SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1926.
TROOPS LOOT BANKS.
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LORD FISHER.
THRILLING LETTER TO A SHANGHAI LADY.
MEMORIES REVIVED.
THE CHINA MAIL.
ent for 38 hours and, vary odc, wa didn't feel' in the least hungry. Old Hills gave me his cabin last night, I was regularly done up. It is a sad business, is not Mams? But they will be able to In some instances, the Che
see by the return of killed that wo klangites were pushed back with-
fought hard for, it... The China- out much trouble: Other "rebel"
men fought like anything. Some: bodies deserted the railway' and' To many people of the older of the fallows solemnly swear they moved out into the country. generation the heroic struggle, at
From Kashing (see "guide" Wanhsien must have recalled as the Russians quite distinctly 'when we got to the foot of the elsewhere), the Allies advanced flood of memories of similar hap-ditch. I believe they must have and are believed to have entered ponings in China in the old days, been Russians; no Chimamen ever Hungchow already..
The present Lord Fisher on fought like those fellows did All military observers at Klu- September 13, contributed the yesterday. They had fearful ad kiang and on the whole of the 100 following letters to "The Times" vantages, no doubt. I expect the miles front in Kiangsi are unani (To the Editor of the "Times."Admiral will either die or go home mous that hostilities have ceased Sir-Now that British gun-very shortly. He never suspected for several days.
boats are in action in China again, the place was so strong. There It is almost certain that Sun wonder whether you would care are about 50 or 60 guns more than Chuan-fang still holds Kiukiang; to publish the enclosed account last year and all the old forts are also it is unlikely that he has fed of the taking of the Peiho Forts, rebuilt on a different principle. or that his men have lost Nan-written by my father to the wife They were never Chinamen who
of the bank manager at Shanghai,planned those forts. chang.
A despatch from Kiukiang says I believe. The original letter is that the Cantonese got very close in my possession. to Nanchang but subsequently re- tired (westwards) without much fighting."
Wu Pel-fu's Attack. On the most northerly front, however (that to the North of Cantonese Hankow) where the are holding positions facing Wu Pet-fu's army, fighting has broken out.
I am, etc.,
FISHER. Kilverstone Hall, Thetford,
"Norfolk, Sept. 13.
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www.
FRAUD ALLEGED. DEAFNESS: INSANITY
POSED AS SHIPPING MANAGER?
$1,200 AS SECURITY
STUPIDITY MISTAKEN FOR LUNACY.
WRONG DIAGNOSES.
Allegations of the wrongful cer. An ingenious fraud is alleged tification of deaf persons as insanė, against a Chinese who appeared and of deaf children as mentally
court this morning."
dofelent, are made in the second represented himself as manager claims that it has in its possession According to Police evidence, hestitute for the Deaf. The Institute annual report of the National In-
of a shipping firm and obtained evidence of a number of cases in various sums as security from which the deaf have been detained persone wishing to obtain posi-as a result of erronous diagnosis.
The roport is signed by, Lord These auma. Include $500 from Charnwood, President of the Insti a prospective compradore, and tute, and Mr. M. Birley, Chairman) other amounts totalling over $700 of the Executive Committee. It from others whom it is alleged he spenks in strong terms of the pro- promised positione Buch
49 godown keeper, watchman etc:
Sub-Detective Inspector Fallon prosecuted and the case was re-
tions..
A Forged Order." "
sunt methods of determining the mental condition of the deaf.
"The Committee have evidence of the fact that deaf children who are meraly the victims of neglected edu. cation and training are sometimes certified as mentally defective and
"Not Born to be Shot," June 30-I had to go into the The your of the letter is 1859 forts again just after I had finish-manded. the Admiral to whom my fathered writing the above to try and refers Admiral (afterwards get some papers of the Captain's Sir James) Hope, and his captain and some other little things that Another Chinese Was charged placed in institutions that are was Captain afterwards Sirhe valued We have lost three of at the instance of Sub-Inspector clearly unsuitable for them," the Charles) Shadwell.
the Gunboats, the Cormorant dis-Lane with uttering and presenting Report declares. "Three actual patch boat and the Plover and Lea forged money order purporting instances of this erroneous gunboats. We burnt the Plover to emanate from the
Kwong diagnosis and detention were re- to the water's edge, or rather, the Shing Cheong Arm of Shek Kiparted during the year. The
Heungshan district; "to mad edge. We have blown part which had business connections suitable age frequently induces in a firm neglect to educate deaf children at Wu-shin-kwan is a pass near!
