BUICK China Mail
···1928.
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No. 25,702 HỎNG KONG, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1927.
NEW ALLIES.
WU PEI-FU FOR HANKOW.
FRESH COUNTER-OFFENSIVE.
SUN ENGAGES NANKING.
CANTON'S WAR POLICY.
Two main features in to-day's news about the country-wide dis- turbances in China are the counter-offensive by a Northern warlord to relieve the pressure by Nanking on Hankow, and the reported de- sire of Mr. Wang Ching-wai to return to Canton immediately.
Marshal Sun Chuan-fang of northern Kiangsu is the warlord who is believed to be making an active bid for the alliance of General Tang Seng-chi of Hankow. Marshal Wu' Pei-fu is also mentioned as having arrived at an understanding with Hankow,
PEKING STILL ANXIOUS.
While the Nanking Govern- 8th Army probably has a small ment has been pouring armies up detachment in Wuhu and will not the Yangtsze past Wuhu with vacate the place, in favour of Hankow as the final objective, it Nanking, until Nanking pays has not neglected its northern them to leave.] front, along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway where a lull set in some time ago in the campaign against Marshal Sun Chuan-fang.
This week and last week, Nanking units have gone across the Yang- tsze to strengthen the defence against the Northerners.
The
WANG CHING-WEL
His Possible Return to Canton.
inference
is
SEVEN BURIED.
Landslide at Local Cemetery.
FOUR PEOPLE DEAD.
Rapid Rescue Work At Mohammedan Cemetery.
BIAS BAY
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month,
N. LAZARUS Hong Kong's Only European Optician- Established Over Forty Years" Manager:--Ralph A. Cooper, M.A.0.A. Registered Optometrist (Canada).
"GORILLA SERMONS." KOWLOON BUSES.
Canton Takes Up The Question.
The Bishop And His Grace.
WAYS AND MEANS.
CHURCH AND BIOLOGY,
Christ.
A Matter of Public Safety.
JUDGE'S STRONG CRITICISM.
SHIPPING BOYCOTT.
Lighter Workers & China Merchants Co.
SOURCE OF TROUBLE.
Labour Unions Take Up Canton Coolie Fight.
Authorities May Garrison Part Of Problem Of The Real Presence Of Police Action In Allowing Smaller
Type Of Bus. The Coast.
Criticism of the Police policy
Instructions have been issued London, Yesterday. A landslide which caused seven Canton's war council, the
The Bishop of Birmingham has in regard to buses allowed on by the Union of Lighter Workers. people to be buried under several highest military and
lesued a second open letter to the the road at Kowloon was passed in Canton to boycott a wharf of Merchants' Steam Lons of earth occurred at the Mohammedan Cemetery at 4.30 authority for the provinces of Archbishop of Canterbury in by His Honour Mr. Justice J. R. the China
Kwangtung and Kwangsi has which he says His Grace, by tacit Wood in the course of a Summary Navigation Co. which is situated p.m., yesterday.
Thanks to the fact that the discussed measures for dealing acknowledgment of the truth of Court case this morning in which along the range of native and the biological doctrine of evolu- evidence centred round an acci- foreign, warehouse property at alarm was given immediately and with Bias Bay pirates.
tion, removes from Ministers of dent on the Castle Peak Road on the back of Honam, but is a part the fire brigade being promptly This new council was only ap the Church qualms at proclaiming four people were injured.
September 11 as a result of which of Canton.
It is not known yet what result on the scene, excavation work was rapidly done with the help of a pointed a few days ago.. General it.
The Kowloon Motor Bus Com-hus followed the Union's decision, He says his so-called "Gorilla number of coolies gathered from Li Chai-sum, the commander-in-
Sermons sought to emphasise pany claimed against Henry which in some ways resembles a the vicinity, thus making it pos- chief, is the chairman.
