LATEST CABLES.
BRITISH SHIP'S CREW AND "SOVIET.
STRANGE TREATMENT IN RUSSIA.
Lasnos, September 5th. Remarkable allegations were made by The crew of the Cardiff steamer Glenester, which has arrived at Barry from Russia.
i stated that a man employed as Kairil on the ship shot himself. The Hussian authorities detained the wire- Jessuperator and third engineer. who went to fetch a doctor, and kept them Ja barbed wire enclosure all night. by were cruelly ill-treated by the Russin guard. The Russian authorities Miso arrested the ship's captain. Mr.
oung, who when he protested.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6re, 1924
THE WAR AROUND
SHNGHAL
POSSIBLE LAND ATTACK ON WOOSUNG, FORTS.
WI PEI FU'S DENIAL.
"[TEKÖLUR ANUTER'S "A5880v.]
A COUNTER-DENIAL.
PERING, September 5th.
The Government at Peking deny yes terday's 'Japanese agency's report and
¿ TUPAN (LU'S, SON' COMING TO CANTON, It is also learnt that a telegram has been received from General Lu Yung hsiang, the Chekiang Tupan who is en gaged in war against Kiangsu, is sending his son, Lu Shao-cha, to Canton to make arrangements with the authorities here with regard to the coming campaign against the Chihli party.
LAWN TENNIS.
VARSITY INTERNATIONAL
AMERICANS DEFEATED,
THE INFLUENCE OF NINUPO, For, it is the wealth of Shanghai that | matters now-its wealth and political in- fluence. No political movement can go very far which is not financially support ed by some group in Shanghai And that
[BY A. WALLIS MYRUS, C,8&] group will either be Ningpoese or Can tonese. For a time, the Cantonese wer The Bank holiday crowd swarmed into chants in Shanghai were a political fac- Davonshire Park, Eastbourne, on August ・・ tor, but they quarrelled among them-4th, to see the finish of the international selves, their guild has been split into match between the rival universities of HOW SHANGHAI HAS BECOME THE parts and their interests have been England and America The weather was
BIG FRIZE.
diverse, since some support Sun Yat-sen tone too promising in the early morning, while others "have in the past favoured but the courts again showed their recupe Mr. George. E. Nokolsky writes in the Chen Ching-ming and now favour Wurative powers, and seemed none the worse
Peilu.
Bat Sing men have worked for their week-end bath. It was a day of NOG, thily News: official news received in London is not
mors or less together through all their fluctuations and exciting spurts, but in The position of Shanghai in the politics anparent quarrels. Their rows within the the end Oxford and Cambridge draw. Conly belated compared with press reports of thing has become increasingly more Ningpo Guild have been family affairs, clean away from their adversaries. They important since the foquding of the Re- but when questions arose affecting Niogpo won by the handsome margin of nine but much more incomplete. It under-public, not only because it is the economic or Chekiang or the interests of the Ningpo matches, proving at the finish that they capital of the country, but also because community in Shanghai, the personal were not only the better balanced, but stands that Washington is likely to take the freedom from governmental control jealousies and animosities of leaders, the the better trained team. In singles they
has made it possible for most of the anti-desire for power and fame disappeared. discounted the violent serview of the Ame the lead in revising last year's inter- Peking movements to propagate from this All thaugs laboured for Ningpo To-day ricaas by the steadiness of their ground Shanghai is economically a colony of work, and in doubles they drove this ventionist suggestions and opines that
Yung Shib-kar understood this Letter Ningpo. Most of the native banks are moral more strikingly home. Their aer- than did the Manchus. He took advancotrolled by Ningpo money lenders. And vice returns had more accuracy and more This was the imait of their Hished a Defquee Conimissioner, a new sites are that Shanghai shall be control offer, to watch both Nanking and Hangled by Chekiang The independence of chow and at the same time to suppress Shanghai from Nanking therefore has that aus movements which might arise in this much support and authority. eity in opposition to himself.
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centre.
pinned against the rails and a revolver have 'arrested the head of the Chinese Britain should be the first to support any taxe of the possibilities here and esta- Xingno'is n city of Chekiang and its de- variety.
The mate Wis beld at his stomach. Ariel aeros. the deck by the Russian -guards, who teriorised the crew. The ship was only allowed to sail after the cap- tain had been forged to sign a declaration that he and the crew were treated most Courteously.
