HANKOW TROOPS BEGIN ATTACKS AGAINST NORTHERNERS.
NORTHERN PRISONERS. ARRIVING AT SHANGHAI.
SHANGHAI NATIVE CITY UNDER MARTIAL LAW.
NORTHERN GENERAL SENDING FOR
REINFORCEMENTS.
Further details are to hand of the Shanghai Defence Force, with particular reference to "the forthcoming trooping season, and the British Garrison next winter.
Shangbai Native City has been placed under martial law, General San, admitting that he has had severe losses, has requested the Fengtienese authorities at Peking to send him ró- inforcements to the banks of the Yangtze.
The Hankow troops have got into grips with Marshal Feng's troops on the Lunghai Railway
Dietater Chang Tao Lin and his subordinate generals have been discussing the vexed problem of how best to deal with Shacsi's" Model Governor." THE COMING TROOPING
SEASON.
WARSHIP CANTEENS OF CHINA STATION.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st, 1927.
GERMAN EXPLORER
MURDERED..
REPORTED SZECHUAN
TRAGEDY.
VAGUE STATEMENT.
[TUROCOH RIUTER'S "AGENCT. I
LONDON, August 30th.
A sensation has been caused in Germany by the report that the well-known German explorer, Filchner, and two other foreigners have been murdered in Szechuan by Tibetan tribesmen.
The China Inland Mission, while it has not received confirmation of the report,
is of opinion that it may refer to the party which included the missionary Mathewson, who wrote to the headquarters of the Mission in April saying that he and two or three other persons proposed to go to India from China vid Tibet.
"MAN'S DESCENT.
DARWINIAN THEORY
FUNDAMENTALS.
PRESIDENT OF BRITISH ASSO. CIATION'S ADDRESS,
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENÓT.]''
LONDON, August 31st Sir Arthur Keith, in his Presi dential Address to the British Asso- ciation at Leeds ou "Darwin's Theory of Man's Descent As It said that An Stands Today," enormous body of new, evidenes had accumulated during the past 56 years, but the fundamentals Darwin's outline of mar's history remained unshaken.
of
"Sir Arthur Keith was convinced that it never can be shaken that man had been traced through fossil remains and stone implements back- wards to the beginning of the Pleistocene Period, at least for
amount and that man had even been traced into an earlier Pliocene Period, which had endured "for at least a quarter of a million years,
VESSELS TO BE WITHDRAWN. OFFER TO TAKE THEM OVER. END OF A SEVEN YEARS 200,000 years perhaps thrice that
THE WINTER GARRISON.
(THROUGH REUTER'A AGENCY.]
SANORAL, August 31st.
{THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.]
Lonpos, August 30th. The Navy and Army Air Force Institutes have offered the ad-
It is officially announced that inmiralty to take over the running pursuance of the policy of the of all canteens of warships on the The matter has gradual reduction of the British China Station. forces from Shanghai the follow-j been referred to the Commander: ing units will be withdrawn in the in-Chief in the Far East for his
coming trooping season:
1st Field Brigade, Royal Artil-! lery Headquarters, 13th Infantry Green Bått Brigade;" 13t Howards; 1st Batt. Borderers; 1st Batt. Middlesex; 1st DevoDE
As a result of this the British Garrison in Shanghai, during the coming winter, will consist of the 2nd Batt. Coldstream Guards; 2nd Batt. Suffolks; 1st. Bait. Bedford and Hertfordshire Regiments, two replacing battalions from Hong Kong and the 3th Armour-Car Co. and Tank Corpa
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THE YANGTSZE.
ITEROLCE REUTER'S AGENCY.]
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SHANGHAI, August 31st. No important change in the Yangtare situation.
[NAVAL WIRELESS.]
ANXING, August 30th.
decision.
IN GRIPS WITH FENG'S ·
TROOPS.
(Wah Taz Yat Pan.)
"SHANGHAI, August 31st. Shantung troops on the Langhai Railway have come to grips with Feng Yu Hsiang's troops.