Campaigns against bandits and the readjustments of the tradi-Leung, assistant Compradore of strike. Bible to extricate four persons
up among the tional Christian dogma rather Jardine Matheson and Co., Ltd.,
for $710, the driver of " from the debris still alive. They pirates came
earliest discussion of the council
car, the alleged driving of which Opinion in political circles is
was stated to have forced one of Consignees tako delivery of that the Canton authorities agree
plaintiff company's motor buses cargo from the godowna and they that the Bias Bay evil must be
into a collision with a tree. engage lightera (in most cases stamped out immediately; but it!
Mr. C. A. S. Ruas was for plain-junks), the crews of which nearly is difficult to see what plans can
tiff and Mr. H. J. Armstrong for all belong to the Union, be chosen.
the defendants.
Redress Wanted.
SEE "THE OVERLAND.”
This week's issue of the "Chins Overload Mail" contains full and official accounts of the shelling of the pirated steamer "Irene" by H.M. Submarine Li, the gallant rescue of the passengers and crew and the apprehension of the 'sus- pected pirates, together with report of their preliminary appear- ance in the Police Court.
No Naval Arm.
.
NO NONSENSE.
4
French Troops For Hankow.
Hankow, To-day. Two hundred French Colonials have arrived as a permanent garrison for the French conces alon-Reuter.
Coastal steamers from Shang hai and other China porta call in fairly large numbers at Canton.
One of the witnesses called was One of the fokis on a junk is The idea is to send troops from
Inspector Mason, of the Traffic alleged to have been maltreated the Waichow. prefecture-of
Department; who in reply to aby a China Merchants' godown- which Bins Bay is a part-to gar-
question as to whether the parti-man following a dispute as to rison the coast of the Bay and
cular type of bus involved (one of ownership of a gang-plank. The round up the pirates. There will
the small Ford car type) was in-foki appealed to the Union and be no Chinese Naval arm.
clined to be top-heavy with a full the Union has circularised all Similar tactics were adopted be-
load replied that in his opinion members not to work at that than the doctrine itself and thinks the type of bus was certainly not wharf until redress is obtained. were immediately taken to the fore, with partial success.
On the approach of the soldiers, the many-sided excellence of the suitable for the work.
Cargo coolies and others have motor ambulance, hospital in a
Officially Passed.
been embroiled, it will be recalled, and it is not expected that they the pirates retreat into the neigh-Old Testament ought to be pre-
in at least two pitched fights will lose their lives as the result bouring heights where detection served rather than disparaged.
His Honour pointed out that the within the last two weeks, squab- Referring to the Archbishop of The "Kung Sheung Yat Po" is of the terrible experience. they is difficult and dispossession even
Canterbury's statement that he buses were passed by the traffic bling over the right of various informed that Mr. Wang Ching had gone through. The remain-more so.
Bias Bay comes within the had given "real offence" to some department for passenger service labour unions to work near the Creating a Diversion. wei (chairman of the Kuomintang ing three were already dead when Reports overnight indicate who resigned some time ago) left dug out, and their bodies were] Waiyeung district, the first dis- churchfolk in the sacramental on the roads and if they were top-wharves and godowns at the back
trict of the Waichow prefecture issue, the Bishop says that some heavy it was a serious thing to of Honam.
pain was inevitable. a Japanese steamer taken to the public mortuary.
"Truth allow them on the road at all. that Marshal Sun Chuan-fang's Hankow on
The slide occurred on the Mor- What Happened Before.
Witness said that he did not de- outposts clashed with the Nan- for Shanghai, and has sailed from
pierces like a sword," he added, ja Unfortunately, authority king men at Mingkwang, which Shanghai on a British steamer for rison gap side of the cemetery
where work was in progress to re-centred at Waiehow city, on the and proceeds to enlarge on the finitely say they were top-heavy. is about 60 miles from the north Hong Kong.
that inforce an old retaining wall, a cast River, some distance inland, question of an experimental test He merely expressed his own per- feet in length and about 6 fest sonal opinion that this type of bus from the edge of the road. The bank of the Yangtsze.
of the bacramental dogmas. is making for Canton. portion of which was carried away Engagement: between Nanking he
The anti-piracy garrison is en-¡ He restates his sacramental was not suitable. There had been offside akid mark of the bus was sided with Hankow by heavy rains some two or three and Sun Chuan-fang will divert He
For the purpose of tirely dependent, on Waichow city teaching in which he states the several cases of them having been 28 feet 5 inches in length, about
for funds.
