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VOLUME XXXI, No. 298 LEASED
Cessation of China War Ordered
As Main Government Overthrown
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DAVIS BEGINS FINAL CAMPAIGN TOUR SATURDAY
Four Die on Gallows for Murder of One
Intensive Drive
In New York to
Close Program
ABOARD DAVIS TRAIN, EN ROUTE NEW YORK,
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—John W. Davis, democratic candi-.
date for president, was returning to New York Friday from
his final tour of the middle west prepared to begin Satur
day the closing program of his personal campaign with an
intensive drive in great New York and vicinity.
AGAIN SPEAKS OF
SECRET SOCIETIES
The candidate ended his middle
western trip Thursday night in
Cleveland with what was describ
ed as the most extended pronounce
ment regarding the Ku Klux Klan
and other secret organizations
made in recent years by a presiden
tial candidate during a campaign
contest. It was a spontaneous de
claration given in answer to a heck
ler and would not have been in
cluded in the Cleveland address,
he said, if he had been permitted
to follow the outline of the speech
prepared in advance.
Mr. Davis told members of his
party Thursday, however, that he
was glad the questioner had inter
jcc.ed the subject of secret or
ganizations. He had believed, he
said, that his positon in th e mat
ter had been clearly stated and
made known to the country through
pub!.cation of previous addresses.
His Chicago experience and that
in Cleveland apparently had re
flected a desire for a new state
ment, Mr. Davis said, indicating
that his belief as to the general
knowledge of his attitude concern
ing secret societies had been er
roneously founded. j
BEGUMS DRAFTING i
FINAL ADDRESS
The candidate devoted himself
during the journey east to prepar
ing data and going over details of
the remaining .seven days’ cam
paign schedule. He began drafting
his final address to be delivered in
the evening of November Ist at
Carnegie Hall and hopes to be able
to. conclude that task several days
before the date fixed for its de
livery.
The swing through the middle
which began two weeks ago
and was projected into Ohio. Ken
tucky. Illinois, Indiana, Missouri
and Tennessee, is believed by the
candidate’s close advisers accom
panying him to have materially
improved the chances for democra
tic victory in some of the states
visited.
Mr. Davis has declared his con
fidence at almost every speaking
point that this "is a democratic
year” and all that party has to do
is ‘t'o reach out and take the vie- I
tory that is wihtin its grasp.”
In formal statements issued in
Tennessee. Missouri and Indiana, |
particularly, the candidate said he
was "certain” success would attend
his cause on November 4th.
NEWS JN BRIEF
In extended address to members
of chamber of commerce of United
States, probably his last address be
fore election, President Coolidge out
lines policies of administration ’’which
maintain peace, promote economy,
leave the people In possession of their ,
property and maintain integrity of
the courts/'
"Drys” led by majority of nearly
25,000 in plebiscite in Ontario on ques
tion of retention or present dry law i
on basis of partial returns.
After Journey across southwest in
teeth of opposing winds, dir’glble
Shenandoah arrives Fort Worth
where ship plans to moor overnight, j
Prince of Wales rides to hounds at 1
Myopia Hunt Club, Hamilton, Mass.,
finishing first In drag hunt, and later
Is guest of Mr. and Mrs. John S.
Lawrence at dinner and dance, his
last social event before sailing Sat* j
urday for home.
Fire destroys two ore docks of Chi
cago & Northwestern Itailroad at
Kscana, Mich., doing damage of |l,- .
250,000 and killing one fire-fighter.
Tsao Kun, president of China, flees
from Peking to unknown destination,
*ays Kokusal News Agency dispatch
from Tientsin.
Secretary Hughes make sweep'ng
defenses of administration's foreign
policy in campaign speech at Balti
more, denying in detail allegations of
opposition as to secret commitment*
and trtiperiaiistc tendencies.
Helium gas used for Inflation of i
dirigibles has practical anaesthetic .
qualities for use In Inducing surgical
aleep. Dr. Everett A Tyler, of Phil
adelphia. tells Eastern Soci-ty of i
Anaesthetic* In convention in New ,
T««* I
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
DAILY, sc; SUNDAY, sc.
