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22, 313
NOVEMBER
$36 FER ANNUM
1927. LAMINAL COPY 10 CENTS
HANKOW FACES BIG CRISIS. SHANGHAI CRIME, KING'S COLLEGE NOT ARMISTICE DAY.
“NEUTRAL” GENERAL TURNS
TO NANKING.
BRITISH CONSUL'S VAIN ATTEMPTS
FENG
AT REFORM,”
MOVES
AT
LAST.
GRAVE CONCERN AT
BIG INCREASE.
AN ORGY OF GAMBLING.
(Our Own Correspondent.}
Shanghai, Oct. 29. The Police Report for the month
YET TO OPEN.
SCHOLARS TO REMAIN IN OTHER SCHOOLS.
THE WHOLE EMPIRE TO LISTEN IN.
A SPEECH BY THE PRINCE.
London, Nov. 1.
On Armistice Day this year, it is proposed that all parts of the British Empire shall be enabled, by wirelesss telephony, to join in one great celebration."
BUICK 1928-
Luxury such as Cleopatra never know Buick for 1928- now on display.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 1248 or 1247.
"55, Wong Nei Chung Road,
NEW TAIPO BRIDGE TO
BE OPENED.
AVAILABLE TO TRAFFIC ON
- NOVEMBER 10.
BOON TO KOWLOON,
Happy Valley,
OVER $450,000.
BIG SUIT AGAINST BANK.
HARBIN CLAIM SUCCEEDS.
"I think that I will decide this
The Telegraph is. able to an- Bridge, work on which has been said Judge Purdy at Shanghai on. nounce to-day that the new Taipe case in favour of the plaintift," speeded up considerably since the Friday, "and you, Mr. Moss, may collapse of the temporary struc- prepare a Anding of fact."
4
The
UNTIL NEW YEAR.
Although King's College is no longer in use as a military has ital, all the patients having been transferred to other centres dur- just past reveals An increase in
Ing October, It is not proposod crimes of violence which it is imby the Education Department to
ture during the August typhoon, action Involved two causes of A concert organised in connexion will be opened by the Government action wherein the Harbin Tram- possible to contemplate without recall the scholars until January with the British Legion will be to traffic on Thursday, November way Co., Ltd., sued the National the gravest concern and incidental- 1st, we were informed this morn- held at the Albert Hall London,
City Bank of New York for the ly illustrates the connexion being by Mr. A. E. Wood, the Direc- from eight until ten o'clock in the 10, eight days henee. tween political turmoil and crime tor of Education.
ovening. Sume 10,000 ex-service For all practical purposes, the release of two banking accounts. waves. There is little doubt that
The College is now undergoing men will sing marching and other bridge has been already completed, amounting respectively, to Harbin but the P.W.D. is now engaged in $225,741.62 and Harbin: $239, The abandonment of "neutrality" by General Chu Pei-leh, who the abnormal increase in serious the process of rehabilitation since songs of the Great War.
applying the finishing touches to has been sitting astride the Yangisze at Kinklang, and the throwing crime brought out by the statistics the military have left, and ever
is due largely to the military and should it be the case that theporation will broadcast the con- the same time allowing a few more
The British Broadcasting Cor- the approach from either side, at 441.22, plus interest slaco June 25,
1927, of his lot in with the Nanking party, has placed the Hankow mill-political situation in the territory work is completed long before the cert all over the world, through days to give the concrete time to Mr. S. A. Moss represented
contiguous to the foreign Settle- New Year, it would be inadvisable, the new experimental shortwave become thoroughly set.
plaintiff, while Mr. C. S. Franklin it is stated that trouble of a very serious nature is feared atments, territory in which there is in his opinion, to interfere with transmitter at Chelmsford, on a
The opening of the new bridge appeared for the Bank. A third whereby 24 metre wave-length. Hankow, and that General Tang Seng-chi is fully prepared to retire ever ending condition of represent arrangements
volutionary ferment. Resides
will render the complete circuit of party, Messrs. Beckman & London, the King's College students have There has been the murder of a affording unprecedented appa hern absorbed into other schools,
The most important feature how the New Territories accessible to of San Francisco, who had the into Hunan if occasion arises. B.A.T. dealer by unionists, and the British Consul General Has failed tutities to the criminally inclined the majority at Queen's College ever, will be an address by the very type of vehicle for the first right of joint signatures on all Prince of Wales. Some 450,000,-time since the phenomenal rain-withdrawals, were not represent- 000 British to get any satisfaction from the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs secure revolvers and pistols, and the Ellis Kadoorie School.
