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PAPER THAT CHANGED COLOUR.
AMUSING INCIDENT.
Returned Students' Narrative.
Being kidnapped by bandits and held for ransom is not a desirable experience but it has its amusing side as the following interview shows.
When sensitised paper is writ- ten on it does not require more than a rudimentary knowledge of certain chemical actions to grasp that a change of colour will naturally follow.
The robbers whose audacious capture of students of Canton Christian College has provoked almost more attention than the most thrilling escapades of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, were evidently not possessed of this knowledge.
Hence their astonishment at the phenomenon, as described by one of their late captives in an exclu- sive interview with the China Mail" this morning.
For obvious reasons it is obvious that the name of the Hongkong student interviewed and the College at which he is resident should not be made pub- lie. Suffice it to write that he was on a visit to a friend' at the College and that he returned to Hongkong after his release by last night's. boat from Canton,
"We had no idea we had been captured, until we had passed | the C.C.C. landing stage some distance," the student told a "China Mail" representative this! morning, "None of us knew that some
of the robbers, dis- guised as students' friends, of whom there were a number on the boat, had been sitting next to the steersman and with a re- volver poked unobservantly. on either side he had no choice but to go according to their direc- tions."
When was it that you noticed anything unusual?"
:!
"A man whom we afterwards found out was the chief of the briganda came of the engine room and told us that there was no need to be alarmed. He heldi a revolver in his hand, and we! thought he was one of the guards] protecting the boat. He later
told us that another boat was in distress and we were going out
of our way to give it assistance.
DARING ROBBERY.
Posed As Police On Search Duty.
SUN
WOMAN VICTIMISED.
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A married woman, residing in a matshed at Canton Road, has reported to the police a daring robbery committed last night. Four men, carrying torches, en tered the matshed und opened several boxes, the keys of which they obtained from her They
where we were made to sleep they provided us with no blankets and it was very, very cold. The food was ordinary Chinese food but we were not given a great deal of it and when the three whom we had posed as police officers, and elected to go back to the College wished no interference from the to ask for ransom did not return woman while they were carrying (having been persuaded by their out a search. On the pretence friends that as the soldiers were on the bandite track the best of the men took her some dis- that she was under arrest, two thing for them to do was to re-tance and then released her. In main at the College) the Captain threatened to kill us and we had the meantime, the other robbers to go without food."
got together money and valuables **The
comrades. The men did not ex- amounting to a total of $1,015, and escaped along with their,
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CANTON PORTENTS.
YAT-SEN'S DAY OVER?
TURN OF THE TIDE.
Chan Kwing-Ming Waiting His Chance.
Has the tide began to turn against Dr. Sun Yat-sen in This question is prompted by the portents discussed below.
Canton?
(from Our Own Correspondent.) king" of Honam, is once again in the limelight, being reported as in Canton, December 10.a dispute with General Lau Taun-. the scenes, growing rivalry among Kwangai army (in Kwangtung) 'Persistent wire-pulling behind wan, commander-in-chief of the the military factions, talk of under Dr. Sun's banner. They are repatriating some of the mercen- stated to be at loggerheads over arguing about control of the Sheklung where their respective Canton-Samahul Railway aries, hints that two generals, are some revenue from a place near
far away as Wuchow-these are
territories have not been definitely movements portending trouble as marked out. some of the topics of conversation
|
in leading political and military circles in Canton to-day.
and
In the course of conversation with a senior field officer of one of the Cantonese divisions who though not stationed in the metro
WHO WILL RULE THE CITY OF HAMS ? «
Canton, the storm-centre of the south, may soon once more become a pawn in the political game, according to reports discussed in this issue of the "Ching Mall.”
FF
DETECTIVE MURDERED.
"He was far from being that."
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He made, us
AFFAIR
ASSAILANT TOLD TO,
HALT
SUSPECTED OF CARRYING,
ARMS
polis, openly speaks of reports from his intelligence agents there, I gathered that anything up to
CHAN KWING-MING'S PLANS.
That Chan Kwing-ming will not make a bid for Canton, but that others interested are anxious to put him back in power, is the trend of opinion in some of the batter informed circles in Hongkong at present..
Political jobbers have been con- stantly on the move between Hong- kong and Swatow, Chan's head- quarters being at the latter port. Same who have been seeking financial patronage here have even produced official letters of appoint- ment to minor posts in the various prefectures and districts.
Some time ago it was reported that Chan would assume office, at Swatow, of chief executive of the province an act which would be no more than a farce unless he was at the helm in Canton.
It has been no secret that the merchants, or rather, that the merchants interested in politics, want Chan back. Another signi- ficant factor is that Dr. Sun's administration has made no attempt to recapture, territory of strategic and economic importance along the East River, which was evacuated with very little fighting. Dr. Sun's faction has since seen fit to concentrate at and near the Bocca Tigris Forts at the entrance to the Canton River and Chan and his allies have not pushed forward.
Difficulty in assigning the plumg to his senior subordinates, and allies is believed to have been the cause of Chan's inertia but the more optimistic of his supporters have found a solution which seems somewhat improbable.
This is that General Hau Shung- chi, commander-in-chief of Dr.
of the different denominations of fied his views and is willing to troops in this province, in the near collaborate with Chan. According future, would not be at all sur-to the prophets Chan will take the prising.
post of Civil Governor, leaving the General Fan Chung-sau's post of Generalissimo to Hsu, and “army" of "Honan mercenaries the office of Mayor to Kum dubbed The White Wolf's Cube" Cheong, one of Chan's civil sub- by the "China Mail," is reported ordinates. to be uneasy now that Dr. Sun is not Here Hitherto, Dr. Sun non-Cantonese mercenaries as re Before Chan can attain this the placed implicit faith in the Wolf presented by the Yunnanese and Chibs loyalty, as evidenced by the Hunzese armies, must be dis part they took in the Volunteer possessed of power and re Arma dispute, the general strike patriated. and the conflict with the mer-sacrifice their rich pastures re- Whether they will
mains to be seen.
