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No. 25,720 HONG KONG, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17, 1927.
A DANGER TO CANTON.
DEFEATED HANKOW TROOPS AT LARGE.
Victors Take Over Hanyang's Big Arsenal.
The Nationalist Government of Nanking has now taken over trol of Hankow and its slater cities, together with one of the biggest arsenals in China. A formidable opponent in General Tang Seng- chi has been accounted for but the greater evil of the defeated armies remains to be dealt with and these hordes constitute a pos- sible danger to Canton.
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While the victors from Nanking are pouring into Wu-Han and devoting their attention to seizing hold of important territory, the ousled troops are seeking new hornes and spreading out in several directions. In moving away from Hankow, the defeated hordes are indiscriminately firing on shipping.
HEAVY DEFEAT.
Nanking Armies' Great Reverse.
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
SEAMEN'S UNION. CANTON DAY BY DAY
15 New Delegates Nominated.
DIVISION WIPED OUT
Northerners' Victory On Tientsin- Pakow Railway.
BOYCOTT MOVEMENTS.
Obtaining Employment For
Strike
Fighting was confined to the centre and left wing, reserves having to be brought to the cen- tre owing to the 7th Army suffer-
Analysing the claims of the various factions engaged in cam-ing most severely. paigns in other parts of China, it can be said that no army has met
One Division was decimated and had to be withdrawn from the with more than mixed success. Hostilities continue to the detri-front while on the left wing the ment of all and no end is in sight. A late report (published in an- 40th Army, which was badly sup other column) tells of a heavy Southern defeat.
FALL OF WU-HAN.
ported by the 37th, was defeated with severe losses especially from machine gun fire.
One Regiment was reduced to between 40 and 50 men.
H.M.S. "HERMES:""
Returning Here La
January
London, Yesterday. In the House of Commons, in reply to questions, Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, said· that the aircraft-carrier "Hermes," which returned to England to refit, would re- turn to the China Station probably in January Reu. ter.
Li Chai-sum's Mission.
To Shanghai.
FRESH LIGHT SHED.
Ironsides Chief Not Expected Back.
penses.
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TERRIBLE RISK.”
Britain and the 1924 Protocol.
NOT TAKING CHANCES.
Principles Not Universally Accepted.
Rugby, Yesterday.
British
TWO BURGLARIES.
Queen's Road Shops Ransacked.
OVER $1,000: HAUL.
Hole Bored In a Brick Wall.
The shops of A. Loong, furniture
Jast
Fifteen Thaw elegates have General Wong Shiu-hung of Shanghai, To-day. That severe fighting has taken been nominated by the Commis Kwangai is now directing the In House of Lords, Lard manufacturer, and A. Ling, photo- Cushendum. (formerly Mr. graphic supplier, both occupying place on the Tientsin-Pukow rail- sioner of. Agriculture and Labour military administration of the Ronald McNeil), whe has the ground floor of No. 19 Queen's
Road Central, were robbed GENERAL YANG SEN JOINING NANKING: SHIPS STILL FIRED ON. Way in the neighbourhood of to supersede the board which was two Kwang provinces in the tem-
Cecil Chien Shan, northwards of Ming-appointed some months ago to re-porary absence of General Lisucceeded Viscount
night, when burglars broke into the kwang, is evident with the arri-constitute the Chinese Seamen's Chai-sum, the commander-in-chief the
representative premises by boring a hole in the who has gone to Shanghai to at-to the League of Nations, replied brick wall underneath the staircase con-val of about 1,100 seriously Union of Canton.
wounded troops at Nanking yea- The reconstitution commis- tend the Nationalist reconcilia-to the demand of Lord Parmoor leading up to the two floors, above.
for information about the Govern-, When a "China Mail” reporter terday.
sioners were put in office 'after tion convention. It appears that Ho Ying-ching's the Canton Government had Political control is vested in the ment's policy on League quer visited the place this morning, the troops attacked
shop people had not yet taken a full Sun Chuan- quelled the Communist labour Canton branch of the Kuomintang tions. fang's troops on a wide front, the element. These men are "Moder-political council
He said that he was a whole-inventory of the things stolen by Nanking 19th Army being on the ates," which in practical terms A surprising feature of this hearted bellever in and supporter the burglara, but the value of the right wing, the 14th in reserve,
week's unexpected developments of the League. The Government goods known to have been carried the 7th in the centre, Ho Ying-
is that General Chang Fah-hui, had not yet drafted any instruc-away is placed at well over $1,000..
