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"SPLASHED WITH BLOOD."

FULL STORY OF WANHSIEN ÉPIC.

British Naval Action Described.

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1926..

DEAD SOLDIERS HEAPED UP IN PYRAMIDS

Hankow, Sept. 10.. Details of the Wanhsien incident make a story that is certainly anlude in the annals of the Yangtze. Indeed it is unlikely that & | bloodier tight has ever been fought in China waters. "The whole scene as the survivors paint it does not belong in this age but in the 18th century, when muzzle to muzzle"fighting was the rule.

TheKiawo" was fitted with Boiler plate, equipped with two pon-pams, tore and aft. and a number of machine and Lewis

When about 300 out of the 400 soldiers on the "Wanhsien" had 'been killed, the rest grew frenzied in their desperation and made, a rush to board the "Kiawo."

Attacks from Shore,

ANTI-BRITISH.

AGITATION BEGINS IN'

HANKOW

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WUCHANG ON FIRE.

SOUTHERNERS CONTINUE ATTACK."

Hostilities Start in Kiangsi.

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NATIONALISTS ADVANCE SLOWLY: A NEW ALLIANCE?

Hostilities, between the southerners and their rivals continue

The position of the British Navy but fighting must have been on a small scule. Holding the balance following the Wanhaien incident, of power. Marshal Sun Chuan-farg is still retiring his men from war the result of firing by the southern-zone. Chinese men-of-war have been asked to join in and Wu Fei-fu ers and agitation for an anti-British is still moving his "erack" troops up, hoping to rescue Wuchung. boycott, and other incidents are described, throwing considerable

Ponds:-

[By Our Special Correspondentl , to Hong Kong) to go to Amoy. Bght on the situation.

Later reports confirm the bom-where he will hunch an attack on The latest despatch to hand southerners lasting from Monday

bardment of Wuchung by the Kwangtung,

"Crack" Soldiers. Arrive.. night tilt Tuesday afternoon.

Three other Northern'erulsers, at Artillery was brought up to present in Shantung waters, several positions, and aeroplanes under orders to leave for Hankow dropped bombs.

to assist Wu Pei-fa. They are the "Hai Sum," "Cho Yu" and "Yung Cheung," which were in Canton a few years ago"on the southerners'

Fire broke out in "several places in the city.

The last message is that the

It was planned that four board-

Trouble on Japanese Ships. ing parties should enter the four They were beaten back with the

Hunkow, Sept. 12. after cargo doors in the stargreatest difficulty and at the ex- board-quarter of

the s.s. "Wan-penditure of the last cartridge on Five battalions of the Hankow hsien." get on deck and stand off the "Kiawo," so the officers hast-garrison troops under command of the soldiers until the three officers ened to cut adrift and pull away. Gen. Tu Hsi-chun were yesterday northerners are still in possession. had made their escape.

AN the ship fell away, thei man who stepped Chinese scidiera rushed forward armed and deprived of their uni- General Liu Yu-chen favors hold The first

southern troops,ing out but his coliengue, General across into the eargo door was on the "Wanhsien." got under the forms by the greeted with a ride bullet. The forecastle Head where they had Without any previous arrangement Chen Chic-mo prefers to make |second was also shot at and then machine guns placed and opened thes, marched up the British Bund terms, which include 7 months' ar- a galling fire. The forward pom- last night and boarded two Japan-rears of pay and safe conduct to pom placed a few shells neatly under the forecastle head and blew ese steamers, the "Fengyang Maru" it off.

Jand the "Suiyang Maru," hoping to While all this was going on, the be taken to Nanking whence they Cockchafer" down stream and would return to Shantung. the "Widgeon" up stream were The situation was delicate be being vigorously shelled by the shore batteries on both sides of cuse they amounted to over 2.000 | the river and were busy silencing men while the Japanese steamers

them

YANG SEN'S REPRISALS.

Takes Three British Missionary Captives.

Shanghai. Sept. 17.

The Wanhalen military have necupied: the China Intand Mission there and are holding British missionaries us three captives.--Renter.

the bugle sounded and the four boarding parties leaped across and were met with a terific criss. cross niachine gun fire that seem ed to come from every part of the Isteamer.

Lasted 45 Minutes.

Machine guns had been placed

to fire from every possible angle while riflemen by the score were rencented behind heaps of cargo.

The fight began at 6.28 p.m. and luated for just three quarters of, an hour with the two boats bound together by the "Kiawo's" grap pling hooks.

In the first few minutes the British sailors suffered all the casualties, but swarms of sol diers then appeared on the decks and the machine and Lewis guns came into full play.

The "Kiawo" edged up, until: she was fully abeam of the Wan- hsien" and the after pom-pom got into action against the after deck of the "Wanhsien." with the

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In Kiungsi, the Nationalists are advancing slowly. Their two lines. in the north and south of the pro- vince.respectively, both met the gar risons of the "Five Previnces," who

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side. But are now under General Chang Tsung-chang, the Fengtien tupan of Shantung.

