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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY, MARCH

1928.

HONGKONG GOVERNOR'S TELAUTOGRAPHIC MESSAGE.

Prodsouz

The above is a reproduction from the actual telautographic message se received by the British Minister in Peking from Sir Cecil Clementi, who despatched it from Mukden, recently,.. of which mention Is made in our news columns below.

TELAUTOGRAPHIC

.PROCESS.

SYSTEM IN VOGUE IN NORTH CHINA.

*ZINOVIEFF LETTER

SENSATION.

1.

(Continued fram Page' 1.)

Zinovieff Letter was published in the Press on the eve of the Gen- eral Election, 1924, was rejected

INTERESTING DETAILS. by 326 votes to 132 votes,

Russian Admissions,

CHINA SITUATION REVIEWED.

COMMUNISM IN CHANGSHA AND HANKOW.

UNEÁSY OUTLOOK.

London, Mar, 19.

Many Hongkong people have

In the House of Commons, re- learned with considerable surprise!

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in the plying to a request by Commander that it is now possible to send telephoto, or, to use the correct course of his address to the House, Kenworthy for information regard- anid that according to British Goving the present military and term, telautographic" messages ernment information, M. Chicherin, political situation in China, an between several cities in North when questioned by the Soviet Gov-interesting statement was made China,

ernment, admitted that the letter by Sir Austen Chamberlain. Yesterday, the Telegraph report was sent from Russia, but did not Sir Austen reviewed the politi- ed that His Excelleney the Gov-know how the British' secured a cal developments following the ernor (Sir. Cecil Clementi), whilst copy.

Kuomintang Conference in Nan-|

on holiday in the North, sent such M. Chicherin assumed that the king early in February. He said message from Mukden to the leakage was due to "treachery," and the situation in Mid-China 'con- British Minister in Peking, with he stated that a month later, the tinued to be most unsettled, there results which were in every way Communist agent in Britain des- being no sign of the healing of the satisfactory. To-day, we repro-troyed the original.

brench between Nanking, and duce, above, copy of the message Mr. Baldwin understood that a Wuhan." as it was received by Sir Miles Russian, who was arrested in Mos- The proposal to organise from Lampson, being an exact facsimile cow, was shot shortly after the pub-Hupch and Hupan a fourth unit of Sir Cecil Clementi's own hand-lication In the Press, on suspicion for the Nothern campaign under writing. As will be seen, the of having given the British Gov-General Tan Yen-kai had to be message came through with the ernment a copy of the letter. utmost distinctness.

At the present time, there are facilities for despatching theso telautographic messages at the Post Offices in Peking, Tientsin, Mukden and Harbin, and the ser- vice is shortly to be extended to Shanghai and Changchun.

Reuter,

Influence on Election.

A

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, at the

abandoned, and the British Consul General at Hankow had reported that Nanking appears to have abandoned any hopes of enlisting support from that source.

The Consul General at Hankow

opening of the debate, said no one had also reported a serious Com- had ever seen the original of the munist rising by the Hunan regi- letter and declared it was a do- ment of General Cheng Chien's liberately planned and devised troops, who had joined the in- concoction to deceive the public surgents whom they had been A brief explanation of how these and influence the General Election sent to suppress. It was feared

of 1924.

Cheap Rates,

of

en-

that other troops of General

Sir Austen. added that the re-

messages are sent will be

Mr. Baldwin denied it had In-Cheng Chien were equally un- interest to our readers. On quiry at the despatching office, the fluenced to any extent the General reliable. The report stated that sender is supplied with a special Election, declaring that the Labour Changsha was a hotbed of Com- the Government's handling of the Rus-munists, Hankow was also badly form on which he writes matter which he desires to have gian questions, including the abor-infected, and, despite almost daily. forwarded. The message may be tive treaty with Russia and its raids and executions, the author- written in any language, plain or withdrawal of the case against itien did not feel secure. Almost coded, and it may even contain the Communist Campbell had al-complete anarchy prevailed in the characters, signs, designs, etc., all ready lost it the election before country districts of Hupeh. of which are reproduced photo-the Zinovieff letter was published. graphically. Then by the special On the question whether thenewed Northern campaign was to process they are despatched and are Zinovieff letter was genuine or have opened on the 16th Instant received by the addressee on anot, the Premier pointed out that with a combined offensive by Mar- special type of letter card, which is the Labour Government made in-shal Chiang Kai-shek, Marshal delivered with the same rapidity as quiry at the time in 1924, but Feng Yu-halang and General Yen Hsl-ahan, but each Commander that of a telegram.

