THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4T¤, 1924
WAR IN THE NORTH.
KIANGSU AND CHEKIANG FORCES CLASH.
FIGHTING WITHIN 20 MILES OF SHANGHAI.
POWERS LAND TROOPS IN FOREIGN SETTLEMENT.
FULL PROTECTION PRECAUTIONS TAKEN.
(TUROLOK ACUTER'S AGENCY.]
SHANGHAI, September, 3rd. Fighting comunruerti at ten this morn ing at Hwangtu, about twenty mile from
Shanghai.
SHANGHAI, September `ard.
Fighting has began fifteen miles from
Shanghai between the rival forces of
Kiangsu and Chekiang. the former at
Iempfing to obtain control of Shanghai.
Finch are being reinforced from other
proviners, Chị Hsieh Yuan is supported by the Chilli Party, healed by Wu Pei Fa, who, in pursuance of his policy of unifying China, forcibly desires to bring Chekiang which adheres to the Apha
Party and has declared itself indepen-
dent of Bokong, into the Ehibli fold.
There is a risk of a general confiagration
ja
if the Manchurian dietator, Chang-Tao Lin entered the conflict on the side of
the Anta Party,
CHI'S HAND FORCED;
NANKING, September 3rd.
From Our Own Correspondent.]
Suasana. September 3rd... The Chekiang fores were defented fourteen miles from Shanghai by the long distance guns of the Kinngs forces There were many casualties. Thousands of civilians are Rocking to Shanghai.
[SY COURTESY OF THE "DAILY, BULLETIN."]
MERCILESS WHOLESALE
CONSCRIPTION.
SHASHAL, September 2nd. There is a merciless wholesale cunscrip- tion everywhere throughout the war area: Farmers, labourers, coolies, and say man St to fight or carry a bucket are being pressed into service, and consequently the countryside is deserted, except for child- rea, aged people and soldiers.
Nanking and other towns have been "eleaned of Jabourers and coolies.
BARLIER CABLES.
THE WORLD'S SPORT.
HOME CRICKET.
CONCLUDING MATCHES OF SEASON.
PLAYERS AGAIN BEAT GENTLEMEN.
LONDON, September 2nd. Surrey at Lord's led over Middlesex on the first innings Middlesex scored 149, and Surrey 1 for 9 (Hobbs 70, Sandbam 102 not out).
Warwick at Northampton lett over Northants on the first innings. Warwick scored 285, and 31 for Surthants compiled 219.
Kent beat Lancashire at Dover by 31, Kent scored 109, Parkin taking 6 for 30,
A LONDONER AT LARGE, SPACIOUS DAYS.
То
"GOVERNMENT CHANGES. OLD AND NEW METHODS.
ADDRESS, TO 300 TEACHERS.
Fire hundred teachers" from all parts of the country assembled for the City of
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BROCK'S SUED. ADMIRALTY ADVANCES FOR MAKING WAR FLARES,
well-known manufacturers of fireworks, Meases. C. T. Brock and Company, the were ordered to repay £100,158 to the Commissioners of the Admiralty.
by the Admiralty to enain the tm, to The action concerned moneve, a "vances make fares for use in the fight against submarines during the war.
The Londoner is a faithful lovèr. suggest that his sweet mistress could under any circumstances bore him were the grossest libel which he would sum marily and I hope successfully resent To. intimate that he could at ang time be London vacation course, which, although unfaithful to her, even in the arms of only in its third year, has established it those most seductive wantogs, Flora al in the Fauna, would he to asperse his intelli-world, and on July esth the Right Hon. esteens of the educational gence as well as his morals. forces to be considered, however, external Fisher, M.P. (formerly Preings, KC), for the Admiralty, said one The Attorney general (Si Patrick Hant- and non-emotional forces, which the most sident of the Board of Education), the claim was for C20.000 ml the other for ardent lover can ho more ignore than he principal of the course, delivered an in- can prolong his cestasies by making Time routery address at the Holborn Res to stand still...