Marshal San Chuan Fang, in an urgent telegram to the Peking Government, requests that a large number of reinforcements should be hurriedly despatched to the front, as his forces have suffered seriously. In response to the request the Peking Government are sending two divisions to Pengpu, Anhui
According to a report from Chin- kiang, the Southerners again at tempted to cross the angteze to the south during the morning of the 30th inst. but were finally pushed
Wuhan troops have reached Anback with heavy losses. king. An intended attack on Peng
Puis, reported.
NANZINO, August 30th. Troops have been withdrawn to prepare a position 10 miles south
of the town.
SHANGHAI, August 30th The mill strike is easing off.
HANKOW, August 30th. Most of the heads of all the Nationalist Government depart- 'ments have left, the remainder are awaiting developments at Nanking.
continue. ently deserted
KIUSIANO, August 30th. Troop movements down the river
Natung Bluff in appar WUxo, August 30th. Down bound convoys were heavily fired on from above Morrison Point to-day. E.M.8. Cockchafer return ed the fire, and was hit by one shell, doing superácial damage and wounding one rating slightly.
JAPANESE TROOPS IN SHANTUNG. TOKYO WAR OFFICE
STATEMENT.....
"[THROUGH REUTZR'S AGENCY.)
Tonyo, August, 30th. The War Ofice has issued a state- ment to the effect that, owing to the stabilisation of the situation in Shantung, all the Japanese troops will be withdrawn from Tsingtao on September 7th and 8th.
The Government has also issued
a statement in which, after recall-
DICTATOR CHANG AND SHANSI'S DICTATOR.
(Wah Tar-Tat Pao.)
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STRUGGLE.
THE FINANCIAL ASPECT.
[RITTEE'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
New Yoxx, August 31st. Mr. Felicani, treasurer of the Boston Defence Committee, states
that the seven years' struggle to sare Sacco and Vanzetti cost over 8350,000, of which the communiste of the United States had contribut
ed under 86,000, while the 81,000 reported to have been sent by the Third. International from Moscow had not been received.
ATTACKERS OF AMERICANS
WHAT THE MEXICAN GOVERN
MENT PROMISES.
[RECTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
NOGALESE, Arizona, Aug. 314. A telegram from Guadalajar states that in connection with the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, the Mexican Goşernment have ordered the immediate execution of anyone attacking Americans.
WOMAN INCITER. TO RIOTING.
SENTENCED TO A YEAR'S GAOL
{RXUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE]
All evidence supported, the con- clusion that man bad arisen, as Lamarck and Darwin suspected. from the anthropoid ape, which was not on a higher "zoological scale than the chimpanzee and that the
date at which the human anthro- poid lines of descent diverge lies near the beginning of the still
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earlier Miocene Period..
On a modest scale of reckoning the respectable that gave man antiquity of about a million years.'
All the evidence gathered by anatomists, embryologists, physic- logists and psychologists supported the conviction that, man's brain evolved from the brain of the an thropoid ape, and that in the pro- сеня до new structure had been introduced and no new or strange faculty interpolated:
ARGENTINE LOAN.
OVER-SUBSCRIBED IN NEW
"YORK...
{REUTER'S AMERICAN · SERVICE]
New York, August 30th.
The Argenting loan, for refund ing the debt on the Argentine State Railways, underwritten here, has heen" over-subscribed.
NEW YORK, August 20th. The Boston Municipal Court has MR. sentenced "Miss Donovan, amem- her of the Sacco-Vanzetti defence
SHANGHAL, August 31at. The Ankuochuu leaders held an important conference on the 30th inst. for the purpose of discussing what steps should be taken to desi committee, to one year's imprison- with General Yen Shib Shao,
mens, for inciting people to riot Shansi's dictator.
for distributing anarchist The result of the conference is and
Eterature. being kept a strict secret.
General Chang Tsung Chang is She has appealed against the still in Peking.
The Chinese military authorities sentence, and has been released on in Shanghai have declared martial bail. low over Shanghai native city.
Fully 1,000 Northern captives.
The police have arrested several
have been sent to Shanghai during youths on a charge of incendiarism. the last few daya.
Hankow troops, stationed in Southern Anhui, have begun their attacks on the Northerners in the direction of Mingkiang, while those under General Ho Chien are ad- vancing towards Tingyuen from Lochow, in Northern Anhui on the Wai River.
