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CONCENTRATING FOR DRIVE

ON PEKING.

FURTHER CLAIMS BY MARSHAL FENG YU-HSIANG.

A STUDY OF CHINESE WARFARE.

WEARY CAMPAIGNING.

EXCITING ESCAPE OF PRINCESS MARY.

OUTBREAK OF FIRE IN...

MANSION.

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1927. BA†INGLE COFT 19 CENTS

BRITISH POLICY.

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London, Nov. 9.

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·DISPERSAL OF 1925 STRIKERS.

RESULT OF CONFERENCE IN CANTON,

"COMPENSATION" SCHEME.

Happy Valley.

BRITISH BANKS.

ESSENTIAL WORK IN CHINA.

RESPONSIBLE POSITION.

ALLEGED BELGIAN LOAN something over two hours. It is Allendale. They had to rush from and he noted the profound and sioner of Labour Affairs, Mr. Chai in China, in the Far East Review.

The Nationalists at Nanking have, according to a late Chinese message received to-day, ordered à resumption of the offensive against

troops at present stationed in Nanking, Wusth and Shanghal to concentrate on the Pengpy front,

In connexion with the above, it is interesting to note that according to a Nationalist news agency, Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, who is co-operating with Nanking, has made an advance in the vicinity of Hsuchowfu, and that Marshal Sun Chuan-fang has gone to Dairen.

to

China.

He regretted the lack of improve- ment in the China situation, due to the multiplicity of conflicting Gov-

was contrary to our policy of non ernments and Generals, whom it interference to recognise.

Egypt.

That strikers be compensat- ed according to three groups; Persons in the first group will re- To Hangchow ceive $60 in cash and $40 in Gov-

second group will get $55 in cash and $85 in Government ernment Bonds, while those in the

Treasury Bonds, and those in the To Hangchow ..

Hankow third group will receive $45 in cash

Nanking and $25 in Government Treasury Bonds.

Dollar Shipments.

Place

Amount

.21,088

Nanking

.13,142

Hankow

625

Bar Shipments.

1,450,000

.1,200,000

.950,000

Sycee Shipments.

.14,500,000

..6,450,000

.6,100,000

6,050,000

.6,550,000

.4,750,000

RUSH FROM BEDROOMS.

The essentials of this subject of On Tuesday a big meeting was British banks in China are best Mr. Putnam Weale writes from

London, Nov. 9.

There were traditionally enchant-held at Canton, at which more than Peking on October 26 to the

reached through figures indicating Princess Mary and her husband, ing scenes of pomp at the Guild two hundred representatives of the the significance of the embargo Shanghai Times:

People are going out by train Viscount Lascelles, had an exciting hall, at the Lord Mayor's banquet, various Unions were present, for which the Nationalist Government to look at Chochow, which is one escave early today from an out- which was attended by leaders in the purpose of discussing the set at Nanking has placed on the ex- tlement of the 1925 strikers. port of silver, writes Mr. E. M. of the curlosition of this unexpectbreak of fire at Bratton Park, be- all walks of public activity. ed war with Shansi. Chochow is tween Barnsley and Wakefield, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Others who were present included Gull, Inte Secretary of the Associ about 15 miles from Peking and in Yorkshire, the residence of Lord Minister, was the principal speaker, Mr. Tae Ying-pak the Commis- ated British Chamber of Commerce normal times can be reached in

beneficent change in European Min-cho, the Commissioner of In 1926 shipments of silver in the one of the very ordinary Chinese their bedrooms wearing only their relationships during the past Finance, and several other Govern form of bars, sycee and dollars from

Year. He said that when the ment officials.

Shanghai to other ports and cities market towns, with stout medieval night clothes.

After speeches had been de in China (Including Hongkong), Fire was found to have started Sovieta were prepared to observe

bars 36,939; sycee walls, of which there are hundreds

thousands in the night nursery where the the ordinary decencies of in-livered, it was decided by the meet totalled in North China and the North, for which purpose orders have been issued for all throughout the whole Chinese do-three children of Lord and Lady tornational intercourse they would ing that the following proposals Ts. 5,080,000 and $64,000,000, their

minion.