of the Cormorant up, and we are with it. the Honan-Hupeh frontier which June 23.--We are just going to going to have one more try for
them an artificial stupdity which Wu Felfu gave up about a month take the Forts, so Good-bye. the Lee. It is rather ticklish
This case was also namanded. non-export persons may regard as ago. One of his armies is stated June 28. Off the Pelhe work going in there, for we are
100 Piastre Note.
mental dofest" to have moved southwards and
Forts. only 800 yards from them at most, Mr. F. H. Losgby defended an- · Suggested Safeguards. attacked the Cantonese garrison My dear Mums-By some won and they have got about 25 guns other Chinese charged with Existing methods of. certifying there, with what success it s pot derfa, means I have escaped un right in front of us, and occasion-uttering a forged 100 plastre note deaf adults as hisane are condemn known,
hurt, although my dear old Skip- ally they let us have it all. I am on the Bank de FIndo Chine on led by the Committee in the follow- General Tang Sang-chi (com" per has been very badly wounded certain I am not born to be shot. Thursday:
Hing words manding the 8th Army), who was in the foot, a large ball still being The little Kestrel is sink, but I left in charge of Hankow and en in it. I don't know whether I can think they will get her up all virons by General Chang Kai-shek, give you a description of it: I feel right. We have 12 men killed is reported to have gone north in such a state of excitement. 1 and 18 wounded out of 180 who wards to Kwangshui fo supervise, will first tell you those who are left the ship; that's pretty good, in person, the defence against killed or wounded that you know, you know." We found poor this raid by Wo Pei-fu..
Ings, our Marine Officer, was Inglis's body with his jaw blown It is felt that Wu Pei-u, know smothered in the mud when we off, and frightfully disfigured, by ing that large bodies of Southern-aided, being first wounded. Poor, the water.. ers had been withdrawn from his Huleath is badly wounded in the I shall expect such a long letter front to reinforce the Army in groin; I don't think he will live in answer to this. I am certain Kiangsi. is making a determined He fell close to me. Capt. Van you ought to be highly flattered it from a third person. attempt to get back, especially as sittart had his leg shot off, and wher. I tell you that it is longer Chang Tso-lin is gradually push-Purvis is slightly wounded. There than the one I wrote to my
jure very few wounded, fancy Mother..
ing him southwards.
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in comparison to those killed. In A wireless message broadcast-the Plover, the next gunboat to
were killed and! ed from Rugby under yester-jours, 26 men
Mr. Bau Tsu-tung, B.M., B.S.. hus wounded, the Admiral being one day's date, reads:-
At Shanghai, which last week of them. Rason, her Commander,been added to the register of seemed liable to be involved in was smashed to atoms, so was medical practitioners. fighting, all is reported to be McKenna the Military Secretary,
"
quiet and the Chekiang troops and all the Admiral's staff nearly. Mr Wan fu-ahing, 12 D'Aguilar which were advancing upon then the last part of the action 1 Street, has been added to the regis town have withdrawn-British as the only one left to carry theter of chemists and druggiata. Wireless Service.
Förders about, the Flag Lieutenant!
having been rent to command the With reference to Government Corpse of Rebellion.
Plove with a fresh crew from Notification No. 276 of May 7, 1926, Shanghai, Oct. 22. other ships and the Secretary be- la notified that after December Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's ing busy taking notes. Kestrel 31, a red T will be used as signal local headquarters has received a gunboat next buy one to us, 3 left No. 1 of the Hong Kong Local Telegram from Hangchow (capital unhurt of her crew. of Chekiang province) atating hard fight for it, but what could red CONE used at present.
We had a Storm Signal Code, in place of the that Hsia Chap has led and that we do against such a fearful num- the people of Hangchow" are ber of guns? and our poor little! It is notified that the Wing Kee sending delegates to meet the gunboats inclosed in such a small & Co. having lodged a statement coming Sun Chuan-fang army place, not much broader across of particulars pursuant to section. from Kiangsu province.
than the length of our ship 18 of the Chinese Partnership Or- Later: will try and send you a small plan dinance, 1911, is registered as: Sun Chuan-fang's forces have of it from the plan that I had Chinese partnership with the fol reached a point ten miles from given to me for the use of my old lowing registered partners:--Wong Hangchow and are negotiating Skipper. I got one to be sent to Kwong-tin and Leung Kam-kong. with the military party and old Compton for a fellow who has gentry to take over control of the written a description of it for city.
him.
This coupled with Hain Chao's Poor Bowden Smith had his decampnient, means that figura- arm smashed. I had three fellows tively speaking the Chekiang re-to look after in the Coromandel bellion has breathed an expiring wounded, the old skipper, Bowden aigh, and its corpse will be buried, Smith, Buckle of the Magiccuse, when San Chuan-fang's troops en- and a mid of the Fury... ter Hangchow-Reuter."