General Chang Tsung-chang also intends to send an air force to the northerners, and to allot them more trains on the Peking-Hankow rail- way.

Wu Pei-fu' crack divisions, hav- ing arrived at the new base in Siu- yang. have moved up to the 2nd line at Kwangshui and the 1st line. at Halackan. Marshal Sun Chuan-lung is now

Only small numbers of southern- devoting attention. fowards aner have left Hankow, northwards

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balance refused to return When the "Klawo" was going! from the "Wanhsien" to the Chinese territory. "Wantung" a gun on the fore- This predicament has now been shore. Just below the town of relieved by other shipping com- Wanhsien, opened on her.

yards

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peace in the north-east, so that he. Pei-fu The remainder are Fenn take the feld against the Wuchang, further south in Hunan southerners. His generals. are province. Or moving towards moving towards the bigger towns Kings in two routes.

the Kiangst frontier.

Warships Join Fight?

The first shot fell about 20 Panies who will take on board over

A Nationalist report claims ap ahead of her, but the 1.500 men, to-night.

uninterrupted inagch en route to carried [second

sway

A Chinese Beast.

Nanchang, capital of Klangsi water tank ind other gear;

As the result of personal inter- On Sun Choan-fang's side.

his above

decks, sc the "Cuck-views between the American Con- gunboats and one detachment has chater" ber the shore gunspl. the Japanes. Admiral Nagano joined hands with northerners from have a six-inch shell and when and Gen. Tang Surfing on Hankows the concentration being at the dust and smoke cleared away steamers here has been stopped. Wayueh. there were neither gun nor men The American ganbout "Pales and The Nationalist 7th Array, fresh to be seen, but only a great hele Pigeon" with two steamers in con- from its laurels In the Wu-Han in the beach.

vay last night received a formal sector, is moving against Wayuek. call from the officer commanding To reinforce his strength there, the batteries at Yochow who had Sun Chuan-faag has summoned, Ad- boasted that he would allow no miral Yang, Shu-chuany from Foo- gunboat to pass Cheulingchi. chow to Shanghai, with a view to The British monitor H.M.S. sending the warships in Fukien to Some say 39 shots were fired, "Cricket" took up her station to-day the Yangtse. others say 56, but not many hadjat Chenlingen without any inci- Or these ships, Tachun Chew dropped into the town before, itdent.

Yam-yan is stated to have retained

The "Widgeon" devoted herself chiefly to blowing up artillery and soldiers on the water-front, but the "Cockchafer" with her bigger guns shelled the town.

was burning from end to end and Official telegrams from Chung-the "Hal" Yang" (recently a visitor before it was all over the place king give positive apbrance that was a raging inferno.

there is overt hostility "against; The "Kiawo" saw the last of foreighers there, but nevertheless this hideous picture at 8 pm. agitators are frantically working up when she dropped five miles down a British boycott: stream to anchor for the night.

Even there they could see the

Cameron Waiting?

PIECE OF FOLLY:

CHINA'S ELECTION. TO COUNCIL,

STRAIGHT TALKING.

shells set so that they would ex-red in the sky all night long. No The second British expédition jplode four or five feet from the one ate and no one slept that under command of Admiral

muzzle.

hight, and some of the men are Cameron on B.M.S. '"Bec" is wait- The dead on the deck of the shaking yet from the excitement. ing impatiently for supplies which "Wanhsien" heaped up until they-Rodney Gilbert to the "N. C have not yet arrived, consequently rolled off the pile and fell into Daily News."

the expedition did not start to-day.

London, Sept. 16. the water.

Wachang is still resisting and

Some criticism is made by though it is pretending to welcome pence overtures, is actually playing of China and the South Ameri the newspapers of the election for time still hoping for Marsha! can States to the Council of the Wu Pei-fu's return.

The local press adopts the Kuo-, League of Nations, especially in mintang tone, launching absurd view of China's lack of an effec- charges of British support being

5.000 CASUALTIES?:

British Wounded Walk Down Gangway.

Hankow, Sept. 10,

tive Government.

The Daily Express charac

Muck of Brains and Filth. On the forward hatch, which is a very big one, they piled up in a perfect pyramid as the soldiers were driven on deck by the board- ing parties below and mounted on the heap of corpses to get a shot at the "Kiawo, only to add to the

Of the wounded on board the river to Marshal Wu Pei-fu. They teristises the election of China heap

The whole port side of Kiawo" taken over by the U.S.are also giving grossly distorted.

48. a gigantic piece of folly, the "Kiawo" was splashed with destroyer "Stewart" near Han-versions of the Wanhsien Incident. blood until she appeared to have know, there have been no deaths Rumours of Gen. Yang Sen's afilia-Router. been newly painted with red lead among the 14 and one man only tion with the Cantonese are given and the deck of the "Wanhsien" is in a dangerous, condition. colour to, by references to his army, Four were described as stretcher Kuomintang versions of the cases but all but the one man, Wanhaien incident as "our troops." SALES ROOM CLAIM. The forward boarding party who is shot through the kidneys,N, C. Daily News." under a warrant officer got from walked down the gangway the lower. to the main deck and

was deep in a muck of blood, brains and filth.

