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Hangchow, Aug. -It is report.
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Shanghai, Sept. 2-Two car loads ment and a financial syndicate at of police from the Central Police vince of Hunan, next month. It is Shanghai for the completion of the Station were called out last night
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the new system of administration bees drafted and will be brought occurred between Japanese sailora up before the Provincial Clovarn-and a Chinese greasor employed, it is understood, by the Tramway Co., are practically completed.
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Nanking Road. funda for the completion of that Line, the Provincial Authorities, after protracted negotiations, have agreed to transfer control of the Hangchow, Yashih, Yuhang, and Szoan electric works to the finan- cial syndicate as security. It is Nanking, Aug. ---A small but understood that Mr. Li Ming. momentous army reform is report- General Manager of the Chekiang ed. It is learnt that the Commis Industrial Bank at Shanghai, will, sariat Administration of the Minis-on behalf of the syndicate, proceed try of War will, as from September here shortly to complete the final next, assume charge of the payment arrangementsKuo Min.
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Peiping, Aug. 29.--Repairs to the damaged section of the Chengting Taiyuan Railway near Shouyang, eastern Shansi, are almost com- pleted and traffic is expected to be resumed by September 1, accord- ing to reports from railway circles. The railway suffered extensive dam age about a fortnight ago when sections of the tracks were washed away by foods.
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Shortly after a p.m. two truck loads of Japanese sailors were pro- ceeding along the Bund and start- ed to turn up Nanking Road when the signal light was turned against the traffic. As they continued to pass the signal the Sikh polico. man, from the top of the point- platform, shouted to them to stop. The truck pulled up, and in doing so nearly struck the Chinese, who retaliated with a stream of abus sufficient to provoke four of the sailors to leap from the lorry and, after a struggle, hustle him into it, inflicting at the same time several superficial injuries to his
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Peiping, Sept. 2-The story of a dramatic escape is related in the! The truck then commenced to
Last month move forward when many of the Chinese Press here. Chinese spectators of the incident General Chen Yao Teh was tried raised on outery which attracted by the local court at Lanchow, near the notice of the Sikh policeman, who descended from his post and Tangshan, for the murder of Gen- jumped upon the running board of eral Lin Yang Chun in Honan in the truck as it moved off. A heated September of last year, and being argument followed' and a crowd of about 700 Chinese collected.
the
found guilty was sentenced to death. The accused man, however, appealed to the Higher Court, and it was decided to transfer him to Tientsin.
nearby Sikh policeman on point duty, in response to the whistle of to the acene Central his colleague, came and telephoned Police Station, and two car loads
Accordingly, under the escort of of police were immediately des
two armed guards, he was put on patched to cope with the situation.
An eye-witness of the whole ce- currenco stated that the police dis- the train for Tientsin. When `the played the utmost tact in handling train was passing through Chun- the situation which, for a time, liangchun, the captive succeeded in
ed condition, was extricated from their attention was distracted, he appeared to ba menacing.
The coolic, in n somewhat batter- hoodwinking his guards and while the truck and taken to Central jumped out of the window safely, loads of Japanese sailors followed evidently with only very minor in- Cholern is also reported to be him, escorted by the police.
juries. Shortly after their arrival there
One of the armed guards at once prevailent an Lintung, east of
an inqníry was made into the parti Sian, provincial capital of Shensi, where many villages have been prac-culars of the matter. Consular and dashed to, the end of the coach and tically deserted by their inhabit-civil authorities attended the police leapt off the steps in pursuit, but office where the four Japanese falling heavily, he was instantly sots.-Kuo Min.
sailors who precipitated the quar
that the floods in the city are A message from Taiyuan reports gradually subsiding, Cholera, how. ever, is still exacting a heavy toll among the people,
Police Station, where the truck-
SERIOUS FIRE IN SHANGHAI.
CUTBREAK. IN DOLLAR
GODOWN.
