THE HUNAN WAR.
LATEST REPORTS FROM FRONT.
A communique Issued, by the General Staff of the Commander- in-Chief in Canton announces the receipt of the following tologram
COAL SITUATION.
8,000 MEN NOW AT WORK.
Rugby, July 25. To-morrow's debates on the coal situation in both Houses of Parliament will probably indicate whether any fresh efforts to settle
prospect.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 26, 1926.
DEATH OF REV. J. A. B.
COOK.
DOYEN OF MISSIONARIEŠ IN MALAYA,
News has reached Singapore' of the death of the Rey, J.A.B. Cook, formerly of the Presbyterian Mis~ :
Italy on July 13.
from General Tang Sang-che-the dispute by negotiation are inalon at Singapore, at Malcedine, "Occupied with opposition Yochow "on the 18th instant. The vanguard, Нав advanced to Yang-Lau Se, a dia- trict on the border of Hunan Hupeh boundary." The nearest district in Hupch to Yang-Lau Se is Char Yu. By the capture of this district, the way is opened for the advance on Wuchang.
Although no favourable develop ment is apparent, restrained optimien that the end of the con- fict will be brought in sight within the next few days continues to prevail. In some measure, this ber of miners who have returned is based on the fact that the nua
to work in Warwickshire is steadily Increasing, but in other parts of Another communique announces country, and particularly in the the receipt of the following tele-North of England, there has been gran from General Li Chung-yan to break away from the instruc- no movement on the part of the man at the FrontMy command, the tions of the Miners' Federation, 8th Brigade, captited Yip Yung... A. J. Cook, Secretary of the The 10th and 11th Divisions of the 4th Army Corps have advanced to Hal Yang and vicinities, General Tang Sang-chemate his entry into Changsha on the 14th instant. The enemy retreated in the direction of
Federation, addressed meetings in Warwickshire yesterday and ex- action without consulting the pressed regret that they had taken Federation. The object of his
The late Mr. Cook, who was born at South Shields in 1854, was a very well-known figure in Singa- pore up to the time of his retire- ment last year, and was the doyen
spent 42 yours in this country. of Malayan missionaries, having
He spoke one of the Chinese dialects fluently, and took an ac- tive part in missionary work among the Chinese in the Colony the Prinsep Street. Church being and Johore, the congregation at his particular charge for many
years.
"
He opened churches and schools in Singapore and Johore, helped to Church at Penang and was the resuscitate the Presbyterian founder of the church at Kuala" ders of the Y.MLC.A. movement in Malaya, and was a keen social
Chang Teh und Thing, ils centre/visit was to check the movement for Lumpur. He was one of the foun-
worker.
to the local press, and was the He was a frequent contributor
Sunny Singapore, Apa Suka Tuan, anthor of several books, including Sir Thomas Stamford Rales, etc!
having fallen back to the north of
the resumption of work on the new Yochow, and its right retired from
terms offered by the Warwickshire Ping Kong in the direction of the said to have returned in the owners. Sixteen hundred miners Kiangsi frontier Have left Hengst iwo days and altogether, 8,000 chow for Changsha,"
will be working to-morrow. Owing to repairs of the damages Sir A. Steel Maitland, Minister done by the recent storm' to the of Labour, in a speech at Birming Canton-Hanko Hilway, the dbam yesterday, said that what parture of the Staff of the might be anticipated was that by Headquarters of the Commander degrees the growth of public Oriental Telephone and Electric Mrs. Pierrepont, wife of Mr. JD. Pierrepont, manager of the In-Chief has been postponed. This opinion would lead the miners is also likely to deny the departure themselves to realise the unscund Company at Singapore, is a daugh of General Chang Kai-shek.
advice that was given them by Jeane Chok, whom the docens- ter of the Into Mr. Cook, Mrs. air leaders, and chat, in the ended married in 1882, died in they realty bad to do what the 1923, and Mr. Cook married at Cod Commission's Report and the one last year a lady by whom he fevernment asked them to do in the beginning.
is survived.
TIN PLATES STOLEŃ?
