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OUR NAVY IN CANTON.
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A
USE OF THE KNIFE.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1926.
HOME SOCCER.
MAGISTRATE'S "ADVICE TO
5-NIL AWAY WIN FOR STOKE.
CHINESE.
FIGHT FOR A GIRL.
LEAGUE RESULTS.
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"Use as many stools as you
London, Sept. 4. want, but don't use a knife, be-
The following are the results of cause you are liable to kill some-the matches played in the prin- body," was the advice which Mr. cipal football leagues to-day. The . . B. Nihill, at the" Kowloon biggest victory of the day was by Magistracy this morning gave to 5-ll, by Stoke, playing away
a Chinese charged with assault.
The complainant, also a Chinese and an engineer in the employ of! the Water Police, invited the de- fendant to a "square #ght" over a girl whom both complainant and'] defendant were courting, accord-¡ Complainant ing to the Police.
| seized a wooden stool and hit “de-
fendant, but the latter succeeded | in evading it," Defendant, who is a butcher by profession, tried to avenge this by wounding com- plainant with a knife on the left, knee, the latter being treated for three weeks at the Kowloon Hos- ¡pital.
In passing sentence, Mr. Nihill took into consideration the fact that it was the complainant who provoked the quarrel, and there fore did not convict the defendant, but ordered him to be bound over in $100 for twelve months, and to compequate the complainant with $10.07. 14 days' imprisonment in
deterrent effect on the pickets and the "Canton Govern ment which "connives at brigand-case of default. age and piracy on the part of thei miscalled "Canton Strike Com- mittee. If the long lane of the boycott is ever to be turned it is clear that it can only be through the mediuh of some such action
| as that taken by the British gun-
DOUBLE MURDER.
SERIOUS AFFRAY AT WESTERN MARKET.
AN ARREST MADE.
boats at Canton on Saturday. The . One arrest has been maile in con- challenge has been thrown downnection with a serious conflict at the Central Market early yesterday Peaceful negotiations having fail morning between a body of men
| ed through no fault on the part of employed as packers and members of a Triad Society, as a result of which two men were killed
against Walsall.
the British, at whom the boycott is solely directed, resort has been
The arrested man was overcome had to naval intervention to en-jat the scene of the conflict after ' sure that there shall be no for determined resistance, the police having to use bamboo poles to ther use made of British wharves effect his detention. He was arm- wherefrom to carry of grossly led with a dagger. legal acts against passengers The other members of the twe and cargo proceeding to Hong the police could effect their arrest.
ganga made their get-away before" Kong steamers," This may well Efforts to trace them have been prove to be the first step toward without success up to the present, compelling the Canton Govern of $250 will be paid for information A police notification that a reward Iment to adopt the course it could leading to arrest has been issued.
and should have followed months As showing which way the ago, namely, sending the pickets wind is blowing in the relations about their business and ruling
them instead of being ruled. between Canton and Hongkong į regarding the boycott. British gunboats have taken action in Canton by landing marines at the Balance of Power in China. wharves of the Hong Kong and
Much that is informative has Macao Steamship Company and passed through the wires during clearing therefrom all Chinese the week-end but as yet "conflict This signalises the determination ng reports" is the only apt de- of the naval authorities that pas- scription of news about the war in sengers and cargo going from China. During the last seven these wharves to steamers found days Wuchang has fallen". and for Hong Kong shall no longer be "held out" several times. There that he was endeavouring to lente mielested by the miscalle 3 strike" seems less doubt about Hankow the adene when he succumbed to pickets.
and the Hanyang arsenal these wounds...
The reasons which led to the fighting are not yet known and the number participating is in doubt but it is thought that from 20 to 30 men were engaged. The trouble started some dime between 7-30 and 8 a.m. and the conflict seems to ha wared for considerable Lime.
The two men killed in the fray are thought to have been "members;
opposing factions. One appears to have been killed outright, his
body being found lying at the eastern end of New Market Street. where the fight actually took plac The other was found at the other Street entrance and it is presumed
side of the market at the Morrison)
Both men had sustained terrible
are
Latest Details. Further details of the affray
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ENGLISH LEAGUE
Division I.
HIGH-SEA MUTINY?
On Board B. and I. Vessel.
SOME CASUALTIES.
H.M.S. "Carlisle Dispatched to Scene.
the Colony this morning report Wireless messages received in
an attempted mutiny on board the.s.s. "Talamba," a B. and I. vessel with Chinese deportees on. board bound for Amoy from Singapore.