Allendale and a nurse were sleep-find Britain ready to meet them in regarding the settlement and dischief distribution being as follows;

adopted: Lying less than a mile from the ing. Lady Allendale herself dash-a spirit of liberality and goodwill. persion of the strikers should be station of the same name on the ing past the blazing day nursery is the last place in the world you and nurse who were taken Péking-Hankow trunk railway, it was in time to rouge the children would imagine would hold up the safety. Princess Mary's two chil- Yet for dren were also in the house but, whole Fengtien army. under slege; and although, there The Princess was instrumental, In more than a fortnight it has been dpparently, not in the danger zone. appear to be only 5,000 Shans! saving other persons from serious are the injury if not death. Her Royal It is also announced from Nunking that the expedition against troops inside, so stout General Tang Seng-chi, of Hankow, is progressing favourably, there walls that failing an at Highness, with other guests who leave their bedrooms, The complete defeat which might cost the Manchurian had

army thousands of casualties, the had taken temporary 'refuge in the being large troops concentrations at Kiukiang. of Tang is confidently expected, and one of the minor Generals only way of securing its surrender library. She expressed the opin- reports that he has gained a victory over some opposing forces is by starvation and negotiation. ion that the ceiling of the library, The heavy artillery, after prolong-which was below the day nursery, after a three days' battle.

any impression whatsoever on the ed that all should leave the room Answering questions in the House of Commons, a Governmented fire, has entirely failed to make threatened to fall in and suggest spokesman stated that the cost of the troops in China up to defences: for when the outer and told the servants, who were brickwork was blown away, the using fire extinguishers, to come September 30 was estimated to be £2,900,000.

real medieval city wall emerged away. and was shown to consist of solid

Lord Allendale and his guests squares of stone, good for a thou-set to work to fight the flames sand bombardments,

pending the arrival of the fire brigade. The fire was eventually localised to the day nursery and library, but much damage Was done by fire, smoke and water to valuable books, pictures and furni ture.

Mr. Baldwin concluded by referr- Telegrams were sent to the Kinging to the slight improvement in and Queen Informing their Ma- important industries in the past jesties of their daughter's safety. few months, and the likelihood of increased activity in the near fu- turé. He finally commended the recent exhortation by Mr. Philip Snowden to Labour to help and nanke the present industrial system efficient and highly productive, con- ditionally on Labour sharing in the improvement--Reuter.

DEFENCE FORCE COSTS £3,000,000.

ALLEGED BELGIAN LOAN.

4.

of the Yangtsze.

After that discovery the artil- lery ceased firing for this is a war in which the husbanding of has left for Dairen, that Shansi ammunition is as important as it way to the British In the early Shanghai, Nov. 10.

Flanders, since after General Ho Ying-ching has or- troops captured Sihoying on the days in. dered his troops in Nanking, 5th. and that the vanguards regain-Shansi there is Honan to think of; and after that the whole problem Wusih and Shanghai to leave Im- ed sünnhwa. Reuter. mediately for the Northern front and to concentrate in Sanchia within three days. General Ho ac- companied by General Lip. Chi left for the front yesterday morning to direct operations against Penpu, which the Nationalists expect 30. Government "has frutened agalsist capture very shortly. General Hp the alleged Belgian Loan of five How directs the Northern military million geld dollars to Marshal Chang Tsolin conditionally upon Generals campaign while

the extension of the Sino-Belgian Chung-jen and Ching Chien direct Commercial treaty for five years. the western campaign against Gen. Reuter, Tang Seng-chi."

Orders for resumption of the at- tack against the North were given“ by the Nanking Government yes- terday and it is reported that severe battles are taking place on the Minkwang front.

The

expeditionary

Protest by Nationalists.

Shanghai, Nov. fo. The Nationalist Kay Min news agency says that the Nationalist

more

Sermon In Stone. The walls of Chochow are that sermon in stone Shakespeare so eloquently speaks of; they tell of Chinese history and characteristics than all the books ever written. They are an illustra tion, a picture-book, of that in- comprehensible history which fl

they summarize the fat tomes; passivity, the negative way of using force which is so ingrained in the race. The Chinese method

to

-British Wirelcas.