every change of administration-
subjects throughout storm of July 18th 1925, which ed. They had agreed to build the Kings Cellage pupils will begin the Empire and on ships at aan wrecked the old bridge beyond Harbin tramways. regarding the reform of the Municipal Administration.
and there has been a dozes since the new term at their own college, will be able, atmospherics permit- hope of repair. Equally it will the autumn of 1924-has resulted
ting, to hear the spoken, message restore to motorists the privilege of the Prince. It promises to be of travelling round the New Ter nearly half a million dollars, Har- a historic event-British Wireless. ritories at night, a pleasant trip judgment, involved the largest sum bin currency, and the subsequent which has been impossible. since the old bridge was swept away of money ever adjudicated upon over two years ago.
by the United States Court for China. The pew bridge has been built, not on the site of the old Atructure,
Lurists in a very precarious position.
There are contradictory reports from the North regarding the Fenglien fight against Shansi, although the more reliable accounts state that the tide has definitely turned against Marshal Feng and that the Fengtien forces are still pressing the Shansi armies: fall of Chengchow is said to be imminent.
in additions, to the ranks of the woman unemployed, of large bands of
B.A.T. DEALER MURDERED. and inured to risking their lives, Themen trained in the use of arms and it is estimated that same 5,000 persons of this category have been turned loose upon the community as a result of the dis-
· BANDITS "AGAIN OVER-RUN YUNNAN. solution last April of the Shanghal
Shanghai, Nov. 2.
FENG MOVES AT LAST.
It is now clearly revealed that
Claims A Victory. General Chu Pei-fch, who hither-
Shanghai, Nov. 2. to has been "neutral" at Kiuklafg.
Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang has has thrown in his lot with the Nan- telegraphed to Nanking that the king party, thus rendering the Shangtung forces under General position of the Hankow militarists King-vow at Kweiteh, which is on very precarious. It is stated in the eastern section of the Langhai line, have been disarmed by his the latest reports that General troops. He adds that he started a 'Chu's forces have advanced along general counter-attack on the Yangtze towards Wusuch, and Chibli-Shantong forees.
are actively eq-operative with the naval forces. Nem
Nanking Chan Pan
HANKOW UNCERTAINTY.
Tang's Precarious Position.
the
Labour Protection Corps.
The authorities of the Inter- national Settlement have been put on their honour, so to speak, by the vigorous outcry raised by the Chinese community against the prevailing crime, wave and they are exhausting every resource at, their command to terminate the menace.
To this end, every bridge and entrance leading to the Settle- ment are being, heavily guarded night and day by strong detach- ments of Russian Volitnteers, Police
Intimidation at Hankow Continues.
Shanghai, Nov. 2.
A message from Hankow re- posts that a B.A.T. dealer was
murdered on Saturday, by. members of the B.A.T. Union because he purchased seven- teen cases of cigarettes.
All dealers closed their shops on Monday owing to intimidation-Reuter,
2MOORDEJOZZON|J|| FEBRUAR
Reserves and Chinese municipal constables to stop and but meanwhile it is regarded as search the occupants of motor much better that they should re It has been reported to Peking cars which have latterly been in under their present tutor awever, by General Chung Chung-requisitioned by kidnapping gangs ship..
hang, that certala troops of Mar-16 rendes mobility to their activi- shất Feng have been besieged at ties, These measures will be, Koucheng-Nam Chung Peo.
YUNNAN CHAOS:
Bandits Threatening.
continued for some time and are intended to checkmate the kid-
it
Subsidies.
Mr. A. E. Wood also referred
A
FIRST LORD'S TOUR AT PORTSMOUTH.
NAVAL CONSTRUCTION INSPECTED.