Discovery This Morning. ching's 1st Army the main re-
tions for the guidance of its re- commander-in-chief of the Iron-
The robbery was discovered at sides, is not expected to return to presentatives at the next Geneva 7.15 this morning when the shop serve, the 40th Army on the left wing and the 37th in reserve.
Canton. He accompanied General conference. The matters were was opened by the manager. The office part of the shop, which is Li Chai-sum and Mr. Wang still under consideration. Ching-wei (leader of the Leftist Regarding a reference by Lord situated at the back, was found to the principles em- be in great disorder, the drawers of politicians) to Shanghai on the Parmoor to "Empress of Asia" and it is be-bodied in the Protocol of 1924 the desk having been forced open Lord Cushendun recalled that by wrenching the locks, whilst a lieved in Canton that he will go that instrument was never signing belonging to the manager was suit cage containing a suit of cloth- on a tour from Shanghai.
ed, and he denied that ite prin-ripped open, but the burglars did $50,000. For a Holiday. ciples had been universally accept- not think its contents worth carry- General Li Chai-sum is stated ed. The Protocol offered to a ing away. The drawers of the desk to have voted $50,000 for General large number of States what they were completely rifled, and from Chang Fab-hul's travelling ex-were all anxious for, namely, a them the intruders helped them
guarantee of British power. selves to $130 in cash, ono silver General Chang was formerly a That involved a degree of risk and and one nickel, watch worth $22.
40 lb of Nitrate Taken. field officer in General Li's com commitment which no British
Then the burglars turned their. The Eventually, the left wing was
mand. He was promoted several Government would accept. driven back 5 miles in the centre,
times in the field and ultimately present Government would not ac attention to a couple of boxes of nitrate of silver used for took over the 4th Nationalist cept the terrible risk. pouring into Hankow to take over 10 miles towards Mingkwang.
painting the back of mir- Army from General Li, returning Honour and Independence. The Northerners falled to fol-
rors, and; of this stuff
the possession. The Wu-Han armies
Replying to Lord Parmour's thieves took nearly 40 pounds which are retreating up the Yang-low up their advantage.
means supporters of the adminis-with this corps recently from taze ure firing on shipping. Nanking has been denuded of trafion. An attempt forcibly to Hankow. The men are known as question whether the Government which is valued at $16 per pound..
Leaving the office part of the Situation Quiet.
troops to fill up gaps, ten thou-oust them was made by artrem- the Ironsides because of their was prepared to adopt the option-
al clause of the International premises, the burglare broke the The situation here is quiet.-sand being hastily sent towards iste two months ago, culating valour in action.
In spite of denials, Mingkwang whilst Nanking is in a riot and the arre of a
General Court of the Hague, Lord locks of a show case and took out British Naval Wireless.
[Note: Yang Sen has had de-apprehensive as the result of number of extremist agita Chang has not scen eye to eye Cushendun said that Dominion between six and seven dozen brass signs for months on territory rumours that the Northerners Five Day to Hand Dy with his superior. The former is opinion was strong and emphatic locks, worth $16 per dozen.
acceptance of the The fact that the front part of held by the Wu-Han faction. He will shortly reappear at Pukow. It is diffic it to say The Leftist and a auarter of Mr. against
Acceptance would the shop was not ransacked was due started out from Szechuan a few Reuter.
Canton Government hang Ching-wei.eral Li is clause. weeks ago and he took over:
seded their own appointees. The rhthat with inchis towards mean the lotion of the the fact that it was well lighted
*** by a large electric are lamp, hanging: reason given in the notification of the Nanking faction and sym hitherto accepted saving from the calling "As it was, in ad- Ichung from the Wu-Han garri-
appointment is that little has pathy for General Chiang Kai-cause as to the vital Interests of venturous soul, pronting by the son, leading to the impression
honour and independence. He shadows of a sort of balcony run- that he was against Wu-Han and, i
been accomplished by the former shek.
doubted whether public opinion ning along three sides of the shop, therefore, an ally of Nanking.
commissioners who are given five Outspoken Champion.
