THE WISEST PARENT. If it is a "wise father who under- -stands his own child" it is even, a wiser parent who knows what to prescribe for the child when it is alling, and it is the wisest parent of; all who Iminediately turns to Baby's Own Tablets under such clrcumstances.
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RETREATS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1927.
A CLEVER SHANGHAI FORGER
"REDS ACTIVE.
INDO-CHINA COMPANY
COMPLAIN.
Six years' imprisonment was the sentence imposed on Thursday at the Shanghai Provisional Court upon a Chinese convicted of issuing forged notes purporting to be notes of the Mercantile Bank of India.
L
SHANGHAI TERRORIST
CORPS.
AUTHORITIES ALERT.
AMERICAN MERCHANT
MARINE.
NO SUBSIDY. LIKELY.
Washington, Nov. 22.
At a Press conferchèo, 'Presi- dont Coolidge intimated that while he desired to build up the mer- chant marine, to let it adequately serve as a second line of defence
gress
LACK OF AMMUNITION. These Tablets are a specific for
Armed with spears, Iran bars, most of the minor ailments of child-
Tainan, Nov. 7, hood. By their mild yet immediate-
Letters just received from
knives, and various crude weapone ly benolicunt action on the stomach)
citles
workers in the western district of Shanghai numbering several thou-as well as carry cargoes abroad," and bowels they promptly remedy Kueitch and other Infantile indigestion, constipation Eastern Honan have some interest.
The prosecution proved that the sand, have formed an organization it was useless to suggest that Con- and colic, check diarrhoea, cool, ing things to any about the feverishness, allay teething pains, advance of the Aukuochun from accused had "raised" the desalong military lines for the purges should grant a direct sub-
nad Kiangeu.
Onnominations from $10 to $100 on pose of promoting strikes, creating sidy, but he was investigating relieve croup and colds, expel Shantung
October 10. Marshal Feng Yu-several notes and that he success disturbances and inciting lots, other ways of indirectly aiding in December.-Reuters" Guaranteed absolutely pure, good hsiang ordered a general advance fully "passed" several of these according to information available shipping, with a view to making
of Saturday last. and safe for even the youngest or from Changteho and Weihwei, and notes at local department stores yesterday, says the Shanghai Tinies certain recommendations to Con-
American Service. the Lung-Hat Railway, and steamship offices. most dolicate baba in arms, they along
Mr. C. H. Wright appeared for quickly bring sound health-restor- against the Northern besiegers, ing sleep by removing the but on the 14th, on account of his the complainants, the Indo-China causes which have kept the little shortage of munitions, his forces Steam Navigation Company, with one unhappy, restless and awake. were forced back from Yuchen, whom the accused had booked Own towards Tenochow, in Shantung passage to Tsingtao, paying for Your chemist sells Baby's Tablets, or post free, 60 cwt per and from Mumuh, on the railway his passage with one of the coun- the Kiangsu The Dr. Williams' "nearest
border. terfeit notes. vial, from
Yucheng was stormed for seven He was arrested in the act of Medicine Co.,
days in succession, under a con- passing another of the notes upon start rain of shella, before the one of the company's river boats, Kuominchun vacated it. Mamuhan November 1 had boon the real first line of Marshal Fent's position for a number of weeks, but in face of the persistent attacks, and their own poverty of shells, there was no option but to fall back on Kueitch from both directions.
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This semi-military organization, It was stated, already includes more than 3,000 workers and is" constantly growing. In addition to their weapons they are reported to be possession of a powder which will causo blindness if thrown into the eyes. They are also re ported to possess quantities of cotton and petroleum to be, used in firing buildings, mille, etc.
Communist Members.
The leaders are said to be two and Kuo Sung-nyi. The organiza- Chinese named Chen Hwai-mal
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1 Shriek.
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130
Across.
The former are reducing the 6. Starry. slated that all former leitings oftion is divided into regiments, prices of motor-car tyres 10 per 10 Something that reminds. the city were merciful compared battalions, compaules and squnda, cent, and motor cycle tyres 1511 Tasty morsel
to be members and to be taking Reuter.
an active part in an effort to bring about strikes and disturbances.
RECENT CEMETERY
* LANDSLIDE.
