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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1930.

WANG CHING WEI IN PEKING.

WANTS JAPANESE

FRIENDSHIP.

DECLINES PRESIDENT'S POST

IN GOVERNMENT.

ATTACK ON CHIANG.

KOWLOON BURGLAR COMMUNIST

SENTENCED.

STRUGGLE WITH OCCUPIER OF

A HOUSE.

INFLICTED WOUND.

A struggle with a burglar at 626, Reclamation Road during the early hours of July 19 had a sequel before Mr. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning when a Chinese appear- ed on remand on charges of bur. glary and of assaulting an inmate of the floor.

CHIEF

MURDERED.

EIGHT ANNAMITES

SENTENCED

DEATH DECIDED ON BECAUSE

OF "TREASON."

CANTON INFLUENCE.

'Messages contained in the Indo-Pacifi service, to hand to- The defendant admitted having day, give details of the case in gone to the house to commite which four Annamites were felony and intimated that during sentenced to death and four the struggle which had ensued others to 30 years penal sar- between him and the complainant vitude for murdering the chief hath had received injuries.

of a Communist "cell" to which they belonged. The trial took place before the Court at Saigon.

Peking, July 23. 'Emphasising the necessity of a closer Sino-Japanese under- standing to aid in the preserva- tion of peace in the Far East. Mr. Wang Ching-wei," the Kuomintang Leftist leader and a graduate of the Tokyo Law

Detective Inspector C. P. Fallon College, told Chinese newspaper informed his Worship that the correspondents to-day here that complainant, at 3 a.m. on July 19, the first thing he would do when heard a noise at the rear of his the Peking Government house and saw the defendant on was formed would be to strive the floor. He seized the defen- for a settlement of all outstand-dant and a struggle ensued, the ing Sino-Japanese problems.

It is recalled that a similar view was expressed by the late Dr. Son Yat-sen the Kuomintang founder. during his sojourn in Tokyo In 1924.

complainant receiving A stab wound in his neck. It was not known whether the injury had been inflicted with R.knife or any

other instrument.

The defendant had a previous conviction for receiving stolen Property in 1928 when he was given four months' hard labour.

Expressing the sentiments and fixed policy of the Kuomintang Left Wing, Mr. Wang said that the

Sentence of six months' hard policy of the Peking Government towards European nations would labour in each charge was passed be an endeavour to seek indepen-by His Worship, the terms to run

consecutively. dence and equality for among the family of nations.

China

Military Guards. Accompanied by Messrs. Chan Kung-poh, Koo Man-yu and four- teen other Kuomintang Leftist: politicians, Mr. Wang, Ching-wei left Tientsin this morning, travel- ling on the Tientsin-Peking Rail- way, which was guarded by hund reds of special Peking police and garrison forces.

The Peking troops took the greatest precautions in dispersing all doubtful characters at the Peking Station, admitting only those with badges issued by the Garrison Command who came to welcome the Kuomintang poli- tician as representing the various public bodies in North China.

.

People's Movement.

AMERICAN BASEBALL

RESULTS.

CHICAGO BEATEN BY NEW YORK.

New York, July 23. The following are the results of the baseball matches played in the National and American Leagues to- day:

National.

8 Chicago

6

4 St. Louis

7 Cincinnati

8

6 Cincinnati

5

16

New York Brooklyn Boston Boston Philadelphia 1 Pittsburgh Philadelphia 15 Pittsburgh

American

-Reuter's

In the second part of his in- terview, Mr. Wang Ching-wei Cleveland ··· stated that he approved of the St. Louis session at Peking of the Kuomin- Chicago He Detroit tang Plenary Conference. intimated that he would suggest to the Plenary Conference the resumption of the people's move- ment" all over China, which would be coupled with a woman's. movement working for the eman- cipation of the 200,000,000 women of China and providing them with better education,

con-

The Kuomintang Leftist poli- tician asserted with much fidence that he intended to in Poking for at least five months

stay

and Shansi

10 New York

9. Washington. 5 Boston 1 Philadelphia American Service.

MOTOR LICENCES.

REMINDER OF RENEWAL

REGULATIONS.

The Procureur General, at the opening of the case on Friday, In his address, recalled the origin of the political trouble which led to French intervention and occupa- tion of the country at the latter part of the nineteenth century, and stressed the benefits that have since been conferred on the people. by such occupation.

Cochin-China Unrest. He reviewed the activities of the of revolutionary-minded youth Indo-China of which the recent events in West Cochin-China were a flagrant instance and retraced the part which each of the accused played therein.

+

Coming to the affair with which the. trial was more' directly con- cerned, the Procureur-General stated the facts associated with the discovery of the body of an Annamite in a flat at Rue Barbier, which was rendered unrecogniz able after death by cuts in the face, and which also bore wounds in the throat and chest.

Motives of Murder.

The resultant investigations led to the arrest of a number of per- sons, and to the subsequent identi- fication of the body as being that of Le Van Phat, chief of a "cell" of a secret revolutionary society. of which the accused, were members; and also to the dis- the closure of the motives of murder...

