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Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER.22 1927.
CHINA'S NEW WAR.
It was disclosed in telegrams received yesterday that the mis. sion which recently went from Nanking to Hankow to make peace with General Tang Seng-chi prov- ed abortive, and that the Nanking
SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 22, 1927.
DAY BY DAY.
on the eve of a big upheaval. The Nationalist party is almost unre- cognisably split up into factions"
HE WHO KNOWS MOST BELIEVES ofther openly antagonistic or indif- THE LEAST.-Buckle.
The Government matshed 'cubi- closed on and after the evening of eles at Repulse Bay Bench will be
Sunday, the 30th October, 1927.
IN THE "WORLD" OF BOOKS.
Family
"Travels" to Many Parts.
སཾསཙྪིམཱནྷིཉྩཨནྣཾཨནཱིཨནྡྷཎཾཨནྣཾཨརཱིརིཀ སཝཏྟིཀ སཏྟིསཏནིཡནི ཡ, པདིཨཏྠི
ferent to each other and wherever one looks in Chian to-day thoro is the same tale of disintegration
It is not my intention to pose as, voyage is Negly Farson's "Sailing and friction to be told. The coun-
an authority on books of travel, but Across Europe. The author and try was never more torn between
merely to recommend a few that we his wife, whom ho dubs the "crew," With reference to the British Wire have particularly enjoyed in our sailed from Holland, by way of the itself and never was tearing less less communication from London on family "travels."
Rhine, Main and Danube Rivers, justified from the national stand that Mr. Francia Birtles will make the tion of "The Odyssey" takes pre-a twenty-six-tuot boat. Mr. Farson, Thursday, it is interesting to learn George Herbert Palmer's transla- across Europe to the Black Sen, in point. Of lofty aim and purpose overland trip from London to Aus cedence with us over all the books a genial, likeable individual, gives us there is but little and all the fight-chine similar to the one used when bo This one have we often reread; al- the people and the customs of the
tralia in a 14 H.P. Benn Car; a ma-
of travel in our reading experience. many interesting pen pictures of ing when analysed becomes just completely encircled Australia by
ways charmed by the beauty of the countries through which he passed. so much personal wrangling and land,
language and held in admiration by If by chance you prefer in your the disputes of cliques, Per-
the wonderful qualities of "long-fireside travels the exploration of Asia, you will enjoy Marco Polo. haps Nanking does try to repre-
tried, royal Odysseus."
Apropos of sea voyages, I should This indefatigable Venetian travel- sent the aims of those Nationalists
like particularly, to speak of Shae-ler gives us wonderful descriptions who really would like to see some- the Hon. Mr. H. W. Bird: The Hon.leton's "South" and call your at- of the grand Kublai-Kaan, his bat- thing worth while accomplished Mr. J. Owen Hughes, in place of boat journey from Elephant Island magnificence of his court.
tention to the magnificently heroic ties, hunts, and the unparalleled the Hon. Mr. A. O. Lang; The Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, in place of the late Hon. MrP. H. Holyoak.
ag a
for the benefit of China whole, but Nanking has been rather badly directed and has landed itself into the maelstrom. of factional intrigue without at- tracting the loyalty of those whose help is essential for success. It is certain that the great trade of the Yangtsze is to be once again in- terrupted and jeopardised and that as the result of this new war," the Chinese people themselves will be the worse sufferers.
[The above article was written prior to the receipt of news that
the Nanking forces had gained on initial success against Gen. Tang Seng-chi, who is reported to be suing for peace.j
The Navy Intervenes, The intervention by a British submarine in Bias Bay on Thursday night, whereby a pirated vessel was stopped, disabled, and the plans of the pirates on board frustrated, makes thrilling reading, for one can imagine, apart from the official details, the dramatic surprise, the warning shots, the shell, crashing into the engine-room, the blazing ship, the panic aboard when scores of people jumped into the water, and the great efforts of the sub- marine crew in effecting rescues
H.E. the Governor has made the following appointments to the Au- thorized Architects Committee:- Lieut.-Col. L. G. Bird, in place of
Pavilion Theatre in London on A fuse-box explosion outside the September 26 blew a hole in the pavement, knocked a woman over, burst a taxi cab's tyre, brought out three are engines and fifty Police, and put out the word "dam" in the illuminated sign of the play "One Dam Thing after
Another."
