ALL CORRECT BUT THE GLASSES
He was going to make an important ball Shoes, suit, collar, tio otc., were. splendid yet something marred the whole offect. The glasses! They lookod.cheap, wore carelessly fitted and did not become him. Good. Glasses Pay and wo make good glassos which will give you ovory, oyo, comfort, and satisfaction, and help, not hinder, In oxprossing your personality.
N. LAZARUS
Hongkong's Only European Optician. 12, Queen's Road, Central.
THE WAR LULL
SOUTHERN TROOPS IN
RETREAT?
MARSHAL FENG REAPPEARING
The
Hongkong Telegraph
YOU NORD 1871 -
No. 23,001
JUNK DISAPPEARS WITH CREW.
PRESUMED PIRACY OF CABLE" BOAT.
OVER $3,500 LOSS. An official communique received
Considerable mystery surrounds In Shanghat from the headquarters
an occurrence which can only be of Mursha! Sun at Klukiang ac-regarded as a piracy of a junk used counits for the inactivity of the by the Eastern Extension Telegraph Northern Expeditionary Forces.
+A+ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1926.
日四廿月九
KASHING BATTLE. PROSPECTS OF COAL EMPIRE PRODUCE.
HSIA CHAO'S ARMY COLLAPSES.
HEAVY LOSSES SUFFERED.
Writing under date of the 21st inst., the N. C. Daily News corres pondent at Koshing says:
PEACE.
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T. UNC
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CAR.CO., LTE.
HAPPY VALLDY
WONENDI CHUNE MS.
Bulls and Inners
From the Office Butts.
There is no truth in the rumour "These are days in which we that.nocturnal pleasantries between need to keep a stiff upper lip-
dwellers in Humphrey's Flats, Kew especially when shaving.
loon, will in future be carried on
in Esperanto.
な
Newspaper Man Dies Without
while all the war lords want a piece gwn obituary."
We'll never get peace in China have forgotten to write up his. Warning," says a heading. Must
for themselves.
D
Rugby, Oct. 29. The Executive of the Miners'
As a result of the meetings of the Imperial Conference during Federation andy, the General Ca.. at a point between Lan Techow were bringing more soldiers
All last night, trains from Hung-Council of the Trades Union Con. the past fortnight," progress has
Of the lengthy report, the following waters, as the result of which con Governor Hain Chao arrived. A they had been in Conference for the major problems that confront Island and Macho, in Chinese and munitions. At daylight, Civil gresa met this afternoon. After been made in the discussion of all four items are most illuminating siderable telegraph material and a brief interview with his chief of about of hour the members of the Conference; namely, foren in New York, the winner was Mr. eternal triangle, is that it has no and disclose the actual situation in complete crew, with the July love staff was easily secured, at rull the deputation of the Trades fairs, Empire defence, juter strong race we Anglo-Saxons are
vanished. At the time of writing, way station headquarters about Kinngsi a it is after the dec- no trace of the vessel or crew has 8.30 h.m. Skirmishing had, already Union Congress which on TuesdayImperial relations, communication becoming!
sive battles of two
around Nanehang.".
weeks
ago been found.
||
to investigate a defect in a cable
not known at present..
willos
MORE OUTPUT.
In a recont strong men's contest The chief trouble with the
Ivanovitch Niedskiwitz.. What right angle.
.
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A Filipino mission will visit America to seck independence.
If the Kowloon Ferry Company Maybe they'll have a job to find it. demanded photographs and finger- prints, some people couldn't make
0:0 more fuss.
