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HONGKONG, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1926.
DANGER TO CANTON. A YOUTHFUL ROGUE.
May Have to Give Up.. Hankow.
FOES ON FRONT AND REAR.
Sun Chuan-fang Advances on, Wuchang.
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From Out Specul "Correspondent.} Continuing their retient on the most northerly sector of the Kinngai-Human front, the Nation alists give the impression of falling back in préparation for a dober- mined stand, rather than through inferiority in the field.
Marshab Sun Chuan-fang ia new (estimated to have 80,000 in Bupeh Artvince, on the march to Wachang. The southerners opposed to him there do not number more than 50,000, some of whom have ben fighting for twà months.
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FRESH HOPES FOR COAL PEACE
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London, Sept. 30.
PRICE, $3,00 Per Month.
DESTITUTE
FISHERFOLK HELPED BY TUNG WAH
WITH CLOTHES & FARE.
A three years old polies record
The many refugees from fishing sheet was produced before Mr. The continued orift back of men junks which were wrecked in the R. E. Lindseikat the Central Magis to the coal mines, which is gather typhoon, also those who were trucy this morning to prove that a ing momentum, la regarded as blown from their course and land- Chinese youth had been given ning strong indianlong as the termina:ed here destitute (the ranks of strokes with a cane for a larvention of the strike is not far off. these were increased yesterday offance.
"Smée yesterday 7000 men have by a number of Fukien fisher folk who arrived in a pitiable condi- There was a positivé boom in tion) are being looked after by coal shares on the Cardiff Stock the Tung Wah Hospital which has Exchange to-day.
taken over, the work of attending to their needs, fitting, them up with clothing and makingar- rangements for sending them back to their native provinces.
Defendant, who had now passed | resumed. the areat, was sentenced to four
week hard labour this time for stealing a watch and chain" valued
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Division Inspector Blackman mentioned that in pawning the antieles defendant gave his proper nume; and this led to his arrest.
A sum of $2 was found on defen- dunt when he was arrested. His Worship crdered this" money to be returned to the complainant to help. him to redeem his property.
On the centre and south of this TYPHOON ENTERS TOURANE
زاد
COAST.
frunt--where the southern troops ire comparatively fresh-there has |been little of account during the. For the 24 hours ending at last two days.except that the Can-neon to-morrow the forecast is Lonese are retiring to preserve their east winds, moderate; overcast,
occasional rain." alignment with those further north.
"So Perilously Near."
Following, the important break away at the Atherton Colliery in Lancashire yesterday comes new
ON THE FRONTIER."
Picket Chief Says He Will Leave on October 10,
"
BOYCOTT END.
Steamboat Co. Still
Waiting.
NOT USING WHARF YET.
Traffic and Trade Conditions.
"Not,' until the boycott is officially finished was the reply of Mr. John Arnold to-day when asked as to when the Steamboat Co.'s vessels were going alongside the wharves at Canton again.
The "China Mail" asked, in view, of Chinese expectations that the Hong Kong, Canton and Macao Steamboat Co., Ltd., wilytake the More Junk Casualties."
head in "restoring communica- Two. more reports of loss of tions," would the steamboats go life aboard Junks during Mon-to the wharf instead of anchoring day's typhoon have been received, in the stream at Canton
Mr. Arnold, a secretary, said Three survivors from fishing- junk No. 8166, out of a crew of 20 that the company did not intend have arrived in Hong Kong, re- to do so until the boycott is ac- Porting that "the boat was badly tually and offjally over."
Nor is there any truth in damaged near Ping Hof although able to ride out the storm. Heavy rumours that the Company has seas swept the master his chil- been overhauling the wharves at dren and most of the crew over Canton.None of the company's officials have been near the wharves for over a year," stated
The "China lail" learns from an authentic RAIN FORECAST,
source that the plekets did not leave Samchun yesterday.
The No. 1 in charge of the plekete informed a detective under the Assistant Superinten-board. dest of Police, New Territory, yesterday that he is waiting for fresh instructions from Canton and that the pickets will be with drawn by October 10 at the latest. Two strike pickets were on duty at Lowu (on the Chinese side of the border, near the railway
The Observatory report to-day reid's
COTI-
In the absence to date of a big, Pressure has decreased deciding battle, it is difheult to pre-siderably over central Japan. It dict whether Sun Chuan-fang will has increased slightly from Che capture Wachang, Hanyang and foo to Hong Kong, and is nearly Hankaw.
stationary over the Philippine.
The southerners are ΠΟΥ HO: The typhoon. entered the coast peritously near their line of cem-to the north of Tourane last even- munication with Canton thut' unless Ling.
they stem the,,tide within a few An anticyclone has formed over days, they will be pushed out into China. the south-west of Chifa, haying
Moderate to fresh monsoon may
bridge) yesterday afternoon and
again this morning.
They have been searching good. and passengers as before.
No pickets have been seen else. where on the frontier.
