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keeping alive the ses spirit of our UNWANTED GUESTS. race, but also to enable the boys to become good citizens of the Empire, by learning discipline, duty and self- respect in the spirit of their motto
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PENALTIES FOR BOARDING
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CHINA NEWS.
Continued from page 1.)
What He Can Do.
HOTEL RUNNERS FINED. The rapidity of Feng Yu- halang's alleged move is stated to Fifteen Chinese, consisting of hold Honan province against the be due to fears that he cannot
capacitated by reason of the Great boarding house runners, shop fokis, Fengtien Party's attack, but he
sampan folk and others were chargcould hold Shansl.-Reuter
War.
Other parta of the Empire ed at the Marine Court this morn- [Note: According to Feng- overseas are proud of the share ing with being on board the s.stien's version, the "Christian "Prosper" without permission. general" is supposed to have in- they take in the work of the Navy
Various pleas of defence were duced Yen Hsi-shan to declare League.. Hong Kong must not be made and the boarding house run-war on Fengtlen!] allowed to lag behind. On the oc-ners were particularly Insistent Advance Against Honan casion of the concert in the that they were not aware of any. regulation prohibiting them board-
Peking, Yesterday. Queen's Theatre to-morrow evening ships so long as the police flag claims that units of the army The Fengtien Party officially
ing it is expected that the usual was not flying.
F
under General Chang Tsung-
appeal will be made for more | Comdr. J. D. Nowill, D.S.O chang, known as the Chibli- members of the Navy League. RN (Assistant Harbour Master) Shantung army (which is part of Let that appeal meet with a ready for them to get permission from pied Changte on Tuesday, driving pointed out that it was necessary the Fengtien organisation), occu response!
the master before they went on out the Kuominchun.-Reuter. board. As soon as he indicated that they could board they were in ern corner of Honan province, on [Note: Changte is the north-
BACK AGAIN.
as the
the other defendant Nationalist Troops Withdraw to (who denied a previous conviction)
Nanking. for purposes of identification. went alongside the "Prosper" bear-
Three mastera, of sampans which.
Police Launch Beaten,
The
Nanking. Yesterday. From Pukow, which is on the
order in pursuing their advoca- the Peking-Hankow Railway, tions. In this instance many of which is the road by which one Reviving Liberalism.
them, according to the evidence, wing of Fengtien troops is march- The news cabled to China the had boarded before the ship actual- ing southwards on the Kuomir-
chun.. other day from London that they got to the buoy.
The 'Kuominchun is the Evidence was given by an officer army under Marshal Feng Yu- Liberal Party proposes to put 500 from a police launch which was near hsiang, better known candidates in the field at the next when various sampons boarded "Christian general."]. |General Election no doubt aroused whilst the ship was under way, also Hía the query in many minds: Is there by an officer from the ship. still a Liberal Party? Apparently $10 each or ten daya hard labour, Worship fined fourteen of the men there is, and Sir Herbert Samuel manding is hard at work organising it. He believes that neither Conservatism nor Labour can meet the needs of the nation at this time and that ing passengers and grappled with opposite (the north) bank of the if a Liberal Party did not exist it boat hooks before the ship had got Yangtze River, a large number would be necessary to create one. to her buoy were fined $10, $20 and of Nationalist troops has with In putting forward his plans. for $10 respectively, the second man drawn and come back to Nanking. the resurrection of Liberalism Sir having a previous conviction.
Other batches left Nanking to- Surveying and charting; the Herbert, of course, indulges in
day by the Shanghai-Nanking greater part of the World much of the usual political clap The coxswain of the B/1. "Wing Railway, going in a direction Seas has been surveyed and powerful class Interests of landled with failing to carry regulationNaval Wireless.
trap. We are told about the Wo" (Aberdeen ferry) was charg-south of the River. British charted by the Royal Navy. and capital that lead Conservatism lights and with falling to stop when [Note: Latest movements of Research and exploration; e.g.and that (though not why) protec-called on by the Police.
Nationalist troops are referred to Polar and Antarctic expeditive tariffe would mean an in- According to the Police evidence below.)
