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Hongkong Telegraph.
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TAT TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1926.
No 21,003
GETTING BETTER. IMPROVING KOWLOON VOLUNTEER CAMP SURREYS GET READY
MARKED SHIPPING
IMPROVEMENT.
WOMEN WILL BUY BRITISH GOODS.
SWATOW IMPROVES.
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It would appear that the resump- tion of trade relations with Canton is gradually getting on a sounder footing, and that there is no little anxiety on the part of many Can toncse to get down to Hongkong. This is shown in the latest returns of passengers carried by the river boats.
POINT.
GOVERNMENT PROPOSES DIG
SCHEME.
4
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VARIED PROGRAMME.
ARRANGED..
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INTERESTING WORK.
Volunteers, who will have seen Corps Orders, the dates on which In this week's Volunteer Defence the annual camp is to be held, will
TO LEAVE.
CAMP ON MURRAY PARADE-
GROUND.
BORDERERS COMING.
A military camp in the heart of the City will be an unusual spectacle for the next week.
日三十月九
2,000 KILLED.
THE TUSSLE FOR NANCHANG!
MANY EXECUTIONS.
Writing under date of the 11th inst, the Nanchang correspondent of the. Shanghai Times saye:
For about ten days we have
be pleased to learn that a very. Following the impressive cere.been cut off from the outside
1935 PER ANNUM
INGYL COST TO MENTA
Typo 8313A
STORAGE": BATTENT DIAL
Buick Chand-
ler Elgin, Esgos Grant, Haynes Hudson Hupmo
| bile, Jordan, Lox- ington, McLaugh- Win Nash, Olda mobile, Packard, Paige Premier R. &
“V. Knight, Rac Roamer, Sanford, Studas, baker, Statz, Templar AND many
other motor vehioles."
8313A 6 Volt Battery
SEQUEL. TO...SHOP
THEFTS.
ISCOVERIES MADE AT
PAWNSHOP.
THE DRAGON MOTUM.
LAR CD WONE NECEHÜNDƏRD.
$53
TROOPS ON MOVE.
MORE CADETS FOR FRONT.
ASPECTS OF THE CHEKIANG REVOLT
TELL-TALE FINGER-PRINT.
A series of thefts committed In various shops in the city has been MORE TALK OF PEACE. revealed through the arrest of a Chinese by Detective Sargeant
Anaval message from Hankow,
ANTI-HRITISH BOYCOTT.
WILL COST $230,000. The Government rarely springs, a surprise, and it was therefore with considerable interest that a
interesting camp programme has monial parade by the 1st Batta- world, as the Kinklung-Nanchang Carey, acting on a search warrants Telegraph representative this morning enquired the nature of the Camp over two months, with yesterday morning, fatigue parties day we received Shanghai news No. 76, Praya East was searched junks full of Southern troops pro- been arranged. The spranding of lion the East Surrey Regiment Railway, did not function, and tox When the home of a Chinese at of yesterday's date, states that 24 the scheme under which the certain weekends for certain units, were organised and in the space from September 17 to 25. Dur- the other day, a number of pawn ceeded down river from Hankow P.W.D. proposed to spend $50,000 is an entirely different arrange of a few hours Murray Parade ing these days we passed through tickets were seized which have
sinco helped the police to clear up yesterday afternoon, towed by tugs. on improvements to Kowloon Pointment from that which held in 1924, ground was dotted with tents an times of great nervous strain.
when the Corps as a whole went marquees. The battalion will Like lightning out of a blue a number of cases of theftat.com-It is added that HMS. Gant. during.1927. ·
to camp for two week-ends run- take up "residence" for the first sky the Southern troops, a small mitted in the central district of the is shiling for Kluklang to-day $50,000 is the amount voted inning. "
time this afternoon, and will sleep force of them, took Nanchang on city.
