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OCTOBER 5, 1927. BINGLY COPY 10 CENTA
FENGTIEN ARMY FALLS BACK CAPTIVES KILLED. REDUCING COLONY'S
ESTABLISHING LINES
DEFENCE.
NANKOW PASS,
OF
ECHO OF THE KOCHOW PIRACY.
A
MERCHANT'S ESCAPE.
Wuchow merchant, named Wong, who was one of the cap-
TROOPS.
THREE BATTALIONS TO BE LEFT.
DATES OF DEPARTURE.
The reduction of the troops in
AC. P. R. MISHAP.
LINE SINKS IN MINE
COLLAPSE. 3
MINERS' NARROW ESCAPE.
Sudbury, Ontario, Oct. 4. The Mond Nickel Company's
railway.
BUICK 1928-
Smartness that catches the eya on- any Boulevard-Buick for 1928-soon on display.
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MEXICAN REBELS
EXECUTED.
DRASTIC SUPPRESSION OF REVOLT.
WOMEN ARE IMPLICATED.
Mexico City, Oct. 4.
HANKOW NEGLECT
BRITISH RESIDENTS'
GRIEVANCES.
BUND FILTH AND STENCH.
The latest Hankow papers to
DETERMINED TO MAKE A STAND AT tives in the recent 9.3. Kochow Hongkong to three battalions. mine at Worthington, 80 miles and Gomez, confined their Presi-ence relative to the very bad con- "So long as Generals Serrano hand contain much correspond- piracy, returned to the Colony which, it is understood, will forn away, has collapsed, wrecking dential campaign to words, I was ditions pertaining in the ex-British two days ago, and told his story the periranent garrison for Hong-hundreds of yards of the Canadian prepared to give theat of days spent with the pirates kong, will be accomplished the Pacific Railway and engulfing the guarantee to press their candida letter, from the Central China Post, overy Concession, and the following and his narrow escape, to a lend of November.
ture, but now. they have taken the throws much light on the plight Chinese reporter.
The remainder of the 1st Latt.
Nobody was hurt, as the station field they are traitors whom the and attitude of British residents The merchant alleged that of the Cameroniana (Scottish shifts were being changed, and Government is determined to com- NEW THREAT TO SWATOW.
shortly after the piracy the cap-Rifles), the reservists having al- the day men, who had not descend-bat and annihilate," declares in that much-neglected port: Consequent upon the occupation of Kaigan by the Shansi forces,ives were taken to the Taipingsaready left, will leave for Home sa ed far, heard warning rumblings President Calles in a manifesto
Sir-Your correspondent. "Just er about October 18th, accom- and succeeded in reaching the surrowing peremptorily to suppress as Dumb" may be quite correct in
the revolutionary movement. the Fengiien defenders have retreated to the important station of art, guarded by pirates. panied by the reservists of the 4th face before the collapse.
President Calles admits that futile if we keep in mind the re
that a mass meeting would be Suanhwafu, on the Peking-Kalgan line, and are now consolidating Later they were distributed into Light Brigade, R.A. The trans-
The Canadian Pacific Railway troops have mutinied not only in turn of the concession or some house have settled in the huge de- and Coahulia. An attempted out as opinions would be hopelessly more men in each group. Wong's group "consisted of 17 persons
The 2nd Batt. Northamptonshire pression formed. The telegraph break has occurred at Vera Cruz divided. But there are other kept imprisoned in
directed by General Gomez, while matters that can be taken up. We Regiment will leave for Shanghai wires have been torn down. small
on November. 4th by the 9.9.
General Serrano's revolt at Tor see rickshas roaming the streets The landing of troops from Cantonese gunboats at Swatow has
The mine is 1,200 feet deep, and freon has only been put down after in droves and accosting all and resulted in a return to normality, but it is reported that the main
reach Hongkong on November 3ri is one of the company's oldest a battle of three hours. All the seldom observing the rules of the Somersetshire, which is due to Cantonese army is still some distance, away, and that, Generals Yip Ting and Ho Lung are planning to re-enpture the city, as they have the hut, which was cold and carrying a large draft for the workings. Reuter's American Sers rebel officers have been captured, road. They are a nuisance to the and soldiers equivalent to a batta-walking public who can easily hail lion have been disarmed.- Reuters American Service.
