EXCITING TIMES ON THE YANGTZE.
BAD GUNNERY BY THE. CHINESE.
THE GALLANT KIAWO.
Shanghai, May 6.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
“RED” KIUKIANG.
TALE OF ANOTHER INVASION.
SOVIET IS GROWING ANXIOUS.
FEAR FOR CHINA'S RUSSIAN PRISONERS.
the
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TERRIFIED CHINESE.
LATEST PEKING REPORTS. Thousands of men of Chu Pel- teh's 3rd Army (Red) are crowd-
Peking, May 6. Much disquiet has been caus The following are extracts from ing into Kiukiang from places some notes received from a Reuter down river and in the neighbour- ed among the remaining officials the Soviet Embassy by correspondent who left for Har-hood of the Poyang Lake, writes of
summary garrotting kow on the str. Payang on April 1. a Kiukiang correspondent of the the
having N. C. Daily News. These men are Chinese captured in Chinking has been
last thrills over the week-end. Across said to be on their way to Nan-month's rald. It is feared that the river there is a motor road chang to reinforce the Left Wing the Russians will share the same running to Yangchow and the troops there and along the rail fate without trial or ceremony. Northerners brought up a, piece way line between Kiukiang and of Eght artillery on an armoured Nanchang. lorry and tried to make two Chinese cruisers uncomfortable The cruisers are lying off the Chinkiang Bund. The Northern- ers failed to hit the ships, which replied with as little success.
Yesterday these Chinese cruisers fired 100 shells from 1,600 yards at some red roofed buildings on the north bank but did not register
one hit.
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On Sunday the Butterfield and Swire str. Ninghai auffered rather badly off Tungehow, shats hitting her from a battery below the A three inch Lungshan Pagoda. shell ponetrated tween-decks and barat in the compradore's room, injuring a Chinese, Another shell hit the bride and did considerable
A damage.
third shell through the upper deck of the Special Service ship Kiawo and shrapnel injured two aboard her.
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A Busy Time.
went
search
Meanwhile they are billeted in the houses and shops of the native city, much to the dismay of the inhabitants, as the They troops pay for nothing.
to occupy have even threatened all the empty houses in the Con- ccasion and we expect this to happen at any minute.
Many of the Red troops now ar- riving are disbanded troops, who have been disarmed somewhere down river by troops loyal to Chiang Kai-shek. The Chinese are alarmed and expect looting to break out at any time, but now they have no Concession to run to for protection. At night the streets are deserted and no one dares to go abroad, so frequent are the armed robberies.
TUESDAY, MAY
BROTHERS AT LAW.
SUPREME COURT ARGUMENT.
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10, 1927.
LAND INVESTMENT MEETING.
PAYMENT TO THE CHATER ESTATE.
Continuing his argument in the mortgage case in the Supreme Court this morning, before the An extraordinary general moet- acting Chief Justice (Mr. J. Ring of shareholders of the Hong- Wood), Mr. Eldon Potter, K.C.kong Land Investment and Agency contended that the mortgage Company, Limited, this morning, transaction was rendered null and authorised the Directors to pay to void by the Infant's Rellef Act in the Executor of the late Sir Cat- England.
He argued that his chick Paul Chater, C.M.G., the pro- Lordship could not grant relief by portion of the remuneration to making an order for the return of which the late Sir Paul would have the property on repayment of the been entitled had he survived to mortgage money, because he would the end of 1926, amounting.. to then be literally enforcing a con-
$21,846.26. tract which, under the Infant's
Relief Act, was null and void.
who died in Macao Chinese
in
lain and Loo Kwong-hin claim they
Mr. D. G. M. Bernard presided, and there were also present: Sir
The Soviet Government has hand-
The case arises over dissent ed a strongly worded protest to the
ton. Mr. H. P. White, Mr. A. S. Chinese Charge d'Affaires in Me among sixteen sons of a wealthy Robert Ho Tung. Mr. A. 11. Comp- cow in which "dire consequences" 1907, who invested money in pro- Gubbay (directors), Mr. L. S.
Greenhill (secretary), M are threatened if the captives aro
E. so disposed of. This is all that is porty which was registered in the
Davidson (solicitor), Messrs. W. known of the Note for the Soviet names of other people when he E. L. Shenton, R. Sutherland, T. Consul has not received a copy and died. The plaintiffs, Loo Kwong-G. Weall. II. A. Rodgers, D the Waichinopu will not release it.
The Soviet spokesmen allege that were infants when they entered Skinner, A. M. McKirdy, R. E. they are prevented from seeing into a mortgage with Li Koon-chun MacDangal, H. Gittins, A. M. da either the captives from the Emand Kan Tong-pe on longkong Slva. F. Laurel, A. Mardock, N. bassy, or Mrs. Borodin and her fel-property for $100,000 in February, V. A. Croucher, J. K. Shaw, F. low prisoners from the Pamist 1925, and ask for the mortgage Austin, P. M. da Graca, P. M. G. to be set aside on these grounds, Silva, P. C. Randall, B. J. Lacon. Lenina.
and in addition because they D. J. Purves, W. Brackenridge and not benefitted. It being W. Lithgow Smith (shareholders). have
Chairman's Speech, stated that they have only receiv ed $9,000 between them out of the
Dr. C. J. Fox, of Tientsin, has been retained as counsel for the prisoners, but he, too, is unable to see them and cannot even file his application to appear in their de- fence!
