASSAULT ON COOLIE.

MAN STABBED BUT SEIZES ASSAILANT.

AN "AGED HAWKER'S PLEA.

MAY RECEIVE GRANT OUT OF POOR BOX.

AN ANGLO-AMERICAN In accordance with well-known to sume 200 workers employed in

AGREEMENT. precedent, various commanders in the Mai Tai Cigar Factory and in

London, Aug. 14. ferred their support to the the retreating forces have trans- the Orient Tobacco Factory at The text is issued by the let Mongkok. It has headquarters ters exchanged, and the agree tackers-British Wireless.

located at No. 3 Shanghai Street, ment reached, between Great Bri Yaumati, and being in no way tain and the United States re- connected with the much more garding the reciprocal release of namerous employees of the Nan-property sequestrated under the yang Brothers' tobacco mills at Trading with the Enemy Acts. Wanchai, is, comparatively speak- Another report has it, however,

A memorandum drawn up by that General Chau Feng-chi, the A few more troops have crosseding, a rather insignificant body. the United States Government ex- plains the conditions for the re- Hangchow Garrison Commander, from Pukow, and the situation is

turn of property to married wo- has also joined the anti-Chiang #pparently easier.

men in

the United States and movement and that the retiring Generalissimo may have to go to patched to Knoyaihom, apparently

"during the war. With regard to Fukien with the Division under to meet the advance of Sun Chuan-

debt claims, the United States General Wang

The fang by the lake.--Naval Wireless. Chie:.

Trading With the Enemy Act au- Marshal is still accompanied by

thorises, on the basis of re- Mr. Chang Ching-kiang, the Che-

ciprocity, the payment from the kiang Government Chairman, Mr. Huang Fu, the Shanghai Mayor,

A Chines named Kui Ko was sequestrated property of debts General Yang Fu, the Shanghai

charged before Mr. R. E. Lind- owing to and owned by British claimants before the passage of Garrison Commander, and about a

sell, this morning, with hawking the Act, provided such debt, ir dozen more loyal followers.

without a license. He failed to the nature of a pledge or lien,

A feud between a number of

"I am 70 years of age, and make an

appearance, and the

arose in reference to money or

Shanghai Chinese and a coolie eni Magistrate estreated his bail of other property held by the allen

ployed in the Netherlands Harbour have held a hawking license for The Nanking Kuomintang and less..

properly custodian or treasurer of Government leaders are gathering [Earlier, messages, in another

Brisbane. Aug. 14.Works, at Kowloon City, came to many years. I have no money The bail-book was handed up to the United States.

The Criminal Investigation De a head on Saturday when the even to buy food for myself now," in Shanghai to discuss the new part of the paper, report the re-the Magistrate to be signed, and

The position of the British Gov.

seven in number, was the plea of an old man who situation and they may have a con- tirement of Marshal Chiang Kai- the name which caught his Wor-ernment is that, in all cases partment's offices were wrecked Northerners,

visited the works and set upon the was charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning for hawking ference here with the Hankow shek from his post as Generalis- ship's eye was Ko Kui. En where enemy businesses, whether by an explosion at midnight.

quiries were made as to which conducted by a corporation, part-

A heavy stone wall was shatter-coolie.

Knives were produced, and, after boiled meat without a license.

Mr. Lindsell told Inspector Was the correct name, and

ed, and the roof was reduced to nership, or individual concerns, seemed that the matter would be have been liquidated in Great fragments. A detective who was inflicting several wounds, two of

the man. difficult to settle in the absence Britain under war legislation, the

on duty in the building has been which were described as being seri- Grant to make enquiries about Addressing the defendant, his of the defendant.

claims of United States creditors, sent to hospital with severe shock.ous, six of the men escaped, while the seventh was caught by the in- Later during the court's wherever resident, have been The roar of the detonation rous jured man, who was taking his cap-Worship sald; I have asked. In view of the startling news

sitting, 1 man answering the treated on an equal footing with ed the whole city.-Reuter. ture to the Police Station when, the Inspector to enquire Into received over the week-end, re-

name of Ko Kui appeared to those of British creditors." garding the elimination of

on crossing the aerodrome field, he your story. If It is true, and I Another section of the

found that the others had lain infind you are a deserving case, 1 Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and the answer a charge or obstruction,

the reg-

will grant you $4 from the "poor- A joint telegram has bee disruptions in the Nanking party, and on looking through the ball memorandum sete out