CONTRACTOR FINED $200. Last week, the jury called in
recent
16 Low, or not rising high.
19 Aquatic mammal,
20 Advise.
22 Narrow passage (mining)
24 Retreated.
34
דני
Gaelic,
of Northern mythology..
28 Exclude.
29 Cold.
30 Short convulsive sighs.
33 Small wood.
བ་
33 Somewhat old.
Makes a show of.
the 41 Burst, of acclamation.
ditch. Fettered.
to the terror of this occasion. Be each having a leader. A large per cent., while the latter are re-12 One who makes men's clothes, These forces arrived in thetween the burning of a number of suburbs of Kuviteh city on the homes and business places, and the number of Communists are allegedducing their prices by 5 per cent. 13 Desperation. night of the 14th, and for a time systematic visitations the city has were refused permission to occupy suffered much more than a million
In Chinese territory of Shang- the city. The city fathers remen-dollars in spoliation. The letters that have been received state that berad the siege of Sianfu, and, as the defender of that city was lead there are persistent stories coming hai. precautionary measures are ing the retreat, there was the fear in that other places in the district being taken against the activities The cities of of Communists and a number of that he might be as stubborn also were looted.
Mamuh, Hsiah-Ih them have been arrested while. his hold of Kueiteh as he had Yucheng, been in holding the capital of Hueiting and Yungchang are menthers are being closely watched. The In Poolung, a number of Chinese Shensi. However, he was permit- tioned, in this connection.
at landslide ted to enter the city in the early bulk of the forces at present re-soldiers, aided by merchant volun.
sidences in the vicinity of Chithe morning of the 15th, just as the ported to be under Chang Ching-teers, raided a number of re-connexion with the enquiry inte to. Tinges. Chihli Shantung forces hegando are composed of the briganda shelling the city and suburbs. that have been afflicting the whole Chong Wharf. In the course of the Mohammedan Cemetery, foundnoke derisively.
a quantity of Communist literature the death of three earth-cookies, 46 For thirty-six hours the people of the Shantung, Kiangao, Anhui, search, they discovered and seized that the mishap which resulted in 44
months in the home of a female cotton was due to the negligence of the 47 Overripe. avery and Ilonan borders for of Kneiteh were under
mill worker. The woman and three contractor concerned to take pro- bantism of fire. Big shells fell past..
men was arrested. The men were per precautions when digging the Continuously in the city, and, as
in Tsinan there are rumours arrested for distributing Com-foundation for a retaining wall one correspondent said:"The
at the base of the hill. big guns kept up one prolonged very freely circulated, and even re-munistic handbills in the same peal of thunder. The volleys of ported in the local vernacular vicinity. Yesterday the four were. In accordance with that finding, machine-guns and of small-arms press, that some catastrophe has being held for trial at the Garrison were like rain. The city was in happened to the combined proof the Woosung Shanghai Defence. terror: the whole universe seemed vincial armies that were supposed Commissioner. illed with the terror, and men's to have been winning uninterrupt- their ordinaryed victories. Some, of the shops faces changed
In the Settlement, police have colour; for it seemed as if the in the commercial end of the sub-
Investigating the dis- whole city was looking into theurb toward the station have closed bcon mouth of a cannon. The people doors, and the price of the pro-tribution of Communistic handbills feared that they were to die in a vincial notes is jumpy. Some days in the vicinity of mill on "Yulin
Blood. Christians ago, word came up from SuchowRoad. welter of
A small booklet was also sought the churches, and were that whispers were being passed distributed, the latter constantly
that Kuciteh had been taken back decidedly pro-Communist in nature ab. their faces prayer, that they might be enabled again by the Kuominchun, but as and urging the people to start an to meel God, should they he called the press bore no ward of anything uprising on a big scale in order It is the first time in very many but victories in Honan, these rum- to create a new era in the revelu-
tionary campaign. years that the people of Kueitch our were discredited. have heard the sound of cannon.
in
A Catastrophe?
General Uprising Urged.
boing
The boast of the Kuominchun. Intimidation of loyal mill work- This kept up till the evening of appearing in the wireless despatchers in the eastern district, while the 16th, when the Kuominchun, of recent date seems to be account- had no resource but to leave theed for in this way, Liu Chen-hua, on their way to and from work, still continues despite the vigilance of city. This they did, going off in the former Tuchun of Shensi, and the authorities, according to the the direction of Cheebeng, toward more recently the general who dis-Shanghai Mainichi, local Japanese
trossed Sianfu for nearly six newspaper. Shelf in Mission,
months, has been fighting under
This intimidation is attributed
the southwest:
R. E. Lindsell at the Central Police Court this morning, fined
the contractor $200. His Worship said that the defendant had not obtained a permit before starting on the work..
