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THE LATEST PIRACY.
if the pirates in control choose to
the ignore signals, for once pirates had been allowed to get
NEW CAMPAIGN.
NANKING STILL ADVANCE UP-RIVER.
WU-HAN TROOPS RETREAT.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1927.
POLICE REPORTS.
CAR TAMPERED WITH NEAR
FERKY.
RUNS INTO HARBOUR.
The driver of car. 261 reports
PRAPS-PRAPS NOT!
There's a good deal of inter-port about.
Shanghai, Yesterday. The Nanking Government has
A sheep-farmer in Perthshire, despatched the 6th, 7th and 38rd that, having left the car unattend the owner of a splendid collle deg, Armies up-river towards Wuhu ed for a few minutes at the "Star" was visited by a gentleman who from where Liu Shi'a Wu-Han ferry entrance, his attention' was took a fancy for the animal. He to the offered fifty pounds for the dog, troops retired up to Anking. The called shortly afterwards
was in motion. which was accepted. Wu-Han men were pursued by fact that his car
After the collie had changed General Cheng Chien's forces con- Before he could prevent it, the car
hands, the gentleman asked the sisting of the 10th and 37th had plunged into the sea.
farmer, if it would not be more pro- Armies and six Chinese gunboats
Evidently someone had tamperedfitable to breed dogs instead of which are, apparently, endeavour with the car which must have been sheep? ing to cut off the retreat of the left in gear but there was no-one in "No, no," pawkily returned the Wu-Han men up-river.
it at the time it wont into the sod farmer, "I can aye get merchants to Guards' Plucky Fight. buy my sheep, but I canna aye get An attempted armed robbery at a fools to buy my dogs.” dynamite magazine, Shek Lai Pul,
The gunboats, on Thursday! night, bombarded the Wu-Han posts at Tikangchen (which is 20 miles above Wuhu).-Router.
IN PURSUIT,
Nanking Getting Belter of Wu-Han.
was frustrated by two Indian There was a timid knock at the watchmen who put up 崩 fight door. "If you please, kind lady," against thres armed men who sub-said the beggar, "I've lost my right sequently decamped after wounding leg-" one of the guards.
Thieves Busy.
$50 worth of goods were stolen
"Well, it ain't here!" retorted the woman of the house as she slam- med the door.
He: Every kiss intoxicates me, darling. Would you like me to be a drunkard?
by thieves who entered St. John's Wuhu, Yesterday, The 37th (pro-Nanking) Army Hall last night. has entered Wahu. Units of this army have continued to press on jup-river in pursuit of the 36th
(pro-Hankow) Army which with SHOT THAT MISSED.that you don't mix your drinks.
drew from Wuhu.-British Naval Wireless.
HITS COOLIE INSTEAD OF BUFFALO.
SLAUGHTER HOUSE ESCAPE.
She: Well, yes, on the condition
*
A lady entered an outfitter's shop and said she wanted a present for an old gentleman.
"How' about a tie, madam?”, aug“ gested the assistant...
"No, he wears a beard," objected the customer.
More Troops Go North..
Nanking, Yesterday. General Tang Seng-chi of Han- kow is reported here to have de- clared an alliance with the North A coolie employed in the slaugh- (the Fengtien Purty?)
ter house at Kennedy Town had a Troops in large numbers con- narrow escape from death yester- tinue to move from Nanking day when a shot by Inspector across to Pukow on the north Bradley of the Sanitary Depart
"He has a very long beard," ex- bank of the Yangtsze. Britishment which was for the purpose
of killing a water buffalo richet-plained the lady. Naval Wireless.
ed and struck the coolie in the "In that case," the assistant re- shoulder.
pifed, "there's nothing for it but
WHY THE WAR.
Union With Tang Seng-chi Impossible.
The coolie was taken to hospital
and is not in a serious condition.
As it is practically impossible to pole-axe a water buffalo, shooting
"Well, a fancy waistcoat?" pur- sued that man.
carpet slippers!"
*
A widowed mother in our
dis-
has to be resorted to in the slaughtrict finds it hard to get her son Nanking having declared war on ter houses.
to
be concentrating his troops at Anking, which is above Wuhu where the Nanking vanguard is in position.
out of bed in the morning. After calling him twice, she returns the third time and rattles the money in his pocket, when he im- mediately sits up, fully awake.
*
HINDU HOLIDAY.
