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No. 1,
WATBLADE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1926. 日十初月八
THE CHINA WAR. LEAGUE OF NATIONS BIG OPIUM CASE. THRILLS FOR CANTON
ANOTHER PLEA FOR INTERVENTION.
CRUISERS ON THE WAY.
A telegraphic roport received in the Colony states. That negotiations for the surrender of Wachung
SENSATION,
IRISH CLAIM TO COUNCIL SEAT.
DEFENCE OBJECTS TO PROCEDURE.
CHINA STILL CLAMOURS.
Geneva, Sept, 15. The latest candidate for a seat
on the Council is the Irish Free State who lodged its candidature following a vigorous, speech by
· “FISHING FOR EVIDENCE."
f
A "strong protest" by Mr. M. K.
YOUTHS.
MANY EAGER TO JOIN THE ARMY.
BATTLE TALES IMPRESS.
¿ The accounts of the capture of Lo, appearing for the defence, Central China cities by the against what he described as "a Southern troops are being avidly departure from the ordinary pro read by Canton youths, who are
UNDER FIRE..
BUTTERFIELD BOAT'S EXPERIENCE.
NAVAL INTERVENTION.
Although Hankow was reported quiet immediately after the cap. ture of the city, foreign vessels in the harbour nevertheless under
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BRITISH MINISTER TO PEKING.
MR. LAMPSON'S APPOINT
MENT CONFIRMED.".
SIR R MACLEAY'S STRAIN.
Sir George Foster (Canada) decry.cedure" on the part of the pro-/said to be thrilled with the went an exciting time while the to Sir Ronald Macleay.
broke off on the 13th inst., and the bombardment of the city com- menced in the early hours of the
Jing the allocation of seats on a following morning. It also states
geographical basis. that Wu Peffu has completed his Mr. Desmond FitzGerald (Free
three defence lines-near Hsing Stute) who denied the right of any Kan Shun Yang and the Wu Shing group to a sunt, later on a hot
to the British delegation usking Pass, and has informed Sun for support to a claim for a seat. Chuan-fang that a general at- Mr. FitzGerald, intorviewed by tack on Hankow and Hanyang taken because he obfected to the Reuter, stated that the action was will be made from three directions, allotment of seats to certain: the centre army to be under Tien groups. He desired to establish Wai-chin, the left wing under the right of any individual nation
to a claim to a seat.--Reuter.
Kan Wan-ngo and the right wing under Hà Chai, Hũ Pei-fu CHINA'S FIRM REQUEST. has requested Sun Chuan-fang.to
Geneva, Sept. 15, *Mr. Chu reiterated China's claim co-operate in this movement..
On the other hand, reports of to a seat on the Council failing the Southern armies state that the which he said the Chinese would disposition of the Nationalist misunderstand the attitude of the
has
is
units is as follows:-The 7th, and 8th. Army Corps after capturing Hsiao Kan to take possession of the Hankow-Peking Railway 'and to get in touch with the forces under Fan Chung-aow, who captured Cheng Chow and stationed in a position to intercept the Northern Amies in the event of a retreat from the Wu · Shing Pass; the 4th. Army Corps to occupy positions at Wong Kong, Chi Sui, Kwing Chai and Wong Moy on the Hupch-Anhui frontier to prevent asistance from the latter province coming to Kiangsi; the 9th and 10th Army Corps to be stationed at King Chow and Shasi. Fan Chung Sow's forces are assigned to the defence of the. northern frontier of Hupeh. The Division under Hsia Tow-yan" is Jetailed to restore water munication on the upper reach of the Yangtze River. It is further reported that owing to the rapid advance of the, Southern forcës on Nanchang, Tang Yu-terk is reti ing and concentrating his forces in the vicinity of that eity. FRENCH PAPER URGES INTERVENTION.
Paris, Sept. 15.
com-
"A NECESSARY EVIL:"
American Minister on Extra-Territoriality.
Shanghai, Sept. 16.
