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WAR MENACE AGAIN HANGS OVER SHANGHAI
HUPEH RED
MENACE.
BITTER BATTLE PROCEEDING.
(Special to "Telegraph")
Hankow, Apr. 18.
A serious attempt is at last being made to rid Hupeh Province of the Communist
menace.
Bitter fighting is now going on hetween Government troops and the Communist armies in the Hung Lako district, and the government commander imits to over
HIN
hundred casualties, the losses in- !
Lord Trenchard, head of 'Scotland
officient officers.
cluding a brigade-commander and Yard, who is losing some of his mast A colonel, hot of whom were killed.
The Communist ensualties are
auknown but they are believed to SCOTLAND YARD
have been exceedingly heavy,
The engagement i provveding. the Reds reainting the Government torres desperately. -- Reuter,
SERIOUS MOTOR" ACCIDENT.
FOREIGNER BADLY
INJURED.
A rather serious accident curred in Nathan Road at about nine o'clock this morning when Mr.
SLEUTHS.
FORMING NEW AGENCY.
NOTED OFFICERS RESIGN.
(Reptor's Special Servica).
London, Apr. 17. J. Nobron, of Turkish nationality,
Scotland Yard is losing some and described as a shopkeeper of? No. 26. Nathan Road, was injured, of its most cunning sleuths by and had to be taken to hospital.
According to the report of Tumitive agency, on the lines of the On, driver of Kowloon Motor Bus famous Pinkerton's of America, No. 107, he was driving along by Superintendent Charles Co- Nathan Read towards Yamati and oper, one of the "Big Five" of when in the vicinity of the Dairy Scotland Yardi. Farm, Mr. Nobron, who intended
to board the bus, got top for onto
SHARP SKIRMISH LIFE'S HARD
YESTERDAY.
PATROLS IN CLASH
NEAR CREEK.
JAPANESE ACCUSED OF
HOSTILE MOVE.
NUMEROUS LOSSES.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT).
KNOCKS.
HONGKONG STREET
TRAGEDIES.
"HOMO" RETURNS TO THE FRAY.
Skr.- have been trying to elucidate the "X-Q.Y." mystery. It seems to be well on the way to- wards an algebraic equation, but as the conclusion of the letter re- fers to babies, there in a romute possibility that your correspon- dent wishes to convey that he bay ten-quite young-confined to aj hotel bedroom. Anyhow, the nom de plume is sufficiently intri- guing to induce me to bite. Hope we shall be duly enlightened.
"X-Q.Y." contends that the com- parative absence of home life in Hongkong is accounted for by the nature of the accommodation-- hotel rooms and M-planned, jerry- buil Nats. To
niy mind, home life is H question more
Shanghai, Apr. 18, 11.32 a.m. THE PERIL OF A RENEWAL OF HOSTILITIES, of contented human relationship THE
AS A SEQUEL TO THE ADVANCE OF THE thau of spacious living room, and CHINESE EIGHTY-EIGHTH DIVISION AND THE Hongkong's real trouble Ifes. in the young wife's many opportuni- CONSEQUENT THREAT TO THE JAPANESE ties for having what she considers FLANK, ASSUMED. MORE DEFINITE PROPOR- a better time outside the marital, TIONS YESTERDAY WHEN THE FIRST CLASH relationship. BETWEEN THE RIVAL FORCES OCCURRED.
The Chinese allege that the action was precipitated by a hostile Japanese movement in which patrols came into contact, the Japanese opening fire.
Interesting Changt.
married girl finds even a room in a hotel a rather interesting change
On her arrival here, the average
from what she has been accus- tomed to at Home, and, should a
ແກ້ ap-
Meanwhile, there is plenty of evidence that the baby happen to put in Nanking Government is actively preparing for further pearance, there is no earthly rea- hostilities. Chinese who returned from Nanking to son why a three or four-roomed fat should not furnish all the Shanghai to-day declare that the Government is com-comfort that the formation of a new detec-
is essential to a mandeering steamers at Nanking for the transport of happy home life. Most of us have tropps to the Shanghai area.
friends here--of another genera tion-who have succeeded in When they reached Soochow, it was noticed that bringing up familles in a genuine considerable activity and bustle were characteristic ofditions, and if, after the modern home atmosphere under such con- the military base camps.
wife's arrival, the question of a future home was given serious consideration, money that is now wantonly squandered on dances, club life and entertainment would go far to provide the necessary accommodation and comforts, Moreover, whatever conditions
He has tendered his resignation
the road, and, before the bus could after over forty years' service, dur ing which he handled many of the avob him, wan knocked down.
