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No. 25,716 HONG KONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1927.
HANKOW SCARED.
NANKING ENEMIES
APPROACHING.
INTENSIVE FIGHTING.
Up-River Expedition's Final Spurt.
RIVAL NATIONALIST FACTIONS FIRE FIELD GUNS ON SHIPS. Hankow is very uneasy over the approach of the expedition sent up the Yangtze River by the Nanking Government against General Tang Seng-chi..
After making slow progress at first, the Nanking armies have -put on a final spurt and now have only 10 miles to go to reach their
objective.
NO WAR FOR US. KING AT CENOTAPH. Chinese Troops Who Will Impressive Ceremony in
Not Fight!
CAMPAIGN, CURIOSITIES.
London..
POPPIES EVERYWHERE,
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
BANDITS ROUTED.
A British Gunboat In Action.
ATTACKS ON THE WEST RIVER.
Guarantees Wanted Of Pay And Appeal By H.R.H. The Frince Of Series Of Recent Incidents Near
Canton. Territory.
Wales.
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TRADE IMPETUS. INTERPORT CRICKET. Extraordinary Recovery At Home.
COAL AT 1925 LEVEL,
Iron And Steel Manufacturers Increase.
First Day of Trial Match.
FINCHER REPLACES HUNT.
Opposition Dismissed For 75 Rozs.
Rugby, Yesterday, In the interport cricket trial The improvement in British match yesterday on the H.K.C.C. overseas trade for October is re-ground there was one change in the turn issued to-day.
place of Lieut. Hunt, who was in- corded in the Board of Trade re- Interport XI., Fincher taking the
The exports for the month disposed. totalled £61,000,000 being an ad-
London, Yesterday.
Canton, Yesterday. (By "Li Chung-yin.") !
That part of the West River Sunny frosty weather favoured Most people agree that the primary solution of Chiru's trou- the celebration of Armistice Day in just below Samshui has been the bles lius in getting rid, by dis- London. Their Majesties the King scene of a series of attacks by
At noon yesterday, bandment or other means, of the and Queen, the Prince of Wales, the bandits on merchant craft.
Duke of York and other members of
Capt. Morris's Eleven batted first, hundreds of thousands of troops the Royal Family, members of the "Robin" had to intervene when who are maintained solely to Cabinet and representatives of the bandits on Sunsha Island, near vance of half a million compared Dynes and Thorp. facing the bowl- satisfy the whims of warlords.
As soldiers these poor men had Dominions, participated in the Im-Sainam (which is above Canton), with September, whilst the im- ing of Dobble and Wales. In Dob- The two minutes allence was the tow-boat which plies between being an increase of three mil- Thorp, caught by Brace at second. to fight. As long as they fought pressive ceremony at the Cenotaph. opened fire with machine guns on ports amounted to £105,000,000, bie's second over he sent o they served the purpose of the Generale who either. paid them or everywhere scrupulously observed Sainam and Dosing, further up lions compared with September. slip, with only three on the board. A comparison of the first ten] With Venn in, the score was 'ad- At last the Hankow armies seem to be making a stand. Intensivejprovided. them with questionable and the wearing of Flanders Popples the West River. The British gun months of the present year with vanced to 11, when Dobble with a
boat returned the attack with peal of the Prince of Wales last her main armament and the bar- the same period of 1926 shows beautiful ball that swung in from that the increase in exports dur- the leg, disturbed the newcomer's means of sustenance.
There is a tendency to-day, however, which makes the evil evening, urging all to give a little dits on shore were dispersed.
On November 7, bandits attacking that period is about £30,500,- wicket.
1. worse than before. The soldiers more than last year" and other ap
Dynes and Bridgland made a Though the increase during, stand, and Bridgland looked like want to remain as soldiers, but, peals, including that of Earl Haiged Sainam, after, having been 000.
evoked a magnificent response.. repulsed by the local Merchants' they will not fight!
The sellers of poppies started Volunteers on October 30-Bri- October was not great, the last settling down when he gave a hard three or four months have actual- chance to Dale at first clip which How China has been bled by their work at midnight outside the tish Naval Wireless. civil war has been told every day House of Commons and in the West A Victory and a Defeat. ly been responsible for the great the latter held. since the Revolution in 1911. But as long as the war lords were able to keep the war on, there
fighting is reported; with disastrous 'results to passing merchant shipping.