A STANDARD OIL CASE,
Mr. Frank. Hodges, formerly Secretary of the Miners. Federa- Charges of larceny of 16 cases Lernational Miners' Organisation; tin and now Secretary of the In- of tin plates, which comprised part said in an interview, that the of a consignment imported by the miners ought inmediately and un- Standard Oil Company, were reservedly to have accepted brought against eight members of the conclusions of the Cont Commis the crew of one of the company'ssion's Report. He did not know if lighters, before Mr. J. H. B. Nihil these conditions were still open to at the Kowloon Magistracy this them but if they could still get back morning..
to the Report it would be both the
Inspector Ögg, asked, for a res mand byt opposed, bait, the Com pany regarding the case as a seri- ons one. He said should one pan' be allowed bail and abscond, the case for the crown might be em- barrassed.
most honourable and prost effective way out of their "difficulties, | British Wireless
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By Dr. Leonard Williams. Bombay, June 30..
Rugby, July 25. The High Court was crowded
During a long, unlovely spring scheme which has been initiated mode! town-planning when separate but concurring we ara apt to forget that summer in East Kent in connection with judgments were pronounced by has its drawbacks no less Mr. Justices Fawcett and Mad-winter. And these drawbacks fields, was the subject of a con- than the development of new 'spai- Káčkar, on the application on affect the blonde more heavily than behalf of L. Evans, the accused the brunette. Insects, for exam-seventeen local authorities in- ference yesterday 'at which in the Hongkong and Shanghai ple, though they have less than Banking Corporation "embezzle- no claim to be considered gentle- terested in preserving the The case arose out of the alleged
ment case, now in police custody, men, proverbially prefer blondes. amenities of life were represented. pilfering of a cargo of 14,000 chaps
Their Lordships unanimously be a serious reproach to pharmaa new industry without destroy- of tin plates which were brought
held that an accused person in into the Colony by the s.s. Spey
Moscow, July 25. police custody was entitled to the cists and others engaged in the ing the natural beauty of the bank for the Standard Oil Com
A plenary sitting of the Central Privilege of consulting a legal drug industry, that up to the vicinity of the new hits and, al- pany.
Committee of the Russian Com-adviser even when the police en-present nothing has been placed ready, a considerable sum of On arrival in Hongkong, the mist Party has expelled. M.quiry was in progress.
upon the market which will ter-money has been guaranteed by the Consignent was transferred, to
"Zinovir from the Political Bureau The Government Pleader, who intolerable attentions of midges work of building new towns has tainly protect fair skins from the State for the enterprise and the three of the Company's lighters. of the Party, owing to increased vehemently opposed the applicand gnats, mosquitoes, et id genus hoen begun, Elght of these are in Hefore the enews had an upper opposition to Zimovie's faction, tion yesterday, informed their one. I am aware that a tunity of discharging the
which the Central Committee ne- Lordships today that the policé
great contemplation if the pits prove as concoctions are. the cyphoon Signals were hoisted uses of secessionist agitation. were willing to give Evans fheili- many
loudly successful ab is hoped,. In such ties for an interview with his
vaunted as officacious in this case, it is anticipated that the Counsel, provided the interview for the most part of essential oils, in East Kent will mean the im
respect. They seem to consist discovery of coal and iron stone took place in the presence of the whose vapours are believed to be migration of 278,000 new. res:- RELIGION IN MEXICO. polies, though the police would not disagreeable to insects, but my dents, or the doubling of the
Mr. Justice Fawcett observed own experience, and that of my present population. that the police had no right to only do these ofla fail most lament-ter of Health, who attended yester friends, goes to show that not Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Mini- debar a prisoner under trial fromably to keep off the insects, but day's reasonable access to 7 legal adviser. In days gone by the they actually attract them. police were accustomed to put obstacles in the way of an secused person, but the principle could not be maintained to-day, declared the Judge.
Carpent
and the lighters were forced to take sheller at Tsun Wan.
The evidence against the defen- dants, conticded Inspector. Ogi. was very strong. They had been seen by a boattian, who was anchoring in the vicinity, to place the stolen cases on board another. bont.