His right leg was badly injured Yard's most difficult cases, includ and he was taken to the Kowlooning the Crippen and Sedión cases. Hospital, his condition being cons He will be assisted in the new sidered serious.
detective agency by Inspector Selby, also one of the Yard's murt efficient alliéers, who has also re- signed.
DOLLAR SLIGHTLY
RISES.
HIGHER SILVER
Civilian Experts.
THE SOOCHOW CREEK CROSSED.
(SPECIAL TO THE “TELEGRAPH”).
Shanghai, Apr. 18, 11.19 a.m. DUS casunition. The Japanes obtained in our grandmothers According to a statement to the China
PreRK by responsible Chinese officials, heavily armedi
losses are unknown.
our
time, a comparison of Home and The Chinese declare that the Hongkong rental to income ratio, Japanese attack was entirely to-day, certainly gives the latter: unprovoked, and anxiely is ex-the monetary advantage, e.g., 25s. pressed that such skirmishes £4 against, say, $130/$600. may lend to much more serious
Anyhow, encounters.
were it not for A heavy fire was exchanged for] The tension is increasing and to men, the insidious influence of abnormally low proportion of girla time and the Chinese are the situation may be regarded as the average American film, and [reported to have suffered numer-serious-Reuter.
these new-fangled alluring tricks, there would be no question about home life possibilities in Hong kong.
sume
It is expected that Superinten-Japanese patrols yesterday cross- dent Cooper and Inspector Selbyed the Soochow Creek and fired oni
Chinese troops. will be joined by other officers of distinction in the new organisation, which is opening oflices in Regeat PRICES.
Streek, although the agency will not With silver considerably up in be confined to C.I.D., officers, for London and New York, the long-Superintendent Cooper worked for kong dollar advanced 1/8th to-day three months with Pinkerton's and The local market intends embodying most of their to is. id. opened stendy, but when gerulators methods, one of which is the em began buying it took on a rather ployment of civilians with expert
knowledge of criminology. Silver rose B/16th in London, Superintendent Cooper and In- spot and forward, Ching bought, spector Selby were jointly founders while at the rise China and specula- the Sentiand Yard Flying Squad tors sold. The market was quiet.
Now York reports a rise of formed for combatting the activi quarter, with the market stendly.ties of motor-car bandits and car
vasier tone.
THE MENINGITIS OUTBREAK.
SIX FURTHER CASES NOTIFIED.
During the week-end, six
fur-
thieves.
U.S. BASEBALL,
POOR DAY FOR HOME BATTERIES.
New York, Apr. 17. The results of baseball games played ther cases of meningitis were re-to-dny follow: ported to the health authorities,
National League. Of these, four were from Kow-
loon, one from Victoria and one Brooklyn from Aberdeen.
St. Louis There were also three cases of Cincinnati New York small-pox notified.
Y4O
0 Philadelphin
1
1 Chicago 3 Pittsburk 6 Boston
American League.
Philadelphia 11 0 St. Louis
Cleveland
1
Bruter.
Admitting a charge of disorderly Washington conduct by fighting in Fleming Road, Detroit two Chinese were each fined $1 and Chicago alað bound over by Mr. Schofield at the Central Police Court this morning, it being stated that although bricks were being thrown by the two men,) neither was aerlously hurt.
For
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of
MISS ETZDORF CRASHES.
HONGKONG-BERLIN FLIGHT FAILS.
SLIGHTLY
HURT.
พแม
PEAK MOTOR-CAR COLLISION.
FRENCH OWNER FINED FORTY DOLLARS.
ON WRONG SIDE.
Beau Disillusion.