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Morning Post heading "St
ordination in the various fields. There is no truth in the rumour Peter's Wedding. Surely-a bit
D. C
A preliminary examination of that sovereigns held in stock by the resources of the Empire made local banks before the fall in the a deep impression on the dele-dollar are to be offered for-gile at Bates, who have displayed deter their old price. mination to share in their develop- ment and thus to promote closer inter-Imperial trade. With a view to devising machinery for this purpose, several Committees are at. work. Hitherto the only organisation existing to promote improvements in marketing over-
late,
The only way a man can win an argument with his wife is to say nothing:
J
begun with Marshal Sun Chuan discussed the coal situation with and trade. The broud scnsidera- It appears that a launch and a fang's outposts from Kashan
tion of these questions has now 1. The major part of Chang KaJunk set out two or three days ago along the railway, a few
the Premier and other Ministers, paid a further visit to Downing been completed and several of shek's army, after having been de- somewhere between Lan Tau Is-from Kashing.
A fish with hands has been dis- covered. feated at Nanchang, is now retreat-hand and Macao, While this work}· From a cupola 80 feet high, with Street. They had a conversation them will not again be reviewed
It w43 last seen ing toward Hankow where, it is with spare cable and various imple- features of the battle which een Churchill after which they re-been remitted, advance with re-recent heading in a Northern con- escaped.
demonstrating the length of an was being undertaken, the junk, field glass, I could see the main of some length with Mr. Winston in the plenary session until the
committees to which they have "Cook-Boy's Love Affairs" was a angler from which it had just expected, they will take a defensivements waited half a mile or more tinued from 9.30 a.m, with varying
Most of them seem position. According to reports oll. However, when the services intensity until the rout at 4.30 p.m. turned to confer with the Miners commendations to give effect to temporary.
the desire expressed by the delc- keon en mishing the potatoes. gathered from various places where unch was unable to find the craft,ly 6,000 men of little or less train
of the junk were later required, the The Cheking army, approximate- Executive.
gates for a greater measure of co-
DO the Cantonese anny had passed, which had completely vanished. ing, centred along the railway with Chang's troops were rather dis-On board there was cable worth armoured train in lead of 4,000 1. To-day 260,000 miners are at couraged and appeared very much something like $3,500, and various soldiers, the right wing 1,000 at work. It is estimated that this exhausted.
2. The military cadets of the other goods, the value of which are Tungcha, 1,000 at Tanghai: both week the output of British coal these are suburbs of Kashing, two will be about 1,100,000 tors. Last Kuomintang at Hankow are advo-
We are not able to state the num-miles distant from each other and week it was 980,000 tons. In the cating the employment of more sub- tle methods against the North. In ber of men comprising the junk's about the same distance from the first nine weeks of the stoppage.
railway station, a their public announcement of a few
fan-shaped the average weekly output was The police have been notified of front. days ago, it was stated that since
only 58,000 tons.-British Wireless there is scarcely any hope of de- the incident, and a search for the
NORTHERNERS SUPERIOR,
GOOD NEWE. junk is being made.
The Northern army reported
London. Oct. 29 4,000 strong, coming from Kashani The Trade Union Congress medi- BIG DUTCH WORKS. along the railway, seemed to be ators have succeeded in obtain
concentrated without extended ing concessions from both the wings. At first, the Chekiang side government and the miners and it superior in numbers, inferior is believed that conversations for otherwise, appeared. to gain coal peace are proceeding on the ground, a locomotive pushing the lines of the resumption of work on
positions. However, the excellent ated nationally-Reuter, discipline, tactical experience and similar gun equipment with ac- curate rille fire of the Northern side turned the tide, about noon.
fcuting the Allied Army, perhaps the next move to be taken by the Southern Government is to stir up internul dissension among, northern military leaders.
the
Owing to re-inforcements not forthcoming from Kwangtung and
in view of the great number of Can tonese soldiers killed and wounded,
crew.
HUGE DYKE CONTRACTED
FOR.
Amsterdam, Oct. 29.
food products for, the benefit
Golf's a good game if you only know what you're driving at.
"Singapore's Future Problem- Searching for Funds" says just Telegraph headline. We'd love to enjoy the luxury of that tense.
Snakeskin hose are popular now, but not with the snakes.