Mr. Mac Murray, the U. S. Minister to China, speaking at a dinner at the American Club Inst night, stated:-"My instructions are to take the viewpoint that extra-terr- itoriality is a necessary evik" He added:-"We all look for- ward to the time when We can do without it and the Chinese have formed their own sovereignty, when we will gladly surrender our rights. But we cannot now, since the cause of justice is at stake, and, America must see that hor nationals are duly pro- tected."-Reuter.
entered at the opening of the million-rupee opium case before Mr. R. E. Lindsell this morning.
The defendant, Chan Chor-chiu, merchant, appeared on An amended charge that, "being a responsible employes of the firma
a
stories of the batṭles circulated by
'GUNBOATS TAKE COVER.
THE DRAGON MOTORE CAR COLALTO
13 WONG KFCHUN
HAPPY VALLEY.
GEN. YANG SEN.
WAS PREVIOUSLY PRO-FOREIGN.
USE OF BRITISH SHIPS. Rugby, Sept. 15. The appointment la anaounted of
In connection with the outrage Mr. Miles Lampson, head of the at Wanhsien, in which the British Central European Department of suffered a number of naval casual- the Foreign Office, to be British ties, the. Shanghai Times learns Minister at Peking, in succession
that foreignère in that region had accution, in calling subpoenaed the- Kuomintang propaganda fighting was in progress, and Bri- For the past four years, Mr. for some time before the affair ex- evidence in preparing a case based writers.
tish naval intervention had to be Lampson has been a Consellor in the Far East. In addition to spo-
pected trouble. on a rambling charge," was
Indeed, many parents are said to exercised on a number of occacial missions to "Japan, he was have difficulty in preventing their sions to prevent British ships for two years Secretary at the has arrived in Shanghai, told the A resident from Chungking, who or other of the several recruiting from being damaged. The most appointed to Peking as acting First feeling, which brought about the young sons from enlisting at one.
Tokyo Embassy. In 1916- he was paper named that the anti-foreign stations which have been estab-conspicuous case of this kind was Secretary, and during the winter outbreak last year when foreigners lished in the city. Many students that of the China Navigation str. of 1919-20 he was High Commis-wore forced to take refuge in one of the Kwangtung University are offering themselves for active Woosung, which was used by "Al- sioner in Siberia, afterwards re- of the principal godowns in the service.
lied" gunboats as a shield from Charge d'Affaires.
turning to Peking for a time as city of Chungking, has never wholly subsided. He stated that The account of how Colonel behind which to bombard the Can- Heng S.S. Co., Lun Kee, and Hop man in American and inter "boy" tonese troops at Nanyang..
Sir Ronald Macleay is returning Kiatingfu, a large town to the west Tai Seng; Kwong Hing Loong, Yu Wong Wai-lung, once a laundry-
to England towards the end of the of Chungking and situated inland Son Company, all of No. 108, Des to the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen, has
Fear. He became British Minister on a tributary of the Yangtze, has Voeux Road Central, first floor-so risen in favour that he has been
in Peking in 1922, at a time when long been a hotbed of anti-Bribah without a licence granted by the made Alde-de-Camp to the Chair-
the Chinese political outlook had feeling and propaganda, directed The Woosung was lying at become extremely complex and by a strong Red section. There Governor of Hongkong, did take man of the Kuomintang, is said anchor. 011 part in the procuring of raw to have influenced many lads to (Sept. 6th) when an "Allied" gun- his mission he has had to cope with at Kiating for a long time.
Monday afternoon obscure. Throughout the period of has been a boycott of British goods opium from Persia, and in the join the Army in the hope of boat took up a position slightly an increasingly difficult situation, shipment therefrom to China, per rapid promotion.
ahead of her.
She then loosed off the strain on his health compelling the 8.3 Philadephia, otherwise Meanwhile, the suppression of a salvo at Henyang and promptly a prolonged rest in England during known as the s.8. Nam Kei, or "anti-Red" literature and the backed to cover behind the Woo-. Tsun On, in two consignments literature and the intensive hand-sung. Hanyang replied, several well between 1926 and the end of ling of propaganda by the Kuo- placed shells falling on the exact August, 1926, in contravention of Ordinance 30, of 1923, as amend mintang, together with the send spot from where the gunboat had ed by Ordinance 7 of 1924, out of street orators, is help-fired. The gunboat repeated this ing the movement to, interest the manœuvre several times, and then Section 4," etc..
youth of Canton in the Northern steamed away, to be replaced by a campaign.