Military exigencies real presence of Christ can be blown over in typhoon weather. the centre of the road. Nanking's attention from the in the first Nationalist split.years ago.
Car Inspected. campaign against Hankow and Latterly he was mentioned in con-rebuilding the wall a trench was pave the way to an alliance benection with the reconciliation dug by the contractor and it is may bring about delay in pay with his followers in public wor- This only applied to the smaller
Inspector A. H. Mason was the thought that this had the effect The countryside is too poor to
next witness. He stated that he tween Hankow and Sun Chuan- scheme.
His Honour said that witness had examined the car on the day fang.
His presence in Canton may of undermining the loose earth support a garrison and the com- ship and communion, but there is buses and not to the new larger
Christ attached to the bread and effect on which had been standing at a dan-mander, unless conscientiously no objective to the real presence of type:
supported, has reluctantly to
wine used in the Communion.- had been perfectly frank and he following the accident and had the political policy down south gerous angle for some years. lend his men away..
Reuter.
(His Honour) maintained that it but, as will be seeni elsewhere in It is estimated that nearly, a
On previous occasions, detach-
was a very serious matter. It made a list of the damage. was clearly not in the public in- had been put in by
Bustained. Shewn the bill which this issue, Canton has shown no hundred tons of earth came down
the terests that an Inspector should Wu Pei-fy and Yang Sen For definite inclination to send an ex- with the slide, but it was fortun-ments have been withdrawn to
be called on to pass out ears; pedition against Tang Seng-chi in ate that all did not reach the support political claims in richer
of a type which he considered not several names were used for parts which were not the technically ac- suitable.
cepted names but it appeared to Regarding the facts of the case him a fairly reasonable bill if all Mr. Russ said that about 4-45 the work had been done which p.m. on September 11 Bus No. 102 was specified on the bill.
Witness was cross-examined by a reasonable Mr. Armstrong-regarding several
OTHER ALLIES.
Hankow.
But there is somebody else who, is siding with Tang Seng-chi against the Nanking Nationalists,
have
a considerable
the interests of Nanking.
Reuter's Report.
Shanghai, To-day.
bottom of the hill, much of the fall places. being stopped by terraces which had been cut into the hill for
It is reported that Wang Ching-burial ground,
as will be seen by the following:-wei left secretly by the s.5.
Significant News.
Peking, Yesterday, Foreign messages from Ichang tend to confirm previous reports that Wu Pei-fu is working with Tang Seng-chi against Nanking for Tang Seng-chi's troops are reported to be withdrawing from Ichang towards Hankow while Yang Sen's men, with whom Wu Pei-fu is co-operating, are taking their place.
the Hankowites have disarmed a
→→→Reuter,
including
“Kashmir” for Canton on thei 26th.-Reuter.
TRUCE OR WAR?
Shansi Rovers Cause Peking Anxiety.
Up in Chihli province develop- ments are fluctuating.
A Naval wireless message from Shanghai reports rumours (in
an armistice. between Marshal
B
On
It is said in some quarters that
General Yang Sen has designs on Ichang-British Naval Wire- less...
lows:
Kuominchun Defeat.
Peking, Yesterday.
CHEMICAL RESEARCH.
OUR EMPIRE-WIDE ACTIVITIES.
Bwww.
EXPERT'S OUTLINE,
London, Yesterday. Sir Alfred Mand, addressing
IN THE NEWS.
MINERS & SEAMEN. ITEMS FROM TO-DAY'S POLICE
DISPUTE AMONGST HOME UNIONS.
NON-POLITICAL SUPPORT.
London, Yesterday.
REPORTS.
repair shop, witness said that
Mr.
