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YANGTSZE LULL.
HONG KONG, TUESDAY A8118123, 1927.
SOUTH POLE FLIGHT COTTON PESSIMISM.
Northern Forces Are Still Massed on Pukow Side. Preparing For Attempt Rise in Price of U.S.
By Comdr. Byrd.........
Variety.
BALCHEN AT OSLO.
HEAVY HEART BALM.
Charles Chaplin Gets $625,000.
AND TWO CHILDREN.
Tientsin.
CE: $3.00 Per Month,
SOLDIERS LAPSE
Thefts By Britons At Boiling And Eating “An
Englishman
CANNIBAL RITE.
Divorce Case
Approached.
HARD LABOUR.
Followed By Discharg
- Army.
A QUEER PROCESSION
Cocks, Boys and Coolies Take
BOLL WEEVIL DAMAGE.
BORODIN'S WHEREABOUTS.
"Renunciation of Territory is & Low Price to Pay." Well-Known Aerial Explorers Being Manchester Expert Predicts A
SIR FREDERICK WHYTE BACKS THE CHAMBERLAIN POLICY.
Further Decline.
Tientsin, Aug, 11.
While as a rule Chiness proces-
The decision of the District alons attract very little attention-
Oalo, Yesterday.
London, Yesterday,
Los Angeles, Yesterday. Bernt Balchen, who accom Uneasiness prevails in Lanca It is announced that Mrs. No reports of developments in the Yangtsze situation are to panied Conidr. Byrd on his trans-shire as the result of a succession Charles Chaplin's divorce sult Court Martial held at Tientsin on from the foreigner long resident hand this morning, though it is learned from a local source that de- Atlantic flight, is now here pre- cf pessimistic cables concerning against her husband has been July 6 on Private Sydney Milne in the East, there was one which sultory shelling and rifle firing is still going on at Pukow, at which paring for Byrd's south polar ex- the American cotton crop The settled.
point the Northerners have so far made no attempt to cross the river. The Nationalist evacuation of Chinkiang towards Shanghai is con firmed by a British wireless message, though it does not seem that Sun Chuan-fang's troops have yet reached this port.
The movements of Comrade Borodin are still shrouded in mystery. Reports that he is in Loyang have not been confirmed.
Details of Sir Frederick Whyte's address on British rela- tions with China at Honolulu are now available. He regards
the renunciation of. territory or privilege à low price to pay for an option on China's goodwill in the future. In other words, he backs Sir Austen Chamberlain's declared policy of December last.
YOUNG EMPEROR" TALKS.
Yangtsze Hostilities.
London, Yesterday. Latest news of the Yangtsze hostilities is that Southern troops continue to be evacuated down the railway to Shanghai from Chin- kiang, although Sun Chuan- fang's troops had not yesterday reached the river bank there.
At Nanking the military objec- tives only are being shelled, but rifle and machine-gun fire from Pukow .continues. Merchant the river have been vessels in fired on from the, banks and con- voys have in consequence been re started. Firing directed against one British vessel below Nanking to-day was silenced by HM.S. "Woodlark." After having land- ed a party of marines as a precau- tionary measure to ensure the safety of valuable British pro- perty at Nanking, the cruiser "Hawkins," with Admiral Tyrwhitt aboard, proceeded up river to Wuhu yesterday.-Bri- tish Wireless Service.
Borodin's Whereabouts.
Shanghai, Aug. 16.
Reports that Mike Borodin was
Marshal, Feng Yu-hsiang could not be confirmed anywhere and the rumour is wholly disbelieved The among Nanking officials. interesting fact came out, how-
ever, that among the Chinese who are travelling to Russia with Com- rade Borodin are the two sons of
he lacks the support of any fol lowing in the party, probably for
linguistic reasons.
Resignations.
mention. The author reviewed the relations between Great Bri- tain and China from the earliest times. He said that Great Bri- tain's policy towards China had been dictated primarily, if not solely, by commercial interest. He emphasised the point that, although the original suggestion
Bernt Balchen.
report of the United States De partment of Agriculture, of in- creasing boll-weevil damage re- sulted in an advance of a farthing per lb. of cotton on the Manches- ter exchange. Cotton Is now In the region of11d per lb. com
THE TYPHOON.