THE DISTANCE TRAVELLED.
Before war broke out between a month Nanking and Hankow ago, the Hankow vanguard had reached to within 50 miles of Nanking, the Nanking forces hanging back and hoping against hope for conciliation.
When patience could be exer- cised no longer, Nanking declured war on General Tang Seng-chi of Hankow.
The distances between Nanking and Hankow are:-
Nanking up to Wuhu, 55
miles..
uniform have caused the Feng tien commanders much anxiety.
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comman-
was universal.
End.-Reuter.
The broadcast ap-
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The Crowd in Whitehall.
London, Yesterday.
WEATHER FORECAST.
N.E. winds, fresh, flue, is the forecast for the twenty-four hours ending at noon to-morrow.
In
WAS
Coal has almost reached level rapidly and Brace polished off the of 1925, and iron and steel manu- innings by securing three wickets féctures are actually one million for only two runa
The Interport eleven passed their pounds above those of 1925.
The volume of the exports of opponents' total with the loss of one
Brace
dismissed machinery, too, is almost equiva- wicket.
early, but after he had gone, Hay lent to two years ago.
ward and Fincher knocked all the sting out of the bowling. Hayward complated the half century and fell to a brilliant catch in the country by Lammert.
The imports for the first ten months of this year, however, de clined nearly ten millions in 1926 and over 67 millions in 1925- British Wireless Service.
Bandits of a village near the part of increase of the ten
Morris fell to a cand b by Good- outlaw-infested locality around months, thus showing that the the silk port of Kowkong have export trade of the country has win and a little later Dynes was A few thousand of them pene was a remote possibility of one
similar way. Then wickets fell trated far behind the Fengtien man being strong enough to in Whitehall on Armistice Day is the district garrison after a sharp in a short time.
The great crowd that assembles been scattered by 600 men from received an extraordinary impetus dismissed by the same bowler in a lines, captured Chochow which is
other crowd that London engagement this week. Some of were killed, six only 40 miles from Peking, and crush the others and then setting like no
knows throughout the year. It as- the bandits have defied all attempts to oust "Pa stable Government.
An Offer to Anybody.
were captured and thirty men them.
have been detained on suspicion. Fighting Continues.
Such a possibility is at once
The troops took ten rifles after Nationalist plain clothes men removed if the rank and file are
the fight. The gang was former- struck_terror into the hearts of not going to do their duty,
ly led by a notoricus robber chief Two or three army the Northerners when the war began, but their prestige has de-ders revolted two months ago
who was recently killed at Kow- creased. Shansi has copied the against Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang
kong when he stornied the town. the Tsang-sang district Nationalist example and now who is best known as the "Chris-
(East River); however, about 200 Wuhu to Tatung, 62 miles. Chang Tso-lin, according to the tian General." In a circular tele-
bandits under another well- Tutung to Anking 46 miles. report, intends to profit by adopt-gram, they expressed strong dis- Anking to Kiukiang 89 miles.ing his enemies: methods.
approval of being moved about sembles and stands in silence and known leader carried out a suc-" Kiukiang to Hankow 142 Fighting between the "Chris- from one place to another in pre-its perfect quietude is a measure of cessful night attack on a village
miles.
thoroughness. tian General'a" Kuominchun and paration for war. They declared deep emotions which are stirred in which they ransacked with cus- Nanking
to Hankow 394 one of the Fengtian armies con themselves ready to offer their British hearts and which are mel-tomary miles,
tinues, according to Chinese des armies to any war lord who lowed but undiminished by the pas small batch of People's Volun- teers were routed by the bandits. The Nanking expedition ad-patches, near the boundary be- would undertake not to send them sage of nine years.
Incidentally, In, the early hours of this morn into a campaign. vanced the first 100 miles or so tween Shantung and Honan..
STRIKERS GOING. The Yellow. River.
they also wanted, guarantees of ing people began to gather near the up the Yangtsze without meet-
Peking, Yesterday.
regular pay and the assignment Cenotaph which had already been ing any expedition, as the Han-
to them of territory from which loaded with wreaths sent by British Pickets Arrested and 3,000 Men kow army retired. Then followed
Pald Off. communities overseas, as far.dis-
Rhodesia, and long before the scr
a little fighting, then a lull; and Cabinet to-day from General they could draw some revenue. tant as Sao Paolo, Brazil and
Fengtien-Shansi War,
Peking, Yesterday.