U.S. COTTON SLUMPS AGAIN.

OWING TO RETTER CROP ESTIMATES.

Later.

As regards Egypt, the Premier declared that both parties had rea- son to be satisfied with the recent Anglo-Egyptian negotiations.

India.

The distribution of these suma to

the strikers will be in the hands of

To Hongkong

Hankow Tientsin

Amoy ... Swatow

Tsingtao

Most of the bar shipments went

the Commissioners of the Strikers' Headquarters, in co-operation with the representatives of the Commis As regards India, he defended Bionere of Finance and Labour the policy of the non-inclusion not Affairs, and payments will be made only of Indians, but of anyone con beginning from to-day to the 25th. nected with the Indian Government Instant. On the 27th, all the board- or commerce, on the Statutory Coming houses occupied by the strikers to the mints for coinage purposes, mission, their sole desire being to will be taken back by the Public and represent the needs of com- give real instructed opinion and Safety Bureau and be handed back merce indirectly. Most of the sycee Indians the best chance of taking to their landlords, and on the 26th. and all the dollar shipments went strikers will be closed, while the ance trade as required, a large pro- an effective and constructive part instant all the dining halls of the to their various destinations to flu- in devising a solution.

Canton Government will stop sup- portion of the dollars being used- Industry.

porting the Strikers' Headquarters to pay for silk, cotton, seeds and with a daily allowance of $10,000, other commodities intended for ex- Instead, howover Government will port abroad. And as a large pro make a monthly allowance of $3,000 portion of all three classes of ship- so that the Striker's Commissioners menta constituted withdrawals from Union will continue to function. the vaults of the British banks, The Government will supply to both the relation of those institu- each of the strikers a free passage tions to the economic life of China from and the extent to which the Na-. ticket to come to Canton wherever they might be to obtain tionalists at Nanking are interfer their share of "compensation."

Memorandum Adhered To.

Later.

121

In the course of his speech at the New York, Nov. 9.

Guildhall, Mr. Baldwin" declared Prices on the cotton exchange that Britain was able to recognize of opposing attack-or of making broke from four to six dollars

none of the contending factions as an attack-is to stonewall; you may rush forward a few hundred bale, after publication of the es-the paramount Government COST OF DEFENCE. . miles into the enemy's country, but timate by the Department of Agri- China, "but we abide by the prin- as soon as you have done that, in-culture showing an increase of ciples laid down in the memoran.

160,000 bales compared with the dum of December 1926.” Nearly £3,000,000 Spent. stead of a war of movement, you | October forecast.

India's Problems, dig yourself in and prepare for a The New Orleans cotton market London, Nov. 9,

war of attrition. The element is also weak, and prices are declin-

A large part of his speech was In the House of Commons, re of time, which does not exist in ing similarly-Reuter's American

devoted to the Indian commission's plying to questions, Captain King the sense that it exists among Service.

enquiry into a problem vital not armies said that the official expenditure Western nations, is completely re- against Gen. Tang Seng-chi are front.army funds on the troop's

moved from the picture, it is easy The heavy selling is attributed only to India and the Empire, but now obeing concentrated in Ki- sent to China, up to September 30, to see exactly how it has been to the fact that the October in- also to civilisation." He appealed kinng. Generals Li Chung-jen and was estimated to be £2,900,000, in-possible for the Chinese to defend crease in cotton might foreshadow to all concerned to abandon sus- Ching Chien have arrived at Kig: clading expenditure incurred prior themselves and maintain their further increase in the current picions, jealousles, and strife be-. tween East and West, and ap- kinng and will leave with their to March 31.-Reuter.

characteristics throughout 40 cen- month. forces to attack Wuhan, Accord-

turies.