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their position at that spot, which is to be made the first line of several small groups, with 10 or port will be provided by the workshops and the engine round-Mexico City, but also at Torreon thing equally as drastic, inasmuch
defence. This is in front of the Nankow, Pass, where they will
• minke a final stand, if necessary.
withdrawn only a few miles away.
An acute financial crisis prevails at Hankow where conditions are going from bad to worse. No serious incidents have, however, been reported.
Chinese gunboals on the Yangtze, in the vicinity of Wuhu, From other parts of the river. are examining all passing vessels. nothing of note is reported.
GROWING TENSION AT HANKOW.
Shanghai, Oct. 5.
Following the serious fighting at Kaigan, the Fengtien troops were
adly defeated and suffered heavy ses. The rengtien General Kon Wei-ao has retreated to Suanhwafu with his defeated forces, while Ha Shansi troops entered Kalgan On the 3rd,
Defence measures have been taken by the Fengtion army since
Yu-lin, is now in command.
Quiet at Shanghai.
Shanghai, Oct. 4. There is nothing to report Naval Wireless.
hut in the open fields
near
Taipings. Chained with irons, all the captives squatted inside
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damp, and were well-guarded by three bandits day and night. intervals they were subjected to long interrogations by the bandit chief, who employed all sorts of" cruel methods to extort confes- sions from the captives. Letters were sent home asking for negotia- tions and payment of ransoms to the bandits, who threatened that if no news was received from the families of the prisoners then the latter would be shot.
Shot in Cold, Blood...
The bandits were as good their words, for when ZA about two weeks had elapsed with
replies, 14 persons in the group were shot by the bandits, one after the other.
no
and his two
unfortunate
Karmala. •
vice.
tails, The Northants rezervists Northamptonshires and other de-
return trip of the Somersetshire, WHAMPAO ACADEMY. will remain in Hongkong until the after which they will be Home- ward bound.
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a ricksha if they want one, and the police do nothing about it. At the corner opposite and to the right of Hemmings and Berkley's Building is a convenient latrine common with several other
Officers Executed.
Mexco City, later. General Serrano, one of the re-in
There is talk of the construction NOT TO BE CLOSED DOWN.volutionary leaders, and thirteen places. The Bund foreshore is
of permanent barracks at Sham- shuipo to house the additional battalions in Hongkong, which at the present time are the Queen's Regiment, and the Scots Guards. Details if drawn up, are not available at present.
SOVIET EXPEDITION TO YANGTSZE.
EXPLORERS PLAN TO
INVESTIGATE.
Leningrad, Oct. 4.
(Our Own Correspondent.)
of his followers, have been capnotorious for its filth and stench. tured.
One dead body I know was allowed They have all been court to remain for two days, and fla- martialled and executed.
eased dogs wander there at will..
· Canton, Oct. 4. The decision to close the
Colonel Manvanilla, the com-The seats on the Bund are used by Whampoa Military Academy has mander of the Sixteenth Battalion filthy coolies and are full of ver been withdrawn, and General Li of the Torreon garrison, and all min, and the grass is overrun with
his members of Chai-sum desires that its activities the
staff, loafers. Handcarta are hopeless- As a training institution for have been executed as wellly overloaded and the wear and officers should go on uninter-Beuter's American Service, rupted.
Women Arrested.
