HAUL OF FORTY REVOLVERS,
COOLIES ARRESTED WITH CASE.
"
REMANDED IN CUSTODY,
A large seizure of urms and am- munition was made yesterday at 3 p.m. In Connaught Road West.
"It is learned that Chief Preven- tivo Officer Clarke stopped two coolies who were carrying a huge wooden case, On the box being opened, it was found that the con- tents consisted of 40 Smith and Wesson revolvers and 1,809 rounils of revolver ammunition.
The two coulies appeared before Mr. H. F. Lindsell this morning, charged with being in passession of the arms.
KIUKIANG TERROR BRITISH MARINES IN
WOMEN STUDENTS
STRANGLED.
MURDERS BY ROBBERS.
Klukiang, Nov. 27, Reports have come in of several more forays by the marauders, who recently, attacked the S.O.C. manager near Jaochow. Indeed, conditions are so bad that the road to Jaochow is now closed to traffic, as no junkman dares'sail that way. An eye-witness, who was caught and robbed by these brigands, re- parts that there are a number of soldiers amongst them wearing the badges of the 6th and 9th Armies on the left arm and the usual red Kuomintang ticket on the left breast pocket of their grey un- Inspector Grant, prosecating, | forms. They are said to be troope stated that he would like a remand of the Yukan magistrate's body- of twenty-four hours in police cus- guard, who decamped recently, after tody, as he thought one of the looting the magistrates funds. coolies know some more about the The number of armed robberies in the neighbourhood of Kiukiang is also on the increase. There have been five murders in the past week, so that Chinese have entirely given up moving at night, outside the city
nuts. There ticularly revolting murder on the Kuling Road. A returned Singa- pore Chinese gentleman was walk- ing out to his house at Shihlipu along this road, when, about a mile outside Kiukiang he was suddenly. The Magistrale granted a twenty-shot through the body. He fell four hours" remand in police and the murderer then.fired two custody.
arms.
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Mr. Lindsell: They both look like ordinary street coolies.
Inspector Grant: They any they were engaged by two men who also looked like street coolics.
The police indicated that there was a book discovered on top of the case bearing the name of a Chinese shop in Wanchai, but it was found on enquiries that the shop did not now exist.
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more shots at him on the gound. All the murderer, got for his pains. was a wrist watch. The victim died the next day in Dr. Perkins' hospital.
Although conditions outside Kiu- kiang are bad, inside the city and the ex-Concession there has been a distinct improvement since the Amongst
· Lin charms of Nanking horiles-that is really the Christmas time by no means the correct description of them-moy- least is misle; in fact, the seasoned on to Hankow. The Com- would be unrecognisable without it:
The old hymns and carols make unfailing appeal, and among the many renderings they will receive, it is safe to say that the new popular issues by the Columbia Company will find a welcome in many a home, not to mention ship' hoard, out-stations and isolated i spots where home atmosphere is, hard to come by.
to hand.
The
munists, it is true, häve, tried to stin up trouble. Some caught dis- tributing pamphlets have been promptly shot. It is dificult to find out what these pamphlets contain as no Chinese dare pick 17 them up. It is as much as his life is worth to be seen reading one.
he considers the correct fee, he twists the cord and then untwists
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
RED CONSULATE.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1927.
DISBANDED TROOPS
AT LARGE.
-PEKING ANNOYED BY SHANGHAI.”
SIFANGHAI POLICE KEPT BUSY.
PORT.
ON WAY HOME AFTER CHINA SERVICE.
SHANGHAI BIDS FAREWELL.
ROUND-UP SUCCESSFUL.
HEADQUARTERS FOR PLOTS.
Peking, Dec. 4.