This second "Allied" gunboat. latter craft. steamed in to within
·less than 12 feet of the Woosung.. and from this position continued the bombardment of Hanyang on the same lines as its predecessor, excepting that it was far closer to the B. & S. boat than was the first. Requcated to go away, the. commander of the gunboat took no notice and carried on firing.
"UNPRECEDENTED."
..
PEAK TRAM.
THIS MORNING'S DELAY"
EXPLAINED.
At the outset, Mr. M. K. Lo said that he understood from his bro-i ther, who appeared at a previous remand, that this morning was fix- ed with the object of hearing evi- dence from witnesses appearing | · on subpoena from a cable company and from banks in regard to cer- tain telegraphic transfers-u pro-
When carrying out the early cedure which Mr. Lo viewed as be-morning test on the Peak Tram- ing unprecedented and objection-way this morning,, it was dis able, as it meant that the prosecu-covered that a small kink had tion, failing to secure a case on occurred in the rope just in front the documents seized, were seeking of the car which was at the bot to obtain the required particulars.com station. This necessitated from the evidence, of subpoenaed the cutting of the rope and re- witnesses. That was by way of fixing it to the car, with the result giving carte blanche to the prosecu- that the early morning service was tion, and was putting the cart be-dislocated. fore the horse. That procedure The first car was run just after had not come within Mr. Lo's pre- eight o'clock-a delay of over an vious experience of civil or crimi-hour. Peak residents had, how that nal cases, and in this instance it ever, been notified and little in-
was placing the defence in a dis-convenience was caused. Was
advantageous position, as they could not cross-examine on the sub-
League to China." Mr. Chu urged the necessity of modifying the tariffs in China and added the Chineño delegation
structed to register with the The newspaper, Auer urges Secretariat of the League the new energetic intervention by the Austro-Chinese Treaty which Powers in Chine with the object comes into force to-day Reuter,
of stopping Russia's work there. It says that Britain is not the only country at which the hostilities
in China are aimed.-Router.
11. M, S. CARYSFORT LEAVES.
London, Sept. 15.
H. M. S. Carysfort left for China this afternoon.-Reuter.
THE "CASTOR" DEPARTS.
London, Sept. 16.
REPORT ADOPTED,
Geneva, Sept. 15. The Assembly unanimously adopted the Committee's report embodying the rules of election of non-permanents,
the Referring to Persia and China for two nou-
claims
of
•
BRITISH NAVAL ORDER. ;...
Meanwhile the attention of Bri-
STEAMER FOR CANTON.
Another Jardine Boat to Sall,
Another vessel of the Indo- China Steam Navigation Com- pany is to proceed from Hongkong to Canton on Sunday for the carrying of cargo and passengers,
8,4.
The vessel Is the Cheongshing and she is due to leave here at daylight on Sun- day, returning from Canton on Tuesday. It' is notified that cargo can be landed in the Company's godowns at Canton and storage arranged at reasonable rates, inclusive of reasonable protection.
Special arrangements have also been made for
the delivery of cargo godown.
RECENT THREAT..
Recently a threat was made by bodies at Sulfu and Luchow, towns west of Chungking on the Yangtze, that British ships would not be allowed to land or load: cargo at those ports, and observers have detected a growing anti- British feeling in other places in the province. The inability of the majority of the natives to dis- tinguish between British and other inations makes anti-British agita-
tion dangerous to all foreigners
Since the return of Yang Sen to Szechwan, there have been con- tant movements of troops on the. Yangtze to Wanhsjen, where Yang. Sen la concentrating in prepara- tion to meet an attack from..... hls rivala in the province. For the purposes of this concentration British ships have been used, con trary to all dictates of treaties. and international law. The ships have been stopped at points at which it was desired to embark troops, soldiers have been bundled on board, and the ships have been ordered to stop at the point of of the wishes of the commander of disembarkation, quite irrespective
the vessel.