"Admiral Behaved. Splendidly." The old Admiral behaved splen- didly after he had part of his thigh and leg shot away. He had
'QUAKE IN FRISCO. a cot swung to a pole and was car
ried about in a boat, from the
RESIDENTS RUSH FROM THEIR Plover to the Cormorant to'en-
BEDS.
HOTEL WALLS CRACKED.
courage the men, and then was hoisted up on the bridge till he was hit again, and then they laid hirn down on the quarter-deck where he remained, till night. He San Francisco. Oct. 22.
won't be brought but to the sharp earthquake at 4.30 Chesapeake, but will stop within d'clock this morning brought people range. My poor bld Skipper keeps in alarm from their beda, as far his pecker up. I was with him south as Paloalto. Buildings rock all day till he was wounded in the ed in San Francisco, but no damage mud, and then I brought him out, was done.--Reuter's American Ser to the ship. Major Fisher, of the Engineers, told me the forts were splendidly built, we couldn't have San Francisco, Oct. 22. built better. Hills is all right, he The tremor was followed by two! had to stop on board. I had tu further shocks, the former of which fing all my arms away, coming was sharper than the first but only back from the forts, and was of fifteen seconds duration.nearly smothered once, only one Plato-glass windows were broken of our blue-jackets was kind and walls cracked in the Pain enough to have me out. You sank Hotel..
up to your knees at least every step, and just fancy the slaughter.
vice.
Clocka Stopped.
Clacks in numbers of other buildings stopped. Reuter's Ameri- can Service.
FLYING SQUAD,
MEMBER HURT OUT ON PATROL
ing 500 yards in the face of that fire of about 30 pieces of artillery right in front of you and on each flank; it was dreadful, horrible work, but thank God' Ï |came out all right. Board I hear is slightly wounded, but it is, only a rumour. Gallons Jones I am afraid has lost his gunboat. The Kestrel is gone down and I am afraid the Cormorant will go too.] In company with other members They had horrid fire balls firing at of the Police Flying Squad which us when we landed, I saw ona popy was out on patrol yesterday, Sani- fellow with his eye and part of hfs tary Inspector Charity sustained face burnt right out. If a piece! slight injuries to face and hands struck you, it stuck to you and as a result of his machine over-regularly burnt you away until It burning at Western street was all gone. Will you be so good, The machine In front of his step, Mame as to forward the enclosed ped suddenly and to svold a colll-letter for my Mother, to tell her 1 sion. Mr Charity swerved with the am all right? The old Skipper, result that the side car came up. Briggs, and myself had nothing to
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It was alleged that the same "We'sre of opinion that the usual men had presented a similar methods of certifying insanity in forged note on Tuesday and had the cases of deaf persons are obtained payment on it. The unsatisfactory as those obtaining in forgery having been detected; & the diagnosis of mental deficiency watch was kept and the man was in deaf children. Having become arrested on the occasion of the aware of several irstaners second presentation.
wrongful certification we submitted to the Royal Commission on Lunacy a statement on the dangers of the present method of relying on the opinions of medical practitioner's
The defendant stated in court that he was given the note by an other man who also had received
The case was remanded.
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COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED
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Entertainments..
October 23-Queen's Threatre; i The Great Sea Spectacle "Zee.. brugge."
October 23-World Theatre; "Turn to the Right."
Theatre;
October 23-Star
"Oliver Twist."
"October 28-Special dinner dance
the Roof Garden, Hong Kong Hotel, 8 p.m. to midnight,
October 20-First, Dance of the season at the Craigengower Crickót Club, 9.15 pm.......
October 28-Musicale at Helena May Institute, 6 pm.
October 30--Repulse Bay Hotel Carnival..
Sports. October 30-Fanling Hunt Races, Kwanti Race Course, Faaling....
October 30-Annual sport of the Scottish Company, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, on Hong Kong Football Club ground, Happy Valley, 2 p.m.
November 3-Sixth bi-annual racp for "Trevesen.. Trophy" from Channel Rocks, 4 p.m.
November 6-Fifth Race Meeting of the Hong Kong "Jockey Club, Happy Valley."
November First boxing tourna ment of the season under H.K. Box- Ing. Asen. at Theatre Royal,
Auctions.
October 23-Miscellaneous gooda at Messrs. · Lammert Bros.", Sales Room, Duddell Street, 11-a.m.
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November 6-Third annual ment- Ing of the ELK Realty & Trust Co.. Lid, at Exchange Building, 11,30
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