The Hindu Merchants Association! passed the following resolution at
The sergeant sang out at com- the meeting held on the 17th inst.:pany parade: "All those fond of That on account of our Devali music step out two paces forward!" festivals all the Sind-Hindu Silk Merchants will close their shops at With visions of soft jobs in the 7.30 p.m. on 25th, 26th and 27th regimental band, half-a-dozen mez instant, and will celebrate the co-stepped forward; smiling broadly,
Mer- casion at their Sind-Hindu
"Now, then," yelled the sergeant, chants' Club from 7.30 p.m.. to 9 "you six chaps get busy and carry p.m. on these days."
the captured craft into the inlet him, General Tang Seng-chi is re- the submarine would have been ported debarred from following owing to the dangerous nature of the reefs. When her signals were ignored
Mr. Sun Fo's name if mentioned there was no alternative but for in connection with this vital break the L4 to fire with a view to in- in the Nationalist Party. After Interviewing Tang Sang-chi at capacitating the ship's engines. Hankow, he is said to have advis Her object was achieved with aed hostilities as no understanding well placed shot and had there was possible.
Wanted Rond to the Sea. been no subsequent outbreak of
It also transpires that difficulty fire the ship with the pirates fay in Tang Seng-chi's demands, aboard would have been captured says a cable from Shanghai. He without loss of life among the wanted part control of the mouth passengers. The outbreak may or tion in Hankow, in the heart of (of the Nanking side) routed the of the Yangtsze so that his post- Army under General Li Tsung-jen may not have been resultant on the country, would have access to 36th Army under General Liu the shot fired from the Submarine the soa.
Hsing (of the Wu-Han faction). but the rapidity with which it
The reason why Cheng Chien has-Reuter. deserted Tang Seng-chi for Nan- spread rather indicates that the king is that Tang Seng-chi has pirates, realising that the game stopped supplying him with funds. Summary of Progress on Various
It is announced that the Nation-
alist official peace conference mooted
CANTON'S PART.
Reported Sympathy Towards Nanking,
IN THE NORTH.
War Zones.
that grand piano In the basement up to the officers' new quarters on the seventh floor!"
teaching your wife to drive.
Binks: I see you've given up
Jinks: Yes, we had an accident. Binks: Why, what happened?" Jinks: I told her to release her clutch, and she let go the steering- wheel.
Visitor: Baby has his mother's complexion,
Despatches from North China Father (from next room): For show the position in the war be- goodness sake, don't let him eat that tween Peking (the Fengtion Party) stuff. and Shansi to be as follows:-
Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 22, 1927. was up, fulfilled the threats they had-made previously to the off.
for November 1 will not be held. cers that if they were interfered
Upper Yangtse Shipping. with they would burn the ship to
Shasi, Yesterday. The exploit of H.M. Submarine the water's edge and that all
When the British river steamer L4 in effecting the rescue of two aboard would perish. Now that Indo-China S. N. Co.) was here, either side; Fengtien army still at brother's hair, and pulled se vigor "Kiangwo" (belonging to the Northern sector: no progress by The baby succeeded in grasping hundred passengers and crew official figures are available of the she was boarded by Hunanese Kalgan; order to advance given by ously that the youngster let out a from the burning 8.8. "Irene" will passengers and crew saved by the (pro-Hankow) troops and search- Marshal Chang Tao-lin of Fengtien. howl. be numbered amongst the most 14 and H.M.S. "Delhi" it woulded for bandits,
Southern sector: fighting con The mother soothed the child: Later the "Klangwo" arrived at tinues with honours, even, stirring epics of the sea. Handi-
appear that the loss of life is chang, further up-river, but was
"Never mind, darling," mother said, capped as they were by a heavy small owing to the prompt action not boarded.
Poking danger Zone: Shanai"she doesn't know how it hurts." British Naval
rovers ousted from. Mentoukou, She hurried away on some domes- swell, the opposition of the taken and the heroism of the Wireless.
which is a few miles west of Petic errand, but some minutes later pirates who had been in control Bluejackets. That loss of life and
king. Sun Yueh, who formerly hurried back on hearing screams of the ship, the danger of too damage to the ship was neces
supported the "Christian general," from the nursery. "Whatever is close proximity to the blazing sitated at all was not the fault of
had a narrow escape from capture the matter with baby?" she cried. by Fengtion. Shansi rovers still "Nuffin at all," said the small vessel and by the limitation of those in charge of HM. Sub-
hold Chochow, 40 miles south-west boy, "but now she knows." deck space, the officers and crew marine but it is none the less According to the "Kung Sheung having failed.
of Peking, efforts to shell them out of the Submarine performed
regrettable. Even assuming that Yat Po," the Canton Government
Honan zone: "Christian wonders of seamanship and indi- the outbreak of fire was a direct is sympathetic towards Nanking eral's" main force retriing west-father. vidual heroism which entitle them result of the firing, the incident
in the latest Nationalist split.
