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JAPANESE TROOPS REPULSED. MR. RAMSAY MacDONALD'S
Fierce Engagement on
on Nonni
Nonni River.
CHINESE COUNTER
ATTACKS.
FIRST DEFENCE LINES
RECAPTURED.
WAR IN EARNEST?
THE NONNI RIVER, near Tsitsihar, is now the scene of organised military operations, the clash between Japanese and Chinese troops on Wednesday having developed into a definite battle for mastery.
THE JAPANESE ARE HEAVILY OUTNUMBERED. THEY APPEAR TO HAVE ATTACKED AND CAPTURED THE FIRST LINES OF THE CHINESE ARMY ARRAYED AGAINST THEM, SUBSEQUENTLY TO BE DRIVEN INTO RETREAT BY SHEER FORCE OF NUMBERS. APPEAR TO BE HOLDING STUBBORNLY TO THEIR THEY ORIGINAL POSITIONS AND, ACCORDING TO CHINESE SOURCES, HEAVY REINFORCEMENTS RUSHED TO THE SCENE OF THE FIGHTING.
ARE
BEING
An official Japanese communique issued in Mukden yesterday afternoon admits that fierce fighting "com- menced on Wednesday and was still proceeding yester- day morning.
Up to ten o'clock in the morning, the Japanese casualties were
FIFTEEN KILLED
FORTY WOUNDED.
The Chinese casualties, believed to be exceedingly heavy, are not known. After capturing the Chinese first defence line, the official communique states, the Japanese troops were forced to retreat.
JAPANESE RETIRE TO TAONAN.
Mukden, Nuv, 6.
mediate. convocation of the League The situation in the region of Council, but it is thought that M. Tsitsihar is becoming increas- Briand may find it necessary to ingly grave. Chinese sources 16-Revter.
enll a moeting before November report that the Japanese are ex- pecting huge reinforcements from Korea to arrive to-night. | -Router.
Shanghai. Nov. 6. The severe hostilities between Heilungklung troops and Japanese continued yesterday morning. Japanese have retreated concentrating at Taonan.
The
and are
In connexion with the Bghting at Nonni the Chinese military com- mandera state that the Manchurian troops Huered severo coNualties Һеслике сhe Japanese had assistance of aeroplanes and several tankн.
the
The first Heilungking Brigade is erectin, fortientis ear the Nonni River for the defence Heilungklung, fearing Japanese reprisals.-iuxhe
گروه
violent
League Informed.
Geneva, Nov. 5. Dr. Alfred Sze, the principal Chinese representative on the Lea- gue Council, called on Sir Eric
The Japanese Versiori.
OBER
Left to right: Sir H. Betterton,Sir J. Gilmour, Sir A. Sinclair, Lord
Londonderry,
Sir Hilton Young.
CHINA
PEACE
HOPES.
Concessions by Nanking.
-
Nanking. Nov. 6. The prospects of definite pence settlement is again loom- the Government leaders to make ing as a result of a decision by important concessions.
Sir John Simon and Mr. Ormsby.Gore.
KOWLOON AS BIG AS POMPEY.
REVELATION OF CENSUS.
OVERCROWDING
ON ISLAND.
Amongst the facts reveal- ed in the report of the recent census of the Colony, by Mr. W. J. Carric, M. A., B. Sc., Superintendent of Census, one of the most interesting -is that Kowloon is now com- parable in size of population with Nottingham or Ports- mouth, and not far short of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Colony is 849,781, representing The total population of the
an increase in the civilian Among them are an arrangement population of 215,307 in the last for the postponement of the decade, the largest ever record- National Congress, originally scheed during a similar period. duled to open on November 12.
The increase in Kowloon is: This is stated to be due to the 113.06 per cent, reflecting the Geneva, Nov. 5. The Japanese delegation has now agreed to go to Nanking from land.
fact that the Canton delegates have enormous expansion on the main- communicated to Sir Eric Drum- Shanghai.
Great overcrowding is re- dispute over the railway bridge Nineteenth Route Army, has arrive mend particulars regarding the General Chan Ming-chu, with the tricts.
vealed in certain Hongkong dis-j (Continued on Page 14.3
ed at Nanking-Reuter.
Ryujin Maru Rescue Drama.
Lifeboat Crew Almost Swept to
Disaster in Heavy Seas.
Japanese seamen battling in the heavy surf round Tan Rocks nearly found them. selves in a worse predicament than their fellow-countrymen on the Ryujin Maru, when, in attempts to rescue them yesterday, a.hawaer snapped, and a small life boat was dashed over the treacherous shoal.
By miraculous stroke it was not damaged, and the craft was picked up. The seamen were from the The Note which Dr. Szo left with Japanese steamer Madras Maru,
Drummond this afternoon, and seriously drew his attention to the, fighting at Nonni River, requesting the League Secretary to inform M. Briand, and urging that action be taken at Tokyo to end the fighting.,
while
The British population is given; an 0,084, of whom 4,823 fre English, 1,254 Scottish and 400 Irish.