LATEST CABLES. MEUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE BRITISH AND JAPANESE STEAMERS COLLIDE. LATTER BADLY DAMAGED.
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agency which also circulated it.
CHANG'S INTENTIONS,
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Pax:. September 5th. Reports from Mukdeni say that white Chang Two Lin's army is probably pre- pared to march at short notice, there has been nothing to indicate its intention to
take the field in the ear future.
RIVAL YARNS.
SuNani, September 5th. The second attack of the Kiangsuites There was yesterday did not matures
Now Yoas, September 3th. The Japanese stesiner Paji Maru has cided with the British steamet. Loria Bon The Fúji Mura was extensively to serious fighting lay. "The Che Bamazed at the stem and the plates above kiangiten beld all the positions originally
ne damage to held. In the course of a small counter farge. "at is anticipated there is no im-attack to day they captured a regimental mediate danger and the vessel is proceed-commander. ing to Charleston and thence probably to Newport for repairs. The dange to The Laristan is not known.
the water. There น A
Jarcording, to the map reference given in the cable the collision took place in the Sargasso Sea, north of the Bahamas and south-east of Savanah, USA.]
ITALIAN AIRMAN IN NEW YORK.
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MET WITH CHEERS AND GROANS.
proposals for protecting the interests of foreigners in China and safeguarding railway communications.
The journal points out the obvious limits at present set to intervention; but says much can be done to improve the situation in regions where influence can be readily exercised:
Jay COURTESY OF THE "BAILY BULLETIN."]
· PRESS GANGS AT WORK.
SHANDRAL, September 4th Press gangs are hard at work in the Chapei district, bordering the Foreign Settlement, and hundreds of people have Aed into the Settlement for safety. · A miniature reign of terror was set up by these gangs last night. They are made up of between 20 and 30 men, partly soldiers and partly police. The people Wu Per Fu denies that any of his are being impressed not as soldiers but as labourers, and when oumber are soldiers are fighting for Kiangau.
-Chekiang claim that the highest officer they have so far lost is a captain.
RAIL LINE TO SHANGHAI.
HHANGHAI, September 5th. The Chinese military authorities closed the Shanghai-Woosang line this after- Xtw. Yoak, September 5th. noon as a precaution against the possible) When Loentelli arrived at the Grandland attack on the forts in the event of Central station yesterday the police re- the Kiangsites breaking through at Berves 'had to be called out to prevent"a Lintho. 15 miles north-west of Woosung.
gathered they are lashed together with ropes and put into motor-cars and seat away "to the scene of operationa All along the "boundaries Sikh and Chinese Settlement police are on duty to prevent the press gangs coming in.
SHANGHAT. September 4th,,
SHANGHAI IN THE PAST.
Previous to
was not an important city.
During the Manchu regime. Shanghai the coming of the foreigners, it did nut Compare in political importance with or Soochow, or in economic im- portance with Ningpo or Fouchow. The Taiping rebellion brought to the small foreign settlements large numbers of Chi nese refugees, even as the presnt war is bringing them. With the growth of trade came the growth in population. Politic ally, Shanghai was part of the territory of the Viceroy of Liang Kiang, which in cluded Kiangsu, Anhui and Kiangai and at Nanking the capital of which was Shanghai was in Kiangsu province, the capital of which was Soochow. It was in the S-Sung-Tai eirenit, which consisted of Soochpw, Sungkiang and Trichow.