New York,Oct. 4.
tear on the roads is greater than it should be by well regulated haulage.. When a cart reaches General Fong Ting-ying, a Che-|
crossing the coolles pulling it kiang man and an adherent, of
often shout and deliberately hurry A despatch from Galveston across regardless of which way Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, has re-states that the Mexican Govern- the police is directing traffic, signed as Dean of the Academyment has ordered a censorship Not until a speeding motor car and now General Li Chai-sum has both ways on all cable communica-collides with one of these carts appointed another officer succeed General Fong. Li is now United States.
totions between Mexico and the fat a crossing resulting in loss of
life will anything be done. Nogales, in Arizona, 29 prominent } citizens of Mexico City, including
whom are sons of well-to-do
No School.
a dozen women, have been arrest-
No provision is made for ed on a charge of being implicated in the revolt, and possessing arms school. The former British School is now the S.A.D. court, a court
upper courses of the Yangtaze. The Academy has recently en-
The expedition will also study rolled over 4,000 cadets, 100 of and ammunition. the vegetation and fauna in the valleys of the Yangtze, near the Bastern borders of Tibet-Reuter.
families residing in foreign lands.
Better Finances.
The Provincial Government has decreed that all transactions in.
Knowing that his turn would Further Attack Likely.
come at a near date Wong plotted Canton, Oct. 4. with the two other captives for a The latest reports from Swatow final bid for freedom. The trio state that although the forces un-planned that they would get hold der Generals Yip Ting and Hoof the pistols of the guards whe
walked or sat just ouside the hut The Leningrad Geographical president of the Military Academy. According to a. rumour from by then it will be too late. Lung have evacuated that port, their loss at Kalgan on Monday. the Canton forces have not yet at all times. However, Wong was Society is shortly sending a big Mr. Tai Kwai-to, president of
Shan University, The Fengtion front headquarters arrived. Troops on
the only one to obtain a bandit's expedition under the direction of Chung board the has taken all suitable measures to gunboats in the harbour have weapon when the attack was made, the well-known traveller and ex-appointed concurrently as Politi- make Suanfwafu the first de landed and are garrisoning the panions were immediately killed in
complorer Kozloff, to investigate the cal Director of that school. fence line and Nankow Pase the city. Generals Yip Ting and to the struggle. Armed with a pistol, second defence line. At the same ung have withdrawn their sol- Wong took to his heels and took time, it is stated in a further re diers only a few
miles from shelter behind
Ten of the women have been re-after all distinct and separate port that General Tang Hing-lim, Swatow, and plan to re-capture it.
a near-by rock of the Shanal forces, has planned
Two bandits made a pursuit and
leased, but the remainder of the from the Municipal police and authentic re a severe struggle ensued with the According to an
prisoners are being held in custody, under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and to prove the ethics of to attack Suanhwafu from Shining,
Reuter's American Service.
the kind of justice administered where the Fengtien General Tang port, the alleged looting in Swatow result that both of the bandits
was perpetrated not by the enemy were killed.
Train Service Suspended. one has only to review the casc soldiers but by certain ruffians and
of a few weeks ago in which a Owing to the development of bandits who took advantage of the
Vera Cruz, Oct. 4. At a neighbouring village Wong FRANCE AND RUSSIA. volving over $1 especially remit-
court, runner smuggling opium tances and mortgages, are to be the North China altuation, the situation. It is true, however, met, a soldier who guided him to
The military authorities have was immune from punishment by paid in bank notes of the Central ordered the suspension of the the police because of his status, Shangtung border has recently that General Ho Lung asked for a where he could board the Canton- Shiuhing towboat for Samshui, been threatened by Marshal Feng loan of $300,000 in order to pay
Bank of China. This is to en-train service on the Mexican In-Such a court (alleged) of justice Yu-hsiang who lately announced his troops, but only $20,000 was er back to Wuchow. He has just from which place he took a steam-
courage the current use of this ter-Oceanic Railway conecting is now housed in the British hie intention to co-operate with actually collected. Contrary to a arrived in the Colony on some busi
paper money and to enhance its Vera Cruz and Mexico City. No School and the British women are General Yes' Hal-san against Mar- previous report, General Galen
reason has been' given for the or-at a loss as to how to educate Tahal Chang Tso-lin:
Was not with the forces of Yipness, and has told his experiences.