Mr. C. J. Tacchi, of the Public Works Department, has reported to the police that while driving his car along the Praya East yesterday afternoon, he collided with two
The
Chinese women who were carry ing a load of glass-plates. women were not injured, but the glass, which was valued at $100, was damaged to the extent of $80.
The Head of the Sanitary De- partment has been appointed to exercise all the duties in connexion with the issue of eating-house licences which were under the Li- quors Consolidation Ordinance, vested in the Treasurer, other than the receipt of fees for such licences, which fees shall be paid to the Treasurer en or before the issue of the licences.
1911,
to South Georgia. If ene does Should you care to travel with an not have leisure to read the whole expedition of exploration, you may of this fascinating book of explora- go "East of the Sun and West of tion, it is tremendously worth while the Moon" with Theodore and Ker- extremely hazardous 800-mile voy their undertaking, some of the most to read at least the account of this mit Roosevelt. They negotiate, in age on which Shackleton, with a difficult trails and passes of the small crew, braved the stormy sub- Himalaya Mountains to Antarctic Ocean in a weather specimens for the Chicago Field beaten twenty-foot boat with an im- Museum of Natural History. provised deck of box lids, sledge runners and canvas.
collect
Benjamin W. Mitchell gives us in "Trail Life in the Canadian Rockies" an interesting account of a The sixteen days' voyage was one most delightful horseback trip he of "supreme strife amid heaving took in company with his wife and waters. So small was the boat several friends. In his preliminary and so great were the seas that try-out climb of Carnarvon he en- often their sail flapped idly in the countered the fickle weather charac- calm between the crests of two teristic of the high mountain tope. waves. At midnight on the eleventh He felt that it had never been better day when Shackleton was at the tiller, he noticed, between the south and the southwest, a line of clear sky. Ile called to his men that the he realized that what he saw was sky' was clearing, but in a moment
of an enormous wave. not a lift in the clouds but the crest
described than in this bit of deg gerel, attributed to Edward Whym- per, the famous mountaineer:
First it rained and then it blew; Then it friz and then it snew; Then it foggul and then it thew, And very shortly after then It blow and new and they again. Mitchell urca us there is very
*
He writes: "During twenty-six years' experience of the ocean in all its moods, I had not encountered little probability in the Canadian a wave so gigantic. It was a Rockies of being molested by wild mighty upheaval of the ocean, a animals. The nearest approach to thing quite apart from the big a casualty happened when une mem- white-capped seas that had been our ber of the party was awakened by tireless enemies for many days sense of oppression on his enest The sea broke around them and, and found a twenty-pound parcu half-filled with water, the little pine seated thereon consuming hie bont was tossed like a cork in the precious whiskers! Mr. Mitchel in aseething foara.
not only gives us an enjoyable ac- ed a similar wave when, alone, he his appreciative and detailed des- Capt. Joshua Slocum encounter-count of the events of eachy, but made his trip around the world in criptions of the mountains convey the sloop Spray. Without warning, a very definite impression of their
house at Hollywood Road! last even-
A chimney fire occurred: ink, the alarm being received at the Fire Brigade Headquarters shortly after eight plclock. An appliance
Nationalists are definitely going under the utmost difficulties of was sent to the scene, but the out this appalling monster, which was ineffable grandeur.
to make war against Hakow. for the purpose of subjugating this intractable section of the party. The sensational change in the plans of the Nationalists in con-
con-
H
A Chinese driver of a livery car parked his vehicle at the stand
OBITUARY.
Berkely, California, Oct. 21.
E. S. P.
CANTON ICE.
·COMPANY'S BETTER
OUTLOOK.