in this country would, tolerate crept up to A. Ling's show window Then there was a rumour that
days in which to hand over the
General Wong Shiu-hung, who laying down in advance that, on the right hand side of the shop the Wu-Hanf army would join
full control of the Union and the
is now in charge at Canton, is an under no conceivable circum and there hastily snatched up Д hands with him and, now comes
audited accounta
or unforeseen, Kodak camera worth $40 and an the report that he is against his
As is generally known, the Sea-outspoken champion of direct stances, foreseen traditional enemies of Wu-Han.]
men's Union has been the cause of methods to uphold the power of could any dispute arise which Ascot camera valued at over $100.
The burglars then slipped out the Welcome to Victors.
much trouble, having brought the the military as opposed to civil-this country would not be ready
This Way they had come, through the Rugby, Yesterday.
On the Winning Side.
Government no little anxiety at ians being at the head of affairs. to submit to arbitration. According to latest reports,
opening a side door which lets out One of the Generals who has times. The so-called reconstitu- He has a big army which he rush-country was distinguished from hole made in the wall, and then; conditions are comparatively quiet reached Wu-Han is Vich Kation delegates direct all activities ed back to Canton to avert a crisis most others by the enormous into a narrow lane, they made their in Hankow and the neighbouring
No Watchman Employed. city, and thereby restored the system and by its material inter- cities of Hanyang and Wuchang. chin. This man fought for Wu and are responsible to the author-when the Ironsides overflowed the complexity of its Government
balance in favour of his colleague,ests He assured Lord Parmoor The burgled shop does not em- The Wu-Han forces have left Pei-fu against Chiang Kai-shek
Jobs for Hong Kong Strikera.
that the Government thoroughly ploy a watchman, but there is one Hanyang and Wuchang, and the prior to the latter's, capture of
Hankow. He then joined the Na- The Commissioner of Agricul- General Li.)
Command of the Ironsides is accepted his view of the insepar- next door, but as the attack on the Nanking advance troops are stat-tionalists and is now back in Wa-ture and Labour has addressed ed to be in Wuchang.
the Construction Department now vested in General Wong Ki-ability of security of arbitration wall was made a the back of the An official welcome to them is Han on the winning side.
The Nanking aviation base at drawing attention to a clause in cheung who has, perhaps, gone and disarmament as a means of premises, which is entirely separate. watch, it could not be expected that under preparation.-British Wire-
Kiukiang has, says the "Kung the scheme for winding up the the furthest of any to broadcast securing peace,British Wireless from the shop he was employed to he would know anything about the leas Service.
Sheung Yat Po," been removed to "Canton-Hong Kong Strike Asso-political views opposed to those Service.
held by General Li and General Belgian Proposal Welcomed.
matter. Wu-Han.
Wong Shiu-hung.
In the House of Lords a de Observers Surprised.
bate on disarmament was initiat- Light has been shed on the ed by Lord Farmoor. movements this week which caus-
Lord Cushenden stated that no
Now that Hankow has been sub- jugated, the next step of the Nanking Nationalist Government will be to renew with vigour the expedition up the Tientsin- Pukow Railway against Marshal Sun Chuan-fang who is barring the way to Peking."
Foreign observers have been led astray by concluding that the Hankow opposition having been disposed of, Nanking will have more troops for disposal against the North.
Such is not necessarily the case, writes Colonel Lau Chee- kwong,, late of the Cantonese
General Cheng Chien of the Nanking Nationalist Army, who was in charge at Nanking when the attacks on foreigners were made. He is now at Hankow, as head of the Nanking victors who have entered the city,
but the machine is now used for other purposes;
Has well equipped chemical and mechanical laboratories and technical school for apprentices.
Work has been much ham pered by usual shortage of funds.
No methodical attempt is being
Gunboats and Aeroplanes.
Hankow, Tuesday, Five of the Nanking gunboats have anchored off Wuchang. The made to pursue the troops who were commanded by General Tang Seng-chi.
Nanking 6th Army is entering Wachang this morning.
Defeated Hordea.
ities.
FRESH-FINE.
Another Favourable. Forecast.
