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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1927.
BAY EVIL
British Navy Takes Drastic Action.
VILLAGES BURNED.
Yesterday's Punitive Expedition Described.
"ARGUS" LEAVES.
The Latest Military
Movements.
UNITS IN HONG KONG.
The aircraft carrier, H.M.S. "Argus" left for Shanghai shortly. after 6 p.m. yesterday. Features of the vessel which had not been noticeable while the vessel was at buoy were the raising of the bridge by hydraulic pressure (when at rest the bridge is level
ing of planes on the upper deck) and the emission of smoke from two side chambers at the rear
The lat Devonshires left for Shanghai on the ss. "Herminius"
The British Navy yesterday took drastic measures at Bias Bay, with the water to facilitate land- the notorious pirate kaunt.
Landing parties burned four villages which were known to be pirate villages. Under express orders they spared buildings of a re-(the "Argus" is without funnel). ligious character.
The Navy also destroyed a number of junks which were found at 10 p.m. yesterday.
in the neighbourhood of the pirate villages.
There was no opposition nor were there any casualties on either side. The punitive expedition was the sequel to a long series of piracies, which Canton has made no effort to suppress..
Notices were given to the inhabitants of the villages ing the reasons for the expedition..
ACTION AT LAST..
British Navy Takes Only Course.
The operation was carried out by the following ships under the command of Rear-Admiral W. H. Boyle:-"
HM.S. "Frobisher," flagship of
the 1st Cruiser Squadron,
The complement of the two re fcently arrived batteries of feld artillery have taken up quarters in the Rope factory, Kowloon.
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ARMED MOBS.
Fire on British Posts at Shanghai.
HANKOW SCANDAL.
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Soldiers Threaten Foreigners With Riffes.
While the situation at Shanghai appears to be easier, there have been several unpleasant incidents, armed mobs firing on British posts. in the north-eastern district.
Trouble is also reported from from Hankow where Chinese troops, deliberately inflamed by falsehoods, threatened foreigners witly loaded rifles and fixed bayonets..
ARMED MOBS.
Demonstrate Opposite British Posts.
Shanghai, March 24. The British, French and Japan- ese Consuls-General succeeded.
to their home districts.-British Wireless Service..
HANKOW FERMENT.--
Excited Soldiers Threaten Foreigners.
With the 1st/Devons having this morning in getting into touch The following wireless mess- explain-Infantry now in Hong Kong, attact between the foreign author-
left for Shanghai, the units of with General Pal Ching-shi, thus ages have been received by the
at length establishing official con-local naval authorities:
shallowness of the water made some delay unavoidable, Conse-
quently it was dawn before the
landing was effected and the villages were able to see the ex- pedition approaching.
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From the head of the inlet the boats proceeded under oars or under tow by motor-boats to the shore. Again owing to the shallow water, the landing parties tances which varied from forty to were compelled to wade over dis- four hundred yards, with the re H.MS. "Delhi," 1st Cruisersult that the men were often
Squadron,
"waist high in mud and water.
H.M.S. "Hermes," the aircraft
carrier;
"
H.M.S. "Marazion," of the 4th
Submarine Flotilla,
·H.M.S. "Foxglove," a sloop. Leaving Hong Kong harbour at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday, these ships arrived in Biss Bay about 1.80 a.m. yesterday and anchored a little to the south-west of Tsang Chau Island, there being not enough water further up the inlet either for warships or for pirated steamers. According to Admiral- ty chart No. 3,002, the inlet is known as Fan-lo-kong and the island is the point where pirates usually disembarked from steam ers they have seized.
Having rather deeper water for their landing, the party for "Kwai Chau" were ashore first-at 6.15 a.m.
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Pai Ching-sht affirmed his in- Itention to protect foreign life and property and to suppress violence
and disorder.
This morning an armed mob of 500 demonstrated opposite the British posts in the north-eastern district. They aimlessly 'let off rifles, but the post did not reply and the mob finally retired..
Another partially armed mob of
tached to the Shanghai Defence also went off after a while without 800 approached the Coldstreams on the Markham Road bridge, but Corps (ie., exclusive of the South any incident occurring. China Command) are as follow:----- The total Northern troops dis. 1st Batt., Green Howards armed by the British on admis (Lt. Col. H. W. McCall, C.M.G..sion to the Settlement is officially D.S.0.)
|given se 2,000, who, with the| 1st Batt, Cameroniana (Lt. 1,200 disarmed by the Japancae, Col. E. B. Ferrers 0.50 are being shipped to Peing the
1st Batt.."Border Regiment Reuter. (Lt. Col. G. . Harrison, D.8.0.)*
1st Batt., Middlesex Regi- ment (Lt. Col. W. A. Stewart, O.B.E.)