The full story at the week-end typhoon will appear in next Fri day's "Overland Mall," Readers are requested to order their copies in advance to avoid dis appointment.
pared with 7d a few weeks ago. Markets anticipate rise to one shilling.
Private reports froin a Man- chester expert travelling in the cotton-belt state that opinion in New Orleans suggests that the next Washington Bureau bulletin will show a decline of a quarter million bales on the previous
for calling the Disarmament Con- pedition. Balchen was formerly estimate, the smallness of which ference at Washington came from the Norwegian Navy but is now a caused a senation. Reuter's
He has American Service, the United States, the initiative naturalised American.
in the matter of adding politics in engaged Lt. Omdal, a participant the Pacific to its deliberations in Amundsen's polar flight from came from Great Britain.
He thought that China was the of the principal beneficiary achievements of that Conference, but renunciation of territory or privilege was a low price to pay
Spitzbergen and the "Norge" flight, and is also trying to enrage TWELVES the felar explorer, Capt. Nisting, for the voyage-Reuter.
for an option on China's goodwill ned to flee to Japan because of the in the future. He added. "The incessant turmoil in his country, forces at work since the war was But lately he changed his mind,
Charles Chaplin.
and Private Cecil Joseph Carroll, occurred a night or two ago both of the 1st Bn. the East York which on account of its sequel shire Regiment, stationed at showed that curiosity in connect Tientsin, has been confirmed and ion with it was well repaid, says promulgated. ATHABAS
the NC. Daily News." The The two men were charged with event took place In Medhurst being concerned in breaking the Road, and it appeared that in the window of the Jewellery shop of evening most of the boys, Mr. L Chernowetsky, and steal cooks and coolies in the vicinity ing various articles of jewellery gathered for some sort of proces therein. on June 26.!
alon. It is said that some such
The sequel occurred the next
The decision of the Court is function takes place every year in that both men be sentenced (1) to that vicinity, though for what six months imprisonment with reason is not explained, but usual hard labour and (2) to be digly it is harmless enough. On this charged from His Majesty's Army occasion, however, its sequel was with ignominy. This means that very different. the men will be sent to England to serve the major portion of their morning, when a number of those sentence.
who had taken part in the proces- sion woro acen surrounding a boll- ing rot. Into this were thrown what at first sight appeared to be parts of a human body, the for- CRIME.igner who observed the proceed-
SHAUKIWAN
TUESDAY.
TWO CHINESE CHARGED.
ings noting a head, a hand, and a
CASE TO COMMENCE NEXT leg. Closer inspection revealed that these had been made out of flour or rice, the dough having. been fashioned into representa- tions of human limba. When cooked, these were eaten, and in The two Chinese charged with reply to questions put to the par- the murder of Mrs. Rose Mackay ticipants the answer was given at Shaukiwan on August 10, were that they were "eating an Eng- produced before Mr. K. L. Lindeell lohrian)
Mrs. Chaplin's attorney stated that an agreement with regard to the division of property had been at the Central Magistracy this Inquiries, indicate that such s reached out of court. No details morning, coa
custom as this is by no means a are available.
Chief Detective Inspector Rey-Chinese one, and the theory is fabira. Chaplin has been granted nolds applied for a further week's that it is an importation. And by
à decree of divorcè, ---- Reuter's remand.
whom? One suggestion is that, American Service.
Mr. Lindsell said that he under-realising its picturesqueness, and The settlement gave Mrs. stood that the prosecution would the effect it might have upon the Chaplin $625,000 and the custody be ready to proceed with the case ignorant, the Soviet may have of the two children. Reuter's next week, and asked how long it vamped it up from some of their American Service.
was thought the case would take correspondents in other countries to complete.
where black magic is a fine art. The C.D.I. said that the prose cution had some thirty witnesses to call, but some of these were
Trust Fund The settlement provides the
SURVIVORS BROUGHT TO HONG KONG
VICTIMS OF TYPHOON. Arriving here yesterday, the concluded have brought Great believing that he would be greatly Chinese master of the 8.8. "Sun Britain to a new view of her censured by his own people and Kong reports that he rescued permanent interests in the Far termed a coward if he escaped to twenty-seven seamen and two creation of a $200,000 trust fund
super-cargoes from the Chinese East. The recognition of her Japan. position the position of the "I want to help China in my own steamer "Chung Hing" which greatest of the European traders humble way," he stated. "I plan was disabled during the typhoon in China has meant a change of to go to Europe and when I re-and at the time lay partially sub- front; and with her change of turn I will then be more prepared merged near the shore at Sham front she has regained her initia- to help the Chinese Nationalists Chow Tong
It is believed that the twelve re- in their work of 'national recon.