:
A Game of "Push,"
Sw
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Fincher and Ramsey played out time. Fincher had a narrow escape at 16,, being given not out when a confident appeal for a catch behind the wicket had been made.
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The the 4th "Ironsides" Army, hus been recruiting up-country. The new detachments are to be re viewed by General Wong. Ki- Capt. E. W. Morris's XI. cheung to-morrow, outside the Lieut. Dynes, & and b Goodwin 28 western suburbs of Canton city. Capt. Thorp, b. Brace, b Dobbic
Artillery Brigade Moves. Rev. R. T. Venn, b Dobble A message received by the
Arrangements were made for Capt. Bridgland, c Dale, b the Ironsides to garrison the East Dobble Nanking had gained less than half Chang Tsung-chang of Shantung
About 3,000 men were paid off River but the majority of the Capt. E. W. Morris, e and b the pro-Fengtien Within the last states that the distance.
Goodwin ... What can be done, one asks in a vice begen Whitehall was again a on Thursday by the Canton Gov- 10,000 men have been kept in
Apparently realising Capt. Erskine, c Hayward, b week, the advancing Nanking troops north of the Yellow River
Brace", force has flitted from Anking past have crossed the River and en-feeling of helplessness, with men mass of unmoving and noiseless ernment, it being the first day of Canton.
the period designated for winding that they are in a minority, the
"Canton-Hong Kong Ironsides have begun transferring Grp., Comdr. Robertson, e Dale, Kiukiang, and rapidly up-river intered Kaifeng, cutting off the who call themselves Generala and humanity.
yet deliver utterances so childish? The same simple ceremonial as in up the
units to the East River. The 2nd b Brace a final spurt, with only 40 miles Kuominchun retreat.-Reuter.
What is a super-General going to previous years was followed. Ten Strike" movement.
Preliminary steps have been artillery brigade of the 4th Army G. P. Lammert, b Hankey more to go.
pay them for?
minutes before it began the King Evidence of this soldier-with-arrived and stood between his sons taken by the Police to obtain re- left for Waichow (on the lower Fay Lt.-Comdr. Shaw, Fin- The Peking Government claims the capture of Kweihul, at the out-war spirit is abundant in the in a hollow square around the Ceno-entry into possession by owners of course of the East River) on extremity of the Peking-Suiyuan present game of "push" in the tapir formed by service and ex-ser-private property which has been Thursday, entraining at the (Tai-Lt-Comdr. Thomsen, not out
North. Railway, in Shansi province.
vice detachments. He stepped for used by the strikers as billets for sha-tau) terminus of the Canton-E. B. Reed, b Brace
Kowloon Rallway (Chinese sec A fair sized army of men from ward and laid his wreath at the base over two years. There are now more than 60,000
A report is available that tion) and causing the cancellation Fengtien troops in North Shansi Chihli and Shantung provinces, of the Cenotaph, after which others holding the whole railway with under orders from the Fengtien were laid by the Princes, members several Strike pickets have been of a "local' 'train for Sheklung.
About 1,000 Kwangai soldiers Hwaijen the furthermost town leaders in Peking, invaded Honan of the Government and representa-arrested by the Police for being
to Tai-province. The attacking force in- tives of the Services and from in possession of inflammatory who fought for and against the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen as mercen- occupied on the march
cluded a great many units which Overseas. yuanfu.--Reuter.
aries, are to be taken over by the Capt. A G.' Dobbie V served several factions during'
Ironsides, states a Chinese re- C. D: Wales ...... 5 the last three years. The defen-
port. Having fallen upon very Lt. J. B. A. Hankey 9. ders were no better off,
lean times, and with only a frac-F. Goodwin tion of their original numbers, W. Brace these troops are now sojourning
Interport XI. along the northern frontiers of A. W. Hayward, e Lammert, b Kwangtung and Kwangsi.
AT SPIT HILL. Observers' Reports in Haakow Conditions.
Hankow, Yesterday. Anxiety is felt here owing to the imminent approach of the punitive expedition sent up the Yangtze River by the Nanking Government Services are in state of disorganisation and the situation is tense-British Naval Wireless.
