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· WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER. 15, 1924.
CANTON CRISIS.
GRAVE TROUBLE FEARED.
OUTLOOK EXTREMELY BLACK.
Factors Which Threaten Further Chaos.
for Dr. Sun, had given orders that the Volunteers were to be disarm ed and it was also alleged that preparations would be made for Salkwan to be stormed. As telegraph communication is inter- rupted, it is not known if the order was carried out or what the Merchants are doing..
Conditions in Canton..
Apropos yesterday's develop
PIRATES ROUTED.
THE CHINA MAIL
SCRAP NEAR LAPPA ISLAND."
A.
EXCITING INCIDENTA
(Our Special Correspondent,)
obtain fresh water.
pirutes. A
machine-gun Was
BAG-SNATCHER CAUGHT
NINE MONTHS' JAIL AND.
BIRCH.
'D
H.M.S. PEGASUS."
VESSEL LEAVES SINGAPORE FOR HONGKONG:
(From Our Own Correspondent.).
SINGAPORE, October 14 H.M.S. "Pegasus" leaves for Hongkong to-morrow.
The officers describe Malaya as a perfect seaplane country.
WAR IN CHINA.
WU REPORTS VICTORY AT SHANHAIKWAN.
Following is the text of a tele
Exemplary punishment meled out by Mr. R. E: Lindell, this morning, to a youthful bug- snatcher who stole a small bog Macao, October 14.. Pirates on land and sea. Por fron Mrs. P. W. Green, of No. 206. The Peak, while she was tuguese Government launches, a Chinese naval sumed launch and a walking along Battery Path with "According "to" a Chinese gentle
Chinew Customus nonch were all her husband yesterday evening.
After the youth-had-pleaded- an exciting scrap man who represents one of the
mixed" up in
guilty on the charge-being on most important foreign concerns in
between 8.00 and 8,3 on pyplained to him. His Warship Cantor and who, by virtue of a
night close to Nughang thich is title gained at the Manchu examina-
just in front of Barra Point) inaed(from Sub-Inspector Spear tions before the Revolution, has
Lapps Island, from whence Mucno of Central Station that nothing When His prohip sled if always been one of the leading
gets nearly all her drinking water was known about defendant. citizens in the City of Rams, the
and mail craft usually put into there had been a lot of bag-antol Canton situation to-day la 'very
In the end, the various launchesing from ludies, Inspector Spear grave and the outlook extremely black. This gentleman has been
sorted themselves out and when the replied: "Yes, Your Worship. mentioned as having pointed out
Customs launch trained her search-tos. lot of it. Continuing, he graphic communiqué from Marshal that it is not now a question of ments in Canton, our
special light on shore they could see the explained that Mr. and Mrs. Wu Pel-fu's headquarters, under Green were posing the Catliedrul, date of October 12, handed to the smouldering embers which might | correspondent writes:- be fanned into Bames, but Orders are stated to have been turned on them and they dis when defendant stole up to the China Mail for publication.
Violent fighting was resumed rather uf roaring furnances given to the Yunnanese, Hunanese appeared. It is not known if any of from behind and made off with the of discontent. There are, he points and Kwangsi armies to disarm, the the launches suffered casualties but He ran round the Cathedid last evening along the front at of Shan- out, five or six different factions Merchants Volunteer Corps at 6 it is not believed so, although the and then turned towards the Gor- Chiumunkou. outside
erment offices where he wusį haikwan. Our troops, under each nursing its own pet griev- | p.m, this evening.
firing was rather heavy
the command of General ances, and the time when a body Yunnanese detachments under of influential men could have come General Fan Shek-sang and Coma-
tinguished service in this battle Chang Yeh-kung, rendered dis- forward and settled matters mander Li Hang-chiu (who
by completely defeating the rebels, amicably is past. The differences successfully negotiated for the
capturing 7 have grown to such an extent settlement of the first general
machine-guns, 2 lieutenants, that angry-feelings will soon find strike) are being strengthened out
4 company manders and 38 soldiers The vent some way or other.