Three hundred and alghty-two With the apparent disintegri- tion of the Kuomintang Party, disbanded soldiers arrived from high officials here look for a re- Swatow by the 8.a. Datsong, which
Saturday morning, and com crudescence of intense Red ae-berthed at Kwang Sing Rond Jetty, the Soviet agents are leaving no tivity. Their evidence shows that Yangtzepoo, at eight o'clock on stone unturned to regain the commenced to spread themselves in the immediate neighbourhood, trol of substantial organizations lacking discipline and causing in various parts of the country,
They particularly in the large cities and fair amount of anxiety among the Shanghai Municipal Police and industrial centres of the south. residents of the locality.
disrupted They believe it certain that some were, however, rounded up by the
for disposal. All who went factions of the now Kuomintang are readily using So-handed over to the Chapei Police vict money and guidance in order shore are believed to have been
"captured." On Thursday Just the Marines to strengthen their positions.... were reviewed by Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, Com
The P. and O. s.s. Mantua ar- rived to-day from the North, carry- ing the British Marines who are These remain- homeward bound. ing members of the 12th Royal John Duncan, Marine battalion were reviewed by North Major-General olleer commanding the China Command, at Holt's, Wharf, Pootung, at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning on the eve of their do- parture for Home, after having served more than nine months in China, principally at Pootung and Nanking, protecting British pro- perty at both "places.
mander-in-Chief of the British China Squadron, who compliment el the men on their services and conduct in China and wished then bon voyage on their long journey home,
SABINERTAMIROIRCITECH
ACNURS TO-MORROW'S PICTURES.
There will be a number of pictures of strong local inter- est in to-morrow's issue of the Telegraph.
Among these will be views of the east in. "Merrie Eng- land," scenes taken at Fanling showing the Volunteers in camp, football teams in action,
group at the New Territories agricultural show, and Mar- shal Chiang Kai-shek and his
bride.
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In this connexion, considerable
These troops were until recently
:
surprise is expressed in offle al attached to General Ho Lung'a circles here that the Shanghai nu-army in Swatow and were sent to thorities continue to allow the So-Shanghai at the expense of the viet Consulate-General to flourish Swatow Chamber of Commerce that it is a well-known.. nest of to the southern coast city follow- undisturbed in their midst, seting after they had become a menace Red agitators. The documenta ing the recent change of regime seized in the raid on the U.S.S.R. there. Arrangements have been Embassy in Peking in April, it is made at this end, it is understood, pointed out, revealed conclusively to have the leaderless troops either the methods of the Soviet in this incorporated in the Nationalist country and furnished sufficient Army or repatriated to their dlf- evidence of the connexion of the ferent provinces. Consulate with the propaganda
Of the 382 troops who arrived machinery to warrant its closing. Now that the usefulness of the by the Datsong 274 went ashore Embassy as a base has been des-and wandered about the streets in troyed; it is obvious, the oilleials the vicinity of the Jetty, each moment getting further and here point out, that the Shanghai further afield with the hope of Consulate, sheltered as it is in an reassembling them becoming more area outside Chinose jurisdiction,.
remote overy minute. must be the headquarters. for Red the troops were armed as they had machinations. If the crimes of been relieved of all their weapons the Reds spread elsewhere, from before leaving Swatow, Shanghai as a centro, it is felt here that none but the Settlement au- thorities can be held guilty.
- Machinations Revealed.
!!
None of
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increase
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The S.M.P. received warning of what was happening and despatch- ed extra men to collect together the straying troops who returned The intensity and widespread to their ship without demur. rounded up nature of the Red agitation at this Those who were so
ment is continually being re- were handed over to the Chinese vended in north China where an-authorities immediately while the Major-General Duncan, after in-eqasing vigilance is exercised to remainder were disposed of later
in the same fashion. specting the Marines, likewise told defeat Soviet plots. The fact that! Lise men how delighted he was with the aid on the Embassy yielded Strangulation for Girls,
their behaviour during their ser such startling results should, as Amongst the executed are two vice in Shanghai and elsewhere in responsible Chinese here see it, girl students. They were granted China, reminding them of the have been suficient warning to Engaging reproductions of old the more lenient death by strangu difficult nature of their work and everyone of the danger of the sur Favourites by the new process are lation (instead of being shot) the necessity for discretion and vival of every Soviet organization, From the Choir of St. Whether the death is really a more tagt which they had observed so whether consular, or commercial, George's Chapel, Windsor and re-pleasant one depends on how much carefully Giseral Duncan particularly since, the "closing of corded in that historic shrine, we the expentioner has been bribed, be pressed himself as well, pleased the Embassy which increases the
CONFIRMED. have The First Noel," Manger Throne," "When Christ cause if he has not received what with the work performed by the menace from other sources, a thou
Authorising an Royal Marines as part of the deandfeld, sa that it is only by de- was Born of Mary Free," and "In
fence force under his command andising the Soviet agents of all capital by the creation of fifteen Dulci Jubile." Needless to say.