The object of the expedition was two-fold. In the first place the object was to destroy all vill ages which were known to be pirate haunts, and to destroy them, if possible, without injury to life, In the second place the object was to destroy junks and
The 4th Pack Brigade of the other craft found in the neigh-prising the 15th, 20th, and 21st Royal Artillery la also here, com- bourhood of these pirate haunts: Pack Batteries... At the same time it was hoped that the landing party would be able to rescue the five passengers kidnapped from the "Seang Bee."
Villagers. Flee
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Eports Gear Shop. Other units are No. 7 General Hospital (at the Diocesan Boys' School, Kowloon) and No. 12 Field Ambulance (mobile) less dhe com-
TENSION EASED,
Several American Marines Wounded.
Rugby, March 23. Shanghai telegrams state that the commander of the Nationalist forces to-day assured the consular authorities of the Settlement that he intended to restore and main tain order in the city.
Although United States.
Police Co-operation. Naval forces only were employ- ed, with the exception of a detach- The frat platoon of the force ment of Police officers, interpre going to Kwai Chau immediate-pany, at King's College, Bonham Marines co-operated with the ters and detectives under the Honly went to high ground west of Bord Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Captain the village and took up covering the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, several Marines being wounded There are also detachments of by a mob to enter the Settlement. troops in frustrating the attempt Superintendent.
positions. The second platoon ad-
By deliberate falsehoods," the Chinese troops at Hankow have: been worked up into a dangeroua
STRIKE OFF.
4)
Shanghai, March 242 The general strike has been called off. Reuter.
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mood" and have been stopping] foreigners and threatening them with loaded rifles and fixed Bay-
onets.
hours' explanation that the Chin ese authorities were able to put a stop to this.
It was only after twenty-four
General Chang Kai-shek.
The Customa strike at Kiukiang
has terminated and the Customs. launch is now ready for service.
A number of troops have pro- ceeded down river.
There is no change in the situa- tlon at Wuhu.
Work on the recovery of bodies from the military launch sunk by the ss. "Kutwo" continues.
General Chang Kai-shek is ex- pected at Wuhu to-day:
Nanking Dangers. Gunfire is still audible to the south of Nanking.
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The Civil Governor of Nanking has left and the Chinese popula
NANKING FALLS.
Southerners Also In Chinkiang.
Shanghai, March 24,
A naval wireless message states that the Southerners have taken Nanking and Chinkfang-Reuter.
tion is evacuating in large num
Mr. T H. King (Director of vanced to the village, which had Royal Army Service Corpe, Royal during the incident, there has Criminal Intelligence), Captain been deserted by its inhabitants, Army Fay Corpe and the Military been generally some relaxation of H. F. Bloxham and four European who were congregated among
Foot Police."
Under the heading of "Other previous forty-eight hours.
the tension existing during the detectives accompanied the ex-some trees alout. two or three pedition, Captain Bloxham, it is hundred yards to the west. These Details" come a number of civil Shooting and disorders continue interesting to note, is the officer villagers were then collected and lans under Mr. L. A. Wake of the in some areas outside the cordon, who went with the previous ex- told that a period of time would be NAA.FI (Navy, Army and Air but order is being maintained pedition to Bias Bay in January of allowed during which they might Force Institutes), in charge of the within the Settlement, although 1925, when the British Navy, remove their personal effects canteens and grocery shops. little work, is being, done.
bere Army and Police co-operated with from the houses which, when this A store is contemplated, for
period was ended, would be des- the sale of sports gear, at No. 60, Northerners who were interned in have been concentrated in a build- the Chinese:
disarmed Foreign women and children The landing force, which was troyed. Villagers were also told Nathan Road, Kowlooît, the pre-the.Settlement were escorted by Ing on the Bund where protection
the objects of the expedition.. mises belonging to the Hum-
can be afforded. phreys Estate and Finance Co., troops to the waterside and sent This having been done all the Ltd. houses in the village were then
One Brigade Left.. destroyed, either by fire or by ex-
The departure of the Devons
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under the general command of Captain Calvert, flag, captain of H.M.S. "Frobisher" was divided into three parties, one destined to proceed to the village of Kwai Chau at the very head of the shallow inlet, and the other two for the group of three villages,
known as Hoi Chau.
Known as Pirate Haunts. These four villages were re-
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Several hundred
!!
A tense atmosphere exists at Nanking.