Choosing as his subject The Progress of Government," Mr. Fisher said we re- and government as
There are
One of these forces is temperature. The sun has its worshippers, just as London,
taurant.
and
did not think there was any defence. £100,000, ****
With regard to the £20,000 action há
was agreement up to a point. The With regard to the £100.000 claim there
.........AGAINST BURMARISES, The contracts were made in 1919; and 133,000 Hares. they dealt with 90,000, 35,000, 90,000 and
so. Laccashire scored 130, and 217. ing his two hundred wickets for the seu Master's praise that they have not pro- } cuntinous pressure on the body put fair profit to allow Messrs. Broek 1 The
Glamorgan led over Notts at Cardifi, on
clained with word, pen, and brush. Here and capable of acting with energy the first innings, Glamorgan scored 271,
elaim was basil on three contracts for in London they even go further, dedient resointion, while we also associated with deck flares which were required in the and 21 for 6 de lared. Natts compiled insurance companies to him and it the idea of knowledge: No one could war for dealing with submarines. A beau 172, and 39 for 1.
signalling his appearance with fresh coats have served hi a Cabinet without being of light was required to be thrown on the Leicester bent Essex at Leicester hy 94 of paint Salad bowls aro anixed in his struck with the enormous tesources which water to üluminate certain spots. Leicester by 94
94 Leicester compiled 125, houour, and from behind hokey pokey har- a modern government possessed for ob- and 175. Essex scored 69, still taking row goes up (in the soft Southern accent taining information from the world gen at Clerkenwell) pacan of praise. Cerally. People talked about the sweets The Players beat the Gentlemen by nine doubtedly the sun is an important deity of office," but he had discovered very few wickets. The Gentlemen scored 159, and the makes life to grow, the manufacturers of them except the immense advantage of 5. Brown taking 4 for 6. The Players of mineral waters to grow rich, and our that extended knowledge which access to which were approximately £9 138. Dd. per These Bares were ordered on terms scored 200, Meyer taking a for 18, and thoughts to turn to higher things than the otheial telegrams and despatches gavo Bare. The price was provisional, and then compiled 5 for 1.
pice and the club, Final county placings will be found on
him. We thought of government as res afterwards the price was to be arrived There comes a time, however-it geuer-training human will, he continued, as the at upon a basis of cost plus a reasonable another page.)
ally comes about the end of Trine when source of legislation," and the shield profit. Sums were paid on account, and we begin to feel that old Sol is overdoing of liberty. In other words, we expected these were subsequently proved to be too
He has performed all his miracles. aur Government to be in a state of per- high.
& for 4. and 128.
HOME FOOTBALL
FIRST DIVISION.
Huddersfeld. By Notts Forest, 3,
U.S. TENNIS,'
WILDEN RETAINS SINGLES TITLE. (“
FOREST HILL. Sept. 2nd.
the real business of life. Phoebus has waked his sleeping princess with kiss; at the trouble is the rude fellow does not know where to stop. With his great red affection, he is kissing the face off the whiskers bristling with honest but ardent poor girl.
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THE DOG DAYS.
tive.
•
The better classes everywhere are fleeing singles lawn tennis championship, defeat W. T. Tilden has retained the national
where they can fee.
W. M. Johnston in the Gual, 6-1, 0-7. | Houses, furniture, impriments, bouts The game was most spectacular, and In a word, the hot weather has started. and everywhere that can be commandeered the pace terrific, despite the tense deny that London is a whit less interest- foreign to the anerent world were those allowed to Messrs. Brock the Admiralty
humidity. Tilden did not give his oping or less habitable in July than in Orto- has been commandeered, and complete ponent a chance, although Johnston put ber. The Londoner is a lucky dog to be tranny is exercised by the troops when a great fight in the second set. a Londoner even in the dog days. I de ever they go.
not object to hot pavements or even to a moist collar. On the contrary, these things notably assist the development of the Metropolitan genius, send us in search of new and refreshing beverages and bring us sharply up against such realities of life na a cook who has no festival inspiration beyond cold ham and tomatoes,
RUMOURED OUTBREAK AT
HOSTILITIES
SHANGAT. September 2nd.
The situation on the Quinsan front is
There were persistent ramburs in ciren. Iation this afternoon that fighting had Bourly growing critical" Hostilities commenced in the country between Soo- might begin at any minute. Chi Esichchow and Shanghai, but it is impossible Yuan is fully prepared, and the trend of confirm, theci
events during the past two
days indicates
DTIS WARSHIP DETACHMENTS AFRORE. Detachments from two of His Majesty's that the hoier is forced on him to re-warships are coming ashore on Wednes over the control of Shanghai by warday morning, presumably in the nature and not by peace and as "Chi is deter of a demostration to guard the Conso-
laten, nic.
