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STRIKE AT WUHU.
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Two Aviators' Terrible Deaths.
THE WRECK IN FLAMES.
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Rugby, March 18.
An aeroplane crashed to-day at The United State has made Press message received to
Flylig daje from Shanghat predicts the Blessing near Folkstone observations on the report of the joint commission on disarmament early capture by the Cantonese omcat Printman and Leading air and has indicated its attitude to forces of Nanking, the old craftsman Pickering were killed wards the problem in a long capital of China, 200 miles west momorandum
of Shanghai, and Lishiu about 50 ground it toppled over and burat This reiterates that the Amerimiles south by south-west of into flames which it was impossible.
to extinguish.
The charred remains of the twb. can Government does not view Nanking is reported to be occupied favourably any proposal partak by the Southern forces.
[adrmen ware only recovered after: With the capture of Nanking, the fire, had burnt itself out. One ing of the nature of international supervision of administration of the Cantonese would be astride airman had been decapitated.
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The Chinese authorities have offered a full apology for the Chun- king incident in which a number of coolies seized naval stores and a mob attacked sailors who tried to recover the stores. "
"DEEP REGRET." the success of terrorism and part-agreement limiting armaments
ly because the foreign police, since It believes the surest founds-with the North and South, and the Mixed Court rendition, do not tion to construct such an agree possess the former nower to eject. the swarms of criminals now in- festing the settlement.-Reuter.
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A fracas broke out in the City at Kiukiang yesterday between farmers and the General Labour Union, resulting in several casual ties and damage to Headquarters:
Strike at Wuhu,
"PAMIAT LENINA”
Sovies Protest and a Reply.
Shanghai. March 18. The Soviet Embassy has sent a Note to the Waichiaopu, to the effect that the Embassy's protests regarding the "Pamiat Lenina" affair are unanswered; and that as the Soviet is now in possession of all the facts, it again protests in the strongest manner against the diate release of the vessel and the outrage and demands the imme-
“JUST ABOUT LEVEL.
Aviation in Britain and America.
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Rugby, March 18. Sir Alan Cobham, the famous airman, who arrived at Southamp ton to-day on his return from impression that America was nei
America sald 'he had obtained the
ther behind nor ahead of Great.
Britain in aviation. "Both coun- tries are just about level!"-Bri- tish Wireless Service.
ment is international good faith and respect for treaties,, and that The Ankucchun Headquarters, the introduction of an element of and demonstration which passed in a statement, say that the "Muk-supervision and control is calcul-
A strike has taken place yester-persons detained. day at Wuhu with a big procession
off without incident.
The first meeting to discuss the circumstances of the collision of p the s.. "Kutwo and a military launch was to have been held yes- terday, but was deferred owing to non-attendance of a Chinese dele-
gate.
A new Commissioner for For- eign Affairs has arrived at Ichang.
The situation at Hankow re- maine the same.
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EARLIER MESSAGES.
Another Shanghai General Strike.
TORNADO DISASTER.
Eight People Killed and Many
Injured.
Benton Arkansas, March 18. Eight people are known to have been killed and 15 injured, in a tornado which has devastated the neighbourhood-Reuter.
ated to engender industries.
The opinion is expressed that the proposal that each State un- dertake to establish as a crime at common law any training in the use of poisons or bacteria, parti- cularly of air squadrons, is im- practicable.
The opinion is also expressed that military expenditure cannot be held to constitute a criterion or Hmitation for comparison
thereof.-Reuter.
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DAMAGED BOAT'S GAME .. FIGHT.:
den authorities learn with intense PIRATES REPELLED. surprise that instead of apologis-- ing for the conduct of dissemin- ating malicious propaganda in China the Soviet Embassy has had the audacity to lodge a pro-1 BLOWN UP BY A MINE. test with the Chinese Government in connection with the seizure of [From Our Own Correspondent.] the "Pamiat Lenina" and the BO- Pakkai, Kongmoon, March 17. called diplomatic couriers. The
Although she had partially sunk, presence of materials of "Red local tow-boat fought a gun duel propaganda aboard the "Pamiat with pirates for three hours" and In the course of a Lenina" is indefensible evidence succeeded in driving off the marnu-
Shanghai, March 18. The Shanghai General Labour Union, will call for a general strike, beginning from to-morrow and lasting in the Nationalist Arm enters Shanghai
munique the Union states that the strike is purely political-Reuter,
CHUNGKING OUTRAGE..........
Coolies Seize British Naval Stores.
of a flagrant violation of the Indera, ternational Agreement solemnly
therefore it is believed to be the key to Shanghai-British Wire- Bless Service..