When a Chinese was this morn-was coming from Laichikok to sell with selling salt fish in West speed, from ten to twelve miles of the items on the bill. ing charged before Mr. R. E. Lind- Tsimtsatsui at Point, without a licence, he claim-hour, when a private car driven Armstrong suggested that except that he was selling old shoes, by the defendant came up from for the back axle and the two back behind, passed the bus and turn wheels, the plaintiffs appeared to The constable who arrested the man ed in so sharply that the rear have got practically a new car as The general council of the T.U.C. agreed that the hawker was selling wheel of the defendant's car a result of the accident. has approved the report of the dis-old shoes, and the Magistrato de-struck off the front wheen of the
A Reasonable Time. bus causing it to swerve and dash pute committee which Investigated cided to discharge the accused..
Witness agreed that when he into a tree at the side of the road. anw the car after the accident he a complaint by the Miners' Federa-
The coxswain of Kowloon Dock The bus was overturned, four of had not noticed damage to the tion against the Seamen's Union of It is learned from Hankow that Shanghai) of an arrangement for the delegated of the Imperial "acting disloyally in connection launch No. 9, reported to the police the sixteen occupants were in the main frame assembly, which had was going ed and taken to hospital and the been replaced as a result of the
at bus badly damaged. part of the Sixth Army,' which is Chang Tao-lin of Fengtien and Agricultural Research Confer-with assistance to the non-political that while the launch
alongside the 9.6. "Kwangsi”
accident, but stated that if the under Nanking.
It is understood the committea buoy No. 8 yesterday afternoon, a
In Repair Shop.
frame had been twisted it would General Yen Hsi-shan of Shanat. erice at a luncheon in London miners' union. Ten persons,
The scene of the accident was he difficult to notice.
The same the other hand, Chinese stated that Chemical Industries woman, have been executed. It is cables state that peace overtures Ltd. were co-operating with Gov-recommended that the Seamen's workman named Chan Ching fell believed they were offenders who have come to nought."
ernment departments in trials of Union be given 14 days to disclaim over board in a fit and was drown-near the Wong Wo distillery a applied to several other parts distributed Communist literature
Shansi's rovers
and plain- fertilisers in the Empire and else their intention to support xon-poli- ed. Although the launch searched little to the far side of the house which had been renewed and the will the vicinity for some time, the body which went under the name of extent of damage, to which was among railway workers last week. clothes troops are still causing where. Many trials were design- tical unions otherwise steps
ed to test the suitability of the be taken to sever the connection of of the unfortunate man was not Mr. Goldring's house near where not discernible until the car was
trucks used to cross the road with more or less taken down. Peking anxiety. Ichang Position,
However, Fengtien claims suc-nitro-chalk of tropical and sub-the Seamen's Uplon with the T.U.C. found.
head gates. The road was fairly Asked what would be a reason- Ichang, Yesterday.
cesses in. Honan province against tropical countries and arrange--Reuter.
A Chinese woman living in an wide and fairly straight at the able time for the repairs to take, the "Christian general," as fol- ments had been completed to
annumbered house In Ting tau vil spot in question.
providing that the main frame carry out in India and Kenya1.
The car was in, the repair shop assembly had been replaced, wit-/ lage, Autao, was yesterday taken to trials of new fertilisers of am- monium-phosphate and nitro- UNTRAINED CREW. the Kowloon Magistracy suffering for a considerable period after ness said that seven days was a [Note: Ichang is a consider-
from injuries to the left side of her the accident and the claim for reasonable time. The police had phoska. A representative was
body as the result of being knock damages was made up of the bill examined the car before the re- able distance above Hankow. A telegram from Chang Tsung studying conditions in South
ed down by Army motor cycle No. for repairs and the amount which pairs were put in hand and tested The wireless despatch supports chang to the Cabinet claims that Africa and Australia and would
10085 driven by Bergt: Elllot, the Company considered a fair it afterwards and the delay nc- Reuter's message, pointing to the Chihll-Shantung troops defeated determine to what extent phos.