it again, then twists it a Bttle in doing so only voiced the opinion they are well done. Even those
and approving the new draft mere and so on to prolong the all Shanghai residents, includ-known "bases that their conspira-Founder's Shares of $1,000 each, to whom boy's voices, however
apony. The Chinese method of ing the ennservative and right-ties can be effectually countered.
In the high official headquarters Memorandum of Association, an clear, seem to lack quality, must strangulation is not by hanging thinking Chinese themsclves. to sit them. If a reed needle is neck by means of a small stick, recognise that the cure: appears but by twisting a end and the The Marines, some 500 in num-here it is pointed out that General extraordinary general meeting of ber with their afficers, were drawn Issime Chang Tao-lin took upon shareholders of the China Under- used the occasional shrillness
There is conderable local dis-up as a battalion at Holt's Wharf, himself the responsibility of raid-writers, Limited, held at the Com- minimised and the result remains satisfaction with the extortinmate where a large portion of theming the Communist stronghold ad.pany's offices this morning, con loud enough for ordinary rooms, rates of coolie hire which have to have been billeted since their jacent to the Embassy and that he firmed as Special Resolutions the
"O Come All Ye Faithful" is
very has borne the burden, of fighting Extraordinary Resolutions passed given as a Carillon aolo by Kaniel paid on all goods and cargo ship arrival. They presented a
Bolshevism ever since, without as at the meeting held on November
21st. Lefevere of Malines; "Abine with through the various hulks. fine appearence.
On Tuesday, shortly after tiffin,sistance from any quarter, déspite The shipping companies, very Me" on the reverse. These in-
Those présent were Mr. R. G. teresting records were made at the wisely, have adapted the attitude the Marines embarked for Home by abuse heaped upon him by foreign
crities; so that it is, natural that Shewan (chairman), Mr. Allan that it is for the shippers to settle the sa. Mantua.
he is unable to understand the Cameron, Mr. Li Tae-fong, Mr. C. famous Croydon bell foundry.
An excellent 12" dise contains the rate of hire with the coolies
psychology of the Powers that not P. Marcel. Mr. Mok Ching-kong, "Organ Medleys" of traditional and, so far, the coolies have had
only give him no help er encourMr. C. A. da Roza, and 'Mr. Tsang carols and hymns, played on the tall their own way. Head conlies
agement against the common Foo (members of the Consulting enemy, but seem deldrmined to Committee), Mr. H. R. Sturt (man- fine instrument in St. Mary-le-Beware making between $1,000 and Church by Mr. Clarence Raybould, $2.000 per month each and ordinary
protect the base beadquarters. of ager and secretary), Mr. E. R. The recent remarkable improve carry coolies $50, $60 and $70 per
that enemy.
Childe (assistant secretary) and ment in reproducing from the
shareholders: the following instrument is well illustrated, in
Messrs. Allan Keith, W. Adamson, this selection.
J. M. Alvez, C. R... Brooke, and M.
is
month.
H
HEROIN PILLS.
'CHINESE CHARGED WITH
POSSESSION,
A raid, headed by Revenue Oficer A. Grimmniti, on No. 113 Jervois 'Street, the premises of a porcelain merchant, resulted in
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In connexion with the raid a Chinese named Kwong Man-foo was charged this morning before Sr. R. E. Lindsell with being in possession of 6 heroin pills.