tish naval vessels in port had been attracted, and a tugbont flying the White Ensign and carrying sailors and marines ateamed to the spot at, full specd. She ordered the gun- boat to move further out, and thus lessen the danger of the Woosung being hit. This order being ignor ed also, the tug promptly drew 1924. When he returned in the fol- alongside the gunboat-a compara- tively small ship with the ob- lowing year, he undertook extra vious intention of pushing her out work as head of the British dele-
TROOPE ABOARD. by, main force. The Chinese com- Although troublous conditions in gation to the Tarif Conference,
The Shanghai Times' informant mander, deeming discretion the China were unfavourable to an travelled
early and satisfactory conclusion Lehang on s.s. Wanhsien, one of from Chungking to and moved away, though still. using the Woosung as a screen, “
poenaed evidence until at the pro- CANADIAN ELECTION. better part of valour, took the hint per stage of the hearing.
DELIBERATE SHELLING,
Mr. Lloyd, Superintendent of the
of the Conference, Sir Ronald Mac-the ships now. detained at Wan- Imports and Exports Department,
FINAL STATE OF THE
Icay contributed much towards re-hsien. On reaching Fu-chow be who conducted the prosecution
PARTIES.
conciling many divergencies of tween Chungking and Wanlisien view, and he and his delegation, by the vessel was stopped and 600 replied that it was helpful to their
Meanwhile,the skipper of the establishing cordial relations with soldiers placed on board and taken. case to have this subpoenaed
Ottawa, Sept. 15. latter vessel deemed it wiser to the Chinese authorities, successful to Wunhalen, where they disem evidence, and he recalled a case The state of the parties is now: move out of the position altogether ly dispelled the unpleasant atmos barked. This was done without of embezzlement two years ago, Liberals, 118; Conservatives, and take up quarters of a heal-phere created by the Shanghai and so much as a "by your leave." The when the procedure was adopted 90; Liberal Progressives, 11; Althier nature. Owing to the way other incidents in 1924. for the purpose of preparing berta Farmers, 11; Progressives in which the tides were running it
troops were fairly well behaved, evidence which involved investiga-7, Labour, 4: Independents, 1; and was necessary to cross the gun in suspense owing to the conditions board.
As the Conference is temporarily and created no disturbance on 3 unreported doubtful seats in the boat's bows in executing the get- in China, opportunity is taken to tion of intricate accounts.
west which will not affect the res
British naval and consular au away. Whilst in this position, relieve Sir Ronald Macleay of the thorities, according to our inform sult-Reuter's American Sérvice.ie, across the bows of the gun-heavy task he has borne and which ant, decided that for the present boat, a shell from the Hanyang has, involved such a great physical there was nothing to be done about forces fell across the Woosung's strain. After leave, he will event these outrages to British ships. bows, to be followed by a accond. ually take up a new pust in Europe. They realized the crucial nature of shell which fell short of the ves--British Wireless.
permanent seats for the Asiatic continent, M. Motta; the reporter, The cruiser. Castor left for said that while fully safeguarding Mr. Lo later said that his Hongkong last evening, from the liberty of the Assembly, the objection was not to the calling Sheerness, with naval reliefs for importance of the population of of subpoenaed evidence, but to the ships recommissioning on the Agia should not be overlooked, time or stage at which it was China Station.-Reuter, ・・
SUN'S POSITION.
-Reuter..
According to Chinese reports, THE DESMONS CASE. evidence" or "fishing interroga-
peace delegations have been arriv- ing at Nanking lately to upon General Sun Chuan-fang SENTENCED TO EIGHTY DAYS, the advisability of effecting compromise with the
urge
a
"Reds."
Constantinople, Sept. 15.
BIG MURDER CASE.
*.
AMERICAN SOCIETY
SENSATION.
her
UNLAWFUL SOCIETY.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST CHINESE.
the situation and wished to do. nothing which might precipitate. troublé.
called. The procedure of the prosecution in this case appeared to Mr. Lo's mind to be "Gshing for
sol. It should be borne in mind that the Woosung was in full view It was tories,"
a "Continental
of the Cantonese troopa „at Han- method" of doing business which
New York, Sept. 15.