The messages, which are brief, state that in the course of the at- tempted mutiny one man was kill ed and two injured. The mes- Bromsages do not state whether the
Aston Villa 1, Burnley 1. Blackburn 1. Tottenham 0. Bolton 2, Newcastle 1. Cardiff City 1. West
wich 1.. Derby County 2. Liverpool 1. Everton 0, West Ham &. Huddersfield 0, Birmingham 2. "Leicester 5. Wednesday 8,
Manchester United 2. Leeds 2. Sheffield 4 Arsena] 0. Sunderland 3, Bury 0.
Division IL. Blackpool 6, Barnsley 1 Clapton Orient 1. South Shielda
10.
Fulham 2, Darlington 1. Grimsby 2 Manchester City 2. Middlesborough 0, Preston N.E.
2.
Notts County 1, Hull 0. Oldham 1. Portsmouth 0.. Port Vale 0 Chelsen 0. Reading 4. Notts Forest 0. Southampton 0. Bradford City
Wolverhampton 2, Swansea 2.
Div. III (South). Bournemouth 4, Gillingham 2. Bristol City, 5, Watford 0. Brighton 3, Millwall 1. Charlton 1. Crystal Palace 2. Luton 1, Swindon: 1. Merthyr 1, Newport 2. Northampton 2, Brentford 3. Norwich 2. Bristol Rovers 0. Plymouth 2, Aberdare 0. Queen's Park Rangers 1, Coven-
try 1. Southend 1, Exeter 2
Div. HII (North).. Ashington 1. Wrexham 1. "Bradford 2. Rotherham 2. Chesterfield 5. Wigan 2. Crewe 5, Barrow. 0. Hartlepools 0 Halifax 1 Nelson 5, Doncaster 1. Southport 2, Accrington 1. Stockport 3, Lincoln 3. Rochdale 1, Durham 3. Tranmere 4, New Brighton 1. Walsall 0, Stcke 9.
SCOTTISH LEAGUE, Aberdeen 2, Queen's Park 0. Airdrie 3. Hibernians 0. Celtic 3, Morton 0. Dundee United 1, Kilmarnock 2. Dunfermline 0, Falkirk 1. Hearts 1. Hamilton 1. Motherwell 2, Clyde 0.1. Partick 3, Dundee 3. St. Johnstone 2, Rangers 1. St. Mirren, 5, Cowdenbeath 1. -Reuter.
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killed and injured were among the mutinous deportees or amongst, deck passengers, a certain.number of whom were on board."
It is stated that sixty-four Chinese deportees were implicat- ed in the attempted mutiny:
There being no smaller vessel available at the time the messages were received, H.M:S. "Carlisle" Lo was dispatched from Swatow
accompany the Talamba to Hongkong. She is expected here to-morrow morning.
CYCLE MISHAP.
MACHINE PUSHED INTO A DITCH.
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COW RUNS AMOK,
An unusual experience berel Mr. Littlejohn. of the Port De- velopment Department, while ho was motor cycling in the New Ter ritories yesterday afternoon.
As the machine" was passing Char Hang village, in the Taipo district, on its way to Fanling,. the cyclias observed two men be- ing chased by a cow and coming in his direction. The animal sud- denly charged into the side car of the machine,, the impact sending the machine and the rider.into a ditch.
The cow then bolted away through a field.
The machine was slightly dam- ared. but the rider was none the worse for the mishap.
ARMED ROBBERY.
FISHERMAN AND HIS WIFE INJURED.
HAUL OF $615.
An armed robbery was commit- ed by four, men on a fishing junk...... lying at anchor near Kau Sal, in the Saikong district, early on Saturday morning."
The men were armed with a re- volver and a knife. During the intimidation of the occupants of the boat, Ng Sai-fook, the master, and his wife, the gang inflicted several injuries in their efforts to keep them qulet.
Ransacking the boat, the gang took money, jewellery and cloth
The junkmaster and his wife were both sent to hospital.
20,000-YEAR-OLD.
"COMPLETE REMAINS OF A
MAMMOTH.
FLESH USED TO FEED DOGS.
Prague, July 21-The Moscow | Academy of Science has just ap- AUSTRALIANS.pointed the members of an ex- pedition which will proceed to the lower courses of the River Amur, 1ST DAY AGAINST CIVIL in Eastern Siberia, for the pur-
SERVICE.
pose of bringing back to Moscow.. the remains of a mammoth which have been found there, in a won- derful state of preservation in ice, The discovery of the mammoth was only made possible as the re- suit of a fissure in a huge glacier embodied in the river bed.
It is clear now there is a being also immediate objectives of injuries, showing signs of having
London, Sept. 4. complete end of pourparlers be- the southern Nationalists. One been badly hacked about with chop-
Wangratta was scratched for tween the Governments of Hong factor which will be noted by hers in addition to having nasty the St. Leger at 11.63 to-day-ing to the value of $615.
stab wounds. Neither has as vet Reuter.. Kong and Canton in respect to a those who are hoping for peace in been identified. They are thought settlement of the boycott by nego-¡ China is that the struggle seems to have been 27 and 32 years of tition. Canton has been chal-to be spreading to other parts of age respectively, and were dressed lenged to do its worst, but the the country. From far-off Sze-in black pongee silk clothes.