Washington Conference
the welfare of China.
was
a con-
Nationalists in Shanghai.
Shanghai, Aug. 15.
The Special Municipality of the
war."
9.
Mrs. Charles Chaplin.
only technical witnesses.
Mr. Lindsell asked if it were possible to finish the preliminary hearing of the case in time for the September Criminal Sessions."
C.D.I. Reynolds said he thought 80, as some of the "small" wit nesses would not take a long time with their evidence,
LIKE A BABY.
WOMAN "ROCKS" OPTUM
· IN HER ARMS.
A BIG HAUL.
When a boatwoman was charg od before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this The Magistrate decided to take morning with the unlawful pos- the case on Tuesday and Thurs- session of 20 taels of prepared day next, starting at 11.30 am, and 30 taels of raw non-Govern- and carrying on in the afternoon ment opium, in Connaught Road of each day.
still at Loyang and was assisting tive once more. Her part in theatruction and readjustment.maining members of the crew
dictated by her own interests and When I abdicated my throne to were drowned..
The master of the "Sun Kong," give way to Yuan Shi-kal as first "Already committed by the President of the Chinese Republic, which ship carried out the rescue, Nine Power Treaty to
I expected that he would do much reports that he left Kwong- structive policy in China, she is for the good of my country. But chau-wan for Hong Kong on Fri-
Central yesterday, the story of an now doubly committed by her it proved to be a bitter disappoint-day at. 12.40-p.m. As the baro-
ment, because instead of a pros-meter dropped considerably dur Mr. Eugene Chen. Mr. Chen is at own act in addressing the Treaty perous and peaceful China, we now ing the night he put in at Sam
ingenious piece of deception on Kaling with his two daughters. Powers last December to the have a country involved in the Chow Tong at 6.20 am, the next
the part of the woman was told. His future vis-a-vis of the new welcome responsibility of carry-most bloody internecine warfare day, anchoring in shelter, being
The Magistrate was informed POLICE RESERVIST.that the woman carried the opium joined shortly afterwards by the orientation is highly uncertain, asing the Washington principles in all her history," into full effect." ;
on her back. The drug was done After a while the ex-Emperor "Chung Hing." continued
Even in shelter the ships were
CHARGED WITH BREACH OF up to represent a baby, fully
REGULATIONS.
dressed with cap and all, and in "China is suffering much at battered about considerably. The the present time because of the master of the "Sun Kong" reports
order to carry the deception fur- Isai Kim-ying, Chinese Police ther she was actually jolting it up. The announcements of Nation- Port of Shanghal and Woosung personal ambition of many of her that he lost sight of the "Chung generals, who are without train Hing" as he himself was in dif-
Reservist No. R57, was this morn- and down gently as if to soothe alist resignations have not been has instructed the Shanghai and ing experience in the practice of ficulties and had to put overbeard
ing charged before Major C. Will- the "child!" "It was actually numerous but significant. The Woosung Constabulary to search
96 head of pigs and 34 baskets of
son at the Central Magistracy this act of the woman which gave five "old men" of the Nanking for and seize all copies of small- Government, Hu Han-ming, Yu cious pamphlet compiled by an and influence of General Chang All day, the "Sun Kong" battled
He said that the present power eggs to lighten the ship
with breach of regulations by her away, as a detective noticed handing over his Police Reserve that, the baby" was not crying, Tze-hui, Li Shih-tsen, Thai Yuen-American, Edgar Strother, gen-Tao-lin is attributed to the help with the storm and eventually
pocket book and two metal crowns and there was no need for the pei and Chang Ching-kiang re-erally known as the general secreof the British and Japanese, be emerged little the worse on Satur
to two men to enable them to gain fond mother to fuas so much over signed because they paumed that tary of the Christian Endeavour cause, according to him, once the day evening. Early the next
admission to the Taiping Theatre it. When the clothing was re- they were jointly responsible with Society of China, of newspaper, Northerners become weakened, it morning those on board heard for the two children, the interest without purchasing tickets. moved, the baby was found to be General Chiang Kai-shek for the stories and articles, mostly from is not they alone who suffer but cries out of the darkness and to be paid to Mrs. Chaplin for Siu Kim-hing was charged with a large parcel of opium. The split in the party. Wu Tze-hul, the "North China Daily News" also other foreign powers.