It
KIANGST INTERESTS OUTSIDE
greater experience, for though the heart of the American eagle may have been as sound as the heart of the British lion, the lion's tail had more power in it tha the eagle's wings, nas
But let me tell the story briefly as it Youth was in hot pursuit of a
The Kiangsu people in Shanghai have on the whole fast their contacts with Nant king, although Chi Hsich-yuan has, for moving ball all the time. The position two years, done what he could to bring the day's start was auspicious for Or- At lunch they buck into the fold. Kiangsu ends ford and Cambridge. They were leading at Soochowfi so far as polities are con by four matches to two cerned and the great Soochow gentry had increased this advantage to seven an. Chang -lis, is the leading factor in matches to three. thanks to some bril- Kiangsu politics at this moment, The ant play in doubles by Kingsley and Kiangsu residents of Shanghai are
Watt and the checking of an ominous rot mixed up with the Ningpo men, they have by Van Alen and Lezard after they led had so many business relations with the-1 in the final set against Briggs and Singpo native banks and the Ningpo com- Sheridan. But the Americana-returned pradores that it is difficult for them to
in fighting mood in the afternoon, and realize that the peace of Kiangsu i per solute their volleying that they captured
so incisive" was their service and so re- haps as important as the business oft Shanghai
LI
At any rate, the Xanking three singles simultaneously without the authorities have come to believe that the loss of a set. Kingsley and Watt both peace of last summer was made largely went down to the visiting first strings. by Kiangsu gentry whose interests are in and Van Alen so far renouncing his form Shanghai. It is therefore interesting to of Saturday as to lose the first eleven Hangchow, the capital of Chekinng, was note that the most important question games against Watson, who was quite not concerned with Shanghai affairs, between the two provinces, namely the Tildenesque in this counter. The Cam was altogether under another Viceroy, ther Shanghai shall remain independent bridge captain rallied to win three games. that of Min Che, which consisted of Fu- or shall become again a part of Kiangsu, but his canso was desperate and he could kies and Chexiang, and the capital of was never broached. Chi Hsieh yuan was which was at Focchow. There was a dissatisfied with such a pence. The Gov- governor of Chekiang Province, whose ernment in Peking was dissatisfied. It sent was at Hangchow.
was like the Versailles Treaty; it made peace hut, there was no peace.
BHANGHAI'S GREAT WEALTH.
af
THE NANKING VICEROY.
www
Yüan Shib-kai realized that his own
not sure it.
THE TCKNING-POINT. The verdict was now in the balance again, but the Indians had yet to show their cool hand. The most dependable Hadi beat Pfaffman, after the American captain had led 8-7 and 40-love. Double
The Viceroy at Nanking wik F1 very important personage in the Government. The total foreign trade of China in 19 faulting was again Pfaffman's besetting After the signing of the Treaty of San-wag Hk. Tls. 1,876,320,303. The trade of sin. He served three in a row, and so king, he was the Southern Superintendent Kiangsu and Chekiang amounted to Hk.threw away his great chance. Butnam of Trade and during the regine of Tseng Tis. 871,725,271 or approximately 2 per was ton active for the left-handed Sheri Kuo-fan, he was the loven of all Viceroys, cent. of the whole country. Shanghaidan. The house seven now led by nine politically, the most powerful figure in the alone contributed Hk. Tls. 718,101.319 or matches to six, needing only two further country. The death of Viceroy Tseng and approximately 42 per cent. of the whole successes for definite victory. They made the accession of Liang-chang shifted the This is foreign trade alone. These figures no bones about the second round of dou- power to Tientsin. The necessity for alone will indicate that there is something bles. All three matebes, wers "gallantly military and governmental reforms in to fight for, since where there is money won in the final set. Von Alem recovered Peking and the personality of Viceroy Li there is power in China, as elsewhere his touch and returned service so accu- Hung-chang were Jactors in effecting this But these figures in no way show the rately and cunningly, that he and Lezard change. To this power Yuan Shih-kai whole, the wealth of the local banks, the beat the crack visiting couple, Ingraham succeeded.
trade in native goods passing through dropping his service after 30-love in the likin stations in the interior of the pro- ninth game, Kingsley, whom I believe strength lay in the centralization of vinees, the secret, illicit trade which n to be the best young doubles player in authority and in undermining the local military man can countenance and which England to-day, made the winning drive ization tendencies of the provinces. Some brings him wealth and power, The econof the match. Like a house on fire the of the proincial Tatahs and Governors mie importance of Shanghai and its spirit of victory spread. Not match
ere his equals in rank or authority pre environs and the ability of a keen Chi-did the Americans win. vious to the revolution. Many of them nese militarist or politician to make The third round of doubles ended like differed with him on many questions at money out of it, is the explanation for the second, except that in this case only issue. To counteract oppositional move and Shanghai over the jurisdiction of this ham retired to Ringsley and Watt when
one at was dropped. Jones and Ingra ments. he placed Defence Commissioners in strategic places, whose duty it was to tity, General Lu Yung-bsinng has been
Yale thus won only one doubles match maintain order. Some of these Defence able to maintain his independence of the the latter were leading 4-1. Harvard and Commissioners appear redundant unless Peking Government because of this even- out of-nine. This was the unexpected Administration's ruines for the week end.oldiery, following the usual Chinesa Conscription at Nanking has ceased, and one realizes Yuan's motives. For inomic support. Until that independence blow to their hopes It proves, I think, custorn of putting the least-trained and the indiscriminate seizing of Chinese and stance, although Nanking is the capital ceases, no matter who control Nanking that the fast practice at home and abroad of a province and the seat of a Tuchun the party in power in Peking will fight which the Oxford and Cambridge players with a large army, there is also a Defence for the control of Shanghai. Commissioner in that city. That is true
riot between rival factions among the
Crowd of 5,000 Italians. Cheers for Locatelli were countered by shouts of "Down Lomtelli" from heal fascistista. He was rushed into a taxicab and hurried') to a hotel.