General Li Chai-sum has been of Nankow Pass fame says he will name for the East End of London,
wards, but General Lu Chung-lin "Reginald D'Arcy, sir."
"That's rather un to the highest praise and to some is, a case in point where the in-appointed director-in-chief of more practical recognition of their terests of a few must be sub-operations against Hankow.terri-ght to the last.:
isn't it?? bravery. It is to be regretted jugated to those of the majority of Kwangsi as his deputy.
tory and General Wong Shiu-hung that loss of life was necessitated It is in the vital interests of ship- The Ironsides are stated to be at all but the action taken by ping that the Blas Bay gang all in favour of supporting Li H. M. Submarine in firing on the should be frustrated as often as remains to be seen whether Li Chal-sum against Hankow but ft captured vessel was forced
possible until they eventually. Chai-sum will sit tight or join the by the repeated disregard of an learn the lesson that the "game" fray Internationally recognised order
to stop. If piracy is to be stamp
is not worth the candle. It is no Nanking's Declaration.
Shanghai. Yesterday.
•
"Aud what are you going to call gen- him" asked the doctor to the happy
IN CLOVER?
Reported Big British Loans to Chang Tso-lin.
uncommon
"Yes, sir. But I want him to be a boxer."
"I don't quite see the connection," replied the somewhat mystified doe- tor.
"Oh, that's easy, sir. Look at the practice he will get at school- with a name like that."
Shanghai, Yesterday. The Kuo Min News Agency states that a British firm has loaned Marshal Chang Teo-n battling with her mother all day.
Five-year-old Florrie had been less in the vital interests of pas- The Nationalist Government at sive right of building the Teang on putting Florria to bed,
$20,000,000 #ecured on the exclu- "There, child," said the mother ed out in China waters no oppor-sengers that the nefarious aims Nanking has issued an order de
"aleep tunity must be overlooked for
well and don't be cross when you of the Bias Bay fraternity should nouncing General Tang Seng-chi, chow-Shihchlachwang Railway.
Another firm, reported to be wake up." frustrating the nefarious aims of
who is commander-in-chief of the Arnhold's, is stated by the Kud be frustrated in order that pass Nationalist armies at Wu-Han, as
"I notice,” said Little. Florrie, the Bias Bay fraternity, and the fortunate presence in the vicinity on the China seas may be a rebel against the Revolutionary in to have loaned $10,000,000 for "that when it's me you say cross freed from the present constant movement, and as a supporter of industrial purposes north of Kal-when it's you, you say "nervous?" danger of piracy with resultant the Communists, dismissing him gan-Reuter. from all posts.
[Note: The Kuo Min News She: "It was an unlucky day carrying out tactical maneres logs not only of personal effects, Orders have been issued by the Agency is a Nationalist institu- when we married one another."
but often of life and of liberty Military Committee at Nanking to tion.]:...
He: "That's where you're wrong. whilst in the hands of the pirates despatch troops to attack Tang
A False Report.
It's the only day we were happy." Seng-chipped
Shanghai, Yesterday, Madame Sun Yat-sen, who la "Have you tried gargling with not to mention the hardship Troops of the Nanking faction and often torture inflicted on have gained an initial success in now in Moscow, has telegraphed salt water for your sore throat?”
of Submarine L4 which had been
:
and had anchored for the night afforded such an opportunity when the pirated as. Irene was being taken into Bina Bay under cover of night. HM Submarine their victims.Lt. Halahan, the the vicinity of Wuhu, which is:55 to her friends in Shanghai-re-Wall, I've been shipwrecked twice
miles above NankingHere on questing them to demand this year I Wednesday morning, the 87th London nowspaper which publish
red, some time ago, a report that (Continued at foot of neat Madame Sun Yat-sen and Mr.
Column.)
did all that was humanly possi Captain of L4, and his officers and ble to avoid the action which it
woning crew are to be congratulated on was later forced to take. An
PETAL CHLAPTON their prompt action and the internationally recognised order
bravery displayed by all handa, to stop was signalled and blank
It la to be hoped that their be shots fired across the
haviour will not pass unnoticed by bows. To have allowed the
those in control at the Ad pirati
roceed with
turo
The name of The
only last night on the pier the a dark girl path, and here you
Eugene Chen, the former Foreign Minister to the Hankow Govern- ment were married in Moscow.
Madame Sun adds that if the tired
newspaper will not give her a waxed the dark girl
satisfactory apology," she will
al with the matter legally.
Mr Eugene Chen and known
Sun deny that they have Now do Wichtest intention of getting