WIRE SERVICE.
“SAME OLD BLUFF”
BEING RESORTED TO,
STATES LaFOLLETTE
LAFOLLETTE SPECIAL EN
| KOUTE TO SYRACUSE, DE
TROIT, Mich—As he traveled
eastward Friday from Grand Ra
pids where he spoke last night to
Syracuse, N. Y., where he is sched
uled to deliver an address Friday
night. Senator Robert M. LaFol-
I lette, independent presidential can
| didate, declared in a statement
' “that is is being whispered about by
bankers, railroad operators. Indus
trial trusts and the press controlled
by them that should LaFollette be,
elected there Will be a panic, that
credit would be shortened and that
banks will withdraw their support
1 to business.
“This is the same old bluff that
j has been used at this stage of every
■ campaign in which there has been
I a real issue,” he continued. “In 1912
when Woodrow Wilson was a can
didate, the fianciers and trust mag
! nates threatened that if he was
elected there would be'a panic. He
was elected and there was no panic.
1 They have used it in state elections.
| They have even used it in city elec
tions. It is a sure sign of reaetion
| ary distress.
CHALLENGES
STREET’S COURAGE
“I do not question the power of
Wall Street to produce a panic but
I do challenge their courage to put
through the consipracy which they
proclaim with the penitentiary
staring them in the face.
"Panics have been brought on by
the banks have in their power to
control the industrial life of Ameri
ca and to bring on a depression.
And they now are boasting that
they have it in their power to con
trol the way men should vote as
well.
“I intend to meet treason, bribery
and terrorism as any other crime
against the state should be met.
If I am elected, as I fully'expect
to be, and this wicked thing is done
or attempted to be done, the de
partment of justice with all its
I agencies of investigation, will be in
structed to bring their crime
! against a free people face to face
( with summary justice. The punish
ment shall be swift and sure.
“I will go further than that. Un
der the federal reserve act, bank
ing is a qua si-public business. It is
under government supercision, our
credit resources are assumed to be
agencies of relief rather than of
plunder. They are supervised by a
governmental agency, the federal
reserve board. I shall instruct that
board to consider any such action
by any member bank to be a crim
inal defrayal of Its relations to the
government. I shall instruct it to
treat any such bank as an enemy
of the public, and as such an
enemy to be unworthy of partici
pation in the favors which the fed
eral reserve system has in its pow
er to grant. /
SAYS PUBLIC MONIES
IN PRIVATE BANKS
“I will (to further than that.
There are hundreds of millions of
public monies In the treasury that
are deposited in private banks.
There are hundreds of millions of
postal saving which are also de
posited in the national banks. There
are other millions of which the
government is trustee which are de
posited in the national banks.
"I shall instruct the proper agen
cies of the government to remove
such funds from any banking in
stitution that makes war on the
free voice of the people in this way.
Any Institution which engages in
such a criminal conspiracy shall be
deemed unworthy of the confidence
of this government of yours. In
other words, no man or group of
men, can make war on the free
sovereignty of the people to satis
fy his private gre'*d. No man, or
group of men shall destroy the
wealth of others without paying the
price of such destruction. And no
bank shall be trusted by this gov
ernment of ours that has shown it
self unworthy of such trust.
“Hhis is the elementary principle
of democracy. And under my ad
ministration this government of
ours will protect the people from
1 such treasonable acts.”
THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES.
SHfNADONAH AT
FORT WORTH
Oil RETURN
JOURNEY
FORT WORTH. Tex.—'The
Shenandoah left Fort Worth
at 10:38 a. tn„ Friday for Lake
hurst, N. J.
FORT WORTH, Tex.—The last
lap hut one of the transcontinental
flight of the dirigible Shengn
doah was completed here early
Friday morning when the ship pick
ed up the landing cable from the
local mooring mast and placed it
’self in charge of the local crew.
The ship was first sighted in the
west at 12:55 a. m. The trip from
San Diego to Fort Worth, the only
inland air port of the nation, was
completed in approximately 36
hours and 30 minutes.