He was again set upon, the as-box to get you a license." despatched to General Feng by the following extract from an book the Magistrate discovered pective positions of the two Gov- NOTICE TO MARINERS. wait for him.

sailants having in view the release Messrs. Hu Han-min, Wu Chi-fai article by Mr, George E. Sokolsky that there were two men charged ernments in regard to shares of

of their confederate. Still holding On Saturday afternoon, about 2 and other Nanking lenders, in in last Tuesday's N. C. Daily News, and both had been allowed out on stock in the depot account of which the sudden departure and in which the writer analyses the bail of $5.

German banks and a further sec- BELCHER RIDGE NAVIGATION. His man, the harbour works coolie o'clock, a Chinese girl aged 14 was resignation of Marshal Chiang cause of Nanking's failure, makes Ko Kui was discharged with ation deals with cases in which the

blew his police whistie, and several assaulted by three men near Pak- Kai-shek is reported to the Honan timely and very interesting read-caution,

return of assets of a corporation

The following notice to mariners men of the aerodrome rushed out, Che Lane in Gage Street, and they Marshal

ing:

ia permiftted. 23.

has been issued by the local but the other assailants managed struck her sufficiently to make her nose bleed. The three assailants However, prior to the acceptance Why then has not Nanking suc-

The British Foreign Office in a Why is public opinion

The man originally arrested was then made good their escape, re Under authority conferred by At the Marine Court this letter accepting the memoran authorities, under date August 18: to escape again.

the of the Generalissimoship by General ceeded?

vernacular press. Sub-section (18) of Sectior (39) eventually taken to the Police Sta-ports Feng Yu-hsiang, the Nanking mili-not with Nanking to-day as it was morning, before Lieut. Comdr. dum's statement of position, adds

of Ordinance No. 10 of 1899. It tion, and at the Kowloon Magis-The girl declares that some! Where is the weak- G. F. Hole, three mistresses of that the British Government are tary command will be temporarily in April?

one of entrusted to General Li Chung-jén, ness?

Rampans pleaded guilty to lying prepared, on being granted re-

is hereby ordered until further tracy this morning a charge of time ago. sha owed Nanking's principal faults, to inshore during dark hours, and ciprocal treatment by the Gov-notice that no vessel shall pass causing grievous bodily harm to the her friends $2.50, and that the A mandate of the Nanking' Gov- ernment was issued yesterday ap my mind, are to be found in (1) were severally fined $10, with the ernment of the United States, the vicinity of Belcher Ridge or coolle was brought against him. creditor on several occasions threa

Communist

On the application of Sub-Inspec-tened, if the money was not return- Suppression usual alternative. One cargo within the terrns of the memoran- Rambler. Shoal in the harbour pointing General Li Chung-jen as

of. Hongkong at a greater speed tor Phillips, the defendant was reed, that she would probably get Vice-Commander-in-Chief of the Policy; (2) their financial Policy: junk master also pleaded guilty dum, to release such property as

manded for one week, it being into trouble, so the girl is of opin- Nationalist Revolutionary Army (3) their inability to organize to navigating the harbour without is covered by the terms of the than five knots.

Vessels when passing are to stated that the complainant would ion that these three men were speedily an effective and centra- regulation lights, and was mulet understanding, and on the con- General Pal Chung-hai arrived at 11zod governmental agency." in a almilar sum, with the same ditions stated therein.-British give a wide berth to the dolphins not be available for at least two or acting on behalf of the person to Nanking yesterday and is proceed-

three weeks.

whom she owes the money Wireless,

erected at these places, alternative. ing to Shanghai-Nam Chung Pao.

FAILURE OF . NANKING.

Story of its Waning Power.

leaders. Mr. Hu Han-min simo.3 arrived yesterday with Messrs. Chal Yuan-pel, Li Shi-chang, Wu Chi-fai and others. It is under- stood that the Nanking leaders are now upholding General Feng Yu- hsiang to succeed to the Genera lissimoship vacated by Marshal Chiang.

their

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