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EARLIER MESSAGES.
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Shanghai, March 18.
Shanghai, March 18.
GERMAN MISSIONS.
BASEL EVANGELICAL SOCIETY
PRIVATE BILL. ·
The President in Hong Kong of
The Southerners are closing in! on Nanking. Their latest auc- cesses include the capture of Wukiang, twelve miles from Soo- chow and Lishui, twenty-five miles the Basel Evangelical Missionary South East from Nanking-Society, with the consent of the
German Missions Trustees, in tends at an early date to apply to According to the latest informa- the Legislative Council of Hong tion from reliable foreign sources Kong for a bill incorporating the in Shanghai, this evening, the President for the time being in Nationalists are now within Hong Kong of the said Society. twenty miles of Napking where are arriving. "numerous Shartungese wounded
The objects and reasons of the Bill, as published in the "Govern- ment Gazette," state:
Chang Tsung-chang's men have 1. The object of this Bill is to already become extremely un-incorporate the President in Hong
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CHINA TROUBLES.
And Soccer's Call At Home.
Twenty-three men and a dog at- tended "hands-off China" pro test meeting at West Ham.
The chairman explained that 18,000 people were watching the Soccer match between West Ham and West Bromwich Albion,
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popular with the Nanking in habitants who bitterly complain of looting and raping, and thousands of Chinese are fleeing down the river owing to fear of further ex- in the event of the Shantungese being driven back toward the city.Reuter.
cesses.
THREE BAD MEN.
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Kong of the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society, The bill merely revives in an improved. form the former Incorporation Ordinance No. 2 of 1896, which was repealed by Ordinance No. 11 fof 1919.
2. The Bill is in' the form 'now adopted for incorporation Ordin- ances generally,
3. Section 7, taken with the schedule, revests in the new cor- poration the immovable property formerly held by the old corpora- tion which is now vested in the German Missions Trustees.
OUR UNIVERSITY.
AN HONORARY DEGREES COMMITTEE.
AMENDING ORDINANCE.
A Bill intituled an Ordinance to amend the University Ordin-
reasons
The Luen Sheung" junk, on the The Wanchai police last night ance, 1911, is published in the entered into by the Soviet. Pend- Canton-Kungyick trade, was blown found a Chinese acting in a suspi-"Government Gazette." The objects and ing the disclosure of further de- up by a pirates' mine when passing cious manner in a lane off Sharp tails it is sufficient to point out Laan-tai-shuen (at the entrance to Street. At first the man said he state:
The object of this Bill is to emphatically that the responsibil. the Kongmoon creek) on March 13. was going to visit a friend, but later ity of this
She is equipped with a variety of said he was "taking fresh air." He amend the University Ordinance, undesirable pro- paganda, which led to the seizure modern guns and, as is always the was arrested and at the station said 1911, so as to deal in it expressly of the steamer, rested with the practice, was proceeding in com- he was employed on Hong Ha's boat. with the machinery for the grant- pany with a Convoy of armed A few minutes later another man ing of honorary degrees. Hither- Peking, March 18 Soviet Government alone"
launches and other native fighting was brought in. He was found in to committees appointed, Arst by j'craft.
another lane in the same vicinity An example of the kind of Reuter. thing with which British naval
Most of the passengers on the and also claimed to be employed on the Senate and later by the Coun- This led the cil, have performed the duty of disabled boat were women and there Hong Ha's beat.. men are having to contend up-
were several casualties from the police to visit the boat and a search recommending names to the Court river is furnished by an incident
explosion.
led to the discovery of some pro- for honorary degrees. at Chungking on March 17, when
Iperty Identified as part of the booty thought better that the matter Kept at Bay. coolies belonging to a so-called.
taken in a robbery at No. 2, Tang should be dealt with explicitly in "As the vessel gradually sank in Lung Street sometime ago. A third the Ordinance. "Avenging Sbeiety" seized naval has now increased over Manchuria.the river, her consorts opened fire man found in the boat was also
The following statute is added stores which were being conveyed
It has increased moderately. at
on a gang of 200 pirates who had taken into custody.
to the Second Schedule of the from a gunboat to the shore-side-
Vladivostok. canteen, and towed them across
This morning all three appeared University Ordinance, 1911, im- It has increased considerably gathered in the vicinity to raid the
before Mr. Lindsell charged with mediately after Statute 12 there- the river to the city.
the cargo and passengers.. over South-West Japan and
From 10 a.m. till 1 p.m., the mer possession of stolen property, while of: Unarmed naval men, accom-Loochoos, moderately
over East panied by the Consul, Mr. Pratt, China and slightly from Formosa to chant.ships kept the pirates at bay: the first two accused were further 1. The Honorary Degrees Com- pursued the coolies in a motor the Visayas. boat, and the coolies then dropped A depression is crossing the arrived from Sanwui city. (10 miles vagabonds.