The landing field, with its large
crowd of spectators who braved the
cold night and the “wee small
hours” to catch a glimpse of the
ship, appeared to be an Indian
campfires to keep them warm.
The gangplank from the dirigible
was dropped at 2:26 and members
of the group aboard the ship de
scended. The first to the ground
was Captain T. T. Craven, com
mander of th* San Diego naval fly
ing field and an observer on the
trip to Lakehurst from the Pacific
coast,. Captain Craven took the
place of Rear-Admiral Moffett,
chief of the bureau of naval aero
nautics who left the ship after
making the first half of the trip.
Lieut. C. E. Rosendahl, naviga
tor for the dirigible, declared that
in probability, the intinerary from
Fort Worth to Lakehurst would be
along the northern route via Lit
tle Rock, St. Louis, southern Il
linois and on into New Jersey. This
route is more than 100 miles short
er tjian the southern route, which
was followed on the way out.
Immediately after the ship was
hitched to the mast, pipe lines car
rying helium, gasoline, lubricating
oil and water were attached to the
ship and the process of servicing
was started. If weather conditions
permit the dirigible will leave Fort
Worth Friday morning at 9 o’clock.
BULLETINS
\LOS ANGELES, Calif.—
Words uttered before the senate
investigating committee in
Washington last January were
slated for reproduction in fed
eral court her e Friday as a re
sult of a ruling by Judge Mc-
Cormick in the trial of the gov
ernment's suit to cancel Elk
Hills naval oil reserve lease*
and contracts granted the Do
heny itnerests in 1921 by Albert
B. Fall, then secretary of the
interior.
PARIS.—The appointment of
Emile Daeschner to succeed
Jules Jusserand as French em
bassador to the United States
was approved Friday by the
cabinet, according to the Havas
Agency.
LONDON. — The New York
Giants defeated the Chicago
White Sox, 3 to 2, in th# se
cond game Friday of tha teriee
the two American baseball
team* are playing on their Eu
ropean tour,
PETROPAVLOV S K, Kam
chataka, Siberia. —After a
tempestuous voyage, the soviet
Russian transport Red Octo
ber, arrived here Friday from
Wrangel Island Charles
Wells, of Uniontown. Pa., sur
vivor of the expedition which
Vilh ialmar Stefanseon took to
the island a year ago, and with
twelve Eskimo members of the
expedition, who are Amerlean
citizens.
CLEMSON COLLEGE, 8. C.
—At noon Friday th* trust***
of Clemson College were etill in
session considering th# problem
created bv leat week’* walkout
of a portion of th# atudfnt
body. No statement he» yet
been officially made wrth , r *‘
gard to the proceedings of the
meeting.
NEW YORK.—Two men were
wounded in a battle be
tween two bandit* and two
messengers the B''nck Ex
prese Oomnanv at Broadway
and 40*h Street Friday when
the bandit' attempted to take a
na'/rrif of between *2O nho and
janrmo, Franklin a n*>/-
master, was probably fatally
wounded. <
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 24, 1924
Canada
Bandits
Hanged
MONTREAL—Louis Morel and
Frank Gambino, murderers of Hen
ri Cleroux, were hanged at Bord
eaux jail at 4:56 Friday morning.
Giusepee Serafeni and Tony Frank
followed them to the scaffold and
were executed three minutes later
at 4:59 a. m.
Gambino'* last words on the
scaffold were addressed to Execu
tioner Ellis, whom he enjoined to
“Go easy.”
• V
With tlie execution of four of the
slayers of Henri Cleroux at Hord
eaux jail Thursday, one of the
most sensational robberies in Ca
nadian criminology is brought to a
close. Of the six men convicted of
the slaying, four have pai<J the
death penalty and two others are
serving life sentences.
On April Ist. of this year, eight
masked men held up the money car
of the Bank of Hochelaga, under a
railroad bridge and without warn
ing, opened fire on the car’s crew. 1
Cleroux, the driver, fell dead. Over
powering another bank employe,
the bandits seized $5162,000 and
fled, followed by a hail of bullets.