side Saikwan, the Western part of
enemy lost many killed. Open strife between the mer-Canton city. Their attitude is chants and the labourers, an attempt by the former to boycott the civil government economically and to cut off its food supplies, the shifting disposition of non-native mercenaries, rumours_of_armies having pro-Northem tendencies, jealousy among the troops, an un- confirmed report of the capture by Chan Kwing-ming man of the Tiger Island Forts guarding the entrance to Canton harbour, digging of trenches along the Canton-Kowloon Railway from Shektan to Shekpai, alleged threats to bombard the western suburb, the presence of armoured cars in Canton streets, a general strike in Progress, the Merchants Volun-or fters and Village Guards in arms and martial law in the city-these are the most important features of the chaos which threatens to overwhelm Canton.
Yesterday's down steamers were all full of people from Canton, one saloon being packed with families of Yunnanese military officers, News was also brought down by last night's steamers that Wu Han-min, acting
CONVOY SYSTEM. SOME SUGGESTIONS.
FOG BOUND.
GERMAN AIRSHIP IN'
“DIFFICULTY..
ANKÁ VOR BEARINGS.
designs on the Chinese Jachtbour and twelve strokes of the
Apparently, a pirate gang haught by a soldier.
Sentence of nine months' hurd Shots were fired, the naval returning the fire with the rest birch was recorded. that the pirates left their craft and seampered ashore. Taking cover they kept potting at the lunch and abois began to ricochet against the unknown but it is believed that Customs lunch. The latter also they are pro- peace but, if necessapned fire but was at loss to know sary, will side with, the civil where and who the enemy were population.
A Portuguese launch then rame up Wu Te-chen, who recently and was challenged by several resigned his position as Police volleys. In a short tane quite Commissioner, has returned as half a dozen launches were blazing commander of the "Red" army, merrily away until the searchlight He has armoured cars in Canton put matters right. Then, one and and the report goes that he is all turned on the common enemy mounting big guns on the White who was routed. Cloud Mountains. His Reds and the Labourers Volunteers have been mobilised in the struggle against the merchants.
A very strict watch is being kept on Shakee which faces Shameen. No troops other than Yunpanese Merchants Volunteers allowed through.
zre
Day and night the merchant's are-sending out patrols_in_all_parts! of-Saikwan, as far as the Taiping Maloo and the second band. Village Guards are also moving towards Canton ostensibly to rein force the Volunteers
Dr. Sun Yat-sen is believed by many to have come back to Cauton to hold a conference but he has probably left again.
ALLEGED FRAUD.
SOLICITORS' CLERKS IN
COURT.
BRARING ADJOURNED,
Had it not been for the timely intervention of - the Customs and Macao lunches, a different talo might have been recounted..
QUEEN'S COLLEGE.
ANNUAL AQUATIC SPORTS..
MEETING AT VIC,
The annual aquatic sports t Queen's College were held in the V.R.C, bath, by kind permission of the committee, yesterday after moon. The results follow:
RESULTA.
Event 1-25 yds. Handicap (Small Boys) 1. Roza Pereira: 2. Chi Hoong-yeung: 9, Chan Pe ying.
Event 1-50 vds. Handicap (Junior): 1, Chan Yi-lin: 2. Chan Yuen-chi, J. Pang Oflam,
Event III-50 yds. Handicap Indian Boys): 1. Minu Razack 9. Supkan.
(Reuter's Servicc.) ---New-York--Getober 14———|— The airship Z13 was caught in thick fog 1200 miles from her destination, and applied to a naval! vessel for compass hearings.
PRINCE CHEWS GUM,
4
com-
BOMBS ON CHINWANGTAO.
A Peking message of October 14 to the "Daily Bulletin " reads:
A-Fengtjen-aeroplane flew over- Chinwangtao early this morning and dropped six bombs.
Two bombs fell in the station compound, but did no damage, and the others in the fields.
The damage by the Fengtien aeroplanes so far appears to be one soldier and three civilians Byüket, N..Y., Sept..6.-Aladdin killed and several civilians wound- had blistered hands to-day fronted by approximately 100 bombs. rubbing his magic lump over Long On the Northern front arrange Ishud.
ments are being quickly carried
A
big transformation was out for operations on a big scale, effected. The English here with but no immediate developments the Prince of Wales are becoming are expected. -Americanized-and-their-American. hosts are becoming thoroughly Anglicized.