The arrested man also sustained British naval authorities have chuan province comes a report of wounds apparently received in the made it quite clear at the same
merchant vessels being seized to course of the fight and, together lime that that "worst" shall no convey troops to Wu Rel-fu's aid.with a constable who took part in is arrest, has been admitted: le longer include the molestation of Marshal Sun Chuan-fang, ruler of hospital. It is alleged that the con- the five provinces around Shang-stuble was wounded by the arrest- passengers and cargo going to the
hai, seems to be moving at last, on ed man. Neither wounda Hong Kong steamers. The pickets!
thought to be sericus. may continue to be "cocks of the As his vanguard is rather far in-
the side of his professed superior.] walk" on purely Chinese territory.and it will take time to discover but they will menace British lives whether he had actually, entered were gathered on enquiries being and British property with im- the war on Wu Pei-fu's side. With made this morning.
It appears that the fight was be- punity in future. That is the the armies at his command, the
supply of munitions and his tween rival parties who met near plain and very welcome message: strategic position, Sun Chuan. the market. The two deceased men to be read into the action by the fang may become the deciding the opposing faction, who counted were accosted by the members of British gunboats at the British-power. How much truth there is the larger number, and an attack
London, Sept. 4. owned wharves in Canton. The the southerners remains to be in his supposed gesture against
To-day the Australians met the immediately began. One of the Civol Service(in a two-day position is one that will be follow-seen. It is true that he can strike men was done to death on the spot, match) at Chiswick.
while the other, although mortally ed with interest. A period has a vital blow and the rear flank
The weather was bright and hot wounded, kept behind his asslant been put to the policy of passive of General Chang Kal-anck, by for a considerable distance before although the wicket was wet.
marching of Changsha in 'Hunun
However, it dried up before tes.. This, the first complete mam- resistance to the annoying and province. But, on the other hand. his hand was a police whistle which he fell dead. Tightly clutched in
The Civil Service won the foss moth discovered is claimed to be illegal acts of the boycott pickets vernacular papers still give pro he used during the chase.
more than 20,000, years old, and and sent the Australians in. and the miscalled "Strike" Com-minence to his emissary being in When the police arrived on the
At the close of play the visitors was in such excellent condition mittee in Canton. They have had to Hongkong is the possibility of fray eleaped into Morrison Street. 201 and S. Everett 93 not out-portation and the difficulty of tak- conference with Canton. Nearest scene one of those engaged in the had scored 440 for the loss of when discovered, that owing to aeven wickets. J. M. Taylor hit the lack of proper means of trans- a long and a merry innings. They hostilities on the Kwangtung-through Cleverly Street, and on to have now been told in the plain Fukien border. For a month at the Praya, where he was brought Reuter, language of, declive action that least we have been told by private to bay by a Chinese constable. The sources that the Fukien army was man, who had already been wound- that innings is at an end so far as going to cross the frontier, having ed in the back during the fight, it concerns passengers and cargo long cast covetous eyes on the offered desperate resistance und for the Hong Kong steamers. Any richer territory of Kwangtung. It brandished a dagger. The con- further illegalities in this direc- should be borne in mind that atable watched for his opportunity
A chess team in London will Chow Yam-yan, the Tupan of and dealt a blow which, disarmad tion have now been made impos- Fukien, is a
Limping laboriously and in an subordinate of the desperado.
play a team in Chicago by cable expectant mood an old Chinese Bible.
Marshal Sun Chuan-fang. Unless
waited at the Central This man was taken to hospital, on November 6, for the British woman This is certainly the best piece Chow (or his man on the spot) is as also the constable, who received American chess trophy presented Magistracy this morning for com of intelligence in regard to the acting without instructions, then a cut in the wrist during the en- by Mr. Samuel Inscull of Chicago, pensation for injuries done by #
It has to be assumed that Sun counter.
The Lord Mayor of London and motor car. A Chinese who drove continuante of the boycott that is helping Wu Pel-fu from a No further arreste had been the Mayor of Chicago will move the vehicle without a licence was has reached us for many months, motive of loyalty, or he is out to made up to a late hour this morn first, whereafter the teams will fined $20 and in addition he was
ordered to pay $2 to the woman. carry on Reuter ing. evidently
preserve the balance of power. recognis-
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New York, Sept. 4.
ing the proper measure for its preservation, much of its flesh was veed for feeding the dogs of the expedition.