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No. 25,727 HONG KONG, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1927.
MALAYA SHOW ENERGY AT KOWLOON.
TRIANGULAR INTERPORT.
To-day's Two Matches, in Cricket Festival,
SERVICES BAT AT H.K.C.C.: KOWLOON'S SPELL OF FIELDING.
Two matches in the triangular interport cricket festival be- gan this morning. United Services were pitted against Shanghai on the Hong Kong C.C. ground, while Malaya, crossed over to the Kowloon C.C. to play Kowloon.
While the Shanghai team showed themselves to be very tired in fielding against the Services, Malaya batted first at Kowloon and played exhilarating erfcket, scoring with ease and rapidity.
The Selection Committee will choose Hong Kong's team for to-morrow at the conclusion of to-day's games, but at the time of writing nobody has come forward, literally, with irrefutable claims to inclusion. Scores up to the tiffin interval are given below:--
SERVICES v. SHANGHAI.
United Services Innings.
Capt. Thorp, b Leach......
KOWLOON v. MALAYA..
Malaya Innings.
14 Lt. H. C. Harker-Taylor, c
Rev. Venn, c & b Ollerdessen 28 Hyde, b Goodwin Capt. Graham, b Ollerdessen Capt. Morris, b Leach Capt. Erskine, not out
Lt. Dale, e Allison, b Leach Capt. Dobbie, 1.b.w., b Leach Group Capt. Robertson, c
Baker, b Rawsthorne Lee./Cpl. Miles, not out
Extras.....7..
6
4
T. W. Blelloch, c Guest, b
Lyal
28 R. L. L. Braddell, b Bevis
Capt. C. H. Congdon, b Evans 14 N. J. A. Foster, c Bevis, b
Goodwin
29 N. H, P. Whitley, not out
7
Capt. F. O'N. Ford, not ont
Extras
-11
Total (for 7 wkts.).. 142 Lt.-Coindr. Shaw, Lt. Comdr, Thomson to bat.
Fall of wickets-1 for 40, 2 for 42, 3 for 43, 4 for 51, 5 for 95, 6 for 80, 7 for 183.
Bowling Analysis.
wickets runa.
35
SERIOUS FRICTION. Northern Marshals Fall Out.
.1
MONEY & MUNITIONS WANTED. Southerners Now North Of Huai River.
FIRST SHOTS. Betweeen Ironsides and
Kwangsi Faction. ADVANCE FORCES ENGAGED. Several Millions Of Dollars Seized In Canton
PRICE, $3.00 Per Month.
$50,000 SUIT.
Discontinuance of Current.
DECISION IN SHANGHAI.
Nominal Damages Of Only One
Dollar, azt
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SMALLER NAVION
BRITAIN AND GENEVA FAILURE.
REPLY TO CRITICISMS.
Necessity For Whole Empire Acting Together.
SIR A. CHAMBERLAIN'S REVIEW IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Great Britain's part in the Naval Disarmament Conference at Geneva was thoroughly discussed in the House of Commons.
Shanghai, Yesterday, First shots of the war between Peking, To-day. Most reports agree that the the Ironsides and the Kwangal The suit for $50,000 damages Southerners have established a faction have been fired about 170 brought by the China Publishing position north of the Husi River, miles west of Cantor, hear the Company, publishers of the "China Courier," against the though reports here are most con- hinterland of Bina Bay. fileting regarding the point The action may not have any Municipal Council before the
Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald moved a motion deploring the lack reached.
far-reaching effect, as Kwangel Court of Consula has concluded. It is reported that Sun Chuan- troops in other parts of Kwang The Court upholds the Munic. of preparation for the Conference and criticised several phases of fang is remaining at present at tung are not showing any inclina- pal Council's discontinuance of the Government's polley. Tsinanfu, while Chang Tsung- tion to fight, but rather to with electric power for printing plant Sir Austen Chamberlain replied in a lengthy speech justifying chang is at Hsuchowiu. The draw up the West River to their but awards the Publishing Com
pany nominal damages of one every step, although he confessed to some blame for the lack of diplo- latter wired to Marshal Sun to own province, drept
Details are lacking. As far as dollar in respect of "unreason-matic preparation--due to a desire not to appear anxious to evade
without come and take over charge of military affairs, bat Marshal Sun, can be made out only advance able" discontinuance,
previous notice, of the supply of the invitation to attend the Conference. it is reported, declared that, he detachments were engaged.
electric light and fans current. The Labour resolution was defeated by a large majority. must first obtain the necessary money and aramunition" for his troops.
According to Chinese reports serious friction exists between the two Marshals and trouble is apprehended.-Reuter.