Hongkong and Canton Ice Manu-. At the annual meeting of the facturing Co., Ltd., the Chairman (Mr. T. G. Weall) said:
Gentlemen: The Report and
with a tale of another point for the joining building. He had act The death has occurred of Dr. Bias Bay score sheet. This time gone a few yards before his at-Charles Levermore, at the age of the plans of the desperadoes have tention gone all awry, as badly as in the which was backing across the
was called to the car, 71. He was the winner of the famous Bok peace prize of G$100,- case of the as. Sunning. The roadway towards the edge of the 1000.. prompt foiling of the scheme for en-wall. Before the driver could the seizure of the frene will teach reach the car, it had gone over
He died while addressing a Accounts have been posted to its lasting lesson. It is unfortun- the sea-wall into the harbour. A women's organisation
his shareholders as customary and I ate that there has been one unin-report has since been made to the favourite dopic of peace. Reuter's propose therefore to take them as inevitable under the circumstances police.
American Service,
The Profit and Loss Account for Charles Herbert Lovermore, not the year ending 31st July last, I
tended loss of life, but that appears
of the case. The hercie rescue work
on
read.
darkucs and a rough sea. It pro- break was easily extinguished with-
an accumulation of many lesser vides material
Of our present-day travellers, pro- for the vivid in the space of few minutes)
waves, bore down upon him with a bably Harry Franck has covered through the liberal application of mighty roar. imagination of . film scenario
Slocum had only a more ground on "Shanks' mare,' from hand-buckets. The moment to get all the sails down with less-cash, than any other single writer,
water and hardly conforms to the prosaic
damage done was insignificant. work ol
and climb up the peak halliards. wandererx. IT his "Varabond a naval vesel on the China
The mammoth wave, mountain high, Journey Around the World" we It is officially notified that, at swept over and for a second com- were particularly impressed by his "coast. However, it is fact, and the expiration of three months pletely submerged the little Spray crossing the Malay Peninsula afoot nexion with their promised drive of the British Navy's activities in & Co. (Hongkong). Limited will, only to encounter the greatest as of Siam to Bangkok, unarmed and adds another chapter to the history from the date hereof the Moller Hic survived this danger, however, and pushing on through the jungles against the army, of Marshal Sun various waters of the wide world. unless cause is, shewn to the con- adventure in his life when he found unescorted, a feat no other white Chuan-fang becomes explained, Also, it goes further, in emphasis
ing the effectiveness of the pre-
trary, he struck off the register himself in the midst of the breakers man has had the temerity to under- for Nanking is out to put all its sence of British warships in the and the company will be dissolved. and sunken rocks of the "Milky lake. strength Into the fight with Han- Bias Bay vicinity, in checking the it is further notified that the name Way."
activities of piratical gangs. The of The Honour Land Investment A most delightful present-day: kow and will leave the North alone capture of the read followed the and Agency Company, Limited, for the moment at any rate. usual programme of disguised pas has been struck of the Register. What will be the outcome of this sengers, and had the Li not been
where she was on Thursday night,.! battle of the Yangtsze is not easy the tale would most probably have to" forecast, but it would appear been one of looting, kidnapping; and outside the Star Ferry Wharf, at WINNER OF BIG PEACE PRIZE. that the odds are on the Nankingping overdue at her destination, day, while he went into an ad- a vessel steaming into port, after Connaught Road Contral, yester group, on paper at least. General Tang Seng-chi and his federates at Hankow have been playing a lone game of extremism. and their break with Nanking is largely on account of the "mo- derate" complexion of the latter party. Labour largely dominates the Hankow party's policy, and it looks as if it were riding for again of the fine traditions of the night, as an Indian police guard was born in 1866, the son of a Con-profit of $14,280.43 compared with by the submarine's grow speaks Shortly after seven o'clock lasted American educationalist, was am pleased to say, discloses a fall. In looking at the military Service, nobly fulfilled. At Bins Patrolling in the vicinity of the
was a loss of $2,798.54 for the pre- necticut clergyman, and position one has to remember that Bay, and elsewhere, the affair will Netherlands Harbour Works at