RAS.C. The woman attempted to average for the loss of the days counted for an additional two possibility of Tang Seng-chi the Kuominchun at Kaifeng on phate and other deficiencies had
AMERICA TO CANADA. cross the road in front of the cycle takings during the period in days. handing over control of the upper the 24th, entering the city the been the reason why so little use
and Sergt. Elliot was unable to pull which the car was out of commis- Mr. Armstrong raised the ques- Yangtaze (above Hankow to same day. His infantry and had been made of nitrogen fer-
Washington, Yesterday. up in time to avoid her. The im-slon. The average had been made tion of the bus being, top-heavy Ichang) to Northern warlords, so armoured trains are operating as tilisers. that his own garrisons can be far as Chungmow, 30 miles from There was another representa- The proposed flight of the Unit pact caused him to be thrown from out on a $40 a day basis, the car and witness agreed that this type withdrawn to reinforce his line-up Chengchow. The Kuominchun tive on his way to India to study ed States dirigible Los Angoles the machine and he suffered cuts to not having returned to service of bus was inclined to be top-
until September 22. -
heavy when fully loaded, ngji against the Nanking advance.] are retreating to Honanfu. the best means of carrying out on October 29 to Ottawa has been his hands and knoes,
It was indicated for the defence Witness agreed that a bus of An earller message from the proposals submitted to the abandoned owing to the lack of ex-
A Tsinantu states the Chihli-Shan- Royal Commission for a great perience of the crew. The British A Chinese was this morning that $100 had been paid into this type would turn over more tung troops, when they capture scheme of co-operation in fertil Minister, Bir Phillip Sassoon and a charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell Court The amount of the repair easily than an adding car or hus Lanfeng, took a brigade commaniser propaganda between the Gov-party of British and American air at the Central Magistracy with run- bill, loss of daily takings, etc., was of heavier type if it struck against Hankow Troops Want Pay for der, 1,000 men, and 800 rifles. ernments of India and Britain men were to have travelled in the ning a popla lottery at No. 147, queried and other questions rale- anything
ed involving the suitability Annual Try-Outi The Arkuochun Headquarters Arrangements had also been made airship Reuter's American Sor Third Street, West Point, and writ of this type of bus for road work. Mr. Armstrong suggested that claim that a Fengtien aeroplane to carry out fertiliser trials in the vice."
fng. lottery tickets. He admitted
Evidence was given by P. Sgt. a bus might turn over if through carried out a successful air raid at Sudan-Reuter.
the lottery was run by another man Baysting, of the Traffic Depart some cause the steering became who employed him. The famale ment, who arrived on the scene "wobbly, "Witness replied that principal tenant of the house saldof the accident shortly after the bus had only come up for its FINE WEATHER.
that the accused was the man who wards. The bus was then lying annual try-out six days previous routed the two cubicles in which on its left side against the tree to the accident and steering tron- the papers seized by the police ware which it had struck The injured ble, he thought, could not possi- East or variable winds, found./24 Chinese detective sald
passengers had been taken to the bly Have developed within that that the lottery was a privat one, Tung Wan Hospital by the defen- time. ncon to but
about 150 talles Naba moving north-
WUHU AFFAIRS.
Withdrawal
Wuhu, Yesterday Tang Seng-chi is said to be Taiyuanfu, dropping four bombs thinking of evacuating Wu-Han, and causing considerable damage The Eighth Army is reported to to the Commander-in-Chief's have demanded back pay before Headquarters and arsem-Reu they will leave the city-British fer.
Naval Wireless. S
Opium in Shanghai,
-- [Note: Wu-Han means the ter: Shanghai, To-day,
HOTEL CLAIM.
* The Hong Kong and Shanghal
DIRIGIBLE'S FLIGHT HELD UP.
the
foreenst Until
phoon
ritory around the cities of Han It la noteworthy that the Kiang Hotels successfully claimed against moderate, fine, is the official wes- kow, Wuchangand, Hanyang, su Anti-Opium drug monopoly MRF Stranger for 877 in the Summary Court this morning, the with a population of several mil- which supplies opium to South claim being proyed by MrC llons and an arsenal. The intelll-Kiangsu, in reported to hold stocks Barry accountant and the Hotels ou much below Hantow and
eventeen million dollars Re
gence comes from Wuhestanek gonum at Shanghai valued at Company being represented byware
depended on the
drawin
dant's car. Witnasay hub cap from the defer Ich had been torn.
The
upa Asked what a roa
for the bus would ha