Poison Gaa
Poison gas is alleged to have been used by the Fengtien army 25 in a grand assault on the railway 40 town of Chochow which is only 40 72 miles south-west of Peking and
yet has been held by raiders of 27 the Shansi army for over a
3 month.
2
The raiders stole down defiles 10 from their territory on to the plains around Peking and took Chochow by surprise. There aro only a few thousand of them, but they have defied all efforts of the Fengtien army to dislodge them.
Total (for 5 wkts.).. 214 H. R. Rix, R. B. Lewis, A. B. Jordan, Dr. J. M. A. Lowson and H. G. L. Richards to bat.
Fall of wickets:-1 for 51, 2 for 93, 3 for 124, 4 for 195, 5 for
219.
Bowling Analysis.
wickets runs.
Isaacs
0
30
Rawsthorne
18
Leach
4
23
Lyal
62
Ollerdessen
2
32
Goodwin
2
48
Stokes...
◊
9
Evans
28
0
29
0
20 17
Shanghai XI:-Captain E. 1. M. Guest Barrett (captain), H. W. Allison, Bevis E. G. Barnes, J. A. Isaacs, D. W. Murray.
Leach, C. Ollerdessen, J. A. Kowloon XI: F. Goodwin Quayle, T. L. Rawsthorne, L. F (captain), J. C. Lyal, A. W. Ram- Stokes, E. C. Baker, C. J. Smith.sey, E. C. Fincher, S. Jex, F. E. Lawrence, Rev. J. P. Murray, Shanghai showed two changes Capt. F. G. Bevis, W. G. Guest, from the "Interport" team. E. C. G. A. V. Hall, B. D. Evans and Baker replaced J. T. Hegarty and W. Hyde. C. J. Smith played instead of P. Madar. Incidentally, Hegarty
was umpire and Madar scorer. Malaya were in a 'strong posi-
United Services batted first on
a wicket which was slower than it
was earlier in the week. It did
tion at the tiffin interval in their! match with Kowloon at the Kow- loon Cricket Club ground.
not give the bowlers much assist- The heavy scoring is, however,
ance.
After playing
When the Fengtien units tried to starve the raiders out, the latter raised the siege by surprise Borties.
The Opposing Forces. On one side were.men of a divi-, sion under Lt.-General Chan Chai-tong, a subordinate of Gen- eral Li Chai-sum. On the other were Ironsides trying to proceed further westward by the overland SHANGHAI STRIKE. route to occupy Swatow.
Both parties pay their own costs-Reuter.
Intelligence from Canton,
CONSULTING THE DOMINIONS.
Rugby, Yesterday, An important debate took place in the House of Commons to-day on
which appears to be premature, is CHINESE EMPLOYERS OF BAT the subject of disarmament,
PIRACY MEASURES.
Ministers Still Awaiting Instructions.
Peking, To-day. The Diplomatic Corps have held more than one meeting recently to discuss. piracy, but no nouncement has been made so far regarding the contemplated steps.
an-
FIRED ON.
FOUR WOUNDED.
Shanghai, To-day. Four Chinese employees of the Corn- British-American Tobacco pany were wounded as the result of firing opened by strike pickets as the employees were crassing the Whampoa River-British Naval Wireless.
It is understood that the Minis- ters are still awaiting instruct PLAGUE IN CEYLON. ions from their respective Governments.-Reuter.
EUROPEANS. AND NATIVES SEGREGATED.
According to the "Hong Kong Evening Post," Marshal Chang Tso-lin ordered an extensive at- tack on Chochow, bringing up that the Ironsides have already
34 PERSONS AFFECTED. ves in heavy guns and poison gas, the established object being to send up machine- Swatow.
Well-Trained Men,
Colombos Yesterday? gunners and infantrymen after a
Lt-General Chan Chái tong 3 Following an outbreak of 'plague concerted bombardment.
division is composed of well-at the Kandy Club Ave Europeans trained men, whose commander and 29 native servanta are segre- was the first of the Kwangsi mili-gated as indirect contacts in the tary group to set out for Canton barracks. The Europeans Include " to challenge the Ironsides who the Chairman of the Kandy Mund- | got into power last week by a cipal Council.-Reuter. coup;:
Curiously, the raider chief of the Shansi army has "protested" on the ground that poison gas is not used in "international war."
HANKOW FACTION.
Nationalists Preparing Big Attack.
The position at Kongmoon is fraught with possibilities, the Ironsides' 12th division being op DEATH SENTENCE.
posed to General Li Chai-aum's 13th division, which has held Kongmoon for long.