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One survivor of a crew of ten from another fishing junk (No.Mr. Arnold 2269H.) has arrived back in the Colony reporting that he clung to a plank when the boat capsized and drifted to Tintin Island.
Derelict Junk.
The master of the .s. "Chuen
Chow" reports having passed a
derelict Junk, bottom up, a mile S.S.W. of the S. W. point of Lan- tau island constituting a danger Ito navigation.
Accidentally upsetting a boiling pot of congee on his foot, a the morning a Fong Streek wes taken to the Gov arrangement was made between the.
suffering from daald wounds, miners' leaders and the Ocean ernment Civil Hospital, yesterday Collieries, Rhondda Valley, that the owners consent not to reopen pits until Saturday when the leaders
then to make a detour home...... be expectell along the coast of from Wales to the effect that in the Chinese cook from No. 7, Ming
On Wednesday scheday, the China and over the N. Chinae. I gotly heart. 5 province allies were, moving Rainfall for the 24 hours cha: forward gradually keeping
ining at 10 a.m. to-day, 2.40 inches. touch with the solithe pers, but Total to date, 93.28 inches, against trying to press back th whole of an average of 75.87 inches. the northern sector.
Advanced brigades ni the southerners still hold strategic points, abutting into the allies' lines.
'!
Chang Kai-shrek's Position. Sun Chuan-fang's main advance
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Walt Little Longer. " There is therefore, little new to report in the way of a return to
normal conditions as regards ship.. ping:
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little longer.
But it is likely that the Steam- boat Co's Lungshan" and the (run in conjunction will be the China Navigation Co.'s "Fanshan only boats for a few days, more.. at least, and that they will con sinue to anchor in the river. Dige will not interfere with willing Rhondda Valley, where, after a
Reliable sources in Canton now of meeting
the workers.
miners state that more time has been These collieries normally employ yesterday. deputation waited needed to withdraw the pickets..
and asked them October 5 is the first date pro 21,000., and it is expected that 60 on the owners
to postpone the resumption of per cent. will return.-Reuter.
Conference Adjourned.
work auti news was received of mised, possibly October 10 and
aven a little later if necessary. London Sept. 30.
today's Delegates' Conference in The deputation, pledged The Miners Delegate Confer-London. ence has decided to refer the Goy-itself. on behalf of the mass meet-
musa
Those Qualifications. Beyond yesterday's reports
The P. and 0. as "Khyber" brought letter and parcel mails from Europe this morning, the combined total being 632 bags. has been along the southern bank United Kingdom (September 2) Letters and papers from the of the Yangtse, going up river close to the right bank, with the Wu-Han amounted to 96 bags and Londonersment's proposals back to the Ing, that when the result of the there is nothing further to in parcels (August 26) to 181 bags districts; with the request that the conference was known, there would dicate the calling off of more
Delivery of the letter mail. com-vote of the districts be taken and be no interference by the local pickets. menced in the forenoon.
E report made to the adjourned leaders with men who wished to
cities as his, objective.
To the present state of affairs,
* Thire is now an appreciable anger that the Cantonese will be
A later arrival was the P. & Conference, to be held on October start work.-British Wireless Hong Kong can only point out truck a deadly low here.
Rather than face such a risk, 8.8. "Kashgar" with 181 bags of mail from Japan and Shanghai,
Kai-shek will shorten his line by
is surmised that General Chang included in which were 21 bags sacrificing Hankow, and concen- from Europe via Siberia.
trating on a stand between Yochów and Changsha.
Meanwhile General Yang, Sen's. bid portends an attack on the Nu- tiofialist rear, in Hupeh
MOTOR BOAT FIRE.
7.-Reuter.
EFFECT ON FINANCE.
Deficit of £61,750.000.
Rugby, Sept. 30. The effect of the prolonged coal stoppage is reflected in the Exche quer returns for the Arst half year' ended September 30.
Service.
that Mr. Eugene Chen categorical. ly mentioned "on or before Octo- ber 10 (most probably at the end of September)," while his second communique gave no date, the words reading "that arangements have been made with the Strike Committee for the termination, of the boycott."
Of course, Mr. Chen qualifies "the second statement with:
DIVIDED OPINIONS.
International Conference At Ostend.
People on the Queen's Pier this
Rugby Sept. 30. morning were treated to a little
Messrs. Herbert Smith, Richard- excitement by the motor boat "hee
Receipts amounted to £322,250,-son and Cook, three of the chief Kuen suddenly catching fire.
The blaze was caused by a leak-1000, as against an expenditure of officials of the Miners' Federation, age in the petrol pipe, and was 84,000,000, showing a defleit of were not present at to-day's Dele-To what extent this step will gate Conference. They left early lead to a restoration of Chiness- confined to the engine parts.
Boatmen in the vicinity assisted.