Speeding away, the bandits' auto
mobile crashed into a telpgraph
pole and was wrecked. Seven of the
robbers fled on foot but the eighth,
Harry Stone, internationally known
narcotic-smuggler, was killed. Bu
ried in the rnhrm of the machine
was found $40,000 of the bank’s
money.
Within 4 hours police arrested
six men and two women and an
nounced that $56,000 found on the
suspects had been identified as part
of the bank looL
On June 23rd, six of the suspects
were found guilty of Cleroux’s mur
der. They were: Leo Davis, Tony
Frank, Louis Morel, Mike Vayen
tino, Giussepi Seraflni and Frank
Fambino. Davis and Hcrnflnl went
on a hunger strike but abandoned
it two days later.
Then followed a series of appeals
which were of no avail except to
grant a stay of execution to Davis
until November 6th. With the other
five sentenced to hang, Morel, al
leged to be the leader of the band,
In a letter to Gamblno’s wife, con
fessed his share in the hold-up and
absolved Gambino, Valentino and
Frank. In an earlier confession he
had- absolved Davis.
Last-minute efforts to save the
convicted man resulted in the call
ing of an emergency sitting of the
cabinet and Thursday the death
sentences of Davis and Valen
tino were commuted to life im
prisonment.
BROWN ON TRIAL
IN AIKEN COURT ON
CHARGE OF MURDER
AIKEN. S. C.—The outstanding
case to be tried at the October
term of court of general sessions,
wlilchc convened Monday with
Judgd J. K. Henry, of Crester. pre
siding, Is that of William T. Brown,
prominent white farmer of the
Betohar section, charged with the
murder of William T. Rish, his
neighbor, on July 7 of this year.
The Brown case was taken up by
the court Thursday morning, Hen
-derßons & Bailey and Williams,
Croft & Busbtb! appearing for the
defense, and Solicitor Gunter and
Wrn. M. Smoak for the prosecution.
The first witness was Dr. J. H.
Brodie. of Wagener, who testified
as to Rlsh's wounds.
Hcf defense is claimed by tho
defendant. ,
George Harris, a negro, charged
with the murder of Edward Davis,
a strange white man at Hamburg,
was convicted Thursday morning
and received a sentence of two
years In the penitentiary. Judge
Henry made the sentence light, as
he took into consideration, he said,
the character of the white man who
was slain. Harris' defense was
that the man molested his daughter.
The grand jury has returned sev
eral true bills, among these one
against Btroman Boyd, young white
farmer, charged with rape, and one
against W. It. Callaway, formerly
bookkeeper for the Holley Hard
ware Co., charged with misappro
priation of the firm's money.
The grand Jury made its pre
sentments Thursday, these being of
the usual nature.
■ '■ ~
Big Estate Left
By Frank Chance
LOS A NOBLES, Calif. Frank
Chpncc, late leader of the Chicago
White Sox baseball team, who died
here several weeks ago, left an es
tate valued at between $250,000 and
$300,000, according to Karl I'an
eake. brother-in-law of the former
baseball atar.
Native Augustan Is Leading Novelist
Interesting Sketch hv Harper Brothers
Woodward Author of “Bunk”—“Lottery”
Harper Brothers, publishers of New
York and London, have sent out an
interesting biographical sketch of W.
E. Woodward, author of “Bunk" and
Lottery." Mr. Woodward is a na
tive Augustan and spent his boyhood
day f s in this city. He Is a brother
of Hon. H. A. Woodward, prominent
Augusta attorney und solicitor of the
juvenile court of Richmond county,
ills mother, Mrs. Etta Woodward,
also lives in Augusta.
"There is a new novelist for Intel
ligent persons to keo up with,” writes
Carl Van Doren of Mr. Woodward in
"The Nation."
The sketch from Harper Brothers is
as follows:
W. E. Woodward, author of Lot
tery" is the descendant of an
old South Carolina family. Grad
uated South Carolina Military
Academy at the age of twenty
one. lie had a wild and erratic
youth. Worked as millhand, day
laborer, proofreader and news
paper reporter in Atlanta. Game
to New York in 1898. In adver
tising business for fifteen years.