BIG WINDFALL.
Ironsides Said to Have Seized
Large Sums. ́.
MEXICO'S WAYS WITH REBELS.
Mexico City, Yesterday.. A summary court-martial has ordered the shooting of a Roman
Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour Leader, moved that "This House deplores the lack of prepara- tion by the Government and the military character of the British
Mr. J. R. MacDonald.
of amended the Protocol. He might Bay at once that the British Gov- · · ernment's first endeavour was: to amend the Protocol, and ao bring it into a state which might have been acceptable to us and other Govern- ments of the Empire, but they for that found that amendments purpose would be of a so extensive and deep-reaching character practically to make an altogether different document).
Reply to Criticism, Replying to criticism that the British delegation to the Three Power Naval Conference at Geneva was of a military character, Sir A. Chamberlain said that the British delegation consisted of two Cabinet- Ministers and one `Admiral. It was the least military' of all the delega- tions represented. Another critic- ism was that we entered the Con ference with insufficient prepara- tion. This did not mean that the British Government had not given the most careful thought to the proposals which they could make and the coartibutions" which they could bring to further limitation of armaments. They had. Indeed, drawn up a acheme which would have produced not merely limita- tion of expansion but would have produced real limitation of aggres- sive power. It was not, therefore, failure in that kind of preparation with which they were reproached. It was a failure to deal with this matter through diplomatic channels before they agreed to go into com- ference at all. It was said, in effect, that the failure of the con- ference was due to failure of the new diplomacy and lack of prepara tion through diplomatic channels before the conference. He took
some blame to himself that he did not try to secure further diploma- tie preparation, but it should be re- membered that the conference was not called on the British Govern ment's invitation, but on that of the United States,
Hankow, Yesterday. Nationalist troops are reported no criterion for the Interport to- to be strongly concentrating for consecutively morrow when Malaya meet Hong the purpose of attacking Ho from last Saturday till to-day Kong. The Kowloon bowling was Chien.
The position of the various (Sunday omitted), Shanghai were poor and much to the liking of certainly weary. Even the irre-the first four Malaya batsmen Armies at present is as follows:- possible Stokes at cover-point who hit freely all round the the 18th Army at Tsung Yang; the 3rd and 9th some 80 miles to was not his usual self, failing to wicket.
Several millions of money are Catholic priest, his brother, and delegation which seriously contri- bring off a spectacular catch and
the Eastward of Chenglin, and believed to have come into the two others in connection with the buted to the failure of the recent 'Capt. Congdon's Innings.
the 7th proceeding up-river in the hands, of the Ironsides through attempt to assassinate General Naval Conference at Geneva, the also to stop one or two shots.
The sentence will be slow progress made by the League Dropped Catches.
Capt. Congdon's 72 for Malaya direction of Chenglin.
their coup in Canton succeeding Obregon."
carried out immediately, Reuter's of Nations Preparatory Commission Captain Erskine was missed (including twelve boundaries) Nationalist gunboats yeater- last week.
According to intelligence from American Service.
for the Disarmament Conference, twice in one of Rawsthorne's was a good effort, during which day bombarded the defences at
and the refusal of the Government only overs his second spell-shortly innings
two possible Chenglin.
official sources, over $1,000,000 before tiffin. Captain Barrett, at chances, both difficult, were The Nationalist Generals at was seized at the headquarters of
to accept the principle of arbitre- tion and promate the scheme of in-ahould say to the United States Gov- mid-on, got one hand to a drive given. He dealt with the bowling Hankow are rumoured to be in the council of war; about $800,000
ternational'sceurity guaranteed by ernment at that moment "Would it but dropped the ball; at first slip, of Guest and Murray, particular disagreement and it is stated that at General Lt Chai-sum's head-
not be well, before you make that, the League of Nations." Jimmy Quayle dropped a fast ly, in the way it deserved. The Ho Chien has quarrelled with the
proposal, to consider upon what catch.
only chances were to Bevia in commander of his 36th Army.
Secretary of State for Foreign
basis the conference should meet There was not that keenness the slips and a hard return above The latter quarrel may have the
and whether there is such a mea- shown in the Interport matches, Lyal's head. He was eventually effect of turning over the Com- nor the effective determination in clean bowled by the first ball of mander of the 86th Army to the fielding ground shots.
B. D. Evans on this. bowler re- cause of the Nationalists.Bri» turning to the attack after a restish Naval Wireless..
Captain. Thorp and Captain Morris, who are eligible for inclu-
Braddell and. Congdon both sion in Hong Kong's interport shewed excellent understanding KUOMINTANG COMMITTEES. team to-morrow against Malaya, between the wickets, stealing
The were specially "watched."