Woman's adoption of artifice, in itself, has gone für towards re- volutionising our social life. How does one witness that little heart- often, in the streets of Hongkong,
breaking tragedy-youth meander- ing along astern a pair of glisten- ing silk stockings, two dainty high heeled shoes and a prettily tinted shimmering dress (of just sum- Berlin, Apr. 17.
elent length, derhaps, to hide a The summons against M. Paul pair of knock-knees)-a sudden Fraulein Marga yon Etzdorf, the
Meunier, of the Cle de Charbon-quickening of the pace as the point famous German airwoman,
the slightly injured to-day when her nagre de Tonkin, for negligent of ascetic, saturation from plane crashed at Bangkok in the and dangerous driving and for rear view is reached-eyes hard course of her flight to Berlin from being on the wrong side of the aport in glowing anticipation of an Hongkong.
road, as a consequence of which, angolic profile-and then
collision with speed ahead with the fange of The
from Bangkok it was alleged, a message
bia notifying the mishup states that Mr. II. K. B. Hancock's ear hap- disillusionment gnawing at
pened on April 3, on Stubbs Rond, vitals. Tricked into premature near Jardine's Corner, concluded adoration by artifice of shoe and before Mr. Schoflold at the Con-stocking, and life embittered, ped. tral Magistracy on Saturday after-haps, for the rest of the day." noon. The defendant was fined
And were that same youth to 340 for being on the wrong side find his way, some. Spring morn- of the road, but was acquitted on ing, into the average Hongkong the summons in respect of negli-girl's bed-chamber, before she had gent and dangerous driving.
full
A remarkable feat by a German woman dare-devil is illustrated above, Fraulein Morti jumped 66 fost into the street, turning a somersault and landing on a mattress. She did it for a wager!
How Many Feet Has a Monkey?
WRONG!
PEACE PROBLEM.
Geneva Discussions.
Chinese Leaders Dissatisfied.
Geneva, Apr. 17,
The stumbling block in the Shanghai negotiations is not the question of supervision of the with- drawal of the Japanese troops, but, the demand for a unconditional time-limit for withdrawal,
M.Hymans, the chairman of the Assembly Committee of Nineteen, has informed both Dr. W. W. Yen and Mr. Nagaoka of the upshot of yesterday's private meeting of the Committee and both have informed their governments and awaiting instructions.
are
now
Chinese Attitude,
The Chinesa delegation, mean- while, expresses dissatisfaction with the Committee proceedings and are pressing for a public meet- ing of the Committee, falling which they will ask for a meeting of the Assembly.
Japanese circles are optimistic that a satisfactory solution of the Shanghai dieulty will be found.
Ma Chan-Shan Statement..
The Chinese delegates have re- ceived a lengthy memorandum from General. Ma Chan-shan, describing: the Japanese action in Manchuria and attributing to General Honjo
commander-in-chief of the the Japanese forces in Manchurin, the As statement that Japan Is dotermin- ap-ed to retain Manchurin at any cost!
and will not hesitate to go to war with any third State interfering.-. Reuter
(Reuter's Special Servico).
Lonilon, Apr. 17. The problem of how many feet a monkey can be regarded passessing was not, it now pears, finally disposed of by the decision of the Honourable Board of Customs in London.
Nanking Talk,
Nanking, Apr. 18. Members of the Executive Yuan assembled yesterday for a dia- cussion on the Shanghai situa- tlon. General Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. Wang Ching-wei and other Gov-
A matter not to be so lightly settled, it was placed by the Board | of Customs in
of the hands experts for enquiry, and after extensive research, a new decision has been mande, reversing that given a few days ago,
It is now, held that monkeys are four-footed and not four-handed. so that they will be duty free.
curves
ernment officials met at the Gov ernment Club at Tongshan whore. all the facts concerning the Sino- Japanese discussions at the Ar mlstice Conference were outlined. Following strong pressure by Mr. Wang Ching-wel and the Gov- ernment, Mr. L. Wen-kan, the
altered his
that he worships from afar on the Foreign Minister. Colony's dance floors--the shoc, intention to resign. a dream of unmitigated rapture In statement to the Press, in itself, the delightful 11ttle Mr. Lo Wen-kan said that for of a silk-covered ankle twenty years he had devoted his that sets his heart pounding to time to judiefal matters and con- the rhythm of subdued, soul-sidered himself inexperienced in seducing music, the Rorgeous the administration colouring and flowing perfection affairs.
