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7 he startling story of what hap- pened to a beautiful stage star when she and her Company dared the Unknown and came back to a long-empty theatre to revive a performance that previously had proved fatal.
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The bowlers who represented Hongkong and Shanghai in the interport game lust Saturday, Left to right:-Back row: S. Gray, C. Glover. R. P. Phillips, A. A. Malcolm, R., Dorrance, J. Ferguson, and E. Kerley. Front row: F. Cullen, A. W. Grimmitt, J. Laing, R. Basa and A. Jéssiman.
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TENDERS CALLED FOR TWO 30,000-TONNERS.
TERRIFIC BLAZE IN KOWLOON.
(Continued from Pagé 1.)
was immediately.communicated to headquarters. Four minutes later, "brigade call was sent, this mean-
SHIPPING PARLEY AT GENEVA.
ANOTHER PROTEST AGAINST MANAGEMENT..
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FOUR BIGGER PLANNEDng that every available appliance ITALIANS' REQUEST.
Geneva, Oct. 11.
in the district was required. New York, Oct. 11.
Three appliances left Kowloon The American determination to ders together with an ambulance station in charge of Mr. G. Saun-
At the Maritime Conference of enter more strongly into merchant and later, the firefloat inthe International Labour Office to- shipping activities is shown by the charge of Mr. H. T. Brooks, day, Signor Margini, the Italian announcement that the shipbuil- Superintendent, together with workers' delegate, on behalf of the ders of the United States have 12 men from Central, went Italian seamen, protested, with been invited to submit tenders to across the harbour and berth the support of the Italian Govern- the United States Lines, for theed at a small pier close to the ment delegate, against the nomina- construction to two new liners. blazing buildings.
tions to the Committees by the workers' group.
from
the
In spite of his protest, however, Signor Margini said that the re- presentatives of the Italian seamen were prepared to assist in the work of the committees.
It is stipulated that the new The compound, in which ships are each to be about thirty blaze was, was surrounded on four thousand tons displacement, and sides, the three land engines tak shall have a speed of 22 knots,
ing up positions on three sides
1,300 passengers each.
They will accommodate about ashore while the firefloat on arrival, got into action from the sea-side The vessels as planned will be
Each using two lines of smaller than
the
hose, the Leviathan,
appliances
The matter was finally shelved succeed- which is America's biggest ship, ed In preventing the fire on an agreement that it should be but they will be the largest ever buildings, the nearest of which mittee.
sprending to adjoining referred to the Credentials Com- constructed in the United States.
was a ginger factory At the same time, specifications of which are now being prepared for four When the firefloat added its quota other liners, all of which will be with four lines of hose the land larger and faster than the Levia- appliances caused action with the than. These also will be built by the mains and the fire was finally fresh water they were using from the United States Lines, but, they will not be commenced until the conquered with salt water from two for which tenders have been
the float. called have been completed.- British American Service.
NANKING WAR ON KUOMINCHUN.
"Stop Signal,
The Selection Committee has decided to submit the resolution of the employers' group to a plenary sitting of the Conference to be
held to-morrow.
The
ship-owners yesterday passed a resolution expressing the inability of the ship-owners' re- presentatives to participate in the The stop signal was given at discussions "in view of the British 3.48 a.m. and the appliances representatives and the fact that ship-owners' refusal to send re- turned to the station leaving one Norway is not represented," unless Chinese sub-officer and eight men assured that the method of ap- to prevent any fresh outbreak pointing non-Government delegates occurring from the smouldering as advisers be remedied.
debris.
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As far as can be gathered it The owners subsequently sub- appears that three buildings and mitted a resolution to the confer Kai-shek intende to appoint several lean-to sheds were in-ence in favour of the appointment General Tang Seng-chi as Com-volved, the owners being away in of delegates in agreement with the manding Officer of the Nanking Canton and several fokis being organisations concerned, and invit vanguards. Marshal Chiang him- left to look after the buildings. ad the Governing Body of the self will embark for Hankow, The biggest, it has been establish- International Labour Office to take establishing his headquarters ed, way named the Kwong Tak the present position of the ship there and directing three Nanking marine store, consisting of a owners. Reuter. Divisions in Hapeh with a view ground floor and one upper floor.
to exterminating the Kuominehan In this place were rattan bags, forces in North Hupch and drive boxes of sugar, shavings andi them back to Honan.
sawdust. It was built of brick
..