Trial by Military.
total mortgage money. S
"Gentle-
The Chairman said: They further Ask for an in-en, you will recollect that at our last annual meeting on January junction to restrain the defendants 27th I referred to the item in the or their agents or servants from balance sheet of the Company as selling or otherwise dealing with a December 31st, 1926, "Managing the property, and also their costs. Directors Fees, in Suspense Mr. Eldon Potter, KC, together $21,846.26" representing a portion with Mr. L. G. Shelton, instructed of the fees for 1926 which were by Mr. D. L. Strellett is for the due to the late Sir Paul Chater plaintiffs and the defence is being calculated up, to the date of his conducted by Mr. F. C. Jenkin, in-death. structed by bir. G. G. N. Tinson,
From the Chinese side it is Kidnapped in Broad Daylight,
gathered that all the prisoners will A few nights ago a panic was caused by the troops firing a few be given a brink, but in a military court and not in a civilian court, shots at an armed robber who after commitling murder, was Oficials yesterday told me it is not escrping over Mic City roofs. He usual for a civilian lawyer to appear tribunals. They was shot in the leg and captured. before such
Our legal advisers are doubtful H.M.S. Wanderer had a busy A highly respected and elderly refute the Russian allegation that the prisoners are badly treated. Lind yesterday. She took a short Customs employee was kidnapped
In opening his case yesterday if the estate of the deceased is Yet this is the reason given in So- cut known as Demodogus passage in broad daylight.on the crowded
the Kingyin forts. The Chinese Bund just outside the Con- viet circles for the hunger strike in Mr. Polter addressed the Court legally entitled to those fees owing which Mrs. Borodin and the other throughout the morning and after to the way clause 95 (b) of the forts opened fire and Wanderer cession. He was bundled into a
Pamiat Lenina prisoners joined as noon session, and continued this Articles of Association is worded.
morning. He mainly
confined However your Directors are unani- replied with 70 shells from her boat and taken over to the desert-
soon as they arrived in Peking. main armament. Wanderer sused North bank opposite. He was
The only hope of gaining favour-himself to quoting authorities, mous in considering that the sum tained one casualty..
held for ransom for $1,000 but We left the gallant Kinwo after much hardship and bargain-able consideration of the Soviet which he contended showed that in question should be paid to the Chinking. With only a couple of ing obtained his release by giving case is considered to be the immin mortgage of that kind was a loan estate having regard to the work of the year and do not wish to pom-poms she has not hesitated to up a gold ring and a promissoryent return of Yang Yu-ting to and nothing more, and that the In-of Sir Paul during early months
Tsung-chang's influence comes to being recovered from an infant, the surface and this is what the and rendered the contract of mort- has seen us safely through a very paid the next day,
At last Eugene Chen has kept a dangerous zone which is heavily
One morning we read Russians are afraid of since Margage void.
The case will probably fortified at strategic points and promise. held by undisciplined troops in the wireless press that he had shal Chang has already made known
issued a notice in Hankow that the is wish that the Russian prisoners several days.
should be treated the same way uncertain temperament,
National Government could no
as the Chinese. must of course wait for the
longer be responsible for the pro- Chinese to fire first before acting teetion of unoccupied foreign pro- and her role is an unenviable one carried through with the tradi-perlies, and that very afternoon the house of Mr. Goddard, an tional pluck and smartness of the American subject, was looted in Senior Service.
face the fire of field artillery and note for $60, which amount he Peking. When he is away Chang fants' Relief Act prevented money endeavour to press what may be
She
Bid for Foreign Sympathy.
The Soviet spokesmen are trying to gain foreign sympathy with the
SERIOUS CHARGES.
the
the technical meaning of Article referred to.
Under the circumstances they last have been advised to call this meeting and ask for the approval of shareholders to making the pay- ment to the estate and I trust you will be agreeable to it.
Kiukiang Native City by Chinesa plight of their fellow-countrymen ALLEGED CHEQUE FORGERY, Jórdinary, resolution and when this
on the ground that the Chinese are
Since leavily Chinkiang the National Government troops. convoy has been meandering along Alf the foreign houses in the na-handling their first case of political at six and a half knots, which aptive city have been reoccupied by pears to be the best speed of the these troops as billets. str. Kian, under the charge H.M.S. Wanderer.