(Tuesday). The Tung On, which left Hong- the Budget for 1927, but it is now
One of the principal reasons for there until they embark for India. the night of September 19. They Amongst these papers was one keng at à o'clock on Sunday morn revealed that the total vote for this change, is to facilitate the The Surreys will be engaged practically found an empty house relating to silk goods stolen from ing, carried with her 600 passen-improvement will be something in organization of the training. The during the next two or three days when they arrived. The Kiangal the store of Messrs. Wassicmuil A naval wireless message from gers, and no sooner had these dis the nature of $230.000 extended space on the field-firing range is in cleaning up Murray Barracks troops had all been sent to the Brothers at Queen's Road Central: Hankow, dated yesterday, states embarked at Canton, than the re-perhaps over 1928 and 1929, turn passengers began to come The Hon. Colonial Secretary happened that, while one Company Own Scottish Borderera take over. keep out invaders, and how this stated at the Police Court that he force at Sinti, which la 90 miles limited and in 1924 it sometimes before the 1st Battalion the King's border of the province in order to a representative, of which to-day that the anti-British boycott, is in aboard. A steady stream passed on detailing the votes in the Budget was firing, the men of another The new regiment is due to small force of Southern troops recognised the arrested man as above Hankow to the ship until twelve o'clock it Specch, said that the vote of Company would be either waiting, arrive on Friday, and arrange-came, practically unopposed, from having visited the shop at a time
Labour Unions in Hanko ara night when the gates were closed, $50,000 was one of the few new sitting on their hunkers doing mente are being made for sport. Hunan via Yuanchow and Shul when there was much press of but when they were opened again worka of any magnitude provided nothing and "getting bored; oring competitions between the old chow in a few days' tine carrying business during the holding of a
beginning to hold processiona, says. at 6 o'clock, there was a crowd of for in the Estimates under discus- doing squad drill or other and the new battalions before everything before them, has been cheap sale. The man came in hold the same message. five hundred more waiting, many sion. The roadwaya putside the exercises, which can far better be October 27th, when the Surreys and still is a marvel to us, ing a bundle of notes in his hand, THE CHEKIANG, REVOLT. of whom had been there since Star Ferry wharf, he added, have carried out on the barrack square depart.
They behaved well after their But this did not convince the as- twelve o'clock. The boat thus had proved entirely inadequate to at Headquarters. The camp
arrival and were considerate andsistant that he was anything but a That the province of Cheldang, her full complement of passengers, deal with the ever-increasing training programmes for this sea-
kind to the Klaugai people, but thief. Consequently, the assistant under its Civil Governor, Hala traffic. Safety and convenience son are framed with a view to "A passanger who renewed his ac-like demanded early, attention to eliminating barrack square work
merciless towards any Northern-ordered him out of the shop but he Chiao, has declared its independ quaintance with a Chinese business
ers. They were a mixture of an lingered behind and what happen- ence, or rather its secession from man on board had a long talk on the area, and the Government con- and to giving instruction in the
army. They did not wear theed afterwarde was not known to the alliance of the five provinces affairs in Canton, and the latter ex-sidered that improvements should more interesting part of soldier-
same uniforms. There were some the assistant, who had his atten- headed by Marahul Sun Chunn pressed the opinion that although no longer be deplayed.
A FURTHER SHARP ing, namely, field-work.
Russians amongst them, a goodtion fully engaged in serving the fang has caused no surprise, inas- The exact nature of the altera- things appeared to be quiet and
DECLINE
many young boys, also students, customers.
much as Hela Chinois both a THE ENGINEERS." orderly, he thought it extremely tions are still in the air, we were
and last but not least, a regi- A second charge against the member of the Kuomintang and an The programme for the Field likely that in the near future there informed to-day, but the Govern
New York, Oct. 18.ment of young women.
prisoner was the theft of adherent of General Chang Kai- would be strife between the various ment's intention is to improve not Section of the Engineer Company
holder. cigarette Following weakness in London
from the she." Moreover," he was created RECAPTURED BY NORTH. factions, with what result he was only the lay-out, but also the gen-has not yet been. definitely decided
Tabaquería Filipina." commander of an Army Corps by not prepared to say:
upon: if funds are available, it bar silver, dropped two cents, the eral appearance.