Most American of the English is the Prince himself. He astonished select Long Island to-day with his gun showing, which is as Auneri Fean as bacon and egga, He chews gum as speedily and quietly and expertly as his newerk and thoroughly American friend, Will Rogers of Oklahoma, Hollywood and West Forty-Second Street,
JAPAN'S WARNING.
TOKYO, October 14, After reiterating Japan's attitude of strict neutrality in the present civil war in China, the Government calls attention to the fact that there are hundreds of thousands of Japanese residents and Japanese undertaking on a vast scale in Investments in enterprises and
Manchuria and Mongolia and that! maintenance of law and order in her own security depends on the. those regions. "Japan deems it of capital importance that these essential. rights and interests be fully respected and safely guard. ad," according to a note handed to the Peking and Makden authorl- ties by the Japanese Minister and Consul-General respectively,
Even that dislike for the camem, which is part of the ever day life of public men in America, In connection with the systein
was shrinking. There were in 2.dications that in time the Prince of convoys between here and
might even be as easy to "shoot Canton, a correspondent writes
Event IV.(Coronation Shield) as the American statesmen who to the "China Mail" a follows:
This two solicitors' clerks in the open to all schools in the Colony view with alarm just before each As one of the travelling public, employ of Messrs. Hastings and 1. Queen's College : 2, St. Josepli's. | slection day. making frequent business trips to Hastings, Dennys and Bowley,
Event V50 yds. Breat The Prince arrived at the James Canton, I should like to make whose drastic reductions of bail on Htroke: 1. Ip Koon-in 2. Wong A. Burden estate, where he in suggestion with regard to the the persopul application of Mr. E.
Kum-fun: 3, Yang Put-wi
living during his vacation in this voy ayatom.
Event V-High Diving (hamcountry, at 40 this morning, after BUILDING INFRINGEMENTS. Before the Convoy
Davidson of that firin, caused conpionship): 1, Lai Szerbin; 2, night of dancing at the home of system
Rodman Wannamaker II. started, I could always mange to sidemble interest, a short time ago, Tong Wai-lit: 3, Pereira.
Event
THREE CHINESE FINED. ferry to Kowloon ou appeared before Mr. R. E...
VI.Long Plunge catch
He was to have participated in arrival from Canton, but now the Lindsell at the Central Magistracy (Championship): 1, Cluu Yu-fox hunt starting at 6.15 thi shipe never arrive before 1 a.m, and yesterday.
shing; 2, Lai Lee-hing; 3, Lai morning on the estate of Ralph The following summonses were Ellis of Wheatley Hills, but was heard before Mr. E. W. Hamilton very often. 3 or 4 o'clock in the Their names are Cheung Pui-Se-chui. Distance 52 feet.
Event VIII-50 yds. Handicap lost in slumber when the hunt at the Kowloon Court this morn- morning.
chuen alias Charles Kent, and Lo (Senior): 1, Chiu Yui-shing: 2, started. After waiting 30 minutes ing This, in my humble opinion, Shu-fan and they are charged on Mak Kai-hung: 3, Ip Koon-iu. could easily be avoided," without three counts.
for Wales to make his appearance The management of the Op Yick The first charged detracting from, the efficiency of the alleged that they fund conspired ship 1, Tong Tan-abu; 2, Lai leaders, Lord and Lady Mount for making a material divergence Event IX-100 yds. Champion the sportsmen, including 40 society Co., 235, Temple Street, summonsed system, by placing the convoy together to defraud Wong Tak-yin Sze-chin: 3, Roza Porcina, butten, the Prince's cousine, and from an approved plan No. 39412 guard on the slow ship.
of her property by false representa- There is so little differonce he tion that Lo Shu-fau was owner of Lueng Shiman.