Marshal Chang Teo Lin has ordered the Chihli Shantung forces to attack Honan; which is under the control of Feng Yu Hsiang. while the Fengrienese in Southern Chibli are to suspend their opera
tons.
YANGTSZE SHIPPING. CHINESE REQUEST TOTAL SUSPENSION.
(THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.)
SHANGHAI, August 31st.
ing the motive for despatching the General Pei Tsung Hai, the De
U.S. COTTON MARKET. -
ANOTHER "BULLISH
TENDENCY. (REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICL)
WASHINGTON, August 30th.
A Government report states that the ball weevil is still active is the cotton areas, notably in West Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabamus and Eastern Texas.
RAMSAY MACDONALD'S
"VICES."
UNREPENTANT AFTER ILLNESS.
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he says. I shall turn over no
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ANOTHER PIRACY.
INDO-CHINA CO.S "YAT SHING”- THE LATEST VICTIM.
PIRATES BOARD HER AT SWATOW AND ATTACK
TWO HOURS LATER.
CONTROL THE VESSEL AND BRING
HER TO BIAS BAY.
Bias Bay, pirates have again become active. Hardly had the news reached the Colony that a China Merchant steamer had been pirated than the piracy of another British steamer is reported,›
The 5. Fat Shing, one of the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company's steamers, which plies between Hong Kong, Swatow, and Shangbai, came into port fast night, with the news that she had been pirated and taken to that pirate-infested haunt. Bias Bay.
过来
The pirates, about 20 in number, boarded the stearmer Swatow in the guise of deck passengers and within two hours of sailing from that port on Monday they made their presence known.
Fortunately, the pirates although displaying arms and fring them in the air, did not shoot anyone, although they threatened to do so in case of resistance. They escaped with part of the general cargo and loot (money and jewellery, etc.) from the' deck passengers roughly estimated at $10,000. Probably the value of". the personal property taken is more, in addition to the cargo taken, but this cannot be ascertained at present.
SECOND INDO-CHINA STEAMER.
The Fat Shing is the second Indo-China steamer to fall into
the clutches of pirates this year, and curiously enough she is on the same ran, and was also pirated after leaving Swatow, as was the Hop Sang. in March of this year.
Only brief details were obtain able at a late hour last night, thei officers being too fatigued after their nerve-wracking experiences to grant interviews. Some of them had been on duty on the bridge and iu the engine room for 24 hours at
stretch.
THE FIRST ALARM. The first sign that there were pirates on board came through shouting and the firing of shots aft of the bridge. Almost immediate- 19 eight men rushed up on the bridge, all armed with revolvers. Others, it is qaderstood, took charge of the engine room and its European officer in a similar man- ner.
The pirates on the bridge sar- rounded the second officer, dug their revolvers into his rib to show him they meant business and were not to be trifled with, while others kept their weapers pointed at his
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FAR EASTERN OLYMPIAD.
LATEST RESULTS.
(THROCOX REUTER'B' AGENCT.]
The
SHANGHAT, August 31st. Philippines unexpectedly. won the swimming championship yesterday evening. The Japanese to-day clinched the baseball cham- pianship, also the Pentathlon and Decathlon which, with the track and feld wine, gives them three
Chine won points.
at football, beating the Philippines to-day by Tennis, basket ball, and volley ball have not yet bela derided.
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EVERYTHING QUIET.
After the anchor was dropped the captain of the ship was allowed on the bridge, this was at 1 pm, twelve hours after the vessel had. been taken over by the pirates. Following the dropping of the axi- chor, the Master and Second- Officer were allowed to have their camp beds an the bridge and lie down, tut, needless to say, they did not get much sleep. The second-officer, had been 01 the bridge since the morning, and did, not come off it until yesterday morning.
Everything remained quiet until a.m. yesterday, when the Captain
and Second Officer were bold by the pirates that some ships appeared to be coming in their direction *The where they were anchored. pirates were assured, however, that
the ships were not coming their way, and all remained quiet again. PIRATES DECAMP.
