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THE CAPTURE OF

KWEITEH.

DEFINITE STAGE IN NORTHERN WAR.

REBELS' MEASURES - AGAINST AERIAL RAIDS.

CHIANG HAS A REST.

REVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMME.

INDIA URGED TO DECLARE CONGRESS UNLAWFUL.

STRONG PRESSURE.

Simla, May 21. Strong pressure is being brought on the Government to declare the entire Congress organisation un- lawful because its programme of raiding the salt works, picketing the foreign cl6th and liquor. Shanghai, May 21.

shops, boycotting foreign banking and insurance and advocating the A comparative lull is prevail-non-payment of taxes is definitely ing along the Lung-Hai Rail-revolutionary and should be way war-front, following the fought drastically before chaos Nationalist victory at Kwelteh results.--Router. and Ninglinghaien and the re-

Thirty-Six Arrests, treat by the Kuominchun insur- gents towards Lanfeng and

Simla, May 21. Kaifeng. In an official state message from. Jhelum states ment, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, that thirty-six prominent Nation- President of the National Gov-alist leaders were arrested after ernment, stated that the capture those forming a procession going to the station to meet Pandit of Kweiteh marked a definite

Malaviya refused to disperse period in the war along the Lung-Hai Railway and that the possibility of a Kuominchun counter-attack was exceedingly

remote.

Reuter.

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Bombay, May 21.

The Congress House raid was of most thorough nature. A large area around the building was strictly guarded by armed pickets. Chiang at Hsuchowfu.

Those arrested include Choksey, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek has vice-president of the Bombay Pro returned from Kweitch to

vincial Congress, the two secret- the Nationalist Headquarters, Isu-

aries and the treasurer of the Con- chowin, and conferred with many Bulletin, and two members of the gress, the editor of the Congress Nationalist Divisional Comman-war council." All the arrests were ders including General Liu Chi. made under Section 144 of the The military assembly decided not Oriminal Procedure Code, banning to commence the attack on Lan- the publication of the Bombay Con- feng for one week. Consequent gress Bulletin. on the Nationalist decision to re- main inactive along the Lung-Hai Railway, a lull prevailed there yesterday.

FUTURE OF EAST AFRICA.

GOVERNMENT READY TO REPORT.

WILL ASK FOR JOINT STUDY OF PROPOSALS.

CLOSER UNION AIM.

London, May 21.

In the House of Commons, to- day the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Dr. Drummond Shields, I said it was proposed to present to Parliament on June 20th the conclusions of the Government regarding closer union in East Africa. The Secretary for Colonies would move House of Lords for the appoint- in the

ment of a joint committee of both Houses to consider the Gov- ernment's proposals.-British Wireless.

in

January of last year, a Commis-

It will be 'recalled that sion, under the chairmanship of Sir E. Hilton Young, after visiting East Africa, recommended the. union of Kenya, Uganda and Governor- Tanganyika under a General.

The Proposals,

was a lengthy, closely packed, and The Report of the Commissiou closely reasoned document. In its earlier chapters, Sir E. Hilton Numerous documents were also Young and his fellow seized.. Fourteen persons were in-sioners set out to define, and to Commis- jured and sent to hospital when the reduce to concrete terms, the police dispersed a crowd who were principles that should govern the following a lorry containing seized administration of areas with a documents.--Reuter,

Dharasana, May 21.

son,

large native population of mixed origin, and a white minority. Mrs. Naidu, Gandhi's

Their broad conclusion was that, Manilal Gandih, Gandhi's secre- while every opportunity should be tary, Pyarelal, and the Moslem taken to build up the machinery Imam Saheb of Bawagir who co-of local self-government, and to operated with Gandhi in the educate the native to take his latter's civil resistance campaign share therein "The power in South Africa, have been arrest- definite and interpret the terms of the trust the principles of ed.

native policy must remain with the Imperial Government."

It is definitely known that Mar- shal Feng Yu-hsiang has arranged a meeting with Marshal Yen Hsi- shan at a small town along the Lung-Hai Railway, but the date and place of this meeting have been kept secret by the Kuomin- chun Commanders because of fear of raids by Nationalist aeroplanes. Captured General. The Kuominchun

The arrests followed a raid of Commander, General Wan Tien- 2,000 volunteers on the salt depot, chun (foreign reports give the in which 100 volunteers were in- name as Sun Tien-chun) captured jured when the police charged the by the Nationalist troops during mob with their lathis. the fall of Kweiteh, was taken back to Nanking yesterday under

were

Divisional

to

In its actual administrative pro- posals the Report showed, like the recent Donoughmore Report The ex-president of the Legisla on Ceylon, a refreshing originality tive Assembly, Mr. Patel, has arriv-an attempt to provide for a pro- ed at Dharasna to lead the saltgressive advance towards self-gov raiders in view of the arrest ernment by means of institutions. of the leaders.—Reuter,

adapted to local conditions, and not merely transplanted from the West.

Raid Forestalled.

a heavy military escort.

Some 1,200 Kuominchun troops who were under General Wan and taken prisoners by the Nationalist troops also 'arrived at Nanking the same day. It is the

Bombay, May 21. intention of Marshal Chiang Kal-

Ninety-five volunteers were ar- shek to enlist the uominchun rested at Wadala on their arrival pisoners in the Nationalist Army there to participate in a raid on in view of the heavy casualties the Salt Depot. Reuter. suffered on the recent fighting.