educated at Yale and atvious year, which must be con- serve as a much-needed warning as Nyau Shi Wan, on the mainland, he Hankow has a hostile force fur- to what pirates can expect in the saw a number of men loitering in Johns Hopking colleges, taking sidered satisfactory, especially in a suspicious manner and challeng- the Ph. D. degree. His chief view of the fact that no Ice was ther up the river and that as Nan-event of outrages on vessels on the
high seas. Never again will ed them. They ran away, but four study was world history, and his sold cutside Shameen in the early king attacks from the east (and course he set for the bay by a free were arrested when other guards main thesis
was world peace part of the financial year, when Nanking is already said to be in booter gang without the fear that were summoned and they gave His connexion with international under better
conditions there control of Wuhu) the plight of the somewhere, ready tu appear at any the suspects a revolver was found. of the World Peace Foundation, in Your Directors
On the person of one of peace efforts included directorship should have been a good demand. moment, there may be lurking one Wuhan forces will become scri- of His Majesty's efficient policemen Searching the ground near the spot Boston. and representation of the this profit be deducted from de- ous. having inevitable repercus- of the ocean,
where the men were first seen, a American organisations for foster- ficit brought forward, reducing second revolver was discovered.ing adherence to the League of same to $27,005.26 and I trust you sions in the panicky centre of the
The men were taken to the local Nations and the Work Court will approve. Once again depre party's influence. It has to be
He won the Bok prize with a plan ciation has not been made on plant stated that General Tang Seng-
for world peace.
or buildings nor have your Gen- eral Managers. Directors chi is an extremely capable com-
Secretary drawn any remunera- mander and that he has many well-
tion. tráined troops under him, but an
In spite of the counter attrac-FIGHT WITH ARMED ROBBERS. assessment of the forces now option of the Navy League concert, Three armed robbers, who entor- posed to each other discloses that there was a fairly good audience ed a contractor's matshed belong- those of Nanking are the strongen at the Theatre Royal last nighting to the Lee Yee firm at Sheklipui Paris
when the "Quaints" made. their last night, with the intention of Amsterdam
Brussels And meanwhile, there is fight-second presentation of "One. Dam overpowering the watchman and Berlin ing going on between the Peking Thing After Another."
rifling a dynamite magazine near Copenhagen and Shansi forces, and there :s dancing and sheer farce, the "re-plucky resistance of the watch New York.
A variety of musical numbers, by, were frustrated through the Vionna Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang hovering vue" is full of life, with scarcely man and a companion. around on the borders of Shanat a dull moment from beginning to As the intruders entered, the Milan awaiting his turn to profit. He end, and this evening when it will two men got out of bed. The Stockholm
be given for the third time, heavy watchman was instantly attacked- Oslo may possibly go to the help of booking is anticipated.
ย chopper and wounded General Tang, but the so-called It would be difficult to pick out slightly above the left knee. His Helsingfors "Christian" General only plays a tion since the nature of the items threw it at a second robber, who Athens numbers deserving of special men- companion picked up a brick and Lisbon self-benefitting game, apparently. undergoes such rapid changes, all then drew a revolver and fired a Bucharest Canton does not seem minded to of which have their different appeal. shot which hit the victim in the Rio listen to either Nanking or HanThe Little Tin Soldier," "In
"When My Heart Stood Still," left arm. The latter blew.a police Buenos Aires.
whistle and this caused the robbers Bombay kow, and, in the opinion of compe- Little Spanish Town" and to flee.
Shanghai Hongkong tent observers who have closely "Shadows," the latter being most The man who was shot, was 're-
Yokohama followed the "Red" and anti-"Red" the musical numbers which met Hospital, after the police were silver (forward)
attractively staged, were among moved to the Government Civil Silver (spot) faction fights of the past week, is with unqualified success.-
called into the case.
THE QUAINTS”
A VARIETY OF NUMBERS.
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chase.
police station.
PLUCKY WATCHMAN.
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forward to have been entirely.
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