Narrow Escape of Officers.
of
I now beg to propose that the resolution advertised and as read by the secretary be passed as an has been seconded I shall be pleased to answer to 'the best of Joseph Matthews Kailey was
my ability any questions which offence in which foreigners are im- plicated. They say that all for-charged before Major C. Willson shareholders may wish to ask."
two eigners are in the same boat in view this morning with stealing
Mr. A. H. Compton,seconded, of which we should try to prevent cheques, drawn on the Mercantile the establishment of a precedent of Bank of India, Limited, belonging and there being no questions, the a kind that would be dangerous in to Mr. E. R. Dovey, with forging resolution was put to the meeting
one cheque with Mr. Dovey's and unanimously carried,
There was no other business. future years.
signature for $980, untering same knowing it to be forged and with
forecast up till The weather forging a documentary letter to the Manager of the Mercantile noon to-morrow, issued by the Royal Observatory, states:-"East Bank,
was adjourned until winds, moderate; overcast, ocċa- sional rain."
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"Distinguished" Visitors. Cheng Chien, the exalted com mander of that organization of ex- National On Friday last Reuter's corres-pert looters, the 6th pondent reported. the shelling of Arms, is in Kiukiang. So is the the str. Kiawo by troops on the infamous Lin Tso-heng, the man who organized the Nanking hor- Yangize.
As head of the Talilical It now transpires that the rors. shell which hit the cabin of the Bureau of the 6th Army he has ship, which has now been taken caused the native town and con over by the Navy, might have had cession to be plastered with pos- disastrous results had it beenters denouncing the false govern- fired a few seconds before. Justment set up in Nanking and de- before the shell was fired amanding the death of the traitortion Quarter, officers-many of whom were then Chiang Kai-shek and his allies, in the wärdoom-were ordered to their stations. Then the shell was fired and exploded in cabin, which the officers had for tunately just:left, -
The ease
The foreign response is cold. It is generally felt that the raid re- moved a cloud over Peking that was growing denser with the gradual progress northwards of the Canton The seized documents proved the long-feit fear that boring tac-this afternoon. ties were being hatched under the ver of the immunity of the Legn Typical foreign comment i The Soviet prides We have, indeed, a gathering "Well. They have got exactly what itself an its realism and now they of distinguished visitors. I ad- they asked for. thedition to Lin Tso-heng, we have
They are fond of face the music. his brother in Tso-lich, the new-have got to by realistic enough to ly, appointed local Red Commis- sioner of Foreign Affairs. Until telling the world this music is won- derful stail. As for being in the recently he has been acting as
same boat, Moscow deserted it a interproter te Doriot. French
long time age and from their own member of the 3rd Interna-
Lont have been bumping us so to tional Gang, who have come
rauch in recent years that we have China to stir up trouble.
all our work out out to keep above water."N. C. Daily News,
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Although he turns the scale at A curious light on waterfrontsioner of Foreign Affairs, was activities was disclosed in a case appointed by Chiang Kai-shek
some months ago. What did this 17st. 616. A. C. Spence, of Har- before M. R. E. Lindsell
worthy do when he found things penden, Herts, the heaviest boy at morning. Twa odd-job coolies were getting too but for him? He Elon, is a keen player of every He was one of the were charged with levying black happened one evening to be in the sort of game. mail on their fellows, and Detec om ning kicking college "walls" in a great game A tive Inspector Shaftain toid an in- Defence Commissioner, when the with the Oppidans on St. Andrew's teresting story, of the circumlatter was called up on the tele- Day. He gained his Rugby enlour stances which led to this case. phone by Chu Pei-ten and ordered last year, and is a good, forward, the kick at Gen. Teng is and generally takes For some months past, the office to arrest Lin Hao. stated, a number of
a friend of Liu Hao's and told him goal. Recently he came straight themselves to, get out quick, At 7 next away from South Meadow after porters had banded into an organization for the pur-morning Liu Hao presented him- playing in a Rugby match against the school pose of battening on the earnings self on board a British destroyer the Harlequins, and took part in
By means of and refused to go ashore. He said the school sports on of their fellows. threats of bodily injury, which his life was in danger. He wish field. He was entered for the high were sometimes carried out, they ed to leave by the first British jump, but did not compete! He had been enabled to levy a "tax" steamer for Nanking. As, how-took part in the tug-of-war, how-
were по British ever, but his team-the Drybobg- of two cents on every ten cen's ever,
By steamers going down river for was beaten by the Wetbobs by 2 of the victims' carnings. themselves paying a contribution several days, he took a British pulls to nil, despite the advantage
waterfront
there
to the head-coolies, the gang were steamer going up to Hankew that of weight: also enabled to establish a sort same afternoon and will stay on of waterfront labour monopoly, that steamer until it goes down and implant in the minds of those again to Nanking. Naturally he outside of their privileged circle, will take very good care not to indeed go ashore at Hankow. So we still Idea the
that they
have our Commissioner of Customs managed all the labour contracts.
Jt, came to pass that, goaded and but we have lost our Commissioner harassed, the coolies eventually of Foreign Affairs. complained to the police, and ac-
How are the mighty fallen tion was taken by Inspector First of all they threaten and then
they cringe for protection. Shaftain. charged in Court are stated to be very oriental and how very con-
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and facilitate of whom said that his porter's rope we may find friends on board who ateamers was taken away from him by the can supply news from the other affairs instead of allowing them to first defendant and thrown into ports up and down the river. enjoy the journey between Shang M
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