After holding the city for three On their part, the police told the the Kuomintang Central Executive The Star Ferry Wharf, our in-is hoped to carry out some demolisharpest decline in the present re-days, we noticed that large num- Bench that a curious procedure Committee a short time ago." formant said, is not a particularly tion and light-bridging work
came out by the was revealed during investigations This action of Hais Chiao will beautiful edifice and in all pro- The Signal Section will be carry-action bringly the price down to bers of them
South gate, evidently to meet ant a pawnshop. It was found that no doubt have a marked effect on bability something will be placed ing out experiments with their 52 cents. This is slightly below Northern force coming from the prisoner came in at one time the south-eastern situation, and The increasing, confidence is al-in front to improve the outlook for portable wireless set throughout the previous record of the 1921 Changshu, that was on Thursday, to pawn a bangle, and, at another Marshal Sus may be forced to re- ready reflected in ocean steamer anyone approaching the ferry. One the New Territory. It has been
September 23. We heard rifle time, he redeemed this article with turn to Nanking to cope with the movements, and British shipping of the suggested schemes is the found that owing to the high hills
and machine-gun fire a little way the money secured from pawning critical situation in the outlying is particularly busy. At nine extension of the railway colonnade Intervening between the frontier o'clock this morning there were '67 in front of the Star Ferry,
beyond the suburb outside the a roll of silk. He was identified districts around Shanghai. The and Hongkong there is some times
South gate and at times heavy as a returned banishee, and the fact that the No. 5 bridge of the vessels in port, of which number In the centre of the area, which difficulty in establishing, communi-
gune, throughout the day.
officer in charge of the Finger Shanghai-Hangchow Railway has only 28 were British, and 19 were jis to be re-planned entirely, provi- cation between the two places, and
When danger was browing, Prints Bureau testified to a pecu- been blown up by the Nanking Chinese. There were eleven Bri-sion will be made for separate It is desired to find out exactly
more of the Southern troops left Bar mark left by the impression of forces sent to reinforce Shanghai tish arrivals and five departures stopping places, etc., for omibuses, how far wireless communication
the city, without any order, every the fourth finger of the man's left shows the seriousness of the situa- yesterday, the total for all nation-private cars, and richshas.
with the existing sets can be relied
man, for himself.
Some walked, hand, the tip of which was missing-tion. Moreover, Kiangel and Fo alities being 25 and 15 respective- Everything will be done to en- upon. The Section will also work
others went от wheelbarrows, The prisoner disputed this docu- kien seem likely to be lost to sure the best possible traffic con- with the other Companies on field.
again others in rieshas. When mental evidence, and the case was the Allies, in which event Marshal. trol, and it is the finding of a days, sending back messages.
the ricshas did not go fast enough adjourned until to-morrow for the Sun'a base will be threatenedet solution to an admittedly knotty
they paid off the coolies and took attendance of an interpreter who problem which is engaging the
to their feet, and literally dashed was present at the reading of the P.W.D. at present...
forward into the battle.
order of banishment..
ly.
REMARKABLE SHIPPING
IMPROVEMENT.
The German steamer Dorry ar- rived from Swatow with 200 tons of general cargo for Hongkong.
River traffic is also being speed- ed up. The s.s. Tung On left for Canton at eight o'clock this morn- ing, and the s.s. Sai On leaves to morrow at the same hour, the com- pany proposing to continue its
FORGED CHOP.
are
THE ARTILLERY... ThArtillery Company going to the Command Practice Camp in January so as to obtain actual range practice with the new 6" howitzers.
MOUNTED INFANTRY.
The Mounted Infantry Com-
PRICE OF SILVER.
THE CANTON TAXES.
No Protests Yet,
London, Oct. 18. As far as is known in well- informed circles in London, no. Power has is yet protested against the new taxes levied by the Canton Government, but the taxes are regarded us illegal as they are not imposed by the Central Government.. Reuter.
.
TERRIFIC ATTACK.
In the afternoon and evening they came back again in very much the same way. Most of their
daily service. Cargo is being car- YOUTH AND DEATH THREAT, pany's ponies are being sent out slump. The latest solling move-faces locked, pleasant and we all
ried on both vessels.
The 8.8. Kwongsai made her first. trip to Canton since the strike this morning. She went up in
ballast.