of foreign He accepted the Foreign of dressmaker's art, sweeping. Ministry at Nanking because of bewitching Blues of bust and the national crisis. Ho would waist, artistic setting of perman- continue at the Foreign Office ao ent waves, the captivating mask long as the Government could not and Ita perpetual fetching smile find a successor.-Renaha.
from head to foot and stem to stern the whole thing is false: an apparition, soul-annihilating in its fictitious beauty. He is wor- shipping nothing more than an idol, a creation of silk and paint over an artifically-reconstructed form, under which the woman her- self lies hidden like a anail-in its shell.
BANISHEE COMES
:
BACK.
FOUR DAYS BEFORE TERM UP.
To my mind, there is something devilishly wrong about the whole
Banished on April 21, 1922, a business. It is not simply a ques- Chinese who appeared before Mr. tion of sex, for it is becoming Schofield at the Central Police more apparent day after day that Court this morning on a charge of men are clamourin not for the disobeying the order of deporta woman as Nature made hor, but tion was sentenced to four days for a hand-made divinity. From hard labour in addition to a term the beginning of human history of twelve months' imprisonment on inan has been reaching out for a charge of being in possession of something beyond his natural 40 taels of raw oplum. environment whereby he might
The defendant was arrested on indulge an Innate worship-impe-
ng instinct, and there is some-the waterfront with the oplum con-
conled around his waist. In removed the dow and grime from thing nauseatingly uncanny
The defendant admitted both The collision, it was disclosed, for none too cheerful countenance, that, after two thousand years of counts and romarked that he was almost head-en, and Mr. administered the matutinal Ice Christianity, woman has succeeded | thought his term of banishment E.. O. C. Marton, who represented berg massage, pushed three or four in luring him back to long-for-had expired. Mr. Hancock's Chinese chauffeur, brands of lotion and cream into
His Worship pointed out that he gotten pagantem-to a deity of stated that the vehicle, a Crossley, her facial pores, got the colour paint and material form, upon the bad returned four days too soon was smashed beyond repair. No scheme more or less symmetrical claim was being made in
(Continued on Pape 7.)
Injury.
that and of the requisite intensity, altar of which he la prepared to and ordered him to serve the re-
bobbed on the powder to make the
sacrifico his best friend should mainder of his banishment sen- tence in gaol, a term of one year Inat effort look natural, put on a the necessity arise.
bollig imposed in addition on the pair of eyebrows, and furnished Wo are back to the age of devil-opfum charge, in default of pay- herself with alluring crimson lips worship, woman as the high pries-ment of a fine of $1,200. Sho left Hongkong on her flight-ho would get out on tip-tos just toss, glorying in her now-found For falling to answer a "charge to Berlin, after a very successful ne fast as his powers at locomo- power to exploit man's religious of possession of eleven taels of outward journey via Itusala and tion would carry him.
Instincts in the promotion of her prepared opium which, was found? interests. Yours, in a hot water bottle, a, Chinese ignoble own An Apparition.
had his ball of $1.800 ostalom vodk etc.,
his Worship. Then, again, the fairy-like vision
stealing
quantity vegetables from stall holders of the Aberdeen market, a Chinese who was Sentence of six wosks' hard labour formerly employed at the market as Inbour was imposed by Mr. Schofield a Sanitary Department coolic, was at the Central Police Court this morn-sentenced to six weeks' hard labour ing on a coolle employed by the Public by Mr. Schofield at the Contral Police, Works Department who appeared on a Court this morning. It was stated charge of theft of 40 feet of piping that the defendant had absconded from the plane, a Junkers Junior, was Siberia, on March 1, Dying via from the P.W.D. Store in Bullock bis employment in the Sanitary De.destroyed, Miss Etzdarf having Canton, Wushow and Hanoi~
u lucky escape from more serious Reutor.
Lane.
partment.
Fraulein Margs von Etzdorf,
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