Converted Hospitals. tions have been greatly is of the people. It is always "the launch passed Green Island.
crease in the high cost of living the side lights were out when the
Chinklang, Yesterday, sisted by the Royal Navy. people" who are to benefit from Police launch signalled to the ferry Nationalist troops have arrived Civilisation of remote places the placing of any one party in launch to stop but the launch, If at Nanking from the opposite (the power, according to the politicians. anything went faster and the Pelice north) bank of the Yangtsze and the bringing under law Coming, however, to the bounties launch was unable to overtake It. River. Their return to the south of native tyrants.
that Liberalism would confer upon Eventually, the ferry did stop on bank has caused two buildings In Suppression of piracy and the "the people" it is seen that Sir another four blasts being given the British Concession to be con-
Slave Trade; the British for the revival of the Party is that intervening time the coxswain had Naval Wireless.
Herbert's first plea of justification from the Police launch and in the verted into hospitals.—British Navy has been the chief in- It is always good to have an alter-re-lit the side lights.
[Note: It was reported yester- strument in this work, and native Government in reserve, that The defendant pleaded guilty to day that some of the buildings in still continues it; e.g. Persian the people" cannot be tied to one the first charge and not guilty to the Concession have been vacated
administration in perpetuity, Gulf.
The the second stating that he did not by the military.] Labour Party, or a "Red" Party, hear the first signals of the Police Vicits of Ceremony, Escorts, or any other Party could, of course, Jaunch.
Chiang Kai-shek Expected?, showing the Flag, etc., eg strength. Before setting forth the at four signals being regarded as shek may return to China shortly.
use this argument with equal
His Worship expressed surprise Post" suggests that Chiang Kai- The "Hong Kong Evening the Cruise of the Prince of other Liberal arguments, all vague a Police signal to stop and also at Wales as our great ambassa- and indicative that no definite the fact that the ferry launch was troops to Nanking and other The withdrawal.of Nationalist dor of peace and goodwill to Party, it is as well to observe that, & faster boat than the Police launch. movements recorded in the wire-
policy has yet been framed for the our overseas fellow-subjects in Sir Herbert's view, the Labour It was explained by Sub-Inspec-less may be connected with such and to foreign nations. Party, as a potential governing launches were faster
tor Brown' that some of the Police an expectation. force, is as equally useless as he Regarding the signal, although Chiang Kai-shek's right hand Nearer this Colony than the makes out the Conservatives to be.
than others. General Ho Ying-ching, who is Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 20, 1927. places mentioned above, we can- Labour does not meet the needs of there was no regulation regarding man, left Nanking on Tuesday to not forget the immense services the nation. It has tied its fortunes four blasts, it was a recognised inspect his troops along the rendered in the protection of Bri- definitely to the theory of social-police signal in Hong Kong har- Shanghai-Nanking Railway. His tish subjects in China, as witness one and Intellectually its position
ism. Its foundation is a crumbling bour.
headquarters has been removed His Worship fined defendant $25 from Nanking, to Shanghai. To-morrow is Nelson Day, the Wanhaien epic, and, further-will not stand criticism, so its on the first charge and dismissed! which is as often known as Trafal more, the part played by the Na the Liberal aims, we are told that
Two detachments of Ho Ying- efforts are bound to fall. As for
the second.
ching's troops, however, hava gar Day. The moment seems ap; in the two raids on the pirates a large series of measures has
Other Cases.
gone along the railway, in the priate to call attention to the haunt at Bias Bay. And in heen, or is being. carefully pre- was charged with failing to renew
The master of a night soll junk and have arrived at Nanking. ·
direction opposite to Shanghai, Navy League concert to be held in bringing troops from Home in the pared dealing with the relations his licence and stated in his de- the Queen's Theatre to-morrow grave crisis in China early this unemployment, with the question of tractor to do. He had been in con- of employers and workers. with fence that he left this for the con
A General's Family. evening, when the historic film, year, the Navy performed a task the coal mines, with the use of servancy work for five years-Fin- 3rd Nationalist Army) having
Kiuklang, Yesterday, General Chu Pei-teh (of the "The Battle of Jutland," will also the importance of which cannot land in the towns and around them, ed be screened. The Colony has risen be too strongly emphasised.
with the use of agricultural land.
left here on Tuesday by a Britiali with the needs of agricultural For having no licence and fail- down-river ship for Nanking, his to the occasion nobly in past years Coming to the Navy League it- labourers "and with a variety of ing to report his arrival at Cheung family also left to-day going self there is nothing in its plat- other matters closely touching the Chow, the master of a junk was down-river as well. British form to which any loyal citizen well-being of the people," All of fined 360 and 820 respectively. Naval Wireless.
100 which does not sound very edify. For lying. Inshore within can take the slightest objection. It np.