could not make up their minds,

When the Conservative Govern- alles to strike the first blow. A was apparently waiting for his For the purposes of transmis- sion, there is, as stated above, a ment came into office they began report just received stated that special form provided. This is by setting up a Committee and the the Northern forces had severely divided into four columns, each of results of their investigations defeated Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang. which is one inch wide and about were that they were convinced the Renter. five inches long. As much as the letter was genuine. writer choosca can be written in each column at the flat rate of $1.50 per column.

Soviet-Cleverness.

!

.

Chen Chien at Hankow.

Hankow, March 19.·° The arrival of General· Chen

A concentration of troops, com-

Chlen is reported.

The Government had informa- The photographic facsimile of the message printed above is the tlon that after the publication of actual size as received by Sir Miles the letter M. Chicherin told his Lampson, H.E. in sending the colleagues in Moscow that he had manded by General Pel Toung-hel, message used the whole of the questioned M. Zinovieff concern is being carried out at Wuchang ing the letter and that ZovieThese are the troops who succEES- form, and as it would have been admitted it had been sent to the fully operated against the bandits possible to have placed the whole Communist party in England but who were recently responsible for of the message in, one of the was at a loss to know how the the looting and burning of the columns, he paid four times as British Government had got a copy cities of Leiyang and Chelchow, much as was really necessary of it.

near Changaha.-Naval Wireless. Payment is not according to the

More Executions. number of words used, but the amount of space occupied by the

Wuchang, March 19. communication.

The past week here has seen the execution of many bandits, Neval Wireless.

It was duc, said Zinovieff, to treachery either in Moscow or

London.

Zinoviet pointed out that the The system is invaluable for the transmission of Chinese charac-text of the document was in some ters, and it is hoped that it will be places alightly mutilated and M. possible to Inaugurate auch a ser- Chicherin said it would be impos- vice between Hongkong and Cantonsible to accuse the British Govern- ment of having mutilated the shortly,

document because that would be equivalent to confession of its authenticity and the only course HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW? they could take was to denounce

it at once as a forgery.

About a month later M. The following are the replies to Chicherin told his colleagues the to-day's questions:-----

original had been destroyed.

1. The Post Omee tuba Fallway with This, said M. Chicherin would Ariverless trains, running from Paddington Post Office to the Esalern District Post Omes, enable the Soviet Government to Whitechapel. 2. The owner of the copy Insist on an investigation into the right in the Olibert and Sullivan operas have mattor because no original, copy

withdrawn the restriction on the broadcasting

of published selections and instrumental ex-could ever be produced.

trnets from these works. 8. Artesian - water

in Namaqualand (N.W. part of Caps Pro

Wanhalen, March 19.

It is reported that the conditions prevailing here are not of a satis factory nature. Naval Wireless.

HOME FOOTBALL.

FORTSMOUTH'S BRILLIANT

VICTORY.

London, Mar. 19.

In the First Division of the Eng lish League to-day, Portamouth de feated Tottenham Hotspur by three

Sir Douglas Hogg said the goals to nil at Edmonton.

In the Second Division, Barnsley, Vines), ich will make available for farming evidence of the document which playing at home, defeated Stoke by Madagascar. 51% Japan. 6. Constantine the reached the Foreign Office came 3 goals to 1,

Inwe tracts of land at priest arid. A

talks and the Appalachian Mountains. 1,

Great (A.D, 275-827). The Rocky Moun from four independent sources, In the Third Division (South) Dickens, Gladstone, Wellington, Boracs, Wal every one of which had previously Luton Town scored twice against pole. Use: 10, Nineteenth Century been tested and found absolutely Northampton without

11. The Nile Exypt, 11. One who subcribes

to the doctrine that plousure is the chief sorellable British Wireless.

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