Of the Chinese population, only 17.5 per cent. claim to be British|
subjects.
Total 849,751.
The report shows that the total population, us enumerated on the night of March 7th, amounted to about 3 pan. when the seus had were males and 357,893 females.
| 849,761 persona, of whom 491,858. abated a little, but hardly had the lifeboat taken the water
The distribution of the popula- the hawser snapped, and caught
tion in the main divisions” of the! un by the huge waves, the boat Colony is na follows: was dashed in the direction of the jagged rocka,
Right neroasopakank
when
Kowloon
the dangerous sheal it was driven, New Territories... but apparently it cleared them Afloat unharmed in spite of the rocks and heavy surf, for it appeared safe on the other side, and tak ing control, those on board sail- cd acaward.
Boat Picked Up. The Madras Maru then got un-i
thu
Males Females Trital 247.987 162,054 410,921 146.618 13.057 244.975 80.141 48,759 F#.004 47.126 28.324 76,850
491,958 357,893 240,761
civilian population during the The increase of 215,307 in the last decade is the largest that has ever taken place in the Colony during a similar period.
Relatively, however, it is some-i
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NEW CABINET.
Neville Chamberlain at the Treasury.
Mr. W. Runciman Heads Board of Trade.
NATIONAL COMPLEX
PRESERVED.
Mr. Walter Ranchana whose appointment to the Cabinst 'la regarded with much satisfaction. He is an advocate of total pro-, the same time provides a check on Mr. Neville Chambariain's full- blooded Protection tendency.
MR. RAMSAY MacDONALD'S new Cabinet ibition of luxury imports, and at
is now complete. It was officially an- nounced from No. 10, Downing Street last night that the King had been pleased to approve the following appointments:
Prime Minister and First Lord
of the Treasury...... . Mr. Ramsay MacDonald Lord President of Council.....Mr. Stanley Baldwin. Chancellor of the Exchequer...Mr. Neville Chamberlain. President Board of Trade .Mr. Walter Runciman. Lord Chancellor...
Lord Sankey. Lord Privy Seal. Secretaries of State:-
Foreign...
.Home.
Dominions
Colonies.
India War.
Air.....
"First Lord of Admiralty. Secretary for Scotland. Minister of Health. President Board of Education. Minister of Agriculture. Minister of Labour. First Commissioner of Works
Mr. Philip Snowden.
Sir John Simon. Sir Herbert Samuel.. Mr. J. H. Thomas. Sir P. Cunliffe Lister. Sir Samuel Hoare. Lord Hailsham. .* Marquis Londonderry. Sir B. Eyres-Mansell.-- Sir Archibald Sinclair. Sir Hilton Young. Sir Donald Maclean. Sir John Gilmour. Sir Henry Betterton. Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby-Gore
GANDHI MEETS KING AND QUEEN.
TO THE PALACE IN LOINCLOTH.
London, Nov. 5. Bare-headed and clad in his customary garb, loincloth and shawls, Mr. Gandhi went to Buckingham Palace to-day in response to His Majesty's invitation to attend a party. All the delegates to the Indian Round Table Conference were pro-
sent.
By a coincidence, when Gandhi's Car passed in the Palace gates, the aentrica came to attention.
A faint enigmatic smile played about Gandhi's lips as a policeman saluted him.
The Mahatma walked up the
It will be seen that the new Cabinet has been en- larged from the emergency number of ten to the usual twenty, and that the Conservatives hold eleven posts, the Liberals five and the National Labour Party four crimson-carpeted staircase with The only member of the National Cabinet who has not with the King and Queen, with the other guests and shook hands been re-appointed is Lord Reading, who, when he whom he afterwards conversed. accepted the Foreign Secretaryship in August, made it Renter. clear that he did so only temporarily. TARIFFS AND A CHECK.
TWEYTY-FIVE YEARS IN SING SING.
HEAVY PENALTY GIVEN
TO ROBBER.
MR. BALDWIN AGAIN PREFERRED NOT TO SERVE AS THE HEAD OF A DEPARTMENT, AND MR. NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN'S APPOINTMENT TO THE TREASURY WAS, THEREFORE, A FORE- GONE CONCLUSION. THE DECISION GIVES THE GOVERNMENT A DECIDED TARIFF LEAN-
New York, Nov. 5. ING, BUT IT IS PARTICULARLY INTERESTING Harry Stein, who, with another TO NOTE THAT THIS MAY BE CONSIDERABLY man, was acquitted of the mur- BALANCED BY THE APPOINTMENT OF MR. haired racketeer
der of Vivian Gordon, the Titian- WALTER RUNCIMAN TO THE BOARD OF TRADE, has been sentenced to 26 years in July last, MR. RUNCIMAN WAS AT ONE TIME A STRONG Imprisonment in the Sing Sing
Prison for FREE TRADER, BUT DURING THE DEBATES IN American Service.
robbery-Router's THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE GOLD STANDARD, HE SURPRISED THE HOUSE BY SUGGESTING A BAN ON LUXURY IMPORTS.
