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CHINA COLMAND INTELLIGENCE DIARY.
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November 1915 1st Instalment,
Extracts from Chinese Newspapers.
Canton 9/11/16, General Lung has decided to
establish an aeroplane academy and factory in Canton and has
instructed his advisor to organize it. The estimated cost
of this work is $2,000,000. Thirty students are to be
installed in the academy and the first work at the factory
will be the construction of twenty aeroplanes, of different
patterns, to be completed within twelve months.
Assassination of the wilitary Governor of shanghai,
2. A telegram from Shanghai to the local Press states
that while Admiral Tseng, the Military Governor of Shanghai,
was on his way to the Japanese Consulate to offer his
congratulations on the Coronation of the Emperor of Japan, on
the 10th instant, two chinese boarded the motor car and emptied
the magazines of their mauser automatic pistols at the
Admiral who fell with five wounds in the neck and eleven
others in the body. The Police rushed up as the assassins
were making off and threw them to the ground, despite their
Both the men secured are supposed to be
"wo hundred rounds of ammunition were
attempts to shoot.
anti-monarchists.
found on their persona,
immediately,
Admiral Tseng died almost
Extract from the Tongyuch Consular Peport for september
Quarter 1915
3.
A change has recently been made in the arrangements
for the disposition of these troops is as follows:-
Hu-są one full strength Lien or Company, No. 4 (the title of Tu Li Lien or 'Isolated Companies' appears to have been abolished) - 150 men, i, e. 3 Plai or Sections of 50 men,
with one machine-gun section,
Chan-ta
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