DINERAL CHAMBER OF 190MMERCE NEUTRAL..
+
US. WORLD FLIGHT.
ARRIVAL IN NEWFOUNDLAND.
New Yonk, September 2nd, The American world-fiers left Indian Harbour this morning and passed Hawkes start, hending presumably for Newfound Bay, Labrador, two hours after their
land.
HAWKES BAY (NEWFOUNDLAND),
September 2nd.. The American fiers have arrived.
MOBILISATION DAY"
IN AMERICA. The New York correspondent of a London paper writes
war."
The truth is that with the warns wen ther, with the final realisation of Su mer's ripe heauty, with the need, if we are still the victims of sath unhygienic early Victorianism, to discard cur shaggy uader wear, comes a longing for solitude and space. We are nct unfaithful to our mistress eave to renew our faith. We retire apart only to contemplate through the high casement of absence the dear features which familiarity has robbed a little of their charm.
The desire to get away from everybody and everything for room to expand and in which to be monsyrch, "not of all we
bad
·DISPUTED HUM
On that basis Messrs. Brock would hars to return £100,000, and he asked, for judg to net en 200.00, and
The other action did not arise.
Evidence was given on behalf of the umiralty that the capital of Mossra Brock was £37.000. and that their turn- over in one year, when they were making them fures, was £637,000.
...
The judge said he regarded 10. per.
Fighting hitherto has not been heavy strictly neutral in the event of an out- Coolidge's call to arms involves the we abandon towns and streets and betrke tilles of the Acts passed in any recent dent. us a reasonable, profit, and he enter
I
Every precaution is being taken to pro- teet the foreign settlement, and there secus no raise for anxiety on this score.
The first Power to land forces was the
French, with Marines from the Jales Perry, who landed in the French ednées- sion this afternoon. Besides 20 foreign
break.
SITANGHAL-SANNING BAILWAY DESTROYED.
about 10 miles froin Shanghai.
FRENCH CRUISERS ORDERED TO SHANGHAI,
PARIS. September 2nd.
The world has grown green at his kiss,petual motion. The restraint exercised by A connderalite quantity of the Bares Life, retired during Winter's clammy reign the government was in the interests of were delivered, and at the Armistice, the into its corio or its top coat, into the liberty; the growing complexity and ela Admiralty cancelled further deliveries, as ground or the enuggery, has burgeoned | Duration of the law was due to an in-they were entitled to day forth once more, grown active, Tesumed creased perception of the value of indivi- Inquiries were then instituted to ascer rights. All social legislation hadtain the cost of manufacturing the flares, for its object the securing of conditions and it was agreed that the figures weth and which the individual might have £6 78. 20. and £73. Md. wach. liberte to lead a reasonable and happy life. Finally, government, whatever might exeras of that, and undoubtedly a.COD- The Admiralty had paid largely in modern times expected to be representa- only question for the court was to decido be its precise constitutional forms, was in siderable sum had to be returned. The what was a reasonable profits to add to These ideas were not all old, and some of them were very new indeed. The ideas those figures.
In order to arrive at the total to be of representation and of progress. Re- presentation was the discovery of the were prepard to allow 10 per cent. pro- Middle Ages, and the doctrine of profit, which they said was a generous gress that of the eighteenth century. So allowance in a case of this kind, where numerous and far-reaching were the in the course of a year the capital of changes that came with the age of in- £100,000 was turned over six times. “ dustrial invention that government be a quite different from that of any which existed before that era. Our con- stitutional history in England had been so contianous, so unbroken by revolution. to this consideration. Yet there was all that we did not always give full weight the difference in the world hetween the British State after the industrial revoli tion of the eighteenth century and the British State before it... Vestiges of anti. quite, such as the curious cld ceremony! Mr. Stuart Bevan, K., for Messrs. of declaring the King's assent to laws in Brock, said they did not claim to retain Norman French, still survived to delude the whole of the money. All they said. us with the belief of continuity: Parlia was that the sum offered was not reason- ment itself, the creation of the thirteenth ab, and that a reasonable price remain- century; the shire, relic of Anglo-Saxoned to be ascertained. antiquity justices of the peace, the cores er, the Inns of Court, the size judges of the company, said he carried on bir Mr. Arthur Brock governing director were all products of the Middle Ages, business on the basis of 20 per cent. To mine to regain Shanghai, there does not |
American peace societies are up in
We had not even abolished the Heralds' do this work for the Admiralty they had arms against President Coolidge's pro survey only but of ourselves is deep-College. and set enormous changes appear any alternative but a general ad-Ai a meeting of the General Chamber clamation appointing September 12th for rooted in us. Long before man became come over the political landscapes and to increase their works and incur addi-
Education Act of 1021 alone was more
tion capital expenditure. Mobilisation Day the day when the gregarious, or was made gregarious as yance and the final capture of the City.