He observed that the "Chung Hing their support and education and being unable to give a satisfactory woman refused to give any in- Li Shih-tsen and Tsal Yuen-pel which are distinctly hostile to the believes that the first Nationalist was partially submerged and that the principal of the fund to go to explanation for the possession of formation as to who had given added prestige to the Nanking Nationalist Government.t Government as they have a very'
The order of the Special Muni general who will set foot in Pek-men were clinging to the upper the children when the younger a pocket book of the description her the opium to carry.
ing will be General Feng Yu- worka
reaches the age of 35.Reuter's supplied to a Police Reservist, Mr. Lindsell fined the cunning. wide following among the intellec- cipality was issued at the instruc- siang,
By careful manœuvring, the American Service, and with Impersonating a Reser-one $9,000 or nine months with tuals in China, but as they are tion of the Ministry for Foreign
Sun Kong was brought along-
vist for the purpose of gaining ad regard to the prepared opium, and anarchists, they did not add much Affairs which, in its official com-
side and 27 Benmen and two super- to the administrative strength of munication on the subject, gives
The 2nd Battalion of the Dur cargoes were rescued. Twelve of ATTACK ON CONVENT mission to the Taiping Theatre $2,000 or two months' jall for
without a ticket. the Government.
in full the petition it had received
the crew are reported drowned. Chang Ching-klang has been from the Association of Christian ham Regiment and the 2nd Bat The survivors who were bought TWO CHINESE ARRESTED ON Henry Kwok-yu allas Yun Kim-session of the raw gplum. The General Chiang Kai-shek's closest Churches in Chian, to prevent, talion of the Gloucestershire to Hong Kong are apparently SUSPICION. lawful possession of two metal kung was charged with the un- personal friend and political ad- through the Post Office, the circu- Regiment have arrived here from little the work for their expert A Chinese hun living in the Crowns of the description issued MOTOR CYCLING SPILL. viser. He is perhaps responsible lation of this malicious pamphlet China"Associated Press of
ences. for both the rise and fall of Gen- by Mr. Strother.
the Castle Peak district, has sented by Mr. C. A. S. Russ Peace Avenu
This last defendant was repre Mr. Henry Remedios of No. 4 Late typhoonitems appear on Satheung convent at Lamt Into a Police Reservist page 7 to-day hin
Homuntin, reported to the police that about All three entered pleas of "not yesterday taken to the Kowloon 11 p.m., on Sunday the convent guilty of the charges against Hospital suffering from injuries was broken into by three men of them to his head, belly and legs as the whom carried a torch. After slu said with regard to the result of an accident while drive threatening to set the place pocket book that Lat had worn his ing his motor cycle combination alight if she gave any trouble, the coat earlier in the day, and when No. 881 robbers ransacked the premises he (Siu), put it on at night, he He was and stole $60, In money, Later round Lai's pocket Book in one of a ped the police succe arresting the pockets?
eral Chiang. His great reputation
in the party arises, from the fact
that he spent his entire personal
From China.
Calcutta, Aug. 9..
Spanish Landing Party
Young Emperor.
We Shanghal Aug. 18 Tientsin, Aug. 19. A very interesting parade took fortune supporting Dr. Sun Yat-In an interview with a represen, place in the Drill Hall yesterday sen. Exiled for many years in tative of the National News afternoon, the occasion being a Europe and America, he returned Service," the ex-Emperor of the formal farewell to the members to some extent a revolutionary ertswhile Celestial Empire mani of hero. He, however, seemed not to fested his opposition to any whic
be able to get along with their scheme that might tend to revive
people in the party and much of the lost kingdom.
the personal equations which No.
threw General Chiang out of again.
office, is attributed to his adviser. do no
Mein Britain and China.
Discussion on China's external problems was continued at Hono
behind closed doors,
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"Castle" Peak Rosd. bout to pass a bus when appeared on the road. ng to avoid the pedestrian, Hight railway