yang, and though it is possible
WAS PRO-FOREIGN. might be permitted elsewhere but
It is reported from Somerville,
that the first shell was an acci- certainly was not permitted in
General Yang Sen before his Hongkong, having regarding to has indicted Mrs. Hall,
New Jersey, that a Grand Jury dent, it is extremely unlikely that
debacle at Chengtu, when he was the second shell was also an acci- Lieut. Desmons has been sen- Mr. Lo's experience of local, legal brothers Henry and Another report,however, indicates
driven from the province, Was dent, and the officers of the vessel that Marshal Chang Tso-ling is tenced to eighty days imprison-procedure,
Stevens, and her cousin Henry are convinced that it was fired de Central Police Court this morning, been known for his protection of Before Mr. R. E. Lindsell, at the distinctly pro-foreign, and had. Mr. Lindsell over-ruled Mr. Lo's Carpender, a wealthy member of liberately at her.
a Chinese was charged with threa- foreign interests against the un- objection, suggesting that evidence the New York Stock Exchange, Previous to this, whilst the vestening and frightening. another reasonable attacks of the Red Lieut. Desmons was also fined 22 from subpoenaed witnesses which for the murder of the late sel was going into lankow, Can Chinese in order to make him join section. The Times" informant The Captain of the Turkish 'ver, was Inter discovered to be irrelev- Reverend Mr. Hall and Mrs. Itonese troops deliberately fired on the Wai San Society, General Sun Chuan-fang is re-sel, which sunk, was sentenced to ant could be deleted from the case. Eleanor Mills, four years ago striking the ship,, though fortune that although they were not able ships. scized at Wanhalen, Was ported to have advised Marshal ninety days imprisonment and a
fine of 30 liras.
sending re-inforcements to Mar- sha Wn and advising General Sun that Mukden and Nanking should co-operate in the "anti-Red" move- ment.
Wu Pel-fu that conflicts between
ment-Reuter.
Turkish liras.
Later,
N
William
Meantime he noted Mr. Lo's objec- Router's American Service, tlon. The Companies owning both Later, Mr. Lo said that if this“. his troops and the "Reds" have ships were fined 5,000.Uras to subpoenaed ovidence had not been SHIPPING DISASTER. already occurred at Yuanchow, wards.compensation for the vic-available, the probability was that Fingsiang, Kungchow, Wan-an, tims. Reuter.. and other places.
NOT CANTONESE, The attacks on Hankow, Han- yang, and Wuchang, in the recent battles around the three cities undertaken by the "Reds," have been attributed to the Cantonesa (Continued on Page 18).
PRINCE RETURNS.
BACK FROM PARIS.
London, Sept. 15, HR. H. the Prince of Wales has arrived from Paris-Router.
Mr. Lloyd would not have been FEARED LOSS OF 85 LIVES: able to carry on his case. As it was, with his Worship's assont
New York, Sept. 15.
to the adoption of, this proceduro," It is feared that the whole crew the defendant was now being call of 86 of the British cargoboat ed upon to answer a case where he Loyal Citizen have been drowned. would not have been required to The vessel sunk off Bermuda. Two had the ordinary method boon fol- steamers answered 8.0.8. signals lowed.
but found only a capsized lifebont (Continued on Page 9).
Reuters American Service,
herwith rifles, several bullets
ately nobody was Injured.
suggested that the attack on the Detective Sergt. Cary stated British relief expedition to the
to prova it, the polico know the inspired not so much by anti- Society to be unlawful and danger British feeling as by the desire to ous, and he asked for a week's be the man who gave the orders in
that district Probably here sented Interference with his actions by outside authorities, dis regarding the fact that his actions were illegal.
EGYPTIAN COTTON;
GOVERNMENT REDUCES TAX
Tho typhoon which yesterday romand six o'clock this morning, north of wad near Ishigak! Jima was, at This was granted. that island and proceeding in the. direction of Naha. The reading was about Lat. 25 N., Long. 120 E, and the direction of the typhoon was north-easterly The legal forecast up till noon to-morrow.
Questioned as to the possibility is Variable winds at firat, mo-
Cairo, Sept. 15. of a British vessel having sunk Parliament bag reduced the two funka loaded with soldiers and derate east winds later; generally cotton tax from 25 to 20 plastera specie,, as General Yang Sen overcast, occasional rain.”
(Continued on Part 19).
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