Intimating that the defendant
would have been sent to the Criminal Sessions for trial but for
his youth, Mr. J. H. B. Nihill, at carry out field-firing on the range
ing, sentenced a young Chinese to ball-ammunition: there will also six months' hard labour for ob- be held manoeuvres, in which taining the sum of $50 by the use Lieut.-Col. Coates of the 6/2nd of a forged chop.
Punjabi Regiment has very kindly
The s.3. Wing On will make her the Kowloon Magistracy this morn initial trip to Kengmoon at 6 p.m. this evening, and the Kwong Fook Chun will probably be placed on the Wuehow run to-morrow. Both vessels have already received consignments for the ports.
vice.
STOWED AWAY,
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heard
INDIA AND OPIUM.
SOME OUTSPOKEN DEFENDERS,
London, Oct. 18.
It is now possible that the fourth stage of the Northern Campaign, namely, the investment of Nanking, will begin sooner than it was timed for in the programme of the Kuo- mintang. However, it is reported that Shanghai is being reinforced by troops arriving by train day and night and that these are taking up to camp at Fanling at the end of ment originated with the recom-thought that they had achieved a
positions all along the Hangchow this month. During the actual mendation of the adoption of the
victory, especially as we
Railway as far as Sungkiang, while camp week-ends this Company and gold standard In India. The re- that the firing had moved into the the Armoured Car Company will duced market value of the silver distancer But, lo, during the
the main forces are being concen- is over ten cents within two
Presiding at a meeting of the trated at Chang Chow Fu, whilst and firing whilst on the move with months-Renter's American Ser-night, the Northern forces made
a terrific attack. Big shells East India Association, at which the Anhui forces are reported to bo whizzed over our house into the Sir Richard Dane read a paper on concentrating of Ning Kwok Fu," city, machine-gun fire and rifle fire Oplum in China, and India, Lord on the Anhal-Choklang frontier. came nearer and nearer and was Meston criticised the vicarious
MORE CADETS very furious all around us. Great righteousness" of some Americans As outlined by Sergeant Daly, volunteered to provide the
shouting was heard at the city who attended the conference for A report from Canton states that the facts were that the defendant, "enemy."" The ponies, being dut
gate in our immediate neighbour- the suppression of opium smoking over 1,000 cadets from Wiboa who was employed by the paper in camp for almost the whole
hood and also bugle calls. He emphasised that India was in were entrained on the 14th Inst maker of 565, Shanghai Street, winter, the members of the M. L
The firing continued for some nowise blameworthy for the intro for Shuikwan. They are said to he A naval wireless message from had had a forged chop made out Company will have excellent
ime; and then suddenly there duction of the drug into Chips destined for the Kiangai front to
dead Swatow, dated yesterday, states and collected a debt of $50 which opportunities of perfecting their
onThe India Councillor, Mr. Mal-fill up the vacancies in the crack A young Ragalan was charged was
silence, only that the Labour Unions there are was due to his mistress from one cross-country riding and getting before Mr. J. B. Nihil, at the the West side of the Kan river nearlik, declared that "millions of Division under the command of now more subdued, this being pro- of her creditors.
The defendant to know the country over. which Kowloon Magistracy this morning, the railway station about five miles tons of liquor were imported into General Wong Enk-ling. This Divi-- bably due to the improvement in had, however, sent a letter to his they might actually be employed. with stowing away from Shanghai from our dwelling lively fighting India yearly and was more harm- sion has taken a part in many re the situation at Canton becoming mistress informing her of his act. In addition to the camping pro- on board the sa. Witell,
still procceded.
ful than oplum. He described cent battles and had sustained more
aro In Court, the defendant stated gramme, field-days
being more widely known.
Britain's action in abolishing the casualties than the other Divisions. The defendant admitted the
LOOT SENT OFF BY POST.. The message adds that it ap that he had owed a friend some arranged on suitable Sundays charge and stated that he had.
opium trade of India as a political
PEACE BY AGREEMENT? pears probable that some of the money and he had been threaten during the wint and I and gone on the ship to chtain work the way as they came along the 6,000,000 rupees of revenue yearly. The Northern troops looted all move whereby the country had lost Pployees of British firma will reed with death if he did not make months, in which the M. I aut but could not do so on account Southern suburb, and also after The peasant producers of opiunt A.. C. Companies will carry out of his being unable to speak either they entered the city, and they had lost another six to eight turn to work to-day (Tuesday).good, the loan.
combined 'operations.