Hankow, Sept. 9.

FOREIGNERS EVACUATE.

Hankow, Sept. 16.

SUING THE WRONG PERSON?

$173,20 FOR GOODS.

Arsenal Busy.

Shanghai, Sept: 11 Prominent officers of" the "north- government state that General Cheng Kai-shek, after capturing the Pankow arsenal, will use that as a A base.

They say he will inmediately commence à march on Shanghai, defended by Marshal Sun Chuan-

Overland. Hankow is morej than 400 miles from Shanghai,

auch further by the river.

ng

Marshal Sun, though musßect: of being secretly in league with the southern general, is open making every effort to defend Shanghai. The Shanghai arsenal lis working night and day and the long range cannon at the Woosung forts have been repaired and put into first class condition.

Cruisers At Shanghai.

'Three of the hest cruisers in the Chinese fleet, are at the mouth of the Yangtze. Recruiting is con- ducted at feverish pace in the coun-! Try and village districts of Kiangru province, while the War Council have y complete list of steamers and) schedules, ready for the transport] of troops upriver to meet the, udvancing Cantonese, United Fress."

Peking, Sept. 11. General Wu Pei-fu is."organising ni forces at Sialtan, 30 miles north) of Hanków, and is receiving røpre- sentatives of Marshal Sun Chuan- fang with the object of co-opera- sión. Marshal Chang Tao-lin will preside at a general military con- ference at Peking soon to be held.

Associated Press."

OBITUARY.

OLD LADY RESIDENT'S DEATH.

MRS. G. P. LAMMERT.

As we go to press we learn of the sad news of the death of Mrs. Geo. P. Lammert, wife of "Mr. G. P. Lammert, Sr., the stock- broker,

Mrs. Lammert has for some time past been suffering from lanaemia,

Yesterday, we are told, she was

tried to find the ship's officere who All the dead, seven altogether, were supposed to be locked in and the fourteen wounded, were " their cabins. It was discovered carried away by the repulsed then that they were on the bridge, boarding party except Comman Reports from Ichang atate that where they had fortified them der Darley whose body could not the Wanbalen British members of In the weekly Summary Court

elves against the pirates who be recovered.

the Customs and Chinese Post case fixing this morning a claim had seized the ship.

When the party returned deci-Office staffs have arrived at Ichang for $178,20 by Mr. W. J. Rowe! How Darley Was Killed,

mated there was nothing to do safely.

against Mr. L. E. S. Hodge was Commander Darley was on the but demonstrate to Yang Sen and One Customs officer named mentioned.

men who his cut-throats that the threat to Davies, who had been imprisoned, Plaintiff appeared in person, bridge with several were sniping at soldiers on the shell Wanhsien was not a bluff, narrowly escaped being shot.

He defendant being represented by very cheerful and did not seem to be near such a serious turn "Kiawo" while the Chinese pilot so it was done and done thorougli-was finally released only as a ro- Mr. Hugh-Jones, . « fed them ammunition Having According to an American result of the energetic action of the Plaintiff stated that the claim that took place this morning.

The deceased lady dieil at 1.80 | gone so far, and having seen so port from Szechuan those killed Japanese Commissioner of Customs. was for the price of certain goods

of his

-Reuter. men killed and in the bombardment numbered many wounded, he must have made up 3,000. The Japanese minimum)

his mind to take the "Wanhsien" estimate is 6,000.

while he was about it, for he ran

Fled In Panic.

JAPANESE PRISONERS.

·

Arrangements for the funeral

and articles of furniture, realised.m. to-day. at a sale at Mr. Hodge's sales;

will be announced later. rooms.

The sympathy of all will go out Mr. Hugh-Jones said that per- down to the main deck with a re- Unfortunately for the "face"

haps he ought to tell the plaintiff to Mr. Lammert and his family,

and to other relatives, in this sad. volver in each hand, shouted to of the expedition and the secur

that he was suing the wrong per- Shanghai, Sept. 17.. his men who rushed to follow him ity of foreign residents in Sze-A message from Hanks under son. He should have sued the hour of their bereavement. and leaped across. Before he chuan it was then found that yesterday's date

Anys that the Auctioneering and Brokering reached the body of the "Wan-none of the ships had more than Japanese staff of the Talan Cotton Company. hsien" he fired two shots and enough fuel to take her back to Mill, Chiaków, have been made Plaintif rapiled that he had then dropped fairly riddled by Ichang 30 an immediate with prisoners in the mill buildings by dealt with Mr. Hodge as in machine gun fire. The Chinese drawal from the scene was essen-local labour union pickets auctioneer direct and not with the immediately rushed him, stabbed tial although it was fully realised It is thought that this is a sequel Company, a

him everywhere with their bay- onets and cut his throat.

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