Shanghai, Sept. 4. The fre which broke out yesterday morn ing in about 23 per cent of the cotton stored in a Dollar Godown,
assumed Pociung.
considerable proportions until the attendance of the Fira Flont and the Customs fire boat. When the call was received at 7.09 am, Brigado men manned the two floats and Jound themselves on arrival, faced with a hasty job. Three hours in- tensive action were required until the flames were under comparative control and damping down parties remained all last night. It is ex- !
pocted that their servicce will not bo required. after to-night,
The two boats had the men at
Firemen dropped two 31-in. lines the scene within a few minutes. in the river and breached them in
Before much water could be play- the neighbourhood of the godown.
ecombustibles, fremmen ed on the
attacked the cargo from both ends of the godown. Having fitted gas amaks, the fremen worked their way for a distance of perhaps st
ft, removing, bales which hindered them. The base of the fire appear.
ed to be in the centro of one-third
rel were detained after the remain killed. The other guard also want WATER FALLING IN/der of their companions had beened to jump off, but he was prevent of the godown, devoted to cotton. released. The outcome of the ined by the train officials, who seizei quiry is not as yet known, but it is
he was understood that no charges have him by the arm just as
about to leag. Afraid to face the been laid.
consequences, this guard is said to have fied at the first opportunity,
HARBIN.
RAINSTORM THREATENS MORE FLOODING.
JAPANESE AND THE RAILWAY,
Although there has been no offi: cial statement made, it is learned that this is the third of similar incidents to cceur during the last three days.
Fire Under Control.
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Following close on the heels of the clearance gang. Chinese fire- men dragged their lines to the seat When a search was made, no trace of the fugitive could be found. of action: It is to be noted that The judicial authorities have now the smoke, being so dense, neces- issued a proclamation giving warm-sitated the use of musks by all 'cn- ing of the escape and requesting on discovering that one of his staff the local officials to effect the arrest toring the building. had suddenly taken ill with cholera, of the fugitive. Prior to his arrest Naneliang, Aug. 20--In view of
Grat hurriedly distributed all his last month the general is stated in the vigilance of the Government
Harbin, Aug. 18-During the last goods to other stares in the town,
It was not until about 10 am. forces in northern Kiangai, the three days the water in the streets after which he, informed the police the Chinese Press to have managed
that the Third Officer, who attend- Reds" at I-huang, Loan and of Harbin has been falling steadily that his servant was ill. How much to olude captura for a long time. Nanfeng, sentral Kiangai, have re- but at the same time very slowly, infection is carried by these goods
ed personally, considered the blaze tired to their old lairs in southers not more than about an inch per to other shops in the town will Kiangai.
day, but unfortunately heavy rains never be known. Many similar in bin they agreed to pay for all the under control, although the volume According to a message from General Li Yun Chich, Commander have again commenced, and it is cidents occur every day, but it is trains used by them for military of smoke, which poured from the
ม quite possible that another wall of ruite impossible for the members of purposes and according to figures of the 23rd Division, the "Reds water will descend from the upper the Relief Committees and the Com which have been worked out by, the godown until well after noon, consisting of the so-called 1st, 4th reaches of the river Sungari. It has mission to watch what every per Accountangy department of the would have disconcerted the aver- and 5th Army Corps at Nanchang been proposed to build a dam of son is doing, and thus the disease CER, the amount due by Japan eastern Klangsi, were repulsett last three miles in length along the river spreads in all directions every day, to this railway, already exceede six age onlooker. week by his units after several front so as to keep back any fur the only good point being that a million gold roubles. The despatch days of bitter fighting. The bather goods such as the one that very strong wind has been blowing of Japanese troops along the eastern dits flod in confusion to Sinfogrbin has now experienced, but between the downpours of rain, line, to exterminate the bandita, en situated about 100 yards from the south-west of Nanchang, Govern.
this will take such a long time that clearing the heavy atmosphere.tirely closed all traffic on that see Whangpoo. According to dock offi ment troops are now co-operating it would not be ready if another The railway track hoth south and tion, thus involving the railway icals, there were about 3,000 bales for an enveloping movement.
It is learnt that the 28th Divi- flood was to strike the town at pre-west are in such a had condition company in a loss of many millions of American cotton in this section
that it is quite imposible to bring goldcrubles; besides the non-re sinn under (ienerals Wang Mou Te Barracks for the refugees are be in any supplies to the town for theipt off the above large sum, from of the two-storied building, which has destroyed the bandit rendering rapidly constructell in the sub-moment and it is hardly likely that the Japanese military, authorities, being of concrete, provented the vous at Liangkon and Wangfu. Traffic on the Kan River is now urbs of the town, the whole of the the southern line will begin to work much facilitated. The 2nd Kwang students of the Polytechnic Insti- properly before the end of the tung Divisio under General Yeh tute giving their services freely to hasten the erection of these tempor Chao is garrisoning Kanchow
The outlaws at Anyuan; in theory houses, but there are still some
ments of the arrests due to them, wol, wharf coolics and fremen. extreme south of Kiengsi, are being 15,000 people who are without shel-
ter of any kind whatever.