Another interesting point is that the very strong Conserva- tive tariff element as represented by Mr. L. C. M. S. Amery has no appointment to the Cabinet at all. **
The fact that in recent years a strong personal friendship has sprung up between Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Stanley Baldwin should augur well for the harmonious working of the new Ministry.
aya
TERRIBLE AIR
• DISASTER.
FIVE KILLED IN NEW JERSEY PLANE CRASHL”.
Now York, Nov. 6. Five passengers were killed when
Mr. Philip Snowden's peerage has not yet been an-the Washington to New York sir nounced, but his inclusion in the Cabinet may be taken liner crashed in flames at Camden, as definite confirmation of reports of his impending New Jorgey, to-lay-Routor'à elevation.
J
that
American Servico,
Sir Brie Drummond alleged that which has been standing by the Japanese troops were actively Ryujin Maru which is wedged der way and succeanfully picked what less than the corresponding provoking armed clashes in the hard and fast neighbourhood Nunni River.
ON the rocks. up the boat after a hard struggle figure for the previous decade. According to a message he had Heavy surf had prevented the about 5 p.m., and continued, its The increase from 1911 to 1921 evident that the Prime Minister Secretary to deal with such intri-portfolios which they held in the
In forming his new Cabinet, it is suitable in the position of Forelga received from the Nanking Govern Hermes' boats from continuing voyage to Hongkong. ment Japanese troops, in Chinese with rescue work, and at 11 a.m.
was 168,427 or 86.87% on the been at pains to secure a cate questions as reparations and Cabinet of Ten formed when the dreas, accompanied by bandits, yesterday the Madras Maru scene at the same time, and is for 1921.
H.M.S. Hormes also left
figures for 1911 the present In: yesterday fired on a Chinese campmade a valiant attempt to reach due in Hongkong to-morrow,
crease is 34.44% on the figures really National Government, re-allied problems.
National Government took office at two Japanese acroplanes
flecting, under his Premiorship, dropped bomba, killing more than the wreck in order to take off his last message sont just before
Chief Problems, the country's election' verdict.
the end of August, namely Mr. twenty Chinese,
A scrutiny of the lat shows Hongkong Increases. those on board.
Baldwin, who is the leader of the antling the Commandor told the
The presence of Mr. Runciman Conservatives, Sir Herbert Samuel, the Cabinet, in the division of at the Board of Trade is expected leader of the Liberals, Lord San Six hundred Japanese troops
Commodore at Ilongkong that the
The total increase in the island offices, la definitely aimed in this to prove very valuable owing to key, who was also Lord Chancellor crossed Nonni River to-day, added
wind had decreased to 20 aniles of Hongkong amounts to 61,802 direction, rather than to form his wide knowledge of finance and in the Labour Administration, Sir the Nete, and attacked the Chinese, The steamer had shifted her remained just as rough, there for 1921.
an hour, and although the sea persons or 17.79% on the gurea mirror of the actunt strength of trade, which wil be in the fore- Samuel Hoare, Conservative, who killing more than 100.
This is considerably the parties as represented in the front of the problems which the with Lord Sankoy has been closely The Note concluded: "I am in-windward of the wreck early in the
berth to about half a mile to the were prospects of it moderating. less than the increase in the pro-Row House of Commons. structed to request you to be good morning, and a lifeboat attached
vious decade, which was 103,078
new Government will have to faco. engaged in the affairs of the enough to at once inform the Pre- to a hawser was let out from the board now depends on the efforts
All hope of saving those
The appointment of Bir Bolton The decision to send Mr. Neville Indian Conference during the on or 442.10% on the figures for 1911. Byres-Monsell to the Admiralty sident of the Council, and ask him ship. For About
Chamberlain, to the Treasury may present sessions and those of Inst It la difficult to give any satia-
(vice Bir Agaton Chamberlain) in 10 minutes of the Japanese destroyer Nashi, factory explanation of this rela to intervene with the Japanese the small
be taken as a good indleation of the Autumn, Mr. Thomas, Labour, Mr. craft
very interesting. He has been tried to which has been standing by sintetively smaller Increase in Hong- Government to stop theso
attitude the Government will adopt Conservative Chief Whip alnes 1923) In-get alongside the wreck, but the Wednesday night, and the salvaga kong and, as will be seen later, cendiary activities, by Japanese sens were too high, and it was pull tug which was summoned from a very much larger increase in the
but has never pratiqusly held a troope"
Cabinet appointmeist. cd back.
Moji. It is expected to reach the Kowloon Peninsula, except in Dr. Se has not asked for an im A similar attempt was made wreck some time to-day, juntarsi
First Failure.
Sir John Simon, one of the most
towards tarifin, for Mr. Chamber-Snowden has also been retained. Iain is among the very strongest of laritats.
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