voluminous than all the tomes of King Commander Brock..
The flarea were the invention of his son, of Conmereg with reference to the im- entire country can emphasise the prin- what I have always considered an exces. minence of war, it was decided to remaininle that preparedness is the best sive punishment for originating sia he Alfred, the greatest of the Anglo-Saxon
safeguard against
President had the instinct of solitude in him. When legislators. If they were to run over the mobilisation for one day of varions ouelves at all costs to meadows and year it would be seen at once that most of judgment for the Admiralty for eitizen forces, such as the State Guard moors and high gall-haunted cliffs we them depecded upon modern scientiae 4:00,139 (cs. id, and costs.
It was stated that the figures in the (corresponding to the Territorials in Eng are simply reverting over the head of discoveries, such as those of steam and Tand), strect processions, pageants, as Homo sapiens (never at any time as wise electricity, and would be inconceivable other action would be adjusted in accou It transpires that the Shanghai-Nau-so forth, but, Governor Breens he fancied himself) to Pitliccanthropus without them. Again, London would he ance with this finding.
raska, Democratic nominee for the Vice who obeyed unerring instinct and few not for the enormous stream of transport
starved in king Railway was destroyed at Nansinng, Presidency, speaking for the peace socis the feverish contact of his fellow manation, which had to be regulated by in- couple of days if it were
ties, denounces Mobilisation Day se apes until the ice came down and all numerable laws and regulations. If they Islands territory is still uncultivated About 8 per cent. of the Philippine "militaristic
had to huddle together in caves to keep considered the adulteration of food Arts necording to Sgures at the Bureau of gesture And economic waste." As Governor of Nebraska he want.
and the patent laws, not to speak of the Agriculture. The total agricultural area will issue orders to the National Guard We still huddle together, but there is griminal Laws, they would be astounded in the Philippines amounts to 29,620,000 to mobilise, but will not ask for the civil no io about, and in consequence we get by the enormous development of legal res hectares, while the sultivated, portion Off with us then, to the roll-traint which was essential to modern well covers only 3,528,000 hectares pr 19 per warships nt or eff Shanghai, a large por- The Ministry of Marine announces any way. President Coolidge has exing downs with their close-cropped turf, being.
and industrial forces to participate in too warm. tion of the Japanese fleet from Sascho is that the cruisers Jules Ferry and plained in a letter that the mobilisation their wheeling plovers, their anail show-
cent According to the bureau's estimate, the following is the order of distribution for Defence Day has been misinterpreted, their spacious panoramas of far within twenty hours steam of Shanghai.
Colmar will progerd rom Saigon to by his critics, and emphasises the idea mountain, and still more spacious sc. much more powerful person than was non-commercial forests lands, 18,706,000 Mr Ramany MacDonald was very of the uncultivated lands: commercial and Shanghai
that white America is a most pacita Off with us at any rate to some tiver King Alfred or King Canute, for it was hectares; grass or bare lands, 8,594,600 Fifteen hundreal local volunteers have
country, Revertheless, the United States meadow knee-deep in buttercups and dificult to secure the execution of lawx hectares; and magrove swamps, 282,000 The despatch-boat air has been lost many men during the world war by grass and meador neet, where the song when there was no Begular Army and Been ordered to stand by.