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WEATHER REPORT.
March 19, 10,40 a.m.-Pressure
the stores, which the naval party Visayas in a West North picked up.
The latter were returning to their motor boat with the Consul, when a mob attacked them with sticks and stones, forcing them to abandon the stores.
The party reached the gunboat without serious injuries.
Mr. Pratt has protested to the authorities.Reuter.
BRUTAL CRIME.
Elderly British Subject's Ordeal.
F
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Then a detachment of Canton troops charged with being rogues and
It may develop Into Baunches were capable of defending all three accused received six weeks
direction. typhoon.
Another depression has formed over the Loochoos.
Westway) but the vultures had fled. They all pleaded "guilty."
Qu Anding that the junks and For possession of stalen property
The first two accused themselves, the troops returned to jail each. Kongmoon overnight.
were sont to prison for a further! While the runfre was still term of, three months each on the audible for miles around, military second charge.. The local weather forecast for the twenty four hours ending at
pickets went out to raid the neigh- on to-morrow is as follows:--- East or variable winds; moderate.bouring pirates dens.
THIEF'S SECOND OFFENCE.
Arrested In Morrison Gap Road! at four o'clock this morning, a Chi- fest was charged before. Mr. Lind-1 sell with the unlawful possession
It is reported that one of the pirates was captured yesterday.
8 PIRATES SHOT.
Canton General's Exemplary Conduct.
New regulations for distilleries: in the Colony are published in the!
Government Gazette,"
It is
mittee shall consist of the fol- lowing persons:-
The Chancellor (ex-officio): The Vice-Chanceller (ex-
officio),
The Dean of each Faculty
(ex-officio).
A member of the Council ap pointed by the Council.
2. The Registrar shall ex-officio be secretary to the Committee but shall not be a member of
Memorials of Re-entry by the 8 Crown on New Kowloon Inland Lot No./565 and New Kowloon Inland Lot No: 1041 have been registered
In spite of a stern warning by according to law.
of some empty rice bags. He said Brigadier General Chu King-tong
he was employsd to take them to a (the local anti-bandit commander
The Maintenance Orders (Facili
it.
The member appointed by the Council shall hold office for three years and shall be eligible for re-appointment.
Aspecial ale je announced in Shanghai, March 18.
shop near the fish market but was appointed by Canton), "tu fatles for Enforcementy Ordinance Four armed Chinese yesterday unable to give the exact fecality. (local brigands) continue to levy has been extended to maintenance our advertising columns by the entered the house of an old man, Accused was convicted and as he tolls from river craft under the orders made by Couits in the Sind Silk Store, near the Queen's Theatre, commencing on Monday.' Mr. C. E. Geddes, a former head had served a term of two weeks in guise of collecting "enfa conduct Federated Malay Btates.
Some wonderful bargains will make of a well-known English firm here, jail for a similar offence last month, fees a locked up the Chinese servants in he was sentenced to four weeks'
General Chu was returning from The Superintendent of Imports a visit to this store worth while. Imprisonment.
a pirate hunt at Lai-ngok when he and Exports has been appointed toe the cupboard, tied Geddes legs
saw a bamboo shed at the mouth exercise all the duties in connexion Notice le given that pursuant to and hit him on the face and head
of the Sheung-chin-hau creek (at with the issue of Chinese wine and the provisions of the War Loan Or with a revolver till eaigned
the entrance to the Sanwal croak). spirit shop, licences, dealer's licencos dinance, 1918, a drawing of Bonds cheques, totalling, Taels 8,000, and
This was an outlaw station where and distillery loances which were for redempton will take place on released him to-day in an ex-
eight armed pirates were exacting under the Liquors Consolidation Or Monday, April 11 at 10 am at the hausted condition after the
One case of puerperal fever, Chi-blackms from merchani vessels, dinance 1912, vested in the Captain Colonial Treasury, when Bonds oz cheques had been cashed. The nese, was the only case of notifiable on the strateskin rest, Superintendent of Police, the Tran. Serien, E. of the nominal value or crime is symptomatic of growing disease reported in yesterday they were all ahot by General Che's surer, and the Captain Buperinten0.000 each, to the total nominal
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