London, Nov. 1.. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, accompanied by Dame Caroline Bridgeman, made a tour of the naval establish- ments of Portsmouth to-day.
1
NEW FINANCIAL SECRETARY.
This case, involving as it does,
In the first cause, the petition but almost alongside to the left, alleged that $225,741.52 was the where the P.W.D. engineers found credit balance from amounts de- ja better basis for the foundations. posited during February and April The work has therefore involved of 1923, by the Concessionaires, the the construction of new
ap-Harbin Electric. Light & Joint proaches in addition to the bridge itself,
SEDITIOUS PAPERS
SEIZED.
WIDESPREAD PLOT IN BENGAL
Calcutta, Nov. 1.
21
Stock Co., Ltd. and the Beckman
& Linden Engineering Corp., and were the monies of both plaintif and the Beckman & Linden Corp. Plaintiff alleged that they had de- manded the money but the Bank had refused to pay.
In the second cause, it was Mr. Bridgeman inspected the
alleged that $239,441.22, was the work on the new cruisers Suffolk!
balance of a deposit of $300,000 and Dorsetshire, and saw improve-
made on November 12, 1923. The ments being made at the main
account was subject to withdrawal generating station in the dock;
by éheque on order of plaintiff and yard, the new accommodation at
approved by Mr. E. W: Beardsley, the sumarine base at Gosport, A number of houses in Calcutta agent of Messrs. Beckman & Lin- and the progress being made with and North-east Bengal have been (den. the restoration work in Nelson's searched by the police, who have No Legal Demand for Withdrawal.
agship the Victory.
seized documents believed to reveal widespread ramifications of Dare Bridgeman made an inde-a revolutionary conspiracy..
The answer filed by Mr. Franklin on August 9, 1927, admitted that mapping fraternity by closing to a totally incorrect report ap- pendent tour of the Boral Naval-The searches were executed at the monies as described, are on their avenues of ingress and bearing the vernacular press to Hospital at Hushar-British Wire the request of the Bihar police, deposit, but denied that legal de- egress. These precautionary steps the effect that the Government in less,
following the discovery of two mand had ever been made for are having the effect of reassuring tended to reduce its subsidies to
pistols and ammunition in the pos- withdrawal. ; Yunnan, Oct. 28.
vernacular schools.
The Bank was will- Shanghai, Nov. 1..
session of n Bengali youth at ing to pay when legal demand' It is confirmed that if Chao- the Chinese community that
If such a report should get
Deoghar last month. Certain was made. The position of Marshal Tan chang is at grips, at Rokiu withean court on full protection.".
abroad, said Mr. Wood, it was
Regarding the second elphers were also seized, and when cause, the Seng-chi at Hankow' is becoming other bandit chiefs as well no with
Au Orgy of Gambling,
answer denied that likely to cause considernôle Álarm
decoded revealed the names of plaintiff is the owner of the more and more precarious, though the focal irregulars.
Some years ago, a visitor to among the headmasters of schools
number of persons whose at present there is no material The population of Mongtseu Shanghai with a mordant pen who were almost entirely depen
addresses were subsequently change in the Yangtse area, ar that Li, in order to escape wrote that Shanghai was drunk dent upon the subsidy for the
with wealth. He does not appear continuation
Bearched. No arrests are hitherto Forces from the west appear to from being encircled by his ad-
of their efforts. Advance versaries at Kokiu, will fall to have been very much wide of The Director pointed out that far
reported.Renter. be organising for an against. Hankow, and the vernacu- back on their town, where General the mark, judging from the amount from reducing subsidies, the 1928
Business is lar papers at Shanghai contain a siang is stationed.
of money that is being spent in Estimates provided for increasea report to-day to the effect that suspended and many families have purely unproductive fields such il round. General Chu Pei-teh has changed left Mongleeu.
A part of the town of Kokiu is as gambling in all its forms. If His mind, and with a large body of troops near Kiukiang has de in dunes. Telegraphic and other gambling went on at the time the visitor in question passed through cided to throw in his lot with the means of communication between Nanking faction.