Troop Movements.

Run on Indian Bank.

Bombay, May 21. Troop movements are taking the Indian-owned Bank of India, Hundreds of depositors besieged place along parts of the Tientsin- eager to withdraw funds and close Pukow Railway, where the Nation-their accounts. alist Commanders are withdrawing

The excitement was due to a re- forces for the Lung-Hai Railway port that the bank's manager, Mr. in anticipation of the coming A. G. Gray, had participated in the Lanfeng More troop Auxiliary Force operations against movements are expected during the Congress leaders, which Mr. this week-end, when some of the Gray emphatically denied.-Reuter, Nationalist troops withdrawn from Hupeh to Kiangsu may be sent to the Lung-Hai fronts.

attack on

NEW NAVAL VESSELS ORDERED.

BUILDING PROGRAMME OF GREAT BRITAIN.

London, May. 21.

A Threefold Structure. Very broadly, the Report pro- posed a threefold structure--the Colonial Office, strengthened by a fuller use of outside expert advice. as the supreme directing authority on all broad questions of policy; a come High Commissioner, later to be- a Governor-General for Uganda, Kenya, and Tanganyika, with a secretariat and advisory Councils, to control matters of common interest; a Governor, with legislative and executive Councils in each territory.

of

dealt with the Constitution

Separate sections of the Report

Kenya-where it was proposed that four non-official members, to re- present native interests, should re- Marshal Chiang will leave Hau- chowfu in one or two days to go

place four official members on the Council-with the relation of back to Nanking to recuperate

Northern Rhodesia and Nyassalond after the strain of the battle at

to the northern territories, and with Kweiteh when the President per-

the definition of the questions of sonally assumed the task of lead.

common interest native policy, ing the Nationalist Army. It is

transport, and Customs with said that he had only a few hours'

which the High Commissioner rest during the whole period of In the House of Commons, at (later the Governor-General) will about four days when the Nation- question time, Mr. Alexander un-be specially concerned. alist troops were besieging Kwei-nounced that orders had been The Report, clearly; is not a given for work to proceed on the document on which judgment:can Defence of Changchow. six-inch gun cruiser Leander, to be lightly passed, Its proposals, Meanwhile,

be built at Devonport and two which go into great detail, require the Kuominchun destroyers to be built at Ports to be "chewed and digested." It leaders are concentrating big forces at Lanfeng and Kaifeng mouth. Tenders for a, leader and invited, and has received criticism with the determination to defend two remaining destroyers were from many different angles.. Chengchow, the Kuominchun Com under consideration. mand situated at the intersecting point of the Peking-Hankow and Hung-Hai Railways.

teh.

Reception of Report......

It was also proposed to proceed forthwith with the building of The Indian community in East two submarines of approximately Africa have received the Report Up to Tucaday evening, Marshal 650 tons each, and another of well, and the European Times of Yen Hai-shan was known to, he all'approximately 1,800 tons. Shihchiachwang and in a public

East Africa, which is critical of the Mr. Alexander explained that a settlers, accepted it whole-heartedly statement he asserted that the considerable proportion of the in principle, though it suggested Kuominchun troops at Chengchew 1929 programme had been cancel that the proposed machinery "of had been reinforced by five Shansi led, and the foregoing represents administration is unduly cumbrous, Government Ling planes which the uncancelled portion.

and that it would be better to hand were able to travel 300 un hour

Mr. Alexander alsó pointed out over native interests entirely to the and which would be in a strong that the original destroyer pro- Imperial Government,

and ad- resition to exist any further Na-gramme for 1929 consisted of a minister

reserves tionalist aerial raids.

the native dotilla leader and eight destroyers. separately, leaving the white The programme was now amended settlers to pursue, untrammelled, to consist of a leader and four the path towards self-government. For the past few days the Shan destroyers. He added that the Unofficial opinion in Tanganyika tine situation has been unevent question of future construction ful, apart from the fact that the was now under consideration. has been generally favourable to Nationalist officer

the Report, With commanding Reuter."

regard to Tanganyika, however, a complica- tion was introduced by the alleged decision of the German Government Hunan to call the attention of the Mandates

Shantung Quiet,

the Shantung troops, General Han. Fu-chu, has "commandeered hund-

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reds of wooden craft on the Yellow move along the western River in anticipation of coming border towards Hupeh to attack Commission to the possible implica troop movements whon the, Wuhan. He is reported to have tions of the Report with regard to Kuominchun Army commences its asked and obtained General Ho closer union of the mandated terri- attack on Shantung.

Chien's permission before anter-tory with British possessions. The News of "Ironsides."

Ing Hunan.

Commissioners were satisfied that The Hunanese troops which had their proposals were in consonance Peking, May 21. been stationed on the Kweichow with the Mandate, and, presumably, It is understood that some of horder have been ordered to the British Government would be. Chang Fat-kwais troops have withdraw towards Changsha in willing to permit League investig reached Yungming and Taochow. order to allow Chang Fat-kwal tion, before taking action on the

It is believed he intends to an unmolested passage--Reuter. Report

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