Foreign Ships on Yangisze. has well been described as a volun-political cries that have been be- permission, the mistresses of two Here are many of the old yards of low water mark, without
Ichang, Yesterday. tary patriotic
River ateamers Association of fore "the people" for the past hun- anmpans were fined $10.
flying the The Navy League does not British peoples, entirely outside questions and all impossible of
French and Italian flags have been dred years, all big and important
used by the local authorities to come into the Hmelight here as
party politics, desirous of render-solution to
transport ships up-river-British the satisfaction of
Naval Wireless. often as it might, for, apart from ing the greatest service of which everyone, as, the politicians know. Nelson Day, the only other func.it is capable to the Empire, parti-tackled, and is tackling, many of The present Government has tion during the year is the annual cularly in connection with all mat-them, notably the relationship be meeting of the local branch of theters concerning the sea. It up tween employers and workers, con- League. That, however, is all the holds as the fundamental prin cerning which round-table confer more reason for pressing home its ciple of national and Imperial don: unemployment, which le due claims for the support of a much policy complete naval protection for further consideration as soon larger section of the community for British aubjects and British as Parliament meets again next
Calls on the "Widgeon." month; the question of the coal ed with a very pleasant evening's Theatre-goers were again provid- than is represented by the mem-commerce all the world over,
mines, which is bound up in the entertainment when The Quaints Widgeon on Tuesday by General
Chungking, Yesterday. Its objects are:-
Calls were paid on H.M.S. hership Het. It cannot be forgot-
Trades Union Bill which is making gave that most delightful musical Liu Hsiang and the Commission grounds, the support of all classes, in tain see red and a variety of comedy "Ohl Joy for the second er for Foreign Affairs of this
To enlist, en Imperial and national Labour extremists throughout Bri maintaining the Navy the ty other matters. Liberalism in Bri- larger than that of the previous [Note: Liu Halang has only re-
time last night. The audience was port. British Naval Wireless with view to the safety of our trade tain has been in its day the night and every item on the pro-cently returned to power in this as well as in war. In summarised of securing British prestige on every ashes of almost utter extinction a ramme was received with much part of Szechuan province which
and Empire, but also with the object force and may yet rise from the form these duties are detailed by sea and in every part of the world renowed organisation, full of enthusiasm. the Navy League in an officialTo convince the general public that vigour, honesty, of purpose, with a Mr. R. B. Salisbury as Jim Mar 1,427 miles from Shanghai. He le 832 miles above Hankow and expenditure upon the Navy is the na- circular as follows
tional equivalent of the ordinary I definite programme for the vin and Mr. Gordon Rennis as Sir has expressed a desire for foreign surance which no sano person grudges people" instead of those political John played their respective parts merchants to return and promises Earthquake and famine, relief in private affairs, and: that, haince is mouthings which characterise all to perfection and provided the au- protection.]
to victims promptly given by strength a
sudden development of Naval Parties but mean little in actual dienes with much fun. One par
Impossible, only
only con Royal Navy; eg, Messina Unuity of preparation can guarantee
performance. and Japanese carthquakes.
Foster national and Imperial security. To teach the altit
citizens of the Empire, Fire ashore and afloat, ship-ng and old alike, that "if is the
Navy whereon, under the good pro A concert was given at the Sham- “ “One Dam Thing After Abother.” wreck, collision; prompt and vidence of God, the wealth, safety and shulpo camp last night by a party which is scoring such a success
strength of the Kingdom, chiefly de Immediate assistance effl-pend and that they acistence of the of local entertainers under Mrs. E. the London Pavilion, will be give
given by the Royal Empire with the liberty and prosperity | J." Jer
of its peoples, no less depends on the ani
PLEA FOR NAVY LEAGUE.
on the occasion of Nelson Day, not alone because the principles of the Navy League are excellent but because of the naval charities that benefit.
ten that the Navy, like the Army and the Air Force, has duties
vital to the whole Empire in peace
quisite standard of strength, not only
ences are now being held in Lôn»
on innumerable, occa-mère service, which under the t
alvage, work
done by the
the Royal Navy welda Imperia
Ships to:
OH! JOY!
LAST NIGHT'S PLAY AT THEATRE ROYAL
CHANGE' TO-DAY.
[Note: Ichang, which is 870 : miles above Hankow, is under the jurladiction of the Wu-Han Party Generals on the upper Yangtaze have, for some time. past, been insisting on the sup- posed right to use foreign ships for conveying troops.]/
ticularly pleasing...... number "Loving by Proxy, which 67744 heartily appreciated.
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