Then turned to hanking and fi
nance. Became vice-president of
the Industrial Finance Corpora
tion, and director in numerous
corporations in all parts of the
United States. Organized several
new financial enterprises. Cut
off all connection with business
and wrote "Bunk," his first n6vel
in 1923, "Lottery," his second no
vel in 1924. His literary inspira
tion Is mainly French, what Rich
ard TiO Galllence calls 'Mr. Wood
ward’s “golden gaiety and devast
ing Irony, the stimulating threat
beneath its cap and bells" make
him spiritual brother to the mod
ern French satirists.
In the Nation, Carl Van Dorcm
Summary of the News
GENERAL
Feng takes over China central government.
Four hang together for murder of one.
Shenandoah leaves Fort Worth on way to Lakehurst.
“Sluah Fund” probers sack direct evidence. *
Coolidge believes further tax reduction possible.
Secretary Wallace in serious condition.
Eleven thousand miners strike in Pennsylvania.
LaFollette says "same old b uff” being used.
Say publication of income tax returns contrary to law.
Prince of Wales prepares to leave U. S. Saturday.
GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA
Father and child injured in wrack at Ellaville, Ga.
• “School-Day” at Washington County fair.
Clemson trustees still silent as to “atrike” probe.
Record attendance at South Carolina state fair.
W. T. Brown on trial at Aiken for murder.
Aiken women voters to quiz candidates.
SPORTS , *
Augusta boy in limalight in pugilistic circles.
Georgia Bulldogs leave for Nashville to meet Vandy.
Hoppe still leads in billarda exhibition.
Value of Community Football here is stressed.
Young Stribling honored at Atlanta.
Mountaineer* battle A. R. C. Scrubs here Friday.
LOCAL
Two indietrd for murder of Leroy Kitchens.
Suit for $2 500 in superior court here.
Kiwaniana hear report on Rome Convention.
Recorder imposee heavy fin* in speeding case.
Dr. and Mr*. Grace entertained at chursh.
Ku Klux Klan stane big par*H» here.
Wiseman made acting chief of Fir# Department.
Former Augustan is now famoua novelist.
Todav Marks End
of Prince*s Visit
to United States
NEW YORK.—Friday marks tho
end of tha visit of the Prineo of
Wales to the United States.
Although “tho Olympic, which Is
to take him back to England, will
not sail until 1 o’clock Saturday
morning, officials of tho lino ex
pect him to board the vessel this
afternoon, i
Ills wish to dine wllth the pas
sengers has been mot and he hns
selected a table for two In a cor
ner of the main dining room. It Is
adjacent to tho ship’s orchestra
near the Space reserved for danc
ing.
. The prince will he made a mem
ber of the American Red Gross Fri
day and will receive a button from
Mre. William Klnnlcutt Draper,
vice-president of tho New York
Gounty Chapter nt a ceremony
aboard the Olmplo.
TEXTILE EXPOSITION
Draws Big Crowds—Show
to Close Saturday Night
. GREENVILLE, H. G.—Tho sixth
Houthern Textile Exposition as It
drew nearer its close Thursday
and Thursday night continued to
shatter all previous records for at
tendance. The show closed Satur
day night.
An organization meeting of the
Houthern section of the American
Association of Textile Chemists
ami Colorists, presided over by E.
H. Killheffer, Newport, Tenn., was
being held Thursday night.
(ASSOCIATED PRESS.)
"GOLDEN GAIETY AND
DEVASTING IRONY”
IN HIS BOOKS
said of him:
"Hlh training has been tho
happiost possible. Immune from
birth to tho Infection of bunk, he
has moved habitually among its
disciples. lie 1h a business man
who can promote n company or
charm a Hotary Club. He turn*
to authorship only after he has
got out of industrial society whut
he wanted from it; the financial
sinews to maintain him while he
laughs In public, nH he ban always
laughed In privnte. There Is now
a new novelist for Intelligent per
son* to keep up with,”
TEMPERANCE ACT
Apparently Upheld By An
tario Voters
TORONTO.—Returns from 5,921 of
the 7,332 sub-election district early
Friday In the provincial plebiscite
held Thursday on the Ontario tem
perance act gave a majority of near
ly 25.000 In favor of retaining the
act.