At 5.89 a.. yesterday, the anchor was drawn up and the ship was taken within a quarter of a mile of Sam Chau Inlet. Three lifeboats were lowered and were loaded with articles from the general cargo, much of the loot comprising pro
from the steward's stores. visions, including tinned foods:
It appears that the Fat Shing left Hong Kong for Shanghai, vi Swatow, on Sunday of this week at head. noon, carrying from this port
By gestures they conveyed to him about 500 tons of general cargo, that they wanted the ship turned and caly five Chinese: passengers, around from the Shanghai direc- and three European passengers, tion. Through the quartermaster two from Hong Kong and one from at the wheel, the second officer was pirates thoroughly searched all the
Canton:
This was
Before leaving the ship, the
given to understand that the
deck passengers, robbing them, Swatow was reached at 6,62 a.m.
pirates wanted the stip put on a personal articles, such as jewelledy on Monday, and at that port a course for Bias Bay.
morey and clothing. The offic cargo of 1,000 tons of general goods done, and in the meanwhile some did not lose much. Some of the was taken on. There also embark of the gang had visited the chart ed ene Japanese lady and two room, and other parts of the ship children, and about 150 Chinese and confiscated all the arms and deck passengers.
PIRATES MAKE THEM-
SELVES KNOWN,
Ammunition.
TO BIAS BAY
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them, so far as is known, lost any jewellery was taken, but nonex
money..
Eight deck passengers, together with the master of the Yat Shing, were forced into one of the life- bonts. The last boat with the pir- ctes left the ship at 9 am. Only
The No. 1 compradore (Mr. Tani Adopting the usual method the Chiu) was brought up to the bridge pirates emerged from among the to act as interpreter, and be wis deck passengers and immediately told to tell the second officer to take set about securing the control of the ship to Chilang Point (in the returned to the Fat Shing, bringing the 'ship.
one trip was made, and that direct to the shore. At 10.45 a.m. the boats"
At the time, 9 a.m., the neighbourhood of Bian-Bay, and a back the Captain and also one of
spot well remembered in coquection the passengers, the other seven Chiese having apparently been held as hostages.
I like the spirit in which Mr. Ramsay MacDonald declares, after his long illness, that he now insists on going on with his life as before. officer (Mr. C. Harris) was on the with the Sunning piracy last
I shall continue all my vices,”
On duty in the engine November). They said they want bridge. new leaf. I am not going to take room was the third engineer (Mr.ed to go out of the usual course, care of my health any more than E. Grainger). The other officers but it was explained to them that
were in the mess room.
it was dangerous to navigation to Numbering about 20 the pirates do so. divided into groups. One group attended to the steerage and other passengers, another took charge of the bridge, and others the officers. and the engine room,
put
I did before. The work has got to be done, and nobody wants to be the shelf. I am going on, whatever the consequences.”
After all, almost any man would think a few years of his own life better than a cycle of the sort of life his doctors might advise him to lead, and men of determined spirit often triumph surprisingly over their physical weaknesses ap parently by ignoring them.
was advised to live an invalid's
The officers in the mess room were beld up at the point of the re-
The pirates made no demur, and consented to the right course, being
taken to Biss Bay.
OFFICERS THREATENED.
BACK TO HONG KONG. As soon as the boats were hoist- ed, the Fat Shing steamed for Hong Kong, to inform the authori. ties what had happened.
On arrival here last evening, about 3.30, the police boarded the Tot Shing and were engaged prac
The officers were told that if any tically all night in taking, state-
Lord Balfour, as a young man, volver and were confined there for ships that passed were signalled. ments from the European officers, or any communication made to while Chinese detectives thoroughly life, spending all his winters some time. They were shifted from abroad, and is now playing tennis room to room, but the heat and them, the consequences would be questioned the Chinese deck pas at seventy-nine. Lord Roberts was
The second-officer was also told that It is learned that at least ten The foregoing report has ex his early youth, but survived his came unbearable, and they were
advised against an active life in closeness of the confinement bedire for the European officers. hengers. cited the New York Stock Ex-soldier's career and lived to be eventually all transferred into the if any ships passed and signalled
created change, and
as to why the Fat Shing was going strong eighty-two. I hope Mr. MacDonald saloon which, although small, was bullish tendency. Prices fluctuat will equally justify his faith in considerably more airy than cabins on that course he was to reply that ed, reaching within 25 points of his yesterday night's close.