For the corresponding half of the by aeroplane for Ostend to attend British trade relationa must de- Further north, Marshal Wu Pei- with buckets of water, and the in- previous financial year the receipts the Minera International Federspend on British policy.
still talks about It counter-cident was soon over.
discussed for assisting the British A fistle damage was done to the called £344,000,000-British Wire- tion, at which proposals are to be Attek. Outposts of the Nationaļ-
miners-British Wireless Service. let 8th army, stretched northwards engine of the boat.
The Cantonese are facing Sun Chuan-fang from the east and Yang Sen is, marching down
on them from the west
Race for the Spoile?.
-
from Hankow, are gradually eom-
ing back southwards, but, Wu Pei-]
be-
£61,750,000.
less. Service.
Strikers' Levies. Actually the boycott has not ended yet as Strike" activities are still in evidence at Canton it DISTRICTS TO DECIDE. NO INTERNATIONAL STRIKE. self, not mentioning any outp
Chinese passengers for Kong can now go unioles fu has yet to advance again. southerners being nervous as to What Week's Delay May Mean. Cook Holds. Out for National
Should there be a southern de-their positions in Hankow,
Rugby, Sept. 30,
Agreement. “N
Shameen, whence they tranship by sampan or motor-boat to the bacle there may follow a unique Anti, British propaganda has The decision of the Miners' Dele-)
Hong Kong steamer to
Ostend, Sept. 80% refer the ruce for control Wu-Han
not been noticed in local vernacu-gate Conference tween five contenders, viz. (1) Gen.lar Press for some days..
On the Government's proposals to the rank Seven nations ware represented not interfered with. Liu Teo-lung (who betrayed Wu HMS. "Widgeon" and the and file in the coal fields, means at the, Miners International Com other hand, passengers goi
Klawo" left Ichang for up-river that another week must elapse bemittee convoked to consider inter from Hong Kong leave the boat this morning,Official Despatch.fore any further action is taken by national measures to support the in the stream and land wherever
British miners. It adjourned till they can The Naval mission is not in the miners. dicated. Presumably the e.s. Lodge meetings will be held in to-morrow without officially issuing From a well-informed source theChina Mail learns that the lawo" is still a unit of the all the coal fields, at which the any atatament Yangtse Flotilla.].
Government's proposals will be sub Messrs. A. J. Cook and Herbertso-called passport fee of $15 per mitted for acceptance or rejection, Smith represented Great Britain head, alleged to be levied by the and the delegates will return to It is reported that two currents Strike Committee, is still being London and report the results to of opinion developed led, firstly, by collected, their adjourned conference next the General-Secretary, M. Frank Thursday,
Hodges, favouring 'conciliation, and,
Pet-fu and now occupies Hanyang
as commander of 15th Nationalist Army); (2) Gen. Li Yu-chen (de- Tender of Wuchang and pro-Wu); (3), Sun Chuan-Tang (going up the Yangtse); (4) Yang Sen (coming down the Yangtse); (5) Wus Pel- fu (from Honan province, in the north)
The runners are given in order
prize now controlled by southerners.
OFFICIAL DESPATCH.
Up
Peace Refused Again?
Shanghai, Sept. 30.
ProclamationWanted. of handicap, or rather, accord-
A brief message from Hankow,
Another sign that the boycott ing to proximity to the coveted dated Sept. 29 says it is reported, In announcing the decision to re-secondly, by Mr. Cook, who is cre
the
that Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's fer to the coal fields the officials dited with a desire to continue the is not officially over is that ordin- troops are gradually approaching of the Miners' Federation added: strike to obtain a national agree-ary cargo is still not coming through, presumably on account The districts may; of course, come ment.ARPTA the rescue of Wuchang.
A. Kiukiang message of Sept. 27ard with their own proposals It was early revealed that there is of restrictions by pickets The says Nanchang is in the hands of altogether from those of the no chance of an international can only "cargo" brought down by the Hankow, Sept. 30.
Sun Chuang-fang's forces. It is Miners' Executive and of the strike. The Germans particularly steamboats are the raw food-
opposed the idea of the ground that stuffs and ginger officially stated that the Cantonese Government. Attacks on the southern forces have been driven back more than while, however, there is. to be they are obliged under Treaty to It is felt that an official an ure reported from up and down a hundredi (80 miles) from this further week's delay the drift export coal to Italy, France, and nouncement by the Canton Gov. River and from Han (Honen pro- Nanchang.
back to work is undoubtedly gather Belgium on account of reparations. ernment may not be made. If the vince?), extensive operations A Japanese message from an- ing momentum. Figures received Strike Fund Depleted pickets are to be sn
The British delegate announced ised by Obtober bing, in progress.
Fow states that the whole of Gen- from eight districts alone show that Southern reverses are reported era! Yang Sen's 7th army pro-1,668 men returned to work to day, that the total subscriptions toward from the Kishgal-Hunan front ceeded down the Yangtse from making a total for the Inst your relief of the Bet $1,250,000 were on and the are Indications of the
Ichang on Sept. 28 by American days of 26,158.
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From the same source it is re- the number of p ported that General Chang Kal-the pits produc shek for the third time has pro 150,162.
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