There isn't any low cost of high
the Kuomintang forces are prepar! The Dutch portion of the Betheavy ganteur to successive firing district settlements to. be co-ordin. been appreciatets work has by insurance agents.
of producer and consumer, has living. mittee, established by the British Mussolini has a lot of troubles, been the Imperial Economic Comi- Government as a result of the out wa doubt if he's bothered much 1923 Conference.
by all the Dominions and the possibility","of an extension of the idea it embodies, is much discussed. The general Economic Sub-Committee to which this and other matters affecting trade have been refer-
ly.
ing to go back to Hunan Province. gian Stabilisation Loan has been
4. Yang Sen's troops, having largely over-subscribed.
MONEY FROM MOSCOW. come down from up the river, have Under an arrangement with the already occupied Tsincheh and Govertiment, a limited liability
Moscow, Oct. 29. Chengteh, thus threatening the company to carry out Zuyder Zee The Chekiang men fought stul Labour Unions has decided to trans-red, is meeting almost continuous-
The Central Council of the Soviet Cantonese forces from the rear. works has been founded with a
cipital of 6,000,000 guilders, sup-bornly; fielding very slowly until fer to the British Miners' Federn- ARMOURED CARS.
the final dash of the Northerners plied by four great Dutch con- Dr. Y. K. Ting received a teletracting firms. The Government towards the railway station, out- gram from General Tion Jul-ching, has concluded an agreement with side the East Gate. As they cap- second in command to Marshal Wn the Company to construct a dyke füred this vital point, a train kept Fel-fu, from Chengchow, stating thirty kilometres long, separating ready with sin Cano on board, that his foreas in the counter-attack the Zuyder Zee from the North steamed out for Hangchow. With against Chang Kai-shek, are now Sea at a, cost estimated divided into three armies which are 80,000,000 florias, (about
The
CITY SENSATION:
WOLSELEY
EY MOTORS'
to advance simultaneously with 26,500,000)---Reuter. Hankow as their objective. three armies are now concentrating along the Ma-ansan-Pingėhino front. As soon as they are together the march will begin. Gonerul Tien's armoured cars have already passed Tshaling, a point beyond where the, armies arg con- centrating.
POSITION..
!.
London, Oct..20.
at
A sensation was enused in the City to-day by the announcement
It is expected that in few days that joint receivers and managers
colonel and a major wounded, about 1,000 Chekiang troops broke ranks throwing away. arms and surplus clothing to facilitate flight, The two wings not knowing of this debacle, closed in almost at the rear of the parsing army. Sharp fighting was resumed until night fall, when superior distipline and generalship won again.
MUCH SLAUGHTER.
Detachments of Northern sol the Northern Expeditionary Forces for the Wolseley Motors Limited diers rounded up the straggling of the Kuomintang will not only had been appointed by Mr. Justice groups from the wings in succes- have Marshal Sun to contend with, Tomlin, in the Chancery Court, onion and slaughtered them with but Marshal Wu's army as well.the application for a first mort-machine guns and automatics at A Chinese news agency reports gage on the debenture stockhol-close range, in. the brilliant moon- that Marshal Fong Ya-hsiang husders.
light. The shricks of the van- reappeared in the political arena Counsel stated that the reasonquished were drowned in the and has resumed his active com- two managers were appointed was shouts of the victors as the bugles mand of the Kuominchun. It is because of the magnitude of the sounded at midnight. Estimates said that the Kuominchun is now undertaking, employing 3,000 of killed and wounded are, Che- better equipped than before and workers and the fact that there kinng, 1,000 Northern, 200, or less. that the 1st. Army Corps is rushing were large contracts on hand. To an observer, the battle was lost down through the Tung Kwan Pays Reuter,
to Honan to engage, the forces of
Marshal Wu Fei-fu who has de- THE BRUSSELS RIOTS. clared in a circular telegram that If he fails to recapture Wu Han this time, he is' resolved to go into private life.
