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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1927.
NOT HO LUNG,
Red Chief Still At Large.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
Obnoxious Divisional Commander Summarily Shot.
CANTON'S NAVY LIST.
Provincial Government's 48 Warships.
19 TO PROTECT, TRADE ROUTES,
HOME EXPORTS.
Substantial Increase In One Year.
COAL FIGURES RISE.
Pirated Gunboat Included In 1st Upward Movement Also Evident In
Fighting Line.
Imports.
General Ho Lung, who led the Canton's Navy has been re-
London, Yesterday. Communist invasion of Swatow, is organised as one of the arms still at large.
According to Board of Trade under the "8th Route of the Na-figures exports for September The "high office" of the Red tionalist Forces," the commander: were valued at £60,437,000, being army/who was captured by Can-in-chief of which is General Lian increase of £1,077,000, com- ton's relief expedition has been Chai-sum identified as the commander of
pared with August and of 29,870,-| In other words, the supreme 000, compared with September the 59th division (formerly of the command of the provincial naval last year. Nationalist Army). This general strength remains with Li Chai-| was caught in fighting in the Po-sum. ning district (up-country from The latest "Navy List" of the progress, included an advance of Swatow), together with the com Canton Government has 48 ships, $3,576,000 in coal exports and mander of one of the two brigades divided as follows: in his division.
£2,672,000′′ in iron and steel ex- 6 gunboats, etc., the first line ports. of fighting ships;
Both "Generals" were marched under a strong escort to Chao- chow where they were given pre- ferential treatment as distin. guished prisoners of war,
Shot on Parade Ground. The division commander is alleged to have made himself ob-
The increase over last Septem- ber when the coal strike was in
After declining for some 23 patrol ships, for work on months, imports went up with a the coast and inland waterways, bound during September. The against pirates. etc.;
total for the month was 101,427,-
19 ships for protecting trade 000. This was an advance. of routes.
£11,627,000, compared with last When Navy Came South. Included in the first line are the ed a reduction of £7,780,000. com- September. Imports of coal show- noxious. He and the brigade gunboat "Yungfung" (pronounc-pared with last September, and commander were taken out to the ed Wing Fung in Cantonese), now iron and steel imports were less parade ground and shot.
known as the "Chung Shan" in by £906,000.-British Wireless Ho Lung is now thought to be honour of the late Dr. Sun Yat-Service. making his way to the provincial sen, and the torpedo-bout "Fei- Improvement During September. frontier between Kwangtung and ying" which took part in the re- Fukien.
London, Yesterday..
lief of Swatow.
The Board of Trade returns for
Not more than a tenth of his It will be recalled that landing September show an improvement in men retain their arms. The parties from the "Felying" and British trade compared with the majority have been disarmed and other Cantonese craft were re figures of 12 months ago. Exports acattered. Some of them-as re-pelled by the Communists who figure at £60,500,000 which is an in- ported sought sanctuary. In took Swatow. Shots were.
ex-crease of nearly £10,000,000, while Hong Kong. Others tried to get changed and a British warship in imports were £100,500,000, which out of Swatow by boarding the Swatow harbour was hit during show an appreciable reduction of China Navigation Co.'s 8.8. "New- the fighting. chwang" from which they were The "Chung Shan" came south due to the recovery of foreign mar- one-third of the Increased imports, cleared.
to Canton years ago when the kets in coal. Reuter. late Dr. Sun Yat-sen established his government in Canton, in op- position to Peking. The late Ad- miral Ching Pik-kwong, whose statue stands on Dutch Folly, in Canton harbour, brought down the First Cruising Squadron with him, this unit comprising China's structed the Cabinet, as follows:-steel protected cruisers).
President Cosgrave has recon-biggest men-of-war (2nd class,
Mr. Blythe, Minister of Finance, Posts and Telegraphs..
FREE STATE DAIL.
PRESIDENT RECONSTRUCTS
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CABINET.
Dublin, Yesterday.
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WITHIN HERSELF.”
SOURCE OF CHINA'S TROUBLE.
Shanghai, Yesterday, Addressing a large Chinese and Sun Yat-sen's Flagship.
foreign gathering at the Union] After 1922 most of the larger Club, Sir Frederick Whyte said that Mr. Fitzgerald, Minister of De-vessels returned North,
China's trouble lay within herself, fence.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen was "bottled and was not the result of so-called Mr. O'Sullivan, Minister of Edu-up" in Canton harbour for a "unequal" treaties. The abolition Mr. McGilligan, Minister of In- "Chung Shan" (then the "Wing result of an attempt to adapt the month, his flag being on the of the latter would not solve China's problem which, like India's, was the dustry and Foreign Secretary, Fung").
Mr. Hogan, Minister of Agricul- The "Chung Shan" was built by Asiatic character to Western poli- Mitsu Bishi in Japan in 1918. The tical system and ideas. Incidental- extent of her armour is unknown. lly, he remarked that six weeks' so- Other Information about her journ in China had convinced him la-
that there were justifications for 'length 205 feet, beam 29.5 the presence of the British Defence: feet, draught 8 feet; displace Forces which he had not realised ment 780 tona: 1,360 horse previous to his visit,Reuter. power; speed 18.5 knots; com- plement 109; one 10 centimetre gun (about 4 inches), one 7.6 centimetre gun, four 8-pound- ers, two 1-pounders; twin screw 3 cylinder engines, 2 cylindri- cal bollers..
Mr. Lynch, Minister of Fisheries: Mr. Mulcahy, Minister of Local Government.
Mr. Kenney, Minister of Justice. -Reuter.
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There is another gunboat which once belonged to the First Cruis- Ing Squadron. This is the "Woo- An application that imported feng, of 200 tons displacement, gloves should bear the mark of 124 feet long, with a nominal origin has been made to a Board speed of 9 knots. She carries of Trade committee. There was two 6.5 centimetre guns. no opposition, the only question The Smaller Classes. being when the order to that The 23 ships making effect should come into force, al-patrol class include the 10.30 am.lowing time for stocks to be clear class of river gunboat,
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