These were that Le Van Phat 6 was suspected by his comrades of 10 having turned traitor to the cause, and his death was thereupon de- cided upon by the "correctional bureau of the Party.

Although the date of renewal of motor licenses. (July 1st) has come and gone, there are a great many motorists and hire-car drivers

Canton Headquarters. The prisoners before the Court were accused farther of member- revolutionary. ship in a secret society whose headquarters are at Canton and which possess rami- fications in Indo-China with "cells" established for the enlistment of membership, for propaganda and for the circulation of claudestine journals.

have

from

A number of the accused were to -in other words, lie believed that who have not yet complied with Tonkinese and were known. the Kuominchun

recently returned troops fighting against Nanking regulations. For these offenders

a reminder was made yesterday in Canton. where they had been re- will hold out at least for another the form of police action, over a ceiving political tuition along and revolutionary half year.

hundred cars being stopped and communistic

lines. their drivers warned at cross- Yen. As President.

The case, which is one of the rouds. Mr. Wang Ching-wei told the

Traffic officials also stress the most outstanding of its kind since correspandents that he would de-necessity of displaying the licence the outbreak of revolutionary sen- cline Marshal Yen Hsi-shan's discs in

position easily offer to become the first Pre- observable by traffic. policemen, sident of the Peking Government, this being in the front of the car, which, for the first time since the or on the offside. Chinese Revolution in 1912, was

organised by Kuomintang officials.

ย

Mr. Wang said that Marshal Kuomintang Party and could not Yen Hsi-shan, with his vast ex- perience in Peking politics, hav. unify the country by force, it is ing been for nineteen years the time he should resign, added Mr. Governor of Shunsi Province, suitable. should prove the more

man.

Chiang Attacked,

Wang.

timents in the country, excited considerable interest, owing to the many sensational disclosures re- garding the organization of the Party to which the prisoners be- longed.

THE ROUND-EUROPE

AIR RACE.

BRITISH COMPETITOR STILL LEADING.

London, July 23. Allan Butler to day continued

Gipsy Moth to Saragossa and Bar-

colonn.

Thora, another British competi- tor, had been following him closely in the lead. After Barcelona the route is via Lyons, Berne, Munich, Vienna and Breslau to Konigsberg and then to Berlin, the finishing point.-British Wireless.

Claim to Fochow,

Nanking, July 23.

received Immediately after his arrival, The Government

4 Mr. Wang Ching-wel visited the message from Chiang Kai-shek to- Garrison Command and instructed day, stating that the Government the Kuomintang Leftists to retroops captured Pochow yesterday frain from posting slogans morning, the Northerners, under in the street. He is evidently Sun Tien-ying, who had been hold-to hold the lead in the Round- shrewd enough to realise ing out for more than two months, Europe air contest. He was the the delicate and precarious retreating westward towards Luyi, first to reach Seville this morning, political situation in Peking, and the Government "forces ad-making the journey from Madrid where his Party will have vancing. towards Honan.

in a little over two hours. Later, he to exercise the greatest caution Chiang reports severe fighting passed over Madrid on the return and not stir up discontent by the on both the Lunghai and Peking- night, proceeding onwards in his other Kuomintang factions in Hankow railway fronts during the vited to share in the administra past ten days, the Northerners tion of the Plenary Conference rushing their entire force to the and the new Government.

fighting line for a "last offensive."

Three divisions of Kuominchun troops attempted unsuccessfully Mr. Wang Ching-wei denounced to break through the Government Marshal Chiang Kai-shek for forces surrounding Pochow.

Other Kuominchun troops- summoning the Third Kuomintang Plenary Session in Nanking in the Peking-Hankow front were re- 1929 by giving seats to eighty per pulsed with severe losses, and are cent. of his nominated representa-now retreating to places north of tives to secure an overwhelming Hauchang-Reuter... majority, which was in direct Nanking's Coming Offensive. transgression of Kuomintang

Nanking, July 23. principles.

It is reliably reported that the Mr. Wang blamed Marshal Government has decided to start a Brussels Chiang for causing the inter- big offensive on the Tientsin- Amsterdam

Stockholm necine civil strife in China for Pukow railway front on Friday slo the past three years, during which morning, driving towards Tsinan-p Prague

Lisbon time, with the exception of a fu. brief period in 1927. Chiang has Chiang Kai-shek has arrived at Athens been at the head of the Nanking Hsuchowfu and is directing-opera-Rio Government. In his desire to tiona.-Reuter. become the first dictator in China, says Mr. Wang, Chiang deemed it necessary to eliminate his poli tical opponents in an uncon- stitutional manner.

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New York Geneva Wang Ching-wef at Peking.

Peking, July 28. Copenhagen

Vigono Wang Ching-wei arrived this Helsingfors" evening from Tientsin, and was Madrid.

Mill Buncharest greeted by lending Police, Since Marshal Chiang had fail, tary and Kuomintang: officials, Buenos Aires ed to preserve the integrity of the Reuter.

London, July 23.

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