The alternative proposal which
called for tho sals of liquor under
government control, plied up a load
of 70,000 aoon after tho polla cloacd
and city districts reported. The
strongly dry rural sections, however,
turned th« tide nt midnight.
j Tho plebiscite was tho first In On
fsrlo since 1919 when a similar ref
erendum showed a , majority of 407,-
000 In favor of tho dry law. Tho set
was panned In 1916 hh a war measure
and Is similar to the Itth amend
ment to the Gnlted Stales Constitu
tion In that It. allows the sale of
liquor only upon physicians’ prescrip
tions for medicinal purposes.
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LOB A NOEL Est, Calif
George Harman Is not an In
mate of the Lon Angeles
County poor farm today.'
There was no pluce to park
his ear.
Harman had proved to the
authorltloa that he was indi
gent, according to probation
officers and was about to be
admitted when ho asked:
“Where do I put my car?”
Told that tho county did
not provido garage accom
modatlona for its indigent
guests, he withdrew hia ap
plication and motored away.
18 CENTS A WEEK.
Feng, “Christian
General,” Holds
City of Peking
PEKlNG.—President Tsao Kun issued a procla- j
mation at 8 o’clock Friday morning ordering the im- j
mediate cessation of hostilities and dismissing Wu |
Pei-Fu, commander of the Peking military forces, [
from his present post.
DIRECT flint
STILL SOUGHT •
111 "SLUSH”
INOUIRY
WASHINGTON. Coming to the
Hevfcnth dny of Its Inquiry, th® sen
ate campaign fund Investigating com
mittee still sought Friday some di
rect evidence to support the rumors
and reports of the assembling of a
large "slush” fund for use In doubt
ful states on behalf of tho republican
national ticket.
Th latest of these rumor* was
.conveyed i>v Senator walsh, <>f Mori*
I tana, prosecutor In tho Teapot Home
oil inquiry, who * telegraphed that
there were reports that >IOO,OOO was
being sent Into that state, not through
the regular republican organization
sources, for uha against him In his
campaign for re-election,
Tho committee has agreed to call
tho republican state chairmen of
*\ew York. New Jersey, Ohio and
Illinois with a view to determining
whether there has beet* "concealed”
contributions from Mg bUH’ness men
to the republican campaign fund.
In addition, counsel for Senator
Robert M. HaFollette, who first made
tho charge of a "slush” fund havo
prepared a list of more than a score
of new witnesses they desire to ques
tion. These Include the chairmen
of some of the fifty or sixty special
committees which Charles I), miles,
of New York, testified Thursday are
engaged In New York City alone In
collecting gUmpnlgn funds for the re
pnbli'iiii organization within the vari
ous Industries, businesses and pro
fessions.
On th‘s new list appears the name
of . Tj. Mellon ,a nephew of the sec
retary of the treasury, who. It hns
been testified, Is »«t charge of col
lectin'* for the republican campaign
fund In the Pittsburg district. T.aFol
lette's counsel also hns aHked that
It 11. Mellon, a brother of the secre
tary, bo colled.
11,000 STRIKE
Min«ra Walk-Out In De
fiance of Leaders
SCRANTON, I’a.—Eleven thou
r.and of the Pennsylvania foal
Compnny miners in tho Plftston
district and Underwood went on
strike Friday In defiance of tho
union lenders. The mlncUt declar
ed their lenders and eompnny offi
cials had delayed too long in tho
adjustment of grievances.
SAYS PUBLICATION
OF INCOME RETURNS
VIOLATION OF LAW
NEW YORK —Frank K. Bow
ers, collector of Internal reve
nue for the second district, an
nounced Friday that publica
tion of Income tax returns was
a Violation of tho Jaw and that
violators were subject to a
penalty of SI,OOO fins or one
year in prison or both. He said
ho could not state whether lo
cal newspapers which publish
ed partial lists would bo pros
ecuted.
WASHINGTON. The depart
ment Iff justice served notice Fri
day thut pending a careful exami
nation of the statutes and a final
ruling, newspapers which publish |
Income tux returns will do so at
their own risk.