The defendants were all remand- ed until Wednesday.
FOREIGNERS IN KWANGTUNG.
IMPORTANT ISSUE RAISED.
A Canton correspondent "states that two Norwegian subjects a fow days ago, filed with their Consul, a complaint against Chinese
steamship company. The consul,
so the correspondent has been in-
to the Chinese Foreign Office, with
lienter.
PROTEST MEASURES BY
J CATHOLICS."
Mexico City July 25.. A Pastoral Letter has been signed by all the Archbishops proposing that as a protest against the religious regulations to be enforced ou August 1st. all Catholic services be suspended and priests withdrawn from the churches on July 31-Reuter's American Service.
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A War-Time Invasion
conference, commended those responsible for the foresight that was being displayed and he regretted that in earlier days
on
a.
with the result that a gnat-bite is now liable to be a much more. formidable affair than it ever was before the war.
It is high time something was development was allowed to pro- one about it. I have heard it ceed without plan or thought with said that since the war the bites the result that immense suma of these insects are much more were today being spent virulent in their effects than they repairing the terrible errors of the used formerly. to be. It is known past. At no time was there that the parasite which gives rise greater need for town planning in to malaria ishabits the person of England than now, where housing "LILIES OF THE FIELD."
a particular brand of mosquito, development on recently construct- that the parasite arrives, there ed ronds was proceeding at a rate because the mosquito has bitten a never There is at present being shown
before. known. British being at the Queen's Theatre a most at human
afflicted with Wireless. tractive picture entitled "Lilies of malaria, and in so doing has the Field." This should have been sucked the parasite into his body. formed, transmitted the complaint LARGE SEIZURE ON TAISHAN.day, but had to be postponed on confer its malarial, benefits upon serbened last Tuesday and Wednes-The said mosquito is then able to account of the conditions prevail-human beings for the rest of Its
natural lifes
Now the suggestion is that the war brought a very large number
There may or may not be some generally and into the British truth in these suggestions, but the Ishes in particular, with the result fact remains that at their very. that the erstwhile harmless brand best gnat-bites are exceedingly of British mosquito or gnat is now unpleasant things, and at their in a position to introduce the worst quite dangerous tliinge. malaria poison into a person Here, it seers to me, in the trouble of going to the Tropics ropist. A without putting that person to opportunity for a real, philanth- substantial prize to acquire the disease.
offered to the discoverer of a cortain means for warding off the attentions of gnats would almost And the suggestion goes fur- certainly be followed by the 'dis- ther, to the effect, namely, that covery of such means, and the dis- during the war the British brand covery would confer immenso of mosquito was fed on delectables benefits not only upon the present other than the, malaria parasite, generation, but upon all those who some of which were particularly in future might otherwise have
is entitled to extra-territorial privi-12,000 cigarettes on the s.s. Tal. Constance Talmadge, Corinne Grifof malarious persons into Europe
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trate's Court where it is customary bamboo, brushes, the pollee this can be thoroughly recommended, to bring suits where the plaintiff morning made a seizure of some and amongst the all-star cast are
fiths and Charles Murray.
To-morrow and, Wednesday, "Wild Justice" will be screened. This is notable for the work of Peter the Great, a famous wonder
Hollywood" will be shown, from "With Potash and Perlmutter in
Thursday to Saturday, and this should draw big houses. The lead- ing roles will be taken by Alexander Carr and George Sidney.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs,
The cigarettes were good qual- it is anid, has directed that the ity, of B. A. T. manufacture, and
one of the dog.
case be tried in the ordinary Chin-the discovery was ese Court, the so-called Sham Poon. Teng. An interesting situation biggest for some time. No arrests bas thus arisen, «e
have been made. Recently a letter is said to have The price of cigarettes in Macao been sent to the Provincial au- makes smuggling an attractive and thorities by the Minister of. For-profitable venture, and it is. said
eign Affairs notifying them that that the traffic le vory extensive.
they would be expected in the
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while living in the province, and A. R. Conant were amongst the wire) been sentenced to three
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