LEFT AND RIGHT.
Shanghai Suggested as Venue for Convention.
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Not Even in Victory.
Reverent Pilgrimage. Then with the firing of signals came the two minutes' allence. As it ended the bugle notes of the Last Post sounded, and then the crowd,
To the surprise of observers, led by choirs and massed guarda the Fengtien army made consider- bands, sang "O God Our Help."
literature.
cher, b Hanker
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Dynes, ... The Warlike General. W. Brace, b Reed "Moderate" elements in Can-E, C. Fincher, not out
WHY THE VIGILANCE. Grenade. Found: Passengers to Be Examined.
Shanghai, Yesterday,
Detectives have been ordered The rival armies of the Hankow
I suggest that The service ended with the National by the Canton Police Commission- and Nanking Governments are en- Leftists of the Nationalist able progress.
er to special duty at the wharves gaged in heavy fighting near Party who recently returned to they gained ground because those Anthem.
Then began the long reverent pil-of the river steamboats and the Spit Hill, about 40 miles below Canton from Hankow are stated units of the defending Kuomin- Hankow. Passing ships have to have met at Mr. Wang Ching-chun, under the "no war" Gen-
queues of people, to lay their Railway. On arrival at Canton, tions in the majority of labour been fired upon by rifles and field wei's house where they are beerais, felt that it was not their queues to the Cenotaph by patient station of the Canton-Kowloon ton, including the dominant fac-A. W. Ramsey, not out
wreaths at its base, Meanwhile a Chinese passengers are subject to unions, are looking forward to the guns on the banks of the River, lieved to have discussed their duty to fight.
Last week the Fengtien men service had been held at the tomb question. The vigilance is being expected return next week of Merchant boats are warned not to position.
up (in their "push") of the Unknown Warrior in West-directed against the entry of per- General Wong Shiu-hung of battle area in darkness.-British that the Leftists are reconciled to against the flower of the "Chris-minster Abbey, and in innumerable sona suspected of plotting against Kwangai, the man who provided key, Goodwin and Wales to bat. attempt to pass through the The consensus of opinion is came
the fact that Shanghai is a more tian General's" army who coun-churches, throughout the country. the Kwangtung Government. Naval Wireless.
(Continued on Page 9.) likely venue than Canton for the ter-attacked and took back in a grand Nationalist convention few days what they had lost in a which, it is designed, is to abolish month.
CHANGE IN TACTICS.
Nanking and the War Against Sun Chuan-fang.
What Are We?"
RECEIPTS MAY EXCEED LAST YEAR.
APPROXIMATE RESULTS.
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the ruling extraordinary council One then anticipated that the functioning in Nanking and to Kuominchun would carry the bat POPPY DAY SALES. Post Office on the West. Bund. Communists at Swatow. General Lt. Comdr. Thomson 5 establish a new consolidated Na-tle "and push back into the That the Nanking Nationalists tionalist Government under the enemy's camp. But their line had are not making rapid progress in control of the Party, the latter been extended and, to exercise the campaign along the Tientsin- meaning in effect that the politi- precaution, more men were need- ed. Now that victory was' on Pukow Railway against Marshal cians are to have full control,
their alde, it was hoped that the Sun Chuan-fang of the Fengtien federation is evident from the M. Sun Fo and General Tan "no war" Generals would join the change in tactics.
Yen-kai, who were in the Han- fray. They did not!
(Continued on Page 7.) Some of the Nanking units, in- kow Government till the unificá- stead of following the railway tion scheme with Nanking was northward on
difficult launched, are quoted by the frontal attack, are wheeling over- "Hong Kong Evening Post as land to. threaten a flank of the approving of the convention be "Northern defences at Pengpu, ing held at Shanghai Instead of which is about 100 miles from Canton. They are made out as the Yangtaze.
saying that by themselves they Similar flanking. moves were can neither abolish the extra- made earlier this year with mix-ordinary Council nor suspend its
a more
Ironsides Recruits.
trol on the multitude of so-called volunteers who acted as local
SHANGHAI TRIAL
Interport Eleven Overwhelm the Rest..
FOUR MEN RETIRE.