Defendant pleaded that he had not the money to meet the fine, pointing out that his contract had to be financed. He again said that he was under the guidance of the Chairman of the Committee of the Cemetery.
His Worship rejoined that it was the defendant's business to have taken out the permit and to have discharged all other obligations re paired for the work.
Defendant asked for time to en- able him to pay the fine, and was permitted until four o'clock this Afternoon to do this,
In other letters and from the Marshal Feng, with headquarters to Communists and labour agita mouth of those who had bernat Ianfenghsten. It was reported. through the siege, the terror of that he had sold out to the Shan-tors who are endeavouring to bring despite rumours there of a general about a general strike of mill strike. Approximately 80 per cent, these unhappy hours is empha-tung Tupan, and, as a matter of workers. The newspaper further of the workers are reported to sized. In Kueith, there were fact, when the Arkuschun got as
have reported at the plant yester goodly number of wounded, but far as Lanfong, it appeared that. "The machinations of the local day and business was being carried
on as usual.
says:
General Strike Fails.
part of
the toll of death seems to have he was keeping his part of the Communists to creat disorder in been remarkably small. One big bargain. It all seemed so assured local cotton mills have been meet- shell fell in the compound of the that he was left in charge of that ing with considerable success in Baptist Mission, in the Rev. S. Jeity, which is on the Lung-Hai the easterri district. Yesterday Townshend's garden. It demolish-Road, as the Shantang forces swept great uneasiness prevailed in the
The Mainichi reports that the ed the wall between him and his on against Kaifeng, and west-western district following the local mill situation is somewhat neighbour, injuring or killing the wards. Then, so the story goes, rumour of a general strike of better and the mill managements accupants of that house, but the he suddenly turned against his late cotton mil: workers. As the result are now optimistic. The rumoured mission was spared. In Yucheng, would-be purchasers, cut the line of this uneasiness the manage-plan of local Communists to incite six large shells fell in the quarters against further advances from most of the various mills maintain- general strike in Shanghai, it is of the Canadian Church Mission. the east, pocketed several trains ed a strici watch throughout the stated, is apparently a Though there were no casualities and a host of Russians and mixed day and night and made every the plans of the Communist riots there, several buildings were bad-Shantung-Chihli forces, and spoil-preparation to deal with emergen- which took place recently at Ty damaged.
ed all the fine victories that had cies. The day, however, fortunate-Ishing, Wusih and Soochow
The failure of the strike is at It was only a matter of a very been, gained thus far. This is the ly passed without untoward in-
tributed to the following causes: few minutes after the Kuominehun story that is credited here incident.
1.-The plan was easily detected left Kueith that the Chin-La Tainan.
"The situation in the Toka Mill troops made their entry. It is Those missionaries who have in the eastern district remained by outsides and the necessary pre- presumed in the letters describing been preparing to return to their unchanged yesterday, only about cautionary measures taken. the entry and the immediate after stations down the Tsin-pu line 30 per cent of the employees re- 2-Owing to business depres- 'close their effects on the city, that the troops have halted for the time being, porting for duty, No work wassion mill managements have been
plants. under Chang Ching-yao, mainly and those who were appealing to done at the mill during the day only too willing to
and night."
3-Ample precautionary mea have formed the major portion of their families to them in the inland facturing Company, where there. sures had been taken by the police. the victorious force. For the cities, have perforce to be patient greater part of the next three days, for some time yet. N. C. Da has been some Jabour trouble, the Terroristic plans were frus these troops plundered rich and News.
situation was reported improved, trated by police.
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University...
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3. Among.
4 Trangient luminous bodies.
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6 Clothed.
7 Ascent.
8 Depended upon.
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17 Fervently.
18 Gives pleasure.
20 Act of beginning again.
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Ridiculed.
21 Mistake.
25 Used for smoking.
31 Mingled together.
32 Native groom in India
33 Palt
34
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36 Grass that comes after mowing,
36 Appropriate by vow.
38 Shower bath.
30 Not often.
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46 Squirrel's nost.
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