The main Nanking expedition] has not entered Hankow at pre- Some of the units which first sent, but the river bank from evacuated Hankow are going up
The weather report issued by Hwangahihkang is crowded with the Yangtsze. The three amies
the Royal Observatory this fore. troops proceeding to Wu-Han. An which held on to the last, hoping
noon stated
The depression has deepened Army. The units hitherto en-seroplane reconnoitred the area to make terms with victors, gave
up and marched southwards, and now covers the Sea of Japan.. gaged in the Yangtaze War this morning.
The anticyclone has strength- against Hankow will now be used. General Ho Chien's Wu-Han inland.
The majority made for Yochow ened and a central over the for occupying the conquered area. troops are retreating inland to
Changteh.
and Changsha.. Some are spread Yangtsze Valley. Rest on Its Laurels.
Fresh monsoon may be expect The Nanking Generalissimo ing out to Changteh and others,to The "China Mail" political cor- Cheng Chien, who is expected to Liling, putting the greatest dis-
ed along the S.C. coast of China respondent suggests that Nanking take over command in Wu-Han, tance possible between themselves and over the China Sea.
ForecastN.E. winds, fresh; will rest on its laurels for a while. has ordered the cessation of hos-
On Monday the fourth plenary tilities.-Reuter.
session of the Kuomintang Cen- tral Executive Committee is to be held at Shanghai. Important de cisions are likely to be postponed until the politicians have conclud-
ed their deliberations.
THE ARSENAL.
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so
London, Yesterday.
escape.
As already stated, the staircase under which the hole was made in the wall, led to the two upper floors, the first of which is occupied by Messrs. Campbell, Moore's, and the
shop, the top floor is also used as sleeping quarters by the carpen- ters. No one slept in the shop. premiace on the ground floor. Probable Hiding Place.
ed General Li Chal-sum to sur-instructions had yet been drafted one above by carpenters employed prise observers by leaving Canton for the British representatives at by the A. Loong shop. In addition with Mr. Wang Ching-wei for Geneva in December, The Gov
to being used as furniture work Shanghai.
ernment was considering the By defeating the Hankow Gov- whole matter.
He emphasised that the Gov ernment, the Nanking leaders had put themselves in an almost ernment would not accept the ter- impregnable position in discus-rible risk of commitment involved As the side door leading to the sions concerning their domestic in the Geneva Protocol. It was staircase would have to be left open welfare. Simultaneously, the in- impossible to take any step in re- until a fairly late hour for the 'con- fluence of Mr. Wang Ching-wei gard to the optional clause (provenience of the Chinese employees and his Leftist adherents-waned viding for the submission of cleeping on the upper floor, it is considerably. General Li has judicial matters to The Hague conceivable that the burglars had and the captors of Hankow.
been desirous of improving Can- Court) without further consulta-slipped in earlier in the evening and hidden under the staircase, In any case Hunan province is
ton's position by slackening con- tion with the Dominions.
which afforded excellent hiding The Government absolutely ac-place with its litter of empty pack overrun by, defeated troops who
nection with Nanking and, as he number upwards of 100,000, ciation," by which preference is was opposed to Hankow, it was cepted the two declarations in re-ing cases filling the narrow space Hunan adjoins the northern to be given to the strikers who thought that he would have regard to wars of aggression and between the stairs and the wall of Meaning of Hanyang Prize in
boundary of Kwangtung-a none are now being disbanded. It is mained in Canton and refrained welcomed the Belgian proposal to the inner room of the ground floor Figures.
too promising prospect for Can- suggested that except where from entanglement in the wider strengthen Article XI of the which is used for storing furnitura. Makilled artisans are required, 60) Nationalist'sphere as represented Covenant dealing with the prevan burglars waited patiently until the
· Having concealed themselves, the ton.
tion of war. But with a potential enemy re-
While Cheng Chien, the gen- The Nanking Government has per cent of workers on new con- in the coming convention.