It is also known that the with a corrugated iron roof. Ad- National Government has appoint- joining was the Wah Wing-cheong ed Commanders to attack the Sugar Refinery, which was used Kuominchun in many other diree-for sugar bolling and sugar pack- tions.
ing. This was severely damaged, by fire. Another building in the compound was the Hip" Woo
LIFE BANISHEE RETURNS.
PRISON SENTENCE & BIRCH ORDERED.
Feng-Yen Alliance,
Before Mr. A. W. G. H. Grant- There is not the slightest doubt cheong, used as a marine store and ham this morning, a Chinese was that a strong alliance has been blacksmith's workshop. A wooden charged with, disobeying an order formed between Marshal Feng Bide of the building was damaged of banishment. Yu-hsiang, (who controls Honan, by the fire the value of this Shensi and Kansu Provinces) and damage being roughly assessed Marshal Yen Hsi-shan, (who co- at $260.
Members of the Brigade were trols Shansi and Chibli Provinces with Peking and Tientsin), as for still working among the debria some months these two leaders are at eight o'clock this morning. said to have resided at Tai Yuan.i
the capital of Shansi Projnce. king Army will be announced in
All communications on the the early part of next week. Lang-Hai-Railway between Loyangi
Nanking, Oct. 11,
Mr. T. Murphy, A.S.P., said the accused was sentenced, in 1918, tó five years' hard labour for gang robbery, and was banished for life on the expiration of that term.
On the n's own admission, he had been moving freely about in the, New, Territories for some months this year. Arrested, final-
and Lin Pao have been interrupt- War between the Governmently, in the British section of Sha- ed since yesterday when the Kuo- forces and the Kuominchun la in. taukok, as a suspect, his identity minchun units tore up a number of evitable.
was discovered. As he seemed to
rails to prevent the advance of the The State Council this morning have paid no attention to his Nanking army under Tang Seng ordered the dismissal and arrest order of expulsion, the Court was of the War Minister Lu Chung-lin, asked to take a serious view of All the Kuominchun militarists and Liu Chi, both of whom are this case. and politicians serving the Nan- prominent members of the. Kuo-
Mr. Grantham inflicted sentence
king Government, have succeeded minchun, on the ground that they of six months' hard labour and in evading arrest by leaving the have been frequently plotting twelve strokes of the birch. capital before the Mandate of the against the Government Both
Kdominchun denouncing Marshal have escaped from the capital.
Chiang Kai-shek arrived Warrants. There is a persistent rumour that
urging, the arrest of these Kuo- Chiang Kai-shek has issued a cir- TENDERS ACCEPTED. minchun leaders and the "Leftist" cular telegram to-day denouncing politicians, including the War the Kuominchun leaders; and it Minister, Lu Chung-lin, have been is considered probable that a Jesued..
punitive expedition will be sent) against the Kuominchun.
Hankowy Tension.
It is reported here that military
KOWLOON HOSPITAL MATERNITY BLOCK.
The Government has accepted Hankow City has been under movements have already been de the following tenders: martial law' aince the morning of gun by the Kuominehun in Honan,
Mr. Man Gang, $35,936 for Kow.
the Chinese National Day and the along the Peking-Hankow rallway, loon Hospital maternity block, site Nanking troops fear a rising with Hankow as the objective formation and building. among the Chinese Communists The National Government issued Messrs. Sing Lee
& Co.,
inside the city with a view to two mandates this afternoon, the $2,534.91 for repairs to Cheung seizing the place and joining with first ordering the arrest of many Cheung Chau Ferry Pier. the advancing Kuominchun forces prominent Kuomintang loft wing in Northern dupeh.
mombors; the second cancelling for the supply and making up of Blessra. Tung Hing Co., $427.25 chun general attack on the Nan-Yang Sen
It is reported that a Kuomia, the former order for the arrest of winter uniforms for Revenue
Ocers, &c.
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