Event X.-Old Boys' Race: 1. Captain A. P. Lascelles, his by using steel bars of a less section.. secretary, went on without him, . al area than specified in connection tween the speeds of the faster certain lands in the New. Terri-
with the building of a house on. steamers of the convoy, that ex toties and had trusferred the sune Race: 1. Mr. Tolley: 3. Mr. Event XI-European Masters'
KIL. 46 at Kowloon. He was are always within hail of one into the name of Wang, Tak-yin Talston: 3, Mr. Fletcher.
fined $200. SENTENAR another.
und desired to mortgage the same. Supposing a piracy was to take The other two charges alleged place on one of the faster ships conspiracy to induce the complun surely, with the defence scheme at unit by false representations to present in vogue on each ship, they sign two deeds of sale. Two other could manage to stop and offer defendants (Au Hou-fu and. Ho Home resistance, till the guard shap Shailok) were mentioned in the caine on the scene. "And here, last two charges. we all wonder what the goard ship Mr. M. Lo prosecuted and could do. Moreover, as the moral Mr. E. Davidson_delanded. Mr. effect would be just the same H. S. Fitzroy instructed by whichever abip had the guard, Measta, Lee and Ros) watched tliere is no reason why this sug-the proceedings in the interest of gestion should not be adopted.Lo Shun-cho, the purchaser of It would be more convenient to certain property involved in the passengers, fairer to the Shipping case.
Event XII-Junior Classen' Tean Race: Winner, Clues 4A.
Event XIII.-Senior Team Race: Winner, Matricula Classes
tion Clu
Event XIV.-Consolation Race:
1, R. Ho Tung 2, Cheung King- hon: 3, Cheung Yin-chou.
WRECKAGE.
SHIPS BRING NEWS DE DERELICTS.
this
Companies concerned, and there Plaintiff went into particulare as At the Harbour Office notice would be less risk of accidents, to how she came to sign a mort bourd thers wun posted while navigating the supe. Agage for $10,000 on her property morning -- more able pen on this subject, houses in Lyndhurst - Terrace, The ..Beistan" reports a through the columns of your paper, Bonham Strand and Shing Hing derelict junk in Lat. 16.49 N., might have the desired effect." Street). She said that she signed Long, 109.02 E., dangerous to
it in. August, 1923, in the offices navigation,
FITTER KILLED.
KNOCKED OVER BY NAVAL TROLLEY.
of Messrs. Hastings, and. Hastings Other ships which have noticed because Cheung Po-ciruen told her danger marks and reported are -- son that he had a piece of land in The "Baisong" which has the New Territory which he arrived, from Anity and which re- wished transferred to her nume,ports a submerged “catamaran und then, to raise the mortgage una Caylon compan). -- in - Lat, it. Some time after she saw Lo14.48) N., Long. 120.021 E. Shu-fan in the same office and he sighted on October 11. An accident concerning the over said there were no title deeds for At 3 p.m. on October 11, the Bend trolley of Arsenal Yard re-this houses, but the documents"Kwanglang" saw what was up- sulted in a Naval Yard fitter, being would be handed over by this posed to be a junk awash in Lat. knocked down into a nullah where original vendor when the tranne 12.04 N.. Long, 109.00.E. on being picked up it was found tion was completed. Whilst she Another Harbour Office notice
at he had sustained severe in was signing her hame a man named concerne dredging work by the "juries, It appears that a plank fell Lau came into the office. Lan was Hai Hu" i the main channel, of "oit the overload trolley, which runs described as the purchaser of the the Whingpoo River. It is immed from the Naval Yard, over Queen's property. This man took out some by the Shanghai Harbour Master. Road Esat and up the hillside to bank notes and handel them ta
redy Romifmagazine. The hur After Izan had left the defen Before Mri E. Wề Hamilton the time was moring dat (Lo fhuster water het for at the Kowloon Magistracy, this overheat lines and the the money, so that he could take it morning. U Chait, aforeman, neck tus, he in the way to the Mercantile Bank (Mr. Ho charged with assaulting Mak Tuis compradore of that Bank) Chin, on October 7, at Shanghai She did not know the ambient. Street, was fined $5 and bound The case was adjourned after over to keep the pesce for six further evidence;
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