The final Interport trial game was
Total (for 2 wide.) Pearce, Dobble, Sayer, Dale, Han-
the material backing for General
Bowling Analysis. On Thursday afternoon, an Li Chai-sum at the critical article closely resembling a hand moment when the Ironsides grenade was disclosed in the reached Canton and General Li's Capt. Erokine parcels department of the Canton own men were away, fighting the E. B. Reed This "article" was wrapped in Wong Shiu-hung is looked upon Capt. Thorp tinfoil, inside a small wooden box as carrying much weight in the Lt. Dynes which was protected by a canvas administration for the two bag. A middle-aged man of re- Kwang provinces and is thought spectable appearance, who was to be anxious to attack General subsequently alleged to be an em- Tang Seng-chi of Hankow, 80 as It is impossible at present to ployee of a Customs broker, had to help his colleagues in Nanking.
Control Over Volunteers. give even an approximate total the parcel for which he maintain- ed he had a permit, but he was
The provincial military admin- sum as the amount raised in Hong allowed to leave the Post Office inistration is strengthening, con- Kong as the result of the sales of the confusion. popples,
donations, auctions, football match, etc., but the in- Units of the 4th Nationalist guards in nearly every village, played at Shanghai last Saturday dications are that Hong Kong will at least equal the sum of Army which are included in the town or district in Kwangtung, and resulted in an easy win for the
Cantonese force known as the These units are known as People's Interport: eleven. 51,517 raised last year, sum
Ironsides have been concerned in Approximately $4,200.was real-
watchmen on a semi-milltary and, if the form recently display- Chinklang, Yesterday.ised in Hong Kong as a result of a series of movements which Volunteers, but are really paid The batting was of a high order The Nationalist Commissioner Poppy sales and $1,000, in Kow- may or may not have a political footing. Some of them have per-ed by the Interport batsmen can formed exemplary service against be maintained, Hong Kong - and When the Ironsides returned to raiding bandits but others have Malaya will have a hard task before Partisans of General Chiang for Foreign Affairs has, following loon. To this has to be added the bearing
Carr got three wickets for News from Chinese cources Kal-ghek (who is stated to have a series of protests and repro- $1,200 realised by the U.S.R.C Canton from Hankow, General L given, the authorities trouble. them. Indicates that the most norther returned to Shanghai from sentations, announced that he is fete, $1,300 raised as a result of thal-sum, the Commander-in-Control is to be centred in a Can- 55 for the Rest and the other wicket ly Nanking, unit is still 30 miles Japan) say that he is to take an unable to bind the military to a poster sales, etc., at the Hong Chief, gave them considerable ton department which will des was secured by Reed at a cost of
active part in Nationalat politics guarantee of safety for British Kong Club, $1,100 at the Kowloon latitude. When his own command as he is "reluctant to remain idle subjects who visit the British Cricket Club, football match re-in and around Canton had been patch officers to be attached to 51 runs.
The naval department of the while the Party la disturbed by Concession in Chinklang Bri- ceipts, collections from various reinforced by the return of each unit
gangstight tish Naval Wireess. Jahips and other boxes from out troops from other districts, Gen- temporary (supreme) war com- strife."
Shanghai, Yesterday, [Note: The Concession, with lying districts still to come./eral Li indirectly brought about all in Canton has been placed on a
has It is confidently anticipated General Chiang Kai-shek has an area of 16 mile squar
TO-DAY'S DOLLAR that the amount of £2,286 which the reduction of the Ironsides
direct small armed craft which arrived here. British Naval been over-run by
troops for some time
em was raised by Hong Kong and powers. Meanwhille General proper footing. A bureau is to
to-day was 2/0 84162 Wirelesă
bers of the A.P.C. British staff China last year will at least be Wong K-cheung, who commands will be used mostly for patrols The closing rate of the dollar
(Continued on Next Column) on the rivers in anti-piracy work on den equalled. were maltreated recently.13
ed success.
Plain Clothes Men Wanted.
from Pengpu.MAJINA
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According to the "Hong Kong Evening Post, Marshal Chang Tso-lin, who is head of the Feng- tien Government in Peking, has ordered some of his brigades to organise "plain clothes" detach- ments.
It is admitted in Peking that Shand soldiers who do not wear.
powers.
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NOT HESPONSIBLE. Chinese Military, in a British Concession.
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