NEW YORK.—Amounts of In
come taxes paid by prominent per
sons were printed generally in Fri
day’s New Vork nowspapers as a
result of a treasury department or
der making returns available for
public inspection.
Referring to a statement by the
treasury department that the law
forbids publication of any part of a
return, the New York Times says
It Is advised by counsel that the
law forbids tho publication only of
other elements of an Income tax re
, turn than the amount of tax paid.
HOME
EDITION
Augusta and vicinity: Fair and eon*
tinued cool; light frost tonight.
WEATHER
PEKING. Feng Yu-
Hsiang, the “Christian gen
eral,” was in control of the
machinery of the central
government of China Fri
day after a spectacular sur
prise military move early
Thursday when his army
returned here from the
north and took possession of
the administration offices of
the regime under the ban
ner of which he was sup
posed to be fighting.
DISAPPROVEL OF
FU’S MEASURES.
The move wu carried out under
the leadership of General Feng in
conjunction with other element*
opposed to the war program of
General Wu Pei-Fu. It was re
ported at tha beginning of th* de
fective campaign against th# in
vading force# of General Chang
Tao-Lin that “the Christian gen
oral” disapproval of General Fu'S
war measures.
Ostensibly, General Feng carried
out orders from General Fu to pro
ceed to Jehol at the beginning of
th# campaign againat tho Manchu
rian invasion. He baptized his
trops with grest ceremony befor*
leaving Peking.
It now appears thst th# “Chris
tion" general never proceeded be
yond Kupoiko, 70 miles north of
here, on the road to Jehol, »ant
some of hi* troop* north while
holding the third brigade at Ku
psikow.
General Feng conferred with his
colleagues Wednesday evening and
Friday morning Peking was pla
carded with th# announcement of
his intention to atop th* war.
Peking streets war* picketed by
Feng's soldiers wearing arm band*
reading “We aro her* to praaarv#
peace and to protect lives in th*
service of our country.”
After the f’eng troop* entered
the city by agreement with ele
ments hostile to the central gov
ernment, including General Sun
Yueh, commander of the Peking
garrison, they surrounded the pal
ace, seized telegraph and telephone
wires and picketed the residences
of various ministers in sympathy
with General Wu Pei-Fu.
General Feng announced that h*
intends to break th* dictatorship
maintained by General Wu Pai-Fu
and to aid in establishing a new
government in which would be in
corporated the various factions
which are hoitile to each other at
present.
WANTS CESSATION ‘ ’
OF HOSTILITIES.
PEKING. Feng Hsiang, th#
“Christian” general who returned
from the front hnd seized Peking
Thursday, has asked President
Tsao Kun to order a cessation jcH
tha hostilities. Ths remainder of
Fang’s troops havs reached Pe
king, giving his command mors
than 40,000 men. Th# present
bodyguard has been completely
disarmed and the cabinet is being
carried on under Premier Yin.
ORDERS EXECUTION
OF GENERAL LI.
PEKING—Fang Yu Hsing, th#
"Christian” general Mho returned
to Peking with hi* army FridaJ
morning to overthrow th* govern
ment under whoa* banner h* was
supposed to bs fighting th* invad
ing armiaa of General Chang Tao-
Lin, Manchurian loader, ordered
ths execution of General Li Yens-
Cheng, private aecratary to Presi
dent Tsao Kun, after General Li
had bean questioned Friday con
cerning charges of wholotalo fi
nancial irregularities.
It waa reported Fang and hia
conferees had drafted a list of of
ficials to be held under surveil
lance. The list included Wang Ks-
Min, finance minister; Kao Ling-
Wei, minister of commerce and Wu
Yu-Lin, minister, of. communica*
tilyi*. Premier Yang waa raportsd
arrested while hiding under «
house.
WILL EXECUTE
"RUMOR MONGERS”
In a proclamation which includ
ed a warning that "rumor mongers
will be executed,” General Fang
said:
“Tha republic has bean at war
for 13 year*. As a result commerce
•is impossible and tha nation ha*
been subjected to great lose** in a
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