•The total output of the Kailan Mining
jog Angust 23rd amounted to 1,107 tons and the sales to fi.210 tons.
**SOME" WARFARE.
SHANGHAI, September 5th.
Foreign observers from the front state say the most notierable, features are the primitive and utterly unsanitary ar- rangements to deal with the wounded, and the rapsullion type of the Chinese
poorest troups in the front lines.
NEED FOR BRITISH ACTION. For the possession of 500 Three Castles. cigarettes on which dity had not been!
Lospos, September 4th. -paid, a coolie was fined $20, or 14 days'
The Daily Telegraph declaims against bard labour in default, by Mr. R..E the Foreign Office's apparent indifference Lindsell at the Central Magistracy-yester. to events in China and declares that das
DR. SUN'S ** NORTHERN EXPEDITION."
The scavengers at Canton are demand-
Reuter's special correspondent at Nan king yesterday reported that he had been *Yodd reliably informed that Chi Hsigh left for Changchow early yesterday morn. ing to take personal command of his troops at the headquarters Chi Hsich Yuan has a strong positich at Quinsan and along the Sonchow Creek at Heali Che Hsieh Yaan holds the Quinsan bank and the railway bridge, which is the most important bridge along the railway,
pressing them into service is forbidden owing to the vigorous protest of the Chamber of Commerce, and now coolies may not be enlisted except after consulta- tion with the police. Men joining up are to receive 20 cents a day and to be looked after...
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pedition at an early date. It is reported, the expeditionary armies will advance northward by three different routes. The sing payment of arrears of wages. They] MARSHAL TUAN COMING TO HELP.
Main Force, under the personal direction bave refrained from striking on the City
of Dr. Sun, will consist of the Yuanane The Canton Gazette given prominence Honanese, and Cantonese troops, with the Public Health Departnient giving an to the following report issued by the troops under General Li Lieb chan as van-guards. This force will pro- Assurance that part payment will be made Pacific News Agency (Canton): within a week.
Me."He Wai Chung; the Manager of the Amateur Comedy Collpany organised by members of the staff of the Imports and
of almost every províncial capital.
here under the Defence Commissioner,
the continued conflict between Nanking
have enjoyed this year has been most beneficial. In this branch all played well, Kingsley and Van Alen perhaps with most brillianer; the two Indians with
SENSATIONAL CASE RECALLED.unfaltering steadiness.
The tragic death of Major Cecil Came.
Let me add that in Tim Horn, of Cam-
SINGLES.
D. R. Rútnam (Cambridge) beat A. B Sheridan (Yale), 6-1, 7-b.
C. H. Kingsley (Oxford) lost to W, W. Ingraham (Harvard), 2-6, 4-6.
Gla
A. S. Watt (Oxford) lost to
Considering that now is the opportune bably take the route into Kiangsi, pro- plots... When Admiral Taeng Yu-chenga petition for retrial of the ths after Jones (Yale); 16; 4-6.