"STAR" FERRY COXSWAIN FINED.
The Chairman said that the ob jects of the resolutions had been explained at the previous meeting. Be proposed the confirmation of Re- solution No. 1 as a Special Resolu- tion, and Mr. C. B. Brooke second-
Revenue Officer Grimmitt in- At the Marine Court this morn- London, Dec. 8,
formed the Magistrate that the de-ing, before Commdr. G. E. Holeing, it was carried unanimously.
The other resolutions were separ- Miss Megan Lloyd George will fendant would be represented by Chan King-chung, master of the ately put to the meeting and unani- "If Sir John Maclure is right initis Stated, stand is Liberal ean-Mr. A. B. Hall and he asked his "Star Ferry launch Golden Star,mously carried. enlling the over-popular "The Daydidate for a seat in Wales at the Worship to fix atlate. His Worship was charged with being under way
accordingly arranged to hear the Thou Gaves!" a parody on "Josie next general election.
She has had wide experience, as case on Monday next at noon. the flower O'Durablane," the fact remains that it earring the words her father's constant companion well and that this B. B. C. record on his big political engagements, is quite uncommonly good. Excel-British Wireless.
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Handel, of course, and his "Messiah" stand by themselves in Christmas music. These who value his glorious fugues will find full satisfaction in the reproduc-
London, Dec. 8. tions from the Crystal Palace Fes-
Mr. Churchill, the Chancellor of tival of "Let Us Break Their Bonds," "And The Glory Of The the Exchequer, stated in the House Lord." He Trusted In God". And of Commons that the total gifts, "Behold The Lamb of God.". The in cash dividends surrendered and last-named in particular is re-stocks douted to the exchequer markable for the effect of what since war began, was £1,078,000. one can only call multitudinous gentleness, thousands of voices producing, not a deafening crash, but a sound as of many waters conveying some of the "thoughts which do lie top deep for tears."
report
To-day's Observatory states that the anticyclone has weakened.
-British Wireless.
THE ECLIPSE OF THE MOON.
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NOT SEEN IN LONDON OWING TO CLOUDS.
London, Dec. 8.
A depression has Little or nothing could be seen formed over S.W. Japan. Fresh to in London to-day of the total moderate monsoon may he expect- ed along the S.. coast of China eclipse of the moon, owing to over the China Sea. The forecast
up to noon to-morrow Is-North winds, moderale; fine.
clouds and mist.
It is possible, however, that bet ter conditions may have prevailed in the provinces-British Wirclees.
LÁDY CANDIDATE.
Miss Megan Lloyd George, daughter of Britain's war- time Premier, who is to stand for one of the Welsh consti- tuencies at the next General Election, in the Liberal in- terests.
in the harbour, crossing from Hongkong to Kowloon at midnight.
on Deceraber 6, with both red and HOW MUCH DO YOU
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The defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined $15, with the alter- native of two weeks' imprison- ment.
The mistress of a passengore, boat, pleading guilty to navigát- ing the harbour without the re- gulation, lights, was mulet in a similar sum, with the same alter native.
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I How many councillors in pro- vincial municipalitice retiro each year?
2 Where are these placce: Ploot- wood, Suinsouth, Fraserburgh, St. Peter Port, Rathmines, Wor ford?
1 What
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Which was the Prince of Wales college at Oxford
5 What is a "euphemism"?
6. Give the common" nanie for
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What country le at the foot of
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The President has transmitted to Congress G.$300,000,000 engineering scheme planned by the army engineers corps for can trolling the Mississippi floods, from Cairo, in Illinois, to the Mexican Gulf, introducing new 10 What is hemoglobin? floodways and strengthening and 11 raising the existing loveos,
9 Name the three daughters of
King Lear.
Only a small part of the cost will fall on the valley States.12 Reuter's American Service
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What animal is the best example of protective colouring!
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