last shop assistant had returned moved, Nanking will be able to
Why Lord Cecil Resigned.: Principles Discussed. Lord Ceefl, in the course of a for the night, which: it was nesert and the staircase door was closed wage serious war with the North, eralissimo of Nanking's expedi- issued a warrant for the arrest struction should be nominees of The "Christian General" of Hotion, entered Wuchong (the near- of General Tang Seng-chi but be the Strike Association, nan, and General Yen Hsi-shan of est prize), other generals made has, according to overnight Now that the demobilisation is The return to Shanghal of Gen-long explanation of his resigna-ed, was done, at 10.30 last night Shansi are now marking time, tracks for Hankow and Han-cables, gone to Moji in Japan. being carried through, recom-eral Chiang Kai-shek may have tion, declared that the Conference Then it was a simple matter for mendations are being made to ob- much to do with the sudden finally broke down on the ques- the burglara to proceed with their waiting for Nanking to create ayang, the attraction at the latter
tain employment for strikers, but change of policy at Canton tion the size of the guns of crufs- attack on the wall without fear of fresh diversion before challenging being the famous arsenal.
on joiningade, the strikers An earnest discussion was held ers, the Americans claiming the detection. The wall, which was Peking again.
the Hanyang Arsenal are taken Sir Austen Chamberlain Replies must become members of the at Mr. Wang Ching-wei's house, right instal eight inchers, whilst three-brick thick, was very neatly
xto Questions.
union concerned: from the China Year Book"--
Control was handed over as ex- the British Cabinet Insisted on bored, the burglars removing the Older machinery is Krupp,
The Boycott at Swatow.plained in the foregoing and Gen- six-inchers The American, atti- bricks one by one until they had mostly supplemented in recent
London, Yesterday. Although pickets of the Anti-eral Li left with Mr. Wang. They tude seemed to him entirely made a hole large enough for a slim Entry having been affected by one years from the Shanghai In the House of Commons, in Japanese Boycott Society are went down to Whampoa by motor- wrong, but it was madness to person to sqeeze himself through. arsenal; some American ma- reply to questions, Sir Austen active at Swatow, reporta from launch but on arrival found that allow negotiations break down on man, the rest was easy, as he could chinery has also been purchas- Chamberlain said he had no Chinese business circles there in the torpedo-boat Fei Ying such a point
admit his confederates by open knowledge of two British firms dicate that Japanese merchandise would not reach Hong Kong in A Temporary Difference the communicating door, which was About 5,000 men employed in having made loans to Marshal is still being imported into time. A special train was order- The Earl of Balfour expressed bolted on the inside of the shop.
Having collected their loot, the arsenal and smokeless powder Chang Tso-lin of Peking; one of Swatow without much difficulty, ed on the Canton Kowloon Rail the opinion that fundamental, but factory,
$20,000,000 Mexican secured Merchants who have the ways way, reaching Hong Kong none he hoped temporary, difference burglers noiselessly let themselves Normal output, capable of by concessions of the exclusive and means are making bigger pro too soon between Great Britain and the out into the side Inne through the great increase under pressure, right to build a rallroad in Chihli hits than usual on account of ab Principles were agreed upon United States at Geneva was the staircase door, which was not locke is:200 rifles, Mauser pattern, province; the other of $10,000,000 normal conditions."Squeeze bas prior to leaving Canton, these refusal of the United States in ed but merely bolted on the inside. any way consider the special cir- Then they must have taken a quick per day 1 200 bayonets per day: Mexican, to be known as the In- to be paid but such outlay is add-
cumstances of Great Britain as glance at the Queen's Road pares ment, and made their dash when regards equality of Naval Power; they raw that the Coast was clear. but he considered that the US Geneva Conference was interrupt-
YANG SEN.
To Attack Wu-Han Armies in Hanan?
Hankow, Yesterday. Intelligence received here leads
to belief that General Yang Sen of Szechuan has arrived at an un- derstanding with the Nanking Government, whereby Yang Sen will notally himself with the defeated Wu-Han forces but, on the other hand, will bring his army down the Yangtaze and overland to attack the Wu-Han units which have retired inland to Yochow and Changsha N
Both by river and over the Nanking soldiers have been
The following particulars about
edaba
LOANS TO PEKING.
20 Mauser pistols per day; 5 dustrial, and Pasturing Loaned to the cost borne by the ultim Maxim machine guns per Bir Austen said he had no te consumer.
month 500,000 rounds of reason to believe such loans had. One or two non-Chinese hongs round-nosed type ammuni been arranged but he would in- are helping to defeat. tion per week Mada
car
field and mountain
attern for
tire into the ratter
it is alleged;
ese goods
products
Handl
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ed but not ended. Nothing
Induce him to believe
ity of British