These banknotes have not only der, by which all branch lines their children. Bicycle riding on It is officially stated that the fully recovered their former value, and two railways are affected, but the footpath goes on even outside. Commissary of Foreign Affairs is but are in great demand in the it is rumoured that uprisings have the Municipal Building with police The reason is occurred in several places. The looking on as interested spectators. opposed to the withdrawal of money market. Rakowsky from Paris as the Am- that it is much more convenient Federal Garrison has left the bar as I saw yesterday. The carting bassador to France.
to carry paper uoney than coins, racks for an unknown destination. of cargoes and baskets on the sidewalk is continuous.Coolies and that many silver coins are Reuter's American Service.
with poles are now a menace 20 The Commissary gees no justifica-forged or their weight much les
pedestrians. Hawkers roam the tion for such an act, and considers sened by deliberate scratching and that Rakowsky's recall would have rubbing.
AGRICULTURE IN THE streets at will as do beggars. Private rickshas are parking on most unfavourable effect on Franco-Russian negotiation.-
EMPIRE.
the sidewalks. A notorious offen- Reuter.
der is the one opposite the old volunteer headquarters.
FENGTIEN-SHANSI WAR.
Kalgan Evacuated.
Peking, Oct. 4.
ment.
ACCIDENT AVERTED.
AMBASSADOR'S RECALL
OPPOSED.
"Moscow, Oct. 4.
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MORE SOVIET DEATH SENTENCES.
It is reported that Marshal Ting and Ho Lung as he is now Feng's forces are moving down on his way back to Russia. Nor is along the Lunghai Railway in the Mr. Tang Yin-tat directing the course of an attack on Shantung political work of the enemy armies. Van Chung Pua.
Tang is not in China at the mo-
DRIVER'S PRESENCE OF MIND. Generals. Chen Chai-tong and Wong Shiu-hang are directing the But for the presence of mind campaign near Swatow. Their of a Hongkong Hotel bus driver armies and those of Yip-Ho are this morning, a serious hccident It is reliably reported that the Mui Yuen, and East River dis-bert Road, when the brakes of the now fighting in the Chip Chow, might have occurred in Lower AL- Fengtien forces are withdrawing tricts. To ensure the success of towards the Nankow pass, having the Cantonese regiments, General the driver skilfully steered to bus were put out of action, and qvacuated Kalgan.-Router.
Cheung Fat-hui, the "Iron Comwards the side of the road, using Make Stand at Nankow Pass. mander," has ordered his 25th, an 1 the bank as a brake. There wore 12th. divisions to assist General seven European passengers, and Iking, Oct. 4.
Chen Chal-tong.A Correspondent. one lady, who became frightened. The withdrawal of the Fengtien
tried to jump out at the back, but forces from Kalgan was due to
fell. She received slight injuries a flank attack threatening their
to her hands and face. communications. Fengtien army are preparing to make a resolute
It appears that the bus was be- stand in the vicinity of Nan
ing driven along Lower Albert The Kamenetz-Podolsk tribunal kow Pass. The Shanal army oc-
Two Chinese gunboats have Rond, and, just before reaching has tried 50 prisoners accused of cupied Kalgan yesterday after- been stationed at Wade Island the hairpin bend, the driver noticespionage, in Ukranian territory, on roon.-Reuter.
for the purpose of examining all ed a peculiar noise coming from behalf of Poland.... ships passing. Vessels are not the rear of the bus. He imme- prohibited from moving after diately applied his brakes but the dark, but when passing the gun- speed was not checked, so he been sentenced to death, and others boats they are examined by search- gradually steered into the bank have been sentenced to imprison- lights.
Reuter The military authorities have on the left hand side of the road ment varying from five to ten years.
until the bus was scraping the
HANKOW TENSION.
Acute Financial Crisis.
SHIPS WATCHED.
Gunboats on Yangtsze.
Wuhu, Oct. 4.