time for the revolutionary forces in China: vince,
DEFENCE OF EAST KIVER AND CANTON
J. H van Alen (Cambridge) ta C. Watson (Vale), 0-6, 3-6.
S. M. Hadi (Cambridge) Bent K
TUAN'S DEFENCE COMMISSIONZES. During the Manchu regime there were very few troops in Shanghai because Shinghai is not on the great highroads ron, D.S.U., 26th Battery RFA, who bridge, and Sydney Hepburn, of Oxford, to anywhere. It is at the end of all was found dead with a bullet wound in both members of farmer teams touring in things. There might be some use for a his head in his quarters at the barracks America, the home universities have bad Generalissimo, Dr. Sun, to start the Exay, were China's naval forces capable at Sheffield, recalls a sensational case at two zealous and judicious officials, To Edinburgh in 1011, states a London wire theus, as well as to the players, the happy of withstanding an attack by a foreign af August-19th. Major Cameron, who was result recorded is due. Besults: Power, but there never has been and there is to-day no use for a large military force then Beutenant, and his wife were sent enced to three years' imprisonment for are under the De placed such a force attempting to defraud Lloyds of £6,500 not to keep the foreigners within the ance money on a pearl necklace of the wife alleged she had been. elements, but to watch the doings of robbed. Major Cameron refused to give the Military Governors at Nanking and
esidence at the trial. Major Cameron Fangchiow and to suppress Kuomintangrejoined the Army in 1914, two
on been case had was appointed to the post in 1915 his presented by Colonel Donald Cameron to put down the counter-revolution fac The Left Wing of the Campaign will title was raised to that of Military Gover of Lochiel Fife, dukes and a host of tian, Marshal Turn Chi-jui. the ex-be the entire Hunanese Army in Kwang nor of Shanghai a title which General Helher notables, including Lord Roberts, Praftman (Harvard), 10-8, 7-5. Premier, who has been quietly staying Tientsin for some time, is proceeding to tung, with General Tan Yeni Feng-lin bolds to-day. The position of Major Cameron had a most distinguished D. R. Rutnam (Cambridge) bent A
commander-in-chief, This army will the Defence Commissioner under Yuan war career, won many decorations and Briggs (Harvard), 6-1, 3-6, 6ông, Canton to help Dr. Sua Yat-sen in the march into Huone to oust pro-Wu forces Shib-kai was similar to that of the Tarter was granted a full pardon in 1917, and
DOUBLES coming Military Campaign against the
in that province. The newly organized Exports Office, sends us a statement of Chihli party, says a telegram from Tien northern expeditionary armies will parti. General under the Manéhus. He was a reinstated as an officer, it was auth
military officer, commanding troops, nouneed in April last that he had been CH. Kingsley (Oxford) and AB the bancial results of the theatrical pertain. On the arrival of Marshal Tuan, cipate in the Right Wing, which ili directly responsible to Yuan and in no appointed military attaché at Riga, but Watt (Oxford) beat K. Pfafman (Har
the Government at Canton will be re-probably advance toward Fukien.
way under the authority of the Governor the appointment was subsequently can-vard) and C.. Watson (Yale), 4-6, 6-4, 94; formances given at the West Point Bazaar organized. Marshal Tuan strongly up
of the province in which he was station-celled. in aid of the Tang Wah Hospital Relief bolds Dr. Sun to resume the Presidency, Fund. The total proceeds of the three and Tuan himself be appointed Com- There will be no fighting in the East ed. It was under this system that Shang- days' performances amounted to $1,908.64. mander-in-Chief of the Northern Expedi River districts, as the main forces of tionary Forces. General Hau Shu-teens. General Chen Chiung-ming have been
Lu Yung-hring before he became At the Kowloon Magistracy, yesterday, a staunch supporter of Marshal Tuan, is withdrawn from the East River and sent 2 Chinese named Wong Kun-shing, was sent to Caabon by Tunn to make pre-into Fukien, according to the vernacular Tuchun of Chekiang, was Defence Com by far the most vital problem rained by Sheridan, 6-1, 68, 6-4; heat. Jones, and charged before Mr. Hamilton with the liminary preparations for the organization reports. After the Hunanese, flouance missioner of Shanghai. One of his sub the proposal to build a bridge across the Ingraham, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; beat Pfaffman theft of a gold earring from the person of the Government and the Military Cam and parts of th Cantonese and Yunnan ordinates was General Ho Beng-lin, the Thames near the Cathedral. A Roval and Watson. 0-9, 8-6. of a Chinese woman at Spy Street. The paign against the North Mr. Ng Chiesa armies have been sent northward in had been Defence Commissioner at Ning Fine Art, Commission. instructed to H. C. Fisher (Oxford) and S. M. Hadi mao was chased and caught by a police-fei, a noted educaitonist, highly respected the coming expedition against the North, tai in Chekiang General La came to report on the matter, says that the piers (Cambridge) lost to Joues and Ingraham, man on duty in the vicinity, on an alarm by General Chen Chiung-ming, is also the catire Western Punitive Army would regard the Shanghai position as his own supporting the dome are in a precarious, 36, 4-6; beat Pfaffiman and Watson, Being raised by the complainant. He was coming to the South from Shanghai to be entrusted with the defence in the East When he was appointed to Chekiang, be condition and serious fears are entertain sent to prison for six weeks with hard arrange for a better understanding be- River, with the assistance of some Yun- insisted upon his man being sent to act for the safety of the dome itself, while 6-1, 6-4; beat Briggs and Sheridan, 5. labour and ordered aix strokes with the tween the authorities here, and General nanese troops. The Cantonese Army and Shanghai. He kept his own troops in the increasing hoary motor trafic is a Birch.