Indian Duty Approved,
SIMLA, August 30th. " The select committee dealing with the Cotton Yarn Bill, by & smalt troops, it expresses the conviction fence Commissioner of Shanghai, majority, approved the specific duty
has Mr. Yu Yah accounts for the fact that notwith the Chairman of the Chinese Cham standing such serious disturbances, ber of Commerce, to notify all Ship- we fortunately have been able to ping Companies, owing to military carry out the protection of our re-operations up the river, tempor arily to suspend Yangtsze sailings sidents satisfactorily, and prevent the occurrence of any untoward order to avoid all possible danger
from gunfire.
event."
.......
yara.
FRANCO-JAPANESE PROTOCOL.
·Standard...
ROYAL
constitution. Evening
and mess room,
they had boiler trouble and were with returning to Hong Kong for re-
pair.
Passengers were
dealt similarly and the deck passengers were confined to one part of the ship.
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During the first four hours after the pirates had obtained control of the steamer eight or nine ships passed, going North, but no signals were made by any of them.
cases of provisions were taken from the cargo, but it is thought that the remainder of the cargo wes not touched. There was no specie on board. A
An a rough estimate, loot from the deck passengers is placed at $10,000. One passenger claims tới have been robbed of $2,000. Ex- actly what was taken from the passengers cannot yet be ascer tained.
It is not known when the Fat- Shing will sail, but it is hardly likely that she will be free to go to-day.
ARDEN PARTIES. The Boyal garden parties always strike me as being much more difi- cult functions for the King and THOSE ON DUTY: Queen that the INSTO formal Courts, and I have never known The second officer and the third anybody attending Buckingham engineer had the worst expericace. The pirates continued to reiterate Palace garden party for the first time who was not greatly impress- They had to remain on duty for 24 their threats to the officers that if "NAVIGATION PRIVILEGES.
ed by the skill and taet and sheer hours without leaving their poate any sigdals were made by the Fat physical endurance shown by their The second officer was forced to Shing all the white officers would (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.Ï"
Majesties during that hour-long It concludes with the warning,
tour from the terrace to the Dur-remain on the bridge, and the third be instantly shot, a threat which PARIE, August 30th-
engineer had to remain in a hot the pirates appeared to be ready to "In the event of peace and order
A Franco-Japanese protocol bas
The Buckingham Palace gardens. being disturbed in the future, not only in the aforementioned district
been signed mutually granting are now in much greater beauty gine-rous, until the pirates had fulfil it occasion demanded. moet favoured-nation treatment in than when the Royal garden left the bridge. With him were but in any part of China, where
-connection with navigation in partias in their prement form were the engine room crew on duty at Nothing further of note happen many Japanese reside, md it is
the time, and on the bridge withred until the ship anchored seven Japan and Indo-China, but not instituted Then there was a feared that the safety of our re-
· Smánóuu, August 31st.
granting Japar any special priv strict war-time economy in flowers, the second-officer was a Chinese railes off Bam Chau Inlet, Hong Engineer), Mr. A. Glass (Second") sidents may be affected, the Gor ernment may be constrained to. It is officially announced that the leges us present enjoyed by her and the lake was lasered and over- quartermaster, while other members Bay take such self-defensive steps as tonnage surtax will be rescinded nationals in certain districte adjoins grown as an air-raid precaution, the circumstances require."
Ing Indo-Chim.
-Evening Standard.
Will Ratum ii Hecessary,
General Pei Tsung Hai-disclaims all responsibility for damage or loss sustained by any Company dis regarding his warning.
THE TONNAGE SURTAX.
{THROUGH-REUTER'S AGENCE.]-
from to-morrUW,
bar text.
of the crew not needed were kept
under strict surveillance.
Continued on next foluam.)
THE OFFICERS.
The Yet Shing carries xix Eure- pean officers and a crew, including compradore-stewards, engine-room staff, deck-hande, etc., of 60.
The officers are: Captain G. H.. Hodgson (Master), Mr. J. R. Middenways. (Chief Officer) M Charles Harris (Second Ollicer) Mr. C. E. Livingstone (Chiet Engineer) and Mr Grainger Engineer)