I ordered to Tientsin.
not being prepared, to which Governor of the grasshopper mingles with that of regular force of police and our modern hectares
no hectares, unexplored lands, 1,541,000! Brynn retorts by saying, "and we have the lark, and from the invisible river near police were the creation of the mineteenth saved several wars by not being preparat band comes the crunch of a contempla century. The most striking illustration EARLIER CABLES. ed." These are days, says Governor Live pant pole or a wandering dragon dy of the change which separated the Gor still only a Minister, and the word "Min
Bryan, when the military spirit is ram-splendid in blue and gauze","
ernment of an industrial country from pant, but they are also days when the
Government in
theister rural state of its his vant of the public, and the Prime Mini
meant servant. He was the ser LONDON, September 2nd. organisations to prevent war are very It is true of most people in the world tory was the growth of the Civil Service ter who desired to keep in office ma The Trade Union Congress at Hull active, as witness, the campaign in the that there is very little the matter with It was not often realised how very take careful note of the changes of publier carried, by an overwhelming majority, a
United States begun last Sunday, des- us. but ourselves, and all that is the modern our bureaucracy was. In the time opinion. It would serve to show how emendment to the standing orders giving cribed as the "Stop War Crusade-if way
of William Fitt there was no State-paid, modern organisation was be the General Council extended Powers to persiste nothing else matters," which will no inte environments well enough Crowd-State-organised staff at the Admiralty, state, a car party
ed into environments well enough as far and the clerks were the servants of the found till 1828, and that the substantivo, intervene in strikes, lockouts or threaten continue until November 11th
was not nationalisation of landmines and railways, ated capital was showing, its hand more Day," says the Vice-Presidential nominee, narrow down our thoughts and our Office, but by the Secretary of State for House. Nor was it till the minsteenth needs, we lose our sense of proportion, was controlled, not from a gigantic War 1953, in Charles Dicken's novel Bleak forty-four hour working week, a mini- strongly every week: The battle in the will create
erronevus impression vitality, till: we become like so many War, transacting his work in a little room century that prominent Ministers of the toum wage in each industry, adequate industrial field was becoming fiercer, and abroad at a time when it in stated, in canaries and a cage, pecking and singing un Downing-street, with a staff of one Crown began to make political speeches provision for unemployment, adequate and control.
the workers wanted central leadership Paris that Germany is actively preparing in rivalry a metallic and artificial song man only his own private secretay in the country. Mr, Liosd George made
for a war of revenge." housing, fuli educational facilities, and
Mr. Daris, the Depiocratic candidate for the Presidency, ronment. They are the fortunate few. trations of the Government as a purveyor but William Pitt, during seventeen years Some people can rise above their cavi There were few more impressive illus. sixty speeches during the recent election, pensions for all at sixty.
undoubtedly favours Mobilisation Day. Most of us lose our elasticity and our of knowledge, than the hour which was of supreme office, only spoke twice outside tion, of the general purposes Committee
running mate, into the present contro tion stiles. Desperately then we plunge every Parliamentary sitting, the answers sentences in all (Laughter.) The change The rejected a recommenda
but wisely refuses to be drawn, like his sense of values. Facts corrode, imagine devoted to questions at the beginning of the House of Commons, and then in favour of allowing an emergency re-
four only into the train and také "ourselves and solution to be submitted instructing the
given by Ministers being prepared
by the
Leto general council to work for convening an
our fretful midge troubles into some now Departments on the basis of their accumu- the new idea was inaugurated By Lord international conference of all trade union
Brougham, who made the first political environment, to some country village or lated information LONDON, September 3rd... prganisations and to take steps to bring Paris Mr. MacDonald declared that Interviewed by the Daily Express at
environment, to some country cillage er The progress of Government had not tour in 1834.