Informal Meeting Held many runs in this manner. The former stayed in fairly long but Kowloon fielding was keen, but the Morris disappointed.
men might have been placed to better advantage.
Two Good Catches.
In Shanghai.
Services Open Well,
Shanghai, To-day, The 40 had gone up rather
An informal meeting of the quickly when Thorp played on to his wicket; from Leach, almost Hyde and Guest brought off Kuomintang Committees, con- immediately after the first (a good catches during the mom vened by Tan Yen-kai, Wang double) change in bowling. ing's play, and Murray was op- Ching-wei, Chiang Kai-shek, and The other opening batsman, the plauded for some smart returns. Li Chal-sum, met this afternoon Kev. Venn, left shortly after- Both Goodwin and Lyal bowled at Chiang Kai-shelf's residence wards, giving an easy catch to better on their return to the at in the French Concession. the bowler, Ollerdessen. Venn tack. There had been heavy
There were 23 present, of
CLOUDY.
Official Weather Forecast
DUCHESS WEDS.
EX-WIFE OF KAISER'S SECOND SON.
Berlin, Yesterday.
Affairs
He did not consider whether he
Sir Austen Chamberlain, Secre- sure of general agreement as would tary of State for Foreign Affairs, be likely to make the conference
The Duchess Sophie Charlotte replying, referred to the resigna- useful?" If the British Govern of Oldenburg, the late wife of tion of Lord Cecil and said that no- ment did not do so it was lest it Prince Elter Friedrich, the ex- body regretted the resignation more should appear in the eyes of the The weather report issued by Kaiser's second son was very than he, for he and Lard Cecil had American Government to be seek
quietly married at the Ducal worked closely and harmoniously Palace near Oldenburg to Captain together on questions of foreign Harald Von Haldemann,' an ex- Police Officer at Potsdam-Reuter.
the Royal Observatory this fore- noon stated
The anticreélode is central over the sea of lapani pozad
Fresh monsoon may be expect ed along the 8.E. coast of China and over the N. China Bea
Forecast N.E., winds, fresh; cloudy, the INDIAN REFORMS.
The American Consulate Gen- eral received the following tele gram from the Manila Observa tory at noon to days WAL 10 a.m Typhoon in about 141 degrees Long, E., and 10 degrees
hit 4 fours, dealing effectively scoring off them when they open- which seven belong to the Super-Lat. N. moving Wi Med for Kowlon, but on the second visory Committee, 14 to the Cen
with loose deliveries.
Captain Graham had only made attempt the Malaya players treat tral Executive Committee and
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LATEST SCORES!
Hu Han miny was a notable ab
LORDS FAVOUR COMMISSION
* OF ENQUIRY,
London, Yesterday The House of Lords without op- position, adopted a resolution in
1 when he was beaten by Oller-ed the bowling with considerably two candidates for the Central quarters over $100,000 at the favour of the appointment of the dessen, and Captain Morris was more respect. Lysl was apparent Executive Committee, provincial milltary bureau; and Indian Enquiry Commission as bowled by Leach when he had ly still suffering from the scored 6. Injury to his leg and although eentes.
Erskine Keeps End Up keeping a consistent length, he In third wicket down, Captain was obliged to give up. Erskine stayed on till the tiffin Interval at 12.45 p.m., having bat ted about an hour and a half for 28 not out, which included only 2 fours. He exercised care and pa flence but was not strong in step- ping out to balls wide of the off stump Hla defence was fairly good but he gave at least two chances referred to above but he saw 99 ruins added during His
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several tens of thousands of nominated by the Government Chiang Kai-shek was chairman. dollars at the aeronautical bureau. Renter
Embarge on Silver Colnayar
It is understood that it wasAll institutions referred to agreed to postpone discussion of were of course, under control of the Canton imbroglio until the the Kwangsl military faction ADMIRAL BULLARD, preliminary meeting from De-
As the Ching Mail" went to press, Malava's score against loon was, 260 rume for 6 Shanghai-Leach-
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DEATH OF CHAIRMAN OF RADIO COMMISSION.
ing to evade an acceptance, of the invitation and lest Great Britain ahould appear to other people as seeming to be opposed to attempt further to limit naval armamanta. He thought that it was a lesson that such diplomatic preparation was al ways desirable before a conference. It was also a lesson that only with great preparation could the League conference itself be brought to a successful conclusion. Those who, would press these things before the groundwork was done were prepar- Ing for themselves the same disap- pointment that confronted us. when we failed to reach an agreement in the Naval Conference.
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