Chen. It is reported, Mr. Ng will ask the newly organized provincial gendarmes this city. In a word, at the time when grave risk to the building. General Chen to resume his loyalty to
of Kwangtung can well handle the de- the Tuchuns were asserting their authority A Chinese was sent to prison for four Dr. San so that the war in the East River fence of Canton and the West and North over the Defence Commissioners, when months yesterday for having stolen, a car be avoided, and all the picks of the districts:
the latter no longer had Yuan Shib-kai to uphold them, Lu Yung-hsiang insisted basket of clothing from a woman passen Allied forces in this province can be sent ger. The defendant was stopped and to join the coming Northern Expedition. It has been learat from the General upon the independence of the Shanghai
Our Canton contemporary adds the Headquarters here that a telegram was military from the control of the Nanking replying to (Co-operator) English Ch
In the House of Commons recently, questioned by a constable at the Leung Wing wharf in regard to n bamboo basket following details:--
received from Marshal Chang Tso-lin of Tuchun. Therein lies the whole explana he was holding, and, failing e satisfac- According to information obtained from Fengtien declaring that the forces of the tion of the present struggle. For an Tao mergeted any deration of the title
The Archbishop of Canterbury. The Ako trazado e Lannion," Mr. J. B. tody. Subsequently, it was established ing Expedition against the North have ized and sent down into Chibli to attack be a very small man in the military hier ord Prary Bay Foid that the Bishop of London, Generals Flumer and that the basket had been stolen from a been adopted at recent military confer the Chibli troops, In the telegram, it is archy of China As controlling the mission and beanansidera periodically Pulteney in a joint letter to the Times feltä" khe past few poure, but it bad makes an appeal for the prompt erection Woman. It contained, besides varions ences of the high authorities here. Gen-reported, Haraba! Chang urges the Govtary organization in Shanghai in addition
of a memorial Church in the vicinity of been felt that there was no press articles of clothing, money and jewellery Brals Li Lieh-chun, Tan Yen-kai and Fauernment at Canton to start the Expedi- to being Tachun of Chekigaz, he becazy
Ypróx Chung-shan are strongly urging the tion against Chibli immediately.
one of the principal águres of the cölistsgr
er Tense for the change. of the value of $100.
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FENGTIEN SENDS TROOPS DOWN.
bent A. Briggs (Harvard) & A. R. Sheri dan (Yale), 6-2, 2-6, 6-2; bent Arnold Jones (Tale) and W.-W. Ingraham (Her hat became politically independent of SAFETY OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDEAL. Vard), 6-3, 4-3, 4-1 (retired). Kiangsu
JH. van Alen (Cambridge) and I I'% The salety of Bt. Paul' Cathedral 15. Lezard (Cambridge), boat. -Briggs and
CORIAL BEORNTÁKY,”
ENGLISH CHURCH IN PRES. Pilgrims from oversees and the Mother Country, visiting the graves of relatives in Flanders, will in future, find in arx Church, in the words of Lord
Lory explanation, he was taken into cur- military headquarters plans of the com- Three Eastern Provinces had been mobil-chun of. Chekiang, Lu Yung-baiang work of Berebery of Bikku for the Colonias no remena quiet place for prayer, and