English or Gorman, butang nd they have kept it up over since. millions-Reuter. INFANTRY COMPANIES.
His Worship passed sentence About seven-tenths of all the shops The Scottish and Infantry Companies programme includes of 17 days' hard labour, pending and homes were looted. Yesterday, extended order drill, platoons the return of the ship to Shang- taking a stroll through the city, hai when the defendant will be attacking over the
we saw the parcele of loot going fleld-firing
taken back to the northern port.
Into the post office to be sent to the range with ball-ammunition, an3 manoeuvres of advance and rear
soldiers' homes. guards.
BETTER SWATOW PUTLOOK.
WOMEN IGNORE BOYCOTT. Canton women are evidently "not very partial to the support of the movement to extend the anti-
·British boycott, and it is reported that the Kuomintang Women's Divi- slon, of which Mrs. Liao Chung-hoi, Is the head, has been asked to. Jaunch a plan for the purpose of in-
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"ROSANDRA" FIRE.
SHIP BEACHED AND
FLOODED.
London, Oct. 18.
A message from Port Said anys
A detachment of the Medical
teresting them in "home-made" than the Lloyd Triestino stoor Section will attend camp each. sods rather than British products. Rosandra, from the Far East, week and to deal with possible
It is said that since the abolition which was reported to be on Bro, casualties
the engine- of the picket nuisance, many piece- has water In
throo goods dealers in Canton have been room, which is still
In short, the programme has been framed on such lines as to give those in camp plenty of hard weekends, to be a success, it only
RUSSIAN'S SEARCH FOR WORK
BLOWN 400 MILES.
"JAPANESE FISHERMAN
SAVED
PROHIBITION VOTE.
Commenting on the war between Marshal San Chuan-fang and Gen- eral Chong Kal-shek, the Shanghel Times paysThe question remains, as to how long the two armies can continue the war. Both Chang's. and Sim's afmiósuffered heavily in the fighting of the last few days, and all indications point to the fact that a stage of exhaustion has been The shops have been shut for
reached whereby further military about six days. Food is scarce and
progress is impossible. General although proclamations have been
Chang's forces have been hard hit posted up calling upon the people to
since the Allies started their offen- open up, yet they ignore these pro-
sivel Marshal Sun's hopes. clamations.
ppear to Many civilians, also students,tion of the abolition of prohibition Bistance from the north
be futile because any assistance who had welcomed the Southerners, of liquors with an alcoholic
might result in his territory being have been killed; according to polico strength exceeding 21 por centover statistics about 2,000 in all. A cer-
RESULT OF NORWEGIAN PLEBISCITE.
Palo, Oct. 18 To-day's plebiscito on the ques-
able to stock their shops with Bri- feet above the plates. Pump
(Our Own Correspondent.) tish goods, and hundreds of women ing continues, and as far but interesting work. For the folk are attracted to Yan Hong, can be soon the ballers and
- Singapore, Oct. 15. the piece-goods rotull streets in engines are intact. The decks are remains for the weather to be kind The steamer Kwangchow, from Canton, to buy the best they can bursting up owing to the expan for the now season's wear. As a sion of the soya beans. The and for the heads of firms to co-Hongkong, hes Innded here six Russian style, on the part of the 08,706 votes for and 61,620 votes operate by giving the members of Japanese fishermen from Formosa, result, with a good variety released vessel is not yet afloat, and is dis- their staffe every facility to attend who were rescued from a sinking from foreign godowns, business in charging the soya beans as quickly camp, as far as business will boat after being blown four hun
dred miles by a typhoon. Continued On Paga 12.) as possible-outer.
permit,
tain style of hair cat, the so-called has up to the prosent, resaltod in will not be in
depa students was sufficient reason to against the prohibition. kill them without trial. There is latter's poll shows a great increa no authority. The police were in and the formers a decrease hiding for several days.
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