The retreat of Northern troops
Chinklang Concession. Arrangements for the integrity
plosive. There were about will complete the 14th Infantry He is given in the Army List as to Fukow from Nanking has com- twenty houses built of stone and Brigade and the 20th Indian Ina Brevet Lt Colonel, having remenced. a similar number of matsheds. fantry Brigade at Shanghai, leav-ceived this rank in December, Between fifteen and twenty junks ing the 13th Brigade here (com- 1923. and sampans on the north-east of prising the four battalions men- the village were also destroyed. tioned above)..
Half-Eaten Breakfasts.
ī
"Great War" Service. Colonel Heywood is just over 40 Colonel W. A. Blake, C.M.G.,years of age. In 1905, he was appointed 2nd Lieut. from the
Captain
1908: Lieutenant. 1914: Captain.
1918 Temporary Major. 1917: Brevet Major.
of the Concession at Chinkiang have been made with the Chinese Chamber of Commerce there.
Some 3,000 Cantonese troops
night last night without disturb-
ance.
lubly known to be pirate villagen, The landing party for Hoi Chau DS.O. (who was made temporary the Hong Kong Police possessing was divided into two sections, the Colonel Commandant on being ap. Militia Fromotion came thus-entered Chinking about mid- information that two men con- first to deal with the two ham- pointed to the command, Dec. 15, cerned in the "Seang Bee" piracy (which took place in January of lets near the beach, and the 1926) is the 13th Brigade Com- mander. Officers on his staff this year) came from Kwai Chau. second to proceed to the high Bight pirates are also known to portion of the group of three villare have come from Hoi Chau, five of ages which lay behind an adjoin- whom took part, in the piracy of ing hill The force found all the the "Honghwa" in January, 1925 houses deserted, the inhabitants Two other pirates from Hoi Chau having seen. the expedition ap- took part in the piracy of the Proaching, owing to the shallow "Tungchow" in December, 1925, water making it twenty minutes when the master. Captain Mackinate with the result that daylight tosh received injuries from which arrived before the landing was effected. The inhabitants had
G. Barry, D.S.O.M.C., Royal Tank Corps and
Brigade Major;
A.
Staff Captain: Lt. C. Kendall, R.A
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Special Appointment:
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J. B. Chillingworth; BA.
SHANGHAI INCIDENT.
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be died in Shanghai after his leg made off in the direction of the bad been amputated.
Disembarkation began from the adjacent villages and townships Lt.Col. Heywood's Distinguished ships at 2.30 am. Marines and of which there was a large num- Naval ratings, numbering 300,ber within a radius of three miles.
Career.
with Police, going ashore in cut. The hasty nature of their depar Lt. Col. T. GG. Heywood, ters and other small boats which ture was to be seen from the fact OBE. RA, whe was in danger were towed by the "Murazion" that in many cases the morning of his life while on a mission out ten miles to the head of the inlet. meal had been left or was only side the International Settlement Owing to the shallow water and being prepared at Shanghai, is officially known the danger of running aground The landing party having col. on the staff of Major-Genera the journey was an extremely diflected combustible material, which John Duncan as General Staff ficult one. However it was car they stacked Inside and around Officer, 2nd Grade ( ried out in a very skilful manner the houses, the buildings of the lery), with his name which earned the warm praise of village were set on fire, the more the officer Comma the Admiral.
permanent structures Being blown Artillery attache
Delay, Unnvoldable, im There was a large number of] baata 17 cutters in all and the
up.
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distinct from
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Continued at foot o
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Northerners (Sun Chuan-fang's forces) are still holding Silver 1918: Temporary LL-Colonel.. Island fort near Chinkjang. Among the many staff appoint: The Southerners are bringing ments he has held before being ap-up artillery to Siang Shan and pointed to the Shanghai Defence Force are
Staff Captain RA. 10th Division, Mediterranean Ex- peditionary Force, 1918.
General Staff Officer, 3rd grade, 16th Army Corps, Egyp- tion Expeditionary Force, 1916. G.S.O., 2, G.H.Q., Salonika Army and British Salonika Force, 1916-1918.
many have passed through Chin- klang to assist in the attack on Nanking.
REDS AND CHINA.
Only Object to Injure Britain,
The House of Lords discussed G.S.0.1 GHQ British China. Lord Danesfort drew at Salonika Force, 1918-1919, tention to recent Communist Brigade. Major, R.A 1st publications in Britain in which Division, Aldershot Command, the interests of China were entire 1920
ly ignored, the real object being to injure Britain and wreck the Empire. He hoped the Govern mant would prosecute if the pub lications were criminal
G.S.02 British Military Mission Army of the Orient and British army in Constan- tinople, 19201.
In addition to being a graduate of the Stat Colore, Colonel Hey wood le also cualified as
pretor:
Morelan
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