Sharp rallies followed, the mar-proach the problem with a common ing to the latest military com-

A market-town such as Cho-ket closing steady, after a not de- determinution to build on the best munique from Nanking, the van-

chow, without any preparation cline of 83.99 points. Reuter's and surest foundations-Reuter. giturds of the 7th. army under Gen-

other than closing its gates, can Amtrican Service. eral Li.Chung-jen are now not far

Shanghai, Nov. 9. even in the Twentieth Century sus- from Wuchang. Tang Seng-chi still holds the railway line but is

News from the Middle Yangtsze tain a siege of Indefinite length in attacked from different directions is very meagre, but tends to sug-spite of bombardment, provided and should meet with complete de- gest that Tang Seng-chi's position there is no treachery among the fest shortly. Admiral Chen Shao- is most precarious as dissension garrison. hwang is taking the gunboat "Cho has broken out between Ho Chien's Why, Fighting May Drag On. jui" to join in the attack against thirty fifth and Liu Shi's thirty Market-towns throughout China Wuhan. General Hu Chung-tao, a sixth armies, as the tesult of which are the repositories of all the subordinate to General Li Chun- the Wuhan troops have evacuated grain and foodstuffs from the sur jen, has reported to Nanking that Wasueh and are falling back to rounding country; and immediate- he has had a battle with the Han- Hwangchow with the possibility ly after a harvest there is a sur

NATIONALIST CLAIMS.

HANKOW BREAK UP?

Tang in Precarious Position.

A GERMAN FIRM'S BORROWINGS.

MORE AMERICAN CREDITS.

Berlin, Nov. 3.

NORTHAMPONSHIRES LEAVE.

DEPARTURE FOR SHANGHAI

а

THIS AFTERNOON.

Somersetshire.

The battalion marched from Shamshulpo shortly after dusk

ing with trade become at once ap- parent.

Banks and Currency,

The Commissioner of Labour Affairs, co-operating with the Com missioners of the Striker's Head-

The banks are called exchange quarters, will inaugurate an or ganisation, called "The Hongkong banks, and their primary fanction Strikers' Employment Bureau" to is to enable China, a silver using find employment for the dispersed country, to sell to and buy from countries the majority of which strikers.

A memorial hall to the 1925 use gold as a medium of exchange. The circumstances in which the Hongkong strikers is to be erected and the Government will be peti-British institutions perform this tioned to open Whampoa as a com- function, however, place them (as mercial port at an early date, so the figures given above illustrate) that unemployed strikers will find (in a peculiar and highly respon work in connexion with its consible position in relation to the country's monetary needs, which struction.

were thus described in 1919 by the late Mr. A. G. Stephen, manager of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank at Shanghai.

BY AIR TO SOUTH AMERICA.

it

"Until a mint is provided in which the foreign banks have con- fidence these banks cannot pos sibly recommend their Govern. FRENCH CONCERN GETS Aments to agree to the abolition of

SUBSIDY.

sycee, which is the sheet anchor of China's currency at the present Paris, Nov. 9. time. Both the Government and The Chamber's finance commit the provincial banks have issued tee has agreed to the allocation of notes so recklessly that this form a subsidy of 120,000,000 francs of currency is entirely discredited.. for 1928, to the Latocoers, Com- Each provincial mint has been a pany, for the purpose of establish- law onto itself and has coined ing an air service between France enormous quantities of sub-silver and South America.-Reuter.

S. AFRICA'S PRECIOUS STONES.

JOINT SESSION ADOPTS

· LEGISATION.

Capetown, Nov. 9..

and copper coins of various weights and fineness; in fact, those in charge of the mints have un- doubtedly used their position for the purpose of making money for

The result is na-. themselves. turally, that the subsidiary coinage of China does not command the confidence of the meanest coolie, and the variations of Its weight and fineness provides a living for, It is said, 2,000 exchange shops in Shanghai alone,"

Brought up to strength by a The Nord Deutsche Lloyd con-

Bätt. The Northamptonshire kow forces under Ho Chien, which that the dissensions will cause in-plus which can maintain the included" an agreement with an large draft from Home, the 2nd lasted for three days, and the re- ternecine fighting.

habitants certainly for months, if American banking group, compos-Regiment left for Shanghai this ault of I was the overwhelming Meanwhile, strong detachments not for longer. Even with theed of Kuhn, Loeb and Company defeat of Ho's force a large por of the third and Bixth Nanking most modern weapons and with and the Guaranty, Trust Company, afternoon aboard the troopship | tion of which has been disarmed armies are advancing from Kiu-high explosive it is too costly to for a 20-year loan of G.$20,000,000 Nan Chư Pao.