RETURNS TO CANTON,
CHINESE STUDENTS TÖ
B.E
by failure to reinforce the centre and broken communication with
wings. Those who professo know say that of the Chekiang army few had been ünder fire be- fore, many being mere ruddy- cheeked boys. During the fight, the shops in Kashing closed their doors, the people seemed paralyz
ed.'
A NIGHT OF TENKOR.
THE WANHSIEN FUND.
A Striking Appeal.
In the hope of reminding Hongkong Britishers of their duty to respond more liberally to the local Wanhsien Fund, we give below the text of a full-page appeal which ap- peared in last Tuesday's North China Daily Nervs.
"This is only addressed to British people. Please give, even if a trifle, to this fund. This is more than a charitable appeal. Those of British. blood who realise the signi feance of recent events in China and the danger in which. our fellow subjects are placed will realise that contributing to this fund medus a gesture of support to all that is in the best interests of China her- self.
This announcement is not issued officially, but by a pri- vate individual."
May we remind our readers that contributions in Hdng- kong should be sent to Mr. A. J. Bird, of the Chartered Bank
tion a million roubles from the funds collected by the Unions on their behalf.--Renter.
CONFERENCE ADJOURNED,
Later.
Woman's place will soon be in the fur coat.
O O
Girls in California, a news item
states, are wearing moustaches. where men are men, and you have That's out in the wide open spaces. to guess what the women are.
100
We hope the English Writer who în
Wound co-educational life'
America ran largely to pyjama Happiness is merely the victory Partius gin soirees, etc., is not
expecting prizes for originality. of mind over what's the matter
---If some Hongkong people loved
If these Russian boots become Questions relating to Imperial neighbours 13 themselves, the really popular, ladies will still find communications and Overscas neighbours would soon be killed a use for laddered stockings... settlement are now under close with affection. examination, and the keen interest
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Australia has 1,600 jazz bands, of the delegates has been aroused
Some girls" we know are at their Which shows that all the internal by the work of the Research Com- best in a tight squeeze.
discord there isn't political in mittoe, whose preliminary enquiry
character.
need for
O B Whether a bob, looks good or bad j
has emphasised the closer co-operation and an exchange of information between depends on shear luck. institutions engaged in different parts of the Empire. At this early stage of the conference, de- finite results are not, of course, to be expected, but the examina- tion of the Empire resources has they'll swim! undoubtedly quickened. the imagination of the delegates and
An anti-Prohibitionist state that in five years the United States will be wetter than ever. Suppose can- didates won't run for Office then
..
.
A London, doctor says children. wear too much clothing. But the girls soon- grow out of that.
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A Whitehall report says even Government servants occasionally show signs of over-strain. One of them who the other afternoon "Interporter."Seems to us that woke up and absent-mindedly rang for his shaving water has been given sick leave,
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a programme of investigation has you Abbit of a washout. been begun which promises to become a permanent feature of Imperial relations.
AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS. V
Not "Wuit and See," but Weasel see! }
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"What shall it profit a man if ho go to Macno and lose his sole!..
100%
...
Two hakèrs have succeeded in swimming the Channel. Strange-
We hear that Macao" is about to ly enough, no milkman has yet had At its second meeting to-day the make an Exhibition of itself.
a try research special sub-committee heard a statement on the nature and work of the organisations con- ducting researches in various spheres. Lord Bledisloe, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, stated that the Imperial Agricultural Resenfch Conference would be held in the early autumn of next Now, that the bathing season is should be a fit place for heroes to year, when matters of common over, what are, the young nymphs dance in. interest would be thrashed out. going to do for bugys? All the Dominions and most of the
The most-needed change a men's fashions is a reduction lu the number of packets in which While lecturing in a university, season tickets can be lost from a professor suddenly went crazy, thirteen to three at the most Perhaps he gave the students too. many pieces of his mind."