The Japanese local paper "Nichinot taking into consideration the began dragging out the smoulder. besieged by the let, 2nd and 3rd
As the water recedes from the Nichi as well as the Japanese mormonalouson that the railway, has ing bales and those which had Kwangtung armies under tieneral streets, a muddy lush remains, controlled Chinese paper have both been subjected to owing to the cabeun Yu Han Mou, Hsiang Han Ping which has a most terrible stench and published articles in which they paign against the Chinese insur/been damaged by water. and Li Yang King-Kuo Min.
TIBET TROOPS AGAIN ACTIVE
FURTHER HOSTILITIES
IMMINENT
sent
monta
Japan and the G.E.E.
...
Hallway short of Money,,.
The godown in question is
James spreading to the upper
floor and/or beyond the fire
The discharged railway servants wall. With the flames under con are continually clamouring for pay
Treatment accorded to the char is liable to spread typhoid fever draw special attention to the work gents and also owing to the exor amongst those who are residing in done by Japanese soldiers and sap-mous floods which have completely red packets was similar to the the business section of the town, pers in repairing the railway stalked the whole of the fallway known as the Pristan.
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tracks and bridges, hinting that fi rystein, yet if the above amount Stipracedure adopted in other fires of Owing to a great scarcity of die return for all this work the southern six ftlion gold roubles was to be similar nature. Taken to an un- infectants the spread of disease, and line of the Chinese Eastern Railway paid in, there is no doubt that some ocupied part of the compound, especially cholera, is rapid, and might be given to the Japanese, et park of it would he used to satisfy thn, bales were forood open and furthermore the Chinese population in other words to the South Man- the demands of those who are the contents exposed to the atmos phere. Bits of fire were stamped do not take necessary measures to churia Railway. As a matter of clamouring for money.
Repairing the Chinese Eastern gut, water being applied to the prevent its spread: As instances of fact no work of any kind bas been what they do, the following two done by Japanese soldiers or sap Railway tracks will coff a sum of more seriously affected,
It may be said that the Brigade small facts may be quoted: One of pers on the railway lines excepting money which the railway cannot at the boats with a staff of men speci: on the eastern line where he Japan present afford as the amount of cash could consider themselves fortunate Nunking, Aug. 20. Resumption designated to carry cholera ess temporarily repaired broken in band is hardly sufficient to pay in that they did not have to dom- Owing to the fact that of hostilities on the Tibet Kokonor, patients to the hospital was seen on pieces of the track for the purpose salaries and running expenses till municate with headquarters very front is imminent, according to the main street with a considerabl of passing over, their troop trains the end of October, Matters are com- often. reports from Sining, provincial quantity of vegetables, meat and and certainly not for ordinary trafing to a crisis and will reach a telephone connections had been capital of Kokonor (Chinghai). other food stuffs lying in the place fic of the C.E.R. It seems rather point at which the present owners broken, messages had to be sent According to report, the cargo Military activities have-been-evi- where cholera patients, are laid an absurd proposition to suggest must provido mora capital, or else from adjacent premises dent among the Tibetan troops, Naturally any parbon eating these that the line from Harbin to borrow capital from some foreign who are said to have recently ro vegetables was bound to catch the Changchun should be handed over country to avoid bankruptcy Te had been innded from the st ceived fresh supplies of arme, in disease also
for services which actually have not be a member of the Board of the Silver Walnut, which vessel was C.E.R., in the present condition of still moored alongside when the cluding many large field-pieces.
been rendered her first the affairs is far from an enviable posi-| Brigade arrived. Estimates have
On the other hand, when, Adequate preparationa however, are being taken by the Chinese
Japan Army campo up to Harian, and one, which requires the it that about, eoo bales were dan
aged by fire and water, (obniraled on next Jolusi.) authorities.
Another which is quoted by most of the papers today is that of a Chinese store, the owner of which (Uontinued on near Voluma Y
greatest fact and patience.