It was not until another man fact, what we in England would came with a lantern (for it was call a veritable 'Dick Turpin.'' at night time that all this hap- pened) and told us that if we He was big and fine looking but LAST EVENINGS TRAGIC open rupture between two or more Sun's Cantonese forces, has modi- had any "sai-chee" (Hongkong a regular rascal. currency) we had better hand it sign names the morning after over that we began to suspect the capture and he produced a that anything was wrong. We piece of sensitised paper which were told that we kept back any had been taken from the person thing at the peril of our lives." of one of the students." The "Was much collected in this robbers were quite scared when way p
they saw the paper change **Some of the students had colour." several hundreds of dollars on Did you see anything of the them and we reckoned that they
A Chinese detective, med so took about a thousand dollars fighting between the troops sent Kincho, was shot dead at Shank altogether."
out to rescue you and the
wan yesterday afternoon shoply "There was no attempt at re-brigands "" sistance?"
after 4 o'clock,
The detecure "No, but we heard the shots was on duty at the Prays chante. "It was no use. All the six and shortly after that we were the ferry wharf, and notice a bandits were armed and we only taken back to the temple to which suspicious looking character walk-i As the Honanese are, numeri- On the other hand, there has had one revolver between us. we had been first taken and the Ing towards him along the sea cally, the weakest of the adven- bean talk of the likelihood of one in the possession of robbers left us and told us that wall. On drawing abreast the man turer contingents in Kwangtung or more of the factions on Dr. one of the masters (a Chinese) we were free to go where we was asked to stop in order to be they do not possess any definite Sun's side, going over to Chan's who had carried it with him ever liked. We could not get in touch searched for arms, but before the sources of revenue. It has been banner. Those who advance this since he had been captured in with the troops but after a long had been shot in the chest by headquarters for an issue of arms combination will be
detective realised the situation, he
rumoured that they applied to view go so far as to say that the the hold up on the Canton rail walk across country we got to a revolver which the man suddenly but were refused. On the basis enough to crush all the other strong way. After consulting hurriedly place opposite Whampoa and with those of us who were near Chinese battleship was sent to on being shot the defective fell mentioned as wavering in their that Dr. Sun's party is to be left drew out from under his jacket. of this rumour they have been factions combined. If it meana him he thought it would be wiser take us back." to throw it overboard and he did
off the praya wall into the water, allegiance and there is talk of in the cold, it can be taken for The interview closed with the and his body was recurred their leaving for another province granted that strenuous opposition "How long were you in the "China Mail" man undertaking later. Death must have been and even turning over to Chan will be raised. motor boat before you were to send a cable telling the instantaneous, it is said the Kwing-ming.
1 Seeking Vengeance? student's people that the latter bullet passing through his body?
That' was
80."
I
made to land?***
The trip to the College on was safe. Honam Island is only supposed to take about twenty minutes but we were in the boat for about four hours and were landed somewhere on the East river."
"It was here that one of the xxxparty made his get-away, was it
not."
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Gossip attributes to Fan Shak sang, commanding the 2nd The murderer immediately after Yunnanese army and one of the firing the shot, dashed into a side most powerful leaders in the pro- street and disappeared in a water vince at the time, a desire to lead ly direction, but not without his troops back to his native pro- disclosing his identity to smo vince to wreak revenge on Tuchun people in the struct The Phe Tang Chi-yao who is alleged to on hearing the alarmurodo
(Reuter'a Service.) on the scone fet, mlátites have shot Fan's father while the later, and carried out a thorou
son was winning is spurs in
ROME, December 10.. AN ESCAPE.
search for the assailant but wither
Canton Yes, two of them in fact, who A farmer living at Au Tam success. There are prospects!
The League Council discussed At any rate, General Hau M. Branting's report of the man- concealed themselves in the cabin Mei village, Lok Ma Chan, in the the murderer being animated Shung-chi, the No. 1 pro-Sun dates commission. They passed of the junk into which we were New Territories, was bitter by a clear description of the man
Cantonese (native) officer and Dr. a resolution, asking the British transferred for the purpose of dog alleged to be rabid. The been furnished to the poller,
Sun's right-hand man for several Government to explain the pre- getting us ashore. They held on man is now in the Government of the eye-wlingsses giving
year, is said to be desirous of sent Anglo-American negotiationa to the side of the boat partially Civil Hospital. Immersed in water, while the killed by the villagers and sent to
The dog was name as Lai Mow,
sectffing control-control bringing with reference to C. Mandates in its train the revenue of the and also the discussions at the search was being carried out for the Bacteriological Institute for
Canton Baumhol Rellway. As the Imperial Conference on the them. They eventually got away examination."
officer in charge of the railway subject The Report points out and were captured by another,
driehof Fan's proteges, Esa in re that the Commission was. com. robber band, although that is
ported to have “disagresed" with 1cerned chiefly whh Palestine, Fan. It has also been predicted - qua the British SameroonS, that if Fan attempts to zaya his
ridian Togoland, New Guines, troops up the West River on the
ri, Samos; and ideted lala
quite a different story. They are. both back at the Collage now."
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