kiang through Wuning and Yining, blow down the walls; in olden days at 6 per cent., guaranteed by the

A joint sitting of the Senate and

Note Issues.. threatening the Wuchang-Chang-there was nothing that the enemy Guaranty Trust Company and the bha railway, while the pro-Nankingcould possibly do but ride round Darmstaedter Und National Bank. last evening, and it is understood, Assembly has adopted the Pre- the embarkation was completed clous Stones Bill, over which there

As a hopeful indication in this second army on November 8 from out of arrow-shot and hurl ineffec-Reuter.

this morning.

was such a controversy recently picture of disorder, Mr. Stephen: Ichang occupied Yochow, cutting tive curses at the lines of heade

New York, Nov. 3. The Nord Deutsche Lloyd Joan The Somersetshire is expected oppositionists having introduced described the way in which dollars Tang Seng-chi's communications locking down through the em

number of Amendments minted by the Nanking Mint were The Nationaliat Kuo Min newn with Changsha, It is rumoured brasures Chochow may have aur is being offered to-day by a synd- to return from Shanghai in the agency claims that the forces of that Chen Chien has promised rendered long before this is in cate hended by Kuhn, Lieb and course of next week, or early the Reuter. Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang have ad- Hunan to Li Chung-yen if the Nan-print (Fengtion troops were re- Co., at 94.-Reuters American Ser-following week, and she will take vanced in the vicinity of Heuchow king campaign is successful ported in the city on Nov. 1. více.. fu, that Marshal Sun Chuan-fang Reuter.

General Successes.

Shanghai, Nov. 10,

•

The following ships were

One Chinese case of cerebro- spinal meningitis was reported pected to be in wireless communi- hand, it may not have surrendered yesterday.

•

ROYAL

VISITOR.

Ed.) for satisfactory terms aro being offered to the garrison which is to be transported to Man churia and incorporated in the Fengtien army. On the other

ENJOYS SUBMARINE~RIDE. cation with Hongkong to-day simply because the character of Yingchow, Mantua, Macedonia, Shansi men is like the Shantung

London, Nov. 9. The Royal Observatory reports Suiyang, Van Heutss, Formosa, character, dour and intractable.

The incident is highly,signifi- King. Feleal, of Irak, and his that the anti-cyclone is central Tonjer, Times Maru, Cheribon near Shanghal. Moderate mon Maru, Susana II, Menado Maru, cant as showing that in spite of Prime Minister visited Ports soon may be expected over the Seiyo Maru, Chenan, Soochow all the talk of a new nation having mouth Dockyard to-day. They China gen. The local forecast up Daiviken, Venezia, Kiangsu, T-been born, a generation could, had three hours trip to to noon to-morrow is: N. E. winds, salak, Porthos, Talma and Hop-really pass away with this Civil Spithead in Submarine L.22 moderate; fine.

British Wireless (Continued on Page .k

sang.

on board the usual reliefs for Home..

circulating all over northern China and penetrating into Man churia and Mongolia, but he was boing more than "fairly reliable," not able to describe them as and at the conference of Chambers. held to the following year Mr. G. H. Stitt, his successor, referring to.

The Scots Guards and the MR. ARTHUR SAMUEL'S

SUCCESSOR. Queen's Royal Régiment, of the Reforce, are the only battalions remaining in Hongkong now in London, Nov. 9. variations between dollars minted addition to the garrison battalion, AS the K.O.S.B.

TO-DAY.

Dollar on demand Lighting-up

2/8/16. 6.42 m

The MP. Captain Hacking, has in 1920 and 1919, said: "Dollars been appointed Parliamentary as variable as these are not colas Secretary to the Department of in the technical sense, for they Overseas Trade, in succession to have no definite intrinsic value. the Rt. Hon. A. M. Samuel, who At the beat they are but a com- succeada Mr. Ronald McNeill modity whose expressed value in (Baroa Cushundun) as Financial the accepted tael unit must Secretary to the Treasury-fluctuate considerably

(Continued on Page 12.). Reuter