Colonies had accepted invitations i To be a success, the Funling Hunt'
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A kickless Charleston has been. invented. Ballrooms in future
白石
The leader of n Paris jazz band-
was recently arrested in the Seems B
to that Conference, which should will certainly require quality as well middle of a selection.
be very representative. There as Kwantity. were at present 18 well-equipped;
little late..
OND
and staffed Research institutes The K O. S. B. pipe band wash dealing with agricultural science lost on one member of the Surreys Nothing makes a girl laugh. in England and Wales, besides various institutes in Scotland
FISHERY RESEARCH.
who was heard to remark that the inóro út á Joke than pretty front only piper he had any time for was teeth
the "Ongkong Teleegrauph
00:
EXPELLED.;
It is also stated that Feng Yu-
Brussels, Oct. 29, hsiang bas at least 200,000, well- M. Vandervelde has announced trained soldiers at his command and that all the Chinese students who that it will not be many days before wore arrested at the street de reports will be received of the Kuo-monstration against the Sino- minchun in actual conflict with the Belgian Treaty have been re forces of Wu Pel-fu.
loused. Some of them have been As the moon rose the fighting ozdered to leave the country, and drew nearer and nearer the East the Government considers that Gate, looting was expected to be- General Chan Chal-tong, com- the reminder should be treated gin early by the defeated soldiers The conference between the
0.0 Worst thing about fast people is manding the 11th. Division of the in the game manner us Belgian and continued by the victors, minors' onderaard the TU.C Ath. Army Corps stationed in south-offenders.-Reuter.
Mistaking moonlight shadows or mediators has been adjourned till Mr. H. G. Maurice, Secretary of Running is not advisable in bot that they're usually slow to pay. something else, the Northern men next week to enable the Miners Fisheries, in giving an account of weather" states & Home doctor. We opened a heavy cannonade with Executive to consult the National the organisations conducting trust the new Regiment won't wear explosive shells, swooping the rall-Delgate Conference. The TU.C. fishery research, mentioned that tartan breeks in the summer in case way tracks for a mile or more naar is arranging a further conference representatives of the principal the colour runs the city walls. A shell fragment with the Prime Minister Router fishing Powers in Western Europe TESOLD ed development is due to the pric
fell Into the Mission playgrounds
met once yearly and worked at. Neuralgia may give one the inal officers of the 11th Division A conference of bankers and where school boys shivered on
programmes of research in co-creeps, but the Farling Hunt gives Government servants belong to.
the State, although occasionally having combined themselves to re-colton men has voted in favour basement floors. Girls left their His Excellency, the Governor has operation. Similarly, there was some people the jumps, he stet General Chan's orders for the of establishing a corporation with dormitories for any sort of epiace appointed the Rev. G. R. Lindsay to aiready a large amount of co-
OOAJA Home of them act as if the State reason that all these officers have a tapital of two and three-quarter in Catholle and Protestant com be a Member of the Board of Edu operation with the Dominions and
The Man in the Bowlor Harris belonged to them remarked o bcon imbued with "Red" sentiments million dollars to Unance the pounds. Women and children cation for a period of two years, other parts of the Empire and he the name of one of the ADC Cablet Minister the other day. through the influence of the Politi-withdrawal from the market of crowded hospital wards as re with effect from 27th October, expressed the hope that a per- forthcoming productions. Suppe We hasten to add that he was not cal Agent of the Kuomintang at 600,000 balesRouter's American fugees. Men were grateful for 1920, vice Mr. Bonjamin Wylie manent Imperial organisation for there'll be keen competicion for the referring to Hongkong tached to the Division,
(Continued on Page 16,) whose term of service has expired. (Continued on Page 10.) leading role from residents of low otherwise he would not hava sald
west district of Kwantung, hay suddenly arrived in Canton with
his family and a large staff of officers.
It is reported that this unexpec-| -|
COTTON MARKET.
ACTION BY TENNESSEE.
Service.
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Memplis, Oct. 20.
House St.
It can be said of the Hongkong pessimist that he's surprised when She isn't disappointed.
Occasionally