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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1930.
KWEIHSIEN TAKEN"
BY CANTONESE.
COMING ATTACK ON NANNINGFUL.
Canton, May 16.
YANGTSZE SHIPS PIRATED.
THREE CHINESE BOATS ARE VICTIMS.
Shanghai, May 16.
ATTEMPT TO SNATCH HAND-BAG.
LADY'S EXPERIENCE IN BOWEN ROAD,
A report has been made to the
Following a rapid march by A hundred pirates on Wednes- Police by Miss C. Smith, residing Kwangtung troops who captured day evening successfully held up effect that whilst she was walking at No. 14. Bowen Road, to the Sunehowfu on Tuesday, the mill, three Chinese steamers, the Foong-in Bowen Read yesterday, about tary commanders have reported heng, Foongyui and Kirin (all to the Kwangtung Military Head Chingkiang-owned) twenty miles quarters that the Divisions under below Yangchow. General Chiang Kwang-nai and
8.80 a.m., a Chinese attempted to snatch a hand-bag which she was carrying, but failed to obtain pos-
Miss Smith immediately raised
Tsol Ting-kai captured Kweihsien The pirates looted' the passen-session of it. yesterday morning. The latter gers' belongings, and it is alleged
city is about fifty miles from Sun-got away with a haul valued at an alarm, but the would-be snatch- chowfu on the upper reaches of more than $20,000.--Reuter. the West River between Sunchow- fu and Nanning.
The capture of Kweihsien marks a second decisive victory for the Kwangtung army, and presages the early fall of Nanning and Liu- chowfu, the last of the Kwangai rebel strongholds. The Kwang- tung Commanders are sparing no effort to exterminate the rebels.
According to radio messages from Wuchow, the Kwangtung commanders state that their troops arrived at Kwelhalen on Wednesday and bombarded the city immediately, with valuable assistance afforded by the Navy,
Rebels' Weak Defence,
ders report that they were at:a) loss to know where the Kwangsi rebels had retreated but it seems most probable that their destina- tion is Liuchowfu.
er succeeded in making good his escape.
the towboat. Twenty pirates and three Chinese seamen figured in the casualty Hat..
The Cheung Fat towboat," in Semi-official circles here state company of a steam launch, left that the Kwangtung troops will Kongmoon early on Tuesday morn not send an expedition up the Fu ing with a full load of passengers River for the time being, but will and sundry goods. When near the pursue the rebels along the upper Wing Lok Yuan village in Shun- reaches of the West River heading tak, the steam launch, which was for Nanning, the capital of Kwang-towing the wooden vessel, struck
part.
www.
20 Pirates Killed.
a mine which exploded with terri- Ac force.
while when the passengers saw the Pandemonium, reigned for B
steam launch-
founder. Mean-
while, a horde of pirates, armed with rifles, set out from the shore on sampans. For half an hour the guards on board the passen ger boat fired at and checked the advance of the desperadoes.
The attack on Nanning will be entrusted solely to the Kwangtung army, as the shallow condition of this part of the West River makes The Kwangsi troops put up at most dangerous to navigate at weak defence, indicating their de- this time of the year. Gunboats termination to surrender the town will, therefore, not be able to take and retreat to the interior. Later, on Wednesday evening, two Can- tonese acroplanes and three gun- boats from Sunchowfu, (named Kwangtung, taking the form of ed by the arrival of a small re- Kweiping) arrived at Kwelhsien expicsive mines placed on the river venae launch belonging to the and joined in the bombardment. bed to trap towboats, has resulted Government, which brought down The withdrawal of the Kwangsi in another well-known Canton twenty pirates with machine guns, troops from Kweihsien was com- towboat launch plying between The revenue launch rescued some pleted early yesterday morning. Kongmoon and, the Shuntak dis of the seamen on the foundered
dead when the small number of rebelstrict being sunk. The pirates launch. Twenty
pirate® suddenly gave up and abandoned were repulsed after a gallant re-bodies and three seamen were the city. Kwangtung Comman-sistance offered by the guards on picked up..
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