NINETEENTH CENTURY CHANGL about unity in the international trade Zagtlul ignored his last invitation to
seashore. We feat better before we are meant the decline of liberty. Mr. Jack outside the station. Here is no change, Jones, of Silvertown. had more liberty that which obliged the Government to be- Another change of great moment was onion movement and, bring the organised come to London. In the meantime he was
no fever of the blood. The sea lapped on than any Anglo-Saxon or Norman King come the principal arce of legislation workers of the world under an interna- convinced that the reccat disturbances in
yonder beach in Canute's time-be had He could make his influence felt over sional fighting leadership. The president the Soudan were engineered by members Imperial Studies were resumed on July village inn rose, paltry three hundred fur larger range of personal tastes
The siltings of the Conference on his troubles too-as it does to-day. This more human beings, and could cultivate the nineteenth century, and was marked a change which did not come about tilk
probably do less than' bad been already that despite the original intention to paper by Mr. Hubert Phillips, MA older. Three hundred years tence things ever happily placed, in the remote ages of Parliamentary Counsel to the Trea aid the resolution, i accepted, would of the Egyptian Government and added 28th nt Wadham College, Oxford, with a years ago, on the site of another inn still than was possible to any individual, how by the establishment in 1870 of the office one in certain respects. The general maintain status quo pending discussions, council bed already agreed that the Am- he was obliged to strengther in stoves, intely head of the Economics Department here will be much the same still. Why There was no slam family in Glasgow at any cond's duty being to draft bills sterdam internationale should invite mine the British position in the Soudan.
At Bristol University, on the promption should we worry! We climb up on to high rate of infant mortality as were sentation to Parliament. While the on the instruction of the Cabinet for pre- the present Russian trade union representatives to
of economic studies in the schools of the the crisp down turf, or stroll beneath the the families of Anglo-Saxon Kings A Prime Minister wielded a degree of power the conference for the purpose of endea LONDON AGREEMENT.
Empire. He emphasised the necessity of ancient elms and listen to the murmur every turn the liberties of the medieval unknown to mediaval despots, the tenore Vauring to remove existing difficulties.
economic education in view of the intri- of innumerable bees. Our clothes begin Englishmen were curtailed by the privi by which a Government preserved its FRENCH GOOD WILL.
cacy and urgency of the problems of the to feel Jooper, our chests less collapsible leges of the nobles and the Church, and existence was precarious la every modern day and the widespread distribution A subtle something draws our footsteps by poverty and absence of sanitation, in-democratic states and it must court public PARIS, September 3rd.
with advancing democracy, of political unerringly to our caravanserai. Ah! sufficient food supplies, and general igno opinion or founder; it must be active, L'Ezcelsior to-day interviewed Mr. responsibility. He argued that economic what fragrance is that that takes the air, rance Russian fraternal delegates. When the tions payments, who declared that after these were alight compared with the risks drowsy syrups of East! Bwester and by gent, which permitted every kind of opDovernment was given notice to quit.
weakness of
of the Central Govern Livity created enemies against it. One Russian, delegates, headed by M. Tomsky, the concessions by France at the London of ignorance and propaganda as they no means drowsy. Un the contrary, an etion to be practised Government nad before many months were out the new Chairman of the All-Russian Council, came Conference, it was impossible to doubt existed to-day. In the discussion, Dr. enlivening and disturbing odour. There today was representative in any deino Government had lost the gloss of its po to the platform, the delegates rose and the good will of France towards a con- Phillips's views, and described his own Did we do well to come away from it all1 Prime Minister was all powerful he was gradual but certain stages into the pia Heaton, of Australia concurred in Mr.it goes again Duck and green peas ratio Eate and although the British pularity and was destined to descend by cheered for minutes.
„ciliation.—Havas.
successful experimente în Australía. Did wel
Continued on next Column.) of popular disfavour
BRITISH TRADE
LATEST CABLES.
UNIONISM.
"THE WORKERS" CHARTER.”
LONDON, September 3rd,
The Trade Linion. Congress has adopted
EXTENDED POWERS.
20
"To
WANT OF ROOM.
PREMIER AND KİNGA.
the
the workers' charter providing for the disputes. The mover said that feder-persist in the plans for Mobilisations they go, but totally inadequate to our Minister: while later, still Crimean War Whip," had no earlier authority than..
A REMARKABLE SCENE.
A remarkable scone" occurred at the Trade Union Congress when the President
LATEST CABLES.
BRITAIN AND THE SOUDAN. PREMIER'S PRONOUNCEMENT.
versy.
an
ECONOMICE IN THE SCHOOLB.
THE DANGERS OF IGNORANCE
tion
was subject to so
introduced the American, Canadian and Owen Young, agent general of repara education in schools involved risks, but more potent than mandragora or all the by the, not least were ther curtailed or it, would be blamed; and its very no