Hankow Oct. 4. The Central China Post has been ordered the Anhwei Province to wall, thus providing a brake. forced to suspend publication on provide a large sum of money,
An examination revealed a account of lightning strike of its ostensibly for troop rutions broken axle on the offside near employees.
Naval Wireless. The financial crisis is still acute but ganerally speaking the situa-. tion is devoid of incident--Naval Wireless.
SWATOW NORMAL.
Cantonese Troops Arrive.
TANG AT CHANGSHA. To Celebrate The Republic.
Changsha, Oct. 4. "General Tang Seng-chi, who has been at Changsha for the past week, organizing support for the Wuhan Government, has indicated that he. Swatow, Oct. 4.will remain until after the festivi The situation is normal, the ties in connexion with the anniver arrival of the Cantonese troops sary of the Republic of China, on having cleared up the tension October 10th. when he will return formerly existent Neval Wire to Hankow-Naval Wireless." Le88,
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wheel, which had released the brake shoes and rendered braking system, Ineffective.
tha
In addition to the broken axle. the petrol tank was found to be lebking.
TO-DAY.
Dollar on demand 1/11 11/16 Lighting-up
6.08 p.m
TRIAL OF ALLEGED -SPIES..
Moscow, Oct. 4.
Five of the chief accused have
GERMAN FLIGHT TO. AMERICA.
A SEAPLANE USED.
Berlin" Oct. 4.
value.
According to an unofficial state- ment, the Government has collect- ed about $6,000,000 out of the $10,000,000 loan. During the last few days, one hears very little about pressure for the full pay- ment of this levy. The merchants are of the opinion that since the Central Bank is now in a sound financial position, no further lery should be made.
CUBAN SUGAR BILL.
A BIG DELEGATE CONFERENCE.
Cargo Pilfering,
The question of dogs has been. London, Oct. 4.
adequately referred to but nothing Comprising two hundred dele has been done about it. Filtering gates, the Imperial Agricultural of cargo is serious enough for Conference to-day began in London shipping companies to insert a its discussions of the best ways and clause to the effect that they will means of organising agricultural not accept claims after the cargo: research within the Empire. leaves the ship. The hordes of The Hon. W. E. Guinness, Minis-women and children may be ex ter of Agriculture,, in the opening cused, as one Chinese. friend ex-" speech, said that agriculture was cused it on the ground that they the largest Empire industry. Even are poor and needy, but how. in this crowded country, it reached much better then officially to give the value of £225,000,000 a year, them what they take by posting Havana, Oct. 4. and when one realised that in the notices to that effect, rather than President Machado has signed vast overseas territories of the Em- make criminals by overlooking in the Sugar Bill, to establish atabili-pire 80 per cent of the people were the main their offence? An occa sation of prices by restriction living by agriculture, that industry sional arrest is not sufficient. output.-Router's American Se: would be seen as a giant pillar of The volunteer headquarters is its life and prosperity-British now the home of a number of Wireless.
FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE OF RUBBER..
vice.
SPANISH NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY.
J
"gentlemen in grey who make an unearthly noise at daybreak evéry morning with their shouting at THE DUTCH AIR MAIL drill and combined bugle and
ARRIVAL AT, KARACHI'
Karachi, Oct. 4
trumpet practice in two different keye simultaneously. Could this not be stopped in the interest of public health and conveniente: Motors that fly through the streets at break neck speed are a danger Lieut. Koppen, who is carrying and menace to the public. Care The King has signed a decree an air mail from Amsterdam, ringes are overloaded and the nominating the former Foreign whence he departed on October 1, horses made to work while ing Minister, Yanguas, as president of to the Dutch East Indies, has ar dreadful condition, etc etc.
(Continued on" Page: 14.) the National Assembly-Reuterrived here from Bushire Hauter,
A three-engined Junker sea-THE PRESIDENT, NOMINATED. plane, with two pilota, Starke and Loos, navigator, Loewe, and mechanfc, Flitther, has started on
a flight to New York, via Lisbon, the Azores, and Newfoundland.
Reuter.
Madrid, Oct. 4.