Kokiu and Mongtseu are forbidden these parts, there is ten times more gambling going on to-day. On Information received from Han-nrder from Li Chao-chong, the race track alone, millions are kow indicates that although no currently with General Hsiang. spent annually by thousands of definite incident has occurred, Conditions at Yunnan-fu and turf votaries to make a few per- sona rich, Formerly, there were trouble of perhaps a serious the railway belt are tranquil. An nature, is feared.
incident occurred on the 25th only the bi-annual spring and General Tang Seng-ch's recent instant at Amitehow, where a band autumn meetings of the Shanghai
Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 1. activities appear to show his in- often looters exchanged shots face Club-and it was considered tention of retiring with his troops with a police patrol, and sacked fast enough at the time, in all
The final figures of the Princi conscience. Then additional races peasa Mafalda disaster give the foto Hunan if the occasion arises, the residence of an Inspector ci
the Railway..
were added to the, calendar both number of persons drowned a -Natal Wirelesa.
of the Shanghai Race Club and 14, out of a total of 1,259 on the Kiangwan Race Club in the board.
HANKOW CONCESSION.
----...
Reform Suggestions Turned Down.
Shanghai, Nov. 2.
who also.commands Modtseu con-
THE SS. MAFALDA
DEATH ROLL.
OVER 300 PERSONS WERE DROWNED.
Panic Continues.
shape of weekly extra races. Eleven officers and 231 seamen Yunnan-fu, Oct. 20,
Latterly the Chinese Jockey Club of the crew are. among the sur- There is a rumour to the effectas entered the lists, and between vivers, the" members of the crew that i Chao-chong last night es- caped from Kokiu where he had the three, they contrive to provide drowned being nine officers and been surrounded by other bandit Shanghai with regular racing. 37 camen. Reuter's American
Service. chiefs who were supported by the month in and month out, which is La reached perhaps proportionately more than in any other part of the world
A message from Hankow says irregulars. He was that the Consul General on: Mon- Mongtsen to-day. day received from the Commis- The gates of Montseu are cloi-considering the size of Shanghai.
A deadlock ensues.-Reuter.
FENGTIEN SUCCESSES...
Against Feng and Yen.
with the races.
Added to the saturnalia of racing is the vogue of roulette,
DISCUSSED.
MR. ARTHUR SAMUEL APPOINTED.
London, Nov. 1. Mr. Arthur Samuel has beer. ap- pointed Financial Secretury to the Treasury in succession to Mr. Ro nald McNeill, who has been raised to the peerage on succeeding Lord Cecil in the Cabinet→ Rentér
"
London, Nov. 1.
NOT THE TOMB OF GENGIS KHAN.
PROFESSOR KOSLOV'S
DISCOVERY.
Moscow, Novi 1..
money and further denied that legal demand had been made, but jexpressed defendant's willingness to dispose of the accounts as the Court might order.
As separate defence to the first cause, counsel in the answer said that in a civil action-F. J. Schubl v Beckman & Linden-ft had béen stipulated that the Bank - should pay out the monies only for purchase of supplies and equip- ment for construction of the tram- ways, as under contract between the parties.
Defending both causes jointly It is officially announced that The famous explorer, Professor Mr. Arthur Samuel, the Parlia-Korloy, who is now in Leningrad, the Bank, is reaponsible to Messrs..
the answer alleged that defendant. mentary Secretary of the Depart denies a report that he has dis-Beckraan & Linden and to Mr. F. ment of Overseas Trade, has beene vered the tomb of the Taftar appointed Financial Secretary to conqueror, Gengis Khan, near the J. Schuhl, and that neither of the. the Treasury, in the place of Mr. dead city of Kharakoto, in Mon- parties in the present action are joint plaintiffs or joint defendants. Ronald McNeill, who was recently | golia. promoted to a seat in the Cabinet.
The entire case was conceded to He says he last year visited the -British Wireless.
peak of Ikhelogdo, in the Man-be a matter of law, and depositions golian Altal range, and there taken in Harbin, were admitted by an counsel to be proper statements found the mausoleum of ancient Mongolian khan whose uf. fact, with several exceptions name he was unable to ascertain. noted by counsel during the rest- Professor Koslov was unable to ing thereof in the morning session. make excavations on the spot as The point at issue was whether the he was travelling lightly equipped both parties, under the law on: after excavations at Kharakoto-contracts, were parties to the Reuter.
contracts in name or in fact, Mr. Franklin contending that the Bank was bound to reapect the contrant, As the others had signed it.
NO REVOLUTION IN RUMANIA.
ENEMY "FAKES” ALLEGED. Bioner for Foreign Affairs a leted and panic continues to reign in They talk of bad times--and then EGYPTIAN PROBLEMS
London, Nov. 1. ter regarding the ex-British Con- the town General Hsiang has re-spend money like water at the cession in which he refuses to ceived reinforcements
Following recent jensational accept the Consul's suggestions for view to meeting an eventual attack
roports of B revolution in the reform of the Municipal ad- against the town.
report ministration.
On the other hand, according to which is surreptitiously carried on SARWAT PASHA IN LONDON, Rumania,, a Bukharest
transmits a semi-official statement unconfirmed reports, the dissen-in various parts of the Interna-
denouncing fake reports sprend London, Nov. 1. tient generals, Hu Jo-yu and Chang tional Settlement and French Con-
from enemy sources," emphasising Sarwat Pasha, the Egyptian that there have been no disturb-, General Long Yun (the chairman establishments have gone so far Premier, again visited the Foreign ances in Rumania and no excep- Yu-yl-have-again-combined-against-cession. The owners of theso
openly to boast that
their Omee to-day; and continued. his tional measures have been adopt. of the Military Directorate which as is functioning as a Government in houses cannot be raided. The informal conversation on Anglo-ed. Reuter. Shanghai, Nov. 1. the Capital). They have affected explanation is that they have Egyptian relations, with a high The tide has definitely turned a junction, and are reported to advance information regarding official of the department. against Marshal Feng Yu-haiang'e have occupied the district of Lu projected raids by the police. forces, as well as the Shansi Tiang, and on the point of com- And so to raid these haunts is troops, and the fall of Chengchow, mencing on a new offensive with only a negation of effort. Small now occupied by Feng Yu-hsiang, Y-Leung on the railway line, as wonder that many people cannot when they hear. is anticipated shortly."
the objective. In this, they are repress a smile Fengtien forces are pressing being assisted by the contingents Shanghai being referred to as the the Shansi armies in Shantung and which have invaded Yunnan from "Model" Settlement. There are Chihli, and the latter is reported the provinces of Szechuen and many anomalies to be removed be- fore Shanghai can establish a to have suffered considerable Kwelchow.
The situation is considered claim to such a title. losses in men and ammunition.
serious. Indo- pacif.
(Continued on Pago 4.). Naval Wirolcos.
*
To-night Lord Lloyd, the High Commissioner for Egypt, will give dinner in honour at Barwat Pasha,British Wirelons.
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TO-DAY.
Dolar on demand 2/1/16 Lighting-up
6.46, p.m.
THE RE-ELECTION OF KEMAL PASHA.
Angora, Nov. 1.
COTTON SPINNERS
DISAGREE.
JOINT BODY DESIRABLE.
Right of Countersignature.
Mr. Moss in his opening argu- ment declared that he did not have to bring, in Messrs. Beckman & Linden as joint plaintiffs, as by the depositions he had shown.con- London, Nov. Lclusively that they had no interest: The board of the Cotton Yarn in the accounts. The Chinese Association met in Manchester, to, consider the recent breakdown in plaintiffs had deposited the money the joint conference, between the for the purchase of supplies and Association and the Federation of the American firm had withdrawn Master Cottonspinners' Associa- to San Francisco. It was true that Mr. Beardsley had a right of coun-
tions..
The board overwhelmingly tersignature.
Counsel could not bring action passed a resolution that the directors should consider whether against both the Bank and the firm, Mustapha Kemal Pasha has it was desirable to have two assu- because, as he said, the latter were been unanimously re-elected tions, and whether they should not in the jurisdiction of the Unit- President of the Turkish Republic. advise the members to withdraw ed States Court for China.
(Contimied on Page 14.) Reuter
from the Federation, Reuter..