GENERAL FLEES.
HSIA CHẢO GONE TO NINGPO?
THE CHEKIANG COLLAPSE.
Further details of the flight of
are given in the Northern papers to hand to-day.
According to the N. C. Daily News, on Saturday morning, Dr. "V. K. <Ting received a telegram from the Hanchow Magistrate that Civil Governor Hsin Chao had run away from Hangchow. A com- mittee of representatives of the Hangchow people were being sent
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THREE TAXI DRIVERS FINED,
Before Major C. Willson, at the Contral Magistracy this morning) three summonses were heard joint-
MANILA SCANDAL.
HEAVY GOVERNMENT LOSSES.
ly against three tax-drivers, In|| BIG SHORTAGES REPORTED,
which Col. Robertson, of the Hong-
kong Club, was the complainant.
were out of order.
Tremendous losses of Govern-
General Hale Chao, the Choklang with refusing to accept hire, on
The defendants were charged ment property in supplies and Civil Governor
who revolted the evening of the 18th instant, at equipment through misappropria- against Marshal Sun Chuan-fang 8.05 o'clock, when a messengeri tion and neglect were riscated ‹ f
to engage taxis for a member of the bureau of Audits, says the coolie was sent out from the Club recent investigation's : by officials Although they were all stationed Manila Bulletin. Estimate of at the Pedder Street stånd, back Government's losses in supplies and every one of the defendants amounts to less than Pesos told the coolie that the vehicles 100.000 a year, it has been found.
The matter apparently has been One said that his machine had a brought to the attention of the Bu- punctured tyro which required Tenu of Audits by dlicovery of looking into.
shortages in requisitions of certain bureaus unearthed by the auditing inspector. It was leaped that supplies.delivered to one bureau were short to the extent of Peses They all then referred the mes- 4,000. Similar shortages and clear enger coolie one to the other, cases of intentional fraid of the until he was obliged to give up his part of Government employees and queat.
subordinates are understood to have been committed without any possibility of tracing the culprits,
to meet the Marshal Sun's army. General Hsia Chao is said to have gone to Ningpo with 2,000 men.
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The second said that a lamp was out of order.
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The third driver declared that Altogether, it has been confirm-his petrol tank was leaking badly. ed. General Hsia hnd 8,000 men in his army, 6,000 of whom ho sent to the front. Most of his troops were armed police.
The casualties on Marshal Sun's side were a little over 100, 30 of whom were dead;,the other side is unknown.
There have been no peace nego- tiations.
ARMY RETREATE.
cles.
CULPRITS CO FREE
In evidence given in the Court to-day, the messenger wolle stated that the defendants were doing nothing in the way of attending to the alleged defects in thier vehi-
How long the practice has con- One of them was sitting tinued could not be stated but it idly at the wheel.
is reported that petty thefts and Magistrate found the other acts of dishonesty have been The The Chekiang army has retreat charge proved against all the de-noticed in the past. Attempts, fendants. Remarking that there however, to "jump" on the guilty ed to Hankchow where they are
general re- reported to have started looting. appeared to be, a
ipartios have resulted in vain. The 10th Regiment of the 1st Divi-luctance to accept hire for a ren- sion of the Chekiang Army, upon which General Hsia Chao depend-stand, his Worship imposed a fine ed, but who did not fight for him, of $10 in all cases.
Are
now disarming the defeated troops, who are reported to have started looting.
Twenty-four machine guns and 20 trench mortars have been captured,
дол which he could not under-
SINGAPORE-CALCUTTA FLYING.
SIR ALAN COBHAM'S SUGGESTIONS.
It is stated that such plferings usually occur while the goods are in transit and also not infrequent- ly when they are already in the store rooms of bureaus and offices, Officials, of the burdaus concern- |ed, it is understood, in most cases are in blissful ignorance of these losses. If discovered, it was hint- ed, there does not seem to be any means of finding the guilty parties, The Bureau of Supply which is in charge of the distribution of offi~ cial supplies apparently also is not aware of these happenings, espe- fally in cases where the loss occur after the goods have been deliver ed to their destination.
HARD TO PLACE BLAME.
A case, however, has been cited
Considérable labour and student trouble is developing over the week-end in Shanghai, says the N. C. Daily News. The local Chinese officials claim that they are fully
London, Oct. 25. In the House of Commons, reply aware of the steps which the Kuomintang is taking to cover up in to a question with regard to the failure of the Hain Chao move-Sir Alan Cobham's Buggestions for ment by agitation and popular de-improved meteorological and other. monstration. They say that they facilities for a regular air service have the situation well in hand between Calcutta and Singapore, and are prepared for all emer-Sir Samuel Hoare said that before. gencies. They do not believe, any such service was instituted, where the warrant for the purchase however, that anything of a ser any recommendations of Sir Alan of supplies has been approved and ous nature will happen, as success Cobham as a result his visit paid several months before the -received. depended upon Hsia Chao's move would be most fully considered by goods actually, were
the authorities concerned. When asked to verify the
com- ment, which was to be the military
Reuter.
plaints for loss of Government pro- arm of the propaganda offensive.
perty, the insular, auditor, Mr. As the military movement failed,
Ben. F. Wright, admitted that the the heart has been taken out of the
Government yearly suffers from agitators' efforts:
such losses but refused to say who is to blame. He did the Bureau of Audits had made efforts to stop it and to catch the culprits but so far efforts have falled.
DANKS LOOTED.
Shanghai officials received a
EGYPTIAN COTTON. LIMITING THE ACREAGE.
London, Oct. 25."
despatch late last Sunday night A Cairo telegram says that the from Brigadier-General Soong's Cabinet has decided to issue headquarters at Kashing to the decree limiting the cotton acreage
The Bureau of Audits employs but one inspector to check Govern-,
"effect that a long distance tele- of the country to two thirds of ment supplies held in store by Bu- phone message from Hangehow the present area for the next three reaus and offices, he said. If "stated that owing to the disappear-years-Reuter.
ance of Hsia Chao, considerable
disturbance had resulted in the
1goting of all local banks by the cyclists to carry dispatches troops of Hsin Chao's Peace Main-tween the various groups tenance Corps.
labourers.
RUSSIANS DETAILED?
audit of property is made in one Bureau, Mr. Wright explained, it sometimes takes 2 'couple of be-months to do the work an that of while checking is being conducted in one Bureau losses may occur in others without the audits bureau knowing it.
It is reported that twa Russian pedlars named Melkoserifo and
FORTUNE IN - SUPPLIES,
The telegram also said that General Soong has despitched the 10th Division to Hangchow in or der to suppress Hsía Chao's troops Zakeroff, are being detained by and to disarm them. The rest of the military authorities in Kash- The insular Government has sup- the Kiangsu army is divided into fing, suspected of being Cantonese plies and equipment valued at three sections and are proceeding apics. The whereabouts of two Posos 25,000,000. To protect these to Hangchow by train,
MEETINGS BROKEN UP.
other Russian - pedlars, named properties, the insular auditor said Avakushin and Bessel is un-jhe will urge the Legislature to known. They left their homes on authorize appointment. of addi- In view of the agitation of the October 17, intending to return the tional inspectors. An auditing of students and labourers of the re-same evening after hawking goods the Government supplies, checking volutionary trend the Shanghai in Chinese territory, but have not them up from time to time he con- military authorities have given or-yet returned. The Commissioner siders as necessary and important ders that all suspicious characters for Foreign Affairs has been ask-as the regular auditing of cash in be taken into custody.
ed to help locate the men.
the hands of Government officials..
The efforts of 100 labourers to hold a meeting in the Commercial Press Employees' Club in Paoshan Road were frustrated by the Capel police, who arrested the loader off the party and dispersed the others with their sticks.
A student radical from Shang- hai University was arrested by the Chapei police in Jukong Road last Thursday night while he was dia- tributing anti-Sun literature. He
is being detained. About 200 students of the same school held a meeting at their school in Chapei at which time speakers gave violent anti-Sun speeches and proposed the organization of a Citizens' Autonomous Government In Shanghai..
About 60 labour agitators and members of the Red section of the Kuomintang, succeeded in holding a meeting in the Commercial Press last Thursday evening when speeches were made and resolu- tlons passed to the effect that local organizations unite in de- manding the withdrawal of Mar- shal Sun's army from Shanghat